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WaPo: Brexit explained for confused Americans.

Trevor: A year after the Parkland shooting, the fight for sensible gun control continues

Samantha Bee: Thicc, not sick.

Late Show: NYC returns its Amazon purchase.

SNL: Meet The Press

Minute Earth: Why earthquakes are so hard to predict

Roll Call: The week in Congressional hits and misses.

Trevor: 21 Savage gets arrested for overstaying his visa.

Vox: The 70% top tax rate, explained with potatoes.

The Dotard Трамп and Other National Emergencies:

The Daily Show: The Green New Deal

Stephen with John Oliver: Brexit and whatnot.

WaPo: What’s the deal with the Green New Deal?.

Bill Maher chats with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Stephen: Jeff Bezos invents a new euphemism for penis

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

BuzzFeed: I want you to stop being oily.

Seth Meyers with Stacey Abrams: Voter fraud is a myth.

Stephen: Russia is attempting to hack our brains.

Yes, Virginia, There is a Racism:

Robert Reich: Inequality of place.

Stephen: Bill & Melinda Gates talk taxing the wealthy.

Full Frontal: Valentines for billionaires

SNL: Black history month presentation.

Bill Maher: New Rule—You can’t always get what you want:

Samantha Bee: Green new deal

Trevor: Kamala Harris wants to legalize weed and Amy Klobuchar’s temper is questioned.

WaPo: A play-by-play of Kamala Harris admitting she smoked weed.

Roy Wood, Jr.: CP Time—The history of civil rights marches

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Wonder if any of the Republican Senators remember their remarks when Reid used the nuclear option? It could easily be them next time.

  2. 2

    One issue with the California high speed rail line was/is, How It enters the Bay Area. The plan to enter the city is to use Peninsula line, and electrification work is underway for that. The decision to enter the Bay Area via Pancheo Pass was made before it went to the ballot. Altamont Pass would have served Tracy and Modesto, but bypass San Jose, crossing the Bay at Dumbarton.
    https://transbayblog.com/2008/01/11/altamont-bypassed/

    A BART Extension into the area was supposed to be happening, but it was.taking too long, plus those counties were not all members of BART. San Mateo county opted out, gets some service, but does not pay much, Santa Clara opted out early, but is paying billions to bring BART down the East Bay. With the Tri Valley extension’s perennial backburner status, it led to the California tradition of a new transportation authority being created(Foothill Transit and the Antelope Valley Transportation Authority being created in parts of LA County that thought the LA MTA was not adequately serving them).

    http://www.bayrailalliance.org.....-authority

  3. 3

    CBS cut away from Republican President DiaperNap capering in the Rose Garden to televise The Price is Right.

    That’s a money decision. They know their numbers and their audience. And their numbers told them that Republican President FingerRape would not hold that The Price is Right audience and those ad revenues.
    That audience.

    Telling.

  4. 4

    For nearly a year the Republican White House has been spending what might have been your tax refund to fly an industry lobbyist from California to DC every week, put him in the Trump hotel, feed him in the Trump hotel dining room, and shuttle him around the capitol in town cars as an “adviser” to the VA.

    #drainingyourpockets

  6. 6

    5,
    Thompson got his twitter suspended because of that bullshit.

    For about a solid 24 hrs he used his account to bombard AOC’s official account and staff accounts with pretty much the same accusations, enlisting hoards of beta-male incel shitlords to join in. When Thompson crossed the line and doxed Riley Roberts’ personal details to his followers AOC’s office finally stepped in and filed complaints with twitter, who eventually locked him out.

    Now cut off (temporarilly) Thompson has launched a free speech campaign against twitter, claiming political bias.

  7. 7

    The CrowdPAC fund for Susan Collins’ 2020 Dem opponent continues to grow.
    Over $3.7 million awaits whichever lucky candidate wins the Dem primary.

  8. 8

    Steve Scalise
    @SteveScalise

    It’s a shame that Speaker Pelosi continues to ignore the recommendations of the brave men and women who risk their lives to protect our border, and refuses to support the full $5.7 billion requested for physical barriers.

    Damn straight! Who but government employees are better situated to decide how much and what kind of government the people need?
    It is really encouraging to see so many conservative Republican lawmakers coming around to the plain common sense that running the government is best left to the industry experts in the agencies and my boss The President!

    The members of Congress should use their time in the productive pursuit of better ways to honor my boss.

  9. 9

    Congratulations! After spending untold thousands of dollars on a college degree and teaching credential but being unfamiliar with Supreme Court decisions, you just cost a school district a big lawsuit settlement and likely will not be in a classroom again.

    Boy arrested for refusing to stand for the pledge.”

    Repeat after me. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) public schools cannot force students to recite the pledge.

    The only correct response of a public school teacher to a student not standing or reciting the pledge is to finish it up and move on to classwork. The second you coerce a student to “get up boy!” you’ve lost.

    Next up, ACLU and a fat payout to the student.

    Side note, the student (black) alleges the teacher told him to go back to Africa so….

  10. 10

    @9 “the student (black) alleges the teacher told him to go back to Africa so….”

    Oooooo, he gets extra $$$ for that …

  11. 11

    @6 What! A private company can deny a harasser his constitutional right to use their platform to harass his victim? You don’t say …

  12. 12

    “The man who killed five colleagues at his Chicago-area workplace Friday … was legally barred from owning a gun because he had a 1995 felony conviction in another state, a police official said Saturday. Gary Martin’s conviction was flagged only days after he bought a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun in 2014, and he was supposed to relinquish it, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman said. That gun … was used in Friday’s shooting, and now investigators are trying to find out why he still had it, she said.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/16/us/illinois-aurora-shooting/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Probably because rightwing cops won’t enforce gun laws, or something like that. Imagine if this happened in one of Washington’s dozen or so counties where sheriffs are refusing to enforce our state’s new gun law. AG Bob Ferguson is on top of this, he told ’em they’re gonna be liable.

    Let’s see, 5 dead victims at $3 million each + 5 wounded deputies on disability retirement = 1 bankrupt county.

  14. 14

    “During the conference on Middle East security this week, the United States staged a big diplomatic show and tried to rally the world behind the Trump administration’s aggressive stance against Iran. Instead of unifying its allies under a common cause, however, the administration only highlighted the growing rift between the US and its Western European allies, and clumsily overshadowed the points of agreement regarding Iran.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/opinions/warsaw-conference-diplomatic-fumble-ghitis/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: What amateur diplomacy looks like.

  19. 19

    @ 1

    Wonder if any of the Republican Senators remember their remarks when Reid used the nuclear option? It could easily be them next time.

    Yabbut by then all of the judicial vacancies will be filled.

    The GOP will control the judiciary for a generation.

  21. 21

    What is this world coming to, when a gay man cannot successfully perpetrate a hoax on people he does not like?

  22. 22

    Spartacus not lookin’ so good.

    Cory Booker✔
    @CoryBooker
    The vicious attack on actor Jussie Smollett was an attempted modern-day lynching. I’m glad he’s safe.

    To those in Congress who don’t feel the urgency to pass our Anti-Lynching bill designating lynching as a federal hate crime– I urge you to pay attention. https://www.ebony.com/news/jussie-smollett-hospitalized-after-homophobic-racially-motivated-attack/?utm_content=link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=daily_post&utm_source=t.co …

    12:09 PM – Jan 29, 2019

  23. 23

    @21 Inexplicable. There’s still lots of Trump supporters. They’ll believe anything but the truth.

  24. 24

    @22 So now you’re against the anti-lynching bill? Even after your pal Puddy disappeared?

  25. 25

    So much winning. So to find illegal means of funding Wall, a Republican President is slashing the military.

    Readiness, peace through strength, been great for the military, greatest in history…

    Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said, beginning Sunday, he will start studying which projects military money may come from to shift funds toward a border wall following President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration.

    So if the wall got built we could redirect some military spending….right? If we can divert it to a vanity project maybe?

  26. 26

    Dumbfuck’s still bitter Jesse Hagopian got 100k, a best selling Children’s book, the personal cell number of Michael Bennett, speaking engagements around the country…

    Now do Ashley Todd.

  27. 27

    Literally every NATO member told Donald they weren’t with him on this. Literally every Nuclear weapons expert told Donald Iran was complying. Literally John Bolton and Sean Hannity convinced Donaold to go it alone because any deal made by Obama was the worst thing ever for the U.S.

    VP Pence visibly shaken after dead silence greeted a line in his speech in Warsaw,

    “the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”

    In just 2 short years the USA has no supporters in Europe on de-nucularization.

    North Korea is still building.

    But but but…judges!

  31. 31

    @25 If he can use Pentagon money for a border wall, then I don’t see why we can’t use it for food stamps. We don’t use it to fight real enemies anyway; see #30 above.

  32. 32

    @ 31

    I don’t have a problem with it, either, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Although you know the food stamp recipients gotta work, right?

  33. 33

    “When Kim Kardashian was the victim of that horrific burglary in Paris, she went to ground, she closed down, she gave no interviews for months. You can see how shaken she was.

    “But Jussie was adamant that he wanted TV right away. He raised his voice and said, ‘I need to do this right now. I’m a black gay man and people need to know what happened to me. I want to tell my story.’ He wanted media right away.”

    https://pagesix.com/2019/02/17/jussie-smollett-reportedly-insisted-on-tv-appearance-after-attack/

    When you come off looking poorly relative to a Kardashian there has to be something royally fucked-up about you.

  34. 34

    @32 Including the babies? Figures. Republicans believe slavery should start at birth.

  35. 35

    2019 will be a fun year.

    Boomieleaks
    @notwokieleaks
    Costumer: “I’d like to order 25 pizzas. I have a 10-dollar-off coupon I’d like to use, too.”@AOC: “No, you must pay full menu price! I will not accept your evil coupon.”

    Costumer: “I’ll just take my business elsewhere.”@AOC: “Hey boss I just saved us $10 can I have a raise?”

    6:38 PM – Feb 14, 2019

  38. 38

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit posts his brokerage account balance on HA and then wonders why people rightfully call bullshit when he claims to be a millionaire.

    Sean Davis
    Verified account
    @seanmdav

    News media hopped from the laughable Steele dossier, to CNN’s bogus Don Jr. emails scoop, to BuzzFeed’s bogus Michael Cohen scoop, to the vile Covington smears, to the obvious Jussie Smollett hoax, and yet journos wonder why people say “Learn to code” when they finally get fired.

    6:43 PM – 16 Feb 2019

    “Learn to catheterize”

  39. 39

    “Costumer”?

    It should not have been possible. But even their tweet-memes are growing stupider, more beer drunk, and lazier.

    I have no doubt it will be a fun year for them, though. That’s one of the really inspiring things about developmentally disabled adults. No matter what is going on, they are having a good day.

  40. 40

    @ 39

    No matter what is going on, they are having a good day.

    See Rabbit, Roger Dumbfuck. The period encompassing the first Wednesday of November, 2014 through the second Tuesday of November, 2016 at approximately 730p PST.

  41. 41

    Due to unprecedented levels of asinine dumbfuckery, this thread should be declared a national emergency.

  42. 42

    40,

    See Rabbit…

    Whatever for, when we have you, porksauce, the EEEN-DEE-PEN-DUNCE, and whichever sock puppet Shortbus has crawled into? To say nothing of Lou Dobbs or Ann Coulter.

    Case in point: your knee jerk response here, consisting of a moderately snarkier version of ” I know you are, but what am I”.

    Everything Trump touches he degrades. And let’s face it. You’ve been clocking the longest Trump/Nuru massage in the history of Kabukicho.
    Enjoy your “happy ending”

  43. 43

    Costumer:
    I want you to give me 700,000 pizzas for free now, a guarantee that the price of pizza will never ever go up, repave my driveway for the delivery and I promise I may spend money at your establishment in the future.

    AOC, Boss I told that crazy-ass pan handler to go away. Hear he said he was going to go try it in Virginia instead.

  44. 44

    I see Doctor Dumbfuck is quoting people who can’t think or spell again. I remember when college profs would flunk you for that.

  45. 45

    43,
    What you have to understand is that from the wrong side of Teh Orange Event Horizon these things are invisible. The Overton window is made of one way glass.

    Lou Dobbs see’s a filthy, disrespectful, low-status female mocking White Men of Great Accomplishment. Persuadable voters just see Foxconn, Carrier, HarleyDavidson, and TheEntireFuckingStateOfKansas.

  46. 46

    Citing a disturbing history of placing her infant children into the care of criminal human trafficker nannies who were in the United States illegally, a FOXNews hair model has withdrawn her name from consideration for UN Ambassador.

    I suspect this will be the pattern for the GOP from here on out. Key positions within any institution will remain indefinitely un-staffed while the news cycle will periodically be stolen to announce unqualified and inappropriate nominees who will then be withdrawn over criminal lapses in conduct.

    Yes. This really is “the status quo” for Republicans now.

  48. 48

    47,
    Pay attention now.
    Everything Trump touches he degrades.
    There are no exceptions.

  54. 54

    53,
    Makes you wonder how many “Republican Controlled™” judges it’s gonna take to deprive women of a freedom that can be had for less than the price of movie ticket and that is as easily obtained as an Uber (yes, there is an app for that)?

    Something tells me that no matter how deeply “Evangelicals” discount their national loyalty, their freedom, their self respect, or their humanity they will never find out. But something also tells me that wont stop them from trying.

  58. 58

    They’re down to taking school money from kiddies, and to Lindsey Graham, that’s perfectly okay:

    “Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday defended the possibility of taking money away from building a middle school in Kentucky in order to erect President Donald Trump’s border wall, saying children need a ‘secure border’ before a school.

    Graham was grilled on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’ about money Trump will likely divert to build the wall in the wake of the president’s declaration of a national emergency after he failed to get the funds from Congress.

    “Host Margaret Brennan noted that some $3.6 billion of diverted funds could come from ‘military construction efforts, including construction of a middle school in Kentucky, housing for military families, improvements for bases.’ She asked Graham: ‘Aren’t you concerned some of these projects … are now going to possibly be cut out?’

    “Graham responded that ‘it’s better for the middle school kids in Kentucky to have a secure border.’ He promised the kids would eventually get their school, but added, ‘Right now we’ve got a national emergency.’” And then he goes on to blame the opioid addiction crisis on lack of a border wall.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-kentucky-school-border_n_5c69ef82e4b01757c36ca404

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: I have zero respect left for this man and the voters who elected him.

  59. 59

    57,
    Another very good example of why Democrats are not interested in their votes. Not those people. Not the people who make excuses for them. Nor the people who make common cause with them or share their identity.

  60. 60

    In the comment section of
    Hurd says 1,000 Texas farmers could have land seized to build Trump’s border wall
    https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/arq20x/hurd_says_1000_texas_farmers_could_have_land/

    “Trump supporters literally don’t care if they’re seen as hypocrites. They don’t see it as a bad thing, they see it as “winning.” If they’re getting something they want and others are stuck with the bill, that’s a victory for them, and it’s not a bad thing.

    If you go to /r/AskTrumpSupporters and see what they say when people ask about it, they just don’t care. Things like hypocrisy, lying, “flip-flopping”, going back on promises, and even things like unfair elections and violating the constitution is just Trump and/or Republicans doing what they have to do to make America great, again.

    To them, it’s worth it. Obviously, they don’t want their land taken away, but if they have to take other people’s land to get the wall, then that’s just what they have to do. They literally don’t care if someone was treated unfairly for them to get what they want.

    They see hypocrisy as a virtue.”

    That sum up the trumpers I know. They don’t care so long as they “win” and someone they don’t like gets hurt.

  61. 61

    @60 they aren’t perfect people, just look at Dumbfuck Bob as an example. Sure it’s very frustrating but ants show up to picnics. Toilets get scummy. All you have to do is give them a good fucking back.

    8 years ago I told a friend of mine that this Country is headed for Civil War. After 1 year of the Hump, he tells me that he thought I was wrong then but now he thinks I’m right so he apologized to me for doubting me. Resist!!!

    Hehehe

  62. 62

    60,
    At a time when leaders of investment banks, hedge funds, and major corporate media companies are calling on Democrats to steer to the middle, to tone down the rhetoric, to look to “moderate” white guys for leadership, and when Billionaire Plutocrat CEO is threatening on their behalf to run a spoiler campaign to re-elect President RussianPuppet if they don’t, it really bears remembering that there is no such thing as a moderate Republican.

    I don’t just mean among the leadership and office holders. I mean among the voters. There are no moderate Republican voters. Not anymore.

    The leadership of the GOP are calling for a criminal investigation of the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ because those agencies uncovered a foreign spy operation which we now know implicates senior leaders within the Republican Presidential Campaign of 2016. The GOP have been teasing this ever since the former FBI director was fired by the GOP President for refusing to shut down that foreign espionage investigation. The authoritarian extremism that represents has evolved slowly over the last two years. But what has driven it out into the open is the fact that it is now a matter of public record that the Republican Presidential Campaign Manager met with some of those spies during the campaign to pass along election data to help them with their espionage operation. And by all accounts that is merely the tip of a very troubling ice berg.

    Moderate voters don’t go along with that kind of shit. Moderate voters certainly don’t support it. Moderate voters don’t fret that if the “other guys” don’t conform to their expectations they will have no choice but to burn the Constitution and our code of laws in an oil drum. That isn’t a moderate position to take. I can’t find a single Republican voter who isn’t at least thinking this shit over right now.

    They may have gotten to this point gradually. They may have stumbled into it out of ignorance and fear. They may be emotionally crippled, aging boomers terrified of their growing irrelevancy. None of that should matter. Not at this point. Not with these stakes. There is no justifying this with vague references to judicial nominees or “press one for English”. In the end it’s far to easy to see how really little the judicial branch matters when the stakes are this high.

    Right now, today, at this point in time, to be a Republican voter is to abandon democracy and the rule of law. It is to embrace a vision of unitary executive branch power that co-opts the judicial branch and sweeps the legislative branch aside. It is pure authoritarianism. That it is authoritarianism in service to wealth, misogyny, and racism certainly makes it worse. But even a change in the agenda can not fix the basic political evil at the heart of these voters now. They would be just as depraved if they were doing this for the sake of raising the minimum wage or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

  63. 63

    @62 “They would be just as depraved if they were doing this for the sake of raising the minimum wage or reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”

    No, they wouldn’t. Deliberately trying to make Earth uninhabitable (“because if we can’t have it, neither can you”) is way, way more depraved than raising the minimum wage or reducing greenhouse gas emissions by authoritarian means. I’m not arguing the latter is the right way to do it, but there’s a continuum of good and evil not only in means but also ends.

  64. 64

    63,
    I see regulating greenhouse gas emissions on a political spectrum similar to regulating firearms. It is certainly possible for a voter to have an honest and sincere objection to some forms of regulation under some circumstances. I believe those objections can even be pragmatic and perhaps even justified. For example, certainly one way to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next century would be to reduce the global population by half. I’m not sure there are practical or morally acceptable ways of doing that. However, that is obviously an absurdly extreme position not actually being advocated by anybody.

    But owing to the fact that, in their desperation and fear, GOP voters have fallen under the sway of despotism, the objections they mount to these kinds of regulatory efforts amount to eliminationist nihilism, identitarian psuedo-nationalism, and craft-distilled lying designed to debate these kinds of straw-man, absurdly extreme positions. Generally, when voters are given the opportunity to grapple with these issues honestly, free from the extreme rhetoric, they tend to favor increased regulation for the common good.

    And that would include Republican voters. What prevents them from doing so, what will always and forever prevent them from doing so, is that they no longer support the basic principles of democratic government. They will not abide being in the minority or having to compromise with any majority that doesn’t look, sound, dress, pray, and feel exactly like themselves.

    You allude to this when you mock quote “because if we can’t have it, neither can you”. That sentiment is the principle motivating engine driving GOP political energy today. For most of their lives these are people who felt like “their side” was in charge. And so long as that was the case, so long as their value system was the represented norm in the culture and in government, they they were happy to support democratic government. The 2009 inauguration was a tipping point for these voters. Even if a substantial percentage of them voted for that President, the ultimate truth of it had a searing effect on their consciousness. Where others saw it as an historic victory, they came to see it as an historic loss. They came to see democracy as no long being “with them”. And if they can’t have it, neither can you.

  67. 67

    @ 66: Yes, because it’s so much easier (and juvenile) to throw vulgar low class invective than to discuss and/or defend a FACT.

    WA Senators: The Turtle and the Wh*re, a cautionary tale.

  68. 68

    Bob decompesating. For over two years now.
    There’s a fact.

    Everything Trump touches he degrades.

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