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DL Open Thread Wednesday September 8th 2021
Coons Scores a 9.5 and a Perfect 10 on the Impotent/Empty Rhetoric Scale
I’ve been on Twitter a little more lately, but only follow a couple of accounts. One is written for Senator Chris Coons. The author of these tweets has mastered relating utterly pointless pronouncements with a tone of breathless outrage. Just check out these two winners.
Song of the Day 9/7: The Beatles, “Do You Want to Know a Secret”
Pete ‘n’ Val have a secret, but it’s not hard to guess what it is: Gerald Brady will not be expelled from the General Assembly. This was the first Beatles single to feature George Harrison on lead vocal. The tune was composed in autumn 1962, primarily by John Lennon, who based it on the first […]
Psst–House Ethics Committee To Consider Gerald Brady’s Fate On Friday–DON’T TELL ANYBODY
Pete ‘n Val’s utter disdain for the public is on full display this week. They’ve crafted rules that prohibit any discussion by House members of anything that comes before the House Ethics Committee, and then schedule a stealth meeting of the House Ethics Committee on a Friday. This Friday. In the announcement, they provide the […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday September 7th 2021
Tucker Carlson’s full endorsement of the use of illegal fake vaccination cards and his exhortation to “punish” the CDC annotated:
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Buying a fake vaccination card is not a, quote, serious crime.[quote “serious crimes” are ones committed by dark skinned people. Duh.] It’s not even close to a serious crime.[It is axiomatic that any crime committed by entitled white people cannot be serious. It is a testament to how far the country has fallen under Biden that he has to say this twice.]
Buying a fake vaccination card is an act of desperation by decent, law-abiding Americans [white people] who have been forced into a corner by tyrants. [forced into admitting their poor judgment, and lack of critical thinking skills in public.]
You know what’s a serious crime? Forcing Americans to take drugs they don’t need or want.[Did you catch that sly trick? Here the logic of the endorsement breaks down under its own inanity. Carlson knows that nobody is being “forced” to take a drug. They are being required to prove that they’ve been vaccinated to do some things they want to do like eat at certain restaurants and travel on airplanes.] That’s a very serious crime. [Its’s not] And let’s hope, in the end, someone is punished for it, severely. [Is pandering to fools, and constantly trying to work them into a violent lather criminal? it should be.]
Do you want to know that Tucker Carlson considers a “Quote, Serious Crime”?
I’m Christian. I’ve made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances. Michael Vick killed dogs in a heartless and cruel way. I think, firstly, he should have been executed for that.
The Stupidest Country In The World?
“Stupid” probably doesn’t explain us in full. I’d say we are an average IQ country with a higher disposition toward right-wing tribalism as a result of our very racist, anti-black history. Anyway, that’s nit-picking. Our story is far too implausibly stupid to be the plot for a decent movie or novel.
The Stupidest Country In The World
Would be a good missing reel for the movie Southland Tales (which is both awful and sort of great, hard to describe). An epidemic hits the country run by the game show president, against all odds he secures enough vaccine (money is never a problem) and his successor manages to distribute it, but the game show host’s followers refuse to take it and instead start shooting themselves up with horse drugs.
We have enough money to throw at every problem we confront, and stupidity and corruption prevent us from solving any of them.
Song of the Day 9/6: The Clash, “Career Opportunities”
I’d normally highlight unions on Labor Day, but with 36% of the U.S. workforce is now part of the gig economy, so they aren’t even employees in the traditional sense. Though Joe Strummer and Mick Jones wrote this about the recession-ravaged ’70s in Britain, its message will last as long as capitalism. The song appeared […]
DL Open Thread Monday September 6th 2021 – Labor Day
There is actual news today, no doubt.
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
-Howard Zinn
Song of the Day 9/5: Ani DiFranco, “Amendment”
Ani DiFranco has the solution to the Supreme Court’s attack on abortion rights. I don’t think it will happen anytime soon, but that doesn’t make her wrong.
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021
The media, having accomplished its task of pulling down Joe Biden’s approval ratings, have mostly moved on from Afghanistan in favor of trumpeting the Texas Abortion Freakout, which means the End of Abortion Rights in This Country. Look, I’m not trying to minimize how despicable this is, but this is a country awash up to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 4, 2021
Here Are The Companies Who Funded Texas’ Anti-Abortion Supporters. ‘We have a history of giving to both sides’, blahblahblah. Where are all those tech companies who moved to Texas for lower taxes and less regulation? Will we hear from them or will they remain silent? Betcha we’ll hear from the workers. We’ve already heard from […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 3, 2021
Delaware Rethugs Have An AG Candidate. Chuck Welch, a retired Common Pleas Court judge in Kent County and, before that, for six years, a state representative. He’s focusing his campaign on the poor underappreciated police who have not been sufficiently loosed upon the citizenry: Law enforcement officers in the state are also need to feel […]
Republicans fight / Democrats don’t
Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland 8 months before election then confirmed Amy Coney Barrett 8 days before election when 65 million had already voted. AND YET – Democrats always lose elections (unless running against Trump) because they run on changing the tax rate by .00068% to encourage companies to do some inscrutable thing.
We are blowing it once again.
Song of the Day 9/2: Friends of Distinction, “Grazing in the Grass”
This song just missed topping the charts twice — the first time as South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela’s instrumental version, which reached No. 1 in 1968, and again in 1970, when the Friends of Distinction added lyrics and took it to No. 3. Lead singer Harry Enten wrote them, and while Masekela’s reference to grass […]
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