Jim Jefferies: Traditional remedies vs. modern science.
Minute Physics: The man who corrected Einstein.
Vox: The man who rigged America’s election maps.
Kurzgesagt: What if we nuke a city?
Bill Maher: Ambassador Susan Rice on “Tough Love”
The Dotard Трамп and Other Impulsive, Narcissistic Assholes:
- Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s impeachment train is picking up steam
- Ari Melber: Congress prioritizes protecting Трамп impeachment witnesses (with Rep. Denny Heck, D-WA-10)
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Nancy Pelosi to The Dotard: “All roads with you lead to Putin”
- The New York Times: Seven days in Syria—How a Трамп decision led to total chaos
- Jimmy Dore: Mitt Romney hilariously waffles on impeachment
- Katy Tur: Trump Syria deal is a “colossal mistake at every possible level”
- SNL: Giuliani & Associates:
- Rachel Maddow: Трамп “doesn’t know what he’s doing or talking about”
- Chris Hayes: This is how bad things have gotten
- Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп doesn’t care anymore
- Bruce Nelson: It’s hard to be a dumb ass in the White House
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп’s Republican enablers break with him on Syria
- Bill Maher: New Rule—Prickstarter
- Ari Melber: Trump has meltdown as Giuliani faces criminal probe
- The New Yorker: Nancy Pelosi on her impeachment phone call with Трамп
- Daily Show: Трамп v. Трамп on the Kurds:
- Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп has lied 13,000 times as President
- Trevor: Трамп’s Mideast move creates mayhem
- Ari Melber and Rachel Maddow: Tanking Russia economy inspired meddling in Трамп election
- Lawrence O’Donnell: John Brennan on “all roads with Трамп lead to Putin”
- Mark Fiore: The great and unmatched wisdom war!
- Chris Hayes: Rudy Giuliani is basically lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government
- Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп letter proves he’s crazy
- Now This: Rudy Giuliani’s hypocrisy exposed in resurfaced 1998 interview
- Ari Melber: Impeachment circular firing squad? See Трамп’s allies turn on aide who admitted Ukraine plot
- Katy Tur: How impeachment fear has made The Dotard Трамп worse
- Randy Rainbow: GIULIANI! (Here He Goes Again):
- Ari Melber: Трамп impeachment inquiry banks evidence as witnesses testify
- The New Yorker: Andy Borowitz on the life-changing magic of impeaching Трамп
- WaPo: Mick Mulvaney’s bombshell briefing on Ukraine, in 2 minutes
- Trevor: Трамп thinks he bought America
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Rudy SHOULD be worried about SDNY investigation
- Chris Hayes: Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA-9) on The Dotard’s meeting meltdown—“Very dismissive and very insulting.”
AJ+: How the U.S. used jazz, art & Orwell to fight the Soviets.
John Oliver: Weather.
Jimmy Dore: Jeb Bush calls George W. Bush “stupid”!
Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses.
Remembering Elijah Cummings:
- Reflect: Chuck Schumer reflects on Elijah Cummings’ life and death
- WaPo: “He was a voice for justice”—Colleagues pay tribute to Rep. Cummings
- New York Times: Remembering Elijah Cummings.
- Reflect: Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD-5) announces on the House floor Elijah Cummings’ death
- Now This: Rep. Elijah Cummings, civil rights champion, dead at 68
- WaPo: Remembering Rep. Cummings’s most powerful moments
- Roll Call: Elijah E. Cummings in Congress, 1996-2019.
Vox: How the US stole thousands of Native American children.
Mental Floss: The real origins of 20 scary stories.
Jim Jefferies: Why we’re all so depressed.
Minute Earth: How the modern world tricks our bodies into hurting themselves.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Twenty-Twenty Vision:
- Trevor: Nepotism in & around the White House
- New York Times: Key debate moments in 5 minutes
- Bill Maher: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- The Daily Show: Bill Weld’s 2020 primary challenge against Трамп
- SNL: CNN Equality Town Hall
- The New Yorker: Pete Buttigieg on how to mend America’s deep divisions
- Bad Lip Reading: BIDEN 2020:
- The Daily Show: Leo Deblin’s family fill-in
- Jimmy Kimmel: 12 Democrats angrily agree with each other for hours
- Trevor: The Ohio debate
Full Frontal Rewind: Conspiracies people are talking about.
Robert Reich: Should the Supreme Court be reformed?
Trevor: Susan Rice on “Tough Love,” life in the Obama White House and the Трамп era
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
So in Syria, we did not just abandon the Kurds, but surrendered a base to the Russians,
@1. Magic. Just like the Teabaggers that disappeared in thin air.
Heteros are so dramatic and problematic. Why is this even news in the sense that People magazine covered it and Dr. Oz?
https://people.com/crime/mark-gerardot-wife-killed-mistress-suicide-backup-plan/
The stupidest man to ever occupy the big chair. His primary personality trait is vanity, his greatest tool is greed.
But we knew that.
– Donald Trump
He can’t even form a coherent sentence or follow a basic point. As word salad goes, the man is a $200 Caesar without the cheese.
The man has no friends, and is completely dismissive of anyone with real competence because he actually believes that he has the most sophisticated mind in the room wherever he goes. He deliberately surrounds himself with morons even stupider than he is because he can’t stand having anyone near him who might actually know something about any subject he wants to pontificate on.
..and wilted romaine lettuce, and a few bed bed bugs added as croutons. But that’s the way Bob likes his salad, what to do?
What you get when you allow wiseguys to run construction projects.
Who needs government regulations anyway. All they do is interfere.
Astronaut superstar Mark Kelly has raised over $14 million.
By the end of Sept, still more than a year out, he had more than $10 million banked, nearly twice the on-hand of his opponent, Sad McSally. And now McSally must somehow survive supporting president Russian Slut-Puppet through the disgrace of impeachment and global military humiliation at the hands of third world despots.
Perhaps even more humiliating is that a good portion of the donor network that Kelly has tapped into used to help fund McCain.
Motherfuckers gonna reap what motherfuckers sow. Don’t hold your breath waiting to hear Mrs. Domenech whining about that one to Whoopi. You used to fund my dad, Denise!
@4 Trust me, the green leafy-looking stuff in that salad isn’t lettuce. If a rabbit can’t eat it, it isn’t edible. It appears to be a shredded plastic wrapper with a picture of lettuce printed on it.
Hillary Clinton: rot personified.
@7 that’s what happens when you skimp on structural steel. In my 30 years in the construction industry I’ve never in my life seen a slab supported (or unsupported) like that, without intermediate beams. Fucking crazy. Never mind the temporary reshores that were bending. For one, they didn’t have enough reshores – but that wasn’t the problem that I can see. The reshores just support the slab while the concrete slab hardens to proper strength to support the construction above. But the structure itself looked like it is lacking steel beams (intermediate beams) between the girder beams.
And I don’t see any x-bracing steel (Moment Frames), although they could have been welded moment connections (but I seriously doubt that)…the building was doomed to collapse in a Hurricane.
Mom and Pop GC should be ashamed. For building such a structure. And the Structural Engineer should be shot. But that’s how they build them in Bob’s cheap world.
@10 Doctor Dumbfuck: High IQ stupidity personified.
Being intelligent and being smart are two different things.
@ 11
And the Structural Engineer should be shot.
In gman’s world plans aren’t reviewed by the City before approval. Why shouldn’t Mayor LaToya Cantrell be shot instead?
@ 12
Being intelligent and being smart are two different things.
Being a capitalist and being wealthy are two different things, too. Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, you are neither.
@13 you expect little government to do that?
The responsibility of the design of the structure lies with the Engineer of Record. Municipalities may review structural design to see if the Engineer of Record designed it to the proper code, but they aren’t responsible for it.
Believe me Bob, you would sue the structural engineer if the house is was designing for you collapsed, I doubt your first reaction would be to sue the city/municipality. Is it your medical malpractice mentality that is skewing your opinion?
Steve – you are an Electrical designer? Would you design something with the notion that if you didn’t design it correctly that you weren’t the responsible party but the Mayor would be?
@ 15
You’re absolutely correct, gman. When the eleventh stranger you took bareback that evening infected you with something antibiotic-resistant, it was not your fault. It was the fault of the in-home test the guy claimed he took that he claimed pronounced him free of STDs.
Oh, and the guy with the beer-can thick 14 inch shlong that roughed up your mucosa and predisposed you for infection. His fault, too.
13,
Stop.
You’re no better at that then you are at lawyering.
This is not what municipal plans inspectors do.
There is a reason for the licensing of structural engineers.
Do you really think the state hospital inspectors should be responsible for all the patients you murdered through your decades of laziness and incompetence?
@ 17
Who said I was making an argument?
I push buttons. I don’t have to support Trump to laugh at y’all for thinking Hillary was a good choice in 2016.
You chose poorly. You deserve four years of merciless taunting. That is how nature works.
@16 such sarcasm. But to answer your question. No. I am the one responsible for my action.
You say that with such anger – gives me the picture in my head that you typed that with one hand while the other hand was stroking your pencil dick
@17 Oh, I’ll give Bob the benefit of the doubt that he was at least competent at his job. The medical profession does have ways of weeding out the really bad fuckup artists, lest the rest of ’em get tarred with the same brush. In amateur politicking, on the other hand, competence is not a requirement.
@ 20
You should stop by more often, Art. Quality of discussion has really declined lately. Noun, verb, Putin is pretty much every sentence Steve constructs these days.
Moscow Mitch opening up some distance just in time for the Sunday blabber shows.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-withdrawing-from-syria-is-a-grave-mistake/2019/10/18/c0a811a8-f1cd-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
And we haven’t even begun public hearings.
Somebody’s laughing.
Sure. Like raising their malprac premiums so high that it becomes more profitable for them to just stay inside the trailer crushing cans.
@ 23
Up to 7% of medical testing is ordered for defensive purposes.
Trial lawyer groups routinely fight tooth and nail against efforts to cap
punitivenon-economic damages at levels such as $250,000.https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/09/26/caps-on-medical-malpractice-awards-could-face-new-ballot-challenge/?slreturn=20190919135909
Part of bending the cost curve downward is admitting that medical care must not necessarily be flawless or someone other than the patient is responsible and must be taken down.
One day after Publicly castigating Donald over G7 and Ukraine two-term GOP FL Rep Francis Rooney tells Fox News he will not seek re-election.
Folks, we have a GOP vote for impeachment.
@24
Of course insurance companies want that cap.
So that in egregious cases such as, “The chart said he’s allergic to penicillin and that’s been in his chart since he was a toddler you gave him penicillin and now the sole earner of a family with three grade school children is dead.”
“Oops, here’s a $250k, make it last until the kids can get jobs.”
“Steve – you are an Electrical designer? Would you design something with the notion that if you didn’t design it correctly that you weren’t the responsible party but the Mayor would be?”
Architects and engineers have legal exposure. That’s why we have attorneys, although I’ve heard about an engineer somewhere having a radiologist instead. I take it whoever it was fell for it when the radiologist told him he knew more about law than attorneys and judges and more about architecture and engineering than architects and engineers.
While I share your concerns about what we see structurally in the photos and videos of this disaster, I don’t comment on or criticize another engineering discipline’s design as I wouldn’t know what the fuck I was talking about.
The videos and photos I’ve seen aren’t clearly focused, but it looks like what is generically called Q-Deck, which goes back to the Robertson “Q” decking from the 1960s. But I’ve never seen so few beams and columns. Usually there’s a whole bunch of open web beams spanning the steel I-beams that would support the decking. I don’t see any open web beams at all and the I-beams look like there’s not much to them given the lengths they span between columns and the weight of the deck they’re supporting.
But I’m no structural engineer, so I’m holding back. I could end up looking like a dumbfuck. You know, like a certain radiologist we all know.
“I push buttons.”
No, you come here and make dumbfuck pro-Putin comments and we laugh at your dumbfuckery and heap scorn on your betrayal of our country.
“I don’t have to support Trump….”
Unfortunately for you, your 4,000+ hashtags, each a damned lie, and the rest of the pro-Putin/Trump dumbfuckery you pull from your informs me otherwise.
“…to laugh at y’all for thinking Hillary was a good choice in 2016.”
Statements like that are why you are perceived as an empty vessel and Putin’s dumbfuck foot soldier.
You have betrayed your country. This week your 4,000 hashtags bought you ownership of the deaths of our allies and the merciless slaughter of innocent women and children.
Your sins and transgressions are piling up, Doctor, and your dumbfuckery will not save you.
Live in shame, you miserable dumbfuck SOB, then burn in hell.
@ 26
You did see that I wrote about capping non-economic damages?
Your example was an economic one, asswipe.
Not the groups who work for your insurance company you complete fucking asshat.
Let me guess. You refused to listen to them and keep your goddamn mouth shut in the dozens of wrongful death depositions you were put through before they pulled your ticket.
In truth, most defense lawyers hate representing so-called “smart” medical professionals. They don’t listen well, they lack self-awareness, and they all think they can talk their way out of their fuckups. Jury watches
your latest victimthe young, sympathetic plaintiff enter in the Captain Pike chair wearing a drool bib and they’re ready to go home and Googlepunitivenon-economic damages no matter what the judge tells them.As with the GOP, you people are your own worst enemies.
@ 28
Three Putin mentions in Steve’s first three sentences. See, Art @ 20,21, I wasn’t kidding.
Steve’s become a useless tool for Hillary’s efforts to blame anything and everything else for her loss. He’s YLB with a higher IQ and a Y chromosome.
25,
Not exactly breaking for the exits.
Then again, the prosecution hasn’t even put on its case yet.
Well, except for the Cheif of Staff of course.
@31 That was truly pathetic, Doctor, you and your appeal for atonement from the one person here who hasn’t followed as you as we have, watching as you’ve dumbfucked your way to betraying your country as Putin’s oh-so-willing hashtag foot soldier.
Steve,
I think you may have a stalker.
You may need to hide the family pets.
Exactly….you do know enough, but I understand you saying that you aren’t an expertise in Structural Design. That is exactly my observation. If you’ve been in the business long enough you come to expect to see some intermediate beams.
Where are the intermediate beams? Not even open web joists, at least have an open web joist.
Looks to me like they tried to design it like a cast-in-place flat slab, but typically cast-in-place concrete slabs are greater or equal to 6″ thickness throughout. With Q Deck you typically don’t get more than average 4″ or mayb2 4 1/2″ slab thickness. I also saw from some video that it was a tensioned slab, probably post tension not pretension….some of the contractor videos clearly showed the tendons for the tensioning. Again, they tried to design it like a cast-in-place structure, but too me the Q deck doesn’t give you the proper thickness and it appeared those slabs were not thick enough, otherwise maybe then you wouldn’t have needed the intermediate beams as a final design.
My observation – the structure was too flimsy and not adequately designed. But we will see.
Something else I noticed, very few shear studs in the slab, but that could have been from view before all of them were completely installed….but with no beam (intermediate beams) they had nothing to weld the shear studs to, so there couldn’t have been any…but that’s just another observation.
Also, looks like no Moment Frame Bracing (Diagonal x bracing at the columns – for those that don’t know what that is). The point of x-bracing is to support for lateral wind loads. What a flimsy structure. I guest they could have accomplished it with Welded Moment connections at the Column/Beam connection, but that is typically more expensive.
Steve, could you imagine the 6-7 man crew placing the concrete on metal deck that was spanning 30 feet or greater. Surprised it didn’t collapse right there and then with the weight of the men and the wet concrete. But they had to have have shoring in place as well as the restores or the shoring became the restores after.
Too funny. Sorry – when you’re in the industry you laugh in amazement at the stupid things people do or don’t do. Lucky there weren’t more dead workers, or hotel patrons after occupied.
After Mother’s Day, this is YLB’s second-fave day of the year.
Beto O’Rourke✔
@BetoORourke
In detention centers and in prisons, in big cities and small towns, women across America don’t have access to the period products they need. On #NationalPeriodDay, men need to join women in demanding real change—which is why I’m supporting the Menstrual Equity Act.
7:39 AM – Oct 19, 2019
YLB, during weeks like this, you really need to change your panties more frequently.
@36 Yes, I can well imagine. I first encountered Q-Deck at Stanford Hospital. There was a concrete contractor who was a bit of a job site asshole at times. In an area of the 3rd floor the re-bar wasn’t in yet but, being an ass, he was going to pour anyway.
There was a state inspector standing in the middle of the pour, yelling at him to stop, but the contractor kept pouring and the inspector kept yelling. Next thing we know, the inspector’s boots are stuck in the concrete and he had to leave them there in order to get out. As he was doing so, everybody on the job site was laughing their asses off, including the other inspectors.
Heh. Mary Kay must have written a few checks in the past week..
Too SAD for “ofmarkykay”…
After drumpf is impeached we can get back to making fun of the typical always wrong wing idiocy, hypocrisy and whatnot..
That orange asswipe has sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
Breaking news: drumpf pulls the plug on the G7 being hosted at Doral.
Poor dems. Call out drumpf for its crimes and the freak scurries for cover. Can’t use that now in the impeachment trial..
Fuck! Calling out the orange asswipe’s crimes is how we get more drumpf!
Was just on the ferry from Bremerton, and the demolition of Colman Dock is continuing at a good pace. Can’t finish the new terminal until that is done.
@14 Thanks for verifying @12. Of course, I knew you would.
@18 “for thinking Hillary was a good choice in 2016”
Who said she was? Cite and link, please. 73% of Washington Democrats wanted Bernie.
You’ve been corrected about this before. Several times. I doubt you even had malpractice insurance. At some point, insurance companies decide a risk is uninsurable.
@20 Well, political parties do get weeded out at the polls, if they fuck up badly enough and persistently enough. The Know-Nothings aren’t around anymore. You stupid humans, or at least your dumbest faction, may suffer a similar fate. Nature tends to weed out weak-minded species and the weakest-minded of a species.
@21 “Quality of discussion has really declined lately.”
Yes, ever since you showed up, although I have to say things improved by 50% when the babbling loon disappeared.
@24 What’re you skeered of, doc? If you’re not negligent, your liability is zee-roooe. And, generally, given the technical nature of medicine, it takes the testimony of a brother doctor to convince a jury that you fucked up.
@28 “No, you come here and make dumbfuck pro-Putin comments and we laugh at your dumbfuckery and heap scorn on your betrayal of our country.”
That’s what he meant. He pushes our buttons. He’s admitted before he comes here and posts shit just to play with us. He’s a troll. But that’s okey. We push his buttons and play with him, too. He’s easy to troll.
@31 “Steve’s become a useless tool for Hillary’s efforts to blame anything and everything else for her loss. He’s YLB with a higher IQ and a Y chromosome.”
We find it fascinating that you’ve never blamed Trump for anything Trump does, and even more interesting, you’ve never blamed Trump voters for putting him there to do it.
Instead, you keep arguing, without evidence, the meme that Hillary would have been a worse president than this one. Just like Trump keeps arguing, without evidence, that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S., that the DNC’s email server is hiding in Ukraine, that the Central Park Five are guilty, that Hurricane Dorian was going to hit Alabama, that Muslims cheered the collapse of the Twin Towers, that millions of illegals voted in 2016, etc. etc. etc.
@34 “You may need to hide the family pets.”
Yes, they’re prime targets for medical experiments. And sex trafficking. In this case, even the parakeet is at risk.
@40 More likely he was just trolling the Dems and never intended to go through with it. “I was joking. All my high crimes and misdemeanors were jokes.” His impeachment defense is taking shape.
In Switzerland, looks like the Swiss People’s Party might lose some seats, with the Greens and Green Liberals gaining ground, but the Swiss Voting System can deliver surprises,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-election/environmentalist-greens-set-for-gains-as-swiss-elect-parliament-idUSKBN1WY0PV
The National Council is apportioned by Canton based on population, with Zurich having the most. All Cantons with 2 or more seats use proportional representation, with a type called the Free List that allows the voters to cross off candidates of their own party they don’t like, write in candidates from other parties, and cumulate votes.
https://youtu.be/X_NErQcAgaI
Emmett Till has been dead for 64 years, but yahoos still vandalize the memorial marking the spot where his tortured and battered body was pulled from a river. Today, a new Emmett Till memorial marker was unveiled and this one is bulletproof.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bulletproof-emmett-till-memorial-unveiled-by-the-river-his-body-was-pulled-from_n_5daa1c07e4b0f34e3a75737c
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Some things never change. There will always be racists and haters. Fighting them is a never-ending task. That’s why we can never take a vacation from rooting the evil from this world.
“You may need to hide the family pets.”
My cat is HUGE! She’s built like a lynx and has a bite force that can crush your tibia and fibula with one bite. The neighborhood german shepard, poor thing, lives in fear of my cat kicking his ass again. Coyotes won’t come within a mile of the house. I warn guests not to bring small children here. That warning was ignored once and my cat stalked that kid and then took him down like a lioness takes down a zebra. No sympathy here. I warned them.
Best advice I can give – don’t fuck with my cat.
52,
Things will only change when the culture demands it.
There is no cultural movement in America that actively motivates and encourages people to defacate on the grave marker of President Lincoln, draw dick pics on monuments to the Apollo landing, or create “dank memes” celebrating the children crushed to death in the Murrah bombing.
But there is an extant and widely tolerated cultural movement in America today that celebrates the lynching of Emmett Till. And the GOP is part of it.
Keeping Priorities Straight Dep’t
“A Honduran worker injured in the collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in New Orleans is being held for deportation, immigration authorities said Saturday. Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, part of a group of workers suing the developers of the structure that collapsed Oct. 12, was arrested Monday and detained for deportation, said Bryan D. Cox, acting press secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. … ICE’s Cox said Ramirez will receive treatment for injuries he suffered in the collapse while he is in federal custody.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/worker-injured-hard-rock-hotel-collapse-new-orleans-be-deported-n1069066
Roger Rabbit Commentary: So, are they giving him access to medical professionals, or did they just hand him a first-aid kit?
@ 44
Nature tends to weed out weak-minded species and the weakest-minded of a species.
Speaking of being weeded out, Emerson poll of Iowans has Kamala Harris at 2%. Small poll so a substantial margin of error, but…
Weak indeed. Willie Brown just told the Chron that she didn’t even swallow. All of it.
56,
Hasn’t figured out that CA goes early this year which keeps her alive until at least March/April.
@56 “Willie Brown just told the Chron that she didn’t even swallow.”
Putting this one within the context of his recurring fantasies in which he visualizes YLB wearing panties, I take it this must be Doctor Dumbfuck’s way of telling us he swallows.
Sadly, this really doesn’t inform us of anything we didn’t already know. I mean, who among us hasn’t already concluded that the Doctor swallows? The only question that might remain for someone not following the Doctor’s recent revelations is, what role does his horse play in this?
@52 &54
“Fella who came down here and got in trouble — overstepped his bounds to a degree some folks thought. And they cured him of his problems.”
John Whitten, a former Tallahatchie county Prosecutor said this about Emmett Till to @npr in 2019.
By ‘cute’ he means murdering a 14 year old.
In case you didn’t notice, Doctor, last week our allies were dying and women and children were being slaughtered and it was all you and your orange moron’s fault because you’re both dumbfucks.
Way to go, Doctor.
Live in shame.
@ 57
Yes, California goes early.
Not that it will matter to Harris.
Why Kamala Harris is flailing with California voters
The state is physically immense, its population enormous and attention span short when it comes to politics. It’s also astronomically expensive to advertise, and that makes it exceedingly difficult for a politician — even one elected three times to statewide office like Harris — to become well known, much less revered.
In short, as other presidential hopefuls have painfully learned, there is no such thing in California as a home-state advantage.
“People cling to the notion that no matter how goes the rest of the country, California will be there for them,” said Don Sipple, a strategist for former Gov. Pete Wilson’s disastrous 1996 presidential run. “It’s not. Unless a candidate proves their bona fides on the national stage, California will abandon you. There’s no loyalty.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-04/theres-little-california-love-as-kamala-harris-struggles-in-home-state
Former president Pete Wilson will tell you that, QoS McHillbilly.
Why is it, I wonder, that Steve never cries out about the slaughtered children @ 60 in Chicago each week?
https://abc7chicago.com/mchenry-county-leader-among-2-dcfs-workers-sued-in-aj-freund-case-/5624339/
Is it because Democrats control that entire city, perhaps?
@57 More interesting is his serial fantasies about prominent public figures engaged in various kinds of sex acts. Do they teach that in med school, or is he a pervert who went to med school?
@58 I see Steve beat me to it, but I also see I’m not the only one here who thinks Doc is a strange duck.
@61 Funny to see Doctor Dumbfuck preaching about “revered” and “loyalty” with reference to politicians. The irony of that probably totally escapes him.
They just blew up the Hard Rock Hotel cranes, and it didn’t look like a perfect shot to me. One of the cranes is only partially collapsed with the crane tower and part of its lifting arm leaning precariously on the building roof. The tallest and most unstable crane flipped upside down and fell into the street. Some more of the building collapsed, too.
One of the cranes isn’t completely down, and WVUE-TV’s reporting says “something clearly went wrong.”
The crane that didn’t fall is even more unstable now, and WVUE-TV says city officials will now have to figure out “what to do next.”
Now wait for Doctor Dumbfuck to post an inane comparison between the crane implosion and the status of Bernie Sanders’ campaign.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-struggles-rebound-staffing-strategy-health-n1068571
@62 “the slaughtered children @ 60 in Chicago each week?”
Three words: GOP gun policies.
The way to fix that is at the ballot box. Same with Trump’s backstab of the Kurds who fought on our side against ISIS. (#artofthedeal*)
* Trump reportedly owns 119 properties in Turkey, and several years ago said himself he has a “conflict of interest” there, but his self-dealing is of no concern to Republicans and their shills like Doctor Dumbfuck, just like they don’t care about separation of powers, the Emoluments clause, separation of church and state, due process, gerrymandering, vote suppression, the influence of corporate money in politics, and rampant GOP corruption.
Your hypocrisy is front and center, Doc. And it robs you of credibility when you post drivel like this because it’s obvious to all who care to see that your comments are devoid of sincerity.
So a bunch of corrupt private sector actors wrecked the economy in 2008, the government guys saved us from another Great Depression, and the net result is that voters elected a corrupt anti-government businessman who’s in it for personal profit to run our government.
You humans are a funny species.
“Your hypocrisy is front and center, Doc.”
He projected his own hypocricy onto me. Amatuer move.
Apparently when I’m not thinking on my sins because Hillary was so…awful, I should be writing posts on HA hating on black people.
And what I should not be doing here is talk about how the slaughter of our allies is entirely his and his orange moron’s fault because it is true and the dumbfuck has no rebuttal.
Is anybody shocked that our dumbfuck racist devotee of a dumbfuck racist orange moron would come up with such dumbfuckery? I can’t say I’m surprised. Not at all.
Weak sauce, Doctor. Putin would appreciate it if you would try harder.
Tweeted by Hillary,
“The British people have changed their mind about Brexit. Beginning in the summer of 2017, and accelerating in the summer of 2018 by an ever wider margin, British people have told pollsters that they voted wrong in the Brexit referendum of June 2016. Over that same period, however, Britain’s Conservative Party has become more and more committed to Brexit. Sixty-three percent of Conservative Party supporters would rather see Scotland secede from the United Kingdom than abandon the Brexit project. Sixty-one percent of Conservatives would accept significant damage to the British economy to achieve Brexit. Fifty-nine percent would let Northern Ireland go. Fifty-four percent would rather see the Conservative Party itself destroyed than yield on Brexit.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/can-brexit-survive-second-referendum/600382/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: America isn’t the only place where conservatives are stupid and self-destructive. Conservatives are stupid and self-destructive everywhere. That strongly implies that conservative ideology itself is inherently stupid and self-destructive.
At 10:00 of this video, Tim Geithner says, “We all have something in common. Everybody who goes into in the markets understands that the markets aren’t always self-correcting.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QozGSS7QY_U
Roger Rabbit Commentary: What I’ve been saying for years, and he knows what he’s talking about. Pretty much shoots down conservative economic ideology and the GOP’s approach to financial meltdowns. Markets aren’t always self correcting. Free markets work until they don’t, and when they capsize you have to right them or they’ll sink. But Republicans don’t believe this. They want to keep the government’s hands off the sinking ship and let it sink, because they cling to a belief that free markets, like the Titanic, are unsinkable. Ask the Titanic passengers who survived how that thinking worked out for them. A Republican is someone who is asking you to be a passenger on an economic Titanic. The problem with that is they’ll drag us under with them — as they would have in 2008 if we had let them. Vote for Republican economic policies at your peril. If you drown, don’t blame me. I’ve tried to warn you countless times against voting for Republicans, so you can’t say I’m at fault.
Looks like the Swiss People’s Party has lost 3% in Swiss parliamentary elections, with the Green and Green Liberals making big gains. Although they say it won’t change much, the Magic Formula tends to apply when the new Parliament elects the Federal Council. Also, a record number of women have were running. Women have only had the vote at the Federal Level since 1971.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50116400
https://youtu.be/X_NErQcAgaI
The Difference Between Liberals and Conservatives
Basically it’s how we look at things. A liberal’s worldview is fact-based, while a conservative’s is faith-based. I get why they reject the idea of evolution and natural selection; it doesn’t work in their favor.
“A liberal’s worldview is fact-based, while a conservative’s is faith-based.”
Doctor Dumbfuck’s world view is snide-based. That’s apparently all he’s got. No faith. No facts. Just snide. Oh, and betrayal.
@ 76
That’s apparently all he’s got. No faith. No facts.
It’s a fact that today is Kamala Harris’ birthday, Steve.
It’s also a fact that Hillary Clinton was a horrible, horrible candidate and that what she and the DNC did to Bernie Sanders in 2015-16 gave her the nomination but gave Donald Trump the presidency.
No number of accusations that Trump is a Russian asset will erase the fact that Hillary Clinton lost to him, and lost badly.
Think on your sins, Steve. You did this to yourself.
Hey, the Clintons and the Yankees have something in common since 2008 or so:
The Yankees’ Decade of Almost: $2 Billion Spent, Zero Titles Won
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yankees-decade-of-almost-2-billion-spent-zero-titles-won-11571579532
OK, it’s not an exact comparison. Yankees don’t own the title #CrookedHillary, after all. And it wasn’t their own money the Clintons spent.
@77 It’s also a fact that you’re a dumbfuck bore and Putin’s loyal foot soldier. Worse of all, you’re the reason HA never got a real Russian troll. After all, why should Putin fucking bother with that when he’s got a dumbfuck traitor like you who’s already carrying his water for him?
Live in shame, dumbfuck. You’ve earned it.
@ 79
I thought the reason that HA never got a real Russian troll is that if you subtract the posts by Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, gman, you, and me, there’s almost nobody else here, Steve.
Sharkansky isn’t the guy wasting hours of time coming up with the multimedia post each week so we four men and YLB can play grab-ass in the comments section afterward.
See, Steve, the one thing the Russians are not, is stupid.
Eagles down by 27 with less than half of the fourth quarter remaining.
Backing Sawant won’t make Goldy any happier when that contest is over.
‘nite, y’all.
Tomorrow I’ll be back to widening the wealth gap between myself and that failure in all things attempted, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
According to the most recent data from the Internal Revenue Service cited by Bloomberg, it took earnings of $515,371 in 2017 to crack into the top 1%. That is a rise of 7.2% from the year prior, even after adjusting for inflation. Since 2011, when the Occupy Wall Street protests were raging, the threshold to break out of the 99% has risen by an inflation-adjusted 33%.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/heres-what-you-need-to-earn-to-crack-the-1-according-to-latest-irs-data-51571397000?mod=mw_quote_news
Occupy Wall Street? What the fuck is that?
‘froggy’s the Three Percent.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
OK, 3.2.
“See, Steve, the one thing the Russians are not, is stupid.”
Well, you know Putin and what pleases him way better than I do, so I’ll defer to you on that one, Doctor.
Live in shame.
@ 84
I will transmit this information to Vladimir, Стив.
Being Putin’s loyal foot soldier, I’m sure you will, Doctor.
85
Dude, give it up.
@ 87
Not as long as I’ve got Steve nearly blowing his stack every time he comes on.
Just so you know, Doc, the biggest, most sanctimonious, most fawning Trump sycophant of them all is not ruling out impeachment “if new evidence emerges.”
Which you know will. Because Trump can’t help himself. Trump is gonna be Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/20/politics/lindsey-graham-mitt-romney-impeachment-trump/index.html
Trump is in deep, deep shit. And he’s bound to dig himself in deeper, because Trump gonna be Trump.
And Doctor Dumbfuck will continue to be a dumbfuck, because dumbfucks gonna dumbfuck. They can’t help themselves. Even Jesus, who saved sinners and prostitutes and raised Lazarus from the dead, couldn’t save dumbfucks from themselves. They’re beyond anyone’s help. They put themselves there.
@82 Huh. Here’s Doctor Dumbfuck lifting an article from Barron’s from Market Watch for free.* (* I know it’s a free link because I can open it.)
I’ve never really believed Dumbfuck was spending $5 a week on a Barron’s subscription. Horse owners generally can’t afford such luxuries given what hay and oats cost these days. So I assumed he wasn’t reading Barron’s at all.
But now, faced with evidence that he is, I gotta suspect he’s sneaking off to his local public library on Saturdays, hoping I’m not using the same library, or if I am, that I won’t recognize him.
I kinda wonder about that old guy slouching over in the corner hiding his face. I figured he might be a homeless unfortunate trying to keep warm. But now I gotta wonder if Doctor Dumbfuck and I haven’t met in person …
Of course, he would know me if he saw me. How many library patrons with long pointy ears and cottontails read Barron’s? I can’t hide in a corner behind a mask of anonymity like he can. So I might as well admit I spend that $5 a week on buying more stock instead of buying magazines to clog up the landfill with, because I’m gonna get caught reading it for free at the public library anyway.
@80 No, Sharansky is the guy who wasted his time and talents creating a blog that nobody read — not even you — until even he gave up on it and let it wither away to nothingness, oh, about ten years ago.\
Sharansky also is the guy who spent countless hours poring over more than 600,000 King County Elections records figuring out that Gregoire actually won the 2004 election.
I say that because Sharansky was not called by a witness in the election contest trial before a handpicked Republican judge in a forum-shopped court in a Republican county. Sharansky did not help Rossi win that election. In fact, that Republican judge in that Republican county subtracted 4 votes from Rossi’s total, increasing Gregoire’s victory margin from 129 to 133.
I would say Sharansky is a world-class time waster. He certainly wasted his time on that one.
I kinda hope Sharansky does revive (un)Sound Politics and brings back his old sidekicks Pudge et al. I’m curious where that crowd stands on backing a pathological liar, groper, deadbeat and cheater, serial bankrupt and adulterer, racist, bigot, and child abuser, among other things, who sells our foreign policy to our enemies in exchange for a few hotel concessions.
It’s sort of a test of whether they have any morals and principles at all, although I think we all know the answer to that one.
After all, we know Sharansky is the shitty parent who got a single-mom waitress fired from her job for asking his rowdy and unsupervised kid to be quiet in a crowded restaurant. That, by itself, tells you everything you’ll ever need to know about Stefan Sharansky.
And if Doctor Dumbfuck starts singing praise for Sharansky in these comment threads, that tells you everything about Doctor Dumbfuck that we already know about him, except for the details of his weird sexual obsessions, but that’s no problem, we can count on him to fill us in on those.
Let’s see, where was I? Oh yes, I was about to post this:
“A [Department of] Justice spokesman issued an unusual statement seeking to remove the department further from Giuliani ….”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/20/politics/justie-department-distances-rudy-giuliani-brian-benczkowski-meeting/index.html
Rats. Ship. Water. You know the drill by now. And this is Barr’s DoJ we’re talking about. I’m starting to wonder if Trump will last through the coming week.
Maybe Sharansky can get his moribund blog up and running in time for Pence’s inauguration. Seems doubtful, though, as Stefan was last heard from on July 15. That’s more than 3 months ago, and events in D.C. are moving fast. He’d better get cracking if he wants to beat Trump’s resignation letter into print and pixels.
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-trump-organization-exec-thinks-trump-will-resign-before-impeachment-2019-10
Let’s see, if I were a Trump speechwriter, I might pen something like this — for a first draft, anyway:
“Dear Mr. Secretary of State: I hate this job, I never wanted it in the first place, and I was the last person who thought I’d actually be elected to it — as you know, I ran for it as a joke — and now that I’m stuck with this job it sucks even worse than I ever dreamed it could, so kindly take this job and shove it where the son (sic) don’t shine. Your friend and former boss, Donald Trump”
And then let him expand on it from there.
A little more on the results out of Switzerland. The way the final votes on their Free List system of Proportional Representation empowers the voter. The Party nominates the list, but voters are free to change the rankings. Interesting, out of Zurich Canton, the voters for the Social Democrats dropped the top candidate 4 places.
https://www.wahlen.zh.ch/wahlen2019/public/dist/index.html#/nrw/hochrechnung/Kandidierende
It’s an interesting system, but I prefer Ranked Choice Voting and Mixed Member Proportional.
In order to honor The Lord’s Day of Rest and keep it holy, yesterday a Republican voter in a red MAGA hat went to the Santa Monica pier and dispersed an aerosol chemical weapon into a large crowd of citizens.
This is Every Republican You Know now.
@99 This particular Trump Republican has priors for burglary, larceny, and conspiracy, and just violated his parole stemming from a previous weapons violation.
https://ktla.com/2019/10/20/man-in-maga-hat-arrested-after-dousing-demonstrators-with-bear-spray-during-at-santa-monica-pier/
He must like jail cuisine. MAGA!
Meanwhile, House Republicans are floating a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff. I predict this will be like trying to get an Obama judicial nominee through McConnell’s Senate.