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Julianne Murray’s ‘Patriots for Delaware’ to Explain Why Republicans Keep Losing Statewide in Delaware
Why do Republicans keep losing statewide by such lopsided margins in Delaware? Nefarious interference by the ghost of Hugo Chávez? DEGOP candidates and polices are widely hated by voters? I guess we’ll find out soon. They have “proof.”
DL Open Thread Monday September 20th 2021
Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 takes a step closer. (Which means the same idiots just took two steps backwards).
A ‘Missing White Girl!’ story dominated the weekend. Meanwhile Native American women are missing, murdered and sexually assaulted at rates as high as 10 times the average in the United States—crimes overwhelmingly committed by individuals outside the Native American community.
Ted Lasso is a very good TV program. And yet, I’m a little queasy about how streaming services model is taking over TV.
Floor is yours. I’m sure there is some campaign news someone wants to break here.
Song of the Day 9/19: Squeeze, “Tempted”
Writers lazily compare Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook to John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but they worked more like a musical theater team — Difford wrote the lyrics, Tilbrook the music, like Bernie Taupin and Elton John. Tilbrook’s inventive melodies and genre-spanning compositions get most of the critical attention, but Difford could amaze in […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021
The conservative grift seems like such an easy dodge: Mouth a few idiotic slogans you didn’t even have to think up yourself, rake in the bucks (just ask Lauren Witzke). But there’s apparently some kind of secret code involved that prevents it from working for just anyone. For example, the crank yanker who organized a […]
Song of the Day 9/18: Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”
Given that Trinidadian rapper/twerker Nicki Minaj is now an expert on the Covid vaccine’s effect on the male reproductive organs, I thought readers might appreciate a look at her credentials. I’m not sure what her major was in college, but immunology doesn’t appear to have been her field of advanced study. I do think, however, […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 18, 2021
Rethugs Play Russian Roulette With Debt Ceiling. Because they can, and because everything they do is purely and solely for political gain: McConnell has declared that Senate Republicans will not vote to increase the Treasury’s authority to continue borrowing, which is the same as voting to allow a default. As he has done before, McConnell […]
Has Murray’s “Tough on Blacks” AG Campaign Run Into Possible Legal Problems on Day One?
A Facebook commenter noticed something fishy about Murray’s campaign. “Patriots 4 Delaware” is not a nonprofit PAC but a for-profit corp whose registered agent shares Murray’s firm’s address. This is prima facie evidence that she is breaking campaign finance laws already. Murray’s firm is small. Murray plus two other lawyers. One would have to […]
Park City Kathy Snubbed by Fellow Scumbags
McGuinness apparently asked to speak to a Republican Women’s group about her anticipated run for Gov, and got a big “Fuck no, you are a Democrat.” I know, right. So many confused motherfuckers crowded into one sentence.
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 17, 2021
Delaware’s AG Race: Two MAGAts To Vie For 38% Of The Vote. Although the WDEL story doesn’t mention it (c’mon, Journalism 101), Murray will run against one Chuck Welch in the Rethug Primary. (For you completists, incumbent AG Kathleen Jennings is expected to run for reelection.) Looks like it’ll be a contest as to who […]
DE “Patriots” for Favor of Fucking Shit Up – In this case elections
These fucking shithead Republicans are going around saying that Delaware elections are fraudulent. Can’t we pass something that makes Republicans have a tough vote between these nut jobs and the truth? Our Dems in Dover need to show a lot more fight.
Song of the Day 9/16: Tom Jones w/ CSN&Y, “Long Time Gone”
I confess that teenage me was not into watching “This Is Tom Jones,” the variety show the Welsh belter hosted from 1969 to 1971. I was too young to realize that though he found fame and fortune singing what came to be called Adult Contemporary, Jones was a helluva soul singer. Just listen to what […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021
You know how to tell your precious American democracy is already dead? When the guy who has to save it turns out to be Dan Quayle. Yes, that Dan Quayle. If you guessed that some House Democrats are balking at a $3.5 trillion spending bill because they’re in toss-up districts, Johnny will tell you all […]
Song of the Day 9/15: Billy Joe Shaver, “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)” Plus the Best Norm MacDonald Clip
Comedian Norm MacDonald, that self-identified Old Chunk of Coal, was sick with cancer for almost a decade before he died the other day, and told almost nobody. He started referring to himself as “just an old chunk of coal” seven or eight years ago, and this, apparently his favorite country song, is where the phrase […]
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