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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Lawrence O’Donnell: Paul Ryan promised dreamer wouldn’t be deported, now her future is uncertain.

Vox: Why Puerto Rico is not a US state

Stephen: Bad office romance—U.S. Congressman Meehan.

Mark Fiore: Trust meditation for Democrats.

VICE News: How a corrupt Baltimore Police task force tainted thousands of cases

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: America’s senseless gun violence debate

Young Turks: Conservative trolls pwn themselves on healthcare.

Slate: How to tell if someone is lip-syncing.

David Pakman with Gordon Whitman: How can activists make change happen?

Newsbroke: Love Israel, hate Jews.

Vox: Is you commute killing you?

Dotard Трамп and His Shithole Shit House Coneys:

WaPo: Jan 31 moon is 150 years in the making.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Shawarma Law brings extreme tolerance to middle America

Slate: The racist history of cartoons

SuperDeluxe: A message from Tomi Lahren.

Bill Maher: Women’s march.

Jimmy Dore chats with future Sen. Mittens

Young Turks: Another school shooting massacre and the media barely notices.

VICE News: The war between cattle ranchers and conservationists over wolves.

Trevor: Gerrymandering—because America can hack its own elections:

David Pakman: After Roy Moore disaster, Alabama cancels “special elections”.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Slate: Why it’s so hard to make realistic snow.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Tim’s tactics—co-opting liberal words

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

Comments

  1. 1

    So now, Trump tried to fire Mueller before the investigation got going, but the White House counsel intervened? Very Intersting.

  3. 3

    But the bonuses

    The maker of Huggies and Kleenex is firing up to 5,500 workers — and it’s using Trump tax cuts to pay for the layoffs

    The personal care product company also announced plans to shut down 10 manufacturing facilities. The restructuring program is estimated to save Kimberly-Clark $500 to $550 million by the end of 2021.

    The company said it plans to use savings from the Republican tax plan to fund the cuts and other restructuring efforts, The New York Times reported. Tax savings would additionally be used for capital investments and to allocate capital to shareholders, CFO Maria Henry said in a call with analysts.

  4. 4

    “I sure wish the Finance chair of our party didn’t sexually assault and harass 150 women over decades. Hey, is that Al Franken over there.” GOP

  5. 5

    @ 1

    Mueller’s still doing the investigation.

    It was very interesting when there was serious discussion in the White House about dropping Joe Biden from the 2012 ticket, too. Remember that?

    The point of having people around the president with whom he can consult in confidence is so that ideas originating from the president aren’t implemented without discussion and, when appropriate, pushback.

    So if it’s true that Trump wanted Mueller fired and if it’s correct that Mueller still in place is the right thing for the country, then the system worked.

    Coupla big ‘ifs’ there. One in particular.

  6. 6

    Lawrence O’Donnell: Paul Ryan promised dreamer wouldn’t be deported, now her future is uncertain.

    Her future was uncertain, as well, when a president with, at most, four years left in office signed an executive order kicking her can down the road.

    Bet she would have been covered under the deal Trump offered and Schumer rejected.

  7. 7

    6,
    Say it 5000 times in hashtag format and you might even believe it yourself.
    #betterbots

  8. 8

    Her future was uncertain, as well, when a president with, at most, four years left in office signed an executive order kicking her can down the road. when a bipartisan house passed the dream act and the Current AG led a filibuster so it wouldn’t get an up or down vote.

    FIFY

  10. 10

    When Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit finishes starting the linens laundry and installing a fresh Chucks pad under his bedsheets, he’ll have real reason for concern about the @ 3 Kimberly-Clark news.

    …dominate both the U.S. and global markets for children’s diapers and adult incontinence products.
    …
    The adult incontinence category is about $8 billion a year worldwide with about $2 billion from the U.S.

    The job cuts could be significantly fewer if the unions manage to avoid the stupidity of the Hostess bakery union awhile back. Remember those idiotic decisions?

    Job cuts announced Tuesday will depend on the needs of the business and negotiations with unions and other labor groups, said spokesman Bob Brand.

    So, up to 5,000 jobs cut, if the unions continue to act like we’re still living in the ’70s.

    Finally, HA libbie, y’all best keep your eyes on the big picture:

    U.S.-based employers announced 32,423 job cuts in the last month of 2017, bringing the year-end total to 418,770, the lowest annual total since 1990, when 316,047 cuts were recorded, according to a report Tuesday from Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. Employers announced 20.5 percent fewer cuts than the previous year, when 526,915 cuts were announced.

    https://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/2018/01/23/kimberly-clark-cut-5000-jobs-sluggish-sales-partly-due-fewer-babies

    There’s a new sheriff in town. And his name isn’t Reggie HammondBarack Obama.

  11. 11

    @ 9

    <Roger Rabbit Commentary: Hey, I’m not endorsing it, I’m just sayin’ this is how blue states defy federal authority — they change driver’s licenses.

    There you go again, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, making voter ID laws look ever-more important.

  13. 13

    1,000 down-ballot losses under Barack Obama.

    How badly devastated is the Democrat party after 8 years of President Farrakhan in office?

    This badly:

    The Boston Globe
    ✔
    @BostonGlobe
    Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III has been tapped by top party leaders to deliver the official Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address next week. http://bos.gl/zwbkWFm

    7:03 PM – Jan 25, 2018

  14. 14

    @2 What kind of sick bastards want hostages like these? I would’ve kicked them out of my foreign prisoner camp within 24 hours. Who in their right mind would pay a ransom to get them back?

  16. 16

    @ 14

    I wouldn’t be so quick to do that if I were you, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Those torturers may know more about sticking things up urethral lumina than you realize. In your final days, after your care requirements become too disgusting for your family to endure, they could help.

  17. 17

    @3 KMB isn’t the only company doing that:

    “Walmart said that it would give employees bonuses due to the new tax plan — on the same day that it laid off thousands after closing more than 60 Sam’s Club locations.”

    http://www.businessinsider.com.....uts-2018-1

    (Full disclosure: Roger Rabbit doesn’t own shares of either Kimberly Clark or Walmart, and never has.)

  18. 18

    @16 If it’s my prison camp, I can run it however I please. Have you already forgotten the current administration doesn’t believe in regulating private entities?

  19. 19

    Rents in Tacoma, Wash., increased nearly three times more than the national average last year.

    This city in the Pacific Northwest experienced the highest rent appreciation nationwide in 2017. The median rent in Tacoma rose 8.8% from $1,650 per month in 2016 to $1,795…
    …
    AMZN, +1.75% and Microsoft MSFT, +1.87% has [sic] driven the remarkable rent appreciation in Seattle in recent years. Consequently, consumers in search of more affordable housing have spread quickly to neighboring cities, such as Tacoma, which is just 32 miles from Seattle.

    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-is-likely-behind-the-biggest-rent-increase-of-2017-and-it-wasnt-in-seattle-2018-01-25

    We’re not far outside the city limits. Zillow increased its estimate of the value of our home by more than $60,000. In the last 30 days.

    I’d like to thank the shared ideology of Goldy and his colleagues for strangling growth of housing in Seattle, and for forcing so many former Seattle residents to move to locations they can actually afford. It’s been a bountiful blessing to my family and me.

  20. 20

    5,
    The point of having people around the president with whom he can consult plan criminal conspiracies in confidence is so that ideas criminal conspiracies originating from the president aren’t implemented without discussion and, when appropriate, pushback refusal to participate.
    Getting to be too much work editing Dumbfuck since he crossed over into abject slavish worship of the Russian Puppet.

    Pro tip: Obstruction of justice is not an official duty of the President

  21. 21

    @5 Interesting how “Mueller’s still doing the investigation” leads straight to “It was very interesting when there was serious discussion in the White House about dropping Joe Biden from the 2012 ticket, too. Remember that?” in a single paragraph jump.

    Reminds me a little bit of rat-bell-cheese.

  22. 22

    How’s your weekend Jared? Relaxing? Anything keeping you from getting a solid night’s sleep?

    A federal judge ruled on Friday that the family company once run by Jared Kushner isn’t allowed to keep secret the identity of its business partners in several Maryland properties.

    A U.S. district judge in the state rejected the argument that the privacy rights of the Kushner Cos. partners outweigh the public interest in obtaining judicial records in a lawsuit before the court. The decision means that the company tied to President Donald Trump’s son-in-law might be forced to provide a rare glimpse into how it finances its real estate ventures.

  23. 23

    @10 “When Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit finishes starting the linens laundry and installing a fresh Chucks pad under his bedsheets, …”

    In your case, I assume you make your missus do that, so you don’t have to.

  24. 24

    This is the first vehicle fatality accident related to marijuana DUI that I have seen in WA state since recreational use was legalized.

    Fatal crash: Marijuana, high speed, inexperienced driver

    The new report says the driver was under the influence of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. A blood sample tested positive for the drug at 6.8 ng/mL. The legal limit for adults is 5 ng/mL, and it’s illegal for those younger than 21 to drive with any level of THC in the body.

    The sheriff’s office said the driver had an intermediate license and only had started driving within the previous six months. He was not allowed to have passengers.

    http://www.heraldnet.com/news/.....ed-driver/

    Multiple contributing factors.

  25. 25

    @11 The only “importance” of voter ID laws is to enable racist nativists to cling to power they never could win in fair elections by preventing American citizens from voting in their own country.

  26. 26

    @ 20

    Pro tip: Obstruction of justice is not an official duty of the President

    No, not since President Obama delegated it to his first Secretary of State.

  27. 27

    @ 23

    In your case, I assume you make your missus do that, so you don’t have to.

    In your case, I assume that you and your missus sleep in separate rooms.

    ’cause Yuck.

  28. 28

    @19 If you really believe Goldy is responsible for your home appreciating $60,000 in 30 days, the least you could do is show your appreciation by going to the left sidebar, finding “Please Donate,” and sending him $3 by clicking on “Make a Donation.”

    Of course you won’t, you flaming cheapskate. Even though you’re one of the heaviest users of this blog, you’ll never be anything but a freeloader here.

  31. 31

    @16 I’ll bet your family would choose the tube in my front end over the horse cock in your rear end. At least I don’t have an orderly digging out my shit with a garden tool.

  32. 32

    26,
    Can it really be worth it to you and the rest of the BENGHAAAZI Baboons?

    If you pursue this line of criminal defense for your beloved Orange Shit-Gibbon you abandon the crusade that has animated your existence for the past eight years.
    #youbuiltthattoo

  34. 34

    Add witness tampering to the growing catalog of potential criminal charges against possible future defendant Donald John Trump:

    “President Trump not only sought to have special counsel Robert Mueller fired, he also sought to discredit top FBI officials out of fear that they could be witnesses against him.

    ” … Trump ordered aides to smear three potential FBI witnesses who could confirm that the President tried to end or influence Mueller’s investigation, Foreign Policy reported on Friday. …

    “Trump targeted former acting and current deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Comey’s chief of staff Jim Rybicki and former FBI general counsel James Baker …. Trump’s lawyer, John Dowd, reportedly told him that the trio could be corroborating witnesses in a case of obstruction of justice, should Mueller pursue such a course.”

    https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/01/27/trump-ordered-aides-to-smear-possible-fbi-witnesses-report/23345496/

  36. 36

    34,
    Despite the Tweet-pleading and other routine public lies, Fuckface obviously understands that his greatest legal peril resides in his conversations with Comey before firing him for the purpose of shutting down the investigation into Flynn. I think Dowd’s role on the defense team is to steer Fuckface, using his insecurities and fears. So Dowd may not have instructed Fuckface to lead a smear campaign against top FBI officials as corroborating witnesses for Comey. But he was probably confident in how Fuckface would react once he understood the threat that corroborating testimony would represent.

  37. 37

    Conservatives often scoff at advocates of corporate social responsibility, arguing a company’s sole responsibility is to make money for its shareholders. This comes up a lot, for example, in connection with shareholder resolutions but also appears in political debates. Typical of this viewpoint is this reader letter in the Jan. 29, 2018 Barron’s magazine:

    “Companies make a positive contribution when they allocate investor capital to profitably serve their target markets with customer-perceived high-value products and services. It is not their role to satisfy a progressive goal such as social justice.”

    I don’t really disagree; but then who is to protect the non-monetary values important to society as a whole? This is government’s role. If you’re going to argue that CEOS should think only about making money, then you’ve got to accept government regulation of business, and the debate should be about what’s regulated and how much.

  38. 38

    Can we take all the Republican comments about Harvey Weinstein, delete the name and insert Steve Wynn? So when will we see them begin to return all the money he raised?….. Sorry, had to stop and clean the screen from my laughter induced spray. Ain’t never gonna happen from the party of hypocrites.

  39. 39

    Funny thing about the perving clueless crazed databaze cretin… It puts Puddy first AGAIN! The only post in this thread is PuddyLove.

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    DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM

    FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNY

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Wait for the shitstain steve comment! It never fails.

    Oh yeah, the Senate wants to understand John Podesta’s comment about not knowing about the Steele Dossier after meeting Steele about the Dossier. Now that is DAYUM EPIC!

    Till Next Time!

    Come on shitstain steve. Prove Puddy correct again!

  40. 40

    Can we take all the Republican comments about Harvey Weinstein, delete the name and insert Steve Wynn?

    Wynn.. Hmmmm. A new republican sex god for boob.

    And someone the babbling butthole can take to the salt mine tonight.

  41. 41

    Pervy butthole @39…

    You can take Koresh, Wynn and your HATE for HA HEROES (that you put FIRST) to the salt mine tonight..

    You just might last the whole session.. Heh.

  43. 43

    That Steve Wynn is one ugly sex harrassing greedhead freak.. Looks like leatherface..

    Perfect face to plaster to Republican politics in the age of Drumpf.

    The HA trolls couldn’t have been happier.

  44. 44

    Damn, puddles @39 just reinforces again why I skip over and ignore his posts. See the handle, skip onward.

  45. 45

    @43 Billionaires aren’t used to hearing anyone say “no.” They think the whole point of having that kind of money is being able to boss other people around and doing whatever you like.

  46. 46

    Did 2k actually say anything useful in this thread.

    HELL NO!

    Till Next Time!

  47. 47

    @46 Right back at you. What percentage of the random keystrokes advances the conversation? Word ( or in your case keystroke) to content ratio
    is way out of whack. But you proved to me long ago actual intelligent conversation is not your interest. Spew on, dude, spew on.

  49. 49

    Hate clueless crazed databaze cretin? You created the databaze to track Puddy all over the world. How’s that useless project working out for you? Did it pay well? Well you did learn how to use tctmgr!

    Puddy is always first in your femtometer sized brain!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till next Time!

  50. 50

    Hate clueless crazed databaze cretin? You created the databaze to track Puddy all over the world. How’s that useless project working out for you? Did it pay well? Well you did learn how to use tctmgr!

    Puddy is always first in your femtometer sized brain!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till next Time!

  51. 51

    Can we take all the Republican comments about Harvey Weinstein, delete the name and insert Steve Wynn? So when will we see them begin to return all the money he raised?….. Sorry, had to stop and clean the screen from my laughter induced spray. Ain’t never gonna happen from the party of hypocrites.

    Yeah 2k, we remember how you were wery wery qwiet when we called for #CrookedHillary to return her Weinsten $$$. You were MIA 2k! And what did #CrookedHillary claim about returning the Weinstein $$$?

    “Well, there’s no one to give it back to.”

    Yeah, right 2k. Cry Puddy a river! Puddy hopes no one points out Wynn gave $200,000 to the NV Democratic Party in 2014. Seems Wynn gave money to #CrookedHillary too. Are you gonna scream #CrookedHillary gave back her money too?

    Once again 2k reads the left wrong pissrags and doesn’t perform the necessary homework or due diligence!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  52. 52

    Whoa! Get a load of the loon’s head explosion @39!! And double posts! The loon is really bringing it! Damn the white coats at the asylum all to hell for giving the loon internet access. They must hate America!

    That said, it’s always nice to see that the loon’s friends haven’t lynched him yet. But someday it’ll surely happen and when it does, I’m going to be so…SAD!

  53. 53

    @48 Good point. Pruitt doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who gives a damn about 2 billion sockeye salmon or the fishermen who catch them for a living, as long as his mining buddies get theirs. I understand he got some pressure from Alaska’s governor, who used to call himself a Republican, although he prefers the “independent” label these days.

  54. 54

    @52 Puddy’s posts remind me of those pics of barfing pumpkins. Maybe someone lit an M80 in that one.

  56. 56

    In the early 1900s, the Van Sweringen brothers were sorta the Koch brothers of their time. The big thing then was railroads, and the Vans (as they were known) controlled the Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate, and several other railroads. At their peak, they were worth $3 billion in 1929 dollars (about $53 billion today), which made them collectively roughly as rich as Mark Zuckerberg, or individually about as rich as the members of the Walton family, and half as rich as each Koch brother. But the whole thing was a house of cards, which came crashing down in the 1929 crash and the depression that followed, and they died penniless. Neither lived beyond their mid-50s.

    The Van Sweringen brothers were strange ducks. According to Wikipedia,

    “Neither brother married; the two shared a common bedroom in their 54-room mansion … they seldom gave interviews or made appearances in public; however, when they did, it was always together.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Sweringen_brothers

    The Kochs don’t have that kind of relationship, if you want to call it that; they live in different states, have wives, and as far as I know they don’t ass-fuck each other. I’m not saying the Van Sweringen brothers did, either; in fact, that thought never even entered my mind. After all, they were brothers.

  57. 57

    Confidential to Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit:

    Varian Medical Systems VAR reported first-quarter fiscal 2018 adjusted earnings of $1.06 per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 98 cents. Adjusted earnings also improved 112% on a year-over-year basis.

    Revenues totaled $678.5 million, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $639.47 million. On a year-over-year basis, revenues increased 12.8%.

    The company has strengthened its foothold in the radiation therapy as the market grew 4.5% on an order basis in the trailing 12 months.

    http://www.nasdaq.com/article/.....s-cm910767

    On October 20, 2017, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit recommended GE, which has tanked, and has lost 30% of its value since then.

    I suggested Varian (VAR) instead, which is a dividend-free play on the oncology market. To much derision by Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit because it doesn’t pay a dividend.

    Varian’s up more than 20% since then.

    Enjoy your since-halved GE dividend, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. I’m sure you made the right choice.

    My Notadumbfuck Method of stock investing. If Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit hates it, it’s gotta be a winner.

  58. 58

    Seems PuddyPrescience is spot on again. Puddy wrote shitstain would soon arrive with nothing new to add and #52 demonstrates how PuddyCorrect Puddy was.

    And that moronic twit 2k, screaming: What percentage of the random keystrokes advances the conversation?

    How about 98% 2k? Puddy does waste about 2% of PuddyPosts describing how senile the silly wabbit is, the crazed databaze created to track Puddy and shitstain steve leaving smelly dingleberries all over the threads!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  59. 59

    Interesting piece in Barron’s about repatriation and what really happened last time:

    “This is based on an ‘academic’ study which severely misrepresents what happened in 2005.”

    Clifton writes that during the last repatriation tax holiday, companies voluntarily returned $300 billion of cash back to the US. And share repurchases in total for 2005 were $150 billion.

    “Even if every share repurchase was from repatriation (which is an absurd starting point), you get 50%” he writes. “More than $30 billion of that was from a special Microsoft (MSFT) share repurchase announced the previous year, long before repatriation was even a legislative possibility. It’s nearly impossible to make the math work that 90% was used for share repurchases and dividends.”

    https://www.barrons.com/articles/apples-plans-expose-big-misunderstandings-about-corporate-repatriation-1516295549?mod=djemb_dr_h

    Remember, each and every Democrat voted against the Tax Cut bill. Every time a corporation announces wage increases and new investment tied to the tax cut, y’all libbies can choke on it. Imagine how Pelosi and DWS will be spinning it this Fall, after all that money flow into the US economy.

  60. 60

    We know the HA DUMMOCRETINS get their marching orders from the DNC and Nancy Pelosi. The HomeDepot cofounder had some words for y’all… https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/957279418417893376

    .@HomeDepot co-founder Bernie Marcus: “Democrats, use your stupid brains. You don’t have any brains.”

    Then read the leftist pinhead comments spouting the DNC company line. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    So this is hate HA DUMMOCRETINS?

    Till Next Time!

  61. 61

    https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/01/26/but-she-fights-nyt-hillary-clinton-protected-campaign-adviser-accused-of-sexual-harassment/

    — But she FIGHTS! NYT: Hillary Clinton PROTECTED campaign adviser accused of sexual harassment —

    Remember #CrookedHillary fights for wimens when they don’t interfere with her march to the whitey house! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-chose-to-shield-a-top-adviser-accused-of-harassment-in-2008.html

    — WASHINGTON — A senior adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign who was accused of repeatedly sexually harassing a young subordinate was kept on the campaign at Mrs. Clinton’s request, according to four people familiar with what took place.
    Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager at the time recommended that she fire the adviser, Burns Strider. But Mrs. Clinton did not. Instead, Mr. Strider was docked several weeks of pay and ordered to undergo counseling, and the young woman was moved to a new job. —

    She’s yours HA DUMMOCRETINS! She punished the woman by moving her to a new job while protecting his white ASS because he was #CrookedHillary’s “faith advisor” and was rehired for the 2016 campaign again! Did the poor woman have the same responsibilities after the move. Prolly not!

    Now this is real wimen hatred shitstain steve! And it took #CrookedHillary over 24 hours to formulate a ressponse; probably after talking to Huma Weiner and Cheryl Mills for direction! #CrookedHillary always looks to see the prevailing winds before responding. Imagine if she was president and an invasion occurred. 24 hours is a very long time HA DUMMOCRETINS!

    DUMMOCRETINS, don’t do as we do because we screw everyone over all the time! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Till Next Time!

  62. 62

    @57 “Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit recommended GE”

    Nice try. I told you to SHORT it, but you didn’t, and now you’re reduced to lying about what I said. I see you’re comparing dicks again, too:

    You: VAR, P/E 97, yield 0, last trade $129.46, +16.5% since Jan. 1.

    Me: ABBV, P/E 37, yield 2.8%, last trade $123.21, +28.3% since Jan. 1.

    Whatever.

  63. 63

    Challenging a rabbit to a dick contest might not be a real good idea if your dick is smaller than the rabbit’s dick. But what can you expect from a dumbfuck.

  64. 64

    The demise of GE were those high CT taxes. Good thing they moved to Boston, just in a lick of time.

  66. 66

    While technically I think some of the concerns over Net Neutrality are overblown. I would like it if the US Post Office were providing folks internet access as an alternative to commercial ISP’s, and this would make the post office more viable, and be well within the mission of the post office.

    Will Washington State do what Montana has done. I wonder because of a certain company in Washington State. It’s based east of Seattle.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l4C1m_19zE

    The FCC did put language in that supposedly prevents states from doing this while also encouraging states to experiment. Montana might get sued. Then again it’s Montana. Not as much money involved as in New York.

  68. 68

    @28 He may be having to contribute that money he would have contributed to Goldie to the county and state if they have done their audit thing in the past 60 days. And like 50 cent there is no guarantee he would actually realize that $60,000 increase, and like 50 cent he may take a loss. And you can’t expect him to share his largess until he receives it by selling the property. Ie no sale, no money to give to HA.

    And if one is going to give then he may take into account the value of what the folks in charge are contributing. Seems the DCCC should have some extra funds to send HA’s way as it is not going to progressive or liberal candidates.

  69. 69

    Fucking communists. But what else can you expect from Putin lovers?

    “[O]fficials in the Trump administration are looking at options where the U.S. government could take over a part of the country’s mobile network …. The move, according to Axios, could see an unprecedented nationalization of infrastructure that has historically been privately-owned.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/28/trump-administration-could-build-nationalized-5g-mobile-network.html

    (Full disclosure: Roger Rabbit owns AT&T and Verizon stock.)

  70. 70

    “Wells Fargo’s head of interest rate strategy … anticipates the Treasury Department will … announce … a ‘pretty significant change’ in the way it issues bonds … just as the Fed is shrinking its balance sheet. With less demand coming from the Fed, a fire sale of sorts would increase supply and emerge as the major catalyst causing yields to jump.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/26/treasury-market-fire-sale-could-hurt-bonds-wells-fargo-warns.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: You should be able to see where this is going. Because Republicans are unwilling to cut defense, they have to finance their tax cuts for the rich by flooding the market with newly issued Treasuries, which will push up interests rates and choke off the growth they promised as a rationalization of the rich.

    The rich still get their tax cuts, but you don’t get more or better paying jobs. All you get is higher interest rates on your loans. So the rich are getting paid double: Lower taxes, and as the nation’s landlords and loan sharks, they make higher interest income from you. Of course, this was planned from the beginning.

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    @37 I think the issue is one that wall street and Corporatists have managed to win on. It’s not a pure conservative/liberal issue. A series of court decisions has created this current view of corporations, and that they exist only to produce a profit for shareholders. This argument is a state by state issues. In some rare states the corporation is much more the creature of the state under control of the state, than in others. Most states have for decades been of the views that RR espouses here. Yet all have statutes on the books that state corporations are creations of the state, usually under control of the Secretary of State, and/or the legislature and can be dissolved by she Secretary and/or the legislature. The problem is political bodies unwilling to enforce the power of the state over corporations. It would be fun if our legislature would from time to time exercise it’s power over corporations here, though they might have to more of a professional and year round legislature to do that.

    Corporations ultimately are creations of the state, We the people control the state, therefore corporations should take that into account, and that goes against the pure profit theory which is current. Frankly if Boeing reneges on agreements with the state, then the state ought to pull the corporations leash by simply stating the organization can be dissolved. That simple thing would a lot of political moxie, but that is why we vote people into office or not isn’t it, but hey corporate Dems will keep us safe?

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    @65 Nothing is wrong with those people. It’s normal American politics. A similar number of Americans support Hilliary Clinton through thick or thin Or President Obama though he is off the field, unless he runs for Congress or gets on the Supreme Court, not likely until a Dem is in the WH and needs to muzzle the former President. Who may turn down such an appointment for that reason. Though the reason will be something else like President Obama’s further endeavors to promote world peace.

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    We the people control the state,

    Not right now. But we will once again. And probably sooner rather than later. We just have to seize it back from the traitors who are trying to sell it to a shirtless commie dictator.

    Maybe that’s the beauty of our Founder’s system. Putin has managed to install his puppets and rent control for a couple of years. But try as they might, Republicans will probably fail in trying to sell America to Putin.

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    It’s normal American politics.

    You’re lying again.
    It has never been normal in American politics to openly and enthusiastically invite an enemy nation to intervene in our elections in exchange for personal gain.

    That’s normal only in Roypublican politics. Along with fucking around behind your wife’s back with porny ladies, finger rape, calling half the world “Shitholes”, burning crosses, wearing white sheets and hoods, and driving cars into peaceful protesters marching with permits on closed streets.
    #youbuiltthattoo

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    @74 I was referring to the State of Washington or if you would like insert your state. When it comes to the creation, feeding and ending of corporations it’s not a power the states gave to the Federal government. And this is not a red state or blue state issue. Red state legislators are as likely or unlikely to want a role in governing corporations in their state as blue, or choose to play no role as in Washington no matter which party is in control of our state house.

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    @75 No you are lying. And are ignorant of political theory or political reality. You are however a manipulative asshole.

    I can show historically at least 1/3 of the people supported any given President. And usually a 1/3 opposed any given President. Even Nixon had at least a third of the public fully supporting him and were very disappointed that he resigned.

    And you have yet to give any proof that the Russians stole the election in any way. It appears the Russians did their normal shanigans and the American voters shrugged and went about their business as usual. It’s time for you and other Dems of your ilk to stop crying into your beer. It’s done, over, you lost. Accept it. Donald Trump is president and will be until at least January 2021 unless he dies or quits. He is not there because of Putin. Unless you like him being there or you believe your bullshit then prepare for another 4 years of him, and perhaps VP Pence afterwards, because you are not doing anything that will actually persuade the American voter to change horses in the next election. And Trump will have the advantage of being the incumbent, and he’s going to woo black voters, maybe not successfully, but enough that it will cause headaches for the Democratic party. When he tells black voters the Democratic power brokers think Dreamers are more important than you, and they don’t care about your dreams. He is going to try to ask black voters to join him in the success of America. It may not work, but if you want to engage in this Russian BS you aren’t goin got be ready for the next election.

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    Of course the Climate Change doom maybe exaggerated.

    Or why wouldn’t at least western Washingtonians want a better climate by the burning of fossil fuels. If Washingtonian legislators and Governor are betting on the wrong horse, then the state could go Republican.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCcLggcPcj0

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    77,
    You should feel manipulated.
    You and 63 million other Roypublican meat bags got conned by 5 million FSB bot accounts.

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    Understand Shortbus, I dont claim the Russians “stole” anything.

    But you and the rest of the Trumpanzees will eventually have to face the inescapable truth that you got conned by a fundamentally corrupt and disloyal fiend and his Russian business partners.
    It was too damned easy. So easy that, in fact, there’s no good reason to think it can’t happen again and again as long as you and the rest of the Dunning-Kruger party exist.

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    In ontario, the Progressive Conservative Party has not had a good week. First the leader, who most likely would have been Premier later this year, resigned when harassment allegations surfaced. Now it looks like their servers and database have been hacked. Seems familiar. This is anot election year in Ontario, with both provincial and municipal elections due. The PC’s have a good chance this year.

    https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-progressive-conservative-party-database-hacked-sources-1.3779326

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