The ballots have dropped and there are only two weeks to the midterm elections. Let’s chat about it at this week’s meeting of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
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.
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Higher minimum wages won’t help people like ‘froggy. This is why:
…employers expect a premium as a result of the mandated wage increases and are focusing on people who can provide it.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/a-tale-of-two-seattle-job-markets-for-low-wage-workers-in-new-minimum-wage-study/?utm_content=bufferdd4bc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=owned_buffer_tw_m
Go figure.
Republicans.
The poll found that 47 percent of respondents approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 49 percent disapprove. That is the best he has done in the NBC/WSJ poll since taking office. And it represents a major jump in the president’s popularity; the same poll found him with a 39 percent approval rating six months ago.
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The Journal attributed the rise in Republican interest to the confirmation battle over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Overall, 40 percent of respondents said they approved of Kavanaugh being confirmed by the Senate, while 36 percent opposed his confirmation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/22/nbc-wsj-poll/1726244002/?fbclid=IwAR3H8fKnb2S8u4WZVUlHXew-_MvuCRGZ1E1g9YZ_ft31Fh2SlZsJKc5jrS0
Sure, Trump’s underwater in the districts which will re-elect Pelosi and Jayapal.
Thing is, he might be doing significantly better in the district which will elect Rossi.
BookerHarris
@ 2
I think Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit sat on something similar for his TURP.
It’s not ED if there’s nothing left to E.
I just realized that one of the cool things about early voting is voters who participate early have less time to forget about what the Democrats tried to do to Kavanaugh.
Republicans outpacing Democrats in early voting in key states, NBC News finds
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-outpacing-democrats-early-voting-key-states-nbc-news-finds-n922881
It would be ironic, wouldn’t it, if the decades-long effort by Dems to increase voting opportunities contributed rather directly to a sufficiently red US Senate to confirm Amy Coney Barrett as RBG’s replacement.
Naw. Could never happen, amirite?
BookerHarris
“It would be ironic, wouldn’t it, if the decades-long effort by Dems to increase voting opportunities contributed rather directly to a sufficiently red US Senate to confirm Amy Coney Barrett as RBG’s replacement.”
That would certainly be part of the reason why Republicans want to restrict voting to people who would only vote for them.
“Naw. Could never happen, amirite?”
Trumps first choice for that would be Jeanine Pirro.
@ 6
Georgia gubernatorial debate at lunchtime today. That’s lunchtime in Georgia, but with your busy work schedule, ‘froggy, lunchtime is from 8a-6p, just after breakfast and just before dinner. So you might be able to listen in somehow.
The GA pending registration of voters undoubtedly will come up. There are 46,000 pending because of mismatches of SSN. Of those 46k, 11,000 were registered by Dem candidate Abrams’ New Georgia Project.
She’ll lose by more than are in pending, but it will be interesting to hear why her project’s errors should be ignored.
Seems pretty straightforward to me:
The acceptable forms of identification for this purpose are:
(1) A Georgia driver’s license (including an expired Georgia driver’s license);
(2) Any valid state or federal government issued photo ID, including:
a. free Georgia voter identification card issued by your county’s registrars;
b. Georgia State ID issued by the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS);
c. valid student ID card issued by a Georgia public college, university or technical school;
d. a valid out-of-state driver’s license;
e. public transit issued photo ID card; and
f. any other federal or state agency or government issued photo ID card.
(3) A valid United States passport;
(4) A valid employee photo identification card issued by any branch, department, agency, or entity of the United States government, this state, or any county, municipality, board, authority, or other entity of this state;
(5) A valid United States military photo identification card; or,
(6) A valid tribal photo identification card.
Once you show an acceptable form of photo identification at your polling place or early voting site, cast a ballot and receive credit for voting, your application will be changed from pending to active status.
http://sos.ga.gov/index.php/ge.....ing_voters
@godwinha spews:”Funny that you never worry about slaughtering viable children in the womb.”
My answer is nuanced. I reject forced pregnancy. I reject forcing women to be pregnant against their will. The only children in those wombs should be wanted children so I support proven techniques that do that. I support providing birth control to anyone who wants it. Society should support prenatal care, day care, birth control, family planning, sex ed, adoption, etc, for the good of the children. Yes some of those would cost money, but that would be money well spent because it helps other people’s children and you support born children right?
Every child should be a wanted child.
RESIST – after you vote.
Cheaters are going to cheat. You will need to resist.
Trump is at peak demagoguery as he and his ilk launch a full-on assault against the idea of everyone having health care.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/23/white-house-issues-report-slamming-socialism-as-trump-blasts-democrats.html
Meanwhile, Trump’s Magic Stock Market (TM) is down another 350 Dow points, right on time, just before the midterms. Looks like investors are betting against a red wave.
@4 Why don’t you stick your head in it and give yourself a lobotomy? You can’t get any dumber than you already are.
@5 “what the Democrats tried to do to Kavanaugh”
You mean keep a partisan lackey, perjurer, and groper/rapist with a gambling addiction and debt problems off the Supreme Court?
Yeah, I can see why that would set off a dumbfuck like you.
@7 You have a problem with people who don’t work? Why? You’re not working, and judging how much time you’ve spent here over the years you’ve graced us with your presence, it’s doubtful you ever did.
@1
So you’ve gone from, $15 is going to kill jobs to $15 is working well for some workers and other workers are exactly the same as before and unemployment within Seattle is low.
Nicely done. Where is the wholesale destruction of minimum wage jobs you ASSURED would happen. Why the other day I went to get a quick service sandwich and all I could find was a “Braised grass fed Lamb’s Tongue and Sea cucumber with Turkish Kumquat confit on Organic Challa” for $22. So I drove to the subway in Shoreline.
Really, Dumbfuck?
@8 What about Texas, where a gun permit is valid I.D. for voting, but a student I.D. card isn’t? Wanna defend that?
A Republican is someone who doesn’t want American citizens to vote in their own country.
A Texan is someone who thinks he isn’t part of America.
@15 Well, as you know, labor is subject to the laws of supply and demand like everything else. Thus, for example, when wages are zero, employer demand is infinite and worker supply is zero. We don’t have a labor shortage in this country. The wages Republicans pay simply haven’t yet moved up to where the market is in balance, that’s all.
Wherein Trump feels “betrayed” because his homicidal pals keep changing their alibi, which doesn’t look good in the court of public opinion.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/trump-irritated-khashoggi-death/index.html
Looks like the thought of another win for Putin has Doctor Dumbfuck spiking the ball with glee. On the 50 yard-line. But still, the last time I recall seeing Doctor Dumbfuck this giddy was when 12 year-old Tamir Rice was gunned down by a cop for playing in a park while black.
Dumbfuck @ 16
Georgia and Texas are two different states. I suspect that few have tried to use a Texas handgun permit as a form of ID when registering to vote in Georgia.
Other than that, you’re still a dumbfuck.
The kid looks scared shitless.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/saudi-king-and-crown-prince-meet-with-family-of-jamal-khashoggi_us_5bcf37f8e4b0d38b587c8e54
I’m sure The Hump probably suggested this.
Y’all can pretty much get use to this and coming to a Country near you.
The kid looks scared shitless.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/saudi-king-and-crown-prince-meet-with-family-of-jamal-khashoggi_us_5bcf37f8e4b0d38b587c8e54
I’m sure The Hump had something to do with this.
You can either Resist or have this be the norm for America.
Keith X in freefall. The sad thing is it’s his domestic abuse that’s bringing him down and it took this long for it to happen. His continued relationship with Louis Farrakhan should have done it long ago.
Republican Doug Wardlow is leading Democrat Keith Ellison by 7 points in the race for attorney general, according to the latest MPR News/Star Tribune Minnesota Poll — a significant reversal from the last round of polling in mid-September.
Of 800 likely voters polled last week, 43 percent said they preferred Wardlow, an attorney and one-time state legislator, while 36 percent said they support Ellison, who has served the 5th District in Congress for the last 12 years; 16 percent said they were undecided in the race, a 2-point drop from the earlier poll.
In September, Ellison held a 5-point lead over Wardlow.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/10/22/wardlow-ellison-minnesota-attorney-general-race-poll
How about that Stock Market – to the Moon baby!
And if they happen to be among the two in three women directly impacted by sexual assault, more time to think about what Mister Justice DateRape tried to do to a fifteen year old girl.
”Funny that you never worry about slaughtering viable children in the womb.”
This, from a doctor who comes here to celebrate the slaughter of blacks, and who dares to lecture us, even when what is currently most popular post on the Tea Party FB page calls for the senseless slaughter of thousands of refugees, including women and children.
Looks like they may have found Khashoggi. Well, parts of him anyway.
“Body parts belonging to journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found: report”
“News reports have said Khashoggi was brutally tortured, including having his fingers cut off and his body dismembered for seven minutes while he was still alive.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/body-parts-belonging-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-found-report/
Doctor Dumbfuck has a tear in his eye for slaughtered zygotes. Slaughtered Washington Post journalists? Not so much.
McDonalds is up nearly $10 today after reporting earnings, despite higher fast food wages. Meanwhile, Trump’s favorite motorcycle stock, Harley Davidson, is hitting a 52-week low this morning thanks to his tariffs.
MAGA
@20 Is there some reason why you don’t want to talk about Texas, other than the fact voter suppression is more blatant and obvious there? Do you prefer Georgia’s voter suppression because it’s more racially-tinged? Just asking.
@23 The interesting thing is that Ellison still polls better than Kavanaugh. it’s also interesting that you believe Ellison’s accuser, but don’t believe Kavanaugh’s accuser, even though the evidence against the latter is far stronger than the evidence against the former. You may be a hypocrite, but not all of the public is.
Let me be clear that I’m not defending Ellison. But I’m not excusing Kavanaugh, either. The difference between me and dumbfucks like you is that I’m not selective in my outrage against abusers. I judge them by the same standards and treat them the same regardless of their ideological orientation or party affiliation. Can’t say the same for you, which is why you’re a hypocritical, sanctimonious, amoral dumbfuck who fully deserves the contempt we heap on you in this blog.
Damn! My own party chair is already admitting defeat!
Anybody out there know if it’s possible to overdose on dick pills?
“Looks like the thought of another win for Putin has Doctor Dumbfuck spiking the ball with glee. On the 50 yard-line.”
Makes sense. If he’s scared he won’t ever make it to the end zone ever again in his lifetime.
@27 “Doctor Dumbfuck has a tear in his eye for slaughtered zygotes. Slaughtered Washington Post journalists? Not so much.”
Because he’s a hypocritical, sanctimonious, amoral dumbfuck who’s motivated by ideology and party loyalty instead of human compassion. Given his attitude toward migrant children, it’s probably just as well that Dr. Mengele was already out of circulation by the time the dumbfuck had to pick a residency.
30,
More interesting are the crosstabs.
A twelve point shift in a local poll comes down to a specific demographic shift.
Guess what? It isn’t “renewed energy” and/or “arrousal” of aggrieved, aging, increasingly irrelevant white dude-bros.
And the shift that works against Ellison does not work for Dino Rossi or Duncan Hunter.
She really has a very good point.
What could possibly be “offensive” about appropriating four centuries of human chattel slavery, torture, rape, and misery for a little fun?
Party on!
That’s correct. It is okay.
Now carry on.
Brian Kemp, Georgia Secretary of State and the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, expressed at a ticketed campaign event that his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams’ voter turnout operation “continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote,” according to audio obtained by Rolling Stone.
“Larry Kudlow, the top economic adviser to President Donald Trump, acknowledged Tuesday that Trump’s proposed new tax cuts, that the President has mentioned several times on the campaign trail, may not materialize in the near-term.”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/larry-kudlow-tax-cuts/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: There’s two ways to look at this:
(1) Trump’s “middle class” tax cut is just one more campaign lie, in a campaign full of lies.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/donald-trump-mid-term-election-immigration-ted-cruz/index.html
(Why give the hicks an actual tax cut when you can buy their votes with hot air?)
(2) It’s so obviously a bad idea (more deficits on top of deficits) that even Trump’s quack economist thinks it’s a bad idea.
(3) Trump’s quack economist is, at least, a political realist who can read a map.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/washington-post-poll-swing-districts/index.html
Another perspective
Gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams defends her 1992 burning of the Georgia state flag: It was a perfectly righteous move that should have happened long before. The idea that burning a slaver’s flag is an example of extremism is typical of the upsidedown thinking of so many in our era.
”During Stacey Abrams’ college years, Georgia was at a crossroads, struggling with how to overcome racially divisive issues, including symbols of the confederacy, the sharpest of which was the inclusion of the confederate emblem in the Georgia state flag,”
But I guess it’s too much to hope white conservatives could empathize with people who were effected negatively by the legacy of slavery.
Younger Americans are better than older Americans at telling factual news statements from opinions
http://www.pewresearch.org/fac.....-opinions/
Another reason for fox news appealing only to old people and why Rachel Maddow is so popular with the younger crowds.
39,
But weren’t the slaves really much happier back then?
Of course they were. They were fed wonderful tasty home cooked Southern cuisine. They were lovingly cared for. They got to while away lazy afternoons singing, dancing, and playing the banjo down by the river. A grand life of Southern tradition. It was paradise.
The blacks should all be grateful for their slave legacy. And they should join my boss in celebrating it and seeking to restore it to its rightful place of honor and reverence.
Early voting turnout means my boss wins!
Because.
Reasons.
Fuck you.
@41 “But weren’t the slaves really much happier back then?”
Yes they were. They had food, clothing, and housing (see below). They didn’t have to make difficult decisions about what college to attend, which career to pursue, who to marry, or whether to have kids. They got to work outdoors in the sunshine among the butterflies. They even had 3/5ths of a vote, which their bosses voted on their behalf, so they didn’t have to struggle with candidates or ballot issues. Simplicity is the key to happiness.
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAShousing.htm
Wherein rightwing crazies accuse George Soros of planting a bomb in his own mailbox to make it look like rightwing crazies want to kill him.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/qanon-supporters-cry-false-flag-after-explosive-found-near-home-of-george-soros_us_5bcf3da7e4b0a8f17ef0dec3
Trump’s Magic Stock Market (TM) has fallen 14 of the last 16 trading days. Obama couldn’t do that, even with the help of the Great Recession.
# RR #@ 45
It’ll keep sliding. A little here, a little there. The some foreign institution is going to pull the rug out just to keep from being dragged under with the rest of the pile. Black Thursday didn’t happen all at once. It was actually a series of bank failures and stock ups-and-downs for a few years before the turd really hit the impellers.
It’ll be blamed on Obama of course. And Hillary, and Soros and other names I haven’t heard yet, as some part of the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy To Take Over The World.
It’s deliberate. The European and Chinese Capitalists are selling off Treasury bonds as fast as they can right now and buying shit like gold and platinum. Nobody is buying what they’re selling. If there is one thing Chinese businessmen know, it’s how to rock a market one way or the other. They’ve been doing it for over a thousand years in some form, and they sure as hell hate to lose face on anything.
It’s probably not a good idea to vote for someone whose own family opposes him. Also, he’s a Republican.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/politics/laxalt-family-op-ed/index.html
@46 And here I was sure the Clintons were behind it. Where is Doctor Dumbfuck when I need him?
“Naming and Shaming” the guy who got drunk, beat you up, and tried to rape you is just more PC campus culture run amok.
Just get over. Besides, you know you enjoyed it. Bitch.
”Funny that you never worry about slaughtering viable children in the womb.”
Boob’s gotta line on the mobile sepsis treatment centers needed when Boof O’Kavanope throws the deciding vote.
No means yes and yes means…
The local republican is running a TV ad saying If you don’t vote for him, democrats will impeach trump. the only thing he said he stand for, is being a trump puppet.
@33
No, he is clearly a sociopath. See for yourself: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/201803/how-spot-sociopath-in-3-steps
@51 That’s benign compared to their antics in Georgia and Florida.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/gillum-targeted-new-racist-robocall-florida-governor-race-n923406
https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/brian-kemps-office-to-be-sued-for-purging-700000-voters-from-georgia-rolls/85-600064018
Meanwhile, the Campbell Soup Company is distancing itself from a claim made by one of their executives that Soros and his foundation are providing material support to the migrant caravan, which the foundation emphatically denied as “false.”
Televangelist Pat Robertson and GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz are among those spreading the false rumor.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/business/kelly-johnston-soros-campbell/index.html
@54
Nice to see Pat Robertson extolling those fine Christian virtues. He is probably pushing with certainty that Mary Magdalene was a whore. He knows she was because Jimmy Swaggart and James Bakker said so.
50,
Oh wait! I know this one!
Apparently the dumpster arsonist presiding over Trump-O-Nomics is complaining that Obama had “zero interest rates” and he doesn’t. Holy fuck, he must be channeling Turkey’s Erdogan, who (wrongly) believes interest rates can be decreed with no side effects.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/interest-rates-trump-attacks-fed-chairman-powell-wsj-reports.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The Federal Reserve decreed interest rates in the aftermath of Hurricane Great Recession to save the economy from collapse, and there were side effects. Now it’s undoing the decrees to return things to normal and free the economy from the side effects — and also position itself for the next recession. No, Powell and the FOMC shouldn’t listen to the idiot who piled deficit-financed tax cuts on top of a full-employment economy. Of course, Trump’s aim here is transparent as hell; he promised during the campaign to “renegotiate” the federal debt, and the way you do that, of course, is by devaluing it with hyperinflation. Which is exactly what he’s angling for. It seems Powell doesn’t want to play that game. Too bad. If Trump wanted the Fed run by someone who would sit up and bark on his command, he should’ve appointed a dog — or his son.
@55 He’s just resentful that he wasn’t around to get a piece of her and jealous because he thinks the Jew did.
@ 46
…as some part of the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy To Take Over The World.
Deathfrogg Farrakhan.
The more desperate he becomes the less he cares about hiding it.
‘froggy’s perpetually unemployable. Might as well show everybody exactly why.
Jews will never replace me!
I’m uncut!
I kinda like the idea of Republican members of Congress spending their month long recess stealing phones from smarty pants college kids. As far as I’m concerned that’s just as good as campaigning.
Then again, what do I know. I’m just a weird little penis. Since Reince Priebus quit the only one who even looks at me anymore is Kellyanne. And that’s only when my boss is peeing.
And she always looks angry.
@ 59:
“…as some part of the International Jewish Banking Conspiracy To Take Over The World.
Deathfrogg Farrakhan.
The more desperate he becomes the less he cares about hiding it.”
Ah, you’re functionally illiterate. I suspect, deliberately which makes you merely obtuse.
If you could understand your own language in written form, you’d have nothing to say.
That certainly explains the arguments you put out. You’re as crazy and stupid as the SchizoPoodle.
YTD the Dow is up +/- 300 points.
Whoot! Whoot!
YTD the Dow is up +/- 300 points.
In the whole history of the universe no white President has done as well! The greatest most beautiful economy of any white leader ever – really in any country, even the shithole ones!
At least that’s what I’m told.
Our huge, beautiful growing economy and our roaring stock market are making us all very, very rich. And this is the direct result of my boss’s brilliant tax cut (some would say he’s a genius, and it’true, it really is). Now that may mean we now have this deficit. It’s like $800 billion? I don’t know. Some say more. Some say less. Could be more. But that’s only because of the obstructionist Democrats like Chucky Schumer. They wont give my boss his budget cutting out all the wasted money spent on Social Security (which nobody really needs anymore because of the beautiful economy), and health care (which is only a problem because of Obama). Republicans tried. But the Democrats in Congress made them scared.
Everybody needs to vote for our Republicans in the mid terms so when they come back they wont be scared to cut out all the wasteful spending on retirement, Social Security, and health care.
@65 Well done, little penis, well done. Your boss couldn’t have said it better himself.