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DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 21, 2021
Could Traffic Circles Actually Be Good? I grant you, they confuse me, especially when you’re supposed to ‘take the third right’ at the roundabout. However: Carmel, a city of 102,000 north of Indianapolis, has 140 roundabouts, with over a dozen still to come. No American city has more. The main reason is safety; compared with […]
Song of the Day 11/20: The Clash, “Somebody Got Murdered”
Actually, two somebodies. Their names were Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and while a Wisconsin jury and the judge who oversaw their killer’s trial exonerated him, they were murdered nonetheless, as dead as the lie that America is a noble experiment. It’s not — it’s an experiment to see how far capitalism can go in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 20, 2021
‘Kyle Rittenhouse And The New Era Of Political Violence’. Might as well go back and place the burgeoning movement featuring Rittenhouse and like-minded individuals in context. Add to that blatantly-biased judges, and the notion of justice in America is more besmirched than ever, at least in recent times. Yet another supporter of armed ‘self defense’ […]
It is not ok to be nice to Republicans.
The Republican party is filled with psychotic racists who hate America and they need to be crushed at every election down to dog catcher. They need to be social pariahs who relearn how to stay in hiding.
When Coons continually attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of the Grand Old Party, even as their atrocities are unfolding, he isn’t trying to be a good guy. He is propping up psychotic racists for some psychotic reason only he really knows.
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 19, 2021
Biden To Reverse Disastrous Trump Policy Aimed At Despoiling Alaska: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will propose reinstating a Bill Clinton-era rule to ban logging and road building in more than half of North America’s largest temperate rainforest,the department confirmed. The restrictions had managed to stay in place for years because of a series of court […]
Delaware Political Weekly: November 9-18, 2021
Yep, more than a week, for those paying attention. DPW officially migrates to Fridays, until I change my mind yet again. 1. Time To Jump Into That 2nd SD Race. Darius is toast. We’re looking for at least one credible non-grifter in the field. Believe it or not, Darius Brown might have been the least-bad […]
Song of the Day 11/18: Lee Moses, “Bad Girl”
People who love soul music have to deal with the fact that artists stopped making it about the time that disco gobbled up R&B and funk in its Hustle-dancing wake. The obsessives deal with it by finding and sharing rare recordings of obscure groups, and some of those nuggets make you wonder why the artists […]
DL Open Thread For Thursday, November 18, 2021
Darius Brown Blowed Himself Up Real Good. Maybe his latest sham employer will reconsider the job they handed to him–especially since they’re probably not getting any Grant-In-Aid $$’s as long as he’s there. Glad that Sen. Sokola is not muzzling the other senators, you know, the way that Pete ‘n Val tried to do when […]
Rep. Paul Gosar isn’t really a member of Congress, so Congressional Punishments don’t really matter
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve a resolution that censures Rep. Paul Gosar for posting a photoshopped anime video showing him murder Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The censure strips him of his two committee assignments. Gosar’s response was more or less – “Big Whoop. I’m just here to fuck around and shit post anyway.”
CNN and others call the more “a major rebuke” but let’s face it – Gosar is right abut his tenure. He is a hype-man. He can put his clown show on just as easily without committee assignments.
I liked AOC’s response:
Song of the Day 11/17: Bob McFadden and Dor (Rod McKuen), “The Beat Generation”
The French apparently have a weird idea of American music, at least if what they play in the local supermarché is any guide. This 1959 novelty single, for example, written by Rod McKuen — yes, that Rod McKuen; that’s him adding the “beatnik” asides. To portray the square-sounding hipster, McKuen recruited Bob McFadden, a radio […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday November 17th 2021 – Coons’ Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Comes Out of Hiding for a Junket to Germany
How many of these Republican members of the
Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus
will vote for the second leg of the ‘Build Back Better’ plan? The over/under is 1. I’ll take the under.
Song of the Day 11/16: Wings, “Give Ireland Back to the Irish”
Today’s Open Thread notes the completely foreseeable problem Northern Ireland is posing to the feeble, delusional brains behind Brexit. The solution to the problem is simple: Give Ireland back to the Irish. Even Paul McCartney could see that back in 1972. When British troops killed 13 unarmed civil rights protesters in Derry on Jan. 31, […]
Biden’s Dilemma
He ran as the sensible moderate who, even in the age of unbreakable, unreasonable, recalcitrant Republicanism, could “bring people together.” The unreasonable, recalcitrant Republicans have called bullshit on that plan, so Biden can either renounce this key campaign promise, or make pretend that Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, Shelley Moore Capito attending a White House signing ceremony means that he is “bring people together.”
I’d be the farm that the Biden braintrust goes with “let’s make pretend” as a strategy.
And I get it. Calling out Republicans for what they are and charting a bold, aggressive new course of direct confrontation would be akin to admitting that his political life up until now is a bit of a scam. You can’t blame him for not having the guts to renounce his entire political identity, who could possibly do that?
Sure. That sucks for the country, but there you have it.
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