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DL Open Thread Tuesday August 22 2023
Republican primary voters could care less that a handful of wingnut billionaires want someone other that Trump to win the Republican nomination.
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Didn’t ya take no civics classes?!?! This is how government is supposed to work:
A bloc of hard-right Republicans released a memo threatening to shut down the government unless the Department of Justice stops its probe of former president Donald Trump.
The House Freedom Caucus released a memo stating their official position as the House begins its negotiations for spending. The US government will run out of money on 30 September.
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Hey Court, good luck with that.
A judge signed off on a $200,000 bond for former President Trump in the Georgia election case, enacting stricter rules than his co-defendants, on Monday, according to court filings.
The order forbids Trump from intimidating any co-defendants or witnesses in the case as he awaits trial.
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I, for one, blame our extremely shitty for profit health insurance system. I didn’t read for enought in to see if the Delaware News Journal’s Krys’tal Griffin made the same point.
Need to visit an emergency room in Delaware? Well, get cozy. Delaware has one of the longest emergency room waiting times in the country.
Delaware is the state with the second longest emergency room waiting time in the nation, according to a study conducted by medical expert Med.ro that compiled data from Johns Hopkins Medicine, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services, KFF and Definite Healthcare.
The study defines the average waiting time as the time it takes for a patient to be called for treatment after arriving at the emergency room.
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Trump hanging his co-conspirators out to dry means that thinks he will win all of his cases on appeal in the Supreme Court. And that’s actually probably a reasonable presumption.
Trump ripping off contractors and the like has no downside for him because it would cost the marks more money to try to get and obtain a civil judgment than they would be owed. In this case, the co-conspirators do have some leverage: they can turn state’s. So presumably 1)thinks his traditional immunity will allow him to get off again no matter what or 2)omerta will prevail even if he stiffs his lickspittles. He may even be right, but this may not prove to be enlightened self-interest.
Song of the Day 8/21: Steve Miller Band, “Take the Money and Run”
All the Republicans taking part in their upcoming debate can breathe a sigh of relief now that brave Sir Donald has run away. The indignity they would have had to display, fawning over someone they were supposed to be challenging, would have been the ruination of them all. Donald ducks danger, too. Imagine if three […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 21 2023
These ginormous checks for Israel aren’t going to write themselves. Or… Oh Well, McBride signs onto maximalist Coosian Israel policy. Or… Delaware Congressional candidate Sarah McBride casts herself as a staunch supporter of Israel McBride described the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel as “a bedrock of America’s national security and our global values” […]
MAGATs Find Trump More Truthful Than Their Own Friends and Family
I also love the low regard for “Religious Leaders”.
50% of Americans are totally committed to being real dicks
I have to admit to taking the whole climate change thing less seriously than I probably should have all these years. I always thought human ingenuity would out race human block-headeness. Now I see that the blockheads are legion. And some blockheads are very rich and very shortsighted. More than 200 ships are stuck in […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 20, 2023
Gretchen Whitmer Scours Red States For Workers And Employers. My preferred choice for President: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been promoting her state as a place that respects freedom ― as in, the ability to control what happens to your body, who you love, or how you identify yourself. Now Whitmer is taking that […]
Matt Marshall name checked in McBride’s “Lovette or Leave It” segment
That headline makes no sense, but whatever. It is 100% true which is more than you can say about many of the headlines I’ve written over the years.
Anyway, McBride does a fine job.
Song of the Day 8/19: Sonny Till and the Orioles, “Crying in the Chapel”
When George Lucas’ “American Graffiti” hit theaters in August 1973, its September 1962 setting seemed a long time gone. The coming-of-age movie evoked a time of lost innocence, before the Kennedy assassination or Vietnam or even the Cuban Missile Crisis, and nostalgic Watergate-era audiences responded in droves. The film, made for $770,000, grossed more than […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 19, 2023
Rudy (Desperately) Needs Trump’s Dollars. Trump Ain’t Paying Up. Sad: Rudolph W. Giuliani is running out of money and looking to collect from a longtime client who has yet to pay: former President Donald J. Trump. To recover the millions of dollars he believes he is owed for his efforts to keep Mr. Trump in […]
The ‘Occasional’ Delaware Political Weekly: August 18, 2023
Two ‘occasional’ political weekly pieces in the same week? Yes. The main reason? Item #1: 1. Something Stinks In Newark. Hmmm, is it the unmistakable smell of cop donuts and Babe Ruth League canteen hot dogs? Yep, we’re talking Pete ‘n Val stench. How else to explain the newly-filed candidate committee of one Michael A. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 18, 2023
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We’se Proud Of Our Guy: Rory Ehrlich, 6, of West Pottsgrove, won the kid’s division of the USA Mullet Championships in August 2023, beating out more the 900 children for the title. Charles Fox / Staff Photographer / Philadelphia Inquirer Trump’s Lawyers Request Brief Trial Pause–Until 2026. Because he’s such a crook and they have […]
Song of the Day 8/17: Joan Osborne, “One of Us”
If WJBR is going to go religious, it doesn’t have to leave music behind. Even leaving aside gospel music, there are lots of songs about Jesus they could play. Granted, most of them aren’t very interesting – they’re mostly about the singer’s gratitude over being saved from a life of sin – but a country […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 17, 2023
When You’ve Lost The Cato Institute…: We’re talking yet another Koch Bros enterprise dedicated to their version of ‘libertarianism’, aka unfettered freedom for oligarchs: Up until now, I’ve been hesitant to predict how the various prosecutions of Donald Trump are likely to turn out. But no longer. I believe yesterday’s indictment in Georgia sealed Trump’s fate, […]
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