DL Open Thread 9/25

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Now that Nancy Pelosi has finally overcome the fear of monsters under her bed, pundits are writing pieces on how the Democrats might screw it up. At least the headlines…

Thank You Senator Townsend

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On his Facebook page Bryan Townsend linked to this Krugman NYT OpEd which calls out Republican leadership in DC for their cowardice and fruadulent superpatriotism, and makes a point I've…

Pelosi’s insistence on bi-partisan impeachment was the last gasp of Democratic “bipartisanship uber alles”

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Until recently Pelosi insisted that impeachment could only go forward if Republicans signed on. That's Coonsian nonsense on its face. It shouldn't take buy-in from the lunatic caucus for Democrats to their job under the constitution. It is the kind of antiquated thinking that allowed Republican Senate minorities to block anything they wanted to block. It is the kind of antiquated thinking that Joe Scar still cheers for from his lofty MSNBC morning show ivory tower - but it isn't the type of thinking that makes sense given reality of Trump's ongoing criminal activities. Whatever happens good riddance to sham, one-way bipartisanship which had Democrats giving away everything while getting nothing.

DL Open Thread 9/24

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The impeachment watch is on, so mainstream media will relegate all other stories to the back burner for the foreseeable future. Pundits, even those who previously advocated caution, are falling…

TRUMP Is the State – State Secrets Must Be Protected – Keeping Trump’s Secrets are Vital Matters of National Security

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Two things about the fact that Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine: 1) Get ready for nauseating rounds of this story being dumbed down, and forced into a horserace narrative which ignores the impact on the democracy and focuses on "Team Red" or "Team Blue" 2) If ANY Republicans anywhere, at any level of government win re-election, we have failed.

Poll Results

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What is the highest grossing film set in Delaware? Fight Club (1999) Total Lifetime Domestic Gross: $37,030,102 Total Worldwide: $100.9 million Goosebumps (1995) Total Lifetime Domestic Gross: $80,080,379 Total Worldwide: $158.26 million In 1860 (on the eve of the Civil War) what percentage of Delaware's black population was free? According to wikipedia in 1869 92% of Delaware's blacks were "free" which is not to say that they had any rights.
Shifts in the agriculture economy from tobacco to mixed farming resulted in less need for slaves' labor. In addition local Methodists and Quakers encouraged slaveholders to free their slaves following the American Revolution, and many did so in a surge of individual manumissions for idealistic reasons. By 1810 three-quarters of all blacks in Delaware were free. When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware's largest slave owner with 37 slaves. By 1860, the largest slaveholder owned 16 slaves.[27]

DL Open Thread 9/23

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If you're looking for news that doesn't involve the Trump-Ukraine story, give up now. Reporters are asking only two things this morning: Are Democrats finally going to do their jobs,…