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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Trevor: Virginia ratifies the equal rights amendment.

Samantha Bee: Are Republicans being shadow banned? (No.)

The Dotard Трамп on Trial:

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Bill Maher: New Rule—Do the wrong thing.

Now This: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks about U.S. government spending on Puerto Rico.

Twenty-Twenty Vision:

Bruce Nelson: The Rigor Mortis Tortoise, a Mitch McConnell campaign song.

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week.

Samantha Bee: Coronavirus is scary! CDC budget cuts make it scarier.

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Tough call on the ERA. The 7 year limit is not in the Constitution, but it is a tough call for the courts. Although it would be the 7 year limit, not the amendment they would be ruling on.

  2. 2

    Bippity Boppity Boop!

    Princess Ivanka has created over fifteen million jobs!

    MAGA!

  3. 3

    Now that it’s all over, and everyone knows the stupid Democrats “witnesses” were defeated by Republicans in the Senate, the Democrats will look like weak girly-men, and Republicans in the Senate will look strong and victorious.

    MAGA!

  4. 4

    The best part is Pramila Jayapal right next to her, laughing while she led the booing.

    Christopher J. Hale
    @chrisjollyhale
    ·
    12h
    BREAKING: At a
    @BernieSanders
    rally in Iowa tonight, a leading Sanders’ surrogate
    @RashidaTlaib
    led the crowd in booing
    @HillaryClinton

    https://twitter.com/chrisjollyhale/status/1223442238509850624

    Oh, yeah. There’s 25 seconds of gorgeous video.

    Don’t tell me that Hillary’s not on the ballot. Until she’s expunged from the Democrat party, she and Bill are always on the ballot.

    You’re running out of time, libbies. Screw this up and Hillary will lose another election.

  5. 5

    I would never have thought that Rashida Tlaib and I would share a sentiment. The difference is, there’s no one to compel me to apologize for mine.

    Rashida Tlaib
    @RashidaTlaib
    ·
    52m
    “In this instance, I allowed my disappointment with Secretary Clinton’s latest comments about Senator Sanders and his supporters get the best of me. You all, my sisters-in-service on stage, and our movement deserve better. (3/4)

    Hillary Clinton is a POS. We have President Trump not because of 62 million voters. We have President Trump because of Hillary Clinton.

  6. 6

    You’re being ridiculous.

    DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention

    In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention. Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress and other top party officials…

    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/dnc-superdelegates-110083

    Before y’all go installing Joe Biden as your nominee, re-watch the VP debate between Biden and Paul Ryan in 2012.

    Now add 8 years of degeneration to Biden’s brain.

    Y’all have been warned.

  7. 7

    Do y’all libbies really want to piss off this woman?

    Dr. Jill Stein🌻
    @DrJillStein
    · 12h

    Desperate DNC members consider rule change to let superdelegates vote on 1st ballot to stop Sanders. If the DNC rigs another election against its voters, it’ll be asking for biggest #DemExit yet by those who want an actually democratic party. #DNCRigging https://politico.com/news/2020/01/31/dnc-superdelegates-110083

  9. 9

    @4 “The Haters will shut up on Monday….when they win”

    Possibly. And then they will cry the day after the 2020 Election when they lose.

    Bernie isn’t going to beat The Hump. If anything, during the election campaign, Bernie will make a fool out of himself.

  10. 10

    900,000 members want to know why Amy didn’t want their endorsement (for VP – or is it President or Dog Catcher?).

    Why Amy? Why didn’t you want to have that endorsement – one million bitches got you buy your vag?

  11. 11

    “But we still want you to send us money. Without strings attached to it.”

    Palestinian Authority cuts ties with Israel and U.S.

    Abbas also said he had refused to discuss the plan by with Trump by phone, or to receive even a copy of it to study it:

    “Trump asked that I speak to him by phone but I said ‘no’, and that he wants to send me a letter … but I refused it.”

    Abbas said he did not want Trump to be able to say that he, Abbas, had been consulted.

    https://news.yahoo.com/palestinian-authority-says-cuts-security-134814623.html

    As far as I know head-in-the-sand posturing looks good for only one Arab:

    https://www.pornhub.com/pornstar/mia-khalifa/photos

  12. 12

    11

    A better idea would be for the US and the West to get out of all of the Middle East.

  13. 13

    While YLB was doing her nails and cheering Adam Schiff, Trump took out another terrorist.

    Donald Trump takes out another terrorist leader: U.S. kills Al Qaeda’s chief in Yemen in an airstrike after he repeatedly threatened to attack American soil

    The United States carried out an airstrike in January that killed a leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen after months of tracking him, according to current and former government officials.

    Qassim al-Rimi, 41, was killed in the January strike but officials had been waiting to confirm the information before making public statement, the New York Times reports.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7954907/Terrorist-leader-Yemen-killed-air-strike-bragging-Trump-killing.html

    Tell me again, YLB, how a temporary hold on Ukraine aid damaged national security.

  14. 14

    Trump’s January kill list:

    • Soleimani
    • AQ Yemen leader
    • Kataib Hezbollah militia leader

    Now, YLB will claim that OBL’s death is bigger. Bigger news, sure. But OBL was inactive, hiding in Pakistan. The Atlantic knows what counts:

    The Soleimani Assassination Is America’s Most Consequential Strike This Century

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/us-kills-top-iran-general-qassem-soleimani/604378/

    That’s just January. Don’t forget that in October Trump took out ISIS leader al-Baghdadi.

    Tell me again, YLB, how a brief hold on the Ukraine aid damaged national security.

  15. 15

    The guy Trump just took out taunted Trump after a US soldier was killed.

    In 2017, al-Rimi notably sent President Donald Trump an audio message taunting him for a Special Operations Forces raid on an al Qaeda compound in Yemen that led to the first military combat death under the Trump administration, CNN reports. (link @ 13)

    Taunting the president after a US soldier dies in action. Gee, that’s something Cz-252 would do.

  16. 16

    @11 For the second time in history someone responds to a surrender demand with, “Nuts!”

    Who could’ve predicted this?

  18. 18

    The excuse Republicans came up with for blocking witnesses is, “We don’t need witnesses because you guys have proved your case.”

    After months of declaiming Trump’s innocence.

    They don’t need to explain why they’re going to acquit him. We already know.

    “Rules don’t apply to us.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/impeachment-trump-trial-republicans_n_5e347a32c5b6f26233290430

    Would you elect a sheriff who believes only YOU have to obey posted speed limits and stop at red lights?

  19. 19

    She’s not wrong.

    Tulsi Gabbard 🌺✔
    @TulsiGabbard

    Billionaire Bloomberg just bought the @DNC. #PayToPlay #StandWithTulsi

    1:26 PM – Jan 31, 2020

    Rules could have been changed earlier to benefit Gabbard, Booker, Castro.

    Why start changing them now?

    Ah, yes. Because Bernie.

  20. 20

    They’re like a judge awarding summary judgment to the plaintiff and then granting the defendant’s motion to dismiss. Most reasonable people would conclude that judge is fucked up in the head and shouldn’t continue to be a judge.

  21. 21

    Republicans, tasked with defending the Constitution and our system of checks and balances, have failed miserably. Now it’s left to voters to do something about it. No Republican, anywhere, deserves to be elected or re-elected to any office. Not even town dogcatcher.

    Even though I’m a greedy capitalist who prefers collecting dividends to doing productive work (although I don’t claim it’s more honorable), I’ll vote for a socialist if necessary to get rid of these monarchists.

    Better to have freedom and pay more taxes, than have no freedom and pay no taxes (which is what I pay on most of my capital gains and dividends).

  22. 22

    @19 Want to know why you have zero credibility?

    I’ll tell you anyway.

    You nitpick and fault-find with every little thing the Democrats do, including internal party affairs the public couldn’t care less about, but never say a word about the GOP’s massive corruption and failures of responsibility that affect all of us.

    You’re a kid screeching about a leaky fire hydrant while river water pours through a broken levee and floods the entire town.

  23. 23

    I will have done my part to help Trump’s re-election when I can count on gman to be childish enough to stay home in November once Mayor Pete drops out.

  25. 25

    Why Amy?….one million bitches got you buy your vag?

    I just realized that it takes balls to be President, and Amy got none – she’s just all tits and vag.

  27. 27

    @23 “I will have done my part to help Trump’s re-election”

    Why do you want to? Trump is someone no decent person would help get re-elected.

    I see you changed your screen name from “godwinha” to “godwhineha.” You should’ve done it a long time ago. It’s about time you’re more honest about who and what you are.

  29. 29

    There’s an interesting item in this week’s Barrons.

    After listing several potential “black swan” (i.e., low probability, but plausible) events that could disrupt financial markets, an analyst was quoted as saying Trump’s supporters see Warren or Sanders as an “existential threat” and wouldn’t rule out a “violent reaction, analogous to secession” in 1860, if Trump loses to a progressive Democrat.

    It’s kinda unthinkable, but thoughtful and well-informed finance professionals apparently are thinking it.

  30. 30

    There are many reasons why I think hardcore righties are dumbasses. One reason is that, when they prattle about civil war, they seem to assume they’ll do all the shooting and their enemies (i.e., us) will do all the dying. That’s not how civil wars work. Most people don’t consent to being shot. There are always casualties on both sides.

    Another reason is because threatening “cival war” and violence if they don’t get their way is childish. They’re people who never grew up. Most people learn accommodation and compromise by third or fourth grade.

    Finally (well, not finally; there’s lots more, but I’ll skip the rest), it’s just plain stupid to spend thousands on guns, ammo, prepper gear, and survival supplies that just sit in their basements or garages collecting dust when that money could be invested in dividend-paying stocks so they won’t be so damn poor in their old age.

    Maybe they don’t expect to survive to old age. That’s concerning. The guy who should worry you is the one who intends to die for his cause and take you with him.

    Or maybe they’re not completely dumb and realize that tearing the country apart wouldn’t be good for stock investments, and don’t want to be in the market when they make that happen. But in that case, money won’t be useful anyway.

  31. 31

    I wonder what Cival War Umpire’s current status is? Will MLB do something about him, or don’t they care if an umpire is moonlighting as a domestic terrorist?

  32. 32

    I sometimes think about the deceptions Republicans practice. For example, reducing tax withholding without changing tax rates, so people think they’re getting a tax cut when they aren’t. Of course, the resulting smaller refunds (or owing money to the IRS) would provoke howls of protest, but they figured they’d be safely re-elected by then. Was that Bush41 who did that? I don’t remember. I know he wasn’t re-elected in large part because he raised taxes after saying, “Read my lips! No new taxes!” He had to, because Republican voodoo economics is just that, voodoo economics. It doesn’t work. Reagan did, too, for the same reason.

    There’s a strong dose of voodoo in Trump’s economic policies, too. Essentially he’s borrowing from the future (or, in Wall Street speak, pulling future growth forward) to goose growth in the short-term, except it’s not working because GDP is slowing, not accelerating.

    The best thing to do is not vote for them in the first place.

  33. 33

    @29 your comment reminds me of something I was pondering the other day. Basically what I was thinking about was or is the fluctuations in today’s volatile Stock Market, and how the market depends on volatility to make anyone money. Meaning that it has to have very bad days so that investors, or smart investors (such as yourself), can buy low and then have greater gains as the Market perks up. I really think that market is a bit rigged in the sense that it is influenced from the inside and investors just follow the along with what is initiated. And I think any reason, good or bad, is just an excuse to rationalize what is going on there.

    For instance the corona virus. I am fully aware of the negative effects on the global economy with this virus, but one day the virus is a problem and then the next day it’s not an issue, or even hours later in the same day,

    By the way the virus is getting worse in China, not better, yet anyways. And if it continues I think it will get worse worldwide to the point where all non essential travel will have to be restricted, and not just from and to China.

    But back to my thoughts with the Stock Market – what partly made me think about this is that volatility will only get worse in the future, more so than today, due to Climate Change, viruses, wars, as well as other things. And I just felt that it’s not sustainable, if life isn’t sustainable.

  34. 34

    @29 there is no doubt that this election is going to bring about civil unrest. And that pig doesn’t plan to leave office.

    I just hope that the people will unite in a clear and larger majority and he has to leave. Meaning ipIndependents and moderate Repukes are included

  36. 36

    There’s a strong dose of voodoo in Trump’s economic policies, too.

    Just his economic policies? He is Satan.

  37. 37

    @33 ever since the have computers making trades n split second, it benefits the big guys more so than the typical investor to make tons of money in an hourly fluctuating market.

  39. 39

    @33 “the market depends on volatility to make anyone money”

    Actually, this isn’t true. Certainly there are people who profit from trading the swings. But the simplest, easiest, surest, and safest way to make money in stocks — and the method requiring the least expertise and knowledge — is by buying those of well-managed and growing companies, then sitting on them. Numerous academic studies bear this out. Volatility isn’t completely irrelevant; I often wait for market dips to buy stocks, with the obvious aim of getting them at a lower price. But I don’t focus on volatility, I focus on compounding, which is the most powerful investment tool there is, and works in all market conditions. If you reinvest all your dividends and capital gains, compounding will make you a lot of money over time, even if the market doesn’t go up (or down) at all. Warren Buffet understands this; he famously wants stocks to go down, not up, so he can buy them more cheaply.

  40. 40

    @34 My guess is there will be massive celebrations in Times Square, outside the White House, in downtown Seattle and other cities, and all over the world — eclipsing when Osama bin Laden was killed — should Trump be defeated. Perhaps reminiscent of V-J Day.

    Not by his supporters, of course. Just in the civilized world.

  42. 42

    Somebody, please do some research to verify if she was tougher on men than woman offenders. Inquiring minds would like to know.

    While campaigning to be the top prosecutor in Minnesota’s most populous county in 1998, Klobuchar advocated for harsher penalties for juvenile offenders.

  43. 43

    The number of U.S. service personnel with “headaches” (traumatic brain injuries in technical terminology) from the Iranian missile retaliation has grown to 64.

  44. 44

    @41 Killing an innocent 11-year-old kid with randomly dispensed hot lead deserves harsh punishment. Of course, it helps to have the right defendant when throwing people into dungeons for life. Convicting an innocent one, and then bragging about it, is bad form.

  45. 45

    gman, get yourself tested for coronavirus. And for HIV again. You may have amoebic encephalitis.

  46. 46

    You may have amoebic encephalitis.

    Coronavirus, encephalitis, etc. – that’s the kind of shit that you have deal with, when you have 63 million supporting carriers, such as yourself – Side effects of The Hump and the Hump administration.

  47. 47

    It is Sunday! What would Sunday be without a little discrimination.

    https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142426966

    “We do not hire people who are not Christian,” Thomas Burns, Belmont’s provost, clarified in a response to questions at a town hall on Wednesday. “So the ones who are not Christian will not be eligible to work at Belmont. That’s just part of who we are.”

    The Straight built this.

    https://news.artnet.com/art-world/chaos-unfolds-as-students-and-faculty-at-nashville-arts-school-learn-of-merger-with-christian-university-1767246

  48. 48

    @ 47

    Financially troubled art school with 180 students faces closure unless a white knight appears. The white knight in this case is Christian.

    gman, if The Straight built this, The Gay created the financial emergency that necessitated it.

    You could have donated heavily to the art school. You could have brought your zero friends together and held a massive fundraiser to keep it going.

    You didn’t.

  49. 49

    YLB broke a nail, and therefore the final CNN/Des Moines Register Iowa poll won’t be released.

    Des Moines Register✔
    @DMRegister

    #BREAKING: The Des Moines Register, CNN and Selzer & Co. have decided note to release the final installment of the #IowaPoll as planned this evening.

    https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2020/02/01/des-moines-register-cnn-cancels-release-iowa-poll-over-respondent-concerns/4637168002/ …

    desmoinesregister.com

    6:03 PM – Feb 1, 2020

    Just imagine if Goldy hadn’t been able to write his pre-election “bullshit polls” piece because someone at Trafalgar didn’t like the result it got.

    Either Bernie did really well in this poll, Warren did really poorly, or both. Bernie doing really well, Warren tanking, and the remaining three candidates splitting the votes in a fairly even manner during the caucus would mean Warren’s votes end up going to Bernie, and further amplifying his success.

    The DNC wouldn’t like that. CNN needs uncertainty amongst the candidates in the caucus results to ensure that the Bloomberg and Steyer ad money continues to flow.

    This stinks, and while YLB’s broken nail is a manicurist’s disaster, it’s no reason to cancel her evening out.

  51. 51

    “So I made up this story about Mayor Pete being left off the candidate list in this phone poll, and told that fag in NYC who shills for anything gay, and got him to call Pete’s campaign. Turns out it went up the chain, and finally the campaign manager got the douches at the paper to disappear the whole fucking poll! Can you imagine? All to win a free pitcher Monday night from Tony, who said I couldn’t mess with poll results!”

  53. 53

    Q: What two positions did gman play before he was kicked off the high school football team for taking things way too literally?

    A: Tight end and wide receiver

  54. 54

    “I think what he did is a long way from treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors. I don’t think it’s the kind of inappropriate action that the framers would expect the Senate to substitute its judgment for the people in picking a president,'” Sen. Lamar Copout said on “Meet the Press,” after labeling what Trump did “Inappropriate,” “wrong,” and “crossing a line.”

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/lamar-alexander-says-senate-should-not-substitute-its-judgment-voters-n1128286

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: The Framers would be especially disappointed in him, because he knows better. Perhaps not so much the rest, because they’re only children.

  55. 55

    This stinks.

    The Arizona Department of Education likely violated federal student privacy laws when it released a spreadsheet that inadvertently named every parent with an Empowerment Scholarship Account in the state. The spreadsheet then fell into the hands of a group that opposes expansion of the program.
    …
    The document shows parents’ first and last name, email addresses, the grade their student is currently in, and, for students with special needs – the type of disability they have. But that is not explicitly stated, only as an acronym.

    G.I.M.P.
    L.I.S.P.

    “Here’s an organization that actively campaigns against the ESA program and has repeatedly attempted to undermine the program,” Bedrick said. “Now, every single person who’s participating in the program, their names and information has been revealed to the special interest group that opposes the use of the program.”

    https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/01/27/education-department-blunder-puts-esa-parent-names-in-hands-of-anti-voucher-group/

    It’s nice to know that Reality Winner can find a job in education when she’s finally released from incarceration.

  56. 56

    The latest NBC/WSJ poll doesn’t look so good for Mayor Pete: He would lose to Trump, while Biden continues to be the strongest challenger.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/nbc-wsj-poll-country-remains-divided-over-trump-s-impeachment-n1128326

    Roger Rabbit: I think Democrats have to be practical, set aside ideology and their policy aspirations (which they can’t enact anyway if McConnell retains the Senate gavel), and nominate the candidate with the best odds of beating Trump. In the polls, that’s consistently been Biden. While most polls until now have shown all the top Democratic contenders leading over Trump, I strongly suspect the polls undercount Trump’s voters because at least some of them are lying to pollsters. Now add in voter suppression, fabricated smears, and all the other lowdown dirty tricks Republicans will deploy to thwart “the people” — who, just last week, were proclaimed to be the proper authority to decide Trump’s fate — and you end up with the Democratic candidate needing an extra 5 or 6 percentage points just to offset the unleveling of the playing field. Democrats need to go into this with their eyes wide open: It’s going to be like playing football against 11 guys armed with knives, baseball bats, and brass knuckles, with no referees on the field calling out their unsportsmanlike conduct.

  57. 57

    Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit @ 56 again touts a national poll.

    For people like The Fucking Moron II, this isn’t a national election for president. It’s 50 statewide elections, aggregated to tally the number of electors produced by the results of each state. The summed votes cast by these electors is what gives us a national result.

    Libbies believing national polls in 2016 is what gave us these YouTube gifts:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR_WopJ53Go

    Don’t be filmed crying when Podesta comes out instead of Hillary, your tear-streaked face preserved for all eternity on YouTube. Don’t take Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit seriously.

    Fucking Moron II, I’m talking to you.

  58. 58

    @55 That’s nothing, when a private business fucks up, hundreds of people die. You know which business I’m talking about. I’m not one of their stockholders anymore.

    But Republicans do, in a way, have a point: Government can’t be trusted, either … when they’re running it.

  59. 59

    @49 supposedly the poll was flawed. Do you want flawed poll results? Here you go.

    Buttigieg – 65%
    Biden – 2%
    Warren- 2%
    Klobuchar-.5%

    The rest were less than .01 percent, so they stopped there.

  60. 60

    @57 It doesn’t appear you scrolled down to the fine print, so let me help you with that:

    “When the poll narrows the matchup to include only respondents from 11 battleground states — Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — Biden’s lead over Trump is 5 points, 49 percent to 44 percent.”

    Shoot from the lip, look like a fool.

  61. 61

    @ 60

    Little better. It’s a blend of states that will have varied results.

    If Trump takes FL by 1% it exceeds the electoral votes Biden would take by winning Maine, New Hampshire, and Nevada by 10%.

    You’re a clown, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    Again, Fucking Moron II, do not fall for his bullshit.

  62. 62

    This reinforces my point @56 — directed to my fellow liberals, not you, dumbfuck — that my Party of Truth, Honesty, and American Patriotism will need that 5-point spread which Biden (and nobody else) has in the battleground states that our resident Trump spokesperson keeps banging his shoe on the table about. As he says — and this certainly is not his original idea — the national spread doesn’t matter. Or, at least, not nearly as much. We should thank him for reminding us that a nominee who loses those states will lose the election, and temper our individual yearnings accordingly. However much the Democratic base may like Warren or Sanders, they need to shoot straight down the middle this time, or they’ll court disaster in November. Trump has an unshakable 42%, which may be as high as 47% or 48%, so there’s no extra margin of swing votes in that handful of states. That’s my opinion.

  63. 63

    There is some redeeming value @ 60 to Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s lame effort to rally Dem support.

    Look at the list of “battleground states”.

    Where’s Ohio? Iowa? These are no longer battleground states. They are red states.

    Why is Minnesota a battleground state this year? Because The Chardonnay Lady 2.0 carried MN by only 0.5%. It’s a battleground state because it’s in danger of going red. Serious danger.

    Arizona? Hillary made that mistake in 2016, thinking it was within reach. It won’t be within reach this year, either.

    Finally, it’s nice to see that Texas isn’t being considered as within reach for Democrats this year. Let’s not waste time talking about how Texas might turn blue for Trump’s opponent in 2020. Y’all are going after guns. That comes at a price, and for quite awhile that price is the Lone Star State’s electoral votes.

  64. 64

    In a bombshell post on HA, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit spews that battleground state results will be important this year.

    What would we ever do without Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s unique perspective.

    /s

  65. 65

    More redeeming value to @ 60

    A near-majority of respondents – 49% – opposes Trump’s removal from office. After all this trial crap, more people oppose his removal than opposed it last month.

    Nice job, Dems. You are simulaneously reinforcing Trump’s support and ensuring that BernieBros stay home.

  66. 66

    @61 Oh, so now we’re “blending” electoral votes? You’re starting to sound like the Senate Republicans manufacturing excuses to acquit an obviously guilty power abuser and obstructionist. In a word, desperate.

    Your Orange Duce needs 270 EVs, dumbfuck. He can’t lose more than 34 of the ones he won in 2016. Florida is 29 of those. Clinton won the other states you mention, which are likely to remain blue. You’re looking in the wrong place. Figure out what happens if the Democrat flips Wisconsin and Michigan, or substitute Arizona for one of those, and either Pennsylvania or Ohio, then get back to us with your revised projections.

    Of course, if he does lose Florida, then he can’t afford to lose any other state he won in 2016, unless it’s an unpopulated Siberia like West Virginia or the Dakotas, assuming the Democrats keep all of theirs.

    Would you like to take a stab at identifying a 2016 blue state you think Trump can flip in 2020?

  68. 68

    @ 66

    Would you like to take a stab at identifying a 2016 blue state you think Trump can flip in 2020?

    MN, if Klobuchar is not on the ticket. See @ 63.

  69. 69

    @63 “Where’s Ohio? Iowa? These are no longer battleground states. They are red states.”

    Really? That’s what Romney thought, too.

    But who said anything about Iowa? I didn’t claim it. All I said was Ohio or Pennsylvania plus the others I mentioned if your corrupt racist tribe hangs onto Florida, where your 2016 margin was 1.04% … lose that one, and you have no margin to lose any other state with a city larger than the homeless camp under the downtown I-5 overpass.

    Hey, I’m not saying Trump won’t win. He surely can. I’m worried about my country, and not just for that reason, but in broader strokes. Too many people like you in it.

    Since the spring of 2016, we’ve learned a critical mass of dumbfucks — through ignorance, perfidy, or a combination of them — is perfectly capable of embracing rightwing dictatorship. Some with religious fervor. Not a few proclaiming they’ll impose it with guns if they can’t do it with ballots. We’re living in 1930 Germany. Human nature isn’t different here and now from what it was there and then. Some of you stupid humans keep making the same mistakes, and you’re one of ’em, dumbfuck. That’s why readers of this blog should listen to the rabbit instead of a preening jackass like you.

  70. 70

    NBC left Ohio and Iowa off the list of battleground states. If you disagree, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, take it up with NBC.

    The 2012 reference is clownish. Things have changed.

    You’re a fucking clown, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.

  71. 71

    49,
    My only prediction is that both Warren and Sanders will probably over perform with respect to the latest Iowa polls. Thus the outcome may be quite a bit closer than some might have guessed.

    But it bears remembering for any “diehard Trump supporter” that things like Huckabee happen in Iowa too. So whatever the polling results might be, and however well they might have predicted “preference”, many Iowa precinct delegate equivalents will be rewarded based upon realignment following the initial preference count.

    And since each precinct essentially represents a given number of state delegate equivalents, how many delegates any candidate receives will also be determined by how well distributed their support is. Winning all the delegate equivalents from any one precinct is good. Running up the score may not be. Because Iowa goes first, and follows this process, some campaigns (particularly trailing campaigns) have sought to run up the score in select precincts as a way of making a case for their candidate, despite in the end not earning very many delegates.

    Probably each of the three or four campaigns finishing with the most delegates will declare the result a success that is a mandate for broad support of their candidate. Until the next primary result. I don’t expect to see much shaking out among those top campaigns until after March. Even if one of the poll leading campaigns were to somehow finish out of the top three or four, or worse out of the money, at most that means a reshuffling of the staff and resources.

  72. 72

    @ 17

    From this I take it that you believe Warren starts at 15+%.

    Why do you think that both of them will overperform?

  73. 73

    @70 “Things have changed.”

    They usually do when a demagogue gets out his soapbox and dumbfucks listen to him.

    https://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/styles/lead_image/public/articles_2013/3289901.jpg?itok=xjqnw9uc

    History has also taught us what can happen when you remove the restraints from somebody who demonizes, scapegoats, and talks about “locking up” and “shooting” people in his speeches.

    The thing is, dumbfuck, you won’t be exempt if that’s where this ultimately goes. Hitler went after his fellow Nazis before going after the general population; Stalin went after his fellow communists before going after ordinary citizens. Cleansing the party of independent thinkers — and you’re clearly one — is a necessary step in the process of seizing absolute power.

    Trump likes power, doesn’t like to share, and we’ve already seen how he rewards your kind of loyalty. And while I’m low to the ground, you stick out like a sore thumb on your high horse. His minions will notice you before they see me. Your years of shilling for him on an obscure liberal blog will county for nothing. All they’ll pay attention to is that you’ve been keeping company with liberals.

  74. 74

    56,
    I don’t really think there’s ever been strong evidence that people lie in properly designed and conducted independent telephone polls enough to overcome well designed weighting. But certainly not all polls are well designed or well conducted, nor are all weighting factors.

    But I do think there is a pretty significant tendency for respondents to over represent their engagement with either issues or candidates or both. And all other things being equal (they never are) that probably introduces more uncertainty for incumbent candidates. What I mean is that at an early point, some relatively disengaged respondents could gravitate towards name recognition (which is always highest for incumbents) and then over represent their support for that candidate as a way of signaling their good citizenship/engagement/virtue/etc. As time passes that level of support indicated in polls can either soften or harden depending quite a bit on whatever “new information” voters modeled by these relatively disengaged respondents learn about the candidates. Longitudinal polls (polls that sample the same respondents over time) are probably unable to capture this effect. Because we know that once a particular respondent indicates support for a candidate or an issue position they will strongly tend to maintain that in subsequent measures for nothing more than consistency.

    This could have dire consequences for an incumbent like president Republican RapeHero. If a “diehard Trump supporter” like bot-farm has been willing of late to abandon consistency with his previous commitments, then it is certainly possible that large numbers of disengaged voters who might have indicated support for RapeHero could just as easily decide to stay home this November. In states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin that would produce a disaster for Republicans.

  75. 75

    Why people vote for demagogues:

    ” … What’s happening to the Jews is a real shame, but I have a job now … in a munitions factory … ” (until the Allied bombers come … )

    MGGA!

  76. 76

    72,
    So I guess you meant to type 71? Get that tremor looked at. It could be something serious. Whatever it was, it probably killed Puddy.

    If we pretend there’s 100 people attending an imaginary “average” Iowa caucus, do I think that at the beginning of Monday night 15 of them (again, on average) would align with Warren? Does not seem unreasonable at all. Polls are bad at this. Pollsters get mad at Iowa for this reason. The media love it because “unexpected, dramatic” shit can happen. But starting right out, the number of “unaligned” measured in earlier polls is almost always much higher than what is actually seen on Monday night. Many people wait until the last minute to decide or to commit. Who they are, how they break, is a tough thing to predict. But probably some of them break to the leading candidates.

    Beyond that, and as far as “over performing”, there’s the fact that most of the recent polls play some fairly stupid games with “likely voter” measure. Not a few will toss responses from anyone who did not participate in either of the last two cycles. Turns out that has caused some big errors in recent Iowa primary polling by discounting engagement among less frequent voters. Adding to that picture is lots of strong evidence that engagement has continued to grow during the last mid term and off years. So campaigns that have pursued a retail strategy of micro-targeting individual voters based upon on their data profiles are automatically better situated to reach “new” and “less historically engaged” voters not being measured in the polls.

  77. 77

    66,
    “You’re looking in the wrong place.”

    Near as I can tell, he’s looking in West Virginia, while pretending to be looking in Ukraine.

  79. 79

    @ 78

    She said nothing of the sort. Not one word about herself, McConnell, or the Senate in a potential impeachment effort.

    Other than that, you’re an idiot.

  81. 81

    I agree. In fact, I’d be so livid I’d stay home in November.

    Goldy Retweeted

    David Klion🔥✔
    @DavidKlion

    If I were Booker, Castro, or really anyone else who dropped out, or if I had worked on their campaigns, I would be absolutely livid right now, and I still am on their behalf. Bloomberg’s ability to buy his way into this primary on his own schedule is an insult to democracy. https://twitter.com/politico/status/1223325410261377031

    Jan 31, 2020

  82. 82

    gman, if The Straight built this, The Gay created the financial emergency that necessitated it.

    I was talking about discrimination – how The Straights created discrimination.

  83. 83

    “…the day after he would be elected (people) would be saying, ‘Well, we’re going to impeach him.’”

    bot-farm thinks she means Nancy Pelosi.

    It’s far more than a tremor, Dumbfuck.

    Leaving out the fact that if the alleged conduct is agreed to have occurred prior to taking office, that is NOT a good precedent for the Republican RapeHero or his Senate enablers:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html

    Joni is stupid. Very, very stupid.

  85. 85

    @81 the horse would sure appreciate that. He’d really appreciate if you stayed home for the whole month of November.

  86. 86

    81,
    Goldy can be Goldy.

    As far as I’m concerned it’s all good.

    Bloomberg is not on track or even in closing position. And it takes more than money and ad buys. But even if his real intention is to win the nomination (and I think that’s very debatable) his presence throughout the primary running as a Democrat, and focusing almost his entire message on attacking the Republican Party, Senate Republicans, and the Republican RapeHero is to the good of all Americans, including the other campaigns and the eventual Democratic nominee.

    Until now, there has been essentially no well funded national messaging campaign to directly challenge the RapeHero narrative. The media is stuck permanently in the both-siderist waiting room. The DNC is sidelined until the convention. Bloomberg can rent space in RapeHero’s head and he has the money to do it.

    Julie Wood, Bloomberg spox recent official campaign statement: “The president is lying. He is a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity, and his spray-on tan.”

    Bloomberg has enough money to humiliate RapeHero a thousand ways to Sunday if he wants to (and it appears that he does). Shaming is key to deflecting and countering the Republican RapeHero narrative. Any guy right now willing to spend a few hundred million dollars of his own money humiliating Republicans and their RapeHero is okay with me.

  88. 88

    “she and Bill are always on the ballot.”

    Add that to the rape and “maximum wage” fantasies and you’ve got every klownservatic repukelican troll you know..

  89. 89

    “Bloomberg has enough money to humiliate RapeHero a thousand ways to Sunday..”

    Some might find this a waste of money. Worth every penny in my book if it triggers into a strait jacket (or a deathbed) a lying, cheating, phony rich orange freak with fantasies of being an american tinpot dictator.

    Thank you Mike for your service.

  90. 90

    89,
    Quite unlike the RapeHero, a few hundred million is a rounding error to Bloomberg.

  91. 91

    The wife is rooting for the Chiefs and they’re somewhat deserving after 50 long years..

    But I’ve got a soft spot for the 49ers because of Nancy. Because of Nancy and her “San Francisco values”…

    She triggers the orange dimfuk and many other dimfuks too.

    Thank you for your Service Nancy.

  92. 92

    I’m writing this on my Intel Ice Lake based Dell laptop I got for cheap at Costco but I’ve updated my desktop rig to an AMD Ryzen CPU (w/ on chip video), B450 motherboard and a ridiculous 32 GB ram – an over the top extravagance I justify (barely) with playing around with virtual machines.

    AMD is eating Intel’s lunch right now in the desktop enthusiast market. They’re making freaking good CPU’s. I’m lovin’ it.

    I almost never game but I really appreciate snappy performance when working on all my projects.

    Happy Super Bowl.

  93. 93

    Blasphemy- bunch of gay guys hooting and howling over Shakira while eating Dominos pizza.

  94. 94

    WTF with the foreigner lingo? Have we been invaded?

    They will NOT REPLACE US.

  97. 97

    I just saw Doctor Dumbfuck in the Reese’s Superbowl ad! You can’t see his head, buuut … the rest of him is a star!

  99. 99

    @96 Yep, it’s him, alright! No mistaking it! If he’s watching, he just saw himself on teevee!

  103. 103

    As of today….
    When the primary roll around here in Missouri, I want Warren. But if it looks like voting for her, is throwing away my vote, I’m voting for Biden. If Biden’s not in the race, then Sanders.

  106. 106

    The headless horseman rides again, er, is on foot having been thrown from the horse …

  107. 107

    Richard Sherman was right when he said he probably wouldn’t visit the White House after the Super Bowl.

    – posted on another site. Heh.

  108. 108

    Kerry-Clinton 2020.

    Or would it be Clinton-Kerry 2020?

    John Kerry overheard discussing possible 2020 bid amid concern of ‘Sanders taking down the Democratic Party’

    DES MOINES, Iowa — Former Secretary of State John Kerry — one of Joe Biden’s highest-profile endorsers — was overheard Sunday on the phone at a Des Moines hotel explaining what he would have to do to enter the presidential race amid “the possibility of Bernie Sanders taking down the Democratic Party — down whole.”

    Sitting in the lobby restaurant of the Renaissance Savery hotel, Kerry was overheard by an NBC News analyst saying “maybe I’m f—ing deluding myself here” and explaining that to run, he’d have to step down from the board of Bank of America and give up his ability to make paid speeches. Kerry said donors like venture capitalist Doug Hickey would have to “raise a couple of million,” adding that such donors “now have the reality of Bernie.”

    Asked about the call later Sunday, Kerry said he was “absolutely not” contemplating joining the Democratic primary race. He reiterated the sentiment in a tweet later, saying “any report otherwise is f—ing (or categorically) false.” Minutes later, he deleted the tweet and reposted it without the expletive.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/john-kerry-overheard-discussing-possible-2020-bid-amid-concern-sanders-n1128476?cid=eml_nbn_20200202

    Kinda makes you wonder what that Des Moines Register/CNN poll was gonna say if it had seen the light of day.

  109. 109

    Until Biden falls flat on his face.

    NBC News asked Kerry last month whether he regretted not entering the 2020 race.

    “I’d be a liar if I didn’t say I don’t come out here and have fun and your juices don’t get going,” he said. “But right now, they’re entirely focused on helping Joe Biden become president, and I’m very happy doing what I’m doing.”

  110. 110

    Anyone wonder whether billionaire Bloomberg is spending all that money to stop Trump, or instead to stop Bernie?

  112. 112

    @110 You may recall me posting that I didn’t think the Democratic grassroots would rally behind a billionaire running to protect himself and his fellow billionaires from a Warren or Sanders wealth tax.

  113. 113

    “Anyone wonder whether billionaire Bloomberg is spending all that money to stop Trump, or instead to stop Bernie?”

    I’m wondering what turned you into a treasonous dumbfuck who hates America and everything it stands for.

  114. 114

    81,
    Goldy can be Goldy.

    Dumbfuck needs to talk about anything but his treason because he has no answer to the question we don’t need answered, “why isn’t dumbfuck swinging from a rope?

  115. 115

    @114 He’s a troll. All he does here is troll. Plus enjoy being abused. He’s a masochist. He has other things wrong with him, too. Fucks horses, for one. Doesn’t fuck his wife, for another. Or she quit fucking him when he got his 4th STD. Or he doesn’t have a wife. I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t have a horse, either. Doctor Dumbfuck could well be just a figment of some computer’s electronic imagination, sent here to entertain us.

  116. 116

    “The former Vice President Biden fares best against Trump in the early head-to-head surveys. He leads the incumbent by a 50% to 44% margin, the poll found.

    “Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has a 4-percentage point advantage, 49% to 45%. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., leads 48% to 45%.

    “Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has a 1 percentage point edge, 46% to 45%.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/01/us-split-on-trump-impeachment-dems-lead-in-2020-election-nbc-wsj-poll.html

    Seems like nothing the Democrats do can move Trump’s support above 45%. A majority of Americans think he sucks, even if they think the Democrats also suck. Not a good place to be in. It must suck to be him.

  117. 117

    108 – 110,
    In the feature race, the horses are entering the first turn, still racing neck and neck, the crowd is on its feet straining at their box rails to see who will enter the back stretch in the lead…

    …and Teh Dumbfuck is under the grand stand grinning and crawling around like the village idiot in the filth of soiled napkins, chew spit, coffee cups, peanut shells and spent racing slips looking for accidentally discarded winners from four races ago.

  118. 118

    “Billionaire Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg unveiled a tax plan on Saturday that would unwind corporate tax breaks granted by President Donald Trump and impose an additional 5% ‘surtax’ on incomes above $5 million a year. …

    “Bloomberg, like fellow moderate candidate Joe Biden, thinks Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went too far. Both want to hike the corporate tax rate up to 28%, after Trump lowered it from 35% to 21%. Both want to reverse the Trump tax changes that lowered taxes on high-income households from 39.6%. to 37%. Both propose raising capital gain taxes for high-income taxpayers. …

    “Bloomberg, who founded financial and media company, Bloomberg LP, said in a statement on Saturday he already gives nearly all his company’s profit to charity.”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/01/billionaire-mike-bloomberg-calls-for-tax-on-incomes-over-5-million.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: And this, my friends, is Bloomberg’s Billionaire Tax Protection Plan. It doesn’t personally cost him a penny, because he’s just pay money to the IRS that he’s giving to charity (and presumably wouldn’t continue giving it to charity, because you can’t spend the same dollar more than once). No tax on wealth, only income, and only a piddling “5% surtax” at that. The billionaires will dance in the streets when they see this. But it will hit the dividends paid to middle class owners of stocks, IRAs, and 401(k)s, because a lot of that corporate tax cut money went to raising dividends — companies sure as hell didn’t use it for business investment or creating more jobs. Bloomberg is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

  119. 119

    @117 That’s pretty much right. Like I said at #115, he’s here to entertain us. In a dwarf tossing way: Crude, but perhaps amusing when you’ve been drinking.

  120. 120

    Seems like nothing the Democrats do can move Trump’s support above 45%.

    Not only that, but Doctor and his orange moron have tamped down the coronavirus, heh, and the DJIA dropped only 603 points on Friday.

    Dumbfuck’s best hope is to establish fascist tyrannical one-party rule and end American democracy before they end up swinging by a rope as traitors.

    Good luck, dumbfuck. Looks like you’re going to need it.

    More likely you’ll show up crowing about how the DJIA has somehow stayed above 15,000.

    What a dumbfuck.

  121. 121

    Republican president RapeHero just congratulated the KC Chiefs for representing the great state of Kansas so well.

    I am actually a little choked up right now. I feel very privileged to be alive and present to see this humiliation of Red State Murika unfold.

    #youbuiltthat

  123. 123

    Hey, if dumbfuck wants to make a dumbfuck traitor out of himself on our blog, I have no problem with that.

    After all, he isn’t called a dumbfuck for nothing.

  124. 124

    @120 Unfortunately, it looks like stocks will go up tomorrow.

    He’ll be spiking the ball no matter what. That’s what dumbfucks do.

  125. 125

    In Britain, thought they rejected Nationalization? Normally when the Government-owned Operator of Last Resort takes over, the franchise is re-tendered. Northern Rail is now the second under government control, with the Intercity East Coast Franchise now going through this for at least a second time. One plan could see Northern Rail re-tendered, but after being restructured to be like the London Overground.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-51298820

  129. 129

    I read about other Countries, in Indonesia, Singapore, and Australia, doing research on the virus in order to combat it. But I haven’t read anything as of yet on the US doing any research. Fuck The Hump.

  130. 130

    Surprised the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps has not been involved. Probably just behind the scenes.

  131. 131

    Shifty Republicans:

    “For the past several months, leading Congressional defenders of President Donald Trump have used shifting talking points to oppose the impeachment and then removal of the President. First, it was a perfect call, then there were no firsthand witnesses, then there was the ‘no harm no foul’ defense that the Ukraine aid was eventually released. Finally, after the Senate Republicans voted against calling any witnesses, the defense of some GOP members was that, while Trump’s behavior was inappropriate, the President’s removal was not warranted. According to Sen. Lamar Alexander, the House managers proved their charges.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/opinions/censure-trump-dent-lockhart/index.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: The bottom line is that Republicans are establishing a precedent for “anything goes” and can never, ever again credibly complain about anything a Democrat does. Whenever any Republican alleges a Democratic scandal, the Democrats will say, “Trump,” and that will end the discussion.

  132. 132

    @129 I read yesterday that a vaccine is over a year away, and if China doesn’t get it contained quickly, by next fall they’ll have 800,000 cases with 200,000 deaths. This virus attacks the lungs, which explains the high mortality, and the high mortality rate explains the public’s fear.

  133. 133

    @131 The op-ed @129, co-authored by a former GOP House Ethics Committee chairman, discusses the “option” of censuring Trump, which requires only a majority vote. It says,

    “It would put Republicans firmly on the record on the Senate floor on the question of whether the President abused his power and acted inappropriately.”

    But it won’t happen. It’s no more possible for GOP senators to vote for censure than removal without enraging their voters. I don’t believe there would be a single GOP vote for censure — not Collins, Murkowski, Alexander, Gardner, not any of them. Because they’re all moral cowards. And it’s precisely for this reason that Democrats should push for censure: To put Republicans on record as being unable to defend the Constitution or democracy, so our citizens who aren’t hopelessly brainwashed will know exactly where they stand if they recklessly vote for Republicans.

  134. 134

    @127 I’d question whether Chinese goods should enter this country even without a contagious virus. I avoid buying “Made in China” whenever possible because it’s shoddy and may be toxic. Plus American jobs, although I don’t care about Trump voters, the people who destroyed their unions and voted in the most anti-worker administration of the last 100 years, because “God helps those who help themselves,” and if She can’t because they won’t, I can’t either. I’m merely an anonymous human pretending to be a rabbit.

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