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DL Open Thread: Weds., August 19, 2020
Brandywine High School Undeniable Star Of Night 2! OK, I’m an alumnus and, yes, I can still sing the alma mater. My take on Night 2–we saw far too many Delaware politicos tonight. Mediocrity times 4. Thumbs up for the roll call and Jill’s speech, though. Senate Report: Contact Between Trump, Manafort And Russia Was […]
Delaware’s Most Intriguing Primaries Of 2020: Part 4–The State Senate Races
There aren’t very many races, but I find them all to be interesting, albeit often for different reasons: State Senator District 14 (R Primary): Craig Pugh vs. Terrance Baker. Gotta say it–I like this Craig Pugh. No, not b/c he is a progressive (he’s not), but b/c he strikes me as a hard-working guy who […]
Song of the Day 8/18: The Marvelettes, “Please Mr. Postman”
In 1961, when the Marvelettes released this song — their debut single and the first Motown song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 — the story told in the lyrics was clear: The singer’s boyfriend had jilted her, and she had transferred her anxiety to her mail carrier. Nowadays the distant lover has […]
Be Prepared No. 2 #Generalstrike
Believe Trump when he says that he will burn the country down before accepting the verdict of voters. On top of that transparency, we have a Democratic Party that is giving Trump and opening by running the always terrible “50% plus 1, Chase the Moderates” strategy.
When the time comes:
- Stop Working
- Stop Buying
- Empty your Accounts (stack up cash)
- Be Prepared
How it will probably go down via Slate:
It is the late evening of Nov. 3, 2020—Election Day. The race is tight. It’s come down to the three states that President Donald Trump barely won in 2016: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Most in-person votes have been counted, and Trump holds a small lead in each state. But there are millions of mail-in ballots that election officials have not yet processed. Hundreds of thousands of voters dropped their ballots in the mail days ago, but they haven’t been received. Meanwhile, thousands of ballots that were mailed in time have been rejected due to alleged technical defects. The outcome of the election turns on all these outstanding votes. But Trump, on the basis of the results so far, declares victory and dismisses the remaining mail-in ballots as fraudulent and illegitimate. The Republican-controlled legislatures of all three states agree, assigning their electoral votes to the president. Trump has secured a second term in the White House.
The DNC’s horrible, no good, always sucks, never wins, national election strategy
Every national election in my adulthood, the Democratic Party has chased 1o million or so “swing” voters who claim to be “moderate” while leaving 100 million eligible but disenfranchised voters out in the cold. It is ridiculous and stupid. It is a strategy that can only work if you happen to be running against […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 18, 2020
The First Night. So Much Punditry. My take is as meaningless as everyone else’s. Except for yours. What did you think? OK, gotta say, Michelle Obama is one of the greatest public speakers in our nation’s history. Can we all agree on that? Meanwhile, Look Who Will Speak At The Rethug Convention. I cannot make […]
DNC Reaction Thread
Pretty good. The young women from AZ who’s Dad died from trusting Trump was a standout.
Michelle Obama was great. She really drives conservative insane, which is a nice bonus. The “Republicans” didn’t bother me much. It felt like a perfunctory nod to the nation’s 3,500 remaining “centrists”.
According to Nate Silver the states that will decide the election this year are Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida. Every election is a “base turn out election” because THERE ARE NO UNDECIDED VOTERS, so I wonder how well this played in terms of firing up the base in this states?
Correction: Biden is NOT Trying to Lose This Election
Check this shit out. Utterly disgusting. If the Democratic Party ever tried to get Demcocrats to vote in large numbers – it would be impossible for Republicans to win. Instead we ALWAYS get this shit. Chasing after 1,500 “swing” voters while telling tens of thousands of liberal Democrats to go fuck themselves.
This Is Why Biden Will Win
Wilmington Rabbi Michael Beals posted this on Facebook a few weeks ago. It gets to the heart of why Trump cannot win this election by demonizing Joe Biden, and why, despite his many flaws and blunders, people ultimately relate to and like Biden: The story I’m about to share with you about Joe Biden is […]
Song of the Day 8/17: Randy Rainbow, “Kamala”
Did you notice that Kamala, when pronounced correctly, sounds a lot like Camelot? Randy Rainbow did, and the rest was … well, not easy, but Randy makes it look easy. There are plenty of musical parodists out there, but nobody else makes videos with such high production values.
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 17, 2020
Pelosi To Recall House To Address Post Office Emergency. As well she should. It could be as early as Saturday–right after the convention. It’s not just the ballots. People depend on the postal service for their prescriptions, and they’re not getting them on time. There are numerous other examples. I think that even the Senate […]
DL EXCLUSIVE: Chris Coons’ ‘Champion For Healthy Seniors Award’ Is A Big Fat Fraud–
–perpetrated on Delaware’s unsuspecting voters by…wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. The ads are everywhere. In your mailbox, on the internets, in the paper, all congratulating Coons on having ‘won’ the 2020 ‘Champion For Healthy Seniors Award’. It’s right there on p. 29A of the Sunday News-Journal, which I can’t cut & paste b/c it’s […]
Song of the Day 8/16: The Band, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
Does “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” glorify the Lost Cause? Is it racist? Rolling Stone magazine suddenly thinks so. After praising it for 50 years as a classic of the rock era, the magazine last week published a story in which writer Simon Vozick-Levinson calls it a “troubling requiem for the Confederate cause” […]
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