Archives for May 2018

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Guam: Why America’s most isolated territory exists.

Sam Seder: FAUX guest stuns everyone after saying torture worked on McCain.

Jimmy Fallon with Trevor Noah: Helping train teachers and educate South African orphans.

The Dotard Трамп and His Stormy Mofia:

• Trevor: Трамп pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal
• Stephen: Трамп ignores U.S. allies, leaves the Iran deal
• Lauren Mayer: This isn’t normal!
• Bill Maher: No deal.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Dotard Трамп attacks stop after Michael Avenatti revelation
• WaPo: This Трамп appointee runs a federal agency from his home in Dallas.
• Late Show: A word from the Nobel Peace Prize
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s fixer, Michael Cohen, had a secret slush fund
• Jimmy Kimmel: If Dotard Трамп is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
• Chris Hayes: Robert Mueller questioned companies that paid Michael Cohen
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Трамп plays the hits at the NRA convention
• Ari Melber: How Cohen’s “slush fund” could destroy Трамп like Nixon’s tapes
• Young Turks: Trump’s idiotic smear of universal health care
• Stephen: Gina Haspel says waterboarding is so 2002
• Trevor: Michael Hayden, “The Assault on Intelligence” in Трамп’s post-truth America
• Vox: Трамп quits Iran nuclear deal, undoing years of diplomacy
• Heads of State: Why Трамп is ripping immigrant children from their parents:

• Rachel Maddow: Without Iran plan, Трамп destroys US credibility and betrays allies.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Paying Michael Cohen is filling the swamp with money
• Ari Melber: The Dotard cheapens North Korean hostage return with ratings obsession
• SNL Weekend Update: On Rudy Giuliani’s confessions
• Trevor: Michael Cohen’s secret side hustle
• Joy Ann Reid: Michael Cohen case folds in on itself with unexpected Schneiderman twist
• Stephen: Трамп says Giuliani will “Get his facts straight”
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Трамп pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal
• Conan: Melania Трамп’s Other Campaign Ideas
• WaPo: Who is Viktor Vekselberg
• Jimmy Kimmel: Drunk Dotard Трамп is out of order
• Late Show: Pennywise The Clown loves Jeff Sessions’ new immigration policy
• Seth Meyers: Трамп supporters think he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
• Samantha Bee: Art of the Iran deal
• Stephen: Michael Cohen has been selling access to the President
• James Corden: Трамп’s Mueller interview prep is off to a rough start
• Trevor: Rudy Giuliani’s catastrophic media blitz
• Late Show: Iran’s response to Dotard Трамп
• Ari Melber: Republicans line up against justice, invite the Rod Rosenstein showdown
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Michael Avenatti’s sexy media blitz
• Rachel Maddow: Newly exposed payments to Michael Cohen add depth to Stormy Daniels case
• Lawrence O’Donnell: The Dotard Трамп filled the swamp with former lobbyists
• Stephen: Melania Трамп is riding high after her first state sinner
• Francesca Fiorentini: Greatest hypocrisies in the Трамп era:

• Trevor and Michael Kosta Discuss the Трамп-Giuliani “scumbag defense”
• Stephen: Трамп’s plan for peace is to “out-crazy” Kim Jong-Un
• Chris Hayes: Scott Pruitt’s security threats
• Mark Fiore: Blowing up the Iran deal with buster!
• WaPo: A Russian oligarch, a porn star and AT&T—The tale of Michael Cohen’s shell company
• Ari Melber: Mueller puts lawyer tied to Трамп campaign behind bars
• Late Show: Rudy Giuliani is digging himself into a hole.
• Bill Maher: New Rule—Married to the mob.
• Conan: Americans approve of Трамп being North Korea’s next hostage
• David Pakman: Dotard Трамп’s “Space Military”
• Michael Brooks: Trump starts lying as soon as he meets released North Korea prisoners
• Jimmy Kimmel: Rudy Giuliani is very confused
• Stephen: This week in Scott Pruitt’s scandals
• Jimmy Fallon with Trevor Noah: President Трамп’s “Knife crimes” comments make a new reggae song
• Maddow with Michael Avenatti: Michael Cohen only really has one employer
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Michael Avenatti on suspicious payments to Dotard Трамп’s lawyer.
• Seth Meyers: Rudy Giuliani keeps making things Worse for Трамп
• Ari Melber: Sex-tape lawyer who helped Cohen silence women could topple him
• Stephen: Melania to today’s youth—‘Be best’
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Richard Cordray’s fight for consumer protection

Mental Floss: TV moms, animal kingdom moms, and Mother’s Day!.

Chris Hayes: Sheldon Adelson cuts $30M check to GOP-aligned super PAC.

Late Show: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s “Political confessions”.

Vox: The “duck curve” is solar’s greatest challenge.

Misbehaving Men:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Men are ruining everything.
• Jim Jefferies: How the NFL exploits its cheerleaders
• Trevor: Eric “Champion of Women” Schneiderman falls to the #MeToo movement
• Samantha Bee: Checking in with #MeToo.
• Jim Jefferies: Tucker Carlson proves men are weak:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: SuperShe Island—No men allowed

Seth Meyers: Michelle Wolf talks about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Late Show tolerance tips.

WaPo: She rented an apartment owned by Sean Hannity…Then came the bedbugs, late rent and eviction..

Trevor: Slavery scenarios infect U.S. schools.

Primary Season:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper:
• Chris Hayes: The political demise of Don Blankenship
• WaPo: Winners and losers from the first big primary day of 2018
• Jimmy Kimmel: Mike Pence’s brothers revealed
• Trevor: Don Blankenship takes on “Cocaine Mitch” McConnell
• WaPo: What to watch in this year’s state primaries
• Lewis Black: The Primaries Are Working Their Stupid Magic

Minute Earth: When trees go nuts.

Ari Melber: Extremists and worse slip through as GOP rushes to pack courts.

Andy Richter and friends: A lesson in implicit bias.

Stephen: Everyone in China is getting a “Social credit score”.

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

Huh…I just turned on KUOW (94.9 MHz) to listen to the Week in Review, and it turns out Goldy is one of the panelists.

Check it out now (from noon to 1pm) or listen to the rerun this evening (7pm to 8pm).

Look, we can’t have a head tax, because then there will be fewer heads. It’s Econ 101. Just like how the so called death tax causes there to be fewer so called deaths. What, do you want more not dead headless people? Vote no to prevent Seattle from becoming the new Sleepy Hollow. Econ 101.

As Darryl reminded me at Drinking Liberally this week, today is the 14th blogiversary of HA. Reflecting back on my very first post, I obviously had no idea how this blog would quickly take over my life.

I don’t much blog here at the moment (or anywhere for that matter), but a big thank you to all my loyal readers and trolls for helping to make the past 14 years, well, something.

There are a lot of things more important about the Cohen bribery scandals. But Essential Consultants? That’s the name of your evil scheme. I know that the goal was to fly under the RADAR. But so much else was designed to get caught. Seriously has there been a more boringly named GOP effort to destroy the Republic since the Enterprise?

It’s Tuesday! And that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will meet. Besides chatting politics over drinks, we’ll be watching the primaries in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. Especially West Virginia. Stop by if you can.

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

Can’t make it to Seattle? There are 253 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

It’s weird that people who spent 8 years looking for Obama’s Katrina aren’t saying the same for Trump. I mean Puerto Rico is still suffering from Trump’s actions. The continued suffering of our fellow citizens is a choice. The same people who thought that everything Obama did was as bad as Katrina sure are missing their chance.

John 15:6
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Discuss.

Jimmy Kimmel: Senator Elizabeth Warren on health care and minimum wage

Young Turks: Iowa passes most restrictive abortion law in the US.

David Pakman: Megyn Kelly’s NBC media implosion.

Full Frontal: Don’t be so sure about that Blue Wave.

Farron Cousins: Paul Ryan’s attack on House chaplain blows up in his face.

Bill Maher interviews Mayor Michael Tubbs (Stockton, CA), America’s youngest mayor in a city over 100,000.

Amber Rufin raps a response to Kanye West’s slavery comments.

The Dotard Трамп And His Dirty :

• Stephen adds to Robert Mueller’s 49 questions for Трамп.
• Chris Hayes: Former EPA official, “Scott Pruitt is a liar”
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Rudy Giuliani claims, “President Трамп can’t be subpoenaed”
• WaPo: Трамп and Bornstein—From allies to enemies
• Young Turks: Трамп dictated his own tremendously healthy medical report
• Michael Brooks: Scaramucci calls in to SLAM Sarah Huckabee Sanders
• Jimmy Kimmel’s exclusive chat with Dotard Трамп’s doctor
• Seth Meyers: Dotard Трамп’s questions for Robert Mueller
• Stephen: Rudy Giuliani made “Hannity” watchable
• Late Show: Guiliani today reacts to Giuliani yesterday
• Ari Melber: Rod Rosenstein blasts impeachment threat, “DOJ won’t be extorted.”
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Is Robert Mueller setting a perjury trap?:

• WaPo: The Stormy Daniels payment—A timeline
• Seth Meyers: Star Wars Day—Трамп administration opening crawl
• Stephen: Alter egos—Just Ty Cobb
• Ari Melber: Watch how central Roger Stone could be to the Mueller probe
• Lawrence O’Donnell: How long will the “idiot” keep John Kelly on the job?
• Young Turks: How Ivanka could end the Трамп presidency
• Late Show: Netanyahu struggles to keep Трамп’s attention
• Stephen: Goodbye to Stephen’s favorite Трамп Lawyer, Ty Cobb
• Trevor: Robert Mueller gives Трамп the world’s easiest open book test
• Jimmy Kimmel: Rudy Giuliani contradicts the Dotard Трамп
• Rachel Maddow: DOJ gets wise about GOP efforts to tip off Трамп on Mueller probe
• Jimmy Fallon: Kid Art—Трамп edition
• Seth Meyers: Dotard Трамп’s Michigan rally goes off the rails
• Stephen: On Michelle Wolf’s WHCD speech
• Rachel Maddow: Robert Mueller subpoena talk unlikely without Rod Rosenstein blessing
• Trevor: Michael Cohen leans on the Fifth Amendment
• WaPo Fact Checker: Unraveling President Трамп’s top 5 claims
• Ari Melber: Top Democrat says Mueller and Rosenstein have strong evidence
• Stephen: John Kelly rumored to have called Трамп an “idiot”
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s personal caddie dishes on what the president is like on the green
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Robert Mueller subpoena threat
• Bill Maher: Трамп joins OkStupid:

• Sam Seder: Neil Cavuto turns on Трамп, blasts him live on Faux News
• Farron Cousins: Трамп sets new record by lying to Americans over 3,000 times in 466 days
• Jenny Hagel responds to Трамп’s remarks about Hispanics
• David Pakman: Awkward!!!—Трамп defends “shithole countries” comment standing next to Nigerian leader
• Stephen: Трамп threatens to “get involved” in Mueller’s investigation
• Trevor: Rudy Giuliani fuels Трамп’s Stormy Daniels scandal
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Трамп is a religion now
• Chris Hayes: Robert Mueller raised possible subpoena with Dotard Трамп lawyers
• Ari Melber: Raines, “It’s scary” to see “enfeebled” Giuliani advising Трамп
• Fact checking the Dotard: Did James Comey leak classified information?
• Stephen: Sarah Huckabee Sanders made a nuclear typo
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Rudy Giuliani just plays a lawyer on TV
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s doctor speaks, Ty Cobb is OUT, Pence praises Arpaio
• Stephen with Michael Avenatti: New evidence against Michael Cohen
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп is surprisingly self-congratulatory when drunk
• Trevor: Трамп takes credit for the North & South Korean peace summit
• Rachel Maddow: Messages for Manafort, ex-Трамп lawyer seen in President Трамп questions
• Mark Fiore: The Question—Mueller interviews Трамп
• Late Show: Need a location for your denuclearization talks?
• Rachel Maddow and friends: Did Rudy Giuliani admit Трамп obstructed justice in firing Comey?
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Giuliani is the lawyer Трамп deserves
• Stephen: Трамп’s old physician is back and wacky as ever:

• WaPo: Why Трамп’s hush money repayment to Cohen may be illegal
• Ari Melber: Clinton prosecutor says Трамп has no idea what Mueller has on him
• Seth Meyers: Rudy Giuliani says Трамп lied about Stormy Daniels

NOVA: Why there’s no climate hoax.

Jimmy Kimmel: Senator Cory Booker refuses to hate the other side.

Full Frontal: May the fourth be with Chuck Todd.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Stephen: Profiles in Discourage—Foster Friess says the rich should “self-tax”.

Som’emz Da Madder Wid West Virginia:

• Mother Jones: Inside Don Blankenship’s Wild, Super-Трампy West Virginia Senate campaign.

Young Turks: Is this the worst campaign ad of all time?

Joy Ann Reid: Don Blankenship defends “Chinaperson,” hits “Cocaine Mitch”

Sam Seder: GOP candidate has the most awkward, low IQ campaign ad of all time

Stephen: Profiles in Discourage—Blankenship’s ‘Cocaine Mitch’ advertisement.

Vox: This anti-sex trafficking law could end internet freedom.

Jimmy Dore: John Boehner: “I’m gonna be selling puff…”

Newsbroke Q&A: “Is Francesca a COMMUNIST?”

Vox: George H.W. Bush’s broken promise that changed the Republican Party.

Trevor: Teachers take to the streets & Kanye West says slavery was a choice.

Samantha Bee: Facebook sucks.

A Wolf Roast:

• Seth Meyers Supports Michelle Wolf’s White House correspondents’ dinner stand-up
• David Pakman: Did Michelle Wolf say anything that wasn’t true?
• Sam Seder: Dennis Miller FINALLY reveals his groundbreaking Michelle Wolf roast:

• Samantha Bee obeys the first three rules of comedy
• Jimmy Dore: Dennis Miller makes dumbest threat ever
• Trevor: Michelle Wolf’s “disgraceful” performance at the White House correspondents’ dinner
• Samantha Bee: Greatest feminists in feminism herstory—Sarah Sanders
• Seth Meyers: Kathy Griffin recaps the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Daily Show: Gregory Watson’s fight for the 27th Amendment.

Jim Jefferies: Hey, “Incels,” women don’t owe you anything:

Bonus Check: #GOPTaxScam.

Anna: A slave who sued for freedom.

Samantha Bee with a message for Dennis Miller.

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

This week Seattle nice died. Mark your calendars. It wasn’t when we stole the land from the people who already lived here. It wasn’t when we restricted where Native Americans and African Americans could live. It wasn’t when we let Skid Row develop. It wasn’t when we mostly went along with Japanese internment. It wasn’t several decades of just being shit to anyone who had any connection to California. It wasn’t letting the current homelessness crisis develop.

So, Donald Trump wrote the letter saying that Donald Trump is the healthiest person who ever lived. I can’t exactly explain why he would lie about his health. I think in general it’s probably not a good idea to speculate on his health. I mean sure, his campaign ran ads speculating about Hillary Clinton’s health. Clearly he is hiding something.