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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Liberals are politicizing online dating

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Francesca Fiorentini: Why do Republican women love a party that hates them?

Young Turks: Inside Sinclair’s local news propaganda machine.

Vox: How politicians troll the media.

Samantha Bee: Doug Bruce ruined Colorado.

The Dotard Трамп And His Crooked Cronies:

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Christian Picciolini—rebuilding life after hate.

Stephen chats with Chelsea Clinton.

Women around the world march for equality.

Bill Maher: Third rails.

Lauren Mayer: Inclusion Rider:

What a campaign ad mocking Texas native Beto O’Rourke says about former Canadian citizen Rafael Ted Cruz.

The Daily Show: Robots want our jobs… and our genitals .

America Confronts Its Gun Violence Problem:

WaPo: What are the Obamas and Netflix up to?

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: The gay who would be clerk

Stephen: Ted Cruz SUCKS!

WaPo: Here is what rabies does to the body.

Daily Show: CP Time–Forgotten Black women of history.

Stephen: McDonald’s and Barbie honor International Women’s Day.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    It’s interesting, one part of his base could benefit from the tariffs, but the Wall Street Establishment probably not so much. If US Steel and Alcoa will benefit, why did their stock close down on Thursday?

    Also, Union Pacific, whose motto at times is Building America, buys rails made at a steel mill in Japan, and they may literally may have got the last shipment before the tariffs. Three steel mills in the US produce railroad track.

  2. 2

    Looking at the latest overruns with High Speed Rail, once again, land acquisition costs are one of the issues. Also, in Fresno, utility relocation was delayed, because they did not have accurate information on where the underground utilities were at. One potential source of revenue, was using the tunnels to be built under the Tehachapi mountains for freight, was rejected by BNSF and UP. The existing route that the two Class I’s use, is circuituitous.

    Meanwhile, Rail Development Corporation is pushing a quick-start commuter train using ex London Underground cars converted into Diesel Multiple Units.

    https://www.railjournal.com/index.php/north-america/vivarail-d-train-to-be-tested-in-us-cities.html?channel=535

    RDC is the former operator of the open-access Hamburg Cologne Express train, which tried to compete with Deutsche Bahn. HKX is about to be reserected by FlixMobility as the FlixTrain. FlixMobility is a disrupoor, like Uber. Their Flixbus platform went from nothing to taking 90% of the German Intercity bus market in a few years. Flixbus does not own any buses but works through sub contractors. Greyhound better watch out, Flixbus is coming to the USA.

    http://www.metro-magazine.com/.....in-germany

  3. 3

    @2 Residents of CT (Hartford Area) were very vocal opponents of the New Britain-Hartford Busway. The Busway is a dedicate 9.2 mile roadway that cost $500M. Nobody ever gets into the details of the $500M but I think it was not only for the cost of construction but included costs such as land acquisition and purchase of new buses. When they would argue against it they would reference it’s cost on a per mile basis.

    The other day I read an ENR article on Las Vegas Highway expansion Project (I think of I-15). The cost $900M for 3.2 miles.

  4. 4

    “The White House held private meetings with four Cabinet-level officials last month to scold them for embarrassing stories about questionable ethical behavior at their respective agencies, sources familiar with the sessions tell CNN. … The meetings, held at chief of staff John Kelly’s request, were intended to provide ‘a clear message that optics matter,’ the sources said.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/09/politics/cabinet-secretaries-ethical-behavior/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Notice what they got chewed out for? Not “questionable ethical behavior” at their agencies, but for “embarrassing stories” in the media and bad “optics.” This administration is utterly uninterested in ethics. They do, however, know what it means to get caught.

  5. 5

    In re the Vox splainer on media trolling:

    There is and always has been an appropriate reaction to this kind of abuse. But it depends on “journalists” and other media representatives having enough support and backing of ownership to step away from the source buffet line. That the cultivation of sources in government has become a two way street is well understood by now. And to the extent that sources will use media to strategically place a story into the news cycle for their own purposes, the media are willing to play along for the sake of exclusive access in a 24 hr scoop driven cycle amplified by likes, shares, retweets, and aggregators.

    But when a source scoop turns out to be bullshit something else happens that Vox misses. News consumers blame the media more than the source for the bullshit. And a big part of the reason for that is the media are often unwilling to burn the source by putting the focus back on them. So people like Trey Gowdy and Devin Nunes (and their staffs) continue to have daily access to a global bullhorn from which to shout inflammatory, lab-grown lies designed to both change the perceptions of voters, but also to further discredit the media itself. Which is really the point, anyway.

    The most recent dezinformatsiya effort by the Roypublican Dildo Navy fell apart when the WaPo stepped back and carefully researched the source’s claims and then confronted her with the inconsistencies. It was easier to do that for two reasons: O’Keefe was specifically targeting the WaPo and in doing so he surrendered source leverage; and while the back story involving Moore was very hot at the time, O’Keefe’s approach to the WaPo was still weeks ahead of the special election, the WaPo was uniquely positioned among all media to background in Alabama, and so time pressure was much, much less. In the end O’Keefe was discredited, the WaPo gained enormous credibility, and a known child molester was kept out of the U.S. Senate.

    Journalists have to be willing to let the scoop go for the sake of their own credibility and to hold trolling sources accountable when they are caught. No self-respecting journalist should be willing to pass along any statement from any Roypublican under any circumstances until it is carefully vetted and confirmed. And when those statements are discovered to be bullshit then that must become the story.

    In the Peanuts analogy, every time Lucy pulls the football away the animator’s point of view follows Charlie Brown. We see his failure and his humiliation at being tricked again. But imagine instead if the animators focused the point of view on Lucy pulling the football away at the last minute and kept it there until well after the entire episode is concluded. How does that look? Who ends up being disgraced? Who is discredited?

  6. 6

    Who cares? Just a bunch of shit hole countries.

    “Hong Kong (CNN)Concerns in Washington are growing amid reports that China is poised to gain control of a major commercial port on the Horn of Africa, further consolidating the country’s influence in the critically strategic region.”

  7. 7

    @ 1

    If US Steel and Alcoa will benefit, why did their stock close down on Thursday?

    Because most of the tariff bite was muzzled when Canada and Mexico were exempted.

    Trump’s steel, aluminum tariffs exempt Canada, Mexico

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-tariffs/trumps-steel-aluminum-tariffs-exempt-canada-mexico-idUSKCN1GK2W6

    This was reported in the middle of the day on Thursday. Classic ‘Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.’ behavior.

  8. 8

    Ya know, I’d be willing to pardon Hillary Clinton, too. If she’ll serve a year in jail like this poor schmuck had to.

    Trump pardons Kristian Saucier, former sailor jailed for submarine pictures

    Saucier, now 31, was 22 years old when he took the cellphone photos in 2009. He pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized retention of national defense information and his attorneys unsuccessfully requested the “Clinton deal,” meaning little if any punishment.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer......le/2651195

    Aw, well. I guess I’ll have to settle for the simple joy of watching nearly seven more years of HA panty-twisting.

  9. 9

    Ya can’t really blame the LSAC for doing it. After all, look what happened when it accommodated Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s mental disability.

    The Law School Admission Council violated court-ordered rules meant to help disabled test takers gain accommodations on the Law School Admission Test, ruled a federal judge who held the organization in civil contempt.

    http://taxprof.typepad.com/tax.....years.html

  10. 10

    @8

    Seems Clinton had better lawyers.

    New hashtag for you Bob: #HillaryIsNeverEverGoingToJail.

  11. 11

    @7 “Because most of the tariff bite was muzzled when Canada and Mexico were exempted.”

    Which means most imported steel and aluminum is exempted, because those two countries are where the bulk of it comes from, which means these “tariffs” are mostly symbolic, which means Trump is provoking a global trade war over … nothing.

    Meanwhile, I’ve read a slew of articles in the last two days stating these tariffs, if implemented, will cost American jobs.

    Typical Trump and Trump followers rampaging bull in china shop stupidity.

  14. 14

    @9 My LSAT score qualifies me for membership in Intertel, a high-IQ society whose admission standards are twice as stringent as Mensa’s, although I haven’t joined either of these groups because who wants to hang out with neurotic geniuses? Dealing with a lunatic computer programmer and a horsefucking doctor on HA is already a full plate.

  15. 15

    @ 14

    …I haven’t joined either of these groups because

    you can’t afford the membership dues.

  16. 16

    8,
    had Saucier been a civilian, and therefor subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S.C. and the D.O.J. he would not have been charged or convicted of any crime.

    But he was an enlisted sailor. As such he got told how to dress, what to eat, where to live, what time to rise in the morning, what time to go to bed, what job he would do, when he would do it, and how much he would get paid. As an enlisted sailor he was subject to the U.C.M.J. And failing at any of that could potentially result in criminal conviction and imprisonment.

    So really almost nothing at all like being a civilian accused by trolling white nationalist lunatics with their hair on fire shouting “BENGHAAAAAAAAAZI!!!!!”
    #FREECARTERPAGE!

  17. 17

    13,
    Everyone on earth has better lawyers than David Dennison.

    Michael Dean Cohen

    Education American University (BA)
    Thomas Cooley School of Law (JD)

    “No longer ranked by U.S. News and World Report, and with an admissions rate in the high 80s, fewer than 1/4 of Cooley grads report passing the bar and obtaining full time employment.”

    Mr. Safety School, Esq. really beat the curve. Such a waste. Nobody needs permission to practice in prison.

  19. 19

    More Cohen background from the Common Cause lawsuit:

    11 CFR 114.2(f)
    “Corporations and labor organizations (including officers, directors or other representatives acting as agents of corporations and labor organizations) are prohibited from facilitating the making of contributions to candidates or political committees, other than to the separate segregated funds of the corporations and labor organizations. Facilitation means using corporate or labor organization resources or facilities to engage in fundraising activities in connection with any federal election …”

    Mr. Safety School, Esq. used his Trump Org email and billed Trump Org for the work. Yet another violation.
    They are piling up on this guy.
    #owngoal

  24. 24

    @19

    “I surround myself with only the finest people. The people who work for me are the highest IQ in history, believe me. You can’t believe how smart. All the not as smart people are begging to work for me so I have my pick of the best. The most luxurious. Some of them are Trump U. graduates that’s how impressive they ALL are. Smart people. Smart People. You now my son Eric, he’s the smartest of them all. Graduated Dim Sum Laude from Wharton. I put his diploma next to the Time Magazine cover. Impressive folks, so impressive. Great group of folks. Crooked Hillary.”

  26. 26

    Speaking of the batshit insane, unless he got lynched by his white supremacist friends, the loon will soon be back and his head will be exploding with HATE!

  27. 27

    The last two times the loon showed up, its pin head was EXPLODING with HATE.

    This evening HA HEROES will no doubt be entertained.

    We will be entertained when the freak spews HATE – PUTTING HA HEROES FIRST..

    We will laugh when in a FRENZIED HATE STATE the loon goes..

    BAAAAACK TO THE SALT MINES…

  29. 29

    3) When property owners challenge the offer, it leads to legal costs too. Sound Transit acquired some of the needed property early on, if it came available, and for the extension to Husky Stadium, reused some staging areas from initial segment, and for Northgate, re-used some of the Tunnel Boring Machines. In California, local communities tend to force more grade separations, like the LA Blue Line, which was supposed to follow the San Diego Trolley model, ended up costing $1 Billion before it was done. The Purple Line Extension, the Beverly Hills Unified School District tried to halt it’s resumption.

    Also, with HSR, San Jose wants a tunnel for the station, which the Army Corps of Engineers rejected, as too dangerous, no room above the water table. Reason no room? Santa Clara County has been pushing an extension of BART that will be underground. So HSR will be a viaduct. Then there is the earthquake survivability.

  30. 30

    The Yountville shooter…

    I’m old enough to remember when Viet Nam Vets going crazy and shooting up stuff was a punchline. Like going postal. It happened often enough that it could be played for laughs.

    We’ve forgotten that as a society. More to come I’m afraid.

  32. 32

    the eventual reality y’all HA libbies are facin’.

    Poor bald and limp boob. No one here despises drumpf here more than Elijah and he’s said “collusion” is meaningless in the context of laws on the books. He’s also claimed impeachment is a fantasy. Idiocy, buffonery and incomptence in office is terrible for this country but doesn’t rise to the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors.

    Mueller can make a case to the Congress about obstruction but even a dem Congress won’t take the bait. We all saw what the idiot republicans did in the 90s. Mueller can even find a smoking gun on Russia but if it didn’t happen in office it’s not actionable.

    The “reality” is yet another fantasy in boob’s empty skull. A fantasy that won’t be disturbed even as the freak’s party is slaughtered in November. And no the goldilocks economy, the greed fest tax scam and neil gorsuch won’t soften the disgust.

  34. 34

    Yoko Ono brings words of comfort to y’all HA libbies.

    21h
    Yoko Ono
    ✔
    @yokoono
    Crying is an excellent way of bringing balance and health to your mind and body. Keep crying.

  35. 35

    Yawn. Maxine is way less embarrassing than Steve king, Louie gohmert or Michelle Bachman back in the day. Oh and did we forget about the downtown Abbey fetishist that was indicted or any of the other “distinguished” sex harrasers that were metoo’d out of office?

    Maxine is still in the game and she makes no bones about wanting to put the ultimate check and balance on orange Julius. She has to answer to her district. I see no problem there.

  36. 36

    @ 35

    She has to answer to her district. I see no problem there.

    Of course not. Girlfriend, you reserve your criticism to GOP legislators answering to theirs.

  37. 37

    Better late than never.

    “The U.S. Department of Justice formally submitted a regulation on Saturday to ban ‘bump stocks,’ a modification to high-capacity rifles that lets them fire like an automatic weapon.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/10/department-of-justice-moves-to-ban-bump-stocks-classifying-them-as-machine-guns-under-federal-law.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I would do it a bit differently, though. You don’t need a bump stock, you can do the same thing with a piece of string, so I would classify a weapon as a “machine gun” based on its rate of fire, regardless of how the ROF is achieved, instead of whether a trigger pull is required for each round as is done now.

  38. 38

    @36 Sez the hobby horse rancher whose U.S. senators are Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. Hey, it could be worse, if you lived in Taxxachusetts, you’d be represented by poke a whats her name.

  39. 39

    “She’s among the most embarrassing of Congresspersons.”

    Why? Does she wear ducky pajamas or something?

  40. 40

    you reserve your criticism to GOP legislators answering to theirs.

    Yawn. Turnabout is fair play. The worst crime a republican can commit is getting caught. Sux to be you.

  41. 41

    “…the eventual reality y’all HA libbies are facin’.”

    Warm coral sands, some solera style Guatemalan sipping rum, and chairmanship of a half dozen investigative committees sounds like Tahiti Nui to me.

    You keep burning crosses, beating wives, skull fucking porn stars, and shouting n****r jokes, and let Robert Mueller and Mr. Safety School, Esq. take care of the rest. You’ll be drinking canned beer under the city dock in Dillingham before you know it.

  42. 42

    “No one here despises drumpf here more than Elijah and he’s said “collusion” is meaningless in the context of laws on the books.”

    You know what? I actually stand corrected on that. Mueller’s use of 18 U.S.C. §371 essentially amounts to a charge that pretty closely resembles “collusion” as we understand the term. And the great news is it leads to more felony indictments and to more people. And since the bulk of the charges would involve events that pre-date the inauguration there may be some (faint) reason to hold on to hope that Mueller may even indict the President. That would trigger a crisis and lead to something in Congress. But that might not be Mueller’s concern. It’s probably safe to assume that as time has passed since his appointment Mr. Mueller’s personal regard for Donald J. Trump has not, um, improved?

    A felony conspiracy to defraud charge can potentially sweep in every single party who participated. Trumps real legal peril probably depends on how willing his closest circle are to take the rap in order to protect him. Jar Jar came into his own humiliated, terrified, and ashamed by his father’s criminal convictions. He may be a very weak link. But even some of the others facing charges outside the family circle could implicate Trump in the conspiracy to defraud.

    All that’s in addition to obstruction. And in addition to l’affair PornFucker. And in addition to what may turn out to be a half dozen other l’affairs PornFucker involving various other women, who even as I am typing this are pouring over their NDAs in the presence of lawyers considerably more skilled than Mr. Safety School, Esq. (which ain’t sayin’ much).

    He’d be lucky if impeachment were all he faced.

  43. 43

    @42 “Trumps real legal peril probably depends on how willing his closest circle are to take the rap in order to protect him.”

    We already know the answer to this one.

    “are pouring over their NDAs”

    poring (sic)

  44. 44

    43,
    yeah, my bad. Thanks. Android must have thought I was making coffee. I get the biggest kick when the html formatting goes horribly wrong and I don’t notice it until later. That’s led to more than a little embarrassment.
    Nice catch.

  46. 46

    No loon yet? Uh-oh. I can’t help but worry about him. Sooner or later the loon’s white supremacist friends are going to get around to lynching him and I’m going to feel so damned… SAD!

  48. 48

    @1 Both are international corporations while being us centric. Aluminum has to be international, since the US does not have a lot of bauxite. Alcoa mines bauxite, refines it and even sells aluminum product. Perhaps the smelters who make rails went up in the stock market reflecting their more solid domestic ties.

    And Alcoa jobs in Whatcom county are some of the best paying jobs here. So for this county this is a big deal.

  49. 49

    @4 The mantra in American politics since the Teapot Dome has been: “Don’t get caught.’
    And some of the stuff going on is purely stupid stuff that is not criminal, and the official can fix it by pulling out the check book. You want to fly first class pay the difference on your dime. You really really want that furniture in your office pull out your wallet for anything beyond the generous $5000 budgeted, although there are loop holes and hoops you can try.

  50. 50

    @8 This is a classic example of do as I say, not as I do. He should not have done it, but the information was confidential, and any enemy most interested already has nuclear subs. just how different does a Russian nuclear reactor control room ect look compared to an American one? So who is the us government keeping this information from? The American people?

    Classic case of an enlisted puke getting hung out to dry when an officer would just be allowed to quietly retire (too expensive to prosecute), and nothing would happen to a political appointee in a Democratic or Republican administration.

    Also you any of you swabbies out there with these kind of photos on an old cell phone, Time to make them disappear. Erase 10 times and just to be sure use a really big magnet. just who did this kid piss off?

  51. 51

    “…and nothing would happen to a political appointee in a Democratic or Republican administration.

    Wanna know why Sr. Airman Pyyyyyyle?

    Jesus I hope your recruiter got a round on the house. Even serving between conflicts, they must have broken every rule to keep you alive and out of the Big Chicken Dinner.

  52. 52

    @51 And your expertise comes from Bond movies?

    As far as Clinton having better lawyers than this guy remains to be seen. Doubt that Bill talking to the current AG on the tarmac somewhere is going to have the same optics.

    The simple truth is that there are double standards. Perhaps triple standards. Congress should go in and revise the entire classification apparatus. it is based on an antiquated statute passed in haste when America entered WWI. It can be used capriciously. It’s not at all unusual for folks at the low end of the chain get totally screwed over a minor infraction (if an infraction even occurred, as the statute is not purely objective, but subjective. Different folks get treated differently because of the boss.) The apparatus is clunky, expensive to maintain, and probably does not do that which it is intended to do. It more often does what it’s not supposed to do which is to keep wrong doing of our government secret from us. From we the people.

    NO one has found the selfies of Secretary of State Clinton in she SCIF? Hope she knows where she left that phone.

  53. 53

    @26 Why are some progressives and Democrats so enamored of returning to their roots by pointing out the power of lynching to people of color. An activity carried out sometimes by Democrats in white robes, is there a passive aggressive threat in here?

  54. 54

    @30 As a society we forget that making war has a downside and some returning from it will return home. Some will use what they learned. And we have been a nation at war now for 15 years. So it should not be surprising we are seeing more frequent, more violent instances, even as crime overall has gone down.

  55. 55

    232 A dem house may take the bait and impeach after more months of hearings, particularly since some Democratic House members have painted themselves into a corner. One can make a strong argument that Obama is really a centrist Republican, and trump a centrist Democrat. the dems are not going to take the senate, though the media is going to make the Senate look like a horse race. To sell advertising and newspapers. So divided government is likely, and it’s likely to be a battle royal, which helps trump and the republicans in 2020, so strategically loss of the house is ok for republicans, keeping the house is the preferred outcome.

  56. 56

    Of course what you leave out is that there is no ban on machine guns. You want a Title II weapon then pay the $200 tax. Seems congress could increase that since in 1932 $200 was a lot of money. It’s a clever tax, but it’s not exactly gun control. And if you know what you are doing you don’t even need a piece of string to fire a semi automatic like a fully automatic.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-08/gun-control-history-fdr-s-taxing-of-machine-guns

    And if you don’t do it right the 1932 law cold get challenged and overturned by the Supreme Court. As American’s have a right to own a machine gun.

  57. 57

    The simple truth is that there are double standards.

    And you were so close, Sr. Amn Pyle. You were right there. You had the answer right in front of you.

    Not “double” standards. Two completely different standards.
    U.S.C. and various state criminal codes for civilians like Sec. Clinton, Michael Flynn, Mr. Safety School, Esq., and David Dennison.
    U.C.M.J. for Sr. Amn Shortbus who crushed Oxy on leave, missed his flight, drank Sterno, failed to report, and earns an Article 86.

    Truth is you were really never even close.
    At least not as close as your ASVAB was, eh?

  58. 58

    Tuesday, Santa Fe held its first municipal elections using Ranked Choice Voting. In the 4 rounds, the winner in the mayorl election eventually won 66% of the vote. Under the old system, would have won with his original 39%. Should be used for elections to the Roundhouse as well.

    http://www.fairvote.org/santa_.....ive_ballot

  60. 60

    @56 “And if you know what you are doing you don’t even need a piece of string to fire a semi automatic like a fully automatic.”

    True, a belt loop will do, and you don’t even need that, but a bump stock makes it easier to direct aimed fire into a crowd of concertgoers while firing an AR-15 like a machinegun. Also, if you’re inclined to go on a homicidal rampage, a drum magazine holding 100 rounds facilitates running up the body count quickly.

  61. 61

    @56 Since anyone can make a pipe bomb from readily available materials, should we legalize hand grenades?

  62. 62

    @56 “As American’s have a right to own a machine gun.”

    You’re not much of an armchair lawyer, Mark.

    The federal Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 (“FOPA”) prohibits civilian ownership or possession of machineguns manufactured after that date. The only reason civilians can get machineguns at all in the U.S. is because weapons made prior to that date are grandfathered. But even for these weapons, you need a federal permit which the Attorney General can deny, and the weapon must be registered; so, no, there is no “right” per se to own a machinegun.

    In addition, states can ban civilian possession of machineguns, and Washington is among the states that have done so. Washington’s law is an outright ban on ownership or possession of machineguns (with exemptions for military, law enforcement, and governmental entities), except the statute provides an “affirmative defense” for federally compliant weapons acquired before 1994. This clause doesn’t legalize these weapons, it simply means that if you’re prosecuted under this statute, you can’t be convicted if you prove all the elements of the affirmative defense. But if you want to play with machineguns, Washington authorities can make your life so miserable that most people don’t even bother to try and go to Oregon instead.

  63. 63

    It seems kind of obvious to me that the machinegun ban shouldn’t be limited to trigger design, but should extend to any device or technique that enables a specified rate of fire. This means if you hook your thumb in your belt loop and fire your legal AR-15 like a machinegun, you’ve now got a machinegun, and all the legal consequences attendant to possessing and firing a machinegun will flow from that. In other words, it’s the rate of fire that matters, and it shouldn’t matter how a semiauto firearm is converted to rapid fire. Put another way, make bump fire, not just bump stocks, illegal. This is just common sense.

  64. 64

    @55 “One can make a strong argument that … trump [is] a centrist Democrat.”

    One can also strongly argue that the sun and other planets revolve around the earth, as people believed for a long time, but that doesn’t make one right.

  65. 65

    @55 “One can make a strong argument that … trump [is] a centrist Democrat.”

    One can also strongly argue that the sun and other planets revolve around the earth, as countless generations of stupid humans believed for uncounted millennia, but strongly arguing something doesn’t make one right.

  66. 66

    @48 “since the US does not have a lot of bauxite”

    Actually, Mark, the U.S. supplied 95% of the world’s bauxite a century ago, and still has the world’s 4th largest bauxite ore reserves; it’s simply cheaper to mine it elsewhere.

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