It’s another election Tuesday with primaries in Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon and Pennsylvania. Additionally, there are some special election in state house or senate districts in Pennsylvania and Alabama. Stop by tonight’s edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally and join the conversations about national, state, or local politics. Or just decompress over a drink.
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“This community voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. But now his immigration restrictions are killing its livelihood …. ”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-visa-changes-are-clawing-famous-crab-town-they-n874041
Roger Rabbit Commentary: All in favor of feeling sorry for these dumbasses, raise your paws.
I was wondering if Bob was going to give us a Stock Market report and or prediction today.
@1 #MAWA
Work, White, Wasted, Worthless, Waspy, Woozy, Wheezey, Woobly, Wither, Whimper, Whacked, Wrinkly, Wrecked, Whiplashed, Whreched, Whitehaired, Wordless, Wrongheaded – take your pick or take all of them.
@2 Yeah, no Doctor Dumbfuck today, wonder if he’s in the barn crying over spilled stock options. Or maybe the missus caught him ass-banging her horses and put him on restriction.
So when Jannine Pirro goes on air and openly admits that moving the embassy to Jerusalem is “fulfilling biblical prophecy” remember that she’s talking about the complete destruction of the world as we know it.
Now would be the time to talk about a party wanting to bring about the destruction of America.
@2 and 4, He was talking up the DOW again yesterday. 25,000! Doctor Dumbfuck is slow to grasp that the DOW would have to reach 50,000 for it to match the gains realized during Obama’s time in office. Just one reason why the doctor is a dumbfuck.
“she’s talking about the complete destruction of the world as we know it”
The loon and his SDA doomsday death cult are pleased to hear this, no doubt.
@ 6
…the DOW would have to reach 50,000 for it to match the gains realized during Obama’s time in office.
Hey, Steve, how does the Dow need to do so that Trump’s downballot legacy isn’t the loss of 1,000+ seats such as occurred under Obama?
And Steve, if the performance of the stock market can be viewed as as barometer of sorts for expanding income/wealth inequality, would its performance while Obama was president not be viewed as evidence that former President Obama supported worsening income/wealth inequality?
Asking for well-off friends who are laughing their asses off at your ilk’s floundering of late.
@8 “But, but, but…I’m a radiologist! I’m not dumb!”
I didn’t say you were dumb. I said you’re a dumbfuck. That you don’t understand the difference is yet more evidence that you’re a dumbfuck.
Alice in HAland.
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
It’s easy if you try.
Strzok led the FBI’s investigation of Trump campaign ties to Russia during 2016, including obtaining electronic surveillance warrants on Carter Page and other campaign advisers. The Page warrant relied heavily on unverified allegations contained in the Democratic Party-funded dossier.
Brennan has sworn the dossier was not “in any way” used as a basis for the ICA. He explains he heard snippets of the dossier from the press in the summer of 2016, but insists he did not see it or read it for himself until late 2016. “Brennan’s claims are impossible to believe,” Fleitz asserted.
“Brennan was pushing the Trump collusion line in mid-2016 and claimed to start the FBI collusion investigation in August 2016,” he said. “It’s impossible to believe Brennan was pushing for this investigation without having read the dossier.”
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/14/2_colleagues_contradict_brennan_on_use_of_dossier.html
@8 so I’ll take that as no prediction today or no report – what good are you?
“what good are you?”
Depends who you ask. For example, Vladimir Putin values Doctor Dumbfuck way more than we do. He’d have to pay a Russian troll 40,000 rubles a year to do what dumbfuck does for free.
@8 Yeah right, when you can’t deny plain mathematical facts, change the subject. You lost that round. Thanks for playing.
Meanwhile, Trump is learning today that North Korean promises are worth the same as his promises, and Kim’s probably thinking, “Man, that guy’s easy to toy with!”
@14
For both of them it is all about saving face. Neither of their fragile egos can handle failure and being made fun of.
For Kim Jong-Un he has nothing to lose and everything to gain. Makes a great offering, the pulls back claiming Trump and South Korea and their military exercises were threatening and proof that they can’t be trusted. Kim goes back to a country that is starving and has a huge army and is still at as state of war. They may have lost their nuclear test facility, but they can rebuild. If they do get a peace treaty signed, Kim is a big winner.
Trump on the other hand, has everything to lose by screwing this up. Of course he will blame everyone but himself for screwing the pooch.
This is something Trump simply can’t do: “When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/paul_brown_378933
Hey that bridge tragedy movie came and went didn’t it?
Did it make more money than Atlas Shrugged or the last Dinesh D’Souza flick?
Now tell me how did a “murderer” serve in the US Senate for over 40 years and freaking died in office? And were all the Republicans he did deals with over the years “accessories”?
Final question: what do always wrongist trolls have to gain by babbling about Ted Kennedy on a WA state blog? Uh.. Kennedy was sent to the US Senate, time after time, by the people of Massachusetts.
Amirite? My guess it’s just a little old thing called hate.
@16 Chappaquiddick is what they talk about when they can’t defend their own party.
So much winning:
“Republican state Rep. Rick Saccone is now zero-for-two in his campaigns for the US House in Pennsylvania this year. Two months after Saccone’s stunning loss in a special election for a House seat west of Pittsburgh, Saccone has conceded in the Republican primary for another seat …. Trump had heaped praise on Saccone prior to the special election, calling him ‘a very extraordinary guy.'”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/15/politics/rick-saccone-loses-again-pennsylvania-house/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Tonight is primary election night in several states, including Pennsylvania, and a terrible candidate isn’t going to Congress.
Saccone is a “Christian Reconstructionist.” These folks want America ruled by Biblical law — the Christian Right’s version of Sharia law. A follower of David Barton, he doesn’t believe in separation of church and state. But don’t expect any Christian compassion from this guy; he’s against welfare spending or any mercy for undocumented immigrants no matter how hard they’ve worked or how much they’ve contributed to our country.
According to Wikipedia, he “supports large-scale cuts to K-12 education, childhood education programs, public libraries, child welfare, and other state programs in order to pay back the federal government’s debt.” Using state tax revenues to pay down federal debt? What’s the rationale for that? Sounds like an excuse to eliminate public services.
“Virulently pro-gun, he has criticized private businesses for policies barring guns from their premises. Virulently anti-abortion, he’s introduced unconstitutional bills in the state legislature. On torture, he’s more than an advocate; he worked as a private interrogation contractor at Abu Ghraib prison. On labor, he votes for “right to work” and attacks unions; on character issues, he was a Roy Moore defender.
He’s not going to Congress. Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus!!
Idaho primary upset: A Native American woman has defeated a multimillionaire white guy for that state’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
As a Democrat, she faces an uphill climb in a deep-red state. But in polls, she’s as popular as any Republican candidate, leads among independent voters, and is the most popular candidate among the state’s ranchers.
America has never had a Native American governor. If she wins in November, she will make history.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/idaho-inches-closer-electing-the-nations-first-native-american-governor_us_5af5fa9fe4b0e57cd9f972d7
@19
The over/under on when 45 calls her Pocahontas is May 27th.
I wonder if my buddy Kim’s second thoughts have anything to do with the Fuckwad’s decision on Iran Deal.
Regardless of what happens – we do see who’s in control here. Fuckead couldn’t teach a dog where to shit never mind sit
Maybe my buddy Kim wants that Nobel Peace Prize.
My Pop and I had an interesting conversation last night. His take on the neo-Fascist revolution that has been going on for the last 40+ years is that it seems to parallel the political events preceding the Spanish Civil War, in that the neighboring Democracies in Europe supported the Loyalist factions made up by the workers and academics and the like, while the Nationalist wealthy landowners and industrialists were supported by the Germans and Italians who were looking to expand their little sphere of influence in Europe. Spain was dirt-poor as a nation, but had an extremely wealthy but small minority wealthy class who all but considered themselves immune to any Rule of Law by the mere virtue of their massive personal wealth. They could always buy themselves out of trouble and the Spanish legal system was almost entirely corrupt as is the American system is now.
Vladimir Putin wants to be the next super-tyrant in the vein of Hitler, Mao or Stalin, his political stance is that of convenience and opportunity. His method isn’t military conquest, although that is probably inevitable, but to either buy people out, have them murdered, or just pay people off with promises of sharing the wealth and power that he’s carving out in Russia and Eastern Europe mostly for himself and anyone who stands to benefit from helping him increase his personal wealth and the resulting political control that may be purchased with it. Fat Donny is a prime example.
Fat Donny is broke, or at least he was before he ran for President. He’s had at least 5 bankruptcies, no western Bank (except for the the DNB and certain Russian-controlled black-market financing operations in places like Lichtenstein and Cyprus) would do business with him, and it is almost a certainty that there is some seriously compromising information that Vladimir has on him. Maybe a murder or three, maybe having video records of him raping a little girl or three, his almost certain addiction to cocaine, or maybe just holding the notes on his massive debts. Debts that Fat Donny can never admit to simply because his extraordinary vanity precludes it, and the Law would certainly be interested if some or all of it came out.
Bank fraud and money laundering, especially when those crimes get into the multi-hundred million dollar range, are reasons enough to lock someone up for the rest of their life and Fat Donny knows this. The reality is that such debts are the only real sources of his apparent wealth. He became extremely “wealthy” by taking on gigantic levels of personal and business debt which he has always transferred to shell holding companies controlled either by him or the Russians then declaring those companies bankrupt when they start being investigated or the notes come due.
He isn’t behaving like someone being falsely accused of major crimes, his behavior is that of an extremely stupid, narcissistic and entitled thief who hasn’t ever been brought under scrutiny or been held responsible for anything in his life. He’s the ultimate “dindoonuffin”. His reputation as a fraudster and thief has been well-established for decades. He was somewhat infamous for dining-and-dashing on $100,000 restaurant bills back in the 1980s and then going back and then attempting to re-negotiate the bills months after the fact.
It’s easy to make money in Warfare when the super-rich are able to hire private military corporations to arm and murder anyone who questions their absolute divine right to rob the majority of the population, which is what Franco did in the early part of the Spanish Civil War. All one really needs to accomplish this, is to control the press and the flow of wealth to the “correct” people, and then denounce anyone who opposes one as a Communist. To a poorly educated and poverty stricken population, it isn’t difficult to convince people to fight for your side when the only real offering is a full stomach and a safe, quiet place to take a shit in the morning.
Putin might be the next Hitler, but Fat Donny is certainly the next wanna-be Franco.
After all, he’s entitled to that.
@ 22
‘froggy’s perpetual joblessness, explained.
He has these convos with ‘pop quite frequently, you see. Comes with having had to move back home, to the pleasant background hum of the sump pump in the basement bedroom.
@ Dr. Dumbfuck @ 23
Y’know, ad-homineim attacks are just the whole of your ability to converse in this place. You don’t have anything to say really, you’re just another dime-store reactionary and a liar who has no real education beyond your job training, which is now rapidly approaching being almost completely obsolete. I suppose that’s just as well.
You’re too old and obtuse to learn anything new so you come in here with your phony arguments and your goose-stepping bullshit.
You can rest easy in your knowledge that you made such an immense personal fortune from other people’s suffering, paid for by the Government.
@ 24
It’s ad hominem, ‘froggy.
I do rest easily and sleep well although for very different reasons. Mostly it’s because for the last 50 years Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit and his ilk have been holding those pitchforks by the wrong end.
Say hi to your pop for me, ‘froggy.
But it’s outrageous they searched my lawyer, never paid him, no not hired per se, barely know him….
DailyMail UK
@ 26
You should read the whole piece before posting a snippet, Cz-252.
I’m surprised that one of y’all HA libbies didn’t post this false allegation:
Body cam video contradicts NAACP president’s racial profiling claims
According to Moultrie’s post, the officer then says “Ok, where you work and who car is this and why you in this neighborhood.” Moultrie tells the officer where his house is located and that he is a pastor, the post said. The officer responds by saying, “And I am the Bill Gates,” according to Moultrie’s Facebook post.
http://www.scnow.com/news/loca.....c3ad5.html
What actually transpired
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmnfnUnW63E
was a polite conversation between the officer and the perpetually aggrieved liar.
Silly Seattle.
Lynda V. Mapes
@LyndaVMapes
Seattle returns to Wells Fargo; no other bank wants city’s business https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-returns-to-wells-fargo-no-other-bank-wants-citys-business/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_left_1.1 … via @seattletimes
The above from May 14th. If I recall correctly YLB had a few choice words for Wells Fargo when Seattle made the announcement that it was switching banks.
YLB on her knees in public is nothing new.
Your move, Councilmember Sawant.
@20 The Pocahontas slot is already occupied. Sacajawea is still open, though.
@28 The bodycam didn’t record the traffic stop, so we don’t know what transpired before the recording begins, nor does the interaction captured by the bodycam explain why a second squad car was needed for a routine failure-to-signal traffic stop; but the presence of the second squad car suggests that some amount of time elapsed between the traffic stop and the recording. A dumbfuck doctor would never think to ask about these things, but such questions would immediately occur to anyone with even a little legal training.
@ 31
Maybe the cop yelled all of those racial insults over the vehicle loudspeaker so all of the other racists living in that white neighborhood would know there was a black man in their midst.
Then, upon exiting the vehicle, he turned on his body cam and made like Officer Nice.
The NAACP dude was fully correct about what was said, and only his timing was off.
That must have been what happened, amirite?
@32 Now that you’ve agreed you don’t know the whole story, and only assume the NAACP dude is lying, I’ll meet you halfway by assuming your hunch is correct. Using this as our starting point, does that mean …
All black people are liars?
All police shootings of black people are justified?
There’s absolutely no reason for black people to feel they’re being profiled?
Also, what happened before the second squad car arrived, and why was backup called for a failure-to-signal stop? Normally, a traffic cop calls for backup when a confrontation has occurred.
@ 33
If any of that were a realistic possibility there would be a James Bible-like tool pointing it out.
Instead the local NAACP threw the lying sack of shit under the bus.
I have no idea why there was a second squad car. Perhaps there’s a Dunkin’ Donuts right around the corner. Perhaps it’s policy of that force during hours of darkness, manpower permitting. No idea. When someone in SC makes something of it, I’ll consider it as something other than an effort to distract from the failed efforts of a race-baiting liar.
@34 “I have no idea why there was a second squad car.”
No, you don’t, so aren’t you just a little bit curious about that?
“Perhaps there’s a Dunkin’ Donuts right around the corner.”
The closest Dunkin’ Donuts to Timmonsville is in Florence 8 1/3 miles away.
“Perhaps it’s policy of that force during hours of darkness, manpower permitting. No idea.”
Does the fact the Timmonsville Police Department has a grand total of 6 officers give you a better idea? In other words, it’s likely the entire on-duty police force responded to that traffic stop.
“When someone in SC makes something of it, I’ll consider it as something other than an effort to distract from the failed efforts of a race-baiting liar.”
Someone in SC did make something of it, but apparently you don’t consider the NAACP to be “someone.”
What it boils down to is you’ve prejudged the situation in favor of the white cop and against the black person without knowing the facts. That’s what the NAACP is complaining about, dumbfuck. Even here in King County, which is supposedly more racially enlightened than small towns in South Carolina, our county executive can’t drive without getting pulled over — and not because he’s committing traffic violations, but because white cops think he doesn’t belong where he’s driving.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/driving-while-black-even-seattles-ron-sims-counts-8-cop-stops/
Naturally, a dumbfuck like you doesn’t think this is a big deal because you’ve never had it happen to you, being white and all.
Silly little boob in fantasy land:
LOL! Wells Fargo ripped off tens of thousands of people.. Corporate greed once again making our point here.. Any decent person would condemn that.
Eh.. as for the rest of boobs “remarks” – hope the stroke off lightened the load.. It needs it often enough. Horses kick.
Hey Seattle, have you had enough yet? Enough of the scuzzy homeless cretins, drug addicts, thieves, campers, sidewalk shitters, needles, homeless rapists, destroying your parks, destroying your businesses, destroying you city….had enough yet?
Remember when they promised you the magic 10 year plan to solve the homeless bum problem? Yep, and you paid and paid and paid.
Now they ask for more and more and more of your money, with nary a plan or solid result in sight. And you dumbasses keep handing over your money to these clueless, crooked morons who cant even balance a checkbook.
Have you had enough yet?
But hey, you voted for them, now you get to deal with them
Enjoy being the laughing stock of the nation.
Have you had enough yet?
@37 Hope the stroke off lightened the load.. Looks like you needed it “enough”..