Archives for November 2017

I support the striking school bus drivers. I’m sure it’s inconvenient for many parents, but you want bus drivers to have healthcare and a retirement plan. These are people in charge of your kids, for goodness sake.

Please join us tonight for another evening of politics and conversation over a drink at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

The last new mayor of the year (touch wood) will be sworn in tomorrow. I didn’t vote for her, but I was always on team they’re both fine. So lets hope an even more liberal City Council can push her further to the left.

Proverbs 11:25
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

Discuss.

Stephen: The GOP is toast according to the GOP.

Sarah Silverman raises awareness for autism & Puerto Rico.

ONN: Sebastian Moore investigates school vouchers.

The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Merry Clowns:

• James Corden: The week in Dotard Tweets.
• Stephen: LaVar Ball didn’t “give thanks” to Трамп
• Farron Cousins: As investigation closes in on Трамп, his lawyers struggle to keep him calm
• Young Turks: Трамп’s MAGA trolls prove they’re not only racists but also idiots
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп and “the nationalist’s delusion”
• VOX: How Трамп turned Sean Hannity into a conspiracy theorist:

• The President Show: The President’s Christmas album.
• David Pakman: Трамп staff keeps him happy with “delusional” good polls
• James Corden: Dotard Трамп is closing his charity before Christmas
• Vice News: Трамп’s JFK document dump fueled the conspiracy theory fire
• Sam Seder: Трамп appoints gerrymander Czar to top operational job at Census Bureau.
• Rachel Maddow: Dotard Трамп aims to boost GOP gerrymandering advantage with census pick
• Farron Cousins: Трамп voters admit they are embarrassed for voting for “baffling fool” Dotard
• Seth Meyers: Robert Mueller zeroes in on Jared Kushner
• Stephen: On elephants, Трамп has a change of heartlessness.

The military coup in Zimbabwe, explained.

VOX: What if we got rid of all road signs and traffic signals?

Jim Jefferies Show: Jim goes to a gun range.

Roy Moore Molested an Eight Grader and Other Creepy Stories:

• Stephen: Трамп on Roy Moore, “You have to listen to him”
• Moore accuser’s Today Show interview (annotated)
• Young Turks: The Dotard Трамп doubts Roy Moore accusers.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: New GOP sex scandal as Republicans grapple with Roy Moore
• Seth Meyers: Трамп supports an accuses sexual predator over almost everyone else
• Daily Show: Harassment on the Hill or how to avoid being a Congressional predator:

• Farron Cousins: Taxpayers foot the bill for sexual harassers in Congress
• Stephen: Senator Elizabeth Warren reacts to sexual harassment on Capitol Hill
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп “vented about” and “doubted” Roy Moore accusers
• Seth Meyers: Трамп backs Roy Moore; Charlie Rose fired for sexual harassment

Jimmy Dore: Ron Paul freaks out after Rand Paul is attacked!.

Michelle Wolf: Thoughts on men.

Adam ruins sell-by dates.

The G.O.P. Tax Scam on America:

• Farron Cousins: Millionaires and billionaires tell Congress that they really don’t need a tax cut
• Stephen: Senator Elizabeth Warren explains who benefits from the tax bill
• Fact checking Paul Ryan’s “Cindy”
• Farron Cousins: Congress throws teachers under the bus to cut taxes for the wealthy
• Not just a bad tax plan.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Reclaiming Black Friday.

Why the U.S. is fighting in Niger.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Was your Thanksgiving nice? Are you shopping now? Working? I’m heading to work late, but I will make up for it by leaving early.

Seriously, Black Friday office work is the best. I’ll be working like 6 hours, with fewer interruptions. I’ll get so much more done.

Stephen: Трамп even made pardoning turkeys about Obama.

Jimmy Fallon with some #ThanksgivingFails.

Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo: Don’t try to win a Thanksgiving debate, just plant a seed.

ISS Expedition 53: Thanksgiving memories.

Happy Thanksgiving from Tony Robbins.

Francesca Fiorentini: Should we pardon politicians instead of turkeys?

WaPo: A brief history of turkey pardons.

Nova: When turkeys attack.

Stephen: Ivanka Трамп’s Thanksgiving centerpiece.

Three strategies to get you through Thanksgiving.

Mark Fiore: Happy Трампsgiving.

WaPo SATIRE: Hanksgiving is a … holiday? (Warning: Totally Satirical Satire).

Thanksgiving: What you need to know.

VOX: Nine charts to be thankful for—humanity is getting better.

Late Night: The Трамп family’s first Thanksgiving.

Young Turks: Did Трамп screw up the turkey pardon?.

Thanksgiving Classic: Sarah Palin’s Thanksgiving Day Massacre (with a big ol’ side of word salad):

Stephen: Thanksgiving and Трамп’s (lack of) giving.

Short takes: What do kids know about Thanksgiving.

Late Show: Thanksgiving tips.

Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo: How to deal with your MAGA uncle over the holidays.

TYT Politics: Thanksgiving in Puerto Rico—Feeding the hungry.

I don’t know, y’all. I think shitty dudes who do shitty things need to come up with better obviously bullshit excuses. Shared feelings? I thought she was hitting on me, so I grabbed her butt?

Really? How about, making sure first? Or, I don’t know, not trying to have sex with a subordinate who is young enough to be your granddaughter?

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of politics and conversation over a drink. Please join us.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

There once was a thread that was open
And as I write it, I’m hopin’
That you won’t hate
How it’s seriously late
And not about the next guy who’s been gropin’

Matthew 10:34-37
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Discuss.

Last Week Tonight: Wax Presidents trailer.

Late Show: The DOJ’s Hillary Clinton announcement

VOX: Walking while black.

Full Frontal: What’s happening to Tangier Island?

WaPo: Race and incarceration in the U.S., by the numbers.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Alt-Diversity in the Courtroom.

The Dotard Трамп and His Nesting Dolls:

• Stephen: A Трамп-nominated judge has never tried a case
• Samantha Bee: Meet the Pences
• Late Show: Overheard on Трамп’s Asia trip
• James Corden: Трамп’s back from Asia and he’s thirsty
• Stephen: Kim Jong-Un hurt President Трамп’s ‘old’ feelings
• Farron Cousins: Democrats introduce articles of impeachment against the Dotard Трамп
• Mean Boys: Brotherhood of the traveling shirts
• Bill Maher: The Scrooge of our time
• Seth Meyers: The week in Трамп and Jr.
• Stephen: Трамп demands “thanks” from UCLA Basketball
• Daily Show: How Трамп has made China great again
• Bill Maher: Checking in on Jared
• Stephen: Dotard Трамп Jr. Wiki-slides into the DMs
• Late Show: White House Extreme Makeover
• Stephen has a drink for Трамп … or tries to
• Jimmy Kimmel: Jeff Sessions confused during Трамп Russia testimony
• Seth Meyers and Chris Hayes: What motivates the Dotard Трамп
• Stephen: The very forgetful Attorney General
• Trevor: Трамп-Proofing America’s nukes:

• Inside the text messages between Dotard Трамп Jr. and WikiLeaks
• David Pakman: Трамп Tweets condolences for wrong mass shooting
• Farron Cousins: Treasury secretary and Bond villian wife pose with giant sheet of money
• Sam Seder: Трамп lifts elephant trophies ban for his douchebag son
• Dotard Трамп’s top five false or misleading claims
• Stephen: Anthony Atamanuik (The President Show)—Трамп is “a spectator President”

Adam ruins lab mice.

Matt Lieb: George Soros BIG secrets EXPOSED!!!!!!!!

VOX: The all-American fruit you’ve probably never heard of.

Trevor Noah: Even the keystone pipeline is exposing itself.

Tomi Lahren as an ’80s pop song.

Stephen: VP Joe Biden says Charlottesville was a turning point.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Roy Moore Molested a Middle School Girl And Other Rapey Observations:

• Jonathan Mann: Roy Moore is a pedophile
• Stephen: The bipartisan pastime of harassing women
• Young Turks: Roy Moore was banned from a mall.
• Bill Maher: Sweet home room Alabama.
• Lawrence O’Donnell and friends: Dotard Трамп attacked accusers, Al Franken apologized
• PsychoSuperMom: The sexual harassment prevention song:

• Daily Show: Alabama reacts to the Roy Moore accusations
• Young Turks: Sexual harassment in Congress is a ticking time bomb
• Rob Reiner and Jim Jefferies: Women have no recourse against sexual harassment
• Samantha Bee: We can all do better than Roy Moore
• Stephen: Roy Moore was banned from a mall and a YMCA
• Late Show: Satan distances himself from Roy Moore
• Is the Dotard Трамп Freaking High? Fact checking Трамп’s claim that Obama ‘never got to land’ in the Philippines,
• WaPo: Why Трамп ignores allegations against Moore and himself, but attacks Franken
• Chris Hayes: What about sexual misconduct allegations against Dotard Трамп?
• Jimmy Kimmel on Roy Moore
• David Pakman: RNC & every Senator EXCEPT Rand Paul pull out of Roy Moore
• Seth Meyers: Sexual harassment in Congress
• Trevor: Al Franken faces groping accusations & Roy Moore stays on defense
• Fake robo-call impersonating a Washington Post reporter made in Alabama
• Young Turks: Roy Moore got the most racist lawyer he could find
• Only Roy Moore could unite Stephen and Mitch McConnell
• Stephen: Roy Moore still has robots on his side

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: All Lives Friday—Serious deals for serious threats.

No wonder everyone hates Keurig.

Francesca Fiorentini: Newsbroke is skewed!

Colin Kaepernick visits Harlem for his GQ Men of the Year moment.

VOX: The environmental cost of free two-day shipping.

Randy Rainbow: Those were the good old days:

Late Show: Hannity made a chart.

ONN: How to talk to a family member about politics and that their jewelry business is a pyramid scheme.

Mental Floss: Twenty four facts about Koalas.

Bill Maher with Chelsea Handler: Women in office.

The G.O.P. Tax Scam Heist Reform:

• Full Frontal: Repealing the alternative minimum tax
• Mark Fiore: The tax reform plan of wonder.
• Robert Reich shuts down GOP tax plan trickle down theory
• Full Frontal: Lowering the tax rate for pass throughs
• Young Turks: CEOs admit they will pocket their tax cut
• Sam Seder: Sherrod Brown and Orrin Hatch THROW DOWN during Senate hearing.
• Seth Meyers and Chris Hayes on why the Republican tax cut doesn’t add up
• Full Frontal: Repeal of the estate tax
• Young Turks: Republicans try to sneak Obamacare repeal into tax plan

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Puerto Rico’s hurricane recovery—A 10 out of 10.

Jimmy Kimmel: Supreme Court Justice League.

Young Turks: Of course the Keystone Pipeline is spilling thousands of barrels of oil.

VOX: Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work.

Stephen gets interviewed by the Russians.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Men knew, part a billion in an infinity part series: Al Franken.

The photographer knew. The man sitting next to her knew. The picture was sent to God knows how many people. It wasn’t just men, but plenty of men did nothing. Men on that trip were literally sent photographic evidence and nothing happened for a decade.

Now that the stock market is going down, I feel like it’s a good time to write this without it sounding like sour grapes. The stock market is a shitty way to measure the economy. And the ways we measure the stock market are usually an unrepresentative sample of the market in general. A few dozen stocks, or even a few hundred don’t get at small business anything, or hiring, or wages.

Please join us this evening for a post-election edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Debrief, discuss, and debate, over a drink.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.