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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Stephen: Profiles In Discourage—The “Gay Nazi” candidate.

Jimmy Kimmel: Kimmel vs Cruz—Blobfish basketball classic.

The Atlantic: Your brain on depression.

Seth Meyers: Senator Tammy Baldwin on being the first openly gay person elected to the Senate.

Roy Wood Jr. versus The News.

WaPo: Is the news stressing you out? Tips for dealing with news related anxiety.

John Oliver: Xi Jinping.

The Dotard Трамп And His Band of Kidnappers And Hostage Takers:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Greenman: Houston, Harvey, and and a hot ocean.

WaPo: Four years after riots in Ferguson, Mo., this part of the city is still reeling.

Jim Jefferies Jordan Peterson on free speech and college protests.

Trevor: So much news, so little time.

Roy Wood, Jr.: Wilmot Collins—From African refugee to Montana mayor.

Late Show: The NRA—Keep your hands off my dog’s guns

Jimmy Fallon: David Hogg and Lauren Hogg recount the trauma of the Stoneman Douglas shooting.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Melania doubles down on not caring.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/melania-trump-jacket-i-really-dont-care-do-u-raises-eyebrows-for-edgy-message/

    Rober Rabbit Commentary: At first glance, not caring may seem easy, the lazy person’s way out, but in reality unless you’re a brain-dead zombie (which arguably she is) it’s hard work and emotionally draining to not care about babies and toddlers crying for their mothers. For most normal people, if they saw a child wander into a busy street, it would be easier to dash in front of an oncoming care and snatch the child out of harm’s way, risking life and limb, than to stand on the curb and doing nothing. So give credit where it’s due: Republicans work hard at being assholes.

  2. 2

    The Republican argument goes something like this: Separating children is an unavoidable byproduct of prosecuting their parents for crossing the border illegally.

    It isn’t true.

    ” … [T]here’s an alternative approach that’s cheaper, more humane and incredibly effective. The Trump administration just doesn’t want to use it.

    “The Family Case Management Program, which … Trump ended … after taking office, was meant to keep track of immigrant parents and kids in removal proceedings without having to keep them locked up.

    “It was relatively small ― about 950 families in five locations. But it was hugely successful: More than 99 percent of families in the program showed up for their court dates, and 97 percent participated in required check-ins with their case managers, according to a report from Geo Care, the private prison company that operated the program. And it reportedly cost the government just $36 per family each day, versus $319 per bed per day in a family detention center. …

    “It was a success …, according to experts who served on an advisory committee for the program. … [But] ICE abruptly shut down the program last June with little explanation ….”

    The reason appears to be that the Trump administration is fixated on only one statistic and outcome: Removals. Their problem with the FCM program seems to be that, under it, some of the immigrants got to stay.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-family-detention-alternative_us_5b2d4731e4b0321a01d1002e

  3. 3

    “A Maine Democratic candidate for Senate was taken into police custody on Friday trying to deliver supplies to a detention center for immigrant children in McAllen, Texas.”

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-candidate-arrested-trying-to-deliver-supplies-to-detained-kids_us_5b2d321be4b00295f15c3dd1

    We shouldn’t be surprised. In Republican-ruled cities across America, it’s already a crime to feed the homeless.

    https://www.fastcodesign.com/3067138/why-are-people-getting-arrested-for-giving-food-to-the-homeless

  6. 6

    Even the police union probably can’t save that guy’s job, although they’ll certainly try.

  7. 7

    “Trump-backing soy bean farmer rails against president’s tariffs: ‘You are putting families in financial peril’”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/trump-backing-farmer-bails-president-tariffs-putting-families-financial-peril/

    “Missouri nail manufacturer planning to lay off over 250 employees due to Trump steel tariffs – and could close by Labor Day”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/missouri-nail-manufacturer-planning-lay-off-250-employees-due-trump-steel-tariffs-close-labor-day/

    #somuchwinning

  8. 8

    She should just be glad she didn’t share the loon’s fate. The loon’s white supremacist buddies finally got around to lynching him this week.

    “Outgoing Minnesota GOP chairwoman claims she was subjected to slurs of ‘dragon lady and ch*nk’ from party officials and execs”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/outgoing-minnesota-gop-chairwoman-claims-subjected-slurs-dragon-lady-chnk-party-officials-execs/

    No sympathy here for the loon. I warned him it would happen. My conscience is clear.

    Then again, maybe this guy is right and the loon decided he wanted to be a slave.

    “GOP candidate stands by his claims that Islam is a ‘cancer’ and some Africans wish they were slaves”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/gop-candidate-stands-claims-islam-cancer-africans-wish-slaves/

  12. 12

    The immigration bill seems to be getting stalled because the President keeps pulling support. Also, would be great if negotiations were not just photo ops.

  15. 15

    @ 4

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: At least he got to die rich.

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, the irony of this is that after all of your bragging about your financial prowess, all evidence to the contrary, you won’t.

  16. 16

    @ 11

    Meet MJ Hegar. Doctor Dumbfuck’s worst nightmare.

    Her opponent won by 22 points in 2016. Hegar is pro-Second Amendment.

    Oh, and she’s one in a crowd.

    Hegar is joining an already crowded field of Democrats who have filed to challenge Carter, including fellow veteran Kent Lester; Dr. Christine Eady Mann, a family physician in Cedar Park; and Mike Clark, who first challenged Carter in 2016. Hegar said she believes she has a “better chance to beat Carter than they do” — she cited her record, as well as her fundraising ability — “but I hope they continue to stay engaged.”

    https://www.texastribune.org/2017/07/06/carter-gets-democratic-challenger-military-hero-mj-hegar/

    As I recall, my last Texas ‘worst nightmare’ was Wendy Davis, Steve.

  17. 17

    I will admit that MJ Hegar is a far better story than, say, Sandra Fluke was.

    I mean, I don’t think MJ would hesitate to whip out her own money to pay for a box of condoms rather than expecting the government to do it, amirite, Steve?

    After all, it’s amazing what squeezing out a kid or two will do for your willingness to wait for contraception until you can get it for ‘free’. Fluke’s still waiting, although part of the reason why is she’s too objectionable for anyone to want to fuck her.

  18. 18

    Sometime’s it’s hard to tell the difference between y’all HA libbies.

    I mean, gman @ 14 is pulling a YLB this morning, fer sure. Look what he wrote. He hit all the YLB mannerisms:

    1. Unseriousness.
    2. All-caps.
    3. One exclamation point per sentence.

  19. 19

    I’ll predict that Strzok, whose attorney volunteered him to testify willingly and answer all questions asked by any investigative body, will take the Fifth now that he’s been subpoenaed to testify on Wednesday before two House committees.

  22. 22

    @17 “Sandra Fluke”

    Yeah, I remember her. Republicans wanted to hold a hearing on contraception with no female witnesses. Democrats wanted her to speak, but Darrell Issa (R-Asshole) wouldn’t let her.

    So Republicans went ahead with formulating policy about heatlh insurance coverage for contraception with no input from 50 percent of America’s population.

    Typical of Republicans’ attitude toward democracy.

  23. 23

    @18 Yaawn. (scratch) Participating in HA discussions is a voluntary activity. If you’re unhappy with the terms of service, you have other options. For example, you can step outside the barn and shout into the wind. I’m sure your audience ratings will be the same as or better than you have now.

  24. 24

    @21 We thought Fuckface was willing to be interviewed. What happened to that? Did his new lawyer give him advice about what happens to criminals who voluntarily go to the police station?

  25. 25

    Katie Arrington, who ousted Rep. Mark Sanford in primary, seriously injured in car crash

    Her office said that she suffered a fracture in her back, several broken ribs and other injuries that required surgery including the removal of part of her small intestine and a portion of her colon.

    “Additionally, the main artery in her legs has a partial collapse and will require a stent,” the statement said. “Additional surgeries will be required including one likely today; and it is likely that Katie will remain hospitalized for the next two weeks.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....crash.html

    In other news, Alan Grayson has announced he is moving to South Carolina and will mount a write-in campaign for the congressional seat currently held by Sanford.

  26. 26

    @ 24

    What happened to that?

    Strzok, Comey, and McCabe happened to that.

    Trump has no obligation to lead with his chin.

  27. 27

    On a solemn note …

    Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) is one of the few Republicans who’s had the gonads to criticize Trump for his lies, Muslim ban, and immigration policy. Ever since South Carolina’s June 12 primary, Trump has gloated about Sanford’s defeat by Katie Arrington, a more loyal Trump supporter.

    Arrington was nearly killed in a car wreck last night. She was a passenger in a car struck by a wrong-way driver, and according to her campaign, “suffered a fracture to her back, broken ribs, and a partial collapse of the main artery in her legs” and “will have to undergo ‘major surgery’ to remove a portion of her small intestine and a portion of her colon, and will require a stint (sic) in the main artery in her legs.”

    Her Democratic opponent suspended his campaign activities “until further notice” this morning “out of respect” and offered prayers for Arrington’s recovery. Sanford also offered “thoughts and prayers.”

    The driver of Arrington’s car also suffered serious injuries. The wrong-way driver was killed.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/south-carolina-candidate-katie-arrington-car-accident/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: All of us here at HA send our best wishes to Arrington and her family. Whatever our political differences may be, no one wants something like this to happen. It’s too soon to speculate about the impact on that race, but obviously there’s now a possibility the Republican candidate will be replaced by someone else, and I’m guessing that likely would be Sanford if the position is filled by the local GOP organization by appointment.

  28. 28

    It’s an article of faith in circuses, theaters, athletics, and just about everywhere that “the show must go on.”

    Trump doesn’t respect that convention, either.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/politics/white-house-congressional-picnic-steaks/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Trump fans thinks it’s great that Trump breaks all the rules. But rules, conventions, and traditions exist because they serve useful, even essential, purposes; and breaking them usually is destructive.

    Katie Arrington is in a hospital bed fighting for her life this morning because someone violated the convention of which side of the highway you’re supposed to drive on (and I’m guessing he probably was driving drunk, too).

    Trump’s contempt for conventions and norms has the potential to break a lot more than bones. A congressional picnic may seem like no big deal to him, but it’s part of the glue that holds the fabric of the republic together. They represent a pause of partisanship and are an occasion for renewing civility. That’s not unimportant in contentious times like these. That’s why every president since 1945 has put on these bipartisan gatherings. Until now.

    It’s just more evidence of the unthinking tone deafness of the White House occupant.

  29. 29

    @ 28

    But rules, conventions, and traditions exist because they serve useful, even essential, purposes; and breaking them usually is destructive.

    Now do Christmas.

    Brandi Kruse✔
    @BrandiKruse
    Kids who came here to sing for tree lighting were unable to. Protester: “Who cares. Mike Brown doesn’t get a Christmas.” #Seattle #Ferguson

    6:16 PM – Nov 28, 2014

    Roger Rabbit misappropriates a GOP congressional candidate’s serious injury to act like an asshole.

    I guess old, poor, useless, impotent, and incontinent will do that to a liberal.

  31. 31

    The far right has a new megaphone. Typical of the species, this one is a college dropout whose experience with public issues consists of writing a blog about “anorexia, acne, breakups, and dating” that eventually collapsed because of its doxing practices. Her next destination: Gamergate. Then she migrated from there to YouTube, where she achieved a certain fame for incendiary rhetoric and embrace of conspiracy theories.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/youtube-tested-trump-approved-how-candace-owens-suddenly-became-loudest-n885166

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I remember a time when America’s heroes were soldiers who risked their lives for their buddies on battlefields, firefighters who saved babies from burning peoples, farmers who got up at 5 am to milk the cows, people who bootstrapped themselves up into the professions and successful business careers, kids who fought cancer with courage, winning racehorses, etc.

    Now, for the right at least, it’s school dropouts who know nothing about history, civics, economics, foreign affairs, or anything else and can’t even separate fact from fiction who shout that all the world’s problems can be solved simply by demonizing “liberals.”

    Trump is right about one thing: America is no longer great. In past times, when America was still the greatest country in the world, a twit like this would have been laughed off the stage and escorted back to her seat inside of thirty seconds and later given a stern lecture about listening to and respecting the acquired wisdom of her elders.

  32. 32

    Wherein Mike Fuckabee equates this

    https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1010497564435730434/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fmike-huckabee-ms13-nancy-pelosi-tweet_us_5b2e5e98e4b0321a01d17e95

    to this

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/18/i-wanted-to-stop-her-crying-the-image-of-a-migrant-child-that-broke-a-photographers-heart/?utm_term=.3b59ee057bcf

    Not hard to see where Sarah gets her stupidity, dishonesty, and lack of empathy from.

  33. 33

    I’m not in favor of allowing businesses to refuse to serve customers because of their race, religion, gender, sexual preference, or political preferences.

    If you’re in business, you should serve everyone, subject to reasonable restrictions (“no shirt or shoes, no service,” refusing to continue serve drinks to patrons who’ve had too many, kicking dickheads off commercial airplanes, etc.).

    However, if we’re going to allow bakers and florists to refuse service to gay customers, then why shouldn’t bartenders be able to refuse service to Trump supporters?

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bartender-fired-trump-supporters_us_5b2d5d02e4b0040e2742dce0

    I base that on the fact that supporting Trump violates my religious beliefs.

  34. 34

    Working for Trump apparently violates a restaurant owner’s religious beliefs.

    “White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was told to leave a Lexington, Va., restaurant Friday night … because she works for President Trump.”

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sarah-sanders-says-restaurant-owner-in-virginia-told-her-to-leave-2018-06-23/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Discrimination based on religious beliefs is okay, but discrimination based on political beliefs isn’t? Shed me some crocodile tears.

  35. 35

    Now these assholes are getting a taste of what it feels like to be refused service because of who they are. Good. Maybe it’ll force them to think on their sins.

  36. 36

    And the hits just keep on comin’….

    USAToday

    Federal prosecutors warned they were diverting resources from drug-smuggling cases in southern California to handle the flood of immigration charges brought on by the Trump administration’s border crackdown, records obtained by USA TODAY show.

    Days after Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructed prosecutors to bring charges against anyone who enters the United States illegally, a Justice Department supervisor in San Diego sent an email to border authorities warning that immigration cases “will occupy substantially more of our resources.” He wrote that the U.S. Attorney’s Office there was “diverting staff, both support and attorneys, accordingly.”

    The email, sent by the lawyer who runs the office’s major crimes unit, said prosecutors needed to streamline their work on smuggling cases.

  37. 37

    @29 In which an asshole criticizes a fellow asshole for being an asshole. You’re funny sometimes, doc. Especially when you don’t intend to be.

  39. 39

    “He hit all the YLB mannerisms:

    1. Unseriousness.
    2. All-caps.
    3. One exclamation point per sentence.”

    YLB? No, you dumbfuck. You just described the loon.

    “KAAAAABLAAAAMMMMMOOOOOOOO!”

    No surprise here if you’re one of the white supremacists who lynched the poor sap.

  44. 44

    @32 and they both need to go on a diet. Their medical expenses and cost to insurance is a National Security epidemic.

  45. 45

    @33 exactly – It’s a beautiful thing. But I would have let them stayed and just added a tariff towards their drink.

  50. 50

    Speaking seriously @ 49 of MIA:

    U.S. Forces Korea
    @USForcesKorea
    13h13 hours ago

    Today UNC moved 100 wooden Temporary Transit Cases, built in Seoul, to the JSA. We are preparing to receive and transport remains in a dignified manner when we get the call to do so.

    In which YLB learns that MIA isn’t an airport in southern Florida.

  51. 51

    @50 The operative phrase is “when we get the call.” Until then, our side has 100 empty wooden boxes.

  54. 54

    @1 Could be sarcasm, as someone often on this list who uses it, you should recognize the possibility.

  55. 55

    @2 Children are separated by police from their parents every day. Here in Washington state every day when there is a domestic disturbance and there was physical contact a parent or parents is arrested, One or both are going to jail regardless of the situation of any children, other than child services is called if no one is there to care for the kids. I doubt you are going to suggest there is a better way, but that this is good public policy, Which means this whole separation of children in this one law enforcement endeavor is somehow different. It is not. The policy may actually discourage immigrants bringing their children over the border, endangering them, and exposing them, and corrupting them.

  56. 56

    @10 Lots of crying children on “Cops” when mommy or daddy are arrested, when the cops rush in, ect. Certainly some politicians do not like the optics, but pols of both parties know immigrant children have cried for decades when parents are arrested and deported. Few or none are suggesting we welcome in those people mentioned on that plaque on the Statue of Liberty. Human beings should just be able to go across any border their feet come to, but that is not the policy you want, nor call for, as that is the only crying child free zone.

  57. 57

    “The babbling “butt”-hole has been MIA for a spell.”

    I figure he got lynched by his white supremacist buddies. SAD!

  60. 60

    45 brags on Twitter today about “Gutting” Obamacare. The huge premium increase bills will hit voters mailboxes in October. Voting in November.

    You can bet your ass the ads are in production right now.

    “GOP/President gleeful over costing working Americans hundreds of dollars a month. Had enough?”

  61. 61

    @55

    Can you show me the cages those children end up in?

    The ones where guards get caught on camera making fun of them?

    The children that are injected with drugs to calm them without any parental consent at all?

    The times they tell the not arrested parent they will never see their child again?

    This is the end all be all of false equivalences.

  62. 62

    News out of California,

    More people voted in the 2018 primary than the 2014 General.

    That’s not good for GOP

    (Hmmm…what game altering news event happened after the primary?)

  63. 63

    McSweeney’s continues to be hilarious

    Ultimately I decided to wear white jeans to convey to these children what they need to be in order to be the kind of immigrant we will welcome into the country. (White. They need to be white.)

    I began to think of all the images I had seen so far from these “cages,” or as I prefer to think of them, “open-air daycares.” Or maybe [long blank stare] it is best not to think of them at all.

  64. 64

    RE: 45 Tweet Du Jour:

    The 5th and 14th Amendments dealing with Due Process specifically say “Persons” not “Citizens.”

    Why it;s almost like the Founding Fathers anticipated a, “You have to be an American citizen to have rights” sort of arguement in the future.

    Why does the president hate the Constitution?

  65. 65

    This article is a couple years old, but is interesting for the light it sheds on the FBI’s questionable anti-terrorism tactics, including a brief reference to a Seattle case.

    https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/court-throws-out-terrorism-conviction-in-canada-citing-police-entrapment/

    Of course, you’re not really solving actual terrorism cases, or catching real terrorists, or preventing real terrorism, by setting up harmless street addicts for entrapment and convicting them of imaginary crimes.

    In just one case, the RCMP spent thousands of police man-hours and a million dollars of taxpayer money doing exactly that, and they were merely emulating the FBI’s post-911 practices.

  67. 67

    Goldy Retweeted

    Atrios
    @Atrios
    wow a republican president is more popular among republicans than any president since.. the last republican president. i can’t wait to subscribe to your newsletter.    likely voters than Obama was at a comparable point in his first term.
    2h

    ftfy

    <emThese poll results show that Trump, Obama and Reagan had similar polling results for early June in the second year of their presidencies. These results are a snapshot in time, and other polling results show warning signs for Republicans headed into the midterms.

    That said, the numbers cited are correct. We rate this claim Mostly True.

    http://www.politifact.com/pund.....-presiden/

  68. 68

    @67 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck fails to see any distinction between “more” and “tied.” Because he’s a dumbfuck.

  69. 69

    There’s a larger issue behind these polls, however, that isn’t addressed by the raw numbers. And that is the fact that somewhere between 39% and 46% of the U.S. voting-age population is permanently and irremediably stupid. Three-fourths of them believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11, and the other fourth believed 9/11 was a false flag operation committed by the U.S. government. They believed Obama was a Muslim terrorist born in Kenya and indoctrinated in Indonesia. They believed Hillary ran a child sex slave ring from a pizza parlor. And they believe, without exception, that Donald Trump will “make America great again.”

    With demographics like this, Adolf Hitler would get the same approval rating as Mother Teresa, if he had an “R” after his name and she had a “D” after hers.

    So, doc, what is your point? All I see is a dumbfuck bragging about the GOP’s success at recruiting morons and how many stupid Republican voters we’re stuck with as a result.

  70. 70

    My general impression of Republican voters is that most of them are gullible and stupid, and more than a few of them are racist, bigoted, and venal.

  71. 71

    @ 69

    So, doc, what is your point?

    They’re the ‘likely voters’.

    Hillary’s ‘basket of deplorables’? They’re the ones who vote.

    When your GOTV fails in November, come back to this exchange, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. It’ll save you some introspection.

  72. 72

    @71 And, as I’ve already pointed out, there are enough Republican dumbfucks to make the numbers the polls are showing. Possibly even enough to keep Congress in GOP hands this fall and re-elect Trump in 2020. Which proves what, America has become a nation of dumbfucks? And you think that’s cause for celebration? Of course you would, you’re a dumbfuck.

  73. 73

    Now Trump wants summary deportations “without courts or judges.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/24/politics/ron-johnson-immigration-cnntv/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I guess you can’t expect a former real estate developer and reality TV personality to see the problem with this. That’s why the president has legal advisers. Where are they when they’re needed?

    Border jumpers aren’t the issue here. You can argue border jumpers aren’t entitled to much due process, or any at all, and I won’t necessarily disagree with you.

    The problem is the same as it was with torture. I really didn’t care what Dubya and his minions did with the bastards responsible for 9/11. They could have burned them at the stake for all I cared, and I wouldn’t have said a thing, as long as they toasted the actual guilty parties. (But if they did it to an innocent person, they would hang for it, that was the deal I offered them at the time.)

    The issue arises from the fact that dragnets, by their very nature, scoop up innocent people. This happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it happens when the Border Patrol stops motorists or conducts workplace sweeps here in the USA. When you start conducting dragnets and then treat the detainees as presumptive criminals without any judicial oversight or process, inevitably some of them will be innocent and you will commit civil rights violations under our laws. In fishing terms, you’re supposed to throw back the bycatch. If we let them eliminate that process, they won’t.

    Keep in mind that Border Patrol checkpoints, sweeps, and raids can and do occur hundreds of miles from any border. On roads traveled by ordinary citizens (and legal immigrants) going about their lawful business. If you believe none of them will ever get scooped up in ICE’s continent-spanning seine nets, I have a bridge to sell you.

    Our country is presided over by a dinglebutt who thinks if you’re arrested by ICE, you shouldn’t have any opportunity to say to someone in a position of authority, “They made a mistake. I’m an American citizen.” If that doesn’t scare you, it should.

    So here’s my offer. If Trump wants to summarily deport suspected or alleged border jumpers without any kind of hearing, every deported citizen gets $5 million, every deported legal immigrant gets $2 million, and every deported person who had a right to apply for asylum or has other legal rights that were violated by the summary deportation gets $1 million, plus minor children get an additional $1 million each. Paid by Trump personally, out of his own funds, not taxpayer money. If he really believes in this, then let him put his money where his mouth is. How about it, Donald, deal or no deal?

  76. 76

    The corruption at Scott Pruitt’s EPA is boundless.

    “A family friend of the lobbyists who rented out a room to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was considered for a position at the agency, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing newly released emails.

    “Pruitt’s ethics have been repeatedly questioned following a string of controversies, one being a housing agreement in Washington, where he reportedly rented a room for below market price from lobbyist J. Steven Hart.

    “The Times reported Sunday that Pruitt’s chief of staff, Ryan Jackson, and Hart exchanged emails discussing hiring the family friend of Hart. …

    “The paper also notes that the emails reveal deeper ties between the EPA and Hart.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/24/politics/scott-pruitt-epa-emails/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: The EPA has already suffered massive damage, and by the time Trump and Pruitt are done, it will have to be rebuilt from the ground up.

  77. 77

    Turkey’s rightwing dictator has announced he’s been reelected in today’s rigged election in that country.

  81. 81

    This year I watched the NYC Pride Parade very close to its starting point. It started at 12:10pm. The last marchers to leave this location was 8:15pm. Seriously. The last marchers to reach the end of the parade had to be well over 2 hours later (I’m guessing), or they might even still be marching as I write – who knows.

    This year they changed the route of the parade to accommodate the Worldwide Celebration in 2019, when they expect to have 1 million more visitors and spectators. They said that it would help shorten the length of the parade. But I think it got longer.

    Speaking of the LGBT….I’m wondering if the right will take their usual stance on Huckabee being 86ed from The Red Cock…I mean Hen…and say….”See, the liberals, they want tolerance but are’nt even tolerant themselves”

    Well, to this I say. You started it. You pick fights and then don’t like when people fight back. You open a can of worms and then don’t like them creepy crawly dirty things.

    I see this a little differently though. This was one specific individual that was asked to leave an establishment; not because she belonged to any group.

    The Baker didn’t want to bake for two gay people being married. He targeted (discriminated against) a group of people. Huckabee was targeted as an individual. I believe any establishment has the right to indiscriminately ask any individual to leave their establishment.

    In NYC, recently an Uber Driver asked two lesbians to get out of the vehicle for an innocent peck on the lips with each other. A Yellow Cab asked a gay man, who was riding with a female friend, if he was gay, and then asked the gay guy to get out of his car after answering yes that he was gay. See – here a group is being discriminated against, not one specific individual – big difference.

  82. 82

    Wow, after writing the above, I come across this article.

    http://www.courant.com/news/co.....story.html

    not sure link will work. But CT restaurant with then name Red Hen got bad reviews…..these hillbillies are so stupid that they don’t know what is up or down. And Old Saybrook, CT, I think is probably pretty split Dem/Rep, but possibly may have been a CT town that went for The Hump.

  84. 84

    @82 You gotta remember, if a black guy in Alabama robs a gas station, these hillbillies think a different black guy buying gas in New Jersey is a criminal.

  85. 85

    @84 complete utter chaos is what Republicans have created here….beginning with Michelle Bachman, The Teabaggers, and then the cunt from Alaska.

  87. 87

    78,
    Conveniently disregards the third of voters who describe themselves as neither.
    But Dumbfuck’s right about on thing again.
    Turnout will be destiny this fall. And Democrats still aren’t even playing in Roypublican’s league when it comes to manufacturing and then exploiting outrage to motivate action. Fortunately, the guy Dumbfuck voted for is giving us plenty of practice. And as Dumfuck’s poll shows we’re improving rapidly.

    Thankfully, mid terms are not a nationwide poll. It’s 435 seperate local polls. And we only need to improve in 24 of them to put an end to Republican border soldiers torturing screaming babies for the amusement of his “likely voters”.

  88. 88

    hey Bob, any predictions on when the Dow drops below 23,000?

    Maybe if you do have one it will stop it from going below 23,000!

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