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DLBottleThe Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for drinks and political conversation. Please stop by!

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the room at the rear of the tavern beginning about 8pm.




Can’t make it to Seattle? There are 253 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

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  2. 2

    @1 Or how about …

    “Konstantin Kilimnik, who is now indicted alongside Paul Manafort on witness tampering charges, was far more involved in formulating pro-Russia political strategy with Manafort than previously known, according to internal memos and other business records. Robert Mueller believes Kilimnik is currently in Russia and has ties to Russian intelligence.”

    … evidence of collusion?

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/russian-charged-with-trumps-ex-campaign-chief-is-key-figure.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Here we have a Russian spy colluding with Trump’s campaign manager on Trump’s Russia policy; I think we can safely presume the Master of the Deal got something more valuable than a hotel concession in Moscow in return.

  3. 3

    … evidence of collusion?

    But… but… but… The Republican Presidential Campaign Manager was only a coffee boy.
    #WITCHHUNT!

  4. 4

    “Sixty-one percent of Americans want a new justice who will vote to uphold Roe, while only 31 percent prefer a judge who will overturn it, an NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll released Tuesday found.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/americans-want-supreme-court-to-uphold-roe-v-wade-abortion-ruling.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: We have a referendum on abortion coming up in November, and I think Sen. Turtle should wait for its results,* just as he did with Scalia’s replacement.

    * The 2016 referendum was hardly a ringing endorsement of the GOP’s crusade to turn our judiciary into a theocracy. In case you’ve forgotten, the GOP lost 2 Senate seats in that election.

  5. 5

    “hardly a ringing endorsement of the GOP’s crusade to install a theocracy in our court system”

    Hell, they think they have a mandate to do whatever Putin bids them to do.

  9. 9

    @6 Southerners don’t take kindly to assaulting cops. If the officer dies from rabies, she’ll get the death penalty.

  12. 12

    It’s July 3, 2018 and Maxine Waters is still a low IQ racist. Her district must contain even lower IQ people.

  13. 13

    I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it encourages Trumpers to think harassing political opponents is okay. OTOH, anyone doing Trump’s dirty work deserves to be hounded.

    https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/07/03/video-shows-a-woman-confronting-epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-in-a-washington-dc-restaurant/23473709/

    Although the analogy is far from perfect, should the world have just ignored the fact that John Demjanjuk was a Nazi extermination camp guard, and let him go on his way?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Demjanjuk

    The question is, how should we react when we suddenly find ourselves in the presence of an enemy of the people? Is making a citizen’s arrest the appropriate response to such a situation?

  14. 14

    @12 Our tribe’s worst racist is still better than your tribe’s best racist. That’s how racist your tribe is.

  15. 15

    13,
    Nothing at all wrong with hounding perverts, traitors, and criminals.

    Think about it. Whenever it’s Real Americans imploring filthy child-fucking trailerbillies to stop treating their neighbors like shit, the trailerbillies call it “Political Correctness” and dismiss it. But the moment any person of “lesser stature” such as a woman, or a minority, or worst of all a minority woman (!) dares to push back aggressively against the torturing of babies those same trailerbilly pussies start crying about “civility”.

    We aren’t fighting to protect white male privilege here. We’re fighting to save the republic and protect babies from child molesters. Depriving coke head perverts like Scott Pruitt a quiet meal is hardly out of bounds.

  16. 16

    @ 1

    Five people were charged and will have to appear in court. Charges include allegations of racism and bigotry.

    You’re upset because there isn’t a mug shot of a juvenile, Steve? Did you read the piece or watch the video, Steve?

    Hey, Steve, were you this upset about the lax treatment by LE of the Parkland, FL school shooter prior to his massacre? ’cause I don’t remember you bitching about how Sheriff Israel handled things up until the kid went postal.

    17 kids killed in FL, Steve, by a kid who should have never had the opportunity, but his behavior was buried for years by LE, ’cause tolerance. Or something. And what’s got you upset is a broken window and hateful language?

  17. 17

    I’m reading that Brian Ross is no longer with ABC not because of his botched Flynn report.

    He’s no longer with ABC because in the federal indictment of leaker and liar James Wolfe, Ross is Reporter #4. He carried water for Fake News.

  18. 18

    @16 I read the story. I just liked the headline and used it to give you a morning tweak.

    “17 kids killed in FL, Steve, by a kid who…”

    You raise good points here, Doc, but I’m extremely busy right now. I’d be glad to discuss this with you later.

  21. 21

    5 people ? died due to a bridge collapse and someone only cared about terrazzo cracks. – guess who? A “Doctor” – that is shocking. And it shows the level of sincerity this individual holds. Lack of character. Not even fit to be a dog catcher.

  22. 22

    In an NBC News poll released today, 62% of respondents think Trump’s SCOTUS should be voted on by the Senate prior to the November elections. Only 33% think the vote should occur after the elections.

    The Schumer Shutdown wasn’t any more popular.

  25. 25

    24,
    because you won’t stop molesting babies. Some things are more important than waffles.

    Call it PC. It’ll go away.

  26. 26

    @16 Suspected KKK sympathizer defending racist violence against black family. HA is notorious for bad trolls. We get all kinds here.

  32. 32

    “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are telling detained migrant parents that to be reunited with their children they must sign a voluntary deportation form, according to lawyers who spoke to HuffPost.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/immigration-officials-pressure-separated-parents-deportation-form_us_5b3c060ee4b09e4a8b28656e

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’m old enough to remember when people who held children hostage were dealt with by police snipers. How our country has changed.

  33. 33

    If you want to know why Democrats want to abolish ICE, the answer is simple: They don’t like hostage-takers.

  34. 34

    @31 the irony, for lack of a better word, is that if that is the case then we know who really controls and determines government policies and decisions today (as if we didn’t already know) – and that is Fox Noise.

  35. 35

    @33 that might be good. But I really think that their focus of abolishing ICE is a distraction and a turnoff and gives Republican votes. I would think Democrats would be better served if the discussion revolved around improving and correcting any issues than abolishing ICE. I don’t think it plays well at all. And to some degree I think it does say that there is a compromise to security.

  36. 36

    My god, what the fuck is the deal with Republican wrestling coaches and fucking children?

    Can’t they stop themselves?
    It must take enormous reserves of forbearance for loyal idiots like our trailer trash trolls to wake up every single morning, don the klownservaturd hair-shirt, and set to work defending and promoting a mob of corrupt perverts who yearn to fuck their children.

    Kicking these people out of restaurants isn’t a lapse of civility.
    It’s a public duty.

  37. 37

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Here we have a Russian spy colluding with Trump’s campaign manager on Trump’s Russia policy; I think we can safely presume the Master of the Deal got something more valuable than a hotel concession in Moscow in return.

    PuddyCommentary: Here are the operative words “Mueller’s team has alleged in U.S. court filings”

    Wow, 2004 and 2006 senile idiot wabbit? Mueller must not have much!

    Keep screaming!

    Happy 4th!

    Till Next Time!

  38. 38

    Sound like HA DUMMOCRETINS are like national libtards… http://illinoisreview.typepad......alism.html

    In the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Toward Socialism,” 58 percent of the up-and-coming generation opted for one of the three systems, compared to 42 percent who said they were in favor of capitalism.

    The most popular socioeconomic order was socialism, with 44 percent support. Communism and fascism received 7 percent support each.

    Seems from the poll above Conservatives calling you morons socialists, communists and fascists is TRUE! Especially TRUE for FOOLS like the Klamath Mountain McDipshit Hillbilly and the vomit producing dead toad!

    Till Next Time!

  39. 39

    @37 He’s got Russian interference for sure, even Republicans on Capitol Hill admit that, and collusion can’t be far around the corner.

  40. 40

    @38 Yes, it’s disheartening, isn’t it? We capitalists fought so hard to defeat communism — at least my buddies and I did; I don’t remember seeing you there — and now it’s making a comeback via the hearts and minds of young people. Why? Extreme income equality and crushing student debt are responsible for this.

  43. 43

    “The puzzle … is not how Scott Pruitt could … get away with these things; it is why America [is] filled with … ‘public servants’ like Pruitt and … Trump …. They are cheaters, self-dealers, corner-cutters, and liars for personal or professional gain. Why does our political system fail so badly to screen them out? Why, in short, does the swamp spread so relentlessly? The answer … is that … big money has taken over the political system, and hired people like Pruitt to run it on their behalf. …

    “Pruitt has made a career of trying to gut … environmental protection. Trump is an unprincipled hothead … who lost all access to serious capital long ago and … relies on foreign money to keep afloat …. Yet Pruitt is now in charge of dismantling every barrier between us and environmental ruin, and Trump has the nuclear codes that could end life on the planet. They both work for … billionaires actively manipulating the political process … to get their way. …

    “Why do the wealthy hire the likes of Pruitt to do their bidding? [Because] only individuals lacking a moral compass will carry out the … anti-social policies of the plutocrats … [and] tell mega-lies every day, such as that global warming is untrue and that air pollution is not dangerous to public health. Anyone of talent or honesty would recoil …. Only an ambitious toady would accept such an ugly assignment. …

    “[But] … all is not lost. The rich may have the money but the people still have the votes. Yet time is short. November is our best hope to reclaim our democracy from the likes of Pruitt and Trump.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/09/opinions/pruitt-sums-up-americas-biggest-challenge-sachs/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: If you vote Republican, you’re selling your soul; if you’re not getting paid, you’re a fool.

  45. 45

    A few news items that should make our doctor smile.

    “Walgreens calls cops on black man with diabetes for trying to buy product for insulin pump scarring”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/walgreens-calls-cops-black-man-diabetes-trying-buy-product-insulin-pump-scarring/

    “Georgia Subway employee calls cops on black family for frequent bathroom trips”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/georgia-subway-employee-calls-cops-black-family-frequent-bathroom-trips/

    “Oregon woman calls cops on black lawmaker knocking on doors while campaigning for re-election”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/oregon-woman-calls-cops-black-lawmaker-knocking-doors-campaigning-re-election/

  46. 46

    @38 … and now it’s making a comeback via the hearts and minds of young people. …Yes, it’s disheartening, isn’t it?

    Not really senile idiot wabbit. DUMMOCRETINS always eat their own. In this case they eat you old time capitalists and become communists, socialists and fascists! This poll just proves what Puddy has been calling you FOOLS since Puddy arrived long ago.

    You all are communists, socialists and fascists! Your children prove this in spades! Can’t call conservatives those names ANYMORE!

    Nuff said sucka!

    Till Next Time!

  48. 48

    Fascists like the loon must still know something akin to shame. It goes to explain why the loon can’t bring himself to say, “I’m a fascist and proud of it!”.

  49. 49

    As did George Will, Steve Schmidt and other Republicans before him, Republican Max Boot now disowns the loon and his white supremacist fascist friends who will someday turn on him and lynch the poor sap.

    “Conservative columnist pens scathing July 4th column calling for destruction of ‘white-nationalist’ GOP”

    “Personally, I’ve thrown up my hands in despair at the debased state of the GOP. I don’t want to be identified with the party of the child-snatchers. But I respect principled conservatives who are willing to stay and fight to reclaim a once-great party that freed the slaves and helped to win the Cold War. What I can’t respect are head-in-the-sand conservatives who continue to support the GOP by pretending that nothing has changed”

    “That is why I join Will and other principled conservatives, both current and former Republicans, in rooting for a Democratic takeover of both houses in November. Like postwar Germany and Japan, the Republican Party must first be destroyed before it can be rebuilt.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/conservative-columnist-pens-scathing-july-4th-column-calling-destruction-white-nationalist-gop/

    Too bad the loon hasn’t a brain. SAD!

  50. 50

    How on earth can someone be both a commie and a fascist? Only everyone on Google knows shitstain steve…

    Apparently shitstain steve is doing his moist pint lace panty senile idiot wabbit moment… Apparently shitstain has never really looked at the two viewpoints. Well his posts are shit and the stain is readily apparent in each thread.

    Google fascism communism venn diagram Oops… maybe shitstain steve doesn’t know what a venn diagram is after drinking his namesake stoooooooooooooooooooopid solution for all those years!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  52. 52

    “President Donald Trump last August asked several top foreign policy advisers about the possibility of invading Venezuela during a meeting about diplomatic sanctions the US was enacting on the autocratic government, a senior administration official familiar with the comments said.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/04/politics/donald-trump-venezuela-invasion/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Nation building. Thought he was against that. Apparently only when he’s lying to his gullible supporters.

  53. 53

    I read somewhere that George Will, Steve Schmidt and Max Boot each read some of the loon’s comments here at HA and cried out, “That’s enough! I quit the GOP!”

    Quite understandable. Who would ever want to be forever associated with a fascist batshit insane loon? I mean, besides Doctor Dumbfuck, that is.

  54. 54

    @45 Don’t these people realize being normal is illegal for blacks in America? They’re not supposed to have diabetes, need to pee, or — Gawd forbid — run for public office. That’s way too white.

  55. 55

    I’d say the odds are about 50 -50 that on July 16th the orange moron gives Alaska back to Russia and calls it a “win”. The loon will respond with head explosions of hate towards us commie-fascist-socialist-Jihadists and Doctor Dumbfuck will come out of the barn to tell us that America hanging onto Alaska was worse than Roger hanging onto GE.

  56. 56

    @55 That would put Putin almost within rifle shot of Seattle.

    And the first thing he would do is put the Pebble Mine in operation and kill all the salmon. Russians don’t like salmon anyway. They prefer caviar.

    I don’t think The Donald would give Putin Alaska, though. He would expect free caviar for life, delivered weekly to Mar-O-Lago, in return.

  58. 58

    @1 So they did not go to jail, they were charged. The racial part might get dropped, or tossed by the judge. When you show up and defend someone you may become a target of the mob you are telling off.

    Could be the jail was full. If they were charged they were arrested at the scene. Not at all unusual for low level crime. Here the cops were compassionate in not separating children from parents.

  60. 60

    @2 What we have here is a whole lot of nothing. The guy is in Russia and he’s not at all likely to be extradited. Russia generally does not cooperate with extradition. To call the guy a spy is a jump and not based on what he has been charged with. If he’s a spy then he should be charged accordingly. Just because you may have coffee with someone in the CIA or NSA does not make you or anyone an American spy. Heck a lot of guys in the Russian mob are associated with the Russian intelligence services. Guess all those soccer players over there playing dirty soccer will come back as Russian spies as a good number of them ill have had some interaction with someone associated with Russian intelligence services.

  61. 61

    Somebody call the Blog Police there is some guy impersonating as a black that takes too many shits here as well

  62. 62

    @55 and @56 – well, maybe then Sarah will really get to see Russia from her shack. I’m sure she and the booze crew family critters will love the Vodka.

  63. 63

    @4 I does not matter. The most likely nominee is going to be a sitting federal appeals judge. Is not going to give a direct answer to any question about Roe v. Wade or anything else that could go in front of the court. Trump has a win here in the bag. If the nominee is not a Federal judge then maybe the Dems have some ammunition, unless Trump is clever and nominates someone as conservative as Kennedy like Barrack Obama. Maybe after 2018 or 2020 should Dems get a majority in the Senate.
    No need to give Trump a yet bigger win here and just allow the nomination to go through. Make a lot of noise and get a minor delay in the process, if any and Dems look weak and impotent. So take the high road concur with the President nominee with little fuss and move forward. The Turtle intends to move forward, and there has been a call for quorum fight, that would be risky, and the one Dem forcing a vote would be the 51st, and I doubt Mitch would be reluctant to send out the Sergeant in arms. Well Dems can play, but it will just put more Republican’s in the Senate this year, and ut the house out of reach for Dems. Hmmm guess that Kennedy is a republican after all.

  64. 64

    @4 And if Hilliary Clinton had picked Bernie Sanders to be her running mate the Democrats very well could have picked up the House and Senate. As it was Clinton did not have particularly long tail in an election that favored the Democrats in Congress. If she had been elected the House likely would have impeached her, only waiting until the midterm to pick up seats in the Senate,

  65. 65

    @58 Mob assault and attacking a toddler are low-level crimes? Maybe on some other planet, but I think it’s more likely you’re just trolling. I’ve got your number, Mark. You’re a pot stirrer who posts provocative comments to get folks riled up. Count me out. I have better things to do than play that game.

  66. 66

    @59 Yeah, I notice some of the Foxy Friends are bailing on Pruitt. Did Trump say something about a swamp? They’ve been slow on the uptake, but it’s hard not to notice the alligators in the pool.

  68. 68

    @64 There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Hillary would have picked Bernie, and at no time has the GOP been within a country mile of having the 67 Senate votes that would have been needed to remove her. Wanna know who’s on thin ice in the Senate? Read this to find out:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-impeachment-us-senate-six-votes-congress-president-house-russia-a7899636.html

    It appears the House is a bigger obstacle to Trump’s removal from office than the Senate, which means his political leverage could weaken dramatically if the Dems win the House in November.

  69. 69

    @13 The only conclusion one can draw is you think Pruit is as innocent as John Demjanjak, who was never convicted and is innocent of being a NAZI concentration guard.

  70. 70

    @67 Because you now your argument is fundamentally flawed. Also he is not going to be tried. Mueller can charge hundreds of Russian’s, odd he is not charging Putin. That would of course show the weakness of his case, and be very messy politicly. Are we going to make an exception and try these Russian
    s in abstentia? Then what? Declare war? So the special counsel charges foreigners he cannot touch, unless they waltz into the US, weak tea.

    Anyone who goes by Roger Rabbit is an attention grabbing troll.

  71. 71

    @69 False. Demjanjuk was only acquitted of being “Ivan the Terrible.” He was found guilty of being a different Nazi death camp guard and participating in German SS roundups of Polish Jews, and based on those findings, was stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported. That judge’s determination of guilt was upheld on appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and is a final judgment under U.S. law. He was also found guilty in German courts, but those verdicts were vacated by his death before exhaustion of appeals. The only finding of innocence was by Israel’s top court on the issue of whether he was “Ivan the Terrible.”

  72. 72

    @13 At some point there people will be surprised when arrested by the Secret Service, and potentially charged as there are stupid people who are making threats of death and violence against those same officials. Also just because you are the other party, when the other party is in power those officials who you would like to replace with your candidates people need to be able to do their jobs, and live life. It is part and parcel of being the loyal opposition. When one becomes too much the disloyal opposition then bobby clubs must come out and used by the government.

  75. 75

    @72 The short and simple answer is: If wedding cake and flower vendors can refuse service to customers they don’t like, so can restaurants and other businesses.

    Neither the woman who flipped off Trump’s motorcade, nor the woman who confronted Nielsen in public, broke any law.

    Threatening public officials with violence is a rightwing thing.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/5967942/Barack-Obama-faces-30-death-threats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html

  76. 76

    @15Problem is at some point an official is going to have enough and tell the person to their congressman, and get the fuck out of my face and leave me and my family the fuck alone. And if you do not get the fuck out I will help you out. And the fisty cuffs will come out, and the person you support is going to enjoy some quality time at the local lock up.

  78. 78

    @20 How becoming of a United States Senator. No breaking of any ethical yule here, If course you are not the real Maxine who might not like you stealing her identity.

    I know you are safe from worrying about Horseasses rules.

  79. 79

    Hey, guys, weren’t we going to start a civil war today?

    Alex Jones
    @RealAlexJones
    BREAKING: Democrats Plan To Launch Civil War On July 4th

  80. 80

    @30 There is a flim flam man or woman who can come up with a scam that will fool that particular person, that of course takes work, and only pays if the mark has money The Nigerian scam is just an update of scams that go back before 1900. Just with the internet a single scammer can reach out to hundreds and thousands of marks in a day or two. We are all gullible at some point and rabbits have no special immunity though they tend to end up in the stew pot of the flim flam artist.

  81. 81

    “you’re not as ignorant as you pretend to be”

    But he’s far more boring than he’ll ever know.

  85. 85

    @81 And not worth the effort. I’m pretty much skipping over his bullcrap now. He’s just a thinly-disguised chain-puller.

  86. 86

    @32 ICE job is enforcement, and it’s always been an ICE ploy to get people they detain to self deport. Get them and their families back across the border. Watch for French tourist out for a run to invade Blaine, they are dangerous, and deserve 2 weeks in detention just because they ran past the border.

  87. 87

    @33 And just how do you think immigration and customs should be done, and by whom? What should Congress do to replace ICE? We could place the army on the Mexican border but not the Canadian border. Totally open border and Mexico and Canada are going to completely open up their borders?

  88. 88

    @86 You’re as harmless as she is, so you have nothing to worry about. Two weeks and you’ll be out, too, if they don’t lose your paperwork.

  89. 89

    @33 It is also convenient to be the party out of power and unable to do a thing Democrats would not do if they could.

  90. 90

    @86 Reforming a troubled organization usually starts with changing the top management.

  91. 91

    @39 Only there was British, French, Ukrainian, Israeli interference, yet there can only be Russian collusion?

  92. 92

    @89 Trust me, Democrats won’t be idle next January. I’d start by plugging the $1.5 trillion hole Trump and Ryan blew in the budget. That’s a cave rescue: The way out is the same way they went in.

  93. 93

    @40 We did not fight in that back water to defeat Communism, or even the North Vietnamese. If we had we would have fought the war differently, and a war fought only to keep the status quo a great win for Capitalism go for it.

    Seems the real Capitalists were Hanoi Jane and her supporters. TV ratings are not associated with communist regimes, and the money involved. And of course Ho Chi Mein liked claiming to be the spirit of those 1776 American revolutionaries.

  95. 95

    @42 Every administration needs a bad boy. I know this one does not wear a leather jacket, so who knew it would be him.

  97. 97

    @43 Does not matter I’m voting in the Peoples Republic of Washington. The tic party Democratic part does need to reject it’s corporate friendly ways. Bill Clinton introduced the third way, and Democrats sold out. Now only the Dead Heads are pure Democrats, not sure they vote as they are getting a ride to the next concert.

  98. 98

    The main difference between charter schools differ and public schools is there’s no accountability to an elected school board for how your money is spent, what the students are taught, or whether they learn.

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    @54 That is assuming that those individuals would not call on a similarly positioned white person. Anyone reading the police blotter in the local weekly would conclude white people doing normal things also get called on by other people who are often white.

  105. 105

    @56 He could give them Puerto Rico to go with Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela. Alaska votes Republican, and Puerto Rico if it became a state would at this time be Democratic

  106. 106

    #59 Could be he’s taking advantage of you all. After years of Pavlovian training you have taught generations of Democratic voters to vote opposite of what George Will says. Could be a social experiment being done in the real world, have to see how it comes out.

  107. 107

    @65 High fiving with my boy Upton Sinclair. No rabbit stew for us today, but we got a marvelous hutch for you with some tasty lettuce you Capitalist rabbit.

  108. 108

    @68 And for removal to actually happen Senators of the Prsident’s party would have to vote for impeachment. The impeachment of Johnson shows this since he really had no support in the Senate. He was a Democrat on a ticket meant to show the nations resolve. Neither Republican or Democrats in the Senate supported him and yet he survived a political set up. That later the Supreme Court said was unconstitutional IE what Johnson was impeached for was perfectly legal. Which shows impeachment is more of a coup just dressed in nice clothes.
    I decline to count votes in the Senate in favor of removal. First there maybe Democrats who would rather have Trump than Pence, Also pay back is a bitch. If the Democrats pursue this Supreme Justice fight they may well end up being one of the larger reasons Republican’s not only maintain control, but increase their number of seats in the Senate. The math is not friendly to Democrats. Also McCain is one of those remove Trump votes and he is not long for this world and he adds gravity to the other Republicans in that camp. He goes and it wakens the camp considerable. And as you pointed out the greater impediment is control of the house. This is all speculation until the House votes to impeach, and generally the party in power is reluctant to impeach. No such thing happened with Obama, but certainly the votes were there in the house, and well within a country mile in the Senate. It’s the last hundred yards that really counts. Johnson survived by one vote and he thought he was going to be removed.

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    @71 He lost his citizenship and was deported. And yes he tried to get asylum. There is evidence that the predecessor to ICE had evidence that would have been helpful and disproved a lot of what you just stated. Since he died though the US courts found the issue moot because he is dead. He is just like those Mexican and central American immigrants and asylum folks you are talking about, According to what you all are saying today he should have been deported and should have been kept with his family. His story should have been accepted, and it certainly was obvious he would have been executed having been returned to the USSR or the Ukraine when it was part of the USSR. Even today as a soldier captured by the Germans in WWII he may well be executed just for that. But Maine Waters wants to do away with ICE or the organization that would today do the investigation into John. Same thing it does with these immigrants or asylum claimants, and surely there is at least one or two Argentinian’s who were with the Pinocet government trying to slip in. Hoping they can be the proverbial needle in a haystack, and ICE not having a magnet, and of course they will show up with a spouse and cute kids.

  110. 110

    @73 That article describes your behavior on here very well, and you cloak your identity. Pretty troll like. Sometimes I agree with you but you tilt your argument and you are partisan to the point where it is not helpful to your Democrats. Sometimes I do disagree, and I end up feeding you. And you feed well on my greens and carrots RR. And because of your flak I know I’m hitting the target. So thank you RR

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    @75 Think they would do these things to Andrew Jackson? I think these folks have left their homes and left their common sense at home. If you are a business and you serve everyone (who can pay) and are tolerant you are not run into any issues with unfair discrimination. True blue Democrats and Republicans have all said things in the spur of a moment that on reflection oh oops I want too far. Others are willing to use threats and coercion overt or hidden to get their way.

  114. 114

    @110 I’m a Democratic party hack and liberal propagandist. Ever since this blog was created. Everybody else here is used to it. Deal with it.

  115. 115

    Look at Shortbus being a PC Snowflake.

    Throwing greasy burritos at Trump rallies and shouting “TRUMP THAT BITCH!” while simultaneously tone-policing Real Americans is some advanced level trailerbilly shit.
    A good example of just how impossible it is for shy-Trumpers to warm themselves at the fire of white nationalism without getting burned.
    #maga #toddlertorture

  118. 118

    Funny – I tried reading comments from like 86 down. My mind goes from being able to comprehend to not being able to comprehend like every other post. My god that was so painful I gave up and started skipping over Abby’s comments.

  119. 119

    I feel sorry for Abby.

    He/She comes here to impress with his fluidity of incoherent speech, thinking that he is a teacher of history and a bastion of knowledge of the military and governmental bodies and other shit topics.

  121. 121

    “I feel sorry for Abby.”

    And the loon. No one here has a loon decoder ring anymore so nobody knows what he’s trying to say. SAD!

  125. 125

    Illinois’ gutless GOP governor is calling on a Nazi who secured a Republican nomination to drop out, which of course he won’t do, but won’t tell voters to vote for his Democratic opponent. He apparently thinks a Nazi congressman is still better than any Democrat, which isn’t really surprising, because there isn’t really all that much difference between the GOP and Nazi Party anymore.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bruce-rauner-calls-on-arthur-jones-to-drop-out_us_5b3e0e6ce4b05127ccef8ccb

  126. 126

    Why did Pruitt resign? A dominionist nutjob like him feels entitled to netjet, fancy meals, a fast food franchise, etc.. His dominionist nutjob pastor said so.

    A dominionist nutjob like Pruitt is entitled to roll back all the black guy’s work. Pruitt is a white dominionist. A black guy’s legacy can’t be allowed to stand.

    Who cares what tv bobbleheads like Ingraham and Cavuto babble on the tube?

    Guess the guy was just weak. Or all those investigations into him would cost the Republicans votes. Oooh can’t have that.

    Heh.

  128. 128

    @126 He was allowed to resign to spare his feelings, in recognition of his great work in Making America Dirty Again.

  130. 130

    The fight going on in the Democratic party you won’t see on HA.

    Also it’s fun to see a Californian make fun of New York politics and Democrats. Just for you WTF.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1JpWvquuGI

    Pruitt gets to enjoy his National Park pass. To be replaced by another Republican putting in place Republican policies. Or at least one flavor of Republicanism. Put the right conservative in charge of the department, and it will actually do it’s job and there will be howls from the left and right. We need an environmentally progressive Republican in this position. I know dream on, dream on. Then again it could happen, one can hope.

  131. 131

    @130 A Republican who enforced our nation’s environmental laws instead of dismantling them would be acceptable to us under present circumstances, while waiting for better days.

  132. 132

    @131 I don’t think that is going to happen. Probably get a more professional politician more able to hide or actually be personally ethical, who knows how to put in place those Republican policies you are dreading. Or he could go with nearly any politician from West Virginia. Or coal country.

  133. 133

    @125 Odd seems to be the same kind of treatment most of you extend to Kshama Sawant and Bernie.

    At least the guy is running in a heavy Democratic district where any Republican serious for running for office is either going to move out of, or become a Democrat in name only. At least they have someone running to hold up the Republican banner. Though he probably won’t do it in his Waffen SS uniform. Just need Jake and Elwood for some real fun.

  134. 134

    The three top contenders for SCOTUS range from dubious to bad to frighteningly awful:

    Raymond Kethridge, 58, a former law clerk for Kennedy, and currently a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals judge, seems the least threatening of the three.

    Amy Coney Barrett, 46, a former law clerk for Scalia and Notre Dame law professor, and currently a 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judge, is a Catholic who believes life begins at conception, but also has said Roe v. Wade is “settled law,” suggesting she wouldn’t vote to overturn it; however, nervous women’s groups opposed her 7th Circuit nomination.

    Brett Kavanaugh, 53, is an intensely partisan Republican party hack who worked for Ken Starr on Bill Clinton’s impeachment, served on Dubya’s legal team in the 2000 recount legal battle, and as a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge has supported
    unchecked presidential power and hypocritically argues that [Republican] presidents can’t be investigated or sued. His decisions have unstintingly favored big business and employers, he has consistently voted against criminal defendants, and he is blatantly hostile to environmental protection and abortion rights.

    Not surprisingly, “CNBC reported that Kavanaugh has emerged as Trump’s top pick,” probably because Trump wants someone on the Court who will push the other justices to shut down Mueller’s investigation.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-top-picks-supreme-court_us_5b3e62a9e4b07b827cbe8f96

    Meanwhile, Schumer suggested to Trump that he “unify the country” by appointing Merrick Garland. There’s no chance he’ll do that. He doesn’t want unity, he wants to ride roughshod over Democrats, and turn America into a fascist state ruled by the billionaire class.

  135. 135

    I think Democrats are taking the upcoming elections for granted, and are not really offering the American people anything.

    Meanwhile Trump is still doing rallies. Something Obama certainly did not do. He is keeping the Trump political brand going pretty strong. It’s not politics as usual.

    And now Republican’s have the Supreme court nominee and and get to pick a new EPA guy. Red meat for Republicans and if Democrats get to contentious it will turn off voters. Mainly Democrats and many of the Independents you need to win.

  136. 136

    Unless he got lynched, the loon will be back and that mofo is gonna be full of incoherent hate! SAD!

  138. 138

    @135 I have used small words today that most of you should understand. For those of you reading below a 4th grade standard need an explanation of what I’m say as todays theme it’s simply that Democrats need to pull their head out of the sand or out of each others asses.

    I expect Democrats to pick up some house, but that is not guaranteed. You could loose seats. I expect Republican’s to pick up two or three seats in the Senate, and now is the time to deal with that reality and not set up false expectations. Keep going down the road you are going the republicans will pick more 5 or more Senate seats, and retain the House by a large number.

    Of course Yellowstone could erupt, but should that event happen whoever is in Congress should just resign come the following election. A larger number of sitting politicians of both parties will be replaced than the elections of 1932.

  141. 141

    @134 All of whom would be acceptable to a Republican Senate. And it’s the Senate who votes. And all of them had many Democratic votes when they became district judges and when they became Appeals judges. Best strategy for the Democrats is to be a bit feisty at the hearings, maybe slow it down procedurally for a week or so for the party faithful, and just allow the confirmation to proceed to a vote and confirm. There is limited political gold to be mined and the timing is all wrong. And ultimately the necessity of 33 members actually needing to campaign in the fall will force the process to go forward, particularly since the majority of those members are Democrats…doubt the Republicans will be too upset if the Democrats push the fight and keep their candidates in the District of Columbia this fall.

  143. 143

    @138 We understand that you’re trolling and chain-pulling, and you’ll get the reply that deserves: Silence.

  145. 145

    “Meanwhile Trump is still doing rallies.”

    I don’t know too much about history – did Hitler do them too?

  146. 146

    @136 I’m starting to wonder whether the Horse kicked Bob in the head. But maybe not – let’s just hope he decided to take the horse out on the high seas in his flashy yacht.

  151. 151

    @146 Is that his plan for getting back to shore if the boat sinks because he forgot to put the drain plug back in?

  152. 152

    I bet it will be a glorious day on Wall Street today!

    What happen to that guy, was is A2?, that use to come on here everyday talking about the deals he got on Wall Street each morning.

    Just an FYI – I shifted some dollars, more like consolidated a bunch of different funds into one fund that I held that was performing best. Only a small amount of money. But typically when I make such a move the market plummets.

  153. 153

    Not sure what you are talking about. I’m an Independent.

    Funniest line of the day from the hanging human teabag licker!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  154. 154

    @151 No – he’s got the horse on board just in case his thoughts start to run rampant with The Hump ….he’s got the blow up doll stowed away for use as a life raft.

  155. 155

    @153 me and Abby (Mark) – we are Independents. What’s so funny about that?

    We are like Faux News – fair and balanced.

  156. 156

    Nice to see that the loon hasn’t been lynched yet. But Friday night is a good night for a lynching, so perhaps tonight’s the night the loon’s white supremacist friends finally do the deed. SAD!

  159. 159

    Did Trump offer $1 to Fauxcohantas to prove her heritage through DNA?

    Till Next Time!

  160. 160

    Will the Chrome-challenged loon ever stop double-posting his hatred for all things good and decent? Not likely.

  162. 162

    @ 156

    …Friday night is a good night for a lynching…

    Get a little action in.

    Only on HA.

    What was that you were saying about mocking @ 161 with a racial slur, Steve?

  164. 164

    @162 Huh? Don’t you white supremacists do most of your lynchings on Friday nights?

  166. 166

    June jobs report is positive and national DUMMOCRETINS go negative. Why do DUMMOCRETINS hate American success?

    Till Next Time!

  167. 167

    HA DUMMOCRETINS lost one of their own today when Ed Schultz died of “natural causes”. Since he died today Puddy will hold off on political commentary and will not say good riddance or he’s a left wrong “slut” like some DUMMOCRETIN FOOLS did when a prominent conservative died.

    Ed worked for RT America? Huh? – RT America is a TV channel based in Washington, D.C., and part of the RT network, a global multilingual television news network based in Moscow, Russia, and funded by the Russian government.[1] RT America has studios and bureaus in New York City, Miami, and Los Angeles.[2][3] The channel is the home and the production base of RT’s U.S.-based programs. – WikiPedia!

    So Ed was blasting Trump on Russian funded airwaves?

    Toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

    Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny

    Till Next Time!

  169. 169

    Some special FUNNY DUMMOCRETIN shenanigans happened in the IG report from pages 293-306. Purposeful Forgetfulness

    What were the FBI and Just Us DUMMOCRETINS hiding around #CrookedClinton?

    Hmmm…?

    Till Next Time!

  173. 173

    Whoa! The loon is really bringing the hate! Too bad nobody knows what he’s talking about because nobody here has a functional loon decoder ring anymore! SAD!

  175. 175

    @153 Of course we don’t expect a member of two fringe cults (GOP and SDA) to comprehend that other people might think for themselves.

  176. 176

    @154 Thanks for clarifying. I had no idea that’s what the blowup doll was for. I imagined it was for something else.

  177. 177

    @161 Legally, it’s the correct result. It was an unfortunate accident, and driver’s language was within his constitutional rights. However, there are social remedies available. For example, his employer can take a cue from #174 above.

  178. 178

    @162 Steve is only worried about Puddy’s welfare, doc. He’s warning him about the company he keeps. Those people are your friends, too. Both of you need better friends.

  180. 180

    @169 Our crooks are infinitely less racist than your crooks. You, for some inexplicable reason, choose to hang out with the racist crooks. As Steve has pointed out, you might not come out of that alive.

  181. 181

    So Ed was blasting Trump on Russian funded airwaves?

    This loon is too f’in stupid.

    klumpf hasn’t lifted sanctions on Russia..

    Yet…

    Of course RT would blast the freak..

  182. 182

    Both of you need better friends.

    boob’s got the friends the freak deserves. Well both trolls do for that matter.

  183. 183

    Stock market’s losing most of today’s gains in the final minutes of trading. A favorable jobs report counts for nothing when the market has to face real trade wars — it isn’t just posturing anymore.

  184. 184

    At least this guy knows what he is, a racist. And he’s proud of it! This is something about our trolls I don’t quite get. They’re obviously fascists and racists, but why won’t they embrace it and be loud and proud?

    “Mexican-hating white man throws a tantrum over skateboarding: ‘I’m a racist, at least I’m something!’”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/mexican-hating-white-man-throws-tantrum-skateboarding-im-racist-least-im-something/

    If you trolls feel shame over your fascism and your race hate, maybe you’re headed down the wrong path and need to reconsider where you’re going with this.

  185. 185

    Republicans sure do love them some Russians, and they hate all Americans except for their fascist, racist white base. And for all they do for Russia, the Russians still slap Republicans silly.

    “Russian officials and state media mock ‘weak’ GOP senators after Moscow visit”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/russian-officials-state-media-mock-weak-gop-senators-moscow-visit/

    Maybe it’s lack of gratitude.

    “The Alabama Republican dismissed the widespread agreement among U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 election, but Russian TV hosts disagreed.”

    “What trouble did we cause?” one Russian TV analyst said last week, before the senators arrived. “We just elected Trump, that’s all.”

  187. 187

    And your rewarding for laying your life on the line to defend America is …

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrant-abruptly-discharged-from-military-says-it-was-like-getting-kicked-out-of-your-own-home/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Let’s not pretend anymore that Republicans are pro-military, okay? They’re racists, period. The Draft Dodger In Chief is hanging out a “whites only” sign at recruiting offices. Just like in the good-ole-boy days.

  188. 188

    @186 I’m withholding judgment on this one. The victim, 19, was an adult — not a kid. Some people are real assholes with their fireworks. A local news outlet says,

    “The video shows Roche and Ortiz get into an argument … Roche is seen displaying a gun at Ortiz, reholstering it, then displaying the gun again multiple times, the affidavit says. Roche’s father attempts to intervene, and the video shows the father and Ortiz arguing as well as ‘mutual shoving of each other,’ the affidavit says.”

    https://www.statesman.com/news/local/breaking-austin-police-arrest-man-fatal-shooting-teen-over-fireworks/HVqz3qjmjqZUGi8kG3jn5N/

    The “kid” should have walked away. Instead, he confronted a guy who had already pulled a gun on him. Then the father comes out and gets into a shoving match with the guy with the gun. This sounds to me like people asking to get shot, or at a minimum, pushing their luck pretty hard. There was major league stupidity on both sides in this case. It may, or may not, turn out to legally be murder — although based on these facts I think the most that will stick is voluntary manslaughter — but there’s no innocent victim in this case. And I don’t see any evidence of a racist motive, based on what’s been reported so far.

  189. 189

    @184 Skateboarders, ugh. Trespassing on private property, too.

    “A video captured an older white man yelling racial slurs at a group of teenage boys who were skating in a corporate building parking lot in San Pedro, California … the boys claim that they skate there every Wednesday, so they saw no reason to leave.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/mexican-hating-white-man-throws-tantrum-skateboarding-im-racist-least-im-something/

    Holy fuck, they think repeated trespassing gives them prescriptive easement rights?

    In this case, there’s an obvious solution: The city should build a public skateboard park, and raise the old racist’s taxes to help pay for it. If the kids have a legal place to skate, and stop trespassing, then they won’t get on each other’s nerves any more, and nobody will have any reason to complain.

  190. 190

    Skateboards and fireworks are commonplace irritants, which can be annoying as hell, but it’s very unfortunate when these situations lead to racial or violent encounters. That doesn’t have to happen. The basic problem is a general lack of civility and consideration for others in our society today. Kids will be kids, but by the time they’re teenagers or adults, they’re supposed to be socialized. What you need to do is call the cops. That’s where the guy with the gun and the racist went wrong. They should have asked them politely to stop, and if they didn’t, then they should have walked away and called the police. I repeat, let the law handle it; resorting to self-help only escalates the situation and gets you in trouble.

  192. 192

    Well, the sun has set and as the loon goes off to do unspeakable things with his SDA doomsday death cult, we get to enjoy the start of a 24 hour reprieve from the loon’s batshit insanity. But beware! If the loon doesn’t get himself lynched tonight, the SOB will be back and he’s going to be spewing some crazy-as-shit hate! SAD!

  193. 193

    shitstain stoooooooooooooooooooopid solution steve,

    Puddy’s parents were Mr and Mrs not we the people or dogs in heat like yours so the only SOB here is YOU!

    BTW the only racist here is you since the senile idiot wabbit claimed “and I don’t see any evidence of a racist motive, based on what’s been reported so far.” You ran with the racist post from your favrit e-fag!

    shitstain stoooooooooooooooooooopid solution steve bring up lynching all the time FOOL! Sometimes the senile idiot wabbit needs to make pixels ring with smelly droppings and mimics you! Puddy claims that’s just senility raising its ugly head!

    Till Next Time!

  194. 194

    freako @ 119

    Spoke too soon! That’s some head explosion there.

    You can perform the weekly obligation in the salt mines now.

    Thanks for putting HA HEROES first!

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