Open Thread for May 24, 2017

Filed in Delaware, Featured, National by on May 24, 2017

HSBC Cuts 450 Delaware Jobs. Jellyfish John caught unawares. Did someone wake him up from a nap to tell him?

Rogue Presidency Seeks to Avoid Ethics Requirements. Ethics Office Strikes Back.  Oh, those inconvenient civil servants.

NCC Council Rejects Sewer Rate Increases and More Cops. The last thing we need is more cops. So, good on the Council.

He Who Has An Idiot For a Lawyer Has An Idiot For a Lawyer. The same guy who either sued or threatened to sue pretty much everybody as Trump’s attorney.

Harbingers? Or Outliers?  D’s win legislative seats in deep red districts in NH and NY.

The Faux News Report That Even Faux News Felt Compelled to Retract.  Pushed, of course, by asshole Sean Hannity.

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  1. chris says:

    Both Barclays and HSBC cutting hundreds of jobs. and Delaware is supposed to be an attractive place for financial companies? then why are they all fleeing. and our DEDO and state used to chase these huge disloyal companies with corporate giveaways and cash? ridiculous. No loyalties .No worries, John and the General Assembly are dismantling DEDO as we speak.

  2. Jason330 says:

    DEDO under RAM and Markell was a joke. The only measure they used to evaluate lavishing tax money on companies the EXPECTED number of jobs brought to the state. Not even the actual number of jobs but expected. Ridiculous.

    Not only did they allow companies to inflate their expectations, but they didn’t give a rats ass about growing smaller Delaware based companies.

  3. SussexAnon says:

    Delaware is sinking just like the rest of the American economy.

  4. Ben says:

    well, it’ll be your Emperor God, not any democrat, that makes more “liberals”

  5. SussexAnon says:

    Liberals don’t have a monopoly on hatred. Just sayin’

    Conservatives seem unable to grasp that unless you are the 1%, unregulated capitalism will devour you just as it devours liberals while the 1% gets bailed out and protected.

  6. john kowalko says:

    WHO ME?
    Yes you. If your asking if I’ve encountered any total a**holes lately

    Rep. Kowalko

  7. Aurochs says:

    I missed yesterday’s discussion on impeachment by being busy as fuck, but after reviewing it, I just have this to say:

    We damn well better hope that, if Trump gets kicked out of the White House by some means other than the 2020 election, it happens before January 2019. Trump getting kicked out of the WH means Pence is the President, and aside from being a right-wing religious nutjob, he’s VERY likely to be an effective chief executive (unlike Trump). And if Pence only serves out the last two years of Trump’s term, he gets to run for re-election twice. Ten years of that shitstain could easily ruin the country for the rest of my life, and I’m only 29.

    So I say, if Trump manages to hold on until 2019, he needs to stay until 2021. Bonus: we should (hopefully) get a Democratic candidate who can actually run a fucking campaign this time. Not that they need to be THAT good at it, but there’s 2024 to think about.

  8. The voters in Indiana were all set to send him packing. He’s only arguably competent in contrast to Trump. Plus, he’s been lying throughout this cover-up. He has his own problems.

  9. Aurochs says:

    He does have his own probems, but consider this.

    Pence will not tolerate the disarray in the WH that Trump has cultivated. He’ll put it back in order, re-establish clear lines of hierarchy and communication, kick out Bannon if he’s not already gone, etc. Once he’s done that, the WH will actually respond to him with respect, even if they disagree with him. The leaks and palace intrigue will slow down significantly, if not stop.

    What Pence probably WON’T do is dismiss any of Trump’s cabinet appointees. Not DeVos, not Sessions, not Pruitt. Especially not if they help with a 25th Amendment coup. They will be free to do everything they want to do, and with more effective support from the WH, will probably get a lot further along.

    Pence also has far better relationships with Congressional Republicans of all stripes than Trump does. That helps him push his legislative agenda, a task Trump has so far failed utterly at.

    So despite his problems, I don’t view a Pence presidency as being a great thing.