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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Samantha Bee: Foster Care is broken and how to fix it.

New York Times: Why is YouTube erasing history?

Roll Call: Hillary Clinton speaks at Elijah Cummings’ funeral.

Physics Girl: Most people don’t know wine moves like this.

The Dotard Трамп And His Crime-addled Co-conspirators:

Verge Science: How to find the microplastics in your seafood.

Stephen: Why doesn’t “Pierre Delecto” follow Stephen Colbert on Twitter?

Roll Call: Obama speaks at Elijah Cummings’ funeral.

Jim Jefferies: Preparing for earth’s sixth mass extinction.

Wired: FBI agent explains how bombs are disposed of.

Twenty-twenty Vision:

Wendover: The logistics of disaster response.

Robert Reich: The NRA 6-part strategy to stop gun laws.

Now This: House votes to make animal cruelty a federal crime.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Minute Earth: How much air can a tree hold?

Vox: Is the gray wolf actually endangered?

Now This: How the climate crisis is reshaping this American town.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    SecState Pompeo is probably wishing he had not asked Ambassaador Taylor to comeback into Government.

  2. 2

    Funny. For individuals that love to bring race and discrimination into the mix they sure are a bunch of discriminating bigots themselves.

    Just as I said here before, African Americans, have a difficult time accepting Mayor Pete’s candidacy because of his sexual orientation. Ohhhh what irony.

    One reason why I’ve been able to embrace the reality of racism and supporting African Americans’ fight for equality is because I myself can relate and understand how wrong it is…..but now, I’m not to sure.

    African Americans (lead by our deceased loon) are a bunch of bigots, they can’t afford to lose any support if they want equality, they should think of their sins.

  4. 4

    Deficits are like shellfish. They’re only bad in years that don’t have an ‘R’

  6. 6

    @1 If I were defending Pompeo, I’d argue my client is too stupid to engage in a criminal conspiracy, and to prove that point I’d retain a member of the Gotti clan as an expert witness to testify that a real gangster would regard hiring an honest man like Taylor as professional malpractice.

  9. 9

    Started by Rudy yesterday, Trump-crime-gang butt dialing journalist stories are blowing up across the internet today.

    Please, please, please, baby please do not give gramps a smartphone this Christmas.

    Thank you.

  10. 10

    @10 Better than a wire by far. No warrant required, self-incrimination waived, voluntary confession. All that’s left is sentencing.

  11. 11

    Do you think Trump will actually be thrown out of office via the impeachment process? Is it 50%/50%? 100/0? 25/75? 75/25?

  12. 12

    11,
    Requires a two thirds vote from the Senate. That’s twenty Trumpublicans voting to make a public admission of corruption and wrong doing.

    Won’t happen. It’s up to the voters to end the republican party for the good of the nation.

  13. 13

    11,
    comes down then to optics.

    The Trumpublican Party would prefer to operate the Senate impeachment trial as a show trial, but instead of putting the president on trial, they want to put House Democrats on trial. That’s what all the House Trumpublican process posturing is all about. That may not be as easy to do as they might like. Since the presiding officer will be Chief Justice Roberts, who wants nothing to do with president peepee’s sad legacy, and who hopes to accomplish a few “great things” in the current term.

    But they’ll do the best they can, despite a few adverse rulings from the bench. At the end of it they want to make a big splashy showing of TOTAL EXONERATION!!!! and run a series of media victory laps. That also may not be as easy as it once might have been. It’ll be very difficult for blue state Trumpublican Senators to take that vote and still protect their re-election. Yertle may have to let a few of them go. Maybe quite a few. Already Collins, Murkowski, Romney, and Gardiner are stepping away. If a numerical majority of the Senate votes to convict, but falls short of the two-thirds required, it will look very bad.

    And if that happens, some Trumpublicans led by the White House will turn on them, urging primary challenges, calling them RINOs and FAKE REPUBLICANS, etc. and essentially weakening them going into the election. Also looks very bad.

    Optically, the Trumpublicans options are not good and they are getting worse each day as more of the GOP crime iceberg becomes visible.

  14. 14

    Last night Tapper got named and quoted confirmation that Trump ordered Mattis to steer a $10 billion defense cloud computing contract to Microsoft in order to punish Bezos for opposing him politically.

    Fairly large drip, that one.

  15. 15

    @14

    The only thing surprising there is they didn’t award it to Haliburton The Trump Organization because it’s the only firm with the expertise to get it done.

  16. 16

    @13 “Yertle may have to let a few of them go.”

    That’s what I was thinking a few days ago. Turtle will take a count, and if he has enough to preserve criminality in the White House, release a few of his members who are on the endangered species list. That’s pretty routine practice on Capitol Hill when touchy votes come up.

    But it all comes down to public opinion. If Democrats sell their case* in open House hearings, and the public turns against Trump in a big way, then Senate Republicans will pivot to saving their own asses. This is entirely plausible. em>Republican insiders tell us there are only 7 or 8 GOP senators who will stick with Trump no matter what; and about three dozen who privately want the Trump albatross off their necks. Moreover, Pence is far more in sync with their ideology and policy goals than Trump is. I think this is a weak-dam scenario; it’s holding back the water for now, but if it breaks, the flood will come in a rush.** And earlier this month a former Trump exec told a journalist she believes Trump will resign rather than face the humiliation of a Senate trial.***

    * They may not have to. Trump is doing a bang-up job of convicting himself.

    ** I predict it’s Graham who they’ll select to play the role Goldwater did in 1974.

    *** Actually, in 1999 I initially thought Clinton would, but in retrospect it’s obvious that counting Senate votes persuaded him to tough it out.

  17. 17

    @14 Well, let’s see if he was stupid enough to put it in writing. He hasn’t been very smart so far. See @6 for further thoughts on this.

  18. 18

    16,
    Clinton vote was 45-55 perjury and 50 – 50 obstruction.

    I think history has shown that those counts were pivotal in transforming public opinion of him. Though I would have preferred he resign like Nixon. Would have given us ten years of President Gore, no 9/11, no Iraq war, and no BUSH/CDO crash ripping 12 trillion out of household wealth. And no Hillary either.

  19. 19

    So remember in the 70s when Arthur Laffer started taking a bunch of lightly regarded and/or debunked economic theories and coalesced them into a single premise?

    Then remember how Reagan enacted it in the 80s and actual economists not Laffer cultits said, “That’s going to explode the Federal Deficit.” and the GOP and the Laffer cultists said, “No, No, NO this will work.”

    And it didn’t work and the deficit exploded?

    Then remember how Bush Jr. Tried it again and said, “No, No, No THIS time it will really work because on top of growing revenue through tax cuts we’re going to put a war and a prescription drug program on the deficit because the rising revenue from tax cuts will pay for it. Eventually. Maybe 30 years out.” And responsible economists said, “No this will lead to higher deficits and possibly a deep recession.”

    And then a deep recession happened?

    And remember how they tried the Laffer model in every way in Kansas and reasonable economists warned of dire consequences to the state economy that would then be a drag on the social safety net system and Republican Governor and State Legislatures said, “No, No , NO we have research from Laffer. This will work.”

    And then the state budget in Kansas exploded due to huge shortfall in revenue to spending so Kansas cut the budget nine times and still had a shortfall and their state’s economy was dead last in job creation in the midwest while other states were coming out of recession?

    And then remember how Donald, a pretend Laffer cultist who just cheats on his taxes anyway and the Laffer cultists in the GOP House and Senate passed a massive corporate tax cut and said, “No no no, we’ll be fine. EVERYONE knows tax breaks generate more revenue.” And sensible economists said, “You’ve tried that and failed many times now. It doesn’t work. It will explode the deficit.” And Congress’ own non-partisan research said, “This plan will explode the deficit.” But the Laffer Cultists put it in place anyway.

    And then Donald gave Arthur Laffer the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

    Good Times!

    26% deficit increase in a single fiscal year? Without creative accounting the $984B deficit is more like $1T and will definitely be $1T in Fiscal Year 2021 just like the sensible economists said. That sounds like kind of a lot.

    See @4

  20. 20

    @13

    If a numerical majority of the Senate votes to convict, but falls short of the two-thirds required, it will look very bad.

    Some political hay is being made that Lindsay can only get 44 Republicans to sign on to a resolution Demand a halt to (eds note, only a handful signed on) Condemning (eds note, just a few more sigend on) urging more transparency in the “Democrat sham investigation in the house.”

    Napkin math tells you 66 Senators at least consider the matter serious enough to warrant an actual investigation. And the evidence leaded so far is having a big impact on public support for impeachment.

    40-60 against maybe at this point. But there could come a tipping point during the presentation of real evidence that pushes one more GOP Senator over the line. It could just be pressure from home. Or it could be an actual call transcript not a summary.

  21. 21

    @ 20

    Cz-252, would you venture that the Dems have an “absolute lock” on 51?

    Yes, I’m laughing at you.

  22. 22

    @ 20

    On the obstruction of justice charge against Bill Clinton, the Senate voted 50-50.

    If a simple majority against Trump would look “very bad”, Cz-252, would you agree that the 50-50 result against Clinton was, at minimum, “bad”?

    And if 50 is “bad” and 51 is “very bad”, would it then follow that 52 would be “very, very bad”?

    Still laughing at you.

  23. 23

    I think that motorcycles should be allowed to use Seattle’s bike lanes for this very reason.

    NEW YORK, NY—In an inspiring story from the world of professional cycling, a motorcyclist who identifies as a bicyclist has crushed all the regular bicyclists, setting an unbelievable world record.

    In a local qualifying race for the World Road Cycling League, the motorcyclist crushed the previous 100-mile record of 3 hours, 13 minutes with his amazing new score of well under an hour.

    Professional motorcycle racer Judd E. Banner, the brave trans-vehicle rider, was allowed to race after he told league organizers he’s always felt like a bicyclist in a motorcyclist’s body.

    https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record

  24. 24

    @ 19

    Maybe, Cz-252, you should begin your story with how Reagan became president in the first place.

    In January 1980, inflation was 13.91% and Unemployment was 6.3%. Inflation peaked in April 1980 at 14.76% and fell to “only” 6.51% the following April. By December 1989 inflation had decreased drastically to 4.65% and unemployment had declined to 5.4%.

    https://inflationdata.com/articles/inflation-cpi-consumer-price-index-1980-1989/#targetText=In%20January%201980%2C%20inflation%20was,unemployment%20had%20declined%20to%205.4%25.

  25. 25

    “I mean, Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
    It’s kind of hard to sell ‘trickle down.’ So the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really ‘trickle down.’ Supply-side is ‘trickle-down’ theory.”

    Borrow and spend dressed up in Brooks Bros.

  26. 26

    As long as YLB’s kids are picking up the tab, spend away.

    After all, she had no problem when it was Team Obama doing it.

  27. 27

    @24

    Says the guy bleating about the ‘real unemployment’ U6 number from 2011 – Jan 2017.

    By anyway, How Reagan came to be elected has little to do with the predicted and accurate explosion of the US deficit due to his policies.

    Thanks for playing.

  28. 28

    @21

    So you’re saying some guy is wrong and there is currently a higher chance of impeachment than not?

    Wow you suck at this.

    Giggling maniacally like an imbecile that normal people avoid more like it.

  29. 29

    @24

    it occurs to me that this is a remarkably stupid ‘comeback’

    Follow me here.

    “Not guilty your honor. The window was slightly open. I assumed they WANTED me to have the TV and the jewelry so the loss is their own fault.”

    “No mom, I didn’t punch him. He ran really hard into my fist so it’s really his fault.”

    “No one could have imagined they would fly airplanes into buildings no matter what the memorandum about flying airplanes into buildings inferred. They didn’t state it plainly so it’s their fault.”

  30. 30

    @22

    Given that GOP had (has) an advantage of 55-45 (53-47) a simple majority unable to hold even his own party together would look worse.

    a 51-49 vote in favor would be a non-partisan vote to remove and look worse than 50-50 on obstruction.

    66-44 would look pretty awful if a single Collins keeps him in office.

    and we know what 67-43 would look like.

    You suck at this.

  31. 31

    Republicans are assholes generally:

    O.K. I’m making an assumption but you’ll see why.

    So last night I’m meeting someone at a somewhat rural suburban brewery. Took me a lot less time to get there than anticipated so I’m 20 minutes early. There’s two empty stools at the bar. but they’re shoved together with really not enough space. I ask the two guys, young beardy and white haired squat 200lb 60s, if anyone is sitting there. Young beardy says no, white haired squat says nothing but scoots his chair over closer to the empty stool so I pull one of them out and put it out of the way and sit down to watch a little World Series, order a beer and wait.

    White squat has a coaster over his beer in the “I haven’t left I just went to the loo” fashion and proceeds to move it for each sip and then put it back. this has nothing to do with nothing it was just odd.

    After a few minutes White Squat gets up to head toward the bathroom but on the way I see him tear something off the shelf of free newspapers and real estate brochures under the community board and throw it on the ground before stepping on it. Again odd.

    While he’s gone my friend arrives and not having enough room for two I get up and we plan to put our name in for a table but friend leans in to order a beer while we wait. At this point White Squat comes back and as my friend is slightly impeding his stool he pushes him (nudged really) out of the way wordlessly. Now I’ve heard him speak to the bartender so I know he’s not a mute. He just glares at my friend when he says sarcastically, “Oh I’m sorry was I a little bit in your way, sir?”

    How do I know he’s a Republican? Well I also headed to the bathroom shortly after and the thing he tossed on the floor and stepped on is the lower third ad off one of ‘The Stranger”s for Sawant.

    The mere image of someone who I assume he can’t vote against because he lives in a semi-rural suburb so fills him with rage that in a fit a pique he must tear it asunder so no one else might walk by and ignore it or see it at all and then step on it for good measure.

    What a fucking asshole.

  32. 32

    “When Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was developing a section for news, he said it would be devoted to curating ‘high quality’ information from ‘trustworthy’ sources. … On Friday, as Facebook began rolling out the product … the company revealed … it had decided to include Breitbart in its list of sources for Facebook News.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/26/media/facebook-news-breitbart/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Now you know what Zuckerberg’s political bias and Facebook’s editorial slant is (if you didn’t suspect before).

    Just another reason to avoid Facebook in all its permutations and manifestations.

  33. 33

    @31 You don’t necessarily have to be a Republican to not be one of Sawant’s biggest fans, but yeah, his behavior has “Republican jerk” written all over it.

  34. 34

    @22 No, I think what would look very bad is voting against removing this very very bad actor from office. On that score, so far, you look very very very bad.

  35. 35

    @24 That’s chapter one. Chapter two is how, within months of Reagan taking office, the country was subjected to the then-worst recession since the 1930s. But it did cool the inflation rate to ***only*** 4.4% at the end of his presidency.

  37. 37

    Happy Birthday, Hillary!

    The smell of Geritrol covers the stale Chardonnay odor that otherwise emanates from her.

  38. 38

    “ofmaryk” crawls out from under its rock… it’s so dedicated to wishing bad things for other people’s kids – probably because it doesn’t have one of its own.. mmm.. not really anyway.

    ACLU, ADL, Border Angels, Campaign Zero, Center for Reproductive Rights, EarthJustice, Emily’s List, Native American Rights Fund, Next Gen Climate Action, Lambda Legal, Mazzoni Center, NAACP, NCADV, PEN America, Planned Parenthood, Running Start, Union of Concerned Scientists, Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights…

    maryk’s pen is at the ready. The families of Seattle salute you.

    Now watch.

    The mere image of someone who I assume he can’t vote against because he lives in a semi-rural suburb so fills him with rage that in a fit a pique he must tear it asunder so no one else might walk by and ignore it or see it at all and then step on it for good measure.

    Like “ofmaryk” in MA bridge tragedy mode?

    What a fucking asshole.

    Yup

  39. 39

    @35

    The inflation of the late Seventies and early Eighties was quelled by Paul Volker and the Federal Reserve actually doing the correct thing for monetary policy for once. Ford, Carter and Regan had absolutely nothing to do with the stringent actions finally taken by Volker and the Fed to wring inflation out of the economy. If as tough medicine, but it worked.

  41. 41

    @39 You’re not Peter Lynch, you’re an imposter who can’t even spell “Reagan” correctly. And how can you say Carter had “nothing” to do with Volker’s actions, when Carter appointed him to the Federal Reserve? As for whether it was the “right” thing to do, that would be true only if was the only and necessary way to wring double-digit inflation out of the economy, but not everyone is convinced that was the case. What is clear, though, is that David Stockman’s supply-side theories, on which Reagan’s economic policies were based, was “voodoo” and Stockman himself said so. Supply-side isn’t total b.s. — the supply side of the economy can indeed break down for various reasons — but basing economic theory solely on supply-side mechanics and arbitrarily prescribing supply-side remedies for every economic ailment is like prescribing the same pill for every medical condition: The real world doesn’t work that way. And everyone understands that Republican supply-siders aren’t high-IQ economic policy wonks, they’re just selfish and greedy people angling for an excuse to cut their own taxes at the expense of public services and the less fortunate. These are people who literally will take school lunches away from poor children if they can get away with it.

  42. 42

    Got curious, with the powe line/vegetation fire issue in California, got curious how SCL does it. I know they do a good job within the city, but was curious about the transmission lines from the Skagit Hydroelectric Project. Seems they try to keep a 10ft corridor clear on that one. Although it goes through urban and industrial areas for the last miles, especially through Renton, Skyway, and Beacon Hill.
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/UrbanForestryCommission/2013/2013docs/SCLUFCBudgetBriefing04_2013.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjCn9LlybvlAhW5GDQIHRMKCb0QFjAJegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0XE3Z2P_G95NpJEZsyjEwK

    Seems SCL has the opposite problem, they get accused of trimming too much. Help to be a Public and not an Investor-owned Utility.
    https://mynorthwest.com/564353/tree-lovers-argue-city-light-getting-too-aggressive-with-cutting-near-power-lines/?show=comments

  43. 43

    Trump is claiming U.S. forces (actually, a joint U.S.-Kurdish operation, according to some sources) killed the ISIS leader al-Baghdadi. If true, it’s a big deal, because it goes a long way to decapitate ISIS, as this guy was not only the political but also the spiritual leader. Of course, anything Trump says is suspect, but the media is accepting it at face value and this likely is the real deal.

    Remember when U.S. forces killed Bin Laden, and rightwingers refused to give any credit to Obama, even though he made the go-no go decision, and risked Jimmy Carter’s fate (after Desert One) if the operation failed?

    First, let’s wait to find out what Trump’s role (if any) was in this operation. Then, if he was involved, should we give him whatever credit he’s due? Or pay back him and his rightwing mobs in kind, i.e. treat him like they treated Obama? It’s basically a question of whether to be better than they are, or stoop to their level and fight slug slime with slug slime.

  44. 44

    First, let’s wait to find out what Trump’s role (if any) was in this operation.

    Precisely the same role he played when his mother tricked him into donating a few of his old toys to that Marine in front Bergdorf.

  45. 45

    @43
    I give The Hump no fucking credit. He could care less, if he could build a hotel in “ISIS” land, he would be trying to take the guy from his grave to negotiate with him to do so.

  46. 46

    Just learned that “The Newsroom” will be resurrected and that the first episode will be devoted to the US operation to kill al-Baghdadi.

    In a scene during which Trump’s response to the operation is discussed, Sorkin will feature Hillary Clinton’s “We came, we saw, he died.” comment, followed by her manic cackling.

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared a laugh with a television news reporter moments after hearing deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had been killed.

    “We came, we saw, he died,” she joked when told of news reports of Qaddafi’s death by an aide in between formal interviews.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-on-qaddafi-we-came-we-saw-he-died/

  47. 47

    @ 45

    …he would be trying to take the guy from his graveRubbermaid container to negotiate with him…

    Dude blew himself to bits with a suicide vest. ftfy

  49. 49

    @46 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck appears to lament the death of the thug who ordered the Lockerbie bombing. What you expect from a douche who licks the shit off Trump’s and Putin’s asses when he’s not ass-fucking stallions.

  51. 51

    @48 “but I’d take a winner’s trophy away from a man competing in a womens’ event”

    And, to be sure, without a hearing or expert testimony or due process of any kind, and based solely on your sewer bigotry.

    I don’t know whether male-to-female transgenders should be allowed to compete in women’s athletic events. Sounds complicated to me. One permutation of this is that if it gives trans people an advantage in women’s events, then one would expect that female-to-male transgenders would be at an offsetting disadvantage in men’s athletic events, so there’s an argument that it’s a wash.

    What I do know for sure is there are people smarter than you who think about this issue harder and more objectively than you do, so I’ll take their opinions over yours every day of the week. Frankly, whatever the preferred solution to this particular issue may be, I think that in general your opinions are worth less than dog shit.

  52. 52

    Doctor Dumbfuck is joining us fairly early today. I doubt he hauled his carcass out of bed before 9 a.m. to get dressed for church. More likely felt an urgent need to make a trip to the barn. The Call of the Wild, so to speak.

  53. 53

    In other news, there is no other news this morning, except for a mass shooting at an off-campus homecoming party in Texas, but NRA-sponsored misuse of guns and killing of innocents has become so commonplace in this country it isn’t even news anymore.

  55. 55

    Al Franken, continuing to improve the public’s opinion of Democrats.

    There was one tense moment during the speech. After Franken explained “that’s why I’m a Democrat,” one attendee yelled out, “You’re also a liar, a fraud and a sexual predator.”

    Franken seemed unfazed. “Ah, don’t go,” he joked as the man left the room. He paused and added, “I’m sorry it’s a serious accusation and I take it seriously,” before returning to his scripted remarks.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-franken-comeback-politicon_n_5db2300be4b0a89374020d55

    Gillibrand wasn’t a total loser.

  56. 56

    I wonder how much the Cherokee Nation gave her to convince her to stop claiming to be a Cherokee. Probably less than Harvard gave her to make the claim in the first place.

    In 2004, Warren argued that vouchers “relieve parents” from relying on failing public schools. Her campaign’s newly-released education plan attacks charter schools and school choice. Warren’s reversal comes after the Massachusetts senator took more than $2.5 million in campaign cash from the education industry throughout her political career, including nearly $70,000 from the country’s most powerful teachers’ unions, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

    https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-took-thousands-from-teachers-unions-before-charter-school-flip-flop/

  58. 58

    “I dunno about that”

    Of course he doesn’t.

    And that my friends is entirely the point.

    Admission of sexual assault on open mike?
    “I dunno about that”

    Firing FBI Director for investigating election hacking?
    “I dunno about that”

    Obstructing investigation by concealing and destroying records?
    “I dunno about that”

    Ordering illegal campaign expenditures to silence prostitutes?
    “I dunno about that”

    Firing AG for failing to obstruct investigation?
    “I dunno about that”

    Ordering withholding statutory military aid to demand a political smear?
    “I dunno about that”

    Steering $10 billion DOD contract as political punishment?
    “I dunno about that”

    Illegally misclassifying hundreds of records to conceal them from oversight?
    “I dunno about that”

    Stealing tax free funds from charities?
    “I dunno about that”

    Trading Syria to Russia/Iran to protect Turkish campaign money laundry?
    “I dunno about that”

    This is Every Republican You Know.

  60. 60

    @54 Funny, I don’t see that on the actual WaPo website.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-forces-launch-operation-in-syria-targeting-isis-leader-baghdadi-officials-say/2019/10/27/081bc257-adf1-4db6-9a6a-9b820dd9e32d_story.html

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-islamic-states-terrorist-in-chief-dies-at-48/2019/10/27/0d004abc-663d-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html

    I guess I must not have looked hard enough. Either that, or maybe Doctor Dumbfuck should go to the actual source, instead of pinning his credibility on some third-party source nobody ever heard of.

  62. 62

    @55 “Gillibrand wasn’t a total loser.”

    That’s only one of the myriad differences between her and you.

  63. 63

    @56 Unfortunately for you, dumbfucks don’t have any money to pay you to stop being a dumbfuck, so you have to continue being a dumbfuck.

  64. 64

    If this ain’t a weak-ass Dem being played by Trump…

    Friday:

    “Once I heard Trump got an award at the Second Step Presidential Justice Forum and stopped HBCU students from attending, I decided to do my own criminal justice reform event tomorrow instead,” she wrote. “He’s celebrated mass incarceration and pushed the death penalty for innocent Black children.⁣

    “I won’t be complicit in papering over his record,” Harris concluded.

    https://www.bet.com/news/national/2019/10/26/sen–kamala-harris-attacked-by-van-jones-after-skipping-event-ov.html

    Saturday:

    Donald J. Trump✔
    @realDonaldTrump
    · Oct 26, 2019
    Badly failing presidential candidate @KamalaHarris will not go to a very wonderful largely African American event today because yesterday I recieved a major award, at the same event, for being able to produce & sign into law major Criminal Justice Reform legislation, which will..

    Donald J. Trump✔
    @realDonaldTrump
    ….greatly help the African American community (and all other communities), and which was unable to get done in past administrations despite a tremendous desire for it. This and best unemployment numbers EVER is more than Kamala will EVER be able to do for African Americans!

    5:18 AM – Oct 26, 2019

    Hours later:

    MSNBC
    @MSNBC

    2020 candidate Sen. Kamala Harris had refused to attend a criminal justice forum in protest of an award it was giving to Pres. Trump for criminal justice reform. But she spoke there today and explained what changed her mind.

    12:11 PM – 26 Oct 2019

    It wasn’t just Trump. Booker and Van Jones (BET link, above) called her out for her cowardice.

    Taking to Twitter, Jones agreed with Cory Booker that attending the event wouldn’t allow Trump to be the only voice being heard about criminal justice and condemned anyone for “running away from a conversation.”

    “I will be there, too, @CoryBooker… Running away from a conversation has never solved anything,” Jones tweeted. “Some people will abandon a microphone because they don’t like the person who touched it last. Others are smart enough to grab that microphone and make sure THEY get the last word.”

    Small wonder YLB’s a Harris fan. Y’all weakling women of color gotta stick together, after all.

  65. 65

    @ 60

    See screenshot of the headline at the link @ 54 I shared. Also, wipe your glasses after pulling your head out of your ass, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  66. 66

    GM is alive and OBL is dead.

    Glenn Greenwald
    Verified account

    @ggreenwald

    It’s genuinely fascinating watching Democrats in real time struggle to figure out what to say about this. They want to be patriotic and anti-ISIS, but also need a way to malign Trump without contradicting their gushing Obama praise over OBL: not an easy balancing act. Good luck!

    6:56 AM – 27 Oct 2019

  67. 67

    @57 Uh, yeah, he was briefly in U.S. custody in 2004 — when G.W. Bush, not Clinton or Obama, was president — and back then he was a low-level mosque clerk, years before he became a known terrorist, at a time when (per Wikipedia) “contemporaries … describe[d] him … as being shy, unimpressive, a religious scholar, and a man who eschewed violence,” and the decision to release him was made by a Combined Review and Release Board, not by presidential decision.

    Always a dumbfuck! No letup in the idiocy that spews from your keyboard. You really should do a little research and fact-checking before posting shit so you won’t look like such a big fucking fool quite so often.

  68. 68

    @64 Trump getting a criminal justice award is like Ted Bundy getting a Crimestoppers plaque. Some things just don’t pass the sniff test.

  69. 69

    Well, all I can say is Al-Baghdadi surely proved he was a little crybaby. He died like a scared, chickenshit, little bitch!

  70. 70

    @65 I saw your screenshot, dumbfuck. Here’s my take: Your link is not to Washington Post, and I couldn’t find that screen shot replicated on WaPo’s actual website. Can you? If so, please feel free to link us to an actual WaPo article with that actual headline on WaPo’s actual website for the purpose of verifying that the real WaPo actually ran a story with that headline. Until then, given the ease with which newspaper pages can be faked or altered with readily available software tools, this goes into the bullshit wastebasket.

  71. 71

    64,
    Wow. Impressive.
    Welp, looks like president RatInfested just locked down the AA vote. Solid gold lock, even. Yup.

    Modern Republicans are your SovCit Uncle Walter on methodone.

  72. 72

    @66 Interesting. Does he (or you) have some actual reaction by actual Democrats to back that up? Or is he (and are you) just blowing smoke? So far I haven’t seen any reaction from the Democratic side, perhaps because it’s Sunday and they’re all in church (unlike you and the Orange Napoleon).

  74. 74

    @69 Too many commas. Did you grow up in Arkansas? Were you home-schooled? Was your English grammar teacher your babysitter? Boy, you’re some deity, when you can’t even write a coherent English sentence.

  75. 75

    and back then he was a low-level mosque clerk, years before he became a known terrorist, at a time when (per Wikipedia) “contemporaries … describe[d] him … as being shy, unimpressive, a religious scholar, and a man who eschewed violence,”

    So maybe it would be a good idea to tamp down a wee bit on all that “decapitation” fist pumping.

    The world will never run out of “shy, unimpressive” people willing to blow shit up in order to feel better.
    Just ask Randy Weaver, Timothy McVeigh, or any available Trump voter.

  76. 76

    @73 “Dismissed with prejudice.”

    That’s not what it says. It says “without prejudice.” The dismissal “with prejudice” only applies to OIG, i.e. releases one of the parties from any future action. McCabe can refile against the other defendants, i.e. “U.S. Department of Justice” and “et al.” This type of dismissal is merely a commonplace tactical litigation maneuver, not the pervading victory for the Trump administration you think it is.

    The order is only half a page long, including the signatures, so you couldn’t possibly have missed that in the fine print. It’s now been conclusively established that you don’t even read the stuff you link to when you post shit. And, of course, your comment @73 stands as irrefutable proof that you’re either (a) a liar, or (b) a moron who posts shit without reading his own source material.

    And once again you’ve demonstrated your incompetence as an armchair lawyer, even by non-existent armchair lawyering standards.

  77. 77

    @74 – It’s what I wanted to say in a manner I chose to use, infidel.

    Now, in the parlance of the day, STFU!

  78. 78

    he’s about to be indicted.

    Yup.
    Right after they release the IG FISA report.

    Should be any second now… almost… I think I hear Horowitz at the door… wait. WTF is this?

    Never mind.

  79. 79

    @75 You overlooked, and left out, the “cival war” umpire. Just a friendly reminder that closet terrorists are everywhere, and among us, sometimes in unexpected places. We’ve gotta be vigilant, because the could pop out of anywhere.

  80. 80

    @77 I see, asserting executive privilege. Well, if you’re so omnipotent, let’s see you shut me up. Bet you can’t. Of course you can’t, because you’re not Allah, or even a two-bit lesser deity; you’re nothing but an imposter, most likely a pimply 15-year-old MAGA kid who thinks he’s being cute by impersonating God on a liberal blog. But even if you are Allah, you’re an asshole. If you don’t believe me, ask Donald Trump, he’ll tell you what assholes Allah and all of his believers are.

  81. 81

    Why do I suspect this troll is a juvenile? Simple. Most HA trolls, stupid as they are, know how silly they’d look by posting “STFU” in these comment threads. Even Doctor Dumbfuck, who undoubtedly is over the age of 15, doesn’t do that. That’s the tipoff. That’s why this troll not only looks silly but also juvenile.

    Also, when your only comeback is “STFU,” you’ve got nothing, which is another sign of youthful inexperience and/or immaturity.

  82. 82

    Maybe this is why we’re not hearing from the Democrats yet:

    Headline: “Trump left top Democrats in the dark about al-Baghdadi raid, but told Russia”

    Story: “Trump said the members of Congress he informed ahead of the raid were North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, both Republicans.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-left-top-democrats-dark-about-al-baghdadi-raid-n1072556

    Maybe Pelosi and other Democrats will have something to say when and if Trump finally gets around to briefing them. In any case, this blows a large hole in Greenwald’s/Dumbfuck’s argument @66, which is on a par with their usual modus operandi.

  83. 83

    Pompeo told Reeker. Asst Sec for Eurasian Affairs that President peepee ordered Yovanovitch be fired.

  85. 85

    this blows a large hole in Dumbfuck’s argument.

    That was an argument only perhaps in the sense that a disgruntled apprentice pipe fitter with a beer hangover smearing his own shit around inside the Porta-John is an argument.

  86. 86

    Burglary laws and arrests are class war.

    Goldy Retweeted

    Screamer Jim
    @HeheWaitWhut
    At least 10 police engaged in the violent arrest of a fare evader, who was complying quietly.

    Transit should be free. Fare evasion laws and arrests are class war. Police are out of control. https://twitter.com/PopChassid/status/1187838293104304130

    2h

    (Fun Fact: Transit is free on Whidbey and Camano islands. Because the taxpayers repeatedly vote for it to be free.)

  87. 87

    This may explain why we haven’t heard from the Democrats about the al-Baghdadi raid: According to NBC News, they were excluded from the congressional briefings and kept in the dark — to prevent leaks, the administration claims. This from a president who openly discusses classified information with Putin ….

  88. 88

    @84 You’re being silly. Laughing at you is a perfectly normal response to your comments.

  90. 90

    70

    That’s pretty rich coming form you, Roger. Remember your story about a single Air Force C-130 supposedly airlifting 360,000 pounds of US currency from an East Coast base to Baghdad? Yeah, that was a good one for showing off your ignorance and elitist attitude.

    Folks, a C-130 can carry a maximum cabin load of 25,000 pounds. This limits flying time, however, since pounds of fuel also must be taken into account. Based on my experience as an Air Force pilot and having worked in C-10 operations a lot, one aircraft would normally carry a cargo load of around 15,000 pounds as a rule because of weight limitations for the airframe. That would mean over twenty sorties to move the amount of cargo we’re talking about here.

    But Roger, ever the pompous ass, read some stupid article in some East Coast magazine for fruits and decreed that GWB’s administration had shipped 369,000 pounds of currency to Iraq in a single C-130. He didn’t bother to check his facts, and I got to publicly humiliate him for his arrogance and lack of education. It was grand!

    BTW, IF the Air Force had been tasked with this mission, they would have used 2 C-5s or 3 C-17s to do the job. Most likely aerial refueling would have been involved, probably using a refueling track off of the Northeast Coast of Maine, followed by another aerial refueling over the UK via some sort of an altitude block reservation with the Ministry of Defense in the UK. The missions would have probably flown on to Sigonella NAS in Sicily, where crews would swap out for fresh people, thence on to Baghdad for offload.

    The point if it did indeed happen, the C-130 would not have been used. Roger got it entirely wrong because he didn’t check the facts. Now he’s criticizing someone else for not fact checking. What a fucking hypocrite you, Roger!

  91. 91

    Fact Checking from the people who gave us unforgetable hits like…

    The Invisible Pizza Baby Cannibal Dungeon,
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    ChemTrails,
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    and now their latest smash hit…
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  92. 92

    @90 “Remember your story about a single Air Force C-130 supposedly airlifting 360,000 pounds of US currency from an East Coast base to Baghdad?”

    No, I don’t remember that one. Maybe you could refresh my recollection, and also prove you’re accurately quoting me, by provide a link to it. For the record, a C-130’s standard payload capacity is 36,500 lbs. and maximum payload is 42,000 lbs.

    Meanwhile, Dumbfuck’s had 3 – 1/2 hours to show us the actual WaPo headline and hasn’t, and neither have you for that matter.

  93. 93

    92

    I notice you have absolutely nothing to say about all the giraffe hoarding.

    That’s just so typical.

  95. 95

    Me @92: “neither have you”

    You @93: “you have absolutely nothing to say about all the giraffe hoarding”

    Me @94: Why am I not surprised by your response? Think about that, then get back to us. And for the record, I’ve said a lot about “all the giraffe hoarding,” although I wasn’t the first poster to bring it up here, only the first rabbit.

  97. 97

    I see in the news that a number of Democratic presidential candidates are congratulating our brave military personnel and their Kurdish compatriots for the al-Baghdadi raid without mentioning Trump. In other words, our side is treating Trump exactly the same way their side treated Obama after the Bin Laden raid, which is fine by me. Now I’ll wait for some troll to complain that Democrats are behaving like Republicans.

  98. 98

    I wonder if some White House flack will proclaim Trump a greater military genius than Hitler? Just thinking out loud, that’s all.

  100. 100

    So disappointed. An orange asswipe crowing “I killed the swarthy terrorist with the funny last name” should have brought the babbling butthole out of exile.

    The freak was so unimpressed when the black guy did that.

    Besides ISIS is an end-times kult like the babbling butthole’s kult. More potential for 10 percenter pick-ups in the Middle East.

    Yeah right…

  103. 103

    @70 Over 7 hours and still no link to the actual WaPo headline. The statute of limitations is running out on this baby.

  104. 104

    I’ve got to admi atht, I kind of get a kick out of how Putin fucks with Doctor Dumbfuck’s head. Too bad it sucks for our country.

    “Russian military undercuts Trump by expressing ‘valid doubts about the reality and success’ of ISIS raid”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/russian-military-undercuts-trump-by-expressing-valid-doubts-about-the-reality-and-success-of-isis-raid/

    So the doctor and his orange moron sell out our country to Russia and this is what they get for it? Vladimir slaps their faces and calls them his bitches? SAD!

  105. 105

    @90
    The british reported on this back in 2007
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1

    In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

    Nice giraffe hording scandal you are trying to start. wrap a fraction of truth in a bunch of lies. Go peddle that Pravda propaganda over in breitbart or facebook. Traitor.

  107. 107

    Re @90 “What a fucking hypocrite you, Roger!”

    For lack of anything better to do …

    (big yawn) …

    I think I’ll reply to this …

    (feral grunt followed by fart) …

    Name calling’s all you got?

    (scratches back of neck, then picks teeth) …

    I think it’s my bedtime …

    (yawns again) …

    (curls up in burrow) …

    (snoring) …

    zzzzzzzzzzz …

  108. 108

    On facebook, the trumpers are flagellating themselves into a frenzy because they didn’t see a US flag on the democratic debate stage.
    Also, this piece of propaganda got 500 shares.
    “When I first heard the news that trump took out the ISIS leader, I though he got Obama. ”
    So many images of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi going to jail. They really have a hardon for them being punished.
    They keep yammering about corruption, but they never say for what.
    “Clocks go back this week, I’m setting mine to 1916 when the country had balls”
    Comment : “When the country had balls and chicks didnt”
    >> Women got the right to vote in 1919

  109. 109

    Arizona Politician, Republican Paul Petersen, Charged in Human Trafficking Adoption Scheme
    (PHOENIX) — An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling scheme that promised pregnant women thousands of dollars to lure them from a Pacific Island nation to the U.S., where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth, sometimes with little to no prenatal care, prosecutors allege.
    https://time.com/5696824/arizona-human-smuggling-adoption-fraud/

  111. 111

    “I think you mean Little Bitches”

    You’re absolutely correct, Gman. I meant to say that Doctor Dumbfuck and his orange moron are Putin’s “little bitches”.

    Thanks!

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