It’s always fun when debates happen to fall on a Tuesday. And it’s happened once again—CNN will host a G.O.P. debate tonight. So please join us this evening for a special debate watching 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 normal starting time is 8:00pm, but this week we will start at 5:30pm for the debate.
Note: We’ll have sound and video for the debate. But the pub has other customers, so the sound may not be as loud as you want, especially with the background noises of a busy tavern and peripheral conversations. If you are intent on hearing every word, I recommend you bring stuff to stream the audio. The pub has free wifi.
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 meets on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Tacoma chapter meets. And next Monday, the Aberdeen and Yakima chapters meet.
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I’m sure this was one big misunderstanding. He probably was just upset that the dry cleaners that day ruined his dress gown that he was planning to wear to Kinky Boots for the drag queen contest.
The real problem was inside deep down he knew that Jim Bob was really going to win the contest.
Furious man rams pickup truck through Oklahoma hotel lobby http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2466192
Well we’ve known this all along. Drill Here, drill now, pay less has always been bullshit. Domestic oil production had never been about energy independence at least for Republicans.
Soooooo….how does selling U.S. Oil to the highest bidder decrease our dependence on foreign oil? How does removing restrictions benefit anyone outside of oil producers.
How does anyone still believe the GOP economic plan of the last 50 years is about anything other than doing the bidding of corporate America?
Remember the loon arguing that Keystone XL was great because all that
AmericanCanadian oil that was foreign oil to start with couldn’t be sold internationally? Suppose he ever tires of being played for an imbecile by the “leaders” he trusts?Rand Paul said he doesn’t believe in rights based on a behavior? Like free speech? Like religious freedom? I could go on, but he’s so dumb, why bother?
Obama stops another terrorist attack.
http://handbill.us/?p=64733
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Oh, I realize Obama had nothing to do with this arrest. But I figure if Puddy’s going to blame Obama for every shooting that happens, then I’ll give Obama credit for every shooting that’s prevented. That’s only fair!
P.S., I’ll bet this guy doesn’t vote Democrat. He doesn’t look like the type. He looks like a Trump supporter to me.
A group of mostly religious, social conservatives is preparing to mount a stop-Trump campaign and back
Oswald CobblepotTed Cruz.If religious, “moral minority”, conservatives split off that leaves the party elders with a difficult choice when it comes to brokering a convention. Cruz will certainly back the nominee and not run as an independent. But loosing the religious faction of the party would really put the general election in doubt, and the down-ballot races.
Hmmmm.. Why couldn’t they back Kook-a-nut Karson?
White privilege perhaps?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Choosing Cruz over Trump pretty much affirms the ascendancy of the counter-establishment institutions in controlling the Republican Party, and therefor by extension, our national legislature. These people really, really, super-duper want to believe they can somehow reverse Obergfell. Which just about says all you need to know about their willingness to act like adults and do their job.
I think we’ll weather this. Not the Republican party. But America will weather this. But we’ll be looking at a few more years of a broken Congress before things begin to turn the corner.
@6,
seems pretty obvious they were just waiting for Carson to drop low enough before putting together this meeting and calling the media.
The GOP is screwed no matter what they do. They’re paying the price of pandering to crazies. They created a monster, and it grew and grew, and now it has taken over their party. I’ll shed no tears for them.
Remember how Chris Christie blew off a moderator’s question about Fantasy Football and online gambling in the last debate?
Let’s see if he does it again tonight. Sheldon Adelson is bitterly opposed to online gambling. After all, it competes with his casinos for business. And it so happens that Adelson owns tonight’s debate venue, and will be sitting in the front row of the audience.
If the moderators don’t ask the candidates about online gambling, you’ll know they’re cowards. And if they do ask, and Christie avoids the question or changes his answer, you’ll know he’s a coward.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....e-gambling
To put things in perspective, Trump only gets 2/3 of the birther vote, and less than 1/3 of the unhinged/crazy vote. His support amounts to about 8% of the electorate, while roughly 20% – 30% of the U.S. adult population is nuts.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....-worry-yet
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Interestingly, the percentage of people who identify as Republicans is almost exactly equal to the percentage of the population who are crazy. I suspect there’s considerable, if not perfect, overlap there.
@10 Adelson is also suspected of being the secret buyer who just snapped up Nevada’s largest newspaper.
Run people, run for your life.
NYPD Commissioner Blasts LA’s ‘Overreaction’ To Bomb Threat http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....13744.html
The GOP undercard debate has begun.
Santorum: “Not all Muslims are jihadists, but all jihadists are Muslims.”
Really?
http://www.bustle.com/articles.....-should-be
The moderators still haven’t asked these ranting candidates about Bible-thumping domestic terrorists. And the candidates haven’t mentioned it. I guess they don’t see attacks against Planned Parenthood clinics as a threat to Americans.
Santorum again: No, we shouldn’t deny guns to people on terror watch lists, because they would deny people their constitutional rights; but Islam isn’t protected by the Constitution because it’s not just a religion, it’s also a “governing structure,” and we can’t have that now, can we?
Here’s a question for those tough-talking GOP candidates:
ISIS has about 20,000 fighters and controls territory with a population of roughly 8 to 10 million people. Now that multiple nations are bombing ISIS — including Russia, the U.S., France, and Turkey — these fighters are protecting themselves by mingling with the civilian population and using them as human shields. What is your military strategy for fighting ISIS under those circumstances?
Santorum is finally saying something intelligent: He understands how the Sunni belief system works, and knows you defeat the ISIS caliphate by taking away its land base, because that’s how their belief system works. But I agree with Graham on the “boots on the ground” issue.
Huckabee wants to rebuild our military strength. But is he willing to raise taxes to do that? If not, it’s just cheap talk.
I wonder if passing a personhood bill would make this person negligent in the development of the life of a fetus?
Should Republicans make it illegal to sell those drugs to pregnant woman?
Antidepressant Use During Pregnancy Linked To Increased Autism In Kids http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....14128.html
Huckabee just proved he’s a dumbshit by arguing the U.S. should export enough oil, coal, and natural gas to supply the whole world so Iran and Russia don’t have any money.
Meanwhile, Graham says he’ll get rid of Assad. How? That’ll take a war fought by Americans against Assad’s army — and Assad is supported by Putin, so that may involve fighting Russia’s army, too.
Graham: “I miss George W. Bush!”
Kansass? This has to be friends of Puffy.
Couple accused of feeding son to pigs kept disgusting home http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2466732
Santorum thinks establishing a no-fly zone over Syria and shooting down Russian planes that fly into it would be an “incident” and not a war with Russia. Good luck with that.
Pataki says he’d shoot down Russian planes, too. He says Putin is a bully, and if you punch him in the face, he’ll back down. Good luck with that.
So now we have at least two Republican presidential candidates who believe they can shoot down Russian planes over Syria without risking a war with Russia.
@14 the scrotum and the crud and Fuckabee are their own radical religious jihadists.
Just ask them one question. Do they believe in pastors who. All for the killing of gays? They can’t answer the question. But they have an issue with ISIS.
Graham wants to rebuild the military, too. Is he willing to raise taxes to do it? If not, that’s just cheap talk.
Pataki on Syrian refugees: “I was governor on 9/11/01. Those attacks were carried out by 18 people.”
Hmm, and that record qualifies him to be president? He’s criticizing Obama for not catching 1 Pakistani terrorist when he couldn’t catch 18 Saudi terrorists?
Hey, GOP candidates, all of youse … just a friendly reminder: The San Bernardino shooter was a Pakistani raised in Saudi Arabia, not a Syrian refugee!
Grand Old Pfucks