DL Open Thread Wednesday August 18th 2021

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The Delaware Call's  knows his shit.  He won in the suburbs when conventional wisdom held that the suburbs are a bastion of timid Democratic Party moderation.  But Stomberg can't be everywhere.  Knowing that, can (even more) progressives win in the suburbs?  Read the Delaware Call and find out. -

Building a Progressive Base in the Suburbs

Also: -The inside the bubble DC Press corps REALLY wants Biden to come apart over the fall of Kabul. But does America hate Biden? Not so much. - While talking about Americans remaining in Kabul, Sean Hannity managed to plug Mypillow on yesterday's episode of "The Sean Hannity Show"

DL Open Thread Tuesday August 17th 2021

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The corrupt edifice that was our invasion and 20 year occupation of Afghanistan has come tumbling down in spectacularly speedy and chaotic fashion. Biden's address yesterday was heartbreakingly direct and honest.   My take is that given the situation he inherited from Bush, Obama and Trump, he said what needed to be said. And yet the humanitarian crisis will be long and nauseating.  Separating good faith criticism and bad faith criticism will be impossible. So, I agree with Alby. I’ll be staying far away from the Opinion Industrial Complex for a while. And also, this… You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you sit back and watch When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion While the young people’s blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud