HorsesAss.Org

Drinking Liberally—Seattle

by — ,

DLBottle

What are you up to this evening? If you can, stop by the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally for some recreational political conversation over a drink.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern (2409 10th Ave E, Seattle) starting at 8pm. You will most likely find us on the patio off the back of the pub. The kitchen isn’t open quite yet, but will be soon. Carry-in food is cool when the kitchen is closed.


Chapters of Drinking Liberally are re-opening all over the place. If you can’t make the Seattle chapter, find a chapter near you.

Comments

  2. 2

    He must be referring to Florida’s Supreme Court.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Ian Millhiser✔
    @imillhiser
    In retrospect, Bush v. Gore was when the GOP’s authoritarian turn became inevitable.

    Once you use your control over an unelected body to install your candidate as president, there aren’t that many moral hurdles left between you and dictatorship.

    12h

    The SCOTUS decision was 7-2, after all.

  3. 3

    Hypocrite’s Elegy:
    “Like a lot of people, I criticized Trump back in 2016. And I ask folks not to judge me based on what I said in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy. I think he was a good president,

    Party of Personal Responsibility Cowering

  4. 4

    White dude shot and killed in Chicago’s South Side.

    Friends Remember University of Chicago Student Killed by Stray Bullet on CTA Train

    Lewis, who was in his third year at the University of Chicago, was on his way home from a summer internship in the downtown area when the shooting occurred. The 20-year-old passed away on the Fourth of July, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

    “He did nothing wrong,” said Zach Cogin, Lewis’ best friend and roommate. “He wasn’t walking into a bad area, he wasn’t doing something he shouldn’t have done. He was working an internship and took public transportation that thousands of millions of people take in the city.”

    Of course he did something wrong. He entrusted is life to a Democrat mayor. One who moronically claims that crime is down in Chicago.

    Transit kills. It’s the ugly secret that Railfan doesn’t want you to know.

  8. 8

    If you criticize Lori Lightfoot for the spike in murders in Chicago that has occurred during her term, you’re sexist, racist, or both

    Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blames ‘99%’ of criticisms on sexism or racism

    Lightfoot can’t even convince other black women that she’s telling the truth.

    Those claims are a “cop-out,” according to Chicago’s 20th Ward Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor.

    Taylor, who is also a black woman, often feuds with the Chicago mayor and disputed the assertion that she is treated differently than her predecessors.

    “The same way that I challenged her, I’ve challenged Rahm and I’ve challenged Daley. And I was a community organizer then,” she said. “That’s not true. That’s the cop-out.”

    I sure don’t remember Rahm Emanuel getting a free ride.

  9. 9

    Famous last words:

    I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them.

    #owngoal

  10. 10

    5,
    I will!
    As soon as Steve runs for Senate!
    Kay?

  11. 11

    Moobs McScrote…

    You know, it’s not at all difficult to detect when Tara has been triggered.

    Vance is just another in a long line of “conservative” suitors gonna break her poor heart.

  12. 12

    “Half of that was because my dad paid for his grandchildren’s school.”

    Erm, uh, that’s an admission*.

    If my boss paid for my kids to go to a fancy private school I’d have to pay taxes on that as income. So would anyone else…
    …who wasn’t a criminal.

    *LPT: If you are going to crime, please listen to your lawyer and do not go on television and admit to details of your crime in front of millions of viewers including lots and lots of judges and potential jurors. It’s bad.
    #owngoal

  13. 13

    6, 7, 8.
    Since you are so concerned about gun death in Chicago, the solution is treat the poor and the minorities like humans with compassion, empathy and open your wallet.
    Support gun reform in neighboring states that supply the guns. Support tax money going to toward UBI and jobs programs and education and social programs on a massive scale to give them something better than violence.

    Or are you lying, just like you lied that Japanese interment justified child labor?

  14. 14

    The greedy racist incel is posting lies and distortions because Ms Lightfoot is his personal existential threat, Ms Lightfoot is a black woman with power.

  15. 15

    14,
    Partly true.

    But mostly Tara believes (because she has been told to believe it) that by insisting that society is dissolving into a hyper-violent, “Soshoolist” dystopian nightmare caused by George Floyd protests, and then associating Joe Biden with that fabricated nightmare, she can somehow improve Daddy Trump’s chances of winning the House and Senate in 2022.

    And even Trump knows this won’t work.
    But it’s good grift and it keeps the suckers (like Tara) well hooked and reaching for their checkbooks and Discover cards.

  16. 16

    Kamala Harris favorability already underwater.

    Favorable 44.3

    Unfavorable 46.7

    That’s a big net minus 2.4% favorability for the unlikable, incompetent Veep. Jill Biden doesn’t miss when she’s out to shank someone.

  17. 17

    In Friday’s orders Justices Roberts, Beer-Bong and Handmaid voted to deny cert to the most recent Bigot-Florist case.

    Which mostly just reaffirms that Trumpublican preoccupation with culture war themes is not really in pursuit of policy outcomes. These wars they are fighting are already mostly lost.

    It’s all about the grift.

  19. 19

    You know, it’s not at all difficult to detect when Tara has been triggered.

    He’s still triggered from yesterday. I’ll take credit for that, although it was more likely Raw Story that did the deed..

  20. 20

    Hey Bob, tell me again what was in John Durham’s report on his investigation that was sanctioned by William Barr (you know, the guy Trump hand-picked to be his personal Attorney General).

    I’ll wait…..

  21. 21

    That’s a big net minus 2.4% favorability for the unlikable, incompetent Veep.

    A net minus 2.4%? That’s…awful. I wonder how the dumbfuck traitor feels about awfulness of his raging orange man-baby sitting on a net minus 38% favorability?

    Raging Orange Man-baby Approve 29% Disapprove 68%

    Is net minus 38% favorability “unlikable and incompetent”, or is it better to call it “6′ under”?

    Triggered again, no doubt. But the dumbfuck traitor can always assuage his spirits by telling himself that the next attempt at violent insurrection by fascist grandmothers to overthrow our democracy will be a raging success.

    #DeathToDumbfuckClowns

  26. 26

    Here’s some news that YLB can understand.

    For a Fourth of July visit with Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff to the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Station 19 in the city’s Brentwood neighborhood, Harris dressed in patriotic hues of red, white, and blue. The Vice President wore a relaxed ensemble of a white T-shirt and blue jeans, layered with a sharp navy blazer—one of her style signatures. She accessorized with classic pearl stud earrings, as well as an American flag pin and a delicate gold and blue pendant necklace.

    Sorry, YLB. I don’t have any nail polish or lipstick info for you, girlfriend.

  27. 27

    As they achieve success through years of hard effort, Latinos increasingly resent YLB’s rationale for stealing what they have accumulated.

    MSNBC
    @MSNBC
    ·
    18h
    “What we’re seeing right now is a cultural identity crisis that we are undergoing as a community that is completely splitting and dividing Latinos,” Paola Ramos says about Latinos’ decreasing support for Democrats.
    Former Clinton aide: Trump’s improvement among Latino voters in 2020 ‘goes beyond politics’
    Paola Ramos, fmr. Dep. Director of Hispanic Press for Clinton’s 2016 campaign, and Democratic strategist Juanita Tolliver join Alicia Menendez to discuss how Democrats can make inroads with Latino…
    msnbc.com

    YLB accessorizes with a tin cup for her street corner gigs, and it’s increasingly less fashionable.

  28. 28

    According to the Pillow Guy Aug 13 is Trump’s big reinstatement day. Must be the day they have planned for another attempt at a coup at the Capital Bldg. Interesting to see what kind of stupidity will transpire in the Reich Wing’s ongoing attempt at seizing total power.

  30. 30

    Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

    After Palestinians reject deal, Israel to send 700,000 vaccines to South Korea

    The agreement with Seoul comes after the Palestinian Authority signed, and then backed out of, a similar deal with Israel.

    In June, Ramallah said it was canceling the agreement that would see some 1 million Pfizer vaccine doses handed over to the PA, citing the close expiration date of the doses. It said it had rejected a first batch of some 100,000 doses transferred to it that were set to expire at the end of June.

    Israel has no intention of letting the same thing happen to the batch that expires at the end of July.

  31. 31

    The problem the PA has with the vaccines from Israel is that the expiration date is so close that there isn’t enough time to resell them at a profit instead of administering them to the Palestinian people.

    And the PA has never put money into helping its own people, so it has no infrastructure to provide medical support.

    Bomb-building, on the other hand… That the PA can do. Plenty.

  33. 33

    …there are others…

    Die-hard Trump supporters. Or to quote the source, others like “J. D. Vance, Michael Lind, and Richard Hanania”… and you.

    LPT: it really isn’t “affective polarization”.

    It’s the rapes. Major turnoff.

  34. 34

    @1 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck ogles President and First Lady Biden watching July 4th fireworks from the White House balcony.

    He can’t keep is eyes off that scene. Neither can I.

  35. 35

    @2 Bush v. Gore was about the mechanics of ballot counting. The Arizona “ballot audit” is about the mechanics of pissing into the wind.

  37. 37

    @4 Trump had 4 years to stop the gunfire in Chicago and other cities across America. Why didn’t he confiscate that gun when he had the chance? Why was it still in the wrong hands when he left office?

  39. 39

    35,
    Bush v Gore was a very close race contesting a determinative number of EVs in which ballot counting mechanics actually determined the outcome.

    Trump’s Arizona Audit is about searching for “bamboo fibers”, “Venezuelan Watermarks” and traces of adrenochrome.

  40. 40

    36,
    Tara’s newest boy-crush J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy and soon-to-be Trump-approved GQP nominee for Portman’s Senate seat.

    “In the before-times” when Vance was still pretending to be a “moderate conservative intellectual” he was very critical of Orange Rage-Baby and said many mean things about him being a cruel racist.

    These days Vance spends most of his off-hours pawing through the piles at the Mar a Lago laundry room searching for soiled undies to huff.

  41. 41

    TIL:
    In terms of inflation adjusted, per capita spending, as of last year the City of Chicago had tripled the police budget since 1964 (Trump’s “good old days”).

    In 2020 Chicago spent over $1.6 billion on police against a population of 2.7 million residents or about $600 for every single resident. This of course does not include the HYUUUUGE sums the city also paid out to settle lawsuits when all those police beat and murdered people for sport.

    Sure. This is working.

    Police just don’t do what people think they do.

  42. 42

    Good morning, Moobs.

    I take it that I’m this “Moobs” fella the dumbfuck traitor has living in his head of late. Probably thinks he can charge me twice for rent.

    Moobs McScrote? Must be some kind of incel-speak or something. Or could it be the name of his horse?

  45. 45

    “When a sample of nearly 1,500 female Ivy League students was asked whether they would date a Trump supporter, only 6 percent said yes.”

    6% must be the percentage of female nayers.
    https://youtu.be/ZQOYOuSWywA

  46. 46

    @43 “knees together…those awkward little steps”

    What about the knockers!

  47. 47

    A guy who lays a loaded rifle and four magazines on a hotel room windowsill overlooking where July 4th crowds gather most likely isn’t “a good guy with a gun.”

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/iowa-man-arrested-firearms-found-chicago-hotel-room/story?id=78693737

    That’s just a hunch, but probably a pretty good hunch.

    Note that he was arrested for a permit violation. They couldn’t even arrest or hold this guy if the Illinois gun permit law were declared unconstitutional by the Rightwing Court. The cops would have to stand there and wait for him to shoot into a crowd.

    Is that the kind of laws you want in this country? Is that the kind of Supreme Court you want?

    Doctor Dumbfuck does, because he’s a dumbfuck. He brags about it all the time.

  49. 49

    I had to look up Hillbilly Elegy. I had not made the connection. It’s sad he’s sold his soul. Part of me hopes he’s pretending and only wants to be one term congress critter and once he gets into office, he will vote progressive, but I expect that’s a pipe dream.

  50. 50

    @49 He’s running in the Republican primary, which strongly suggests he was never a progressive.

  51. 51

    I’m getting the impression that the traitor Doctor Dumbfuck doesn’t want to talk about today being the sixth month anniversary of the violent terrorist attack on our nation’s capitol executed with the intent to kill our elected leaders and overthrow our democracy, and how it was incited by our own treasonous dumbfuck doctor, his raging orange man-baby and the rest of the vile, though thankfully insipid, QOP traitors.

    God bless America, our beloved president and Gman!

  52. 52

    @51

    Well, here’s a reminder for him!

    Hugging and a kissing, assualting and a killing LEO.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fbi-releases-11-new-videos-of-capitol-riot-assaults-on-six-month-anniversary/ar-AALR5B7?ocid=DELLDHP&li=BBnb7Kz

    Don’t let them forget – you can’t have an insurrection without killing a Cop or Military member. They’re loyalty and honor towards a cop or the military is fake. It’s all bullshit. They are all bullshit!

  53. 53

    @52 I wish someone could explain the difference between them and Bolsheviks.

    Oh yeah, that’s right, the economic system.

  54. 54

    Moobs McScrote @ 51

    I’ll talk about it, sure.

    Let’s talk about the number of police killed during the riot. That would be zero.

    How about the number of firearm discharges by the rioters, Moobs? Also zero.

    Perhaps the number of firearms brandished inside the Capitol building by the rioters? Yep. Zero again.

    Only one firearm discharge, and it was by a cop who has had some firearm safety issues in the not-too-distant pass.

    Most of the people in the Capitol building were doing nothing more than trespassing, and an awful lot of them weren’t even doing that, because they were waved in by the Capitol police, Moobs.

    There’s a good reason why the FBI and the Capitol police don’t want to release video, Moobs. It’s gonna turn your “insurrection” into a group of a few dozen unarmed dudes who needed to feel heard. And so they were.

    Keep it up, Moobs. You’re nearing the bottom of the second tier, and the only difference between you and YLB at this point is your Y chromosome and a few dozen IQ points. Other than that, your nonsense is distinguished from hers only because you can converse in complete sentences.

  55. 55

    NYC wants Stop and Frisk to make a comeback.

    Michael Tracey
    @mtracey
    ·
    4h
    It’s so funny that an alliance of the New York Post, ethnic whites, and outer-borough blacks was the winning formula for the NYC mayoral race

  56. 56

    Kamala Harris used to suck the cock of a guy who thinks Bill Cosby got a raw deal.

    Former SF mayor throws his support behind Bill Cosby

    “If they were absolutely accurate in telling the truth, why would you wait from 1969 to 2018 to tell the story,” insisted Brown.

    I bet she swallowed, too. Anything to advance her career.

  57. 57

    49,
    At heart Hillbilly Elegy was pure tripe. And moreover it was baseless propaganda. He’s Salena Zito with a dick… maybe. Virtually every part of the book is essentially fabricated nonsense.

    There’s absolutely nothing “progressive” in advancing the idea that white people have gotten a raw deal in America.

  58. 58

    The NEA is full of garbage teachers.

    Corey A. DeAngelis
    @DeAngelisCorey
    NEW: Today the nation’s largest teachers union removed the resolutions they passed/defeated from their website.
    12:45 PM · Jul 6, 2021

    Corey A. DeAngelis
    @DeAngelisCorey
    ·
    8h
    Replying to
    @DeAngelisCorey
    Just this morning their website still showed this 2019 resolution they DEFEATED calling to “make student learning the priority of the Association.”

    Here is the link that no longer works:
    https://ra.nea.org/business-item/2019-nbi-002/

  59. 59

    @ 57

    At heart Hillbilly Elegy was pure tripe.

    If I’m gonna watch a movie with Amy Adams in it, I want her to look good. As in Trouble With The Curve good.

  60. 60

    <blockquote)Daily Caller
    @DailyCaller
    · 9h
    BIDEN: "We need to go community-by-community, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, and oft times door-to-door, literally knocking on doors" to get people vaccinated.

    See, I think that going door-to-door in Chicago’s South Side is how you substantially reduce the number of illegal firearms in those neighborhoods. Except you don’t knock on doors. You bust them in.

  61. 61

    48,
    I believe you’ve captured his essence and probably the narrative arc of his political career as well.

    I honestly hope he wins the nom. Makes that another flip for our side.

  62. 62

    Looks like “Unindicted Co-conspirator 1” in the Trump indictment is Mazars Group. Trump is a small fish in their ocean. They’ll cooperate, give him up, pay some fines and continue raking in billions in global revenues.

  65. 65

    @54 “Only one firearm discharge, and it was by a cop who has had some firearm safety issues in the not-too-distant pass.”

    Blame the cop, not the rioter. Classic dumbfuck.

    If this had been a peaceful BLM protester shot by a cop like Derek Chauvin, Doctor Dumbfuck would be typing “we need more cops with firearm safety issues.”

  66. 66

    @57 Oh, I think white people get a raw deal all the time. And some of them keep voting for it. They vote for it when they vote against the union. They vote for it when they vote Republican. They vote for it when they vote for Trump.

    I’ll bet plenty of white waitresses got a raw deal when Doctor Dumbfuck left their tips.

  67. 67

    @59 We all want actors to look good. That’s why you’re not in the movies.

    You weren’t any good with curveballs, either. That’s why you weren’t in the majors.

  68. 68

    @63 Mike Flynn deserves to be tied to a stake and shot, but I’d settle for busting him back to private and adjusting his pension accordingly.

  71. 71

    See, I think that going door-to-door in Chicago’s South Side is how you substantially reduce the number of illegal firearms in those neighborhoods. Except you don’t knock on doors. You bust them in.

    Heh.. 31 on this list dimfuk..

    https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/22/

    Memphis, TN is more violent. So is Anchorage, AK..

    Damn you’re stoopid. Keep that Cali black guy in your head.. Till that certain day.

  75. 75

    71,
    I’m not gonna look.
    But I’ll bet you both of those cities have steadily and significantly increased their per capita police spending over the past two or three decades.

  76. 76

    More loss of privilege:

    https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/07/06/mount-laurel-harassment-edward-mathews-racist-protest/

    Now, to be fair, a “moderate conservative” like J.D. Vance would never defend the way this guy behaved on camera or the language he used.

    But Vance would almost certainly defend this guy’s “privilege” as a white man to complain to his HOA about minorities living in the community. Vance might not even agree with those complaints. But he would almost certainly defend a white man’s privilege of “politely” issuing such complaints.

    And again, while a “moderate conservative” like J.D. Vance might not agree with this guy issuing even polite complaints to his HOA about having to share his community with people of color, he’d very much sympathize with his feelings of “loss of status” that produces. That’s really what Hillbilly Elegy was all about. And that’s really what Trumpism is all about. Vance and Trump go together like opposite sides of the same coin.

Can’t Bring Yourself to Type the Word “Ass”?

Eager to share our brilliant political commentary and blunt media criticism, but too genteel to link to horsesass.org? Well, good news, ladies: we also answer to HASeattle.com, because, you know, whatever. You're welcome!

Follow Goldy

[iire_social_icons]

HA Commenting Policy

It may be hard to believe from the vile nature of the threads, but yes, we have a commenting policy. Comments containing libel, copyright violations, spam, blatant sock puppetry, and deliberate off-topic trolling are all strictly prohibited, and may be deleted on an entirely arbitrary, sporadic, and selective basis. And repeat offenders may be banned! This is my blog. Life isn’t fair.