The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of politics and drinks (while we still have health insurance.)
We meet 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 beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the other 236 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.
There’s a pretty good chance that Jeff Sessions will be looking for a job soon. I say good riddance. He’s too keen on seizing assets for the government that don’t belong to the government. In a letter to my local paper, somebody referred to him as a “domestic enemy” of the Constitution. I agree. Sessions and people like him have no place in government, either here or anywhere else, including any parallel universes that may exist!
Well congratulations to Yertle, he finally got something done in congress. That has to be a first since Trump became POTUS. What a proud moment. Party over people!
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Ah, as long as Sessions remains the DUMPSTER can’t get rid of Mueller and as long as Mueller remains the DUMPSTER can’t kill the investigation. I’m good with that.
As far as Sessions resigning goes…well I think Sessions is royally pissed at the DUMPSTER. No way Sessions will resign. The DUMPSTER is gonna have to fire him. And that will blow back on the DUMPSTER.
Shit happens dept.
Record vacancies in the DUMPSTER admin. Good people bailing out of the State Dept, Justice, FBI, CIA and other agencies. Few applicants to fill the vacant slots.
Maybe PUTIN can have some of his people apply. That should work…
Speaking of the State Dept, State is saying the Tillerson resignation rumors are false. Of course it is false, it is Tillerson’s staff that is resigning.
Trump is fucked no matter what he does. If he fires Mueller, he’s going down. If he doesn’t fire Mueller, he’s going down. His best option is to cut a deal with Pence to pardon him if he resigns. You know, “the art of the deal.” Pence is lackey enough to do it.
Sweet Baby Jeebus, talk about burying the lede:
And depend on it that Mr. Senator Elect Rock, who the Hillbillies know fuck all about, is not one of “the squishes”. But we know who is! And either way, Schlichter commands and Hillbilly trolls must obey. Pig pile on Reichert! This will be so much fun. I wonder who they’ll primary against him?
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Somehow I dont see “Fuck-You-Bitch-Cook-Me-a-Burrito Guy” getting jacked up and rallying for Race Bannon in a chastity belt.
@7 Republican voters are exactly stupid enough to send Kid Rock to the U.S. Senate. They proved it last November.
At least there’s one thing Republicans and Democrats agree on — helping our veterans. G.I. Bill improvements passed the House by a vote of 405-0.
http://www.military.com/daily-....._170725.nl
Not hard to figure out Trump’s rationale behind his nominee to head DoJ’s criminal division.
” … Brian Benczkowski … used to represent Alfa Bank. … Alfa Bank was at the center of scrutiny last year over potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia after computer experts discovered data suggesting a stream of communications between a server linked to the Trump Organization and a server linked to the bank. Reports about the mysterious data transmissions fueled speculation about a back channel.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/24/1683546/-Trump-s-nominee-to-head-Justice-Department-s-criminal-division-used-to-represent-major-Russian-bank?detail=emaildkre
Trumpcare 3.0 (4.0?) Crashes and Burns
After voting this afternoon to proceed with debate, GOP Senate leaders tried to jam through “repeal and replace” tonight. This was the result:
“A plan to repeal and replace Obamacare that Senate Republicans have been working on for months failed to get the 60 votes needed for approval Tuesday night. The vote was 43 in favor and 57 against.”
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/25.....votes.html
The way things are going, a televised Celebrity Death Match, Kid Rock versus The Rock with Putin as referee, winner gets the Oval Office, might be in our future. Fuck it. Bring it on. Entertain me.
@7 The wingnut at your link called Kid Rock, a white rapper from Detroit, “Southern fried”. So your “who the Hillbillies know fuck all about” sentence wins the internet.
“Alfa Bank was at the center…”
Our trolls don’t give a fuck as they’re fascists in the tank for Putin, something I’ve been saying here for over a decade. Their dream is to fuck a goat while Putin is ramming an iron fist up their ass.
This is pretty funny. George Washington sucks too.
‘Sucks to be you, Jefferson!’: Internet explodes after Trump says he’s more presidential than anyone ‘except Lincoln’
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/0.....t-lincoln/
Because Fuckface knows Alaska better than she does.
Kid Rock, Al Franken – entertainers who got lucky.
Al Franken graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in government.
Kid Rock was a violent narcotics trafficker who parlayed drug deals into record deals.
I doubt luck had much to do with it in either case.
Graduating from Harvard should disqualify Al from any job in government.
@19 I prefer the old system that elevated educated people who knew what they were doing and prevented ignoramuses like you from occupying positions of responsibility.
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since you failed to successfully complete the Asst. Night Fry Station Specialist training at Hamburger University it comes as no surprise to us that you resent the hard work, discipline, and resilience required to graduate with honors from a globally competitive world class university.
But if you take just a moment to look closely at your own life’s multiple failures, dependencies, absences, and deficiencies you may reconsider your stubborn determination not to be “told what to do” by people “who are better than you”.
Your life is shit because you suck at these things. You did this to yourself. Nobody did it to you. It’s not a zero sum game. And somebody else doing well is not the reason you did so badly.
You are the reason you did so badly in life. And the reason Al Franken got into Harvard, rose to the top of a class of top scholars, graduated with honors, helped transform an afterthought of a late night network slot filler into a global entertainment empire, and then went on to become a U.S. Senator is because he’s very smart, and he works very hard.
Again, it is truly fitting that the Hillbilly-Traitor ethos of personal responsibility is exposed as a scam exploiting empty class resentment, loss of privilege, and laziness.
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My, aren’t WE an arrogant little bitch!
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Wherein promoting hard work and accomplishment is newly labeled “arrogant” by the dominant faction of the Republican Party of angry white men.
Maybe Fuckface will sign a tax reform bill that includes tax credits for resentment. Buuuuut… first it would have to get through the Trumpublican Senate. At least you’ll still have your Krugerrands.
This sums up what the LPDTs like Elijah McDumbass are:
“…affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.”
And they are very proud and intolerant towards anyone who does not agree with them in totality.
Ol’ Remus over at The Woodpile Report had a very interesting thing to say in his comments of yesterday:
History whispers its horrors plainly if we properly understand it. There are no victories without defeat, and defeat goes deeper than victory. Julius Caesar sometimes commented on this in his dispatches from the Gallic Wars. Our own time has had Mao, Pol Pot, Himmler, Beria and a long list of others who, unlike Caesar, were not warrior-builders so much as agents of annihilation, our darkest fear.
http://www.woodpilereport.com