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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Samantha Bee: Larry Krasner—Finally a good DA?.

Robert Reich: The American social contract

Nancy Pelosi: Chocolate taste test.

Vox: NAFTA, explained with a toy car.

The Orange Nationalist, Dotard Трамп, and Other Sociopaths:

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.

Jim Jefferies: Staying healthy is actually killing us.

Wendover: The magic economics of gambling.

Comics discuss the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.

VOTE!

WaPo: How social media is changing the presidency

The Atlantic: Holocaust survivors remember Kristallnacht.

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Stephen: Leader Nancy Pelosi makes a midterm prediction.

The Altlantic: You should be worried about your DNA privacy.

Racists Suck:

TED: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff.

WaPo: The life of the first woman Supreme Court justice.

Roy Wood, Jr.: Black Floridians who made history.

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

Comments

  3. 3

    A nut who would say anything for attention.
    Googling the news coverage, the news reports I found, said it was a data point and being investigated. Little more.

    What do they define as a Left Wing Activist?

  7. 7

    @2 Doctor Dumbfuck’s outrage is selective. He has no problem with privileged studs who try to rape underage girls at teen parties and then lie about it in Senate confirmation hearings.

  8. 8

    @3 “What do they define as a Left Wing Activist?”

    Anyone who thinks blacks should be allowed to vote.

  11. 11

    Just heard on AM Joy, a campaign staffer explain the conservative view of Georgia election politics.
    “It’s not voter suppression, it’s that blacks can’t follow directions.” You should have heard her tone of condescension talking to the black journalist.

  12. 12

    @ 10

    Are you the same person as Cz-252 And Pilsner?

    He would falsely summarize shit he heard on the radio and TV all the time.

  13. 13

    I think the Democrats have a 50/50 chance of taking the House, but the Senate will likely stay under the Republicans.

  14. 14

    Truth hurts. The people you hang with are racists. I will post the link when it’s documented online.

  15. 15

    It took Donald Trump for Obama to recognize a problem with governing via executive order.

    That pen/phone thing was more than a little silly when Obama uttered it.

    Hope y’all HA libbies have enjoyed Trump undoing all that shit Obama did without congressional approval.

  16. 16

    @13 not only does the Truth hurt, the lies are all they have – sorry ass bunch of bastards with dumbfuck followers.

  17. 17

    @ 13

    What I am saying is that nothing of the sort you placed into quotes @ 10 was spoken during that interview.

    It’s that sort of shit that you post that I am calling out. You hear what you want to hear and post it as fact. Makes you an asshole, but doesn’t make it factual.

    Cz-252, Pilsner, RedReformed – are these the same person?

  19. 19

    @ 18

    Yeah, gman, I’ve been here for eight years fighting you pussies at a 20-to-1 disadvantage, and I’m a snowflake.

  20. 20

    The Dallas Cowboys once had a defender named Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson.

    One of Henderson’s teammates described him as the last guy to jump on top of a pile of other defenders who had tackled a ball-carrier, and then the first to run off the field with his arms in the air in celebration.

    That’s you, gman. You bring nothing as an individual, save your fascination with gay sex. You’re as original as the missionary position.

  22. 22

    This certainly does Kate Brown no favors.

    PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man accused of murdering his wife and leaving her body in a ditch is at the center of a firestorm between ICE and the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.

    Federal officers said they placed an immigration hold on Martin Gallo-Gallardo when he was arrested in a domestic violence case in March, months before Coral Rodriguez-Lorenzo was killed.

    Officials with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said they didn’t get the request. But even if they had, officials said they wouldn’t have honored it because of a 2014 federal court ruling.

    https://www.koin.com/news/crime/ice-mcso-released-man-accused-in-wife-s-death/1569096666

  24. 24

    ” I’ve been here for eight years fighting”.

    Never knew such talented productive members of society would spend 8 years of their life on a blog (at times when he should have been working) and be so successful.

    Looks like you really tried to reach for the stars. Something held you back, probably that you had limits to how successful you really could be.

    Just think Bob, you could have read a few more of The Hump’s books like “The Fart of the Deal”, or maybe you should have tried out for The Apprentice, or attended Hump University, and who knows maybe you could have been something more in life, something more so that you wouldn’t be living a bitter life now and have to take out your bullshit on innocent people and animals.

  25. 25

    One would think New Jersey would have learned its lesson with Corzine.

    One would think.

    New Jersey Democrats are growing increasingly worried that Sen. Bob Menendez could lose his seat next week in an outcome that would undercut the party’s effort to take back the Senate.

    Democratic strategists working on races across the state said in interviews that they have seen a remarkable decline in support for Menendez …

    https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2018/11/03/new-jersey-democrats-sound-alarm-over-menendez-race-679717

    Maybe Trump could pull a presidential Hollywood Henderson and drop in Monday night for an impromptu rally in Trenton.

    I loved the rally with Menendez, Hillary Clinton, and Anthony Weiner’s wife all on stage at the same time.

  26. 26

    @21 and 22

    That’s what you call fighting? Keep up the good fight. Not sure you are fighting or drowning your sorrows of the GOP with good old Liberalism.

    Liberalism is Freedom
    Liberalism is Democracy

    The GOP are bigots and Fascists who suppress Freedom and Democracy. Maybe you are not fighting hard enough. Again, maybe it’s because you didn’t attend Hump University.

  27. 27

    Hey Bob, I’m going to leave now….I don’t want to overwhelm you since you are so outnumbered here, I want to give you a fighting chance.

    Also, I want to go in search of some wild sex parties or maybe just fantasize about them in a park.

    I thought you were expanding your Brothel, maybe you are just here before heading out to your animal kingdom.

  28. 28

    I’m starting to rev up for Tuesday evening. Hey y’all HA libbies, remember the last Tuesday election open thread of significance? Do ya?

    http://horsesass.org/election-2016-open-thread/

    I can’t quite recall who it was – maybe Steve remembers – but earlier this week someone on HA wrote something about the only people who heard something said and thought it was racist were the racists.

    5:09: Steve Kornacki, “…with Hillary Clinton cleaning up with Black voters in Florida….” Ummm…maybe rephrase that?

    Something to that effect, anyway.

    Will Chuck Schumer still be Senate Minority Leader in January? ’cause he sure as hell won’t be Senate Majority Leader.

  29. 29

    Shit you just can’t make up.

    Kate Hyde
    @KateHydeNY
    LOL @CNN just interviewed a “random” person at the Gillum rally who said Obama’s presence helped influence her vote and it turned out she was Gillum’s mom. 😑

    5:41 PM – Nov 2, 2018

    This. is. CNN.

  30. 30

    If Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit was on Twitter:

    Titania McGrath
    ‏
    @TitaniaMcGrath
    19h19 hours ago

    This is bullshit. Just because they never met, that does NOT mean that Kavanaugh didn’t rape her.

    #BelieveWomen

  31. 31

    If YLB was on Twitter (and if Twitter did not allow exclamation points):

    Amy #WontBeErased
    @AmyJamiCowan

    Is a Transgender Woman a Woman?

    RT for YES
    LIKE for NO

    Trying to prove a point which shouldn’t even be proven in the first place. Transgender women are women.

    10:17 PM – 27 Aug 2018

  32. 32

    You know, Goldy, I thought exactly the same thing when I saw that photo of Farrakhan on stage with Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton

    https://www.jta.org/2018/09/07/news-opinion/bill-clinton-shared-stage-louis-farrakhan-aretha-franklins-funeral

    at Aretha Franklin’s funeral. No, really, I did. I thought “Other than being dead, why isn’t Jerry Falwell up there on stage, too?”

    Goldy Retweeted

    Ryan Grim✔
    @ryangrim
    Replying to @jmartNYT and 2 others
    My quibble is that Farrakhan is a right winger through and through. Ideology much closer to Jerry Falwell.

    17h

  34. 34

    Oh look, Doctor Dumbfuck keeps pissing on his own shoes and trying to convince people that the puddle he’s standing in provides some authority to his navel-gazing opinions, like they would have any relevance to the real world.

    Meanwhile, his fellow travelers in ignorance, hate and reactionary discourse are increasing their eliminationist tactics against people who have never attacked, or even seriously threatened them.

    Thats your own horse you’ve hitched your ideology to, Doc.

    It’s always the Jews isn’t it? You just can’t stop hating people who value education more than you do. Your television, drug and alcohol addled little minds just cannot see that turd your nose is being shoved into no matter how hard people push on the back of your head.

    You’re just too fucking ignorant and full of anger at not being part of the world that you presume yourself entitled to be in, that you would rather conform to the stupidest common denominator rather than do any of the actual work required to think.

    It just means you’re too lazy to waste any energy on doing something more than just looking at the surface on anything.

    No wonder you never sent into epidemiology or surgery. It’s much easier to just look at pictures and see things. That is all you’ve ever needed to rake in those sweet, sweet insurance dollars.

  35. 35

    @11 Oh look! Doctor Dumbfuck is crusading against “false shit on radio and TV”! If this confuses you, see #6 for explanation of his M.O.

  36. 36

    @12 I’ll give you even odds on the Democrats taking the House. How much money do you want to put on this?

  37. 37

    @ 33

    I never went into epidemiology because I’m not Darryl. I never went into surgery because I can’t repair anything on my car without having at least one part left over when I think I’m finished.

    It’s quite the irony to be told by a guy who can’t hold a job that I’m lazy because I don’t always have the time to overanalyze the scrambled eggs I’m about to have for breakfast.

    But yeah. You are absolutely correct that it’s much, much “easier to look at pictures and see things”. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to view two dimensions and have my brain automatically perceive three, and to love doing it. I love it so much that I hope I’ll always be able to do it.

    I hope to always be able to pay into the same system that you will always need to take from, ‘froggy.

  38. 38

    @23 There’s a typo in your comment. That’s supposed to be “The Farce of the Deal”. See, e.g., NAFTA, North Korea, etc.

  39. 39

    @18 “I’ve been here for eight years fighting you pussies at a 20-to-1 disadvantage. ”

    Don’t give up, doc. You still have a chance, however unlikely, to win an argument someday.

  40. 40

    @ 37

    @22 What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

    Written by the same impotent hypocrite who wrote @ 6

    …outrage is selective. He has no problem with privileged studs who try to rape underage girls at teen parties and then lie about it in Senate confirmation hearings.

  41. 41

    @26 Yeah, let him go one-on-one with Roger Rabbit. It’s not a fair fight, but neither was the late Puddy.

  42. 42

    Now what was ‘froggy @ 33 saying about the Jews?

    The suspect in the vandalism of a New York synagogue was a Democratic activist and former City Hall intern who worked on anti-hate crime issues, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

    He is a “queer” black man informally adopted by a Jewish couple, and The New York Times’ charity, the Neediest Cases, helped pay for him to go to college where his focus was African American studies, according to a 2017 New York Times profile.

    https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/03/nyc-synagogue-vandalism-suspect/

    Now there’s gratitude. Gratitude Democrat-style

  44. 44

    Godwin is it true you are the guy named Bob who made a bet here and then reneged when he lost?

  46. 46

    @ 42

    Yes, those links do talk about the quote and they seem to have heard what you said you heard.

    Noted and apology tendered. Now I really want to hear what was said and see who said it.

  47. 47

    @ 40

    Yeah, let him go one-on-one with Roger Rabbit. It’s not a fair fight, but neither was the late Puddy.

    Never fight with a guy who uses rectal and urinary catheters as nunchaku. Sure, you’ll kick his ass, but you never have any idea what antibiotic-resistant bug you’ll catch in the process.

  50. 50

    @43 Yes, he’s that Bob. He got his start here by welshing on bets, and now he fucks horses but they’re his horses.

  51. 51

    @41 I doubt he’s Democrat, Republican, or anything else — just a mixed up mentally ill guy susceptible to the influences of the moment:

    “Former New York City Council speaker Christine Quinn said she knows the suspect … she and others have tried to help him as he went though the foster care and mental health systems and ,,, dealt with homelessness.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/03/us/new-york-temple-antisemitic-messages/index.html

    Probably heard Trump talking on the radio.

  52. 52

    33,
    Don’t miss Teh Dumbfuck’s earlier comments describing himself bravely facing down teaming mobs of angry internet hippies all by himself with nothing more than his cool intellect and his rapier-like wit.

    He’s straight up delusional. Bound to happen.
    At exactly the same time he stepped beyond Teh Orange Event Horizon he also went Galt.
    He now no longer matters to anyone.
    And on some level he must surely know it. So his “big brain” creates a way for him to be important. We are seeing very much the same thing playing out with these old white men across America. This is really who they are now.

  53. 53

    @ 50

    I doubt he’s Democrat…

    Gee, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, other than all of the stuff that pretty clearly indicated he is a Dem, including canvassing for Obama in 2008, I might share your doubts.

    You’re an incompetent shill. Impotent one, too.

  54. 54

    @52 He’d canvass for Attila the Hun if you asked him to. Or Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump. Which raises an interesting question: Who asked him to deface the synagogue? It seems rather unlikely the idea came from him.

  55. 55

    “Noted and apology tendered. Now I really want to hear what was said and see who said it.”

    Does it really matter? You haven’t denounced all the other bullshit that has been flying around for the last 8 years and more so over the last 2 years.

    Who you kidding. Once again you were wrong (as always) and you are trying to save face.

    Tell me once you hear it and hear who said it – what then? What are you going to say? How about saying something about all the other bullshit and lies by The Hump? You accuse someone here of being a liar, he/she proves themselves correct, you apologize for it, and we will never hear from you regarding this again. Stay silent, like you stay silent on everything else, you dumbfuck.

    LONG LIVE IRELAND!

  56. 56

    @52 at least his own family (parents / kids) didn’t have to warn the public not to vote for him because he’s a creep, racist, and incompetent motherfucker that thinks they can lead a democratic society to freedom.

  57. 57

    32)Republicans here might like that,but I don’t have much hope for SD. I have an uncle who lives in Sioux Falls, a Republican.

  58. 58

    NYPD arrests suspect in anti-Semitic arsons, vandalism; right-wing media uses his race to bash Dems
    While decent people are relieved the anti-Semitic suspect has been caught, the worst of the right is relieved he’s not a white guy—and using that fact to attack the left.
    Meanwhile, the most deplorable members of the right—both everyday citizens and elected officials, such as Donald Trump, Matt Gaetz, Steve King, and Ted Cruz—continue to blow their anti-Semitic dog whistles in their constant attacks on the left. A quick visit to Twitter shows that their is a strangely… celebratory air among Trump supporters right now.
    Why? Because not only is James Polite a black man, but he’s also believed by some to be a queer foster care alumnus and former intern for the Democratic Party.

    Interesting comments
    “So according to the right, a black man committing arson and other hate crimes is cause for celebration?”
    “For Republicans: it’s only terrorism if the suspect is a Person of Color, apparently.”
    ” It doesn’t even sound like the same guy unless he had some kind of emotional breakdown. I’m not excusing the horrific antisemitic attacks but, wow. “

  59. 59

    @ 57

    “Believed by some”?

    It’s widely reported as fact, perhaps because the president of the NYC City Council was directly involved in trying to help him.

    I realize you’re frantically trying to deflect but this goes away sooner if you stop trying to misrepresent facts, Cz-252

  60. 60

    Hey, Cz-252, here’s some more factual information for you to deflect:

    During the past 22 months, not one person caught or identified as the aggressor in an anti-Semitic hate crime has been associated with a far right-wing group, Mark Molinari, commanding officer of the police department’s Hate Crimes Task Force, told me.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/nyregion/jewish-bias-safety-nyc.html

    And some more, from the same link:

    Contrary to what are surely the prevailing assumptions, anti-Semitic incidents have constituted half of all hate crimes in New York this year, according to the Police Department. To put that figure in context, there have been four times as many crimes motivated by bias against Jews — 142 in all — as there have against blacks. Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at transgender people by a factor of 20.

    Now, maybe there’s an especially intelligent ultra-right cabal in New York which is responsible for all of this shit. Or maybe it’s just a lot of people who don’t like Jews. Hell, in Britain it’s an entire fucking political party that doesn’t like Jews:

    ANTISEMITIC HATE CRIMES IN UK LABOUR PARTY INVESTIGATED BY BRITISH POLICE
    Labour had been partly to blame for a record number of antisemitic incidents in Britain last year.

    https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Antisemitism/Antisemitic-hate-crimes-in-UK-Labour-party-investigated-by-British-police-570959

  61. 61

    @58 The legal system will deal with him, the mental health system will not, because there is no mental health system, and you and your ilk will celebrate another disabled black man going to jail while a far more destructive vandal rips the country apart.

  62. 62

    Gotta wonder, Cz-252, how much of @57 was original content of yours, or did you just copy all of it from dKos.

    I think “Interesting comments” was yours. Anything else?

  63. 63

    @59 “Hell, in Britain it’s an entire fucking political party that doesn’t like Jews”

    That’s small potatoes. Here in America, we have an entire fucking political party that doesn’t like anyone who isn’t a white evangelical Bible thumper — blacks, hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, Catholics, atheists, women, gays — you name it, they’re equal-opportunity haters. And you’re one of ’em.

  64. 64

    Doc’s been posting almost continuously since about 8:30 this morning. He’s a tad twitchy in these final hours before the election. Chalk it up to butterflies, I guess.

  65. 65

    In the first year of the Glorious Guatemalan Toddler Torture Revolution® federal contractors moved jobs offshore at the highest rate in history.

    For this they accomodated white supremacy, valorized slavers, excused Nazis, sold their honor to commie dictators, paid off porn stars, and funded their abortions.

    #artofthedeal

  66. 66

    This week, The Hop Streetcar started running in Milwaukee. Interesting, because I believe Walker tried to stop the project years ago. It uses Liberty streetcars, similar to what will be running In Tacoma when the Hilltop Extension of Tacoma LINK is up and running.
    https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2018/11/02/milwaukee-streetcar-draws-a-crowd-on-first-day-of.html

    On November 9th, Sun Metro in El Paso will begin operation of a streetcar line between Downtown and UTEP. It will be using restored President’s Conference Comittee Streetcars originally used in San Diego, but transfered to El Paso City lines for what for years was the last streetcar line in Texas, the international line to Ciudad Juarez. It’s interesting, the climate in Texas seemed to protect them well, even though the storage was not perfect.

    http://kfoxtv.com/news/local/e.....ting-nov-9

    Both the new cars in Milwaukee were built, and the El Paso cars were restored by the same company, Brookville Equipment, in Pennsylvania. The best in America, Made in America.

    https://www.brookvillecorp.com/streetcar-restoration.asp

  67. 67

    Railfan – you’ve mostly posted things here regarding your favorite forms or modes of transportation. I share your same enthusiasm of rail transportation but not to the heightened degree of knowledge.

    I think you garnered Bob’s respect in doing so.

    But as of late you have made two or three comments of more in political nature. Let’s hope that Bob doesn’t turn on you for doing so.

  68. 68

    @66 Donkey Dong Bob respects someone? I’m amazed. Be careful, though, he may have amorous intentions, and I’ve heard he’s into catheter sex.

  70. 70

    “The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is also the Republican nominee for governor, said it is opening an investigation into the Georgia Democratic Party after what it calls a ‘failed attempt to hack the state’s voter registration system.’ The office said the hacking attempt was Saturday evening and did not offer any proof why it is investigating the state Democratic Party.”

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/midterms-2018-countdown/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Yesterday, Trump said at a rally, “A blue wave is a crime wave.” Last week, we saw renewed efforts to demonize asylum seekers as terrorists and killers.

    So here’s the GOP’s closing argument before Tuesday’s elections: Democrats are criminals, or at least will let criminals come after you and your family.

    Kemp’s baseless accusations against the Georgia Democratic Party also lay the ground work for delegitimizing the election results if he loses.

    There is absolutely no reason for Democrats to try to work across the aisle with these people. You can’t anyway, because everything they do is dishonest and in bad faith. They should be treated as hostile alien space invaders.

  72. 72

    @61. Dude. When I don’t quote something verbatim, you get all pissy. When I do quote something verbatim, you get all pissy. Pick a side.

  73. 73

    71,
    The operative notion is that he gets all pissy.

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

  74. 74

    @72 they were always pussies….that’s why they are who they are. A bunch of fearful afraidy cats, always needing to label someone. And now they are such pussies they have to cheat, steal and murder to get anywhere.

    Long Live Ireland! True Home of the Free and the Brave!!!!

  75. 75

    @71 he has picked a side…the backside of the Horse.

    Ohh, hes fighting a good fight 50-1!

  76. 76

    All in favor of “cotton-pickin'” being replaced with “motherfuckin'” in US lexicon say Aye.

  78. 78

    I wonder why the Dem senators on the Judiciary Committee weren’t openly calling for the testimony of these fine, upstanding citizens:

     (Sept. 26): stated that when he was a 19 year-old college student, he
    visited D.C. over spring break and kissed a girl he believes was Dr. Ford. He said that the
    kiss happened in the bedroom of a house which was about a 15-to20 minute walk from the
    Van Ness Metro, that Dr. Ford was wearing a swimsuit under her clothing, and that the
    kissing ended when a friend jumped on them as a joke. said that the woman initiated
    the kissing and that he did not force himself on her.
     (Sept. 25): said that she attended UNC with Dr. Ford who along with
    her friend , used to purchase drugs from
    and regularly attended parties with members of his fraternity.
    said that she was present at apartment one night in April 1987 when Dr.
    Ford and arrived to consume drugs. said that the Dr. Ford she
    knew had an active and robust social life in college.

    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-11-02%20Kavanaugh%20Report.pdf

    Booker
    Harris

  80. 80

    After two years of Trump in office, wouldn’t the Bradley Effect be even greater for congressional candidates this year than in 2016?

    Asking for a friend.

  81. 81

    I don’t know why this can’t simply mean that there will be a lot fewer Republicans voting on Election Day in FL.

    I just like the way @ 76 it makes y’all feel about yer prospects come Tuesday.

    Fox Sunday interview:

    Ron DeSantis: We’re not trailing in actual people who have voted Maria. We have more than half the vote has been cast. If you look at early and absentee votes Republicans are leading for the first time ever at this stage. I mean Donald Trump was down 175,000 Republican votes going into election day in 2016. He won by about 175,000. We are going to be going into election day with Republicans in the first time in Florida history up going into election day.

  82. 82

    “Godwin is it true you are the guy named Bob who made a bet here and then reneged when he lost?”

    Yeah, but he’s not to be confused with the guy named Mark the Redneck Welcher who also made a bet here and then reneged when he lost.

  83. 83

    “Ron DeSantis: We’re not trailing in actual people…”

    Yeah, I heard somewhere that incel early turnout for Republicans in Florida is really high this year.

    “Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was A Far-Right Misogynist Who Railed Against Women And Minorities Online”

    “Scott Beierl, who killed two women in Florida Friday, had posted a series of misogynistic videos and songs online, and appeared to identify as an “involuntary celibate.””

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/tallahassee-yoga-shooter-incel-far-right-misogyny-video?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc

    So yoga pants will send wingnuts off into a murderous rage, too? Soros, caravans and yoga pants. Nothing weird about that.

  84. 84

    @78 Yeah, I’m sure you could teach novice terrorists a thing or two about derailing trains, and murdered journalists give you the giggles because you’re that kind of dumbfuck.

  85. 85

    @82 Who would guess that a guy who hates women has a hard time getting dates?

    In Doctor Dumbfuck’s case, though, the horses are involuntarily incelibate.

  86. 86

    @84 I can see how this could require us to examine Doctor Dumbfuck’s misogyny under a new light.

  88. 88

    A Dumbya-serving Republican speaks:

    The major strategic practice of fascism is the credo of “us and them.” With Trump, the “us” is white America, and the “them” is every nonwhite group, most notably African-Americans and Hispanic groupings.

    Trump has a lifetime record of blatant bigotry against African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. Examples abound: His leadership in the “birther” movement, his campaign for the death penalty against the Central Park Five even after their innocence was proven, his discrimination against African-Americans in the rental of his housing units in Brooklyn in the 1970s, his attempts to bar a distinguished American jurist, Gonzalo Curiel from presiding over the Trump University fraud case on the basis of his Mexican ancestry.

    This solid record of bigotry enhances Trump’s ability to communicate with his principal political ally: the white nationalist movement. Trump encounters one complication, however. The white nationalist movement is antisemitic to its core.

    https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/11/i_left_the_gop_because_trump_is_not_a_reaganite_he.html

    Now watch boob and pork sauce blather that this guy is some kind of “leftist”…

    FU45!

  89. 89

    @87 The GOP’s platform, emerging in the final weekend before Repudiation Day, is “Democrats are criminals.”

    That should sell well to Trump’s base. After all, it’s not like they think about things like monetary policy, stock market returns, foreign policy, trade wars, or their kids being sent to die in Iran. Given their level of civics sophistication, calling Democrats “criminals” should be enough to keep them on the reservation and turn them out to vote. After all, that tells them everything they need to know about how the GOP plans to govern America in the next two years.

    P.S., Win or lose, I see no reason for Pelosi or Schumer to cooperate with these fuckwads on anything. If they came to me for votes for a tax bill, spending bill, or nominee confirmation I’d tell them, sorry, but I’m exercising my Fifth Amendment rights.

  92. 92

    @ 90

    Educate me. Not sure how I got to it.

    The best deal in Seattle is you can take a trailer and a truck full of branches to the transfer station for only 11 bucks.

  93. 93

    Tweet du jour:

    Dan Crenshaw
    Verified account

    @DanCrenshawTX

    US House candidate, TX-2
    Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder not to be offended. That being said, I hope @nbcsnl recognizes that vets don’t deserve to see their wounds used as punchlines for bad jokes.

    11:13 AM – 4 Nov 20

  94. 94

    I will be glad when all the political commercials end and all the junk political mail ceases. Hell, I voted a couple of weeks ago and can’t wait for this dick dance to be finished.

  95. 95

    @92 When Trump mocks disabled people, its malicious, but you don’t criticize him for it. Peter Davidson is a comedian who screwed up. Even Crenshaw acknowledges it was a joke gone bad. Sure, Davidson should apologize, but you’re the wrong person to call him out. Your hypocrisy disqualifies you from that role.

  96. 96

    Press reports circulating this afternoon say Amazon probably will locate its HQ2 in the Washington D.C. vicinity. Specifically, Crystal City, Virginia, which is home to Reagan Airport, several federal agencies and a number of Pentagon satellite offices, and various defense contractors. According to Wikipedia, Crystal City consists mostly of offices and apartment buildings, many interconnected by an underground pedestrian tunnel system. Apparently this was deduced, not leaked, by the media, which report that Crystal City official have had “very serious” discussions with Amazon. The location also makes sense in a lot of ways. It’s logical that America’s biggest company, one immersed in emerging technologies, and whose boss owns the Washington Post, would locate right across the Potomac River in sight of the Washington Monument, which may be the next trophy on Jeff Bezos’ acquisition list.

  97. 97

    Ohhhhh, the snowflakes are weeping.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-davidson-snl-criticized-mocking-dan-crenshaw-midterm-election-candidate-who-lost-eye-afghanistan/

    Pete and I were neighbors for about 1 year, before his short lived relationship with Ariana Grande. We lived on the same floor but opposite ends of the hallway. He lived closer to the elevators. One day I am walking to the elevator and I find him in nothing but his boxer under ware making out with his girlfriend in a long goodbye, which at the time I don’t think was Ariana, but I am not positive. It wasn’t a luxury apartment complex, but decent enough for someone like him. And it was in mid-town, close to SNL. A couple of times or maybe just once I rode up in the elevator with him, I didn’t make small talk, I wanted to respect his privacy.

  98. 98

    @94 snowflake @92 is just trying to normalize the failings of the GOP by saying, “See you guys are just as bad or worse”, but no equivalency what so ever between the Dems and the Repukes.

    Clint Eastwood made fun of a sitting President. Fuck them, no apology needed.

    Didn’t they make fun of Tammy Duckworth? Fuck them!

  99. 99

    66)Every once in awhile, I might get in the fray. Just not sure if SD will flip, although they used to ticket split.

  100. 100

    If it helps the conservative dry up their tears over the Pete Davidson thing, all they have to do is pretend the guy with one is gay, then they would be able to burst out laughing with good tears.

    Fuck them. No apology needed…if there are any apologies to be made it is them fucks apologizing…..now they want to be PC. Go fuck yourselves.

    The booed a gay American Soldier, remember. These are crocodile tears for the solider with one eye.

  103. 103

    @97 Remember what they did to Max Cleland? And John Kerry? These assholes claim to support the troops, but only the ones who are hard-right like them.* Fuck ’em is right.

    * Jerome Corsi, the armchair warmonger who swiftboated Kerry, sat out the Vietnam War in graduate school.

  104. 104

    @99 Well I don’t think Davidson should have joked about Crenshaw’s war wound even in good humor or jest, but yeah people who booed a soldier or vote for politicians who fuck over our troops and veterans are in no position to complain. They should task that duty to someone like me who served with honor. Consider it done at #94.

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    “Oil prices fell on Monday as the start to U.S. sanctions against Iran’s fuel exports was softened by waivers that will allow major buyers to still import Iranian crude, at least temporarily. …

    “The United States said on Friday it will temporarily allow eight importers to keep buying Iranian oil. Washington has so far not named the eight, referred to as ‘jurisdictions’, a term that might include Taiwan which the United States does not regard as a country. China, India, South Korea, Turkey, Italy, the United Arab Emirates and Japan have been the top importers of Iran’s oil, while Taiwan occasionally buys Iranian crude.

    “Japan said on Monday it was in close communication with the United States. While Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga declined to detail any potential sanction waivers, he said his government had asked Washington that sanctions should not have an adverse impact on Japanese companies.”

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-falls-u-grants-iran-003736295.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: There’s your sanctions. Everybody’s exempt, except the U.S. consumer. So typical of Trump. The guy is 100% empty suit. Hey, if the red state coal rollers have to pay 5 bucks for gas, I’m fine with it. I own shares of Exxon, Chevron, Occidental, and BP; I’ve got it covered.

  107. 107

    @103

    Agreed. Thanks for your service Roger. Exactly my point – they have no right to complain. Their complaints are all fake.

  108. 108

    @105 “Now that the loon (RIP) has been lynched, posting on this kind of shit just isn’t as much fun as it used to be.”

    I dunno about that. It’s one thing to have a conversation with a parrot; another to try conversing with a loose wheel bearing. When all you get back is a screeching noise you want the trip to end as soon as possible.

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    100)South Dakota.

    Although in the past 30+ years, the Government in Pierre had done a few things that modern Republicans would hate, but it was a good decision at the time, for the Agricultural economy.

  112. 112

    “ABC News has identified at least 17 criminal cases where Trump’s name was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence, or allegations of assault. … ABC News was unable to find any such case echoing presidential rhetoric when Barack Obama or George W. Bush were in the White House.”

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-cases-invoking-trump/story?id=58912889

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Sure looks like a correlation.

  113. 113

    This week, the last Greyhound Canada bus routes west of Sudbury, Ontario ran their last miles. Back in July when Greyhound Canada made the announcement, the CBC did a story on two potential alternative business models to try. The Diversified operations of Maritime Bus, which operates transit, school buses, and charters in addition to intercity passenger and package express. Another was a company out of Thunder Bay that operates with smaller buses.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greyhound-canada-bus-follow-1.4740974

    Meanwhile, Germany’s FlixBus is continuing to expand in the US, with services in Texas and New York set to begin next year. FlixBus does not operate it’s buses but works with other operators, but handles marketing, sales, and network planning. Almost like an uber for the intercity coach business.

    http://www.metro-magazine.com/.....s-new-york

    It appears that Canada and Mexico may be next for FlixBus.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greyhound-bus-routes-flixbus-1.4886264

  114. 114

    In Lane County, Oregon, Measure 20-290, which would replace winner take all in Lane County Non-partisan races, with STAR Voting. Score, Then Automatic Runoff, voters would score candidates 0-5, than if no majority, the top two rated candidates would advance to an Automatic Runoff.

    https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Your-Voice-Your-Vote-Measure-20—Grocery-Tax-Ban-499425521.html

    If passed, Oregon would have a Civil War of alternative voting systems in the big university counties, as in 2020, Benton County will be using Ranked Choice Voting in county elections. (What I mean by Civil War is the Intrastate rivalry between University of Oregon, and Oregon State University.)

    https://www.equal.vote/starvoting

  115. 115

    @ 111

    What Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit did not share is that it was liberals invoking Trump’s name while committing those crimes.

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