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Vox: Why the US celebrates Columbus Day.

Robert Reich with Mayor Michael Tubbs: New approaches to fighting inequality.

The Atlantic: The search for murdered and missing American Indian women.

Appalachian great-grandma calls out the GOP.

The Dotard Трамп and His Ilk:

Vox: Watch the US stall on climate change for 12 years.

Brave New Films: Locking up migrant children is government sanctioned child abuse

John Oliver on Brazilian elections.

Bill Maher: New Rule—The fault in our stars.

Supremely Boofed:

WaPo: Video claims to show chain of events in Istanbul on day of Khashoggi’s disappearance.

Bill Maher: This week in stupid.

Mental Floss: Everything you didn’t know about paper!

Midterms!

Physics Girl: How to make fluid “climb” up!

Vox: How racism shapes jury selection.

Trevor: Kanye West and Taylor Swift pick political sides

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

Comments

  1. 1

    One day, these freaks are going to be in the rear view mirror..

    “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”

    Can’t come soon enough..

  3. 3

    So Fox News is starting to not air his rallies? The First Amendment applies to Fox as well. Should not be investigating them either.

  4. 4

    @ 1 & 2:

    Johnson was an utter asshole, but he knew how to play the Political game. His Presidency wasn’t about anything but widening the Democrat voting base and doing whatever he thought it would take to do so, for good or bad. The Vietnam War was his baby, the shifting of Federal costs to the States and the resulting increases in local tax burdens.

    He bears as much responsibility for the massive expansion of the military-industrial complex as Reagan. It was under Johnson that military-related logistics were shifted from requests of the actual military services to Congress and lobbyists. He took every advantage from Kennedy’s death as he could get away with, without too many people becoming suspicious of his likely involvement in Kennedy’s assassination.

  6. 6

    @ # 5:

    He’ll be sleeping that Xanax and vodka off for at least another half day. It’ll be sunny today, so by the time he wakes up it’ll be warm enough for him to sit in front of his garage door in his underpants and drink more vodka.

  7. 7

    @ 6

    Naproxic acid and Gatorade, DeathGrassyKnollFrogg.

    Off to buy fence posts, quick-mix concrete, and a 6′ gate. We’re splitting the turnout pasture for the second horse.

    I’m pouring in to the economy, and it eventually trickles down to your unemployment check, ‘froggy.

    It’s too bad you couldn’t get Oliver Stone to put you on retainer, ‘froggy. You’re probably full of good movie ideas. Capricorn One – that was in your head for eight years before it was released, wasn’t it?

  8. 8

    Losing. Get used to how it feels, HA libbies, and you won’t be so inclined to act as a mob.

    Then the word will no longer so frequently apply to your ilk.

    The best short summary of the Great American Mob Debacle is encapsulated by a recent clip from CNN, in which host Brooke Baldwin reacted in horror and dismay when columnist Matt Lewis accurately described the screaming mob that recently chased Texas senator Ted Cruz out of a restaurant as . . . wait for it . . . a mob.

    “Oh, you’re not going to use the ‘mob’ word here,” Baldwin declared. “A mob is what we saw in Charlottesville, Va., two Augusts ago. A mob is not what we saw chasing” — and here Baldwin suddenly changed course, perhaps because she realized that “chasing” sounds suspiciously mob-like. “I’m not saying what they did was right,” she added, before declaring that the “m-word” should be off-limits, given that it contributes to “the weaponization of what’s happening now on the right.”

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/how-to-tell-if-you-are-part-of-a-mob/

  9. 9

    Example of mob behavior, HA version:

    Nearly in unison, HA libbies continually allege bestiality behavior by the one consistently present conservative who engages with them, and then openly wonders why their ilk is referred to as a mob.

    So bwave. So vewy, vewy bwave.

  13. 13

    A shame, really. YLB was so looking forward to strapping on those kneepads again. Two years is a very long time, isn’t it, girlfriend?

    BETO O’ROURKE, DEMOCRATIC DREAMBOAT, IS GETTING HIS ASS KICKED IN TEXAS

    But as Bernie Sanders demonstrated back in 2016, a massive, sustained influx of grassroots cash does not guarantee victory, and the numbers are there to prove it: though O’Rourke certainly has the cash and the press to elevate his profile, he still lags behind Cruz by a considerable margin. The Real Clear Politics average for October places Cruz ahead of O’Rourke by an average of 7 points, citing polls from The New York Times (which has him up by 8 points) and Quinnipiac (up by 9 points), among others. While it’s not the double-digit margin Republicans usually boast in Texas, it’s wide enough that election watchers are largely placing Texas in the “leaning red” category—that is, barring a completely possible last-minute surprise.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/beto-orourke-fundraising-record-ted-cruz

    I believe it was yesterday that QoS McHillbilly was arguing this as a positive, because the large amount of money wasted on YLB’s current crush by Democrats means the GOP will have to spend more there, too.

    You keep being you, QoS. After all, you’d need a new shtick if Senate Democrats were competent.

  15. 15

    9,
    Teh Dumbfuck is feewing victimized.

    Again, I must ask just exactly when the fuck did Republicans become such a bunch of pussies?

  22. 22

    @ 14

    That reminds me of the numerous times Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit uses ‘towelheads’ on HA.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+rabbit+towelheads+horsesass.org&oq=roger+rabbit+towelheads+horsesass.org&aqs=chrome..69i57.8598j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    http://horsesass.org/dear-fran.....ent-954368

    http://horsesass.org/romney-wins/#comment-730071

    Good times, good times. Although there’s a word for what Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit does and ‘civility’ is not that word, QoS McHillbilly.

  25. 25

    Decently sourced, short piece that helps explain why Beto is toast in Texas.

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/hispanic-voters-trump-democrats-2018-midterms.html

    1. Way too few Latinos vote.
    2. Way too few Latinos disfavor Trump.

    When 41% of Latinos approve of Trump’s performance, what’s the point, really, of spending all that extra dough to get them registered to vote? ’cause all that really means is you’re gonna have to steal a bigger ballot box when it’s all over, libbies.

  27. 27

    My party spent $38M to support a drunk-driving Irishman and all I got is another hundred thousand moronic posts by a festering anus of a dumbfuck rabbit.

    ‘froggy’s Lament

  29. 29

    24,
    And to think it was only a few short weeks ago that you were supposed to be obnoxiously fist pumping and hip thrusting over the flips, not the holds.
    #BummerSummer
    #TheOtherStuff

  30. 30

    My party spent $38M…

    Powder is still dry, Teh Dumbfuck. Those are local individual donors, mostly small change.

  31. 31

    @ 28

    You’re right. I don’t mention Heitkamp nearly enough.

    Although you need to give credit where credit is due for the obnoxious fist-pumping (and fist-bumping) over Kavanaugh.

    #BeersforBrett #BuildingtheperfectCourt

  32. 32

    @ 28, continued

    The day before the 2016 election Cz-252, who has since renamed himself Pilsner because of his embarrassment, crowed in these parts about the “absolute lock” Hillary Clinton had on 252 electoral votes.

    I think it is because of my respect for Glenn Harlan Reynolds’ repeated admonition that I refrain from ball-spiking when the GOP’s offense is still outside the Red Zone:

    Glenn Reynolds, to GOP: Don’t Get Cocky, Kid

    http://reason.com/blog/2010/01.....p-dont-get

    November will be here soon enough. You can have the House. With what Trump and McConnell are doing to remake the judiciary, it will be enough to come out of it all with a stronger GOP-held Senate.

    Cz-252 taught the rest of us an important lesson about ball-spiking. It’s best to wait until you’ve muscled it in.

    I’ve got the time.

  33. 33

    @ 28, yet again.

    I’m pretty stoked about all of the just-confirmed judges that the Dems agreed to, so that they can get home to try to minimize the carnage.

    That’s worth a few fist-pumps right there.

  34. 34

    Sometimes, QoS McHillbilly, the holds @ 28 are worth bumping fists to celebrate.

    Particularly when they come with the opportunity to point to yet another Democrat who has falsely claimed minority status.

    Kyrsten Sinema Took NALEO Scholarships Meant for Latinos

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/7/11/1108645/-Kyrsten-Sinema-Took-NALEO-Scholarships-Meant-for-Latinos

    I might question the source if it wasn’t dKos.

    What was it you were saying @ 27 about Warren, QoS?

  35. 35

    @7 “We’re splitting the turnout pasture for the second horse.”

    At your age, you should need only half a horse, and then only after the wife isn’t functional anymore..

  37. 37

    A mob is what happens when two or more people wearing MAGA hats get together in a confined space.

  38. 38

    @21 Of course, it’s okay for you asswipes to use it. No complaint from you about that.

    The language changes, the stupidity never does.

  39. 39

    @24 Ya know, that race should be a cakewalk for your guy, but your party is pouring in millions to save his sorry ass — money that can’t be spent on other races — and they don’t even like him.

    Beto has already won, dumbfuck.

  40. 40

    @26 “all I got is another hundred thousand moronic posts by a festering anus of a dumbfuck rabbit”

    Anything that keeps you off the streets is a good investment.

  41. 41

    @31 You’re right this time, doc. The sheer dumbfuckery of the human species should never be underestimated. Of course, we rabbits have know about this for a very long time.

  42. 42

    What was it you were saying @ 27 about Warren?

    Nothing. Go see for yourself, Teh Dumbfuck.

    It’s happening. We all saw it coming. We’ve seen his character implode. We’ve seen his temperament decline. Now his long lingering entrapment on the Keystone Light side of Teh Orange Event Horizon has begun its sad but inevitable work on his limited cognitive abilities. Even his senses have begun to betray him. Soon enough he’ll be waking up in the night and peeing in the walk-in closet.

  43. 43

    It’s best to wait until you’ve muscled it in

    And that is?

    So you’re going to hold the House, increase the Senate, and pickup down ballot. Mmmkay. Then you can repeal ACA, build the wall, shut down the OSC, fire the DOJ, Lock Her Up, and triple down on the deficit. All of which, for some inexplicable reason, you haven’t been able to do for the last two years. But hey, at least Pruitt got his NetJets account.

    If all that shit ever happens, I’m sure it will get noticed, fist pumping and hip thrusting notwithstanding.
    #winningwhining

  44. 44

    34,
    “We’re splitting the turnout pasture for the second horse.”

    Makes sense. Any fan of Big Love knows they’re bound to get bitchy and jealous of each other.

  45. 45

    It’s working.
    A well funded handful of ultra rightwing PACs have begun pumping money into Maine this season to shore up Collins’ numbers (even though she isn’t on the ballot) and to help with other down ballot Child Molesters. More money and resources being sidelined.

  46. 46

    As Roypublican President PornSticky’s lawyers begin the long and arduous task of trying to craft responses to the OSC take-home test that won’t put them and their client in jail, it is well worth remembering at this point that Robert Mueller knows more about what PornSticky knew and said, and when he knew and said it than even his own lawyers, who are the ones answering the questions.

    If there is a Perjury Trap™, it’s one he built around himself one lie at a time.

  48. 48

    @44 The money they’re spending to shore up Collins is an investment in party loyalty. They wouldn’t spend money on her if she was the independent thinker she claims she is. Oh, and her 2020 opponent now has $3,711,134 from 125,972 donors. If you’ve been meaning to donate, but haven’t gotten around to it yet — or if you simply want to track the donations — you can do so here:

    https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/387413/fund-susan-collins-future-opponent

  53. 53

    I see Repukes are getting out the Brother P-Touch Label maker again – now its “Mob”.

    Snowflake, Mob, Snowflake

    #Labels

    All they can do to gel their little Klan.

    Well – the Italian Mob, not so bad. Them Saudi Mobsters, well not so bad. The Russian Mob, not so bad. The rise of the Fascist Mob, not so bad.

    So, you want to label me a “Mob”, then bring it on. Let’s duke it out you pussies!

  54. 54

    I Listened to All Six Trump Rallies in October.
    “It’s the hate, and the sense of actual menace that the President is trying to convey to his supporters. Democrats aren’t just wrong in the manner of traditional partisan differences; they are scary, bad, evil, radical, dangerous. Trump and Trump alone stands between his audiences and disaster”
    https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/i-listened-to-all-six-trump-rallies-in-october-you-should-too

  55. 55

    @49
    Trump: “It’s in Turkey, and it’s not a citizen, as I understand it,”
    Shorter trump. “It’s not like they killed a person, so who cares?”

  56. 56

    53,
    All the really violent, hateful stuff he says at those rallies that the media surrogates say should be ignored?

    That is precisely the stuff we need to take seriously.

    That’s the stuff he really means. The stuff about rising up, and arming and going to war. About killing immigrants. About his people “taking over”. About eliminating civil rights. That’s the stuff he really means.

  58. 58

    “cerebral, serious” boob now imagines that yours truly expects something favorable from the state that gave us “lyin’ ted”..

    TexASS?

    Yawwn.. Yours truly hopes for the best, prepares for the worst.

    And Beto? Can’t remember saying a word about him.. Poor boob – the freak is drowning in its fantasy life.

  59. 59

    @57 Dumbfuck grasps for straws – hoping for the long one, but always coming up short.

    What he thinks is the longest straw is always the shortest one he can draw. It’s called Dumbfuck Syndrome.

  61. 61

    @59

    I’d say “Make America Smart Again”….but America never was smart. But it sure has gotten dumber! American Exceptionalism – to go as low and as stupid as one can get.

    We could have led the World to something greater – but why was the World our problem?

    But in the end it really doesn’t matter. With the pace of current technology, climate change, it will all be over soon for the Human Race, this is just the beginning of the end that is on display.

  62. 62

    Since Darryl won’t do it, I’ll do it. A moment of silence for the loon (RIP)…

    Okay. That’s enough.

  63. 63

    The evidence is piling up, making it clear as a bell that the way Republican men relate to women, children and farm animals is really damned strange.

    “Capitol harassment: Lewd, intimidating conduct has created a ‘toxic’ Statehouse, staffers and lawmakers say”

    https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/2018/10/14/iowa-capitol-legislature-sexual-harassment-me-too-depositions-lawmakers-porn-senate-kirsten-anderson/1187425002/

    It looks like this election will come down to Putin versus America’s women. I’m betting on America’s women. Doctor Dumbfuck has his money on Putin. We’ll see.

  64. 64

    “the one consistently present conservative”

    Feeling all alone here now, are you? SAD! But it’s not like we’re the ones who lynched the loon.

  65. 65

    @60 “why was the World our problem?”

    Because the World has a habit of bringing its troubles to us.

  66. 66

    @63 I guess my answer would be that Doctor Dumbfuck is such a rare bird it’s damned difficult to find more like him. The males try to fuck knotholes in trees, and even when they successfully breed most of them get run over by cars.

  68. 68

    @66 He’s going down there to look for hurricane victims on the Mar-a-Largo golf course.

  69. 69

    Stocks probably will drop a little further this week, but this is technical selling, not a correction. It’s caused by de-risking in the volatility trade, the same thing that triggered last spring’s two corrections. All that’s happened is that stocks are giving up this summer’s gains, and that’s probably as far as it’ll go.

    Sluggish bank lending and falling commodity prices confirm the global and domestic economies are slowing. Although investors will react to a worsening economic outlook, this was already expected and largely priced into stocks. However, stocks could weaken further if the economic outlook worsens.

    Several of the major banks are near their 52-week lows, and while this reflects a weaker profit position, I think this is a good time to buy them. I picked up some additional bank shares on Friday ahead of this week’s bank earnings.

    Trump’s economic policies don’t work. They’re producing a temporary sugar high, that’s all, and wage earnings and consumers eventually will end up paying for his huge gift to the GOP’s billionaire donors. Not all voters will see through this in time for the midterm elections, though, although from what I’ve read even many Trump supporters are (rightly) skeptical of the tax cuts.

    Where people are seeing boosts in take-home pay, it’s more likely due to an uptick in weekly hours than Trump’s phony tax cut, which for most wage earners will be largely canceled by rising inflation. GOP political strategy depends on the 50% of the population stuck in the bottom half of the bell curve being too stupid to spot the connection between tax gifts to the rich and inflation for the masses.

  72. 72

    For anyone that wants to take a few years off you life – listen to Marshmello.

    Don’t forget to turn it up.

  73. 73

    There is a fascinating current of hate building against the “”i got mine, fuck you” Baby Boomers

    “This is commonly said… and sums up the Conservative party really well. “I got mine, if you didn’t its your fault, don’t approach me with your hand out”… what they ignore is all the times THEY directly benefited from this social system, that now they no longer care about because it doesn’t benefit them, until it does again and then they justify its existence “because they put their money into the system”‘

    “The Boomers as a whole sold us out. They were handed untold prosperity and managed to loot it and fuck the rest of us.”

    “So the Boomer generation has grown up knowing nothing but “Keeping up with the Jonses”, loyalty to a company is more important then anything so you get a fat pension, make sure you get yours before someone else does, and always keep others down so you can stand taller.”

    “So much this, in fact what seems to stand out as tantamount in everything Boomers have done and are currently doing is fear. I’ve never seen a generation that was so infatuated with this absurdly narrow ideal of what they believe America to be and their terror that anyone would take away what they looted and plundered during their time. …That they have spent the last 50 years convincing everyone that if you haven’t gotten “yours” yet you haven’t worked hard enough while they sit around and enjoy the largest tax breaks, social support and indolent lifestyle possible.”

    “The Baby Boomers were nicknamed the “Me Generation” by their parents a long, long time ago. They sure lived up to it.”

  74. 74

    There is a fascinating current of hate building against the “”i got mine, fuck you” Baby Boomers

    “Boomer: “I got mine!”

    Millennials: “Hey, I want mine, too!”

    Boomer: “I will use this position of mine to leverage you into working twice as hard then cheat you out of as much of yours as I can get away with. Then I’ll call you lazy.””
    —
    I effectively pointed out that huge points of there life that were handed to them are completely unattainable to millennials. We have avocado toast and iPhones, they got affordable education, jobs that supported a whole family on one income, decent healthcare that didn’t cost you 15-20% of your income, and affordable homes.

    “There’s a lot of Boomer hate here on reddit. Nothing will change them…not even the fact that we lived this part of history but they’re going to tell us what “really” happened.”

    “Sorry, but fuck Boomers. Again and again I hear them argue about how great things are for them personally with Trump and how they don’t care what things will be like in 30 years from now because they’ll be dead. We can be angry at them for that. We can also be angry at them for being so fucking guilible and such posers because they want to fit in with that person at work that they buy into trash news articles, Fox News, and conspiracy theories. They got cheap college, cushy jobs with pensions, cheap housing, clean food and water for most their lives, and they return the favor by bitching about their taxes until some new hack politician comes along and gives them another minor tax break while shoveling more money to their corporate donors.

    Until we start seeing this as a generational war that we’re losing out of apathy, then we’ll continue to lose.”

  75. 75

    @70 Hopefully Iowa voters will send this Nazi-lover packing and nobody will have to defend themselves against his ilk. However, if they start killing liberals, as some of them have threatened to do, none of us should walk quietly into the gas chambers. Our grandfathers and fathers who fought the Nazis didn’t and neither should we.

  76. 76

    @72, 73 – I think you have to judge people and rabbits as individuals. This Boomer had nothing handed to him. Paid for his own education by working in dirty, backbreaking, minimum-wage jobs. Never belonged to a fraternity, or went to a football or basketball game, just worked and studied. Served in the military, went to war, spent a career in public service. Took two incomes to raise one bunny. Co-owned our Seattle burrow with an elderly relative we supported for 10 years. Totally carried my own freight and never ripped off anyone except Wall Street. Actuaries say I’ll probably get back about what I paid into Social Security, plus interest, which seems fair to me.

    But I acknowledge that Boomers on the whole weren’t one of America’s best generations, although we did some things that were great like protesting war and militarism, fighting racism, and creating the environmental movement. Despite Trump and Republicans, America in many respects is a better country today than the one we inherited from the so-called “greatest generation.”*

    * Winning WW2 was great, but they did some things that weren’t so great, one of the worst of which was sending my generation to Vietnam and then turning their backs on us when we came home. Also, they were pretty racist, and it was their children who knocked down segregation and made racism disrespectable.

  77. 77

    The discussions do tend, but not always, get around to noting there is a difference between ”i got mine, fuck you” Baby Boomers and progressive Boomers.
    It starts with boomers and ends up with the consensus that republicans are the problem, but so many Boomers vote republican.

  78. 78

    @19

    Look on the bright side: Susan Hutchison will never be a Senator.

    Look on the bright side, maybe Rossi can finally win an election in a district that is well known for supporting candidates with great hair.

  79. 79

    The party that ruled Bavaria for 67 of the last 70 years lost big Sunday, jeopardizing Angela Merkla’s ruling coalition.

  80. 80

    “President Donald Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax but says he doesn’t know if it’s manmade and suggests that the climate will ‘change back again.'”

    https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/10/14/trump-says-climate-change-not-a-hoax-not-sure-of-its-source/23560906/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Yeah, it will, after you stupid humans aren’t around to fuck with it anymore. But it’s going to take eons to put things back the way they were.

  81. 81

    77,
    I’ll believe it when I see it.
    In a year when dozens of PornSweat incumbents in “likelyRepublican” districts are trailing within the margins, things are obviously “very dynamic” and poised to beak in the final weeks. Late spending could be decisive. And since a majority of incumbent PornFuckers lagged in fund raising, most of them front loaded their spending to buy early poll results and gain some mo.

    An early kick can be especially devastating to an unknown challenger. But you gotta have the gas in the tank.

  83. 83

    This one’s for you, Evergreen Railfan. Best damn train movie ever. Drag-racing steam locomotives! Collapsed bridges! Bears on the tracks! Russian social relations! Naked women! Moonshine vodka! Drunken two-timing engineers! English subtitles! What’s not to like? Those Russkies sure know how to make a train movie.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7FmBYKbvOM

  85. 85

    78)The Green Party got 17%. Potential coalition partner for the CSU? It happened, sort of, in Baden-Wuttenberg.

    They are still counting votes, They vote a little differently than the Federal elections. The Party vote is an open list instead of closed.

  86. 86

    “Do you think you treated her with respect?” Stahl asked.

    “I think so, yea, I did,” the president said.

    Stahl followed up: “But you seem to be saying that she lied.”

    “I’m not going to get into it,” Trump said. “Because we won. It doesn’t matter. We won.”

  87. 87

    As power hungry as this man is, I thank the holy noodles that he has absolutely no idea how much he has, or how to use it. And that scares the shit out of me. He is an utter, imbecilic clod who is incapable of making any sort of factual statement.

    He is just so goddamn flippant about all of it too. We know where Kavanaugh got the idea it was perfectly fine to talk to Senators the way he did. Trump fucking told him to do it. Insult them. Berate them. Interrupt them. Lie and shout them down when called out on the lies. How the hell has that become part of a confirmation hearing for a seat on the Supreme Court? Even 15 years ago this man would have been run out on a rail in five minutes flat.

    I really have no idea how Lesley Stahl kept her composure, other than she is a professional who has done worse interviews than this. I would have probably stood up and kicked the man square in the face. Several times.

  88. 88

    83) That one. Although, if the 4 ships were built but not delivered, could be like the Kidd class destroyers, originally built for Iran.

  89. 89

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