Kimmel asks people “Do you think President Obama is a Muslim?

Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze is imploding.

Obama: Why I went to Alaska.

Color-blind people see color for the first time.

Thom: Col. Wilkerson: “Dick Cheney is an idiot,” and he “should be in jail for war crimes!”

Greenman: We are the asteriod.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about social media.

2016 Clowns On Parade:

• Pap and Thom: Dr. Ben Carson is a medical malpractice nightmare
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: Right wingers are blaming liberals for Trump.
• David Pakman: Republicans like Obama’s ideas better when they think they’re Donald Trump’s
• Young Turks: The real reason Donald Trump is rich.
• Kimmel: 2016 Candidate, The Donald, and 2020 Candidate Kanye, give the same speech
• Jonathan Mann: Donald Trump Was An Anchor Baby:

• Sam Seder: Does Donald Trump know something we don’t know about the Iran deal?
• Young Turks: Trump supporters are fucking out-of-their-gourd CCCRAAAAZZZZZZYYYYYY!!!!!
• Maddow: Trump screwed up on his RNC pledge
• David Pakman: The Donald is wrong. The U.S. is not the most highly taxed country in the world.
• Thom and Pap: Trump bullying gets nastier
• Young Turks: Trump will totally learn things…after getting elected.
• Sam Seder and Cliff Schecter: The Donald Trump—Ted Cruz bromance.
• Young Turks: Ted (whack-a-doodle) Cruz blames Obama for police shooting.
• Farron Cousins: Religious right is keeping Ted Cruz’s campaign alive
• Sam Seder: The Iran Deal has Lindsey Graham all in a hissy fit.
• Young Turks: Rick Perry’s campaign staff abandoning a sinking ship
• Farron Cousins: Millionaires have been wasting money on second string GOP wannabes.
• Ann Telnaes: Scott Walker’s Canadian border wall
• Sam Seder: Scott Walker wants to build a fence on the U.S. Canadian border
• Farron Cousins: Chris Christie wants to track immigrants like fed-ex packages
• Young Turks: How to unlock the Easter Egg in Rand Paul’s selfie app
• Maddow: Bush picks a fight with Stephen Colbert

Thom: The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Ludicropatheticly Ugly!.

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News asks if #BlackLivesMatter is a hate group.

Congressional Hits and Misses: Hank Johnson edition.

Thom: Thomas Edison was right about solar energy.

Mental Floss: Unusual political parties:

Rare sea creature found off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

Mark Fiore: Obama drills.

Kim Davis, the Thrice Divorced, Four-times Married, Known Adulterer Refuses to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses:

• Dan Savage nails it on the hypocrisy
• Young Turks: Kim Davis will not be signing marriage certificates because she is in jail.
• PsychoSuperMom: Homophobe Tango (She Had It Coming)
• Bigot Kim Davis is jailed
• Young Turks: Conservatives rally behind jailed marriage clerk
• Sam Seder: Surprise, surprise…Kim Davis is a huge hypocrite.
• Alex Wagner with Dan Savage on Kentucky bigot clerk:

David Pakman: States with the strictest gun laws have lowest rates of gun-related deaths.

Thom: How China messes with American labor.

White House: West Wing Week.

Farron Cousins: Even Bush-appointed judges agree that voter ID laws are racist.

David Pakman: Democratic Party adopts $15/hr minimum wage to national platform.

Greenman: One day at the wind farm.

Obama views glacier melting from climate change.

Sam Seder: Conservatives know the real reason Obama renamed Denali

Richard Fowler: ObamaCare is working, and the proof is insane.

Thom: The Good, The Bad and The Very, Very Rakehelly Ugly!

David Pakman: Mike Huckabee: Planned Parenthood is like ISIS…

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

Clinton	Walker
99.5% probability of winning	0.5% probability of winning
Mean of 317 electoral votes	Mean of 221 electoral votes

Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) started out the election season with much buzz. But at this point, pollsters seem less interested in him, so there isn’t a lot of really current polling that pits him against a Democrat. There are only 83 state polls matching up Walker to Hillary Clinton (Jeb Bush has 212 such polls). Consequently, Walker at a bit of a disadvantage, since most of the polls were taken when Clinton was polling more strongly against all opponents.

No biggie…this is a shakedown for these analyses, so I’ll post it with the caveat that there just isn’t enough recent polling for this match-up. Perhaps pollsters will soon find reason to be more interested in the Governor.

After 100,000 simulated elections, Clinton wins 99,503 times and Walker wins 497 times (including the 103 ties). Clinton received (on average) 317 to Walker’s 221 electoral votes. In an election held now, Clinton would have a 99.5% probability of winning and Walker would have a 0.5% probability of winning.

Clinton tends to win in the classic swing states of Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan as well as Nevada and New Mexico. But the most remarkable thing about these results is how poorly Walker does in his home state of Wisconsin. Here’s the polling picture:

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It’s Tuesday…and that’s Drinking Liberally night in Seattle. So please join us for an evening of politics over a pint 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 in the small room at the back of the tavern. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by even earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Long Beach, Tri-Cities and West Seattle chapters also meet tonight. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Yakima and South Bellevue chapters meet.

There are 184 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Clinton	Bush
56.0% probability of winning	44.0% probability of winning
Mean of 273 electoral votes	Mean of 265 electoral votes

Poll analyses are back! Yes…after about four years of rest, I’ve decided to get back into the poll analysis business. If you are unfamiliar with my analyses, take a look at the FAQ. This is a shakedown run with a new HA template, so feel free to mention quirks or problems in the comment thread.

I’ve started with a match-up between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. I know, I know, it should be a match-up against Donald Trump instead of Bush. The problem is, there are a total of 20 state head-to-head polls available that match-up Hillary and Donald. For Clinton–Bush match-ups at the state level, there are 212 polls. Apparently, pollsters haven’t quite gotten serious about Trump. I expect that most state head-to-head polls will start including him, however.

For the same reason—lack of state head-to-head polling—I cannot really provide analyses for Sanders, O’Malley, Webb, Biden, Warren, Warner, Cuomo, Schweitzer, or any other Democrat (for now). I will, however, do Republicans other than Jeb Bush, because the polling exists.

After 100,000 simulated elections, Hillary Clinton wins 56,003 times and Bush wins 43,997 times (including the 2,369 ties, which go to the Republican for 2016). Clinton received (on average) 273 to Bush’s 265 electoral votes. In an election held now, Clinton would be expected to win with a 56.0% probability and Bush with a 44.0% probability. That is a close result…damn near a tie.

I remind you that these analyses are driven by state head-to-head polls, not national polls. The state-wide polls are aggregated in a way that emulates the electoral college.

A peek at the long term trend is given after the jump….
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Mark Fiore: Smokey the Climate Scientist.

Mental Floss: Does ginger ale really help with stomach aches?

The 2016 Clown Show:

• This is The Republican Party
• Young Turks: Trump is in denial about his standing with Latinos.
• Ann Telnaes: President Trump…Twitter troll-in-chief.
• Jonathan Mann: Trump mocks Asian negotiators (remix):

• Sam Seder: Trump is now openly mocking Asians
• Donald Trump says “China” (234 times).
• David Pakman: White Supremacists flock to Donald Trump
• Farron Cousins: Donald Trump may put the final nail in the G.O.P. coffin
• David Pakman: Former KKK Grand Wizard and G.O.P. Congressman David Duke supports Trump
• Young Turks: Trump kicks Jorge Ramos out of press conference
• David Pakman: Donald Trump kicks Jorge Ramos out of press conference
• Donald Trump:“Positive influence?!?”
• Maddow: Trump’s racial comments causing GOP approval ratings to crash
• Young Turks: After Trump expels Jorge Ramos, Trump supporter tells Ramos to “Get out of my country!”
• David Pakman: Trump supporter tells Hispanic-American reporter to “get out of MY country”
• Kimmel: Trump’s newest ad
• Sam: Trump vs. Luntz…the battle of the right-wing pinheads
• Trump live-tweets The Kelly File
• Trump’s big movie role.
• Thom: A corporatist peek behind Trump
• Is Donald Trump an evil wizard?
• David Pakman: Does Donald Trump put an end to Republican ‘family values’ nonsense?
• Sam Seder: Why Donald Trump is so dangerous
• Maddow: Trump vs. FAUX News! Godzilla vs. Mothra!
• Megyn Kelly Kicks the shit out of Donald Trump. Makes him bleed from…wherever
• Young Turks: Trump v. FAUX News, Round 2
• Chris Hayes: Trump stumped by Bible question
• David Pakman: Trump’s brilliant answer to Bible verse question
• PsychoSuperMom: Trump’s the monster the G.O.P. created.
• Can Trump win without Latinos?
• Young Turks: Sarah Palin will interview The Donald
• Maddow: The Paul family scandal you don’t know about:

• Farron Cousins: Jeb gets desperate, and turns to his brother for fundraising.
• Jeb! and The Donald scuffle over “anchor babies”
• Sam Seder: Jeb Bush…When I say anchor babies, I mean Asians!
• Farron Cousins: Jeb Bush apparently hates Hispanics AND Asians
• Sam Seder: To stop “evildoers,” Jeb Bush wants to spy on more Americans
• Farron Cousins: Jeb Bush made millions by bankrupting Florida’s pension funds
• White House on Sen. Cruz’s & Trump’s pro-war rally
• Ann Telnaes: Ted Cruz courts evangelicals.
• Young Turks: Ted Cruz wants to deport millions, just please don’t talk about it
• Young Turks: Lil’ Bobby Jindal new 2016 strategy…copy Trump
• Sam Seder: Lindsey Graham, in a desperate attempt for relevancy, threatens to “Beat Trump’s brains out.”

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about cancer.

Young Turks: Terrorist attempts to bomb abortion clinic.

Gunzzzz:

• Young Turks: Emotional plea for gun control from father of VA shooting victim
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Father of VA shooting victim calls for gun laws
• Thom: Time to start treating guns like abortions.
• American gun violence versus the World
• Young Turks: Science says…more guns, more gun deaths
• David Pakman: So far….U.S. averaging one mass shooting per day in 2015.
• Farron Cousins: Gun violence in America is out of control. Is the 2nd Amendment outdated?
• Young Turks: Mark Hamill’s gun tweet enrages conservatives

Mental Floss: 31 amazing facts about household items.

Bill Maher with some New Rules.

White House: West Wing Week.

New Orleans, Ten Years after Katrina:

• 10 years later: Has New Orleans been rebult…or just gentrified?
• Hurricane Katrina relived through media clips
• Maddow: The 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina (with a cameo by Heck-of-a-job-Brownie):

• George W. Bush back in New Orleans after 10 years.

Sam Seder: FAUX News, “It’s hard out there for white people”.

Congressional hits and misses: Best of Ted Cruz.

Eric Schwartz: Fuck You:

Nuclear Football:

• A real nuclear physicist explains the Iran deal.
• Is Sen. Wyden (D-OR) on the path to war?

Slate: What is sex like in space?

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

Please join us tonight for an evening of political pontification over a pint. An evening of electoral erudition over an elixer! An evening of conservative contraindication over a cocktail!! It’s this week’s edition of 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 in the small room at the back of the tavern. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by even earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities chapter also meets. On Wednesday, the Burien chapter meets. The Spokane and Woodinville chapters meet on Thursday.

There are 183 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Mark Fiore: The toxic mining law.

Mental Floss: Why do people and animals tilt heads when confused?

Stop Being a Baby When It Comes To Access To Reproductive Health Care :

Julian Bond:

• Sam Seder: Remembering Julian Bond
• Remembering Julian Bond.

Red State Update: Black Lives Matter and Hillary and Bernie and Mike Huckabee.

Jimmy Carter talks about his cancer.

Congressional Hits and Misses: Steny Hoyer edition.

Young Turks: Will the world end in September?

The Intimate Explainer: Sweet Nothings about the Iran deal.

AT&T Helps NSA Spy on Americans:

• Thom: Companies the NSA found “extremely willing” to spy on Americans
• Mike Papantonio and Farron CousinsWorld’s largest telecom company is NSA’s biggest snitch

Thom: The Good, the Bad – and the Very, Very Matronymicly Ugly!

The Iraq war hawks are back…for Iran.

Maddow: July 2015 was the hottest month ever recorded on planet earth.

Mental Floss: 21 failed inventions.

Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: The U.S. burns while Congress fiddles.

The 2016 G.O.P. Circus Show:

• PsychoSuperMom: I Didn’t Come From Your Rib, You Came From My Vagina:

• Thom and Pap: The conservative media has hijacked the GOP
• Young Turks: Ending birthright citizenship? Goodbye Rubio, Jindal,…
• Farron Cousins and Sam Seder: Time for Republicans to realize just how disgusting they have become.
• Sam Seder: John Kasich whines about teacher’s whining
• Liberal Viewer: FAUX News’ anti-Trump spin
• Lawrence: Trump the insult candidate trashes himself
• Young Turks: FAUX News has lost control of The Donald
• José Díaz-Balart: Trump, “Many gang members are illegal immigrants”
• Sam Seder: Donald Trump goes to war with FAUX News’ Frank Luntz
• David Pakman: Donald Trump thinks the Constitution is unconstitutional
• Donald Trump: The Horror Film (trailer)
• The Donald’s “immigration plan”
• Chris Hayes with Ezra Klein & Michael Steele: How does Trumpism work?
• Thom: Who can stop The Donald?
• Sam Seder: Watch The Donald destroy Jeb!™
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Two shrinks weigh in on Trump’s extreme narcissism
• David Pakman: Donald Trump implodes on simple question
• Young Turks: Trump blasts O’Malley as “disgusting little weak pathetic baby”
• Larry Wilmore: Born in the USA…now GTFO!
• Lawrence O’Donnell: In ’99, Trump quit the G.O.P. because Republicans are too crazy.
• Young Turks: Huckabee thinks MLK would’ve been against Black Lives Matter movement
• Sam Seder: Mike Huckabee supports denying abortion to 10-year-old girl raped by her stepfather
• Bush edition: Fool me once.
• Maddow: Jeb’s latest blunders, lies and confusion
• José Díaz-Balart: Trump and Bush defend their use of “anchor baby”.
• Matt Binder: Bobby Jindal seeks to expand Big Government & use authority from laws that do mot exist
• David Pakman: Rick Santorum (ewwwwwww!) says ‘cancerous’ abortion is like the Holocaust
• Farron Cousins: Chris Christie is a jerk, and the public despises him
• David Pakman: Ted Cruz to hate group—only way to save US is by turning it into theocracy
• Young Turks: Lying liar Ted Cruz is not against birthright citizenship.
• Roy Zimmermann: The Big Republican Tent:

• James Rustad: “We Will Drone Illegal Immigrants”
• Deez Nuts for President
• Larry Wilmore on Deez Nuts
• Sam Seder: Mike Huckabee “speaks for” Martin Luther King Jr.

Fans want Jon Stewart to moderate a presidential debate.

Richard Fowler: Nutbag Rep. Steve King things you can marry your lawn mower.

Thom: Here are the different rules for Democrats and Republicans.

White House: West Wing Week

Pap and Farron Cousins: Florida’s criminal Governor still stealing trom tax payers.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about space.

Citizen Zimmerman:

• George Zimmerman is selling Confederate Flag art at Muslim-free gun store.
• Young Turks: George Zimmerman paints a confederate flag to prove he “loves” America.
• David Pakman: George Zimmerman selling Confederate flag painting at ‘Muslim-free’ gun store

Who funds the anti-immigrant hatred?

College Humor: 31 words that sound like slurs…but aren’t.

A baby seal responds to Shell Oil Drilling in the Arctic.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Please join us tonight for an evening of liberal politics over your beverage of choice 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 in the small room at the back of the tavern. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by even earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings happening this week. Tonight the Tri-Cities, Vancouver, WA, and Shelton chapters also meet. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Roll Call: Congressional Hits and Misses…Best of Ted Poe.

Young Turks: FAUX News has zero journalistic integrity.

Coke-backed study says drinking soda isn’t bad for you.

“Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran”:

• Thom: If you liked the Iraq War, you’ll love the Iran War.
• Michael Brooks: Obama destroys the warmongers and makes the case for the Iran deal
• Thom: Scientists speak out on the Iran nuclear deal.
• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: War-hungry conservatives vow to stop Obama’s Iran deal
• Diplomacy versus WAR
• Chris Hayes: Why 20:1 Dem. Senators support the Iran deal.
• Michael Brooks: Chuck Schumer’s nonsense anti Iran deal argument

King Crockduck: Helping Hovind to understand the speed of light.

White House: West Wing Week.

Young Turks: Ted Nugent talks about getting naked and masturbating to Megyn Kelly:

Veterans for Peace want to end all wars.

Thom: Why is Shell dumping ALEC?

Mental Floss: 22 bizarre conspiracy theories.

The 2016 Clown Parade

• Slate: The GOP debate in 60 seconds
• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: GOP’s best chance for 2016…cheat to win
• Little Republicans first debate
• Mark Fiore: Republican Guns.
• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: This repressive, hateful GOP will never win the youth vote
• Ann Telnaes: Why the GOP is worried about Trump….
• David Pakman: Donald Trump’s policy ideas are impossible or illegal
• Sam Seder: The rise of Donald Trump. When will the mainstream media learn.
• Young Turks: Donald Trump’s greatest hits
• Matt Binder: “Blood was coming out of her…wherever…”
• Ten Hours of Walking NYC as Donald Trump
• Young Turks: Donald Trump defends Planned Parenthood…sort-of.
• David Pakman: Trump supports Planned Parenthood…will Republicans punish him?
• Molly Bergman: Dear Mr. Trump

• Jonathan Mann: Ultimate Trump Remix
• Ann Telnaes: Trump punches back at Republicans
• Sam Seder: Trump’s amazing campaign speech video.
• Thom: It’s official…the Koch brothers have chosen their candidate
• Chris Hayes: Why Scott Walker gave $400M to $Billionaires.
• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: Rick Perry goes for broke…and then actually goes broke
• Young Turks: Is this the most hypocritical Republican EVER???
• Sam Seder: Republican hypocrisy at its finest—Ben Carson says fetal tissue research is okay if he’s doing it
• Young Turks: Carly Fiorina doesn’t believe in everyone getting maternity leave
• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: Rand Paul goes full teabagger on poor people.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Did Obama ghost-write Jeb Bush’s ISIS plan?

Red State Update: Bernie Sanders v Black Lives Matter, Trump v Fox.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about things that kill you.

Young Turks: FAUX News reacts to announcement that Jimmy Carter has cancer.

David Pakman: It is getting difficult to ignore that ObamaCare is really working.

How to be water self-sufficient.

Thom: The Good, The Bad, And the Very Very Iscarioticly Ugly!

Democratic Plan for College Students:

• Sam Seder: Hillary’s debt free college plan is a win for grassroots activism.
• Young Turks: Hillary Clinton Proposes huge student loan reform

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News says California is breaking bad.

NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake explains how the government violates our privacy.

Happy Birthday Social Security:

Young Turks: John Kerry raises US flag at Cuban embassy (and some Wingding heads explode).

David Pakman: EPA is responsible for Colorado’s yellow river.

Mental Floss: Why are there silent letters in English words?

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

It isn’t very surprising. Today the Washington State Supreme Court issued a unanimous order finding that the Washington legislature has failed in it duty to fund basic education. The Court has ordered them to pay $100,000 a day as sanctions:

Despite repeated opportunities to comply with the court’s order to provide an implementation plan, the State has not shown how it will achieve full funding of all elements of basic education by 2018.

The only catch is that “the fines will be held in an account to help pay for basic education until the contempt order is lifted.” So, really, this is a pretty toothless order that will cause some hand-wringing along with another special session. Essentially, the Supreme Court has issued a third “shot across the bow.”

It’s too bad because it gives the legislature additional opportunity to fail. (And we all know WHY they are failing.)

The Court should just end this: find individual legislators in contempt of court and give them a date, like October 1, to show up to serve a jail sentence that would continue through January 10th (the day before the start of the new session). Unless, of course, they come up with a solid plan before October 1.

There are plenty of things to talk about in politics besides Donald Trump. No, really…I mean it. So please join us for an evening of alternative political conversation over a cocktail 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 in the small room at the back of the tavern. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by even earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle on Tuesday night? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Tri-Cities and Redmond chapters also meet tonight. On Wednesday the Bellingham chapter meets. The Bremerton, Spokane, and Kent chapters meet on Thursday. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.

There are 190 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Richard Fowler: A Big Mac would go up by $0.17 more with a $15 minimum wage.

Young Turks: Texas voter suppression law struck down.

Scenes from the Republican War on Women:

• Ann Telnaes: If men could get pregnant…
• The shocking truth about planned parenthood
• David Pakman: Jeb Bush says funding for Women’s health is too high.
• Elizabeth Warren on The Republican War on Women
• Young Turks: Jeb things we spend too much on women’s health
• Francesca Fiorentini: Abortion and planned parenthood and the G.O.P.:

• Thom: G.O.P. tries (but fails) to defund Planned Parenthood

Mark Fiore: Trophy hunting and you

Thom: The Good, the Bad and the Very, Very Echinately Ugly!

Pap: Peddling fear brings in millions for Republicans.

Young Turks: Big win for animal rights activists.

Congressional Hits and Misses of the week.

The 2016 Clown Show:

• Songify the debate
• Young Turks: Fact checkers working overtime after G.O.P. debate
• DNC PSA: Learn to speak G.O.P.
• David Pakman: Everyone loses in the first debate.
• At the Republican forum, they run a tight ship.
• Young Turks: About those G.O.P. criticisms of Hillary
• Ann Telnaes: Who’s in and who’s out?
• Young Turks: Is Trump a plant from Bill Clinton?
• Red State Update: The Big Debate
• Red State Update: Little Debate
• Sam Seder: Cruz gets desperate and pathetic.
• Maddow: Hey Ted…that ain’t a machine gun!
• Donald Trump’s post-debate interview
• Young Turks: Trump’s Megyn Kelly Twitter tantrum
• Richard Fowler: Is Trump a serious candidate?
• Trump versus the G.O.P.
• James Rustad: Trump is not politically correct.
• Jonathan Mann: Palmer Luckey gets Trumped.
• WaPo: How Donald Trump really did in the debate
• What a Donald Trump presidency would look like
• David Pakman: Huckabee would use FBI or soldiers to stop abortions
• Thom: Christie and Paul’s 4th amendment smack-down
• Sam Seder: Chuck Todd said WHAT?!?
• David Pakman: Nutbagger Ted Cruz fully denies climate change

Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: TX Attorney General turns himself in.

Barely Productions: Uber meets Tinder.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about illegal drugs (and marijuana).

Lawrence O’Donnell: Reagan lies about Medicare.

White House: West Wing Week.

NRA CEO proves that being shot doesn’t hurt.

Jon:

• Jon signs off.
• Jon’s final show in 3 minutes
• Liberal Viewer: Jon Stewart burns FAUX News hypocrisy on supposed secret meetings.
• Amazing Jon Stewart moments
• Jon: Evisceration.
• Arby’s says goodbye to Jon:

• Jon begins his last week by hitting FAUX News for their “propagandist” nonsense
• PBS: A look back at Jon Stewart
• The amazing careers launched by the Daily Show
• Jon explains why bullshit is everywhere.
• Stephen has words with Jon
• It’s hard to say goodbye

Young Turks: Do Democrats handle the economy better than Republicans? (Spoiler alert: yes).

Obama: Voting Rights Act 50th Anniversary.

The debate question every candidate should be asked.

Mental Floss: 25 historic heists.

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

Hey…tonight is the first episode of the Trump-man show. So have at it in the thread below.

I wonder if FAUX News picked 6 Aug on purpose? Today is the anniversary of the day that President Bush was vacationing in Texas and was given a Presidential Daily Briefing that was titled, “Bin Laden determined to strike in the United States.” This memo came on the heels of numerous other warnings in the national security apparatus (as determined by the 9/11 Commission). Maybe they can discuss this along with any discussion of national security tonight….

Today is election day. Don’t be an asshole…VOTE! Mail or drop off your ballot in a ballot box and then join us for an election party at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally this evening.

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. Our starting time is 8:00 pm, but some folks stop by even earlier for dinner.

Can’t make it to Seattle tonight? Check out one of the other DL meetings this week. The Long Beach, Tri-Cities and West Seattle chapters also meet tonight. The Lakewood chapter meets on Wednesday. And on Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets.

There are 189 chapters of Living Liberally, including eighteen in Washington state, four in Oregon and two in Idaho. Chances are good there’s a chapter meeting near you.

Julianna Forlano: An Absurd Minute.

The 2016 Clown Convention:

• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: Crazy candidates are destroying the GOP. Bad thing?
• Jon: Trump is “living embodiment of everything Republicans were trying to exorcise”.
• Young Turks: Trump’s Sexist attack on breast-feeding mom
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Donald Trump snubbed by Koch brothers
• Maddow: Why do Republicans Love the Donald?

• Young Turks: Who’s doing the raping? Ivana Trump said, during divorce proceedings, that Donald raped her.
• Thom: What is the difference between Cancer and Donald Trump?
• Sam Seder: Donald Trump is no different from the other G.O.P. candidates.
• Maddow: Dear Trump surrogate, yes, raping one’s spouse is still rape
• Pap and Ed: Trump vs. Kochs….The battle of the asshole billionaires
• Young Turks: Trump talks shit about himself.
• PsychoSuperMom: The Source-of-Woes Apprentice.
• David Pakman: Trump would consider Palin for cabinet.
• Young Turks: Donald Trump wants Sarah Palin in his cabinet.
• Sam Seder: Donald Trump or Pat Buchanan?
• Donald Trump’s lawyer apologizes.
• Thom: The G.O.P. is shoving Granny off a cliff…again!
• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins: Bobby Jindal’s new Louisiana Purchase — It’s ugly, very ugly
• Jon: What the Huck?!?
• Sam Seder: Huckabee doubles down on his insane Nazi analogy
• Young Turks: Lunatic Ted Cruz claims Obama is funding terrorists.
• Maddow: GOP field expands to 17 with Gilmore added
• David Pakman: Scott Walker bungles “cheesesteak” campaign stop.
• Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins : Why does God only talk to crazy criminal Republicans?
• Maddow: Margin of error means FAUX News cuttoff in make-or-break debate is arbitrary

Daily Show debunks the christian anti-discrimination myth.

VSauce: The Banach–Tarski Paradox:

Thom: The Good, The Bad and The Very, Very, Ancipitally Ugly!

The Obama–Stewart Conspiracy:

• Young Turks: Jon Stewart “secretly” met with Obama.
• Jon: His secret White House meetings (and the secret conspiracy).

Obama lectures Congress as he signs 3 month highway funding bill.

David Pakman: Boy Scouts end ban on gay adults.

Things your racist uncle says on Facebook.

Fetal Attraction:

• Harry Reid: Good luck, G.O.P., attacking women’s health.
• Young Turks: Libertarian leader would strip rights from women?!?
• Pelosi: Planned Parenthood funding is a distraction.
• Young Turks: Sarah Palin thinks Planned Parenthood is plotting to exterminate African Americans via secret campaign of targeted abortions..

Mark Fiore: Plutonians of color.

Young Turks: Jewish fundamentalist attacks gay pride parade.

The hidden costs of U.S. wars.

Lion Killer:

• Young Turks: Beloved lion killed by American dentist
• Andrea Mitchell: The dentist who killed Cecil.
• Funny or Die: Lion killer found.
• James Rustad: The Continuing Story of Cecil the Lion
• Dental sanctuary
• David Pakman: While media focuses on Cecil the lion, five endangered elephants killed

Obama: Addressing AIDS/HIV in America.

Mental Floss: 25 things you didn’t know about dreams.

The NY Times Botched Clinton Email Story:

• David Pakman: Did the NY Times bungle the Clinton email story?
• Maddow: NY Times botches Clinton email story.

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about religions.

David Pakman: In 2015, 204 mass shootings in 204 days.

Black and White and Red All Over:

• Young Turks: Cop’s body cam leads to murder charges
• Matt Binder: Body cameras are NOT enough to prevent police violence
• David Pakman: Cop shoots unarmed black man in head, pleads not guilty to murder
• Matt Binder: Police officer indicted in the horrific shooting of Sam DuBose
• Larry Wilmore: CNN forgets the victim.
• Young Turks: Bill-O-the-Clown takes on #blacklivesmatters
• David Pakman: Third black woman (in two weeks) found dead in police custody.

How many countries have the U.S. invaded?

White House: West Wing Week.

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