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DLBottlePlease join us for an evening of politics over a pint at this evening’s Thanksgiving warm-up edition 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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Comments

  1. 1

    Close your eyes and you can imagine Donald Trump telling Fox News the same thing after Hillary’s glorious 2016 electoral landslide victory.

    MSNBC✔
    @MSNBC
    Replying to @MSNBC
    Fmr. Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams tells @chrislhayes that the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race was “not a free and fair election.”

    5:55 PM – Nov 19, 2018

  3. 3

    California is the world’s fifth largest economy, is sitting on a $14 billion dollar surplus, $3 trillion in GDP, 4% unemployment (below 3% when you take out the trailer parks) creating an average of 12,000 new jobs every month.

    At the same time the voters of California have reduced the Republican Party to irrelevant third party status.

    Not. A. Coincidence.

  4. 4

    The Stock Market is really taking a shitter today.

    That fucking Hump is a miracle worker!

    Lot of good deals out there – buy, buy, but. Not time to hibernate now.

    Another couple of 100 points and there will have been no gain for 1 year!!!

    Oh my – what a great deal!

  10. 10

    The email thing was always bullshit.

    But Team Ivanka,

    We didn’t know it was not advisable to use non secure private email for government business

    Subpoena power. Better have those real estate marketing materials in order. Har Har Har. I hear it was 90% sold…or so you said. Orange looks good on you.

  11. 11

    When you’re too racist for the Walton Clan…

    Walmart asks GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith for campaign donation back because of furor over ‘hanging’ comments

  13. 13

    10,
    When will she produce the emails? We must see them in order to fully understand how much she has put us all at risk. Adam “Shit” will simply have no choice but to appoint a sub-committee and begin issuing more subpoenas for the sake of our national security.

    America needs to know!
    Lock her up!
    etc.

    #youbuiltthat
    #owngoal

  14. 14

    11,
    Only the GOP could fuck up a safe seat in a racist trailer park like Mississippi.
    Get out your checkbooks, trailerbillies!

  16. 16

    @10 To believe that excuse, you’d have to believe she’s been in hibernation since 2015, and even then it wouldn’t be credible, because the “lock her up!” chants were heard all the way to Bangladesh.

    @13 Yeah, lock her up.

  17. 17

    @14, They went with a pedophile in Alabama, so why not someone who invokes lynchings in Mississippi? To use an expression from back in the day, today’s GOP is letting their freak-flag fly high.

  18. 18

    The DJIA is down about 540 points right now.

    I wonder if Wall Street will push the Quaaludes instead of the Shrooms tomorrow.

    Hopefully, any recent retirees did so with the ability to withstand any major losses in their retirement funds.

  19. 19

    Congratulations, Madame Speaker Pelosi.

    Dan DeRoos
    @DanDeRoos19
    We have found a letter of support from @RepMarciaFudge during the 2015 sentencing of Judge Lance Mason after the severe beating of his wife Aisha Fraser. Mason is now the lead suspect in the weekend murder of Fraser. @cleveland19news

    2:26 PM – Nov 19, 2018

    At least she had the good sense not to use office letterhead.

  20. 20

    @19 Let’s team up to go through the lists of Republican wife beaters and sniff out homicides waiting to happen. With your bloodhound nose, we can’t miss.

  21. 21

    Dow closed -551 points today. Unlike the previous selloffs this year, this one is driven by economic fundamentals. Investors are finally accepting the fact that growth is stuck on trendline and 2019 growth will be below trendline because Trump’s economic policies borrowed from it to goose 2018’s numbers without actually expanding the economy.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/jp-morgan-sees-a-slowdown-coming-with-economy-growing-at-less-than-2-percent-in-2019.html

    Mainstream economists have told us all along to expect a reversion to 2% trendline growth. Trump’s promises of 4% or 5% growth were never realistic, and the bump after the tax cuts are a temporary illusion. GDP growth is wedded to productivity growth, and the U.S. economy’s low productivity growth of the last several decades is profoundly structural in nature and out of reach of short term monetary or fiscal policies.

    Trump doesn’t get it. He wants to reinvigorate artificial stimulus by lowering interest rates. He’s impatient with the Fed — and the Fed chairman he appointed — because the cooler heads at the Fed know better and won’t do it.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/20/trump-says-he-would-like-to-see-lower-fed-rates.html

    They’re right, he’s wrong, and the Fed should stick to its guns and hike rates again in December, no matter what it does to the stock market. The Fed funds rate is still on a level with inflation, making the real rate effectively zero. Continuing this policy perpetuates distortions in the economy and financial markets. When borrowing is free, you get too much borrowing, and irresponsible borrowing that puts the economy in jeopardy.

    Don’t be surprised if the stock market eventually wipes out all of its post-2016-election gains, quite possibly sooner rather than later. In other words, the correction may not wait for a recession to arrive.

    This is logically what should happen, because Trump’s policies don’t add value to the economy. None whatsoever. His economic policies are mere gimmicks to create an appearance of more growth than there is. He isn’t the first politician to do that, and won’t be the last, but it’s one thing to manufacture an illusion knowing you’re doing it, and quite another to believe your own bullshit; that’s what makes him and his amateur economic advisers dangerous. Policy missteps here could have ugly consequences. Liberals didn’t have to be economic experts to realize that Trump and the Republicans around him are dangerously incompetent. The rest of America had better wake up to that fact before it’s too late.

    We can all live with lower stock prices a lot easier than we can live with another economic crisis.

  22. 22

    20,
    Technically, whenever a “QuiverFull” Republican punches out his wife it isn’t domestic assault. It’s “obedience training”.

    If you don’t believe me you can always ask OfDumbfuck.
    She knows.

  23. 23

    “President Donald Trump told the top White House lawyer in April that he wanted to order federal prosecutions of Hillary Clinton and James Comey, The New York Times reported Tuesday.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/20/politics/donald-trump-don-mcgahn-clinton-comey/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’m speechless, although I know I shouldn’t be. Our country is in grave danger. If Clinton and Comey aren’t safe from dictatorial persecution, none of us are.

    In tort law, this is called “malicious prosecution.” Clinton and Comey don’t have a case, because cooler heads intervened. A firewall still exists between Trump and the awesome federal awesome prosecution power. But he’s purging cooler heads and attacking the firewall. He must be removed from office before there’s nothing left of it.

  24. 24

    23,
    If true it’d actually be a criminal violation from the USC.
    Clearly McGahn was able to prevent him from issuing any such order and was unwilling to issue it himself. Nor could any USA follow any such order from the White House without also risking indictment and conviction.

    Don’t kid yourself. US Attorneys and their juniors are all hyper-competitive career climbers. Nobody would overlook an opportunity like that to knockoff one of the top guys. If President Pampers’ baby sitters ever lose control long enough for him to do it we’ll all know about it within a day or two. And nobody will be able to follow through.

  25. 25

    Democratic prospects in Mississippi are improving by the day:

    “Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith posed with Confederate artifacts in photos from 2014 that emerged Tuesday, the latest in a series of controversial moments for the freshman Republican senator who is facing a run-off next week.

    “In a photo posted to her Facebook account in 2014, Hyde-Smith was pictured posing with Confederate artifacts. The caption on the post read, ‘Mississippi history at its best!'”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/20/politics/hyde-smith-confederate-artifacts-facebook-post/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Not quite as potent as stalking teenage cheerleaders, but who knows, it may be enough to tip this election into the “D” column, too. If she loses, that will make two Senate seats the GOP threw away in the Deep Red South by fielding candidates you wouldn’t run in a local dogcatcher race.*

    * Park City, Kansas, had a dogcatcher who was even worse than Roy Moore or Cindy Hyde-Smith; but unlike the Republicans of Alabama and Mississippi, they didn’t know what they were getting when they hired Dennis Rader.

  26. 26

    Who could have predicted that out of the blue Marcia Fudge @ 19 ended her quest for Speaker and instead endorsed Nancy ‘Brass Knucks’ Pelosi?

  27. 27

    This holiday season I’m thankful I live nowhere near Carl.

    Cyclist defecates, throws own poop at woman after vehicle collision in B.C.

    A video showing a cyclist defecating in the street and throwing his feces at a woman in a locked car has police on the lookout.

    Following a collision in Greater Victoria, B.C., a man pulled down his pants, defecated in public and then threw his feces at the car.
    …
    Video of the incident then shows him ramming his bike into the passenger side headlights of the vehicle before cycling away on his bike.

    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cyclist-defecates-throws-own-poop-at-woman-after-vehicle-collision-in-b-c

  30. 30

    @23 and not to mention that fuck, The Hump, sides with a government that had ties with terrorists that flew planes into the World Trade Center building in NYC and the Pentagon in DC, rather than his own intelligence community.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/417715-rand-paul-pans-trumps-statement-on-khashoggi-killing-as-saudi-arabia-first

    Bob – you are fucked. Why? Because you supposedly love this Country more than I do. Right? It’s the Republican way – the true patriots, the true Americans, the master race of the America. So, guess what – you lose more, if you truly ever believed in what this Country was or is. But maybe you were just a faker and fraud of this Country.

    Rand Paul isn’t having any of it – hey maybe that fuck can be relied upon.

  34. 34

    @26 Sounds like Doctor Dumbfuck is scared shitless of a 78-year-old woman who stands 5 feet 5 inches.

  37. 37

    @32 Maybe he shot himself. It’s quicker, and that’s a KKK-approved lynching method too. Just ask Cindy Hyde-Smith.

  38. 38

    I know noting about GoFundMe. But is it unusual for someone to end the campaign, or would other greedy people just continue to try rake in the cash.

    Very respectable for this young lady…I say this, fully knowing that Bob will wait to find that one article in the future that says she spent it on something other than her education, but I think I can take that chance.

    https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-hyde-smith-donations-hanging-20181120-story.html

    At the moment – this case sure beats the case of the homeless guy and hetero couple that swindled everyone of their respect. Such disrespectful critters or hillbillies.

    Reading the article above actually gave me the goosebumps. Very proud of her. I bet Bob is too!

  39. 39

    This year the Turkey should have had the opportunity to Pardon or not Pardon the fucking Hump in the Whitehouse.

  40. 40

    Wipeout!

    https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-news-hyde-smith-donations-hanging-20181120-story.html

    27,000 baby! Or more like 23,000!

    Rog, I know you post things about the stock market, but you are also here for other things and postings…your stock market comments are more of side thing going.

    But what happen to the guy (was it A1 – I don’t think it was) who would pretty much only post here when he was saying he was getting great deals on stocks. I just wonder if he’s still buying the good stuff.

  41. 41

    @40 Mississippi Republicans may not care about their reputations, but those companies do. The pill crushing sister fuckers will still vote for her, but people tired of their state being dead last in income, education, and health care may think twice. Companies that want nothing to do with their electeds probably won’t bring jobs there.

  42. 42

    This is for Godwin, since Hillary lives in his head.

    Hillary Clinton on her phone: “Dear Ivanka, I hope this email finds you well.”

  43. 43

    @41 the link provided @40 was the wrong link…..it was supposed to be a link about 2018 Stock Market gains wipedout.

    But your comment regarding the pill crushing sister fuckers is so noted. Thank You.

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