The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for some politics-inspired conversation and cocktails. Only three more weeks until the midterm elections!
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? No prob…there are 255 chapters of Living Liberally, including 22 in Washington state, seven in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.
YLB may not be able to use all the exclamation points she’s been saving up.
Don’t expect a big Democratic wave this fall, a new CNBC poll says
“A six point differential is not something that’s going to cause a big electoral wave,” said Micah Roberts, the Republican pollster on the CNBC poll, a partner Public Opinion Strategies. “Economic confidence that people have among a lot of groups is providing a buffer” for Republicans.
Indeed, the poll found that 48 percent of the public is optimistic about the current economy and optimistic it will get better, the highest level in the poll’s 11-year history and more than double the 20 percent registered in the December 2016 survey. The poll, conducted Oct. 4th through the 7th, shows 83 percent of Republicans are optimistic but also 22 percent of Democrats and 40 percent of Independent voters.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/15/mixed-signals-for-democrat-blue-wave-in-november-cnbc-survey-says.html
The Avenatti wing of the Democrat party has really fucked it up for the few remaining sane members, hasn’t it?
Fauxchahontas has company.
CLAIM: The actor known as Iron Eyes Cody was a true-born Native Indian.
STATUS: FALSE.
Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera DeCorti on 3 April 1904 in the small town of Kaplan, Louisiana. He was the son of Francesca Salpietra and Antonio DeCorti, she an immigrant from Sicily who had arrived in the USA in 1902, and he another immigrant who had arrived in America not long before her.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/iron-eyes-cody/
Racists: You claim you have Native American heritage. Take a DNA test Prove it!
Warren: I took a DNA test. I have a small amount of Native American DNA markers
Racists: (sputter!) but…but… butt… It’s not enough! It’s the wrong kind! It’s fake DNA!
Racists are sore losers.
Arriving early for a job interview while black. What in hell was she thinking?? She could have been shot!
“Wisconsin cops smash into black woman’s car with guns drawn after she arrives early to job interview”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/wisconsin-cops-smash-black-womans-car-guns-drawn-arrives-early-job-interview-lawsuit/
In the same way that calling Doctor Dumbfuck a man isn’t fair to men.
“Trump biographer Michael d’Antonio says calling Donald Trump a baby ‘is not fair to babies’”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/trump-biographer-michael-dantonio-says-calling-donald-trump-baby-not-fair-babies/
I remember when Russia was our Cold War enemy. Now, Russkies are Republicans’ BFFs.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/dana-rohrabacher-russia-ties-are-key-focus-in-california-house-race.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: What changed? Obviously, when they morphed from commie thugs into gangster thugs. Now those are people whom Republicans understand and empathize with!
@4 Since she’s still alive, a $750,000 settlement and a couple of six-month suspensions without pay should take care of it.
@5 If Dumbfuck insists on nitpicking Warren’s Native American DNA, maybe we should look into how much of his DNA is homo sapiens.
This is for you, Doctor Dumbfuck.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/10/16/pulse-of-the-people-voter-panel-independent-voter-gop-switch-party-camerota-pkg-newday-vpx.cnn
Every one of these people is smarter than you. If the universe had only 7 people in it, that would put you at the very bottom of the bell curve. How does it feel to be the class retard, moron?
@ 3
Warren: I took a DNA test. I have a
smallminiscule amount ofNative Americanunspecified DNA markers, which could be north American or south American in origin.FTFY
In either event, not enough to create ‘high cheekbones’, nor to cause her mother to be discriminated against.
She’s a fucking liar, yet another unethical late-60s white woman who got what she has by something other than her own honest efforts.
@ 8
If Dumbfuck insists on nitpicking Warren’s Native American DNA, maybe we should look into how much of his DNA is homo sapiens.
Right after we look into the claimed existence of a Y chromosome in YLB’s genome.
@ 6
Roger Rabbit Commentary: What changed? Obviously, when they morphed from commie thugs into gangster thugs. Now those are people whom Republicans understand and empathize with!
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, do you recall when Romney labeled Russia our greatest geopolitical foe? It was shortly after Obama implored Medvedev to wait until after the election, at which time Obama would be flexible enough to bend over the way Putin likes it best.
What changed, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, is liberals now recognize that Romney was right.
8,
How “Italian” is Dino?
How “Mexican” is Jaime Herrera Beutler?
Is Susan Hutchison really a dude?
And of course, how do we really know the Loon was black?
9,
Fuck those stupid treasonous motherfuckers.
EEEN-DEEE-PEN-DUNCE are a thousand times worse than trailerbillies.
At least we know when we encounter an ignorant racist fuck like Teh Dumbfuck that we dont dare leave children or pets unattended in his presence.
@11 Why are you picking on YLB when it’s me who called you a moron? You can’t even shoot straight. For sure, you ain’t no Native American.
@12 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck tries to pretend his crowd isn’t sucking Putin’s toes. Too goddamn funny!
@13 “how do we really know the Loon was black?”
Well, maybe the autopsy report, if they ever find him.
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday escalated his assault on the Federal Reserve, calling it ‘my biggest threat.'”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-fed-apos-biggest-193600596.html
Doesn’t bother Wall Street none. Dow +547 today. Did Roger Rabbit, who bought stock last week and predicted this rebound, proud.
Didn’t he appoint the chair and several members of the FOMC? Next thing you know, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh will vote to uphold Roe v. Wade. What’s he gonna do then? Beg a Democratic Congress to impeach them?
I added a bit to a couple of my portfolios, too, last week. I also took a bit off of the table in one of the other portfolios today.
BTW, I think legalization of cannabis has been successful for this state and the others who wisely have voted to treat cannabis more like alcohol, legalizing, regulating and taxing the market for a product that obviously has a demand by the citizenry.
@19 There’s something to be said for cannabis. We’d all be better off if Trump took a hit on a toke now and then, and imagine how differently things would’ve turned out if Hitler had been stoned all the time.
It’s not hard to spot the next Trump scandal. Just follow the firings.
“The White House appears to be replacing the agency watchdog at the Interior Department … in the midst of two investigations into Secretary Ryan Zinke, drawing criticism from government oversight groups.
“In an internal email sent last Friday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson announced to his staff that … [his] assistant secretary for administration, Suzanne Israel Tufts, was moving over to the Interior Department to be the acting inspector general. Acting inspectors general do not need Senate confirmation. …
“Tufts, a long-time Republican attorney …, would be replacing Deputy Interior Inspector General Mary Kendall [who] has been running the agency’s watchdog investigations and audits team of 265 employees for 10 years. …
“Danielle Brian, executive director at the independent government watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, expressed concern over the move. ‘We are particularly worried that she’s a political appointee without any obvious government oversight experience,’ Brian said …. ‘And they are sliding her in under the radar of any Senate confirmation process to take over charged investigations into the behavior of the cabinet secretary.'”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-moves-replace-interior-department-ig-amid-probe-secretary-n920741
@21 More evidence that Trump has turned D.C. into an ocean of corruption. But that was to be expected, because Republicans don’t know how to be honest. Lying and stealing are their only skillsets.
I was wondering if anyone knew what the official date that The Loon was lynched?
Are we going to honor this day or recognize it annually?
Maybe on that anniversary when we post we add something like, Hail The Hump! Or White Power!
This evening, after my workout, I went to Wendy’s….for a salad and a large chili. I ordered it to go. They put it in two double bags, one for the Salad and one for the Chili, each item was double bagged (that’s what they do here in NYC).
I was planning to dine in, but asked for it to go just in case I couldn’t get a seat.
When I finished my food, I looked at all that plastic, and said to myself, “What a waste”, but I got over it quickly. I thought to myself, hey I don’t have any kids and I’m not really sure if Bob has any kids, but if he does then fuck it, let his sorry ass kids have to deal with this garbage. Besides the ice caps are melting.
@3 not sure you have to only be racist to be a soar loser, I think that applies to all Repukes and the GOP Label Maker’s.
@23 We’re not sure. The body hasn’t been found yet. It’s probably being displayed as a trophy in a KKK meeting hall.
The 5 stages of Climate Denial
Stage 1: Deny the Problem Exists
Stage 2: Deny We’re the Cause
Stage 3: Deny It’s a Problem
Stage 4: Deny We can Solve It
Stage 5: Fuck it, It’s too Late
@10 the only reason why you think she is a liar…..now remember The Hump says you are innocent until proven guilty Dumbfuck, so don’t be jumping to conclusions….is that you fear that she has what it takes to win…..if you didn’t fear her, you wouldn’t give two shits if she was a liar or not.
Go suck on the Horse’s cock you dumbfuck doctor – I suppose you know what it is to lie from your own experiences.
“I was wondering if anyone knew what the official date that The Loon was lynched?”
I figure it was the evening of Sunday, August 12th, right after the white power march. When their big march fizzled, the white supremacists took their frustrations out on the loon and lynched the fucker.
I told the loon not to go to DC that weekend but he wouldn’t listen. SAD!.
“It’s probably being displayed as a trophy in a KKK meeting hall.”
My guess is he’s still strung from a tree somewhere. It isn’t like white supremacists to cut the loon down and give him a decent burial or anything. That’s not how they roll.
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he won’t accept the blame if Republicans lose the House in November.”
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/10/16/trump-tells-ap-hes-not-to-blame-if-republicans-loses-house/23563152/
Of course not. He never accepts blame for anything. No matter how blameworthy he is.
But wait, there’s more …
Delusional: “Trump said he thinks the GOP is ‘going to do well,’ arguing that ‘it feels to me very much like’ 2016.”
Narcissistic: “Of his efforts on the campaign trail, Trump said: ‘I don’t believe anybody has ever had this kind of impact.'”
Misogynistic: “Trump did not back down from derisively nicknaming Daniels ‘Horseface’ in a tweet hours earlier.”
Here’s the shape of the House races, according to Nate Silver:
Solid D – 190
Solid R – 135
Likely/lean D – 24
Likely/lean R – 67
Tossup – 19
Obviously, “solid” is the place to be. “Likely/lean” are seats that have to be defended. As you see, Democrats are in a much better place, with far more “solid” and far fewer “likely/lean” seats to defend.
As a math exercise, if each party wins their “solid” seats, and the two parties split the “likely/lean” and “tossup” seats equally, the Democrats will end up with 240 seats and the Republicans with 190 seats.
Nate Silver isn’t saying this is how it’ll play out, and neither am I, but it illustrates how stiff a challenge the Rs face to hold onto the House. Silver gives them 20% odds of pulling it off.
Living “rent-free” in boob’s pinhead…
Life’s good fellow HA HEROES!
@20 Well, it’d certainly be different from whatever he’s been snorting for ages. (Look at the man’s nose, for Christ’s sake.)
@10
Isn’t that precious, you trying to say “size matters.” Why don’t you send that meme to your handlers and let POTUS Porn Hub run with that.
@35 In this era of Trumpian lies, the difference between small and minuscule, and between indigenous Americans and Native Americans, has Doctor Dumbfuck @10 absolutely fucking outraged! “She’s a fucking liar”, he screams!
@31
Trump has pretty much reduced the dignity and prestige of the POTUS to a Jerry Springer/Maury Povich level clown show. I know Dr. Dumbfuck will try and say Clinton started it by having a BJ in the Oval Office but there is a new level of sleez by Trump. When in the last 50 years has any other POTUS openly, publicly, and repeatedly, degraded and slurred women, indigenous people, and people of color? And toss in, open admiration of dictators and communist leaders?
What is really sad is apparently Trump’s nasty potty mouth and hate towards women is acceptable behavior in all this Red states that gave him the EC majority. What does that say about a certain sector of our society?
I wish Jerry would run against Trump, that would be a great show to watch.
Ohhh spare us Paul, you Hump.
You are the one that created the tribes, you and Doctor Dumbfuck, with all your labels.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paul-ryan-worries-tribal-identity-politics-is-becoming-the-new-norm-for-both-sides/
Notice that they only dispairage their own if they can toss in there “both sides”.
Fuck You asshole!
“President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will ask each of his Cabinet secretaries to cut 5 percent of their respective budgets … after he pledged to … lower the U.S. budget deficit. …
“‘He’s asking them to cut the fraud, the waste, the abuse,’ White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway said on Fox Business News. …
“The president … also said … his administration will ‘continue with the tax cuts, because we have other tax cuts planned.’ …
“Trump also appeared to blame Democrats … for the ballooning deficit. ‘In order to get that $716 billion, I had to give up things to the Democrats that I hated to give up,’ he said. ‘But we had to rebuild the military.’
“Trump’s comments follow remarks from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell … which … blamed rising budget deficits on social safety net spending rather than tax cuts.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/17/trump-pledges-to-cut-spending-as-deficits-rise-theres-a-lot-of-fat-in-there.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Same old GOP bullshit. Social Security and Medicare, not military spending and tax cuts for the rich, are responsible for Republican deficits. These guys haven’t had an original thought since the Middle Ages, and nobody buys this crap except their own stupid voters.
They can hack away at the smaller agencies and budgets all they want, but there are only three places in the federal budget where you can get spending cuts large enough to offset massive tax cuts — the military, Social Security, and Medicare and Medicaid. They want to increase military spending, not cut it, and Social Security has its own dedicated trust fund, so this will translate into another run at taking health care away from tens of millions of Americans. It didn’t work the first, second, third, fourth, or fifth times, so you wonder why they think it’ll work in a lame duck session of Congress after they’ve been slaughtered in the midterms?
My guess is they don’t think it’ll work, this is just smoke and mirrors blah blah blah intended to bamboozle the rubes.
“…yet another unethical late-60s white woman who got what she has by something other than her own honest efforts.”
A depressing glimpse into the tortured history of Teh Dumbfuck’s early marital relationships I could have lived without.
What a fucking relic.
@40 A Republican complaining about someone else “getting what he has by something other than his own honest efforts” is like Ted Bundy organizing a crime watch because women are disappearing in his neighborhood.
Cheering for your soccer-playing son while black. What on earth was he thinking?? He could have been shot!
“A white woman people have dubbed ‘Golfcart Gail’ called the police on a black man for cheering on his son during a soccer game”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-white-woman-people-have-dubbed-golfcart-gail-called-the-police-on-a-black-man-for-cheering-on-his-son-during-a-soccer-game/ar-BBOvJvJ?li=BBnb7Kz
@ 31
“President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he won’t accept the blame if Republicans lose the House in November.”
Hillary still hasn’t accepted the blame for the Democrats’ loss of the White House in 2016.
YLB still hasn’t accepted the reality of the Democrats’ loss of the White House in 2016.
‘froggy didn’t have a job in 2016.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit saw a slight decline in the GE stock price as a buying opportunity in 2016.
Darryl’s statistical method had less than desirable results in 2016.
Y’all HA libbies are looking at 2018 as if 2016 never happened.
We’ll see, but I’m not sure I’d take the same approach this time around. See MN-08.
Alaska’s lieutenant governor resigns over ‘inappropriate comments’ 3 weeks before election
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/17/politics/alaska-lieutenant-governor-resigns/index.html
It’s unacceptable to direct derogatory comments toward any Alaskan woman not named Palin.
@43 “Y’all HA libbies are looking at 2018 as if 2016 never happened.”
If 2016 hadn’t happened, we’d have nothing to talk about here except your equine perversion.
@44 One of your role models, is she?
Multiple videos now out documenting US Senator wannabe Sinema from AZ referring to her state as ‘crazy’.
She’s blue Arizona’s Todd Akin.
Hey, y’all, remember when Hillary took that trip to Arizona to campaign one week before the election? Good times, good times.
#Expandthemaptocrazy
@ 45
If 2016 hadn’t happened, we’d have nothing to talk about here except your equine perversion.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, if 2016 hadn’t happened you’d be worshipping recently installed Associate Supreme Court justices Merrick Garland and Godwin Liu.
@ 13
And of course, how do we really know the Loon was black?
’cause it’s Steve’s only shtick.
@48 In your case, calling your partner “horseface” isn’t insulting, it’s stating facts.
Heh.. @43
More livin’ “rent-free” in boob’s shrinking head..
Retirement sure sucks for the freak. Life is good.