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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Jimmy Kimmel: Senator Elizabeth Warren on health care and minimum wage

Young Turks: Iowa passes most restrictive abortion law in the US.

David Pakman: Megyn Kelly’s NBC media implosion.

Full Frontal: Don’t be so sure about that Blue Wave.

Farron Cousins: Paul Ryan’s attack on House chaplain blows up in his face.

Bill Maher interviews Mayor Michael Tubbs (Stockton, CA), America’s youngest mayor in a city over 100,000.

Amber Rufin raps a response to Kanye West’s slavery comments.

The Dotard Трамп And His Dirty :

NOVA: Why there’s no climate hoax.

Jimmy Kimmel: Senator Cory Booker refuses to hate the other side.

Full Frontal: May the fourth be with Chuck Todd.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Stephen: Profiles in Discourage—Foster Friess says the rich should “self-tax”.

Som’emz Da Madder Wid West Virginia:

  • Young Turks: Is this the worst campaign ad of all time?

  • Joy Ann Reid: Don Blankenship defends “Chinaperson,” hits “Cocaine Mitch”
  • Sam Seder: GOP candidate has the most awkward, low IQ campaign ad of all time
  • Stephen: Profiles in Discourage—Blankenship’s ‘Cocaine Mitch’ advertisement.

    • Vox: This anti-sex trafficking law could end internet freedom.

    Jimmy Dore: John Boehner: “I’m gonna be selling puff…”

    Newsbroke Q&A: “Is Francesca a COMMUNIST?”

    Vox: George H.W. Bush’s broken promise that changed the Republican Party.

    Trevor: Teachers take to the streets & Kanye West says slavery was a choice.

    Samantha Bee: Facebook sucks.

    A Wolf Roast:

    Daily Show: Gregory Watson’s fight for the 27th Amendment.

    Jim Jefferies: Hey, “Incels,” women don’t owe you anything:

    Bonus Check: #GOPTaxScam.

    Anna: A slave who sued for freedom.

    Samantha Bee with a message for Dennis Miller.

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

    Comments

    1. 1

      Another Trump lawyer quits? Who takes on a case only to retire in the middle of it?

    2. 2

      How did Kanye West go from “George Bush doesn’t care about black people!” to his current political and philosophical state, in which he is not a Trump opponent and actually quotes some of what Thomas Sowell has written?

      My guess is over about, oh, eight years or so, he came to realize that however little George Bush cared about black people, Barack Obama cared even less.

    3. 3

      I never saw ‘Last Man Standing’ when the sitcom was on ABC, and the most I can say about Tim Allen is that I thought Galaxy Quest was a seriously funny movie, and it also had Sigourney Weaver in a push-up bra and blond wig, as if Alan Rickman wasn’t enough reason to watch.

      ABC cancelled Allen’s show despite its high ratings. The show reportedly leaned too far right for the taste of some at the network.

      Now the show is coming back. On Fox. Which seems like an own-goal scored by ABC against itself.

      62 million people didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton. Seems marketing to them now and then is economically wise, no?

    4. 4

      Yesterday NSA Director/Admiral Mike Rogers retired. This would be the same Mike Rogers that Ash Carter and James Clapper desperately tried to get shit-canned a month before the 2016 election:

      Pentagon and intelligence community chiefs have urged Obama to remove the head of the NSA

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-and-intelligence-community-chiefs-have-urged-obama-to-remove-the-head-of-the-nsa/2016/11/19/44de6ea6-adff-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html?utm_term=.e3b9164867e4

      His retirement sort of frees him up a bit more to speak a bit more openly about the FISA abuses he witnessed since becoming Director in early 2014.

      You know. If anyone should happen to ask.

    5. 5

      Yesterday a Reagan-appointed judge came down on Team Mueller for its tactics in using Manafort as a way to go after Trump.

      We all heard about that. What we really didn’t hear about is that for the first time someone other than the DOJ is going to learn what Mueller’s investigation scope was designed to be at the time he was appointed:

      Mueller’s prosecutors will have to turn over a full, unredacted version of the August 2 memo that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein used to describe the criminal allegations Mueller’s team could investigate, Ellis ordered.
      The judge said he would like to see the full memo, which prosecutors submitted to the court in Virginia and in Washington with more than a page of redactions.
      The visible part of the memo says Mueller should investigate allegations about Manafort’s financial relationship with former Ukrainian politicians, and that he may have assisted Russia with attempts to interfere in the presidential election. The redacted portion appears to outline several other legs of the ongoing Russia probe.

      https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/paul-manafort-hearing/index.html

      The memo will remain secret but Team Mueller will have to convince this judge that he’s wrong.

      Good.

    6. 6

      Stephanie Clifford, in response to Roseanne Barr:

      Stormy Daniels✔
      @StormyDaniels
      I don’t even do anal movies, you ignorant twat. That’s like saying you are known for your beautiful rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/992301702660304897 …

      6:25 AM – May 4, 2018

      What Ms. Clifford must have meant is that she doesn’t do anal anymore:

      WICKED – VENDETTA, STORMY DANIELS TAKES A COCK IN HER ASS

      https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5a70c22531e23

      Not an attractive tattoo, either. Hers, I mean. OK, his isn’t, either.

    7. 7

      3,
      I’m told there was good money in brown shirts, arm bands, and yellow stars too.
      Good to see you’re working on a hedge. There’s always profit to be made from failure. At least until the trials begin.

    8. 8

      Uh oh, libbies.

      Washington, DC – The Reuters/Ipsos Core Political poll has a significant realignment this week across a number of metrics. Most pronounced is President Trump’s approval rating which currently sits at 48% with all Americans. His number with registered voters is essentially the same at 49%. Corresponding with Trump’s stronger approval rating, evaluations of his job performance across the board are stronger this week from 57% approving of his handling of the economy to 44% approving of the way he treats people like them. On the generic congressional ballot, our current poll shows a +5-point advantage for Democrats, the smallest lead we’ve seen in recent weeks.

      https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/reuters-ipsos-data-core-political-2018-05-04

      When that IG report comes out and Mueller comes up empty, you’ll still have pussy-grabbing to hang on him. Oh, and one time he banged a then-hot blonde, so there’s that, too.

      I could say that Rasmussen has him at 51%, but no need. In a couple of weeks Reuters/Ipsos will have Trump at that level, too.

    9. 9

      @ 7

      There’s always profit to be made from failure.

      Why, surely. Solyndra. All Democrat political consultants in 2016. The Clintons, still.

      Although after some thought, I would have to say not always.

      See: Burner, Darcy. And Fluke, Sandra.

    10. 10

      When all of this is over, Comey’s reputation will be the biggest loser. Other than Hillary, I mean.

      Sean Davis✔
      @seanmdav
      15h
      Replying to @seanmdav
      Compare these two pages. The initial redacted version hid clear testimony that the FBI didn’t think Flynn lied. McCabe: “The two people who interviewed [Flynn] didn’t think he was lying[.]” And: “[N]ot [a] great beginning of a false statement case[.]” pic.twitter.com/MZNIHCGzPU

      Not just McCabe. Comey, too:

      Un-Redacted House Intel Report: Comey DID Tell Lawmakers FBI Agents Saw No Signs of Deception in Flynn

      https://pjmedia.com/trending/un-redacted-house-intel-report-comey-did-tell-lawmakers-fbi-agents-saw-no-signs-of-deception-in-flynn/

      It’s like the redactions are hiding evidence of DOJ dishonesty/deception or something. See @ 5.

    11. 11

      “The memo will remain secret but Team Mueller will have to convince this judge that he’s wrong“.

      Dumbfuck thinks the court has already ruled.
      Dumbfuck performs another celebratory spastic end zone dance…
      and spikes the ball…
      on his own 20.

    12. 12

      BREAKING BENGHAAAAAZIIIII HEADLINES ALERT!!!!!

      FBI Agents Saw No Signs of Deception in Flynn…
      Other Than the Guilty Plea. Just That. Oh. That.

    14. 14

      @12 I see Doctor Dumbfuck is still hoping Republican traitors get away with treason.

      What a douche.

    17. 17

      @1 It’s standard practice for lawyers to fire clients who insist on committing perjury.

    18. 18

      @2 So the solution, in Doctor Dumbfuck’s mind, is for black people to vote for white supremacists. What do you expect from a dumbfuck?

    19. 19

      @6. So long as that ass and body I could get over the tattoo…..and I mean his and not hers!

    20. 20

      15,
      Lately “Rear” Admiral O’Keefe of the Roypublican Dildo Navy is on a “reputation mending” publicity tour.

      He’s brought in a jenyoowine jernulist to act as the spokesmodel for his boat-full-o-dildos to promote the fraud scheme that they are “independent journalists”. An “investigator” of impeccable credentials.
      He’s the convicted felon who went to prison for trying to blackmail Letterman.
      I guess that must mean Giles is doing donkey shows in Tijuana.
      They are the finest people.

    22. 22

      @ 11

      Dumbfuck thinks the court has already ruled.

      If that were the case why would I have written my sentence in future tense?

      The judge gave them two weeks to produce the memo. He hasn’t ruled on anything yet.

    23. 23

      Bob has a special moniker here, but I think he’s more full of shit – that describes him better.

      He lives in the past because the future doesn’t look too good to him, so why look there. He’s probably feeling it.

      He’s often told all libies here that “It’s the economy stupid”. And for a while he had that going for him, but without that it’s nothing more than the past to bring up.

      ENR – 4/39/18, page 42 – Worry Despite Strong Markets

      First Paragraph,

      “The market for major design firms is growing and is poised to continue to grow for the foreseeable future, but the sense of euphoria seen last year faded. One year ago, most firms expected a burst of new business from tax cuts, deregulation and a promised infrastructure bill in the wake of the election of …”. Name left out in purpose but you know who – The Hump. “Now design firms are focusing more on their key markets and systems to deliver their services as efficiently as possible.”

      It goes on to talk about the dis appointment of the infrastructure bill passed and that it wasn’t more (by congress):::: but you know who proposed the bill (The Hump). Nor do they believe that the bill will work in the long run being heavily reliant on the local public contributions and private funding. And then the Tarrifs.

      So Bob just seems a little down. At least he hasn’t taken to smoking crack yet.

    24. 24

      A case study in when the “liberal” media causes people to believe and repeat things that aren’t real.

      ABC cancelled Allen’s show despite its high ratings.

      In the final season “Last Man Standing” was the 56th highest rated show on television averaging a little under 8M viewers per episode. It lost it’s time slot every single week of that final year to Blue Bloods over on CBS by almost 10million viewers a week. (this is instructive because one of our loons used to brag about a Fox News show beating an MSNBC show by 100-200K viewers)

      It was ABCs third highest rated comedy series on average in the last season which also says something about the ABC lineup just barely edging out 4th place ‘The Goldbergs” by about 100K viewers. Note that ABC cancelled all the Friday night comedy shows after the season and went to Adventure/Superhero drama instead. Could they have moved LMS to Wednesdays with Modern Family (gay themes and mixed race couples) the Goldbergs and Black-ish? Maybe but ABC probably had solid market research that told them the demos of the Wednesday audience were different so why risk gutting the #1 comedy and #4 to keep #3 when you can just walk away from Tim Allen and whatever damn fool thing he’s going to say next…see next point.

      The show reportedly leaned too far right for the taste of some at the network.

      There is a kernal of truth here. After Tim Allen made the comparison on Kimmel that conservatives in Hollywood were like Jews in 1930s Germany, you know with the Ghettos and the and the Kristalnacht on Fairfax Avenue, there was understandable backlash and the ratings dipped. Was it because the show was right leaning or that the star was a moron? Yes Tim, Hollywood is lefty, please step into the shower and breath deeply. Hollywood is JUST like the Holocaust.

      Now the show is coming back. On Fox. Which seems like an own-goal scored by ABC against itself.

      Well lets start with ABC brought back right leaning Roseanne. It’s the fifth rated show average for the season, not just comedy, on television. Will Roseanne finally say something stupid enough to get ABC to cancel her? Well that’s an easier call to make when the 56th rated show star says he’s worried like he’s about to be sent to a concentration camp. For the fifth ranked show….maybe no? The Goldbergs is now averaging higher than LMS ever did so keeping it over LMS seems like a good call and Black-ish is getting just slightly lower ratings than LMS and is clearly a better fit as the Modern Family lead in than LMS would probably have done in that slot.

      One more thing to keep in mind. 20th Century Fox is the production company behind LMS so the syndication money is theirs to keep. Getting a seventh season worth of episodes to sell to CMT or the like may be more of a motivation here than getting actual viewers over on FOX. Note that the remaining comedies left at ABC Modern Family, Black-ish, Goldbergs, Speechless are all ABC owned properties. Speechless is joint ABC/20thFox.

      Money had the most impact on why LMS is gone but Tim Allen being a dumb ass about “They’ll make me wear a yellow star” made it an easier decision.

      But conservative victimhood is so alive and well with Dr. Dumbfuck.

    25. 25

      @23 “Now design firms are focusing more on their key markets and systems to deliver their services as efficiently as possible.”

      That’s how business people talk when business sucks.

    26. 26

      If that were the case why would I have written my sentence in future tense?

      Must we? I guess there’s a reason we call you Dumbfuck. Always giving Shortbus a run for his money. I’ll try to keep this simple enough even for you.

      Here is what you actually said:
      “Team Mueller will have to convince this judge that he’s wrong.” (emph. added)
      Really Dumbfuck? Was it the judge who filed a motion to dismiss? Good gravy you are astonishingly dense.

      So here’s how this rule 12 thingee works.
      The defendant files a motion to dismiss and in their filing they make certain arguments (although in Manafort’s case thus far his team have made at least one pre-trial motion that I’ve seen that was actually lacking an argument, but we can leave that aside for now). The prosecution files a response. And in their response they make certain arguments as well (it is after all an “adversarial” process). A hearing is held to give the judge an opportunity to interrogate those arguments. That hearing (initial day of it at least), and the judge’s interrogation of those arguments, is what has you and Ben Domenech choke-faping each other into an orange haze.

      So as you can hopefully now see, the prosecution has the objective of showing the judge that the defendant motion to dismiss is wrong. The judge is never wrong in her own court room. Never*. (Write that down you fucking Dumbshit.) Only later does the judge get to be wrong, if ever. We call that an appeal. You’ve no doubt blathered about it in re “the nutty ninth”, etc. Did you forget?

      Anyway, the judge hasn’t ruled other than to ask for more information than what he got in the original filings. That’s not uncommon. I don’t think the OSC is unable to comply with that request. And I see no indication that they are unwilling to comply with that request. So it really isn’t a matter of “right” or “wrong”. And it’s safe to assume that an un-redacted copy of the memo was not included in the original filing because they don’t want Manafort’s lawyers to see it. Sumpin tells me they are going to give Ellis an un-redacted copy of the memo under seal. Maybe then he’ll rule. Maybe then somebody can have an argument about whether or not the judge was “wrong”. But for what it’s worth, outside of an appellate court any such argument would be a jerk off. Speaking of which, I’ll let you get back to it.

      *Although sometimes their “thinking evolves”. You know. Like Romney/Trump on abortion.

    28. 28

      When you assume things …

      https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/04/video-shows-off-duty-officer-pulling-gun-on-man-mistakenly-suspected-of-stealing-mentos/

      Roger Rabbit Commentary: One can only hope that when the internal investigation is completed this moron won’t be a cop anymore.

      P.S., I’m pretty sure pulling a gun on someone because you think they shoplifted $1.19 of candy doesn’t comply with any police department’s use-of-force policy; but if it does, that town needs a new police department.

    29. 29

      My Boy Jack came in 5th place. If it weren’t for the 6 horse that came in 3rd and instead the 15 horse, which came in 4th, I would have won the trifecta….I know, if.

      But I boxed 5 numbers and 4 of the 5 were first thru 5th, but I didn’t have the 6 horse.

      If, again if, the 15 horse came in 3rd it probably would have paid a thousand or 2 thousand, maybe even more. I made a $1 bet that cost $120….I would have gotten half the payout.

      Onto the Preakness and then Belmont.

    30. 30

      Unless he got lynched by his friends, the loon will soon be back and he’s going to be full of HATE!

    31. 31

      Guns don’t kill people dep’t.

      https://abcnews.go.com/US/gun-range-employee-indicted-alleged-accidental-killing-bystander/story?id=54954866

      Meanwhile,

      “The National Rifle Association has tweeted at followers to avoid patronizing a Dallas restaurant that said it’s donating a portion its proceeds this week to ‘organizations dedicated to implementing reasonable and effective gun regulations.’ … Owner Joe Groves told television station KTVT that no NRA member wants kids or police officers to get killed and that ‘people like me don’t want to take their guns away either. Can we not have both?'”

      Nope. No way, no how, no regulations. Guns everywhere, all the time, in the hands of anyone. Guns, guns, more guns!

      https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dallas-restaurants-gun-regulation-message-draws-nras-ire-54959763

      The NRA long ago ceased to be a reputable, responsible, or reasonable organization. Maybe now Joe will realize they’re a fringe group of crazies.

    32. 32

      The phony drumpf economy:

      More people have given up on finding work and therefore are no longer counted as either working or unemployed. That’s why the unemployment rate keeps dropping. It isn’t the underlying strength of the economy that reaches all levels of society. The number of jobs might be keeping rough pace with the growth of the population, but that is it. There is no broad economic cheer.

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2018/05/05/sure-unemployment-went-down-because-the-number-of-people-working-did

      People are still disappearing from the workforce. The labor participation rate hasn’t improved.

    34. 34

      Two years ago today, motherfuckers:

      “Happy Cinco de Mayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”

      Meanwhile, things were getting caliente for Hillary Clinton as more and more interest in her email corruption was building.

    36. 36

      @34 Despite the never-ending list of Hillary’s malfeasances, treasons, betrayals, and criminal convictions, your guy still lost the popular vote to her by 2.9 million. What does that say about your guy?

    37. 37

      @35 Oh, probably another fistful of indictments. At this point, it’s getting increasingly hard to believe there’s anyone near Trump who isn’t going to jail. Maybe Sarah can get off by pleading stupidity.

    39. 39

      @ 36

      What does that say about your guy?

      1. He focused on the Electoral College numbers.

      2. He was smart enough to visit Wisconsin.

      Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, the popular vote result is irrelevant and it is testament to your weakness that you continue to focus on it.

    40. 40

      29)I watch for the show, the playing of My Old Kentucky Home, and to see who will disssapoint in the Belmont, and Preakness.

    42. 42

      Kind of like our Doctor Dumbfuck. He loves the awfulness. Fits in nicely with his admonishing us to think on our sins because Hillary is so…heh…”awful”. What a douche.

      “‘Callous, thin-skinned, ego-driven’: Watch nihilistic Fox News commentator admit he loves Trump because’s awful”

      https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/callous-thin-skinned-ego-driven-watch-nihilistic-fox-news-commentator-admit-loves-trump-becauses-awful/

      Turns out Doctor Dumbfuck is just one of millions who have a Psych 101 thing going on in their heads. He’s really no different than the loon that way.

      “How the U.S. became Troll Nation: From Gamergate to the rise of Trump”

      https://www.salon.com/2018/04/22/how-the-u-s-became-troll-nation-from-gamergate-to-the-rise-of-trump/

      A good read about why Doctor Dumbfuck and the loon love the awfulness of it all.

    43. 43

      Interesting article on the state of intercity bus operators. More competition in the Northeast, but one interesting development, is Flixbus, Germany’s largest, launching in the US, starting in California. I like their business model, they do the scheduling and revenue collection, but do not directly own their buses, but contract to existing operators. Greyhound not
      has stagnated out here, with no service East of Spokane on I-90, although Jefferson Lines filled the Missoula-Spokane gap.

      http://www.metro-magazine.com/.....strategies

      Flixbus is also moving into rail services in Germany, picking up the open-access runs of HKX and Locomore. Only been in rail for a few months, but already planning expansion.

      http://www.railwaygazette.com/.....outes.html

    44. 44

      @40. Hahaha.

      Plenty of disappointment, but quite the show.

      Correction to my post – I trifecta boxed 6 numbers at $1 for total cost of $120, not 5.

      4 of my 6 were all in the top 5. First, Second, Fourth (the longshot #15) and Fifth. I didn’t have the Show #6

    45. 45

      your guy still lost the popular vote to her by 2.9 million. What does that say about your guy?

      Yeah that California libtard vote overcame a 1.2 million vote lead for Trump in 49 other states roger senile idiot wabbit. That’s why the electoral college is so wonderful. The libtard loons of California could not stack the deck for #CrookedHillary!

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Keep that thought silly wabbit! Your tricks don’t FOOL kids no more!

      Till Next Time!

    46. 46

      Looks like the loon survived another weekend without being lynched by his white supremacist buddies.

    48. 48

      Wow, just, I, Damn…

      Right about the time Donald Glover (Community/Atlanta) hosted Saturday Night Live his alter ego Childish Gambino dropped a new single and video.

      2.5M views in under 24 hours.

      You owe it to yourself to take the four minutes to see what the kids are up to.

      This is America. Powerful stuff.

    49. 49

      Stormy Daniels – it’s just sex, and it didn’t even happen in a Government office!

      Mueller – about to lose it all because he’s just got smoke and mirrors so far.

      Manafort – how does an investigated FBAR issue from 2005 (for which he was subsequently cleared) become the central “big issue” for Russian influence in the 2016 election?

      Things aren’t good for Liberals and Leftists in the Government, and they are all going down!

    50. 50

      Dennis Hastert – it’s just sex, and it didn’t even happen in a Government office!
      #youbuiltthat

    51. 51

      “Things aren’t good for Liberals and Leftists in the Government…”

      Um, doooood. The guys doing these investigations are all Roypublicans! A bunch of ’em were appointed by Trump himself and confirmed by nearly unanimous Roypublican support.
      “Liberals and Leftists” are happy about it, sure.
      But this is your shitshow. Own it!

    52. 52

      @myself

      Forgot to mention he’s also Lando in the new Star Wars Solo movie. Star is on the rise.

    53. 53

      “Yeah that California libtard vote…”

      …is the world’s fifth largest economy and responsible for one in 12 jobs in the other 49 states!
      You’re welcome.
      You trailerbillies can fuckoff any time. We’ll be keeping Disneyland, Mavericks, awesome Korean food, Cal, Stanford*, UCLA, Scripps, Hollywood, beach volleyball, taco trucks, the real wine, 800 miles of sunny, sandy beaches, etc. You are welcome to Fresno.

      *If you want the Hoover, we’ll gladly help pack.

    54. 54

      Meanwhile another commie libtard reads the handwriting on the wall. dailycaller.com/2018/05/04/lisa-page-resign-fbi/

      She’ll get a prime job at CNN or PMSNBC soon!

      Till Next Time!

    55. 55

      From the just slightly right of Ayn Rand “Business Insider”:

      Even Republican voters are starting to lose faith in the GOP tax law

      A new Monmouth University poll found 40% of Americans approve of the GOP tax law, while 44% disapprove.

      Perhaps the more troubling number for Republicans: Only 38% of Republican voters strongly support the law, down from 49% in January.

      The GOP is already facing an enthusiasm gap in the 2018 midterms, so the eroding support for the party’s signature achievement is a worrying signal.

    57. 57

      @49

      You nailed it. It’s going great for your side. I mean just in the last 36 hours, 36! we learned

      Cohen routinely paid hush money for 45.

      Cohen would have paid any woman 45 had ever slept with to keep quiet before the election.

      45 hired spies to target Obama officials.

      45 moved HUGE sums of cash around the world.

      Cohen ran what can only be described as a money-laundering operation.

    58. 58

      Another flat beer froth post with no link attribution. Of course it’s A-OK when you are a dumb libtard!

      Till Next Time!

    59. 59

      Did you get that from Vox or Splinter flat beer froth.

      Where’s the beef?

      Till NExt Time!

    60. 60

      Gay sex is just sex. What’s the big fucking deal?

      Republicans like sex with animals. We know – no big deal.

    62. 62

      57,
      The are at war with the truth, and therefor they are at war with themselves.

      These are their investigations, through and through. They appointed all of these guys running the show. They approved all of it. Only their President objects, and blames it on a “liberal” conspiracy. And so they must do as they are told, and object as well. Even if they built the entire show from the ground up.

      It’s really marvelous to contemplate how they would explain this “conspiracy” (as if they ever would). It all seems to hang entirely on McCabe (a lifelong Republican who eschewed partisan politics and who married a Democrat), Page, and Strzok. McCabe was more involved in the Clinton investigation. The other two are minions. Flynn has plead guilty. Flynn and the rest of the White House lied repeatedly and in concert in order to protect the guy, threatened Comey, lied to the media, and changed their stories every 24hrs, etc. Sessions like an idiot closed ranks with them. Got caught. Recused himself, and turned everything over to his hand picked DAG. This is their show and they’ve been running it since January of 2017.

      Must be liberal moonbeams and mind control.
      #owngoal

    63. 63

      CYBORGS SENT FROM THE FUTURE TO DESTROY THE DEAR LEADER!

      Roypublicans really believe this shit. Which is why, more than anything else, “bipartisanship” is dead. It would be stupid beyond comprehension to seek compromise with racist lunatics. And they are. It’s sad. I know. It’s a great big chunk of America. But it’s also true.

      To believe the kind of shit these people now routinely traffic in depends on the kind of willful delusions that a rational mind rebels against. They are destroying themselves. Our mission is to prevent them from destroying the rest of us.

    64. 64

      @39 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck contends that being elected without a popular mandate, by a system designed to preserve slavery, and despised by a majority of the country is “irrelevant.”

      I guess in the same sense that horseshoes are irrelevant if you don’t stand behind the horse while fucking it in the ass.

      BTW, how many of President Relevant’s appointees have been confirmed recently?

    65. 65

      @58

      Out of the mouth of Rudy, while on Fox News and widely reported so you know…askjeeves? or linked in a previous post.

      “For today’s performance the role of “idiot” will be played by Piddles. Dr. Dumbfuck will return to the cast as soon as he’s off the horse.”

    66. 66

      @45 “Yeah that California libtard vote overcame a 1.2 million vote lead for Trump in 49 other states roger senile idiot wabbit.”

      Put another way, voters in the world’s sixth largest economy rejected Trump and his economic policies by 30 percentage points. What does that say about Trump’s economic policies?

    67. 67

      @63 “Roypublicans really believe this shit.”

      They believe any shit you put in front of them. It’s time to admit Hillary was wrong when she described Trump supporters as “deplorables.” They’re worse than that.

    70. 70

      61,
      Wait. Don’t Pass Go! Don’t collect $200.

      You are the dumbfuck! Puddy delivers 2018 FACTS while Klamath Mountain hillbilly delivers 2015 moldy bread! Don’t pawn your name on anyone else Klamath Mountain hillbilly SCUMGASBAG dumbfuck!

      HAHAHAHAHAHA!

      Till Next Time!

    71. 71

      Notice flat beer froth has not produced a link where the “information” can be reviewed!

      Sux to be flat beer froth!

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

      Till Next Time!

    72. 72

      And this has what to do with the 2106 Russian Collusion campaign issue senile idiot wabbit?

      Now we have two judges pushing back on Mueller’s cabal!

      Till Next Time!

    73. 73

      The loon isn’t anywhere near Peak Hate yet, but we’ll see how it goes. A couple of double posts and a head explosion and he’s there.

    74. 74

      66,
      It’s fifth now as of the most recent report!
      Surpassed the UK. Brexit? Meh.

    75. 75

      67,
      She was wrong to back down from it.
      Hopefully the lesson has been learned. And the left understands now that persuading firebugs to stop lighting fires by offering them matches and gasoline is a bad idea.

    76. 76

      70,
      It’s okay to be scared of Cali. I understand how threatening it must be that the most populous, most dynamic, most economically significant state is also the most racially and ethnically diverse.

      No white majority. Gone, never to return. Most of the growth industries. Tons of good jobs. Tons of innovation. Aerospace, agriculture, tech, media, healthcare, entertainment, finance, tourism, education. All in the hands of non-whites. How disturbing. Like Trailerbilly Twilight Zone.

    77. 77

      Sooooooooooooooooo, the Mueller witch hunt on General Flynn is getting more strange every day… https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180322/108023/HRPT-115-1_1-p1-U3.pdf

      Meanwhile Comey has memory issues again…
      https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/comey-told-lawmakers-fbi-agents-saw-no-physical-indications-of-deception-in-michael-flynn?platform=hootsuite

      And Adam Schiff is going nutzo again… https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-judge-shouldnt-have-asked-how-much-mueller-is-spending-on-russia-investigation

    78. 78

      Once again the Klamath Mountain hillbilly misses the point as it always does.

      TRAIN WRECK!

      You claimed that CA was soooooooooooooooo great, yet the 2018 demographics say people are skeeeeeeeeeeeedaddling from the state!

      See ya moron!

      Till Next Time!

    79. 79

      Once again the Klamath Mountain hillbilly misses the point as it always does.

      TRAIN WRECK!

      You claimed that CA was soooooooooooooooo great, yet the 2018 demographics say people are skeeeeeeeeeeeedaddling from the state!

      See ya moron!

      Till Next Time!

    83. 83

      GOAT FUCKING LOON BREAKING NEWS HEADLINES!!!

      FBI agents saw ‘no physical indications of deception’ in Michael Flynn. Except for the pleading guilty. To deception. Just that. Oh. That.

    84. 84

      This thing is moving fast folks and if accurate…

      The shadow group linked to Russia hired to keep Harvey Weinstein out of trouble, Rueban Capitol Partners and exposed by Ronan Farrow in the New Yorker that finally brought Weinstein down is the same org that approached the wife of Obama’s Iran negotiator and linked to in @45

      Piddles claims he can’t find the link.

      I’m sure it’s merely a coincidence that a counterintelligence shop run out of Russia worked on protecting Weinstein and then was used by 45 to scuttle the Iran deal by possibly illegally spying on American diplomats.

      https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/993180693743263746?s=21

    85. 85

      “The newly released portions do not resolve all the questions about the Comey-Flynn episode. Did Comey think that the agents were wrong, and that their normal practices to detect deception had just not worked with Flynn, and that Flynn was in fact lying? Did Comey believe that Flynn had honestly forgotten some of the things the agents asked about?”

      Maybe Flynn forgot. Still a felony. Really. Take the fifth. If your attorney is not present, shut your damn mouth. Even in front of a grand jury, you have the option of being excused from the room to consult.

      Heart warming to see the wingnuts suddenly concerned about law enforcement and civil rights. Concerned about LE kicking in a door and pumping 18 rounds into a naked guy taking a shower? Nope. Concerned about LE feeding prisoners dog food and using the leftover money to buy luxury beach homes? Nope. Concerned about the routine, daily toll of LE just basically shooting at black men because they are shit-their-pants scared? Nope.

      But by golly, they sure did discover the 4th amendment all of a sudden when some old white guy is cornered with his own repeated lies! Did I mention he already pleaded guilty?

    87. 87

      Pretty good read on a “phony industry” in the age of drumpf’s phony economy:

      https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/05/04/wall-street-shale-oil-fracking-revolution-losing-billions-continental-resources

      Fracking costs a quarter TRILLION dollars more than it brings in. Wall Street collects a vig while leading greater fools and everyone else off a cliff.

      Supposedly even Amazon makes money.

      This is how the fraudsters bring the next depression.

    88. 88

      Did the loon attain Peak Hate and flame out? Only time will tell. My bet is the loon will be back and he’ll really be bringing the hate. SAD!

    89. 89

      John McCain doesn’t seem to like the Orange buffoon much.

      “the appearance of toughness or a reality show facsimile of toughness seems to matter more than any of our values.”

      “His lack of empathy for refugees, innocent, persecuted, desperate men, women, and children, is disturbing. The way he speaks about them is appalling, as if welfare or terrorism were the only purposes they could have in coming to our country.”

      “His reaction to unflattering news stories, calling them ‘fake news,’ whether they’re credible or not, is copied by autocrats who want to discredit and control a free press.”

      “He has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of despotic ones. He has showered with praise some of the world’s worst tyrants.”

      https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/read-john-mccains-scorching-takedown-trump-forthcoming-autobiography/

      Is appalling worse than awful? Only Doctor Dumbfuck knows for sure.

    91. 91

      A bunch of California shy-Trumpers are pleading for forgiveness.

      If they want to recruit and fund a CA-22 primary challenger that would be a start. Maybe.

      Short of that, they are no different than the rest. Traitors who despise freedom and the rule of law.

    92. 92

      It appears electric vehicles are gaining traction. With locomotiveso, the Big 3 of steam disappeared because they did not take the Diesel threat seriously, although ALCO lasted the longest, and did have some success in Diesel. Cummins is partnering with Gillig on a Battery electric bus, and right now is the time to do it. BYD, Proterra, and Green Power Bus are making inroads, and established companies New Flyer and Nova Bus are rolling out their prototypes.

      https://www.gillig.com/beze

    94. 94

      @92 How green electric buses and cars are depends on how dirty the electricity is.

    95. 95

      @87 The linked article suffers from generalization and some of its information is outdated. The Wall Street Journal indeed reported last year the fracking industry as a whole has lost $280 billion. However, those losses are backloaded into the industry’s early years when the industry was dominated by small debt-dependent players, the technology was less efficient, and production costs were much higher.

      Today, the big players can drill a fracking well for about half of the $11 million stated in the article. If, as the article suggests, Continental Resources has never made a profit then how can it get a $700 million tax cut, because only profits are taxed? In fact, CR reported negative earnings in only two years, 2015 and 2016, according to Value Line.

      It’s generally accepted that fracking’s breakeven point is around $40/bbl., as low as $25/bbl. for some producers in some shale plays, so with WTI now $70 at least some of the shale production is profitable. In fact, most of it is. Fracking is cheaper than oil sands, arctic, or deepwater, so from a competitive perspective, those sources will go away before fracking does. However, with the oil majors facing net drawdowns of reserves, all these sources will be needed to maintain existing production levels.

      Also keep in mind that many of the unprofitable (at the time) wells were capped when oil and gas prices were low, and frackers are now getting production from those drilled-but-uncompleted (DUC) wells at a much lower cost than drilling new wells — in effect, some of those earlier losses are now being made good.

      There are many issues with fracking, not least environmental, and it’s true that bad fracking debt caused a mini-junk bond crisis a few years ago that caused some investors to take losses. And low oil prices drove many small leveraged players out of business.

      But today’s major players, which include companies like Occidental and Exxon, aren’t at risk of defaulting or going bankrupt, and fracking now accounts for a third of U.S. oil production, which is expected to rise to over 50 percent by 2021. In short, fracking is not going away, and it is false to assume or believe that every barrel of fracked oil loses money.

      Full disclosure: Roger Rabbit knew better than to invest in frackers, but has holdings in several oil majors (British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, and Occidental).

    96. 96

      “Today, the big players can drill a fracking well for about half of the $11 million stated in the article. ”

      Continental Resources is a big player.

      Continental executives said they have used updated well designs and improved drilling performance to cut the cost of their recent Woodford wells by $1 million to an average of $11.7 million per wells.

      And these Continental guys also brag that the Woodford has high profit potential. I suppose that might justify the higher (or riskier) cost profile.

      Costs of course are highly variable from play to play.. I saw one report from EIA that estimated Permian Basin costs at 4 million per well less and that was in 2016.

      Continental is getting a shot in the arm from the tax scam the same way GE and others did back in day.

      Continental debt load is still too high even for its boosters:

      “Refinancing doesn’t get rid of the root of the problem, and that is massive interest expenses siphoning off much needed cash flow, reducing earnings, and making it hard to scale back when market conditions dictate that is the right call. At the very least, it is likely Continental Resources pays down the balance on its revolving credit line this year as a show of good faith, but it could go farther.”

      https://seekingalpha.com/article/4154414-continental-resources-rises-downturn?page=4

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