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DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 16, 2020
Georgia Governor Sentences Residents To Death. Bans municipalities and counties from enforcing mask requirements. Are we back in April? Are all these Rethug governors engaged in a contest to see who can kill the most of their residents? Unconscionable behavior. If Trump Loses Ohio By One Vote, Here’s Why. He listened to Trump, not the […]
BREAKING:Five State Legislators & One Sussex County Council Member Using Their Government E-Mail As Campaign Contacts
That’s, um, illegal. A major tip o’ the El Somnambulo sombrero to our tipster in this case. But you can see for yourself. Just do as I did: Go to the Department of Elections website and scroll through the list. You might find someone I missed. The miscreants?: Sen. Bruce Ennis, Rep. Steve Smyk (two […]
Trump to Parscale – You’re fired.
Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager for his 2020 re-election campaign, is out. Trump announced Parscale’s firing after a series of sparsely-attended rallies and a dire national poll that puts him 15 points behind Democratic rival Joe Biden. Parscale, Trump’s longtime “website guy”, will be replaced by Bill Stepien. Stepien managed Chris Christie’s gubernatorial campaigns and […]
Song of the Day 7/15: Sheila E. and Ringo Starr, “Come Together/Revolution”
I just caught up with last week’s online concert to celebrate Ringo Starr’s 80th birthday. Not only does the show, viewable in full on YouTube, contain lots of great tunes, it’s a testament to the progress being made in production values for this new Covid Concert format. The entire show is worth the hour of […]
Ken Boulden And Lisa Darrah Pull Political Dirty Trick At Filing Deadline
OK, kids, follow along with me here. On January 7, 2020, NCC Clerk Of The Peace Ken Boulden files for reelection to the office he has held since 1997. ‘The best job in Delaware’, he calls it. On Monday, June 28, 2020, state representative Quinton Johnson announces he will not seek reelection to his 8th […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Trump, HHS, To Cut CDC Out Of Gathering Virus Data. There is only one reason to do this: to keep the worst hidden from the American people for as long as possible: Tuesday evening, Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.), chairwoman of the House Budget Committee’s subcommittee that funds HHS, issued a statement accusing the department […]
This is what I dislike the most about Coons
When your entire political philosophy is wrapped up on making friends with thieves and sociopaths. You don’t change the thieves and sociopaths. They change you.
I think you can, on balance, blame ONE SIDE for their tendency to kill hundreds of thousands of people and destroy the country every few years, but you can blame THE OTHER SIDE for letting bygones be bygones and helping to make people forget so they get to do it again.
by Atrios
Song of the Day 7/14: Paul Henreid and the cast of “Casablanca,” “La Marseillaise”
It’s not just a great national anthem, it’s a great Nazi-fighting anthem. And Paul Henreid, forever to be known as “Casablanca” Nazi-fighter Victor Laszlo, was the right man to sing it — the Austrian was so ardently anti-Nazi he was declared an official enemy of the Third Reich. Born in Trieste and trained in Vienna, […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Filing Deadline Edition
Stay tuned for any and all last-minute filings. The deadline is 12 noon today. Here’s what has already happened since our last post: 1. David Lamar Williams Jr. To Primary Gov. Carney. A self-described community activist from Kent County. A welcome alternative to the bloodless drone currently holding the position. His website is pretty generic, […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, July 14, 2020
5 Million Americans Have Lost Health Insurance During Pandemic. Government programs are helping only some of them. White House Shoots The Messenger (Fauci). Of course, they distort his words to try to make their case. And then deny that they’re doing what they’re doing. This quote from former Pa. R congressman Charlie Dent pretty much […]
U.S. passports are worthless – Americans will not be allowed to travel for five years
“Americans have gone from having access to most of the world to being banned from most of it,” writes Indi Samarajiva for Medium Politics. “An American passport is now worthless.”
The world now looks at Americans as unhygienic, arrogant, willfully ignorant, science hating, magical thinking, untrustworthy, selfish rule-breakers.
The most reliable projections are saying 200,000 dead and 50 million infected by election day in November. Even these projections struggle to account for completely irrational federal actions like denigrating masks, pushing to reopen early, and pushing students back into schools. This is not the absence of public health, this is its opposite.
It is, in effect, governance by COVID-19. Not a failed state. A plague state.
Even after election day, Donald Trump will still be in power for nearly 3 months, until January 20th. Besides impeaching a dead-duck President, there’s nothing America can do but wait, while COVID-19 grows ever stronger. Grows completely out of control. In a pandemic, days matter, hours matter. A year is entirely too late.America will be lucky to exit this pandemic with less than a million dead and 100 million infected. The living will be lucky to exit their country within the next five years.
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Reminder – Tonight Live Q&A with Jessica Scarane and Marie Pinkney
Tonight at 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Facebook Live for a Q&A session with Jessica Scarane and Marie Pinkney (candidate for Delaware State Senate, 13th district). All are welcome. Come with your questions or drop a comment in the post.
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