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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The war on men—Resisting the evil Estrogenda

Stephen: Raw water.

Sam Seder: Project Veritas’ lame surprise! Twitter expose.

Jimmy Kimmel: Government shutdown and funding CHIP

CAFE: California is experiencing a deadly flu epidemic.

VOX: How rats take advantage of human failure

Dotard Трамп, A.K.A. President Shithole Shithouse, and His Band of Con Men and Thieves:

Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

VOX: The chocolate science hype machine.

Samantha Bee: #MeToo backlash.

Mark Fiore: Algorithm News.

WaPo: Short-term spending bill fails in the Senate

White noise sleep machine: How racists sleep at night.

On Wisconsin and Midterm Elections:

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Raging out to cable news

The Women’s March on Washington one year later.

Stephen: Don’t fire the Hawaiian who hit the emergency alert.

VOX: How faster computers gave us Meltdown and Spectre.

Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    I was listening to the spectacle on the Senate Floor last night, seemed like Senator Graham was trying to negotiate something, but was probably all for show. Although I disagreewith Senators Lee and Paul, I admire them for consistency on Continuing Resolutions.

  2. 2

    Wasn’t the NSA wiretapping such a controversial thing when Obama was in office? Generally many were upset, Repukes and Democrats, but mostly Repukes because they had to make a crisis out of everything, crying wolf crisis is their way of negative reinforcement.
    NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve
    (via POLITICO for iOS)

    But Drumpf signs the paperwork and not a peep.

    Weren’t the trolls uncontrollably crying about it?

    Kind of like them always wanting to shutdown the government – crisis creation – like the want to be Jesus and be some type of creators.

  4. 4

    “He walked away from two bipartisan deals including one today in which I even put the border wall on the table.”

    – Sen. Chuck Schumer

    I doubt anyone will notice. They’ll probably be too busy hand wringing about The Memo.

  6. 6

    “A shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership. He can’t even control his party and get people together in a room. A shutdown means the President is weak”

    -Donald Trump 2013

    Shame we didn’t elect someone who negotiates deals.

  7. 7

    Wonder if YLB’s pink pussy hat still fits? Be sure and post your best pics from the march when you return.

    Hang tough, girlfriend. Only seven more years, countdown begins today.

    I made it. So will you.

  8. 8

    Since it’s Multimedia thread time and since Elijah told us what Uncle Chuck just said about immigration and shutdowns, let’s take a little trip down memory lane and review what Uncle Chuck said about immigration and shutdowns in 2013, last time a shutdown occurred and he was in a different position.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2FG2RJKgOI

    We need two cameras on Chuck Schumer. One for each side of his mouth.

  9. 9

    8,
    Sorry. Couldn’t catch that through all the Internet Research Agency disinformation. Contact your ISP. AOL is it?

  10. 10

    Just curious. Maybe the Traitor Trolls can answer.

    Why do you suppose Yertle doesn’t just call Schumer’s bluff and invite the Democrats to hold a fillibuster? He’d win. Eventually.

    The rules do put some fairly strict limits on debate. So open the floor, let the Democrats take the podium one by one. Force all those “red state” Democratic Senators to do their part in front of the media and their constituents. After a few days it’s over. Republicans win the vote, they win the battle for public opinion, and they weaken a half dozen Democratic Senators facing re-election.
    Why do you suppose a seven-dimensional chess master like Yertle would pass up an opportunity like that?

  11. 11

    Drill, bitch, drill.

    ‘Relentless’ growth could see the US topple Russia, Saudi Arabia as world’s largest oil producer, IEA says


    “Relentless growth should see the U.S. hit historic highs above 10 million barrels a day (in production), overtaking Saudi Arabia and rivaling Russia during the course of 2018 — provided OPEC and non-OPEC restraints remain in place,” the Paris-based organization added.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/iea-us-could-topple-russia-saudi-arabia-as-worlds-largest-oil-producer.html

    Buying Chevron on the dip worked out pretty well. BP has made a nice comeback as well. Exxon, not so much.

  12. 12

    @ 10

    Why do you suppose a seven-dimensional chess master like Yertle would pass up an opportunity like that?

    Er, maybe because those vulnerable Dems voted YES and not NO on the cloture resolution, and would continue to do so as the shutdown drags on? Just a guess on my part.

    What’s to be gained, Elijah, if the targeted Dems vote the same way the GOP does?

    Don’t tell me you just dropped into the middle HA tier. Do we need to review how a bill becomes a law again?

  13. 13

    Because whatever it is, no matter what, they have got to find some way to make it about “That Bitch”.

    I say give Russia the credit they are due. They figured a few things out about U.S. politics that most experts were unwilling (if not unable) to recognize. But it seems risky to keep all their money on that horse. One or two things have changed. Some in favor of Russia. Some in favor of Democrats. But however much Russia may have gained insight, influence, and input over conservative politics in the U.S. (and just politics in general) they are still very, very different from us culturally and politically. Early indications are that Russia is misfiring in its attempts to steer and control Roypublican politics since Trump. The continuing obsession with the Clintons may be a good example.

  15. 15

    What’s to be gained, Elijah, if the targeted Dems vote the same way the GOP does?

    Er, Senate Seats? Eventually maybe even enough to make cloture votes irrelevant?

    No, no. Never mind. You are right. You Russian guys should support Democrats in Senate races. Forget I said that. Never mind. Delete. Delete. Delete.

  16. 16

    @ 13

    Early indications are that Russia is misfiring in its attempts to steer and control Roypublican politics since Trump.

    Prior indications are that Russia clearly misfired in its decision to pay $500,000 to Bill Clinton for a speech.

    Unless it was just for our uranium, in which case score!!!!!!

  17. 17

    @11 I wondered who bought the other share when my broker filled only 99 shares of my round lot order. Now that I know, I’m not surprised.

  19. 19

    Hey Railfan, Goldman Sachs’ Abby Joseph Cohen is recommending China Railway/CSRC as a stock purchase.

    90% of what it does is within China. Are its products and services talked about in your world? Thanks in advance if you reply.

  20. 20

    @19 Yeah, by all means, go ahead and invest in laying tracks in Outer Mongolia. You’ll be doing the nomads and their yaks a favor. Within a year or two, they’ll all be working in Foxconn factories for $1 a day.

  21. 21

    @16 What about the Canadian uranium you guys were worked up about? How you forgotten that already? Or did you annex Canada when we weren’t looking, and now their uranium is “our” uranium?

  22. 22

    @ 21

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, it’s the same uranium. Do your background work, asswipe.

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit has been giving The Fucking Moron a run for his money in the past few months. Hey, that reminds me: Is GE still one of your larger holdings, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    Thought so.

  23. 23

    Democrats. “Here’s a bill exempting pay for active duty military from a government shutdown.”

    Mitch McConnell, “No. blocked”

    GOP “We support the troops, I stand up.”

    #trumpshutdown top hashtag in world. Accounts linked to Russia are getting #DemShutdown going.

    Yeah this is working great for GOP. and 45

  24. 24

    You’re can probably put another house seat in th D flip column.

    WASHINGTON — Representative Patrick Meehan, a Pennsylvania Republican who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle his own misconduct complaint after a former aide accused him last year of making unwanted romantic overtures to her, according to several people familiar with the settlement.

    A married father of three, Mr. Meehan, 62, had long expressed interest in the personal life of the aide, who was decades younger and had regarded the congressman as a father figure, according to three people who worked with the office and four others with whom she discussed her tenure there.

    But after the woman became involved in a serious relationship with someone outside the office last year, Mr. Meehan professed his romantic desires for her — first in person, and then in a handwritten letter — and he grew hostile when she did not reciprocate, the people familiar with her time in the office said

  25. 25

    Boob flaccidly babbled last night:

    “if you’re going to assign blame for a shutdown to the president ..”

    LOL! Drumpf assigned it to itself… Time quotes Drumpf.

    How limp is boob…

  27. 27

    @22 Wherein a moron who repetitively celebrates the godawful fact that a teenager with a cellphone is running our country calls ME a “dumbfuck.”

    Most people would agree the guy who runs the ball into his own end zone and then gets a celebration penalty is the dumbfuck.

  28. 28

    Unless it was just for our uranium,

    Yawwnn.. Limp and balding boob forgets it’s illegal to export U from the U.S… US Uranium ores are poor compared to other countries.

    If you like nukes (I sorta do), thorium is a better path… And China, sadly will get there first… This country would rather invest in a fucking wall.

    In the meantime, solar is making leaps and bounds.

    Very interesting article.. Look up Crescent Dunes with google maps. Facilities of this kind are sprouting up all over the world.

    Progress! (oh that word) in TexASS even!

    Fuck coal!

  29. 29

    @22 “Is GE still one of your larger holdings, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit?”

    No, and you should have shorted it like I suggested when I dumped it $7 ago, but I’ll bet you didn’t. By the way, since I generally paid between $6 and $10 for my former GE shares, would you kindly calculate for me how much I lost on that stock, then get back to me? I could do it myself, but I’m busy right now watching the GOP burn its tent to the ground. Thanks.

  31. 31

    Boob is trying to make wood over oil..

    Excellent article on TexASS oil…

    Damn good read..

    TexASS greed has made the world oil price collapse over and over… The result is boom and bust, boom and bust… See-through office towers in Dallas and Houston… Abandoned sub-divisions.. Think TexASS is rich? There’s more per capita millionaires in Nebraska.

    TexASS has succeeded in SPITE of oil and gas.. Oil and gas makes for a smaller portion of the TexASS economy (when measured by state tax receipts) than ever yet the stupid TexASS politicians are bought and paid for totally by oil and gas.

    Oil prices are rising and TexASS frackers to their credit have reduced their costs and will ramp up production as soon as they find greater fools to finance it.. (Apple to the rescue!)

    50 TexASS companies went bankrupt during the 2015-15 bust, not to mention all the smaller dependent companies. At least 74 billion dollars in debt written down.

    Y’all know higher gas prices are Drumpf’s fault right? The moron will pay for it in November.

  32. 32

    That article speaks highly of wind development in TexASS:

    Texas uses more electricity than any other state. (California, the second-largest consumer, uses about two-thirds as much.) Yet electricity in Texas is cheaper than the national average, and in some places it is free at night. That’s because Texas gets about seventeen per cent of its electricity from wind power, and wind generally blows more at night, when demand is lower. ..

    The state has invested nearly seven billion dollars in high-voltage transmission lines to carry wind power and other energy eastward, from the shrub-covered plains to the cities. On some days, wind satisfies almost half of Texas’s electricity demand. Solar energy has been slower to catch on, despite abundant and intense sunshine. Austin, the state’s liberal enclave, already obtains nearly forty per cent of its power from renewable sources, and aims at almost doubling that figure in ten years. Georgetown, which is thirty miles outside Austin and one of Texas’s most conservative suburbs, has done the capital one better: it already gets all its electricity from renewable sources. Clean-energy approaches are threatened, however, by the Trump Administration’s reluctance to continue subsidies for alternatives to coal and petroleum.

    Fuck coal! Coal is doomed..

  35. 35

    YLB @ 25

    If you’re going to quote me, quote me in full context.

    YLB, you silly little twattwit, if you’re going to assign blame for a shutdown to the president and count shutdowns under someone’s watch, don’t forget to mention the two that occurred in fiscal 1996. When Bill Clinton was president.

    Do you see how that reads differently than what you cherry-picked, you little pussy?

  36. 36

    Baldly and limply, silly boob is still trying to change the subject…

    Boob is confused.. Does it really think Bill Clinton or “that bitch” is President? In 2018?

    Is it deluded that Time magazine quoted Bill Clinton?

    Is this a side effect of Propecia? Of some ED med?

  38. 38

    Had a lot of fun for the past few hours..

    Soon the babbling butthole troll will be here to get what it “needs” from putting HA HEROES FIRST before salt mining duty with its buddy.

    Boob will still pretend Bill Clinton or “that bitch” is President and ignore whatever Drumpf babbled to make it look preznitential to racist Obama haters..

    The world will continue to reject polluting, poisoning fossil fuels in favor of much more benign and ever more cost effective renewable options – even in TexASS..

    The world will turn.. Later fellow HA HEROES..

  39. 39

    @ 36

    Does it really think Bill Clinton or “that bitch” is President? In 2018?

    No. I really think that if you are going to lay the responsibility for a shutdown on Trump because he is president, you need to acknowledge that it’s only half as many shutdowns as occurred during Clinton’s first term.

    Which puts it into the context you’re trying to avoid. You unserious, spineless, best-when-you-can-hide-in-a-crowd third-tier pussy.

  40. 40

    Hey, libbies, how’s that shutdown thingy going for y’all?

    Gutiérrez ready to give in on wall

    Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said Saturday that he’s ready to give President Trump his signature border wall if the Republicans will agree to new legal protections for “Dreamers.”

    Furthermore, he said he’d help with the construction.

    “I’ll take a bucket, take bricks, and start building it myself,” Gutiérrez told reporters in the Capitol.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/ho.....in-on-wall

    He’s not facing re-election and he knows that the problem isn’t with those illegal aliens already in the country but with the unknown and currently unstoppable number still to come.

    Oh, and once built, it seems like the wall will be pretty damned effective.

    APNewsBreak: Border Wall Models Thwart US Commandos In Tests

    Military special forces based in Florida and U.S. Customs and Border Protection special units spent three weeks trying to breach and scale the eight models in San Diego, using jackhammers, saws, torches and other tools and climbing devices, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information was not authorized for public release.
    …
    The highly trained testers scaled 16 to 20 feet (4.9 to 6.1 meters) unassisted but needed help after that, said the official who described the assaults on the wall prototypes to the AP. Testers also expressed safety concerns about getting down from 30 feet.
    Only once did a tester manage to land a hook on top of the wall without help, the official said.

    http://www.ktsa.com/apnewsbrea.....dos-tests/

    OTOH, that’s more times than YLB has managed to win an argument without help from someone in a higher tier.

  41. 41

    @30 “What a bunch of cackling hens you morons are! Get a fucking life!”

    I won’t deny your characterization, but why are you in this hen house too? Anyone who doesn’t like what goes on here certainly can find other entertainment. There are lots of choices.

  42. 42

    @39 No, we’re laying the blame for the shutdown on Trump because he caused it. You don’t make a deal with someone and then walk away from it. You don’t negotiate by demanding abject surrender. Your boy doesn’t know fuck about dealmaking — he can’t even get a loan from a payday lender in his own country, so he and his family go to Russian mobsters to finance for their ventures — and that’s why this happened.

  43. 43

    @40 “Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) said Saturday that he’s ready to give President Trump his signature border wall if the Republicans will agree to new legal protections for “Dreamers.””

    That’s what Schumer offered Trump yesterday, and Trump walked away from, dumbshit.

    My response to this is going to be: If we can afford $40 billion for a border wall, then we damn sure can afford Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, food stamps, and all the other things you asswipes are about to claim must be cut because we can’t afford them anymore.

    You may get your wall that Trump promised Mexico would pay for, but if you do, you’re not going to take one fucking cent out of entitlements. That $40 billion is entirely on you.

  45. 45

    @39

    OK

    Newt rammmed through spending Bills that President Clinton said he would veto. And he did. There was no negotiation just, give us what we want or Veto.

    Yertle can’t even get a bill to 45s desk. 45 keeps moving the goalpost. “Just give us what we want.”

    You’re right. It’s awfully familiar. Other ways it’s familiar. The GOP thinks they hold a solid hand so shut it down instead of negotiating. It worked just as well in the 90s for them

  46. 46

    @ 45

    OK, who wants to explain to Pilsner the difference between the challenges faced by the Speaker of the House and those faced by the Senate Majority Leader?

  47. 47

    @ 43

    Schumer didn’t offer the wall.

    As the meal progressed, an outline of an agreement was struck, according to one person familiar with the discussion: Mr. Schumer said yes to higher levels for military spending and discussed the possibility of fully funding the president’s wall on the southern border with Mexico. In exchange, the president agreed to support legalizing young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/politics/trump-government-shutdown.html

    An offer and a willingness to discuss are two different things, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Given Schumer’s track record, which includes fucking over

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2170519

    those in his own party, there’s no reason a willingness to discuss something should carry any weight with anyone negotiating with Schumer.

  48. 48

    I really think that if you are going to lay the responsibility for a shutdown on Trump because he is president, you need to acknowledge

    Should anyone here care what a misogynist troll “thinks”? Or “acknowledge” anything upon orders from such a …

    And a lying troll at that..

    Yours truly just quoted Drumpf and took the freak at its word..

    Oh and here’s another tool who loves shutdowns:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaSIIBtI1Ts

    He’s doing the talking not me..

  49. 49

    Let’s take this a little slower..

    Houses passes something…

    It goes to the Senate…

    You need 60 votes, so you need Democrats to get on board..

    Ok say, the Republicans will compromise on something, but, but, but…

    that “something” has to go to the House. It has to pass the House and then go back to the Senate yadda and only THEN be signed by Drumpf…

    Polls say most people including Republicans support DACA.. Ok you’ve lost the freedumb kookus but then Ryan has plenty of Dems to pass something.. oh ooops….

    What’s the problem? Oh yeah.. some assholes like the babbling butthole troll who HATE latinos.. Notice I didn’t put boob in that category..

    yet..

  50. 50

    Oh, and once built, it seems like the wall will be pretty damned effective.

    LOL! And how much will it cost per mile? Oh yeah! Mexico is going to pay for it! Sure…

    Can you build it over steep terrain, swamps and rivers that change course?

    Will the people who freaking live there have any say about it?

    TexASS is a special case.. Much less Fed ownership of land there.. Maybe none on the border. What a democrat from illinois says has no effect there.

    Did that article say anything about tunnelling? Not that I could see..

    Baldly and limply boob goes forward…

  51. 51

    Maybe this could serve as architectural inspiration for Boob’s wall …

    http://ww2today.com/inside-a-maginot-line-fort

    or this …

    https://travelercomment.com/featured/the-great-wall-of-china.html

    but the problem is always this …

    http://anguerde.com/pics/main/16/265638-canoe.jpg

    or this …

    http://www.americanladderinsti.....ngleLadder

    or this …

    https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/famous-cu-chi-tunnels-vietnam-690459592?src=qkO8cPKnq9Ja2utcS-AiZw-1-11

    or this …

    https://www.airplane-pictures.net/photo/892043/pu-old-private-piper-j3-cub/

  52. 52

    Did the House put a fucking wall in what they sent to the Senate?

    To get to 60 votes why should the Democrats have put in a fucking wall?

    Oh yeah! Some man child tweeting off-site..

  53. 53

    Schumer wasn’t the only senator blindsided by Trump’s mood swings:

    “Last week, Graham thought he had a chance for bipartisan deal to preserve DACA and enact other immigration reforms, but he said Trump’s position changed swiftly. ‘He spoke compassionately about immigration, tough on security, wanted bipartisanship. Two days later, there was a major change,’ Graham told MSNBC.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/19/government-shutdown-news-explanation.html

    And in case you missed this,

    “Earlier Saturday, Schumer expressed exasperation about negotiating with Trump’s White House, which Graham also echoed this week. ‘Negotiating with this White House is like negotiating with Jell-O. It’s next to impossible,’ he said.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/20/government-shutdown-news-congress-trump-talk-after-funding-lapses.html

    Trump’s fault? Yeah. It. Absolutely. Is. His. Fault.

  56. 56

    19)CRRC has orders from Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia, with production facilities in Chicago and Springfield.

  57. 57

    Tens of thousands of people turned out in Seattle for today’s Women’s March. There were counter-protesters, too — oh, maybe about 10 of them.

  59. 59

    One of the most disgusting and despicable of the Drumpfies is this Mulvaney moron..

    It thinks being in charge of a fed government shutdown is “kind of cool”…

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/20/16913284/mulvaney-shutdown-cool

    Musta raised a little wood amongst the incontinent Sean Inanity audience..

    Money quote from the article:

    The thing is: Mulvaney isn’t new to shutdowns. He played a prominent role in the 2013 shutdown and voted to keep it going when lawmakers finally struck a deal to end it.

    They will pay for this shit in November.

  60. 60

    They will pay for this shit in November.

    Precisely. And no amount of parsing or needle threading by Doctor Dumbfuck or any other Russian will ever change that. They’ll pay for it sooner.

    What happens when Roypublicans fold, as they must, because it is what they knew they were going to do going in? They want to resolve DACA. They want to extend CHIP. They know their constituents support this funding and these programs. And they want to take those to their states and districts. When they do so it will set the tone for the remainder of this Congress. And all their sadistic dreams will melt away before their eyes.

  61. 61

    This, right here, is why negotiaton broke down:

    “Kelly later calls Schumer and complains that the outline that Schumer and Trump had discussed was too liberal. Full funding of the President’s border security request would not be enough, on its own, to strike a deal giving legal status to the dreamers.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.....d=52484599

    It wasn’t Schumer who demanded more at the last minute.

  62. 62

    60,
    Maybe it’s time the Senate Fucking Majority Leader did his goddamn job instead of outsourcing it to Lindsey Graham, Chuck Schumer, and John Kelly’s stomach tumor.

  63. 63

    “‘I think it’s a good thing for us,’ Eric Trump said of the government shutdown that was triggered at midnight on Friday by the failure of congressional negotiators and the Trump White House to reach a deal to fund the government.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/21/eric-trump-the-shutdown-is-a-good-thing-for-us-politically.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: We really owe our ancestors one. If we were a hereditary monarchy, and something happened to Old Fatso and his older boy, this kid would be our next king.

  64. 64

    56)I was headed downtown to take a ferry ride, at least two of the three cars on the LINK train were packed to the gills with marchers. Also, I wonder if ST Express put extra buses on the 512 for this event. Next door to SODO Station is Community Transits layover yard, and noticed a weekday, usually full of articulated buses and Double Tails holding for the afternoon rush. Usually on Saturday it’s an empty gravel lot. Today, a couple of Sound Transit’s Double Tails. Also coming back, took awhile fot the Kaleetan to unload, good portion were marchers, which I’ll admit, I was not expecting.

  68. 68

    A Republican in charge of congressional ethics secretly used taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment complaint against himself.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patrick-meehan-sexual-harassment-settlement_us_5a63b3f4e4b00228300356d5?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: We’ve known for years that Republicans don’t take ethics seriously. That was obvious when Doc Hastings was put in charge of sweeping GOP corruptionns under the rug.

  70. 70

    68,
    the other side: you’re an irrational, fearful racist and the people your fear drives you to vote for are fucking you and your children in the ass.

    Good luck with that Pillbilly.

  71. 71

    66,
    “I will not be lectured about morality by people who eagerly vote for a thrice divorced serial philanderer who randomly thrill-fucks 13-year-old girls, Russian prostitutes, and faded minor league porn stars.” – Patriotic America

  72. 72

    Look on the bright side – Roypublican Pissident Very Stable Bumbling Dotard singlehandedly saved American taxpayers $3.6 million on Saturday alone — by being forced to skip his near-weekly trip to his luxury Mar-a-Lago resort.

  73. 73

    @71 – Imitation is the best form of flattery. Feel free to use my screen ID again!

  74. 74

    @69 – Sorry, but I didn’t vote for Trump. So your “pillbilly” reference does not apply.

  75. 75

    @73 ashamed that you didn’t vote for Saint Donny? You should be a prouder Klan member – they need you!

  77. 77

    74,
    I’m ashamed that I did.

    And frankly, just a little bit afraid too. I was tired of politics as usual and those dirty hippies and black people marching and kneeling pissed me off. I sort of thought if my fellow angry stupid racists and I elected an unqualified stupid asshole like us it would teach those blacks, and feminists, and hippies a good lesson and everything would change for the better.

    Instead almost nothing has really changed the way I thought it would. More people are marching now than ever, only now a bunch of them are Nazis and KKK. The only thing Trump has managed to do other than piss people off is cut taxes for himself and a bunch of other billionaires. And now he’s fucked things up and crashed the government. But I think the part that bothers me most is that now everybody has figured out that I’m a racist asshole and they are no longer too polite to mention it.

    The people I voted for seem to have abandoned me. And my family, neighbors, friends, and coworkers have lost all respect for me. They will no longer engage with me when I mindlessly repeat the uninformed nonsense I absorb from the dozens of hours of talk radio and FOX news I consume daily. They simply dismiss me.

    I’m afraid I’ve doomed myself to irrelevance.

  80. 80

    @73 I have more respect for the people who took sides — however wrong they were — than for chickenshits who sat it out and then lectured us about how bad the choices were.

  81. 81

    @77 You’re letting them off too lightly. They know perfectly well what they’re doing.

  82. 82

    79,
    Should character matter? What kind of character does it take to struggle with a choice between an utterly unqualified candidate who lies constantly, cares nothing for the nation he wants to lead, and conspires openly with our nation’s enemies, and a highly qualified candidate with a lousy husband and an excessive preoccupation with privacy and secrecy?

    How can you have any respect at all for the backward racist traitors who’d rather sell our national sovereignty to communists than suffer a girl-boss?

  83. 83

    Does it bother Roypublican voters that the people they reflexively vote for every single time have blocked a bill to extend funding for military pay during their government shutdown/tantrum?

    Of course it doesn’t.

    Because they don’t give a fuck about the people who volunteer to serve and risk everything to keep them free just so they can crush pills, drink Mountain Dew, and surf porn in their trailers all day.

  84. 84

    Soon Puddy will be here … blah blah blah…

    Well it was wrong again! Stoooooooooooooooooooopid as evah!

    Puddy lives deep in the crevices of this neanderthal clueless crazed cretin.

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  85. 85

    @83 Heh.. The fiend had its priorities straight for a change.. Salt mining with the buddy FIRST, then HA HEROES…

    “Puddy lives”

    LOL! It’s so delusional it hallucinates “lives” in place of the reality of HA HEROES LAUGHING at the freak.

    Keep entertaining us fool..

  86. 86

    @81 The Union soldiers fought the Confederate soldiers with everything they had, but respected them for their dedication, tenacity, and bravery. They were fighting for a morally abject cause, but they exhibited the soldierly qualities that earn universal respect.

    It’s something like that. Our friend @73 tells us he, in essence, didn’t vote. Didn’t choose. Didn’t take a stand. In short, he won’t stick his neck out, he’s just a whiner.

    I’m not defending a vote for Trump. But at least those people voted. They’re wrong, but they’re not gutless wonders. Flawed as their thinking is, I have more use for them than for the chickenshits who didn’t have the balls to take a side.

  87. 87

    @84 Too bad it only has to report to the asylum once a week, and is let out the rest of the time; it should be the other way around — six days in, one day out — for the public good.

  88. 88

    “…but they exhibited the soldierly qualities that earn universal respect.
    Fear? Boredom? Desperation? A nihilistic loss of faith in your leadership? An unshakable determination to do whatever your morals allow to protect yourself and others in your squad because they are all you have and none of you will survive this without each other?

    These fucks sat in their shithole trailers and pissed and moaned about uppity women, uppity blacks, uppity whatever for five decades, steadfastly refusing to acknowledge the modernity going on all around them. Then the minute their regular supply of Lil’ Debbies and Oxycontin became threatened they turned traitor. Fuck those people. And fuck comparing them to soldiers.

  89. 89

    @76 and you can’t get laid anymore unless it’s a tree some with you, Drumpf and some porn star prostitute or a horse

  91. 91

    Yertle just had Bob Corker announce for him that he’s ready to cave on DACA. And Zombie-Eyed-Granny-Starver has already promised that if the Senate approves he’ll let his Roypublican minions members vote on it.

  92. 92

    Once again the perv@84, clueless crazed databaze cretin was waiting for Puddy. It lives for Puddy comments. It created the crazed databaze due to its love of PuddyComments. It created a blog to document PuddyComments. Everything it does revolves around PuddyComments!

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time

  94. 94

    @ 92

    I see YLB is doing her teenage girl imitation yet again. Probably wearing Tinkerbell makeup, too.

    More words in all-caps than not. Each sentence with an exclamation point.

    If she could, YLB would match Bradley Manning in emoji use, too.

  95. 95

    No bible study today.(Or Torah study)? Is this part of the government shutdown? What of separation of church and state? Would not this be a good time for a verse about how the Sun Also Rises?

    And I see RR is still one of the faster rabbits on the Serengeti. Not someone lunch, though tough and stringy. Is it technology and science keeping his souped up rocking chair ready to roll?

  96. 96

    The only thing tough and stringy about Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit is his urine stream.

  97. 97

    Or any evidence to back it up.

    WASHINGTON — There’s a ghost haunting Elizabeth Warren as she ramps up for a possible 2020 presidential bid and a reelection campaign in Massachusetts this year: her enduring and undocumented claims of Native American ancestry.
    …
    As Warren is mentioned as a serious presidential contender in 2020, even some who should be her natural allies say Warren has displayed a stubborn unwillingness to address the gap between the story she was told of Native Americans in the family tree and a dearth of hard evidence to back it up.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180119224837/https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/01/19/elizabeth-warren-native-american-problem-goes-beyond-politics/uK9pGOl4JBmqmRUcxTNj3H/story.html

    The Boston Globe is owned by The New York Times.

    Perhaps former Senator Tom Harkin can give her some advice. He’s been caught red handed in a lie, too.

  98. 98

    @2 The founders understood that government always seeks out power over people. It does not matter if the people in charge are NAZI’sm Royalists, Communists, Republicans or Democrats, it’s just the nature of government. No other nation has a constitution like ours designed to limit the power of government. Even our state governments have limited government. Such things are meaningless as legislators do pass bills that are patentnly unconstitutional, particularly in times of crises. Even when those bills are designed to expire, such as the espionage act that was supposed to expire when a peace treaty was signed. Whether by political intent or just the way thins worked out we still have the espionage act a hundred years later, some sections modified, but the whole thing never expired because the US never signed a peace treaty that was voted on by the US Senate. Much the same situation is here, and whoever is sitting in the oval office is going to be told by bureaucrats that they really need these powers. It would take an unusual President to not sign the bill if it makes it to his or her desk. And until the courts overturn it (not likely to happen as much of the bill happens on the dark side) and that takes suits or criminal cases with people who have standing. Meanwhile Americans like Goldie will mysteriously be told they cannot go to the Galapagos Islands or held up at the airport with their daughter. Clearly world class terrorists or perhaps someone who would use the first amendment to tell the government fuck you this is wrong. Could be what happened,. could have been a SNAFU too, difficult or impossible to prove either way.

    Meanwhile folks Dilly Dilly.

  99. 99

    96 – All she has to do is take Ancestry.com’s DNA test and that will tell her her genetic background. The test costs about $100, and it can reveal some interesting things. For example, I found I had some ancestors from Finland. Who knew?

    All Senator Waren has to do is take the test and publish the results on her Senate website. Problem solved!

  100. 100

    97 – I’d like to see what was in that memo that several politicians are recently spoke about. Apparently the NSA and the other secret squirrels have been overstepping the boundaries and spying on American citizens without warrants. It could be time for a major house cleaning with such troublesome agencies.

  101. 101

    Hmmm is Goldie in Minnesota?

    The price of being a true fan. Football in January can be chilly. Better to watch from your warm rabbit hole on TV.

    Go Eagles!!!!

    Dilly Dilly

  102. 102

    I see YLB

    LOL! I see boob baldly and limply craving attention..

    Don’t blame the wife being more interested in horses.

    Wow, the freak is off to a great start to its golden years.

    would match Bradley Manning

    There goes those fantasies again.. Damn, life sure does suck for boob.

  103. 103

    If you’re thinking of buying a used car, I highly recommend getting a Car Fax check or some other such independent check before you buy. A lot of cars are showing up around here, and I suspect some of them may have come from hurricane-stricken areas or other areas that have had natural disasters. There could be a lot of water damage being covered up. Very expensive to repair!

  104. 104

    Islamic terrorism exists because the US and the West can’t stop meddling in Islamic countries’ affairs. Putting the Shah of Iran in power was a big mistake. Also, we’d be better off with Saddam Hussein still in charge in Iraq. We actually went to war to save an Islamic monarchy in Kuwait. Wow! We’d be miles ahead without constantly whacking the hornet’s nest of Islam every chance we get.

    We want to change Islam, but only Muslims can change Islam. Get out of their way, and we might be all surprised how fast they blow off all the radical and violent shit. The one thing that pisses Islamic countries off more than anything else is mostly white, mostly European faces screwing around in lands that Muslims deem “holy.” Just get out and stay out!

  105. 105

    @99 That might mean Congress doing the job. Not likely, no matter which party is in. And once your in the Oval office even if you are not the (deep) states critic, the view changes.

    It will take a few brave judges and the courts to get upset enough to throw open the curtain revealing….

    And remember we have met the enemy and the enemy is us. We demanded security, and got it even if it was kabuki theater of socks and shoes, and x ray machines, when putting in proper security doors to the pilots deck on airliners did it, no more Jimmy flying with the pilot earning those faux pilot wings. Of course a people willing to give up freedom for security gets neither. Personally I would like to stroll through public areas of airports built with taxpayer dollars, seeing the art, and ingenuity of a great nation.

  106. 106

    The clueless crazed databaze cretin is the one craving for attention. THAT’S WHY IT continues to PERV PUDDY! It lives for Puddy comments!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  107. 107

    IT continues to PERV PUDDY!

    Notice the perv @105 brought its bedroom antics (w/ explicit details “south of the border”) with its salt mining buddy to HA…

    Had a “nympho slut” explosion..

    And axxed yours truly if the daughter was “turning tricks yet”..

    ALL DOCUMENTED! What a perved-out freak!

  108. 108

    96, 98,
    Let’s all take note of this for what it is.

    To start, let’s pretend the worst possible Russian interpretation of Warren’s comments is accurate. She lied about her ethnic ancestry. IF they’re right, that’s the chilling claim.

    And so, because of this, the Russian state and their allies in the Roypublican party would have America choose instead a thrice divorced serial philanderer who randomly thrill-fucks 13-year-old girls, Russian prostitutes, and faded minor league porn stars and has never once told the truth about anything… just for starters.
    Mmkay?

    There’s a simple cure for almost any bullshit reason Hillbilly Traitors come up with to object to whomever the Democrats nominate (and they will object, no matter who it is): Trump

    No matter who is nominated to run against him, Fuckface is worse. Much much worse on any objective rational measure. The only reason fucktard Treason-Trolls don’t get this is because they have passed beyond the Orange Event Horizon.

  111. 111

    All this FOOL@106 has is attacks against Puddy. Puddy rules in that little mind of the clueless crazed databaze cretin! Puddy PWNS that very leetle mind.

    Now watch…

    Till Next Time!

  112. 112

    Yours truly sees that a TV miniseries is about to show about the perv @ 110’s big mancrush, the very pervy David Koresh. It’s called

    WACO..

    Yours truly believes Hollywood is missin’ the boat. A real freak show can be seen here in the HA threads starring the miserable perv @ 110.. Got a great name for it:

    WHACKO!

    It’s a comedy! LMAO!! HAHAHAHAHA!

  113. 113

    107 – The DNA test will solve the problem, and it’s cheap and effective. Surely you don’t think Warren is lying, do you?

    108 – The memo in question is 4 pages in length and not hand written. You link shows a hand written note, one page in length.

    ftfy, idiot.

    (Actually, FUCKING IDIOT is more appropriate for U.)

  115. 115

    @13 There is no credible evidence that the Russian efforts in this past election were any more or less effective than the past 6 election cycles. Some evidence all ballots should be paper ballots that are saved after elections, but enough proof of that has existed since the Bush win in Florida. Though in one area the Russian’s are consistent, they are consistently cheap, their budget and spending was maybe a few million to discredit America’s election system.

    \yes it’s different in Russia the Communists are the conservatives. Still the great patriotic war warps things.

  116. 116

    @87 Yeah, but they voted. They didn’t cop out like the bloviator @73. Yeah, fuck ’em, but at least they had the balls to take a side. Shitty side, but not a copout.

  119. 119

    Oh senile idiot wabbit,

    Seems the evidence proves you very wrong again!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  123. 123

    @99 Why don’t you ask them what it says? After all, they wrote it, so they should know.

    When authors don’t want their work published, it usually means they feel those manuscripts are no good and would damage their reputations.

  126. 126

    @85 You are exaggerating The Union had some spectacular flops. One was the first battle of Bull Run. Had the Union won it might have been a very short war. Very much in line with the southern sentiment of the northern war of aggression. As the picnickers raced back to Washington in a panic, and confederate troops dined on the picnic lunches rather than chase the green union troops (Union regulars for the most part performed well, and kept themselves in order. Stonwall Jackson earned his name though no one knows exactlu why General Bee who died in the battle called him that. Or it could be Russian manipulation. Still the defeat made reality sink in for the north that it would be a long bloody war. One the north would have to take the offense. The strategy to winning was known shortly after Bull Run, but doing it proved difficult, and in many respects the southern soldier was not the most important impediment, often it was northern politicians, Lincoln may not have won without the Union soldiers vote. Many northern politicians often Democrats in charge of city machines opposed giving soldiers the absentee ballots and vote. They got what they sowed. Democrats in the Senate are probably sowing the seeds of defeat and hope to turn one or more houses of congress. Not that it matters in the democratic peoples republic of Washington. The whole of it will pass us by, ane we won’t even have the speaker of the house to cry over. Washington state used to matter, not anymore.

  127. 127

    And the only two people I can hold accountable are two US Senators from Washington. I know their position and the one up for reelection should be replaced.

    Also the party leaders ought to be having a sit down with a certain Representative and tell her you will be at the State of the ?Union, or you can forget being in any committee, nor any chair if you continue in Congress. It can be said quietly, but it should be said.

  128. 128

    @107 “No matter who is nominated to run against him, Fuckface is worse.”

    White nationalists did have a leader worse than Trump once, but Hitler is dead now.

  130. 130

    @119 A souped up wheel chair. cool. Is it painted red? With flames? Tassels on the handles? Vroom noises? Why not post a picture of it on here for HA Heroes to take heart in, as the stock market climbs. Meanwhile Goldman Sacs hopes for more volatility. More than last year as they took a loss, not enough trading. Could be people are following your advice, maybe you really do need your pea shooters.

  131. 131

    @125 You completely missed the point I was making in #85, and nothing in this comment is relevant to that point.

  132. 132

    There is no credible evidence that the Russian efforts in this past election were any more or less effective than the past 6 election cycles.

    Perhaps you’re right. With you as one of their shills I don’t see how they can get anywhere.

    Everyone here just scrolls past you with the exception of an occassional glance which elicits nothing but boredom and sarcasm.

  133. 133

    @27 He looks awfully old to be a teenager, are you challenging his birth certificate, that should be entertaining. Though I read Bloom County in the 90s and he was a staple, and was drawn kinda old then. Still please fo for it.

    In any case he’s still President. Isn’t it time to just accept it? Not accepting it means the Dems are finding ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Way to go.

    How about them Eagles. Is Goldie prepping his happy dance. Will it be on U tube. H should do it in front of the hall of justice in Olympia,

    And I made an oops earlier the game is in Philly. Wonder if someone who owns a particular blog is there. Will he score Superbowl tickets. I have coke bottle tops you can have Goldie.

  134. 134

    @126 “the one up for reelection should be replaced”

    Good luck with that. Right now, the brand X party doesn’t even have a candidate.

  137. 137

    @32 Then again being your own grid with politicians willing to think public ownership of power generation and delivery is a good thing. Not a Republican or Democratic thing if it is what the voters want. We have had the same argument here, generally the public has won, but the corporations have made in roads, and we have not fully developed a decentralized grid that supports home and small business owners selling some excess power back. After all PSE, ect make money by generating power, and much less just distributing it. Politicians in Olympia could learn from Texas and create a Washington grid, that is friendly to consumers selling excess power when they have it, investing in large battery storage, ect.

    Sure Texas has problems, but when it comes to electricity you should give them Cowboys their due.

  138. 138

    @42 The Democrats are not picking a wise fight here. Best to pass the budget and deal with the dreamers separately. Voters support for the dreamers maybe broad, but it’s not deep. Come Monday Congress is going to start getting reminders that the laid off workers are also voters, and the unpaid federal workers are also voters, and politicians can do basic math. The Democrats cannot keep their support up for the Dreamers, and if they do then Yertle the Turtle will say I tried to be reasonable, but holding the government hostage over 800.000 non citizens is silly, you Dems got 12 hours and a vote or the nuke goes off.
    Especially if North Korea uses the test site they are prepping, though I don’t expect anything to happen until after the winter Olympics, unless they believe their own propaganda they think the UN is at war with then, then they might just try to take the Olympic site by force after the parade with Korean athletes marching side by side as one, those are the right optics. Charging all the US athletes as spies will be the icing on the cake. And giving medals to athletes from Haiti and African nations another good optic. Just planning for the worst, and hoping for the best here.

  140. 140

    @28 Have you really tried fucking coal? It does not care, but you really should treat yourself with a good antibiotic, bandage your sensitive areas, and the heat and pressure probably killed any dinosaur diseases, but where do you think flu came from? Yes there were T-rexs with the flu. Messy at both ends, and sharp claws and teeth, definitely a cranky patient, hopefullt Captain Kirk can do without Bones for a few days to cure you. Your choice of the original Bones or the Bones from altered Trek history…real history differed from the Trek encyclopedia. At least we still can enjoy Magic Carpet Ride from Steppenwolf.

  143. 143

    Not sure all them Pink Pussy hats care about being blamed for something, especially if the outcome is Repukes and Drumpf have to whine like little snowflakes and little bitches.

    Brass Monkey

  144. 144

    @134 True. I hope Weird Al never grows up. I suppose Americans could make him President someday. Parody gone wild maybe. I think Oprah could run, and even win. This is the scary part of Ronald Reagan winning. At least he had been governor, but only Californians would have put the co star of the Bonzo films in the office, unfortunately Bonzo was not a choice. Radio changed politics and TV really has changed it. The Nixon-Kennedy debate is interesting. Pollsters who interviewed people who listened to it on the radio thought Nixon won, but those who viewed the debates went for Kennedy. Interesting, and women did vote for Kennedy because he was well dreamy. And it’s no accident that politicians try devices for them to appear more like regular people. They pander so we like them. So we vote for them because we think they are just like us, and will not make the connection with their policies. At least Weird Al is not like us, and his shtick is being weird, and not likely to run, but Oprah would be the oxycodone candidate it will feel good voting for her, and we may well be struck dumb by her policies. What Trump actually does fits pretty much in the moderate to hard conservative policies he ran on, though he could be open to much more center politics.

  145. 145

    @142 When pink pussy hats find out Federal offices that are to help women, for instance small business owners they may have different opinions or once they suddenly find out agencies can’t spend money unless it’s paid for. If the shut down lasts a long time and the federal courts are unable to handle civil cases or order to release male prisoners accussed with a sex crime because there is no justice department attorney there to try them, and the judge properly releases the prisoner with prejudice some of those women will be upset, they may become Republicans in their anger.

  146. 146

    @98 She is being properly criticized over this. It’s very easy to claim having native American ancestor. Like many family legends about family heredity it may not be true. There is here some financial incentive to take the money and run, and the controls on the money are not that strong, it’s probably remarkable it does not happen more often considering the incentives.

    Some tribes in this state such as the Lummi’s would insist anyone claiming the benefit has to be a member of a tribe in good standing to get the benefits she received. Whatever proof she does have probably is not strong. Her next election will be interesting, this will be but one issue. Should be a minor almost unimportant issue, but in American politics and with American politicians it’s about winning.

    She would do best by ignoring the issue. Not touching it, and not feeding it.

  147. 147

    @123 They are like Hobbit holes. I like rabbits and hobbits, just like Gandalf I don’t fit well. Though I know of some perfectly comfortable dug out houses with sod that are perfectly comfortable, though I’m sure they would never pass code in Seattle.

    And rabbits do not pay rent, and apparently most hobbits don’t either. That and I watched far too many Bugs Bunny cartoons. His rabbit pad seemed really cool.

  148. 148

    @103 Only the Mahdist war shows you are wrong. And prior to North Africa being lost by the Ottoman Empire there are aprox 1500 years that show your assumptions are on a bad foundation.

  149. 149

    @123 I also once upon a time in England lived in a 500 year old thatched stone cottage. It was fairly comfy, but one winter was really bad. There were some four or five dog nights that winter.

  150. 150

    @144 sideways boy. Government is too big. We don’t need any of that shit.

    Or maybe they’ll march again and tell Drumpf and Repukes to go fuck themselves.

  151. 151

    112,
    Oh, damn. Now you feel stupid.
    I reeeally never wanted that to happen.
    Poor thing. Hang in there. It gets better.*

    *I’m lying. It gets worse.

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