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DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023
Democrats who base their political decisions on what they think independents and Republicans might do still want to dump Joe Biden, so it probably won’t change their minds that Biden continues to enact more progressive policies than anyone predicted. His latest move: creation of an American Climate Corps by executive order, after Republicans in Congress […]
Isn’t now about when Democrats save Republicans from their own “government shutdown” stupidity?
Not this time – Speaker Kevin McCarthy is struggling to pass a bill to fund the government — and the White House isn’t about to throw him a lifeline. With just days to go before the government runs out of money, Biden’s team is watching Congress steam toward a shutdown, resigned to the reality that […]
Song of the Day 9/20: Jim Croce, “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)”
Nobody called it the Day the Music Died, but 50 years ago today Philadelphia-born singer-songwriter Jim Croce was killed in a plane crash in Natchitoches, La., cutting short his career just as it was peaking. He was 30 years old. Croce started out in the mid-’60s, performing with his wife as a folk duo, but […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 20 2023
Its not like they didn’t run on being the party of nonstop national crisis. An out-of-control GOP is the party of nonstop national crisis Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but congressional Republicans are once again careening toward internal crisis and a damaging government shutdown. You may remember this song-and-dance from the last four or […]
Assassinations & Norms
Stories like this one remind me that Trump & GWB exploded so many norms that the rest of the world is just saying “Fuck it!” and doing any shit they feel like doing. Seems Like A Big Deal That they think it’s true and that they went very public in this way (and that it […]
Song of the Day 9/19: Maren Morris, “Get the Hell Out of Here”
Country music’s instincts have always been reactionary. Back in 1969, when people were realizing Richard Nixon’s promise to end the war in Viet Nam was bullshit, Merle Haggard wrote “Okie From Muskogee” because he thought the protesters were wrong. “America was at its peak, and what the hell did these kids have to complain about?” […]
The well established legal precedent of “LOL, Fuck You!”
America has always had wealthy people, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a generation of wealthy people absolutly determined to tear down the very American democracy that created all the wealth. Alabama is ignoring a Supreme Court order to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in part because the money behind […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday September 19 2023
GOP – Going Overboard Pandering: Vivek Ramaswamy regrets taking the Covid vaccine. His wife, a surgeon, does not. The presidential candidate has previously spoken about how he and his wife don’t agree on everything. That includes their feelings about getting vaccinated against Covid. ———//——— Trump lied a lot in the Meet the Press interview ———-//———- […]
If elected, McBride “wouldn’t be surprised” to become a Progressive Caucus member
Good to know. Being surprised sucks. Of course Coons considers himself on the left side of the caucus, so there is that. Anyway… More Earned Media for McBride REHOBOTH BEACH, DEL. — Sarah McBride touts that she’d be the first openly transgender member of Congress. She also wants to be known for more than just […]
Song of the Day 9/18: Joe South, “Games People Play”
It’s hard to tell nowadays, but pop psychology wasn’t always with us. The book that brought it to the masses was published in 1964 by psychiatrist Eric Berne, who noticed that a lot of the interpersonal problems his patients described fit certain patterns. From that, he developed what he called transactional analysis. Berne trained as […]
DL Open Thread Monday September 18 2023
Person, woman, man, camera, TV In Gaffe-filled Speech, Trump Issues Bold And Unusual Warning, Says Biden’s Re-Election Could Lead to ‘World War II’ In his most recent speech, former U.S. President Donald Trump caused a stir with his contentious remarks, The Independent reported. He suggested that President Joe Biden could plunge the nation into “World War II” if re-elected and […]
Song of the Day 9/17: Jewel Akens, “The Birds and the Bees”
A little heavy petting music for Lauren Boebert, along with a suggestion that next time she get a room. Jewel Akens sang with a number of doo-wop groups in the ’50s and early ’60s, but he had his only Top 40 hit with his 1964 release “The Birds and the Bees,” which reached No. 3 […]
New polling shows Eugene Young’s run for Congress is a big waste of political capital as Sarah McBride opens a more than twenty point lead. I hate being right about this stuff all the time.
Sarah McBride Holds Commanding Lead in Historic Run for Delaware At-Large Congressional Seat WASHINGTON—Today, a new poll by Change Research of Delaware’s At-Large Congressional race shows State Sen. Sarah McBride with a commanding lead, nearly doubling the support of her closest opponent. McBride made history in 2020 as the first openly transgender state senator in the […]
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