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Song of the Day 8/21: Steve Miller Band, “Take the Money and Run”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on August 21, 2023 0 Comments

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 […]

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DL Open Thread Monday August 21 2023

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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” […]

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MAGATs Find Trump More Truthful Than Their Own Friends and Family

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MAGATs Find Trump  More Truthful Than Their Own Friends and Family

I also love the low regard for “Religious Leaders”.

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50% of Americans are totally committed to being real dicks

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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 […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 20, 2023

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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 […]

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Matt Marshall name checked in McBride’s “Lovette or Leave It” segment

Filed in National by on August 19, 2023 9 Comments
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.

Here is the podcast.

Anyway, McBride does a fine job.

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Song of the Day 8/19: Sonny Till and the Orioles, “Crying in the Chapel”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on August 19, 2023 2 Comments

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 […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 19, 2023

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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 […]

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The ‘Occasional’ Delaware Political Weekly: August 18, 2023

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on August 18, 2023 46 Comments

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. […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 18, 2023

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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 18, 2023

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 […]

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Song of the Day 8/17: Joan Osborne, “One of Us”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on August 17, 2023 7 Comments

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 […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 17, 2023

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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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Last Week’s Poll Results and This Week’s Poll

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Of Trump’s Jan 6 excuses, 44% of DL readers found  “If I earnestly BELIEVE I am President, then I am President”  the most ludicrous.

It is ludicrous, but it is all he’s got.  Living in an alternative reality and inviting people to live there with him is his thing.  It is not something that will work in a courtroom, but he can’t help it.   This conservative CATO institute puts it this way:

America has seen its fair share of lying politicians, but Donald Trump is in a class of his own. He appears to view literally any interaction with another human being as an opportunity to be exploited and a game to be won. In Trump’s world, rules are for chumps, norms are for losers, and the truth is whatever you can get another person to believe — nothing more. And of course, history makes clear that this approach has been quite effective at advancing Trump’s interests in certain settings — preening on the set of a game show, for example, or spinning up a fawning, frothing crowd at a campaign event.

But not only will those antics not work in a courtroom, they will backfire. Given the nature of the allegations against him, Trump will have to take the stand even though he has a right not to, and given his nature, he will lie to the jury just like he has lied to everyone else his entire life.

Which brings us to our next week’s poll.  (The last Trump poll for a while, I promise.).

 

How many felony charges will Trump add to his 91 existing felony charges on Monday when he reveals his 100 page  “report” that he says will cause all charges to be dropped?

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