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Archives for September 2024

Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/30/24, 3:25 pm

– If you’ve been listening to Hush, this statement and refutation is pretty amazing. And if you aren’t, it’s almost done, so you can start binging it.

– It can be difficult to advocate for non drivers when it’s tough to see them.

– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible. And! Get some tests courtesy of the US government.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Friday, 9/27/24, 10:46 pm

The Late Show: The Adams Felony

Electile Dysfunction 2024:

  • Stephen: Harris leads in youth poll & Vance and Walz prep for CBS debate & Трамп and Colbert are both “BORING”
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s Daily Efforts to Ruin the World ♬
  • The Daily Showography: Tim Walz—Radically nice
  • Seth Meyers: Rudy Giuliani disbarred, Eric Adams indicted and Трамп’s creepy plea to women
  • The Late Show: Трамп—Early voting is stupid
  • Ari Melber: Harris goes there, clowning Трамп’s “unserious” tariff tax fixation
  • Gov. Tim Walz and Anthony Ramos
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dealing With Трамп in a Трампian Manner (WGACA) ♬
  • Rachel Maddow: Трамп “policy incoherence” defies efforts at candidate comparisons
  • Steve Shives: Political violence—If Republicans said the quiet parts loud:

  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Go Away Donnie Boy ♬
  • Seth Meyers: Трамп and Vance reel amid Mark Robinson scandal, Трамп refuses to debate Harris again
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s unhinged message to women, scumbag Mark Robinson endorsement & refusal to debate Kamala
  • Lawrence O’Donnell: If Kamala Harris defeats Трамп, history will be made in more ways than one
  • Jabari Jones: Close election
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Trump—A Pustule on the Buttocks of Society ♬
  • thejuicemedia: Honest Government Ad—Трамп 2024
  • Stephen: Трамп wants beautiful babies & GOP bailing on Mark Robinson
  • Ari Melber: Harris rallies from ‘blue wall’ to border as Трамп laments 5 year old impeachment at Ukraine meeting
  • Stephen: Voter registration spikes among young people & Kamala Harris has a gun & how Трамп stays healthy
  • Parody Project: ♫ Bad Bad ♬:

  • Jimmy Kimmel responds to Трамп calling him “one of the dumbest human beings ever”
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I Don’t Have a Song (But I have a CONCEPT of a Song!) ♬
  • Steve Shives: Hot voting action!
  • Desi Lydic: Трамп refuses 2nd debate & calls BS on Kamala’s McDonald’s experience
  • Ari Melber: Трамп admits high turnout means losing as Harris embraces “Election Month”
  • Seth Meyers: Трамп admits to “personality defect,” Mark Robinson scandal could tank The Dotard in NC
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп unveils new way to rip MAGA nuts off, Mayor Eric Adams indicted & Melania comes out of hiding
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Thumbs Up! ♬
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп—The Wolf has Promised to Guard the Sheep ♬
  • Lauren Mayer: ♫ Mr. Robinson ♬:

  • Desi Lydic: Трамп to women, “I will be your protector” and Mark Robinson’s wild porn messages
  • Stephen: Трамп’s confesses, Sam Elliott curses for Kamala, and Eric Adams nay go to jail over airline upgrades
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп HATES Chappell Roan
  • Stella Magz: The Dotard protects women?
  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Crazy He Calls Us ♬
  • Alex Wagner: Harris chips away at Трамп’s economic “doom and gloom” lies about the economy
  • Sandy and Richard Riccardi: ♫ Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome ♬
  • Bruce W. Nelson: Трамп rallies—Grievance nirvana
  • The Late Show: The Vance difference:

  • Rachel Maddow: More Republicans back Harris with goal of purging Трамп to save the GOP
  • Stephen: Jane Goodall on voting to save the planet, and why male politicians are like chimpanzees
  • Climate Town: How to steal an election
  • Robert Reich: Five ways Трамп would blow up the economy
  • mazlinithegreat: The Трамп Martini
  • Adam Conover: Трамп has finally lost his mind
  • Christopher Titus: Election 2024—HOW IS ANYONE STILL UNDECIDED???
  • Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп is Getting More Behind While His Behind is Getting to be More ♬
  • Seth Meyers: Late Night presidential debate—The Dotard Трамп vs. Kamala Harris

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Desi Lydic: NY Mayor Eric Adams indicted in Turkey bribery & fraud scheme

Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—Bad guy wrestler
  • Stella Magz: Don “The Con” Трамп & the United States of the WWE
  • Robert Reich: Who’s driving political violence in the U.S.?
  • Stephen: New York Congressman Anthony D’Esposito put his lover on the payroll
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ The Story of Laura Loomer ♬:

  • Liberal Redneck: So just exactly how many scandals can the GOP fit into one week, anyhow?
  • Steve Shives: The founder of Project 2025 killed a dog with a shovel?!
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—McDonald’s
  • ScaredKetchup: ♫ P Diddy and Трамп in Ebony and Ivory ♬
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard admits he went Diddy’s parties
  • Tommy Campbell: New court filings place Matt Gaetz at teen house Party

Steve Shives: Things in the U.S. are worse than they should be

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

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

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Friday!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/27/24, 8:25 am

The other day I took the rush hour bus from Pioneer Square to Belltown. It’s a route I take frequently, but much more often when it’s gross out. And gosh is 3rd Ave so nice to take the bus through without cars.

Metro has figured it out. The drivers pass each other. The staggered stops are close enough that you can walk, but keep everything going.

Still, every once in a while, a column will suggest putting cars back on 3rd. And I want you to know that the people who write those are bad. Bad people who deserve bad things in their life. As Amazon pushes more people to come in to work, we have to resist the call of these bad people.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/25/24, 7:57 am

– Sick leave/safe leave will hurt workers. A high minimum wage will hurt workers. Union backed initiatives to protect worker safety will backfire and hurt the people it’s supposed to protect. Time and again we hear this from business interests and time and again it’s bullshit.

– The King County Auditor’s report on detention, especially for youth is pretty damning.

– I have been pretty tough on this iteration of the Seattle City Council, but kudos to them for the design review bypass.

– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 9/24/24, 5:57 pm

DLBottleIt is Tuesday, and that means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gathers for an evening of political discussion, good cheer and beer. Join us, if you can.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us on the back patio. We start at 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

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An Open Letter to Journalism from the U.S. Fucking Constitution

by An Angry Old Scrap of Parchment — Monday, 9/23/24, 7:55 pm

The US Fucking ConstitutionDear Journalism,

You have one job: defend democracy. And you fucking suck at it.

Now, I know you like to think your job is simply to report the facts and that you have some sort of sacred obligation to remain “neutral” and “objective” and “fair and balanced,” and if this unbiased brand of nonpartisan journalism unfortunately results in the election of “America’s Hitler” (Trump’s running mate’s words, not mine), well, first draft of history and all that.

Oh, grow the fuck up.

The facts are, you made this rapey orange monster, and now it’s your job to unmake him, and if that means putting your calloused thumbs on the scale in opposition to, let’s be honest, a literal fucking fascist, then fuck your journalistic ethics and lean into it. Ours is a two-party system currently consisting of a democratic party and an undemocratic party, and if you’re not wielding all your power and privilege toward preserving our democratic institutions and norms, then you aren’t doing your fucking job.

I mean, why the fuck do you think the Founders put freedom of the press right up top in my First Amendment? Because they enjoyed the whimsical musings of Silence Fucking Dogood? Fuck no. It was because when you spend four sweltering months at a yellow fever lockdown party like the Constitutional Convention, endlessly debating Enlightenment ideals like how many fifths human a black person is, you really get to know your fellow “patriots.” And so the slave-owning hypocritical assholes who wrote me sure as fuck knew that the fragile democracy they just crafted had zero chance of surviving their own elitist ambitions let alone those of the slave-owning hypocritical assholes across the aisle, without a free fucking press to keep everybody the fuck in line.

And by “free press” I mean free to write whatever the fuck it likes no matter how viciously partisan or slanderous. As Alexander Hamilton famously rapped about Thomas Jefferson, “I’ll use the press, I’ll write under a pseudonym, you’ll see what I can do to him,” and holy fuck did he ever. Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison—hiding underneath those stately powdered wigs were motherfucking gangsters who’d sooner fuck you up the ass with a rolled up broadsheet then give you the time of day. (Fun fact: also hiding underneath those powdered wigs were unsightly patches of syphilitic alopecia, because nearly everybody had syphilis back then as if you couldn’t tell from their absolutely deranged implementation of an Electoral Fucking College. But I digress.)

The point is: the Founders couldn’t have imagined a democracy guided by objective and nonpartisan journalism any more than they could have imagined one in which the 585,000 residents of fucking Wyoming would each have 67 times more representation in the U.S. Senate than 39 million Californians. (Thanks again, syphilis!) No, the Founders’ intent was the journalism they practiced: an unapologetically partisan press beating the crap out of each other in the court of public opinion. In the American system, the only way you get “fair and balanced” is by balancing the other fuckers out! That’s how our democracy was designed to work. But when one side unilaterally disarms—when, for example, the New York Times curls up all Vichy France-like while Fox News gleefully goes full Goebbels—democracy doesn’t stand a goddamn chance.

And BTW, neither does journalism.

What? You think once orange Putin seizes the dictatorial powers the Supreme Court just promised him that somehow I’m coming to your defense? Sam Alito already wipes his bony white ass with me, so put one or two more Federalist Society Elders on the bench and New York Times v. Sullivan? Dead! New York Times v. United States? Dead! Hustler Magazine v. Falwell? Dead! I mean, wake the fuck up. Without a functional democracy to back me up, my First Amendment isn’t worth the brittle old parchment it’s scribbled on, so best of luck clinging to your precious journalistic ethics while stripped naked at Gitmo as Elon sues into bankruptcy one news outlet after another for every imagined slight.

Look, I’m not asking you to lie or anything. (Though to be clear, I’m not asking you not to.) I’m just saying that if all that stands between the survival of the world’s oldest democracy and the imposition of white nationalist authoritarian rule is a little good old fashioned partisan muckraking, then, like it or not, journalism, it’s your fucking job to rake some muck in defense of the candidate who doesn’t promise to dismantle the Constitution. Then, if we still have a democracy come January 6 (normally I’d say November 5, but, you know), by all means feel free to morally cleanse yourself in a paroxysm of this pretentious both-sidesism you call “journalistic ethics.”

And if democracy doesn’t survive this election? Well… given Trump’s open admiration of Putin and his tactics, I’d be awfully careful when standing near any open windows.

So get to it, journalism, before it’s too late. As Aaron Burr ominously asked of Hamilton, “Why do you write like you’re running out of time? Write day and night like you’re running out of time?” Why? Because he was running the fuck out of time!

And so are you, journalism. So are you.

Sincerely,

The U.S. Fucking Constitution

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Monday Morning

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/23/24, 8:23 am

– Trolly busses getting upgraded.

– I still come into my office most days. But I am glad that on days when it isn’t necessary, I am not required to. That seems like the bigger issue than traffic being generated.

– I always feel a bit uninformed when there’s a bug environmental case I don’t know enough about to have a strong opinion. But I do trust Futurewise, so congratulations, probably, to them on their victory.

– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Friday, 9/20/24, 9:54 pm

Swiftvoted:

  • Jabari Jones: Little Dotard Трамп—Little Taylor!
  • Ari Melber: Трамп’s OMG moment—Harris surges with Billie Eilish & Jane Fonda surfing Swiftie’s blue wave
  • Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп’s Taylor Swift attack—“The most hateful mind” in presidential history
  • Gvnzng “Victor” 2041 the time traveler: ♫ Weird Old Guy—Why so Angry? ♬
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard HATES Taylor Swift
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—I HATE Taylor Swift
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—I HATE Taylor Swift 2
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Von Shitzenpantz accuses Taylor Swift of shooting at him
  • Josh Johnson: Kamala needs a Taylor Swift endorsement for bros, which manly celebrity will it be?
  • Seth Meyers: Трамп says he hates Taylor Swift in Truth Social post
  • LegalEagle: Musicians humiliate The Dotard in court
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s Taylor Swift tantrum
  • Ari Melber: Трамп silenced? Harris surges as Billie Eilish caps Swiftie momentum

Electile Dysfunction 2024:

  • Stephen: Mark “Black Nazi” Robinson & White Dudes for Harris & Трамп vows to win New York
  • Knotheadusc: ♫ We Don’t Want You, Donnie! ♬
  • The Late Show: Calm app—The Dotard Трамп edition
  • Andre Antunes: ♫ Donald Trap (Eating the Dogs Remix #2) ♬
  • Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ Pets! ♬
  • Steve Shives: How conspiracy theorist logic shapes the Трамп/Vance campaign
  • Ronnie Chieng: Трамп’s dubious attempt to blame political violence on Democrats’ rhetoric
  • Lauren Mayer: ♫ I Just Don’t Get How This Election Is Even Remotely Close ♬:

  • ScaredKetchup: Трамп & Laura Loomer EXPOSED (Трамп Show 60)
  • Lewis Black: Lewis Black wants to know why the hell influencers are getting into politics
  • John Di Domenico: “I have concepts of a plan” for health care
  • Stella Magz: Трамп’s 2nd assassination attempt
  • Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler phones The Dotard
  • Sandy and Richard Riccardi: ♫ Try to Remember ♬
  • Robert Reich: The 10 worst things about the Трамп presidency
  • Seth Meyers: FAUX cuts away from Трамп’s NY rally, Vance gets fact-checked on pet eating lies
  • Tim Walz: The Manual:

  • Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп’s deadly abortion ban—“Women are dying. They got what they wanted.”
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп WON’T STOP pushing pet eating lies and Oprah WANTS YOU to register to vote
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Paint It Orange ♬
  • Seth Meyers: Трамп & Vance double down on lies about pet eating & GOP blames Democrats for quoting Трамп
  • Michael Spicer: The room next door—Трамп fact check special
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—Mistress Kamala
  • ScaredKetchup: Трамп supports disgraced Mark Robinson
  • Tommy Campbell: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Laura Loomer’s crazy fight is destroying Трамп
  • Jason Kravits: ♫ The Project 2025 Song ♬:

  • The New Yorker documentary: One man’s stand against Трамп’s election conspiracies
  • Joy Reid: JD Vance is first U.S. senator to admit to terrorizing his state on purpose
  • The Late Show: J.D. Vance admits he lied to get media attention
  • John Waldron: Kamala takes biggest lead yet after Трамп’s racist rant!
  • Steve Shives: For Трамп and Vance, lying about immigrants is all they have
  • Liberal Redneck: The second Трамп plot and the rhetoric of the Left
  • Stephen: Rachel Maddow on why the GOP is laying the groundwork to challenge the election results
  • Carla Ulbrich with Gathering Time: ♫ We Won’t Go Back ♬:

  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Go Donnie, Go ♬
  • Cat Abu: No Трамп, Dems aren’t executing babies
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard Jr admits to having an affair
  • ELVIS, A.I and I: ♫ In Springfeild—They’re eatin’ the dogs, they’re eatin’ the cats ♬
  • The Late Show: Connect the dots when The Dotard speaks
  • Wired Kamala Harris answers the web’s most searched questions
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s wild debate conspiracies, former GOP leaders for Kamala, & MAGA fashion show
  • Chris Hayes slams Трамп for not understanding his own economic plan
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Mr. Robinson ♬:

  • Ronnie Chieng: NC candidate Mark Robinson gets exposed and Трамп reunites with Rudy Giuliani
  • Stella Magz: Трамп’s biggest “boss move”?
  • Tommy Campbell: Трамп’s golf incident grift, JD Vance admits he lied and Dotard Jr loses it
  • Hitler Rants Parody: Hitler is informed about a second assassination attempt on Трамп
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard says he is immune from assassins
  • Darrin Bell: Timelapse video-political cartoon—N. Carolina AG Mark Robinson is foul
  • Seth Meyers: Audience members leave rally as Трамп gives incoherent answers on manufacturing, food
  • ScaredKetchup: JD VANCE State of the Union train wreck CNN
  • Sandy and Richard Riccardi: ♫ Mr Robinson ♬:

  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Concept—The Greatest Plan in the World ♬
  • Stephen with Rachel: The Harris coalition is so broad it stretches from AOC to Dick Cheney
  • Andre Antunes: ♫ Donald Metal—Eating the Dogs ♬
  • Gvnzng “Victor” 2041 the time traveler: ♫ Project 2025 Schoolhouse Rock ♬
  • LegalEagle: The Felon Von Shitzenpantz’s dumbest suit yet? (Suing the DOJ)
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп has “bigger crowds than Elvis,” hasn’t read Melania’s book & JD Vance has the hots for couches

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—Psych ward!
  • Ronnie Chieng: Whales, bears, and brainworms, oh my—What is going on with RFK Jr.?
  • J-L Cauvin: Трамп demands a ban on Shoehei Ohtani
  • Stella Magz: Laura Loomer vs Marjorie Taylor Greene
  • Bill Maher: 24 things you don’t know about Laura Loomer
  • Dark Brandon: Don’t get Loomered

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

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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/20/24, 8:22 am

Too many people being weird creeps. But none are from Washington, so who can write about it? Me? Vaguely.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/18/24, 8:01 am

– There’s still time to enroll in Seattle’s pre-k.

– G Line, baby!

– The Seattle City Council plan for public housing seems inferior to the other ballot initiative, and maybe to the status quo.

– You know what’s great? Washing your hands right now. And getting vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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Drinking Liberally — Seattle

by Darryl — Tuesday, 9/17/24, 12:52 pm

DLBottle

Today is National Voter Registration Day. Please take a few minutes today to (1) check your own WA registration and (2) help a neighbor, friend, relative, or co-worker register to vote. After that, join us for an evening of politics and good cheer over the beverage of your choosing at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us on the back patio. We start at 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/16/24, 7:57 am

– Kind of old, but I like Emmitt’s Washington State flag redesign. My personal preference is that we change to being named after George Washington Bush and adopt one of Jacob Lawrence’s paintings to be the flag.

– This is a very funny headline in The Needling.

– And this story about Bellevue being the first city in the state to get a Monopoly board feels like a Needling headline. But it’s real.

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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

by Darryl — Friday, 9/13/24, 10:03 pm

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Washington Gubernatorial Debate Bits:

  • Public safety
  • Addressing homelessness and affordable housing
  • Climate Commitment Act
  • Reproductive health care and abortion rights

John Oliver: School lunch

Electile Dysfunction 2024:

  • Steve Shives: Трамп’s debate coach
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп lies & whines after disastrous debate, Swift for Kamala & do pro-lifers know the female body?
  • ScaredKetchup: Трамп—Harris debate recap from a steam room
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—Debate
  • Champnella: Silence of the Lambs featuring The Dotard
  • Jenkens: ♫ Трамп—They’re Eating Pets (Debate) ♬
  • Christopher Titus: The Armageddon DEBATE update
  • The Late Show: ♫ The Dotard attacks ABC News ♬
  • Sarah Cooper: How to debate
  • Lawrence O’Donnell: First D.C. Republican to fear Harris saw Трамп’s “train wreck” debate coming
  • Darrin Bell: Timelapse video-political cartoon—The Dotard botches his debate with Kamala
  • Seth Meyers and Jeff Wright: JD Vance’s bizarre migrant hoax gets roasted
  • John Leguizamo breaks down the SAVE Act and Latino voter suppression
  • Robert Reich: Kamala Harris dragged Трамп for 90 minutes straight
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard delivers the worst debate in American history
  • Stella Magz: GOP meltdown over Taylor Swift’s endorsement
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ The Last Dog in Springfield ♬:

  • Jordan Klepper: Laura Loomer angers MTG, Taylor Swift causes panic & Biden wears a MAGA hat?
  • Stephen: Harris’s debate smackdown & Трамп’s bizarre pet rumor & A hidden message in Taylor’s endorsement?
  • Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп “lost in the wilderness of his own confusion” in debate with Harris
  • Mother Jones: Трамп’s deliberate debate deluge
  • The Late Show: Old Dicks for Harris!
  • Jordan Klepper: Kamala & Трамп prepare to debate, Cheney’s endorsement & JD Vance in the pool
  • Rachel Maddow: “She put a bully in his place”—Gov. Tim Walz celebrates Kamala Harris debate performance
  • Jonathan Jensen: ♫ A concept of a plan ♬
  • Ali Velshi: It’s not the internet. It’s Трамп.
  • Jabari Jones: J.E.J.—VOTE!
  • Alex Wagner: Трамп-Vance cruel racist lies risk backlash as word spreads of real human consequences
  • Desi Lydic: Meet the writer behind those campaign fundraising emails clogging your inbox
  • Ari Melber: Трамп panics! Harris nabs Taylor Swift backing as she blasts MAGA lies & “chaos”
  • PBS News Hour: Watch a TOTALLY NOT INSANE Трамп claims Harris “wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison”
  • Stephen: Dick Cheney endorses Harris & Stephen makes The Dotard’s enemy list
  • Brenda Perez: DEBATE—Трамп got cooked (unlike those dogs)
  • Knotheadusc: ♫ Eatin’ the Dogs ♬:

  • Tommy Campbell: JD Vance’s MOST RIDICULOUS lie yet—Haitian immigrants EATING cats
  • Seth Meyers: Kamala Harris won debate according to CNN poll
  • PBS News Hour: Watch a TOTALLY NOT INSANE Трамп thinks it is a good idea to invoke Viktor Orban as a character reference!
  • Lauren Mayer: ♫ Word Salad Slurry From the Fringe Crackpot ♬
  • Chris Hayes: The Dotard Трамп Von Shitzenpantz tries to defends his relationship with far-right racist Laura Loomer
  • The Late Show: Harris delivers a butt whooping
  • Schmoyoho: ♫ They’re Eating The Dogs ♬
  • Kat Abu: Трамп’s official campaign merch is a fever dream
  • Rachel Maddow: “All the alarms going off all at once” as Трамп leans into extremism as election approaches
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп wants to lock up late night hosts, prepares to debate Kamala & Melania has a new book
  • MSNBC: Panel reacts to the debate
  • PBS News Hour: Watch a TOTALLY NOT INSANE Трамп claims immigrants are “eating the dogs…eating the cats…eating the pets of the people” in Springfield, Ohio
  • Seth Meyers: Трамп’s nonsense word salad on child care and his threat to jail election officials
  • Jon Stewart tackles Harris & Трамп’s debate and what this means for the election
  • Parody Project: ♫ Russians and Трамп ♬:

  • Taylor Tomlinson has fun with Kamala vs. Трамп debate
  • ScaredKetchup: Трамп loses his mind at press conference (Трамп Show 59)
  • Rachel Maddow: More information about election processes is key to fighting Трамп vote subversion tactics
  • Seth Meyers: Republicans admit Трамп lost debate to Harris & Трамп whines about fact checking
  • Robert Reich: Is Трамп lying or just losing it?
  • Andre Antunes: ♫ Dotard Funk (Eating The Dogs) ♬
  • Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler reacts to the Harris—Трамп debate
  • Steve Shives: Трамп lost the debate so bad, he wants to shut down ABC News!
  • Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп still pushing pet eating conspiracy, won’t debate Kamala again & MTG vs Laura Loomer
  • Liberal Redneck: Honest debate reaction (from Trae and two of the most honest sources anywhere)
  • The Remix Bros: ♫ They’re EATING the DOGS! REMIX ♬
  • Jabari Jones: AI Трамп—My new love!
  • Stephen: Harris gets under Трамп’s skin & eating cats and dogs & Taylor Swift’s endorsement
  • Lauren Mayer: ♫ Word Salad Slurry From the Fringe Crackpot ♬:

  • Tommy Campbell: The Dotard’s worst moments from the debate stage
  • PBS News Hour: Watch a TOTALLY NOT INSANE Трамп claims he has “concepts of a plan” to replace Obamacare
  • Jordan Klepper: Трамп tries to spin poor debate performance & Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris
  • The Late Show: The MAGA Friendship Bracelet
  • Alex Wagner: The taint of Трамп’s legacy—January 6 gets special security designation to protect certification
  • Seth Meyers: Harris Baits Трамп into melting down in debate
  • J-L Cauvin: The Dotard announces a rally in Springfield, OH
  • ScaredKetchup: ♫ Трамп debate fail—The hip hop musical ♬
  • Jabari Jones: Ped Cruz—Vote me out!
  • Vox: Exactly how Трамп could ban abortion
  • The New York Times: What Taylor Swift’s endorsement means for Kamala Harris
  • Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ I Have Concepts of a Plan ♬
  • Brenda Perez: Трамп claims HE shut down Nord Stream 2. Treason or Lies?
  • Stella Magz: Kamala Harris dominates in debate against Трамп
  • Jimmy Kimmel breaks down the presidential debate between The Dotard Трамп & Kamala Harris
  • Stephen: ♫ Vance says Taylor Swift’s endorsement doesn’t matter, Трамп’s Picture Book, and Biden dons MAGA hat ♬

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

  • Jabari Jones: Calling Ivanka from jail
  • Steve Shives: Laziness—A core conservative value
  • Tommy Campbell: JD Vance’s clueless comments and connection to Tenet influencers funded by Russia
  • Stella Magz: GOP—“Haitian migrants are eating kitty marsala….”
  • Parody Project: ♫ ALITO Lí ALITO Lá ♬:

  • LegalEagle: Right wing influencers secretly paid by Russia
  • Steve Shives: The right-wing myth of trans school shooters
  • Jabari Jones: Ped Cruz—Cats!
  • Peculiar: The Fred Трамп saga—The Dotard Трамп’s piggy bank
  • Swetlana AI: Трамп’s Monologue Reimagined—An AI short film
  • mazlinithegreat: ♫ You Never Can Tell (a Трампer) ♬

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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/13/24, 7:57 am

Well. I thought that the Boeing deal was pretty good. But the people who actually have to work under it rejected it 94.6%. So there is a strike, and solidarity to the striking workers. If the executives who fucked things up can find money for their golden parachutes, they can pay the people who make their damn planes.

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Wednesday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/11/24, 8:04 am

Man big debate last night. That weasely jerk. What an incoherent answer on abortion. I can’t believe anyone ever voted for him. And he looks old, older than I remember. Talking about the governor’s debate.

I already knew who I support. And I think a better Republican could actually score some hits on Ferguson. But not Reichert.

Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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