Archives for November 2017

Over the weekend, I saw The Government Inspector at Seattle Shakespeare. It was quite funny, but there were a few aspects that felt dated. One thing I wanted to comment on was the casting seemed to be gender neutral, or at least had some women playing male parts and it wasn’t commented on.

I don’t know if it was a lack of good parts for women, or what. I do know it took about a minute to figure out and then it was fine. I’d prefer better female characters, but if you’re reviving old plays that don’t have them, this is pretty good.

Leviticus 25:44-45
And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.

Discuss.

Seth Meyers gives a shout-out to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Trevor: So much winning for the Dems

Francesca Fiorentini: How the GOP plans to make the rich richer again:

Jim Jefferies: Becoming the second billionaire, reality-star President.

ONN: How much credit does the sitting President deserve for the tides?

The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Russophiles:

• Stephen: Bush 41 and Bush 43 keep it 100 on Трамп
• Seth Meyers: Seth’s message to New York voters
• Trevor: Трамп’s Asia Adventure
• Late Show: Pokémon battle—Cartoon Dotard Трамп Vs. Ash Ketchum
• Keith Olbermann: Трамп is lying about Russia
• Samantha Bee: Schneider-Man
• The Late Show annotated Трамп’s victory speech
• Jimmy Kimmel talks to Kellyanne Conway about Трамп Putin meeting
• WaPo: Untangling the web of Carter Page
• Conan and Stephen talk about the “Pee Pee tape” hotel room in Russia
• Adam Savage’s “Lie Smashers” takes on Трамп’s myths
• Young Turks: Former Трамп advisor Mike Flynn’s insane Turkish kidnapping plot
• Keith Olbermann: The Трамп voters who’ve had enough
• Seth Meyers: Трамп travels to Asia as Russia probe escalates
• Stephen: Ed Gillespie loses in Virginia… thanks to Don. Jr.
• Jimmy Kimmel: Supporting ТрампCare
• Stephen: Hire the woman who was fired for flipping off Трамп
• Daily Show: Carter Page has a tell
• Seth Meyers: Who is Sam Clovis?
• Late Night: Lawrence O’Donnell joins the “Трамп attacked me on Twitter” Hall of Fame
• Farron Cousins: Former NSA analyst says multiple foreign countries have Трамп sex tapes
• Rachel Maddow: Russian lawyer claims Donald Трамп Jr offered potential deal for Clinton dirt
• Jimmy Kimmel supports ТрампCare despite mixed reaction
• The many controversies of Betsy DeVos
• Stephen: Трамп’s Mar-A-Lago hires 70 foreign workers
• Trevor: China pulls out all the stops for Трамп
• Samantha Bee: Russian bots and trolls
• Seth Meyers: Republicans push their tax plan after election losses
• Late Show: ‘House Arrest’ starring Sean Astin as Paul Manafort
• Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley with a CMA version of “Before he Tweets”
• Jimmy Kimmel: Drunk Dotard Трамп in South Korea
• Stephen: Трамп assures South Korea that he is very good
• PsychoSuperMom: The power of facts
• Late Show: Dot Dot Dot—A fond farewell…
• Francesca Fiorentini: Keep the Dotard on Twitter
• SNL: Weekend Update on Paul Manafort indictment
• Daily Show: 11 minutes without Трамп’s Twitter account
• Seth Meyers: Hillary Clinton is worried about Трамп’s government
• Keith Olbermann: Guess who celebrated election night with Трамп
• Late Show: Kim Jong-Un is ending things with Трамп
• Jimmy Kimmel wants you to sign up for ТрампCare
• James Corden: Junior doesnt’ know when to vote, and Manafort wants out
• Stephen: Lawrence O’Donnell sees traces of George Wallace in Dotard Трамп

John Oliver: Economic development.

David Pakman: Obamacare signups set new record

GOP Tax winners and losers.

Vox: How to break the two-party system.

Jimmy Dore chats with Bill O’Reilly.

Moore Bad Shit Going Down:

• Sam Seder: Roy Moore’s political career may crumble as horrible sexual assault allegations emerge
• Young Turks: Roy Moore accused of molesting underage girl
• Lawrence O’Donnell: “I don’t recall” is not good enough
• WaPo: GOP Senators vomit in their mouths a little bit.
• Stephen: One more reason not to elect Roy Moore
• Young Turks: Alleged child molester, “I dated a lot of young ladies”
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Breitbart editor offers totally bizarre defense of Roy Moore
• Bill Maher: Year of the dog
• Roy Moore’s many comments on sex and morality

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Cracking down on voter fraud.

Roy Zimmerman: Thank for the support.

Fact checking the estate tax

Jeff Ross roasts the border.

WaPo: What does temporary protected status (TPS) mean?

Gunz in ‘Merica:

• Young Turks: What one in six mass shooters have in common…
• What you need to know about semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15
• Farron Cousins: Idiot Paul Ryan says praying after mass shootings actually works!
• Samantha Bee: Thoughts and prayers and literally anything:

• Seven things you should know before talking about guns
• David Pakman: Ted Cruz accidentally tells the truth about guns
• Samantha Bee: Close the boyfriend loophole!

Mark Fiore: Stealing is legal.

Seth Meyers and jokes he cannot tell with Hillary Clinton.

Slick Steves: Paul Manafort’s travel agent, shares his top tips!

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Donna Brazile—she’s with us.

Trevor: Saudi Arabia’s political purge.

Election 2017:

• Here’s what happened in Virginia’s 2017 election
• Seth Meyers: Democrats get their first big electoral wins of the Трамп Era
• Stephen: If everything is about Трамп, then so is losing elections
• WaPo: Racist, xenophobic fliers could not stop these candidates
• Young Turks: Gov. Paul LePage (R) will defy ballot measure and not expand Medicaid
• The Resistance wins!
• David Pakman: Dems win big across the country
• Nine talking points are repeated after every mass shooting
• James Corden: One year after the Dotard Трамп was elected.
• Seth Meyers: Hillary Clinton reacts to 2017’s election results
• Jonathan Mann: Socialism had a big win last night
• Ten election night firsts

VOX: Harassment is breaking Twitter’s free speech experiment.

The Late Show: The Justice Department can’t stand CNN.

Bill Maher and friends: Overtime chat.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Swing states are in danger

Adam ruins psychics.

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

I’m seeing a few people no big deal the Roy Moore and Louis CK allegations. Not just the usual (and despicable) bitches be lying. But there seems also to be a strain of even if it’s true, it’s not that bad.

I’m going to assume that everyone making that argument have something similar in their past, or ongoing.

Oh right, sometimes election results are good. I mean the statewide results are only from states that Hillary Clinton won. Other states are still busy dismantling unions and suppressing minority votes. They may well double down on that in the wake of the election.

Still and all, pretty good. Washington looks like we’ll have a Democratic majority in both houses. Seattle will have the mayor and 2/3 of the council be women on the day the election is certified.

6:00: It is looking like a blue night….

6:03: Democrats take gubernatorial races in NJ and VA. The former reflects the least popular governor in American history. The latter follows from the least popular President in American history. Sure, NJ might have swung a bit from Trump, but Chris Christie pretty much hand delivered this race to the Democrats simply through sheer force of douchebaggery.

6:08: Wait for it…Republicans will accuse Twitter of swaying the elections by bumping up the character count to 280 JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION.

Confirmed Virginia House of Delegates Demoratic pickups so far: 2, 10, 12, 13, 21, 31, 32, 42, 50, 52, 67, 72
That's 12 seats
We're not done

— Fiddler (@cFidd) November 8, 2017

6:47: There is still some windbag on the teevee spewing sophomoric rhetoric and empty platitudes.

Medicaid expansion in Maine is up 54 to 46 in *rural* districts. Liberal Portland has not yet reported. This victory would be a massive signal.

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) November 8, 2017

Almost everything reported in Charlotte, NC. Democrat Vi Lyles leads 58-42, will be first African American female Mayor. Dems only won Mayoral race by 6 points in 2013, 4 points in 2015.

— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) November 8, 2017

A Black woman, a Latina woman, a trans woman and a socialist walk into the Virginia House of Delegates

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something-something The Aristocrats! #ElectionDay

— 🎅🏿Imani Gandy🎅🏿 (@AngryBlackLady) November 8, 2017

A Black woman, a Latina woman, a trans woman and a socialist walk into the Virginia House of Delegates

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something-something The Aristocrats! #ElectionDay

— 🎅🏿Imani Gandy🎅🏿 (@AngryBlackLady) November 8, 2017

7:07: This is big:

BREAKING: Maine votes YES on Question 2 to approve Medicaid expansion #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/x5Gm3SC65F

— WCSH 6 (@WCSH6) November 8, 2017

I’m so upset my election celebration was interrupted by the president reading S Korea’s Wikipedia page.

— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 8, 2017

8:10: Manka Dhingra leads in the 45th, 55.4% to 44.6%

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Genesis 19:30-36
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to lie with us, as is the custom all over the earth. Let’s get our father to drink wine and then lie with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and lay with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I lay with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and lie with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went and lay with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

Discuss.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Jim Jefferies: Recruiting tomorrow’s satanists.

Full Frontal: This brilliant hack could bring down the administration.

Samantha Bee: The Matrix has you(r vote).

Trevor: Silicon Valley answers to Congress amid the Russia probe

Francesca Fiorentini: Top 3 moments in male fragility in 2017.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Enemies are everywhere.

Adam ruins detox cleanse.

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has some questions for Facebook.

Dotard Трамп and His Merry Band of Liars and Thieves:

• Daily Show: The Dotard Трамп—A man of characters
• Keith Olbermann: Did Трамп spot the indictment’s most damning phrase?
• WaPo: The people that Dotard Трамп has called “animals”
• Roy Zimmerman: The Shady Bunch:

• Stephen: ‘Tis the season for treason—A very Mueller Christmas
• Rachel Maddow with Sen. Chuck Schumer: GOP tax bill stinks like a dead fish
• Samantha Bee: John Kelly is NOT the adult
• Jonathan Mann: Eleven minutes
• Sam Seder with Larry Murphy: It’s official—John Kelly is a total dick.
• VOX: The latest revelation that ties the Трамп campaign to Russia
• The President Show: The President meets himself
• Seth Meyers: GOP unveils tax plan, as Трамп lashes out after terror attack
• Conan on Трамп’s historic approval rating
• Stephen: Трамп’s name for his tax bill is so… Трампy
• Trevor Noah: How to politicize the Halloween NYC terror attack
• PsychoSuperMom: MeThinks the moron doth protest too much
• Stephen: The Papadopoulos Monologue-opoulos
• Dotard Jr.’s Halloween socialism lesson, according to the Internet

Full Frontal:

• It’s Coming From Inside The White House: Part 1
• It’s Coming From Inside The White House: Part 2
• It’s Coming From Inside The White House: Part 3
• It’s Coming From Inside The White House: Part 4
• Stephen: Bannon suggests Трамп defund Robert Mueller’s investigation
• Bill Maher: TMZ meets DMZ.
• Sam Seder: Paul Manafort calls in while under house arrest.
• Young Turks: Twitter employee deactivates Трамп’s account on last day
• Eric Schwartz: He Won (For #45):

• Daily Show: Unfollowed—Escaping Трамп’s Tweets
• Stephen explains socialism to Donald Jr. with Halloween candy
• Dotard Трамп and Paul Manafort: It’s all coming together
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press briefing—Is Eric Трамп being put up for adoption?
• Maddow: President Dotard Трамп frustrated by notion of independent justice
• Late Night: Amber’s minute of fury—John Kelly edition.
• Young Turks: Dotard Трамп thinks he is the only one who matters.
• The President Show: The President’s truck dream comes true
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Pay attention when Dotard Трамп says “believe me”
• Fact checking Dotard Трамп on the tax cut
• James Corden: Trump Jr. learned Halloween is pretty socialist
• David Pakman: Yep. A.G. Jeff Sessions lied under oath.
• Mark Fiore: Law & Oranger
• Jimmy Fallon: Alec Baldwin gives a reading of his parody Dotard Трамп memoir
• Sam Seder: Трамп RAGES on the Justice Department and Democrats before getting on plane to Asia
• Stephen: John Kelly thinks the Civil War was about ‘compromise’
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Shining the light on Трамп’s best intentions
• WaPo: Fact checking Трамп’s incomplete history of Schumer and the Diversity Visa Lottery Program
• Keith Olbermann: Is this the end… of Трамп’s sanity?:

• Seth Meyers: How the GOP is reacting to the Papadopoulos indictment
• Trevor Noah with Hillary Clinton: What happened, and what comes next?
• Late Show: Just say no to rugs, Paul Manafort

Samantha Bee: Close the boyfriend loophole.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Are you afraid of the left?

What is in the House G.O.P. tax bill?

John Oliver: Floods.

Young Turks: Republicans raising middle class taxes, slashing billionaires’.

Conan: Papa John’s new kneeling pizza.

VOX: The dollhouses of death that changed forensic science.

The mesmerizing art of Turkish marbling.

Samantha Bee: ThunderCub Ames Mayfield.

Francesca Fiorentini: This is the weirdest way to explain tax reform.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Powerful men are living in fear.

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

Were any of y’all* up early enough to see the snow?
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