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Jon Stewart tackles climate change over the years

Chris Hayes: How Joe Biden broke OPEC and rewrote the rules for oil trading

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Electile Dysfunction 2024:

The Daily Show: What the deep state is hiding in spelling bees—Project Conspiracy

Jimmy Kimmel: Vice President Kamala Harris on protecting reproductive rights, Трамп’s guilty verdict & health care

The Cult of Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

Robert Reich: Why corporations have more rights than people

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

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

Comments

  1. 1

    Good to see the D-Day vets getting honored at the anniversary, as they are passing on, this may be the last milestone anniversary for many.

  2. 2

    123 on Wednesday open thread.

    A couple of the ships I mentioned from the video at 120, almost did end up as cars like you said. The Laffey, with the pounding she took from Kamikazes at Okinawa, might have gone to the breakers, would have if she was a Fletcher, not a Sumner. We got a couple Fletchers left, USS Sullivans in Boston, USS Kidd in Louisiana, USS Cassin Young in Boston.

    HMS Belfast, which fired the first shots on D-Day, ell being a Royal Navy ship in Postwar Britain, was lucky. All other cruisers, and all Battleships were scrapped. A couple maritime Facebook pages I see, people complain about, every time someone posts a picture of the King George V or Vanguard, complain about not preserving them. It keeps getting mentioned, Britain couldn’t afford it, The curator of the USS New Jersey mentions how costly it is too maintain his ship a lot on his YouTube page. Although she is home right now getting painted. It was still a big task moving her from Camden to Philadelphia where she was built.

  5. 5

    Three different major House committees, eight months, thousands of hours, hundreds of witnesses, and all I have to show for it is this jail house tattoo and a framed copy of my famous FD-1023 autographed by Chuck Grassley.

  6. 6

    The Federalist society attacked Dolly Parton for being too tolerant. They must be so desperate for clicks.

  7. 7

    My deepest condolences to HA libbies for the loss of four live hostages from the clutches of Hamas.

    It’s almost like Israel has valid reason to be in Gaza until the job is done.

    “This operation was a success in rescuing and returning four hostages. We will continue to do everything to return the 120 hostages still held in Gaza. We are confident that we will reach you, and this operation will not end until you are returned home.

    “We will not give up on a single hostage. I want to say, it is a great pride seeing the security forces working together, shoulder to shoulder, in a vital operation: returning the hostages home. When the operation reached this level of intelligence and was approved [by the relevant bodies] … only then were we permitted to proceed. Hamas intentionally hides the hostages in civilian neighborhoods.”

    That’s not all Hamas intentionally does in civilian neighborhoods.

  8. 8

    Hamas intentionally hides the hostages in civilian neighborhoods.

    Please circle on this map the location of all the “non-civilian” neighborhoods in Gaza.

  9. 9

    Happy Pride DC!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Shake, Shake, Shake it. Drop it to the floor.

    Awesome day. Beautiful sunshine, and love! Wish you were here…..especially Bob, you don’t know what you are missing. I’d send pictures but this site, unfortunately, can’t accommodate that.

    All love is love baby – DJ

  13. 13

    Remember how I noted that the Tesla’s were piling up in the parking lot at the dead Mall? Apparently that’s not just a local problem
    https://jalopnik.com/so-many-unsold-teslas-are-piling-up-that-you-can-see-th-1851526312
    Kind of obvious in hindsight, publicly being a white supremacist apartheid billionaire nutcase is alienating a huge swath of the buyers who considered buying the overhyped underperforming vehicles. Free speech has consequences.

  14. 14

    @12. They feel they don’t have to hide their casual racism anymore. There is no credible downside.

  15. 15

    14,
    Calling it out and pleading with them to do better is “woke” and probably has something to do with “CRT”. /s

  17. 17

    Federal corrections officer: “Careful you don’t drop your soap in the shower.”

    Steve Bannon: “Which one of these things is the soap and what’s a shower?”

  18. 18

    The cops know the best parade that they have to work (work it girl) is the Gay Pride Parade…….it ain’t no white supremacist party! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

    Yeah bitches!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

  19. 19

    13)Plus aren’t the legacy companies catching up on offerings? I know that’s happening on the electric bus front. Proterra was a Tesla-style startup, took advantage of the VW Settlement got some test batches sold, a few repeat orders, but NFI and Gillig rolling out battery electric options helped dry up orders. Saw a line of proterra electrics in a spot at Pierce Transit’s Lakewood base that appears to be its junkyard. On the chargers were other battery buses from Gillig, a company Pierce Transit has ordered off and on from since Pierce Transit was taking over Tacoma Transit and Gillig was transitioning from School Buses to Transit buses. Not the first time Gillig decided to switch markets, before school buses, they built horse drawn carriages.

  20. 20

    16)Could be the last big one, to have been 18 in 1944, would have to have been born no later than 1926.

  22. 22

    One thing missing from the D-Day commemoration was a fly past by one particular unit of the RAF. Due to a recent fatal crash involving a Spitfire, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is grounded, supposedly temporarily. RAF Conningsby is probably one of the few, maybe only, base in the world where a Fighter pilot can fly a high performance fighter jet like the Typhoon, and a legend like the Spitfire.

    https://www.forces.net/services/raf/inquest-hears-spitfire-pilots-cause-death-tragic-memorial-flight-crash

  24. 24

    Greedflation appears to be running its course at the grocery store, because food prices are coming back down and there are a lot of “sales.” However, if you like inflation, you can vote for Trump, then you’ll pay more so billionaires can pay less, and you may even see food shortages because Americans aren’t going to leave cities to work on farms.

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economic-policies/

    Of course, this conservative economist is basing these projections on what Trump says he’ll do; it’s always possible he’s all hat, no cattle.

  25. 25

    @7 “My deepest condolences to HA libbies for the loss of four live hostages from the clutches of Hamas.”

    Well first of all I think we’re all very happy for them, their families, and their country.

    Hamas offered to trade them for a ceasefire some time ago, but Netanyahu chose to leave them in captivity so he could kill more Gaza civilians. Judging from your comments here, you liked that.

    Of course they never should’ve been kidnapped in the first place. Hamas never should’ve carried out the terrorist attacks, or fired rockets at Israel, or done any of the other shit that brought this on them.

    Israel, for its part, shouldn’t be harassing Palestinians, stealing their land, bulldozing their homes, arresting their children, and doing all the other shit that provokes Hamas to retaliate.

    A pox on both their houses. Netanyahu and Hamas deserve each other.

  27. 27

    Gym Jordan thought he had a “gotcha” on Alvin Bragg, until Bragg accepted his offer, with a couple of reasonable conditions:

    1. Fit it into his busy schedule.
    2. Clarify what he wants to ask about so he can prepare.

    Jordan was already bragging about what he was going to do when Bragg refused his invitation.

    https://www.rawstory.com/alvin-bragg-jim-jordan-response/

  28. 28

    @12 This was in the 2020 yearbook, so why did it take school officials four years to notice? Didn’t any teachers or faculty advisers read the yearbook proofs before it was published? Why didn’t anyone bring it to their attention at the time? That suggests it was just fine with the white student body and their families.

  29. 29

    @ 28

    …so why did it take school officials four years to notice?

    Leave it to the bloviating fuck that is Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit to fail to realize that @ 12 posted a piece from 2020.

    Incidentally, 2020 was the last year Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit was able to stand without assistance after using the toilet.

  31. 31

    26)Unlike the British Paratroopers recreating the jump this time, nobody was asking them for their passports. If they did, they got a dose of .303 or .30-06.

    On some classic tv and sci-fi Facebook groups I am apart of, they posted the story of Leftenant James Doohan, a Field Artillery observer officer from Vancouver who landed on Juno Beach and was wounded by friendly fire. After the war, tried his hand at acting. One was a short lived tv show set on a fictional starship, created by former Pan Am Pilot turned speechwriter for the LAPD. Heard it has a following. His character was called Scotty.

  32. 32

    Probably a good thing that the Derby winner didn’t win the Preakness. Would have to put an asterisk on it if it was the Triple Crown. Saratoga Springs track isn’t as big as Belmont.

  33. 33

    So Pat Sajak retired from “The Wheel of Fortune” to become a full time MAGAt..

    Something to fill the time it has left.

  35. 35

    In the “13 Hours”-style movie to come the role of the modern-day Moshe Dayan will be played by Fred Dalton ThompsonJohn Fetterman.

    WAY TOO MUCH COPIED SHIT DELETED

    Fuckin’ A. Think of the morale in the Hamas tunnels after an ass-kicking like this.

  36. 36

    Fetterman knows it took balls to pull this off.

    Senator John Fetterman
    @SenFettermanPA
    For the past 8 months, Noa, Almog, Andrey and Shlomi were held as hostages after the Nova Music Festival attack.

    Today, they are free and rejoining their families.

    This is a triumph that also remains unfinished until every last hostage is brought back home.
    Quote
    CNN
    @CNN
    ·
    12h
    Four Israeli hostages who were kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7 have been freed in a special operation, the IDF says https://cnn.it/3X9ScA3
    6:37 AM · Jun 8, 2024

    Substantial numbers of civilian deaths, and a Democrat senator still calls it a triumph.

    Fetterman would be a mainstream Democrat if he was in office 30 years ago. He’s unrecognizable to today’s Democrats.

  37. 37

    Watching the Edmontvs Saskatchewan CFL game, and spending a few minutes in the booth, Warren Moon. Guess he’s ok with the Edmonton Elks name. They didn’t erase all of the Eskimo’s Grey Cups. Including the 5 when he was QB. They even kept one of the old logos, the Double E.

  38. 38

    Well, somebody has to administer ol’ Joe’s secret get-out-of-bed meds.

    RNC Research
    @RNCResearch
    ·
    Taxpayers are flying Jill Biden, Ed.D., from the D-Day ceremonies in France to Hunter’s trial in Delaware, then back to France the next day

    9:25 PM · Jun 6, 2024

  39. 39

    Incidentally, 2020 was the last year…

    America suffered with an incontinent diaper wearing felon/rapist in the White House.

    Coincidence??????🧐🤨🧐🤨

  40. 40

    36,

    Fetterman will easily win reelection without having to face any primary challenges from funded Democrats.

    For the next thirty years.

    And every patriotic American voter is thrilled.

    Cry more.
    Now. Right now.

  41. 41

    @35 “The hostages were held in a heavily civilian populated area, above ground, in buildings of 3-4 stories.”

    That may tell you what happened to the rest of them, because not much over 1 story is still standing in Gaza.

  42. 42

    Edmonds homeowner are getting a letter on city stationary that reads like this:

    Upon the Biden administration’s suspending private property ownership rights to establish emergency housing due to the migrant crisis, The Edmonds City Council has passed a resolution establishing boundaries of temporary housing for the next 12 to 36 months.

    Juan Turrieta has claimed a strip of 12 feet by 25 feet of your lower front yard to construct or assemble temporary housing for a family of 8 …

    The “letter” goes on to threaten criminal prosecution for non-compliance and says the homeowner has to provide two electrical extension cords for the migrants and the city will hook up a water hose to the residence.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/edmonds-warns-homeowners-of-fake-letters/281-4c524478-1efb-4540-a942-270896b0f3a1

    This is what Republicans do to stir people up instead of engaging in rational discussion about how to make life better for people.

  45. 45

    It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?

    KEY POLLS
    2024 General Election: Trump vs. Biden
    Trump
    +0.8
    2024 Generic Congressional Vote
    Republicans
    +0.9
    President Biden Job Approval
    Disapprove
    -16.2

    General election polls aren’t what counts, of course. Unless you’re Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit with no other way to spin a Democrat loss, in which case the popular vote is all you can talk about for the next four or possibly eight years.

  46. 46

    General election polls don’t count @ 45, but battleground polls do.

    2024 Arizona: Trump vs Biden
    Trump
    +4.2
    2024 Georgia: Trump vs Biden
    Trump
    +4.8
    2024 Michigan: Trump vs Biden
    Trump
    +0.3
    2024 Nevada: Trump vs Biden
    Trump
    +5.3
    2024 North Carolina: Trump vs Biden
    Trump
    +5.3
    2024 Pennsylvania: Trump vs Biden
    Trump
    +2.3
    2024 Wisconsin: Trump vs Biden
    Trump
    +0.1

    In order to get Biden on the board you need to add Virginia to the list of battleground states. This year, thanks to the ineptitude of Democrats in office, Virginia is in play. Very much in play.

    Beautiful day, isn’t it?

  47. 47

    Beautiful day, isn’t it?

    Always a beautiful day whenever I get to watch a troll humiliating himself with desperate poll sniffing.

  49. 49

    Comments on Texas asking to “Please don’t drive”:
    Texas as a whole is laid out in a way antagonistic to even the idea of walking or biking ANYWHERE that isn’t the Galvston beach or San Antonio Riverwalk, and it’s mass transportation system is broken and barely usable to actually get anywhere. Like what did they THINK was gonna happen eventually?

    They also regularly kill or injure cyclists

    The state despised public transport and any investment in infrastructure. Good luck with this one…

    Conservatives: “Nothing is real unless it impacts me and maybe my family.”

    >> You know, if this becomes an ongoing problem that cannot be fixed by running away to Cancun, the voters…and hear me out… could vote for politicians who will enact policy that will help make the texas environment more livable. Or not.

  51. 51

    49)Especially in Houston when they voted for it. The politicians outside the city, at the State and Federal level worked to DeLay anything getting built. DART has its limitations, serving Dallas and a few suburbs. I will give TexRail credit for the Diesel Multiple Units they use, that model has a lot of potential, especially in more friendly states. Could think of a couple routes in this state it would work on, Stadler has adapted the FLIRT for many propulsion options, especially since the first ones were electric, built for their home market, where in Switzerland, most passenger lines are electrified. Latest alternative propulsion order in the US for the FLIRT is METRA in Chicago, to be used on the Rock Island District’s Beverly Branch.

    Plus, wonder if Senator Cruz will ever take the new train on his visits to Cancun, if it’s running. Although Tren Maya was forced through construction so something can be finished before AMLO’s term was up.

  53. 53

    @ 49

    Comments on Texas asking to “Please don’t drive”:
    …
    They also regularly kill or injure cyclists

    HA’s most cognitively challenged homosexual, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron, would be surprised to learn that Texas isn’t even in the top 10 of bicycle fatalities per capita.

    But California’s #6.

    Tell us more about Texas and cycling deaths, The Even Bigger Fucking Moron.

  54. 54

    You would think CBS would be too embarrassed to publicize a national poll with a MOE of 6.8%. Nope. You’d be wrong.

    Face The Nation

    @FaceTheNation
    A new @CBSNewsPoll finds Biden and Trump are effectively tied now — among likely voters across all 50 states it’s Trump +1, and among likely voters across the Battleground states it’s Biden +1. Trump’s conviction has some — but limited — impact, as more Joe Biden voters are activated out of opposition to Trump.
    @SalvantoCBS reports.

    7:46 AM · Jun 9, 2024

  55. 55

    Marge Green, showing what smart people love about her.

    “if you think gas prices are high now, just wait until you’re forced to drive an electric vehicle.”

  56. 56

    How many dead heterosexual women today due to The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus?

    Cost lives and taxpayers their life savings….but hey inflation is such a problem. Heteroinflation!

  57. 57

    49)Also at first, the highways there were probably funded by fuel taxes also paid in part by the bus operators. Found this report mentioning that from Seattle Transit, in 1955. Eventually Washington State exempted municipally owned systems from fuel taxes. The mid sixties reports were more interesting, the Seattle Transit Commission was complaining about an unsustainable ridership increase because the city asked them to freeze fares. They had to compensate losses from the reserve fund, which they predicted would be exhausted by 1969, and they were right, combined with the beginning of the Boeing Bust.

    https://cdm16977.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16977coll7/id/319/

  58. 58

    Macron following the far-right surge in EU Parliament elections, has decided to take a gamble dissolving the French National Assembly, and calling a snap-election. So far looks like only the National Assembly, not the Presidential election. Although the National Assembly election is different than the European election. The EU mandates use of Proportional Representation. The National Assembly is elected in a Two Round System in Single seat districts, including Overseas France. Interesting, the National Rally is popular in Overseas France, especially in French Guyana, which is home to France’s largest border.

    https://www.dw.com/en/frances-macron-dissolves-parliament-calls-new-elections/a-69317313

    On a side note, Some urbanists on Twitter want Wilders to deport one of their own from Holland. He’s from London, Ontario, but had been living in Holland for awhile, said a remark about North America having no chance in his opinion. The particular YouTuber they were talking about , his channel is Not Just Bikes.

  59. 59

    Nuremberg Las Vegas rally:

    It’s going to be a long Summer of him reminding everyone why they hated him in 2020.

    Those J6 warriors, they were warriors. But really more than anything else they are victims of what happened. All they were doing is protesting a rigged election.”

    Normal people threaten to move to Canada. Cults drink Flavor-Aid.

    It would be suicide before Biden, right?

  61. 61

    This is why Palestinians occasionally must execute their own.

    The key disadvantage of holding hostages in populated areas is that Hamas cannot entirely prevent random and ambient access by the public to places nearby, access the IDF can exploit by continuously flowing assets through the vicinity. The presence of civilians cuts both ways. It provides human shielding against an assault force, but it can also conceal those same elements.

    Although I’m pretty sure they throw male cocksuckers off of rooftops just for sport.

  62. 62

    People comparing the SU-57 to Trump isn’t a good comparison. Felon isn’t what the Russians call it. That’s its code name under the NATO reporting system. Better than what NATO called the MiG-15.

  64. 64

    Ukraine today successfully carried out airstrikes using U.S. supplied weapons against Russian offensive targets within Russia.

    (Checks outside)

    ICBMs are not raining down so far.

    Putin must be weak AF and full of shit.
    I guess Republicans learn from the worst. Cuz President Joe Biden isn’t getting impeached either.

  65. 65

    Did I fucking say texas was the worst? What I posted was the comment “They also regularly kill or injure cyclists.” But you go ahead and try to pretend that detail completely negates any criticism of texas environmental and mass transit policy.
    https://tenor.com/view/doctor-who-the-giggle-the-toymaker-doctor-who-60th-doctor-who-the-giggle-gif-2748070005791039682
    Texas will need to vote for Democrats to have a chance to improve their environment, or they can just keep having to cower at home more and more often, unable to breath.
    Oh wait, that’s right, you live in WA state, where the Democrats are doing the opposite of texas, And you don’t move. Funny that.

  66. 66

    64)Some of the Far Right parties he supports are making gains in EU Parliament elections, although the biggest gainer EU Wide is tge European People’s Party, a center-right bloc. The EU mandates proportional representation, but not how it is done. Some do one national constituencies with no threshold, some divide into multi-seat districts. France used to be the former, but now the latter. Macron just learned that might not be a great idea. As I said earlier.

  67. 67

    Looking forward to the debates. Seriously, WTF are you talking about? Las Vegas.

    and it must be my relationship with M.I.T. very smart what would happen if the boat sank from its weight and you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark approximately ten yards over there by the way a lot of shark attacks lately do you notice lotta shar..I watched some guys try to justify it today Well they weren’t really angry they bit off the young lady’s leg not because of the fact that…they were not hungry but they misunderstood who she was these people are cra he said there’s no problem with sharks they just didn’t really understand a young woman swimming and a young woman really got decimated and other people too lotta shark attacks so I said theres a shark ten yards away from the boat ten yards or here do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking water goes over the battery the boat is sinking do I stay on top of the boat get electrocuted or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted because I will tell you he didn’t know the answer he said you know nobodies ever asked me that question I said I think it’s a good question I said I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water but you know what I do if it’s a shark or you get electrocuted I take electrocution every single time I’m not going near the shark so we gonna end that we’re gonna end it for boats and end it for the trucks

    To their credit no one in the audience hooted and hollered in approval about this bit not knowing that boats don’t sink from weight and confronted with the image of him trying to swim…

  69. 69

    How’s Trumpism doing in Hungary? Well, let’s take a look:

    Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party was on track for its worst result in a national or EU vote in nearly two decades at Sunday’s European Parliament election … as Hungary was emerging from the worst inflationary surge in the European Union.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-09/hungarys-orban-sees-weakest-support-in-decades-in-eu-vote-opposition-tisza-surges

    And this is when far-right parties are having a field day.

  70. 70

    @61 Doc is celebrating murder again. He has more in common with Hamas than we do.

  71. 71

    @65 “Oh wait, that’s right, you live in WA state, where the Democrats are doing the opposite of texas, And you don’t move. Funny that.”

    Sure, we have high gas taxes; but he doesn’t pay them, because how far can he drive on an island? An F-250 uses 0 gallons per mile on a ferry.

  72. 72

    69)He can’t use the voting system the Hungarian Parliament uses in European Parliament elections. Same for France, Tge National Rally benefits from that in EU elections, as France chose to use one National district. The National Assembly is single seat districts with Runoffs. It’s interesting that NR uses Islamaphobia but Mayotte, an island in the Indian Ocean that is France’s biggest Muslim Department by percentage, went for Le Pen in the last Presidential. Doubt Macron will do well in New Caledonia with all the trouble he caused there lately.

  75. 75

    Thursday I saw USA, USA, USA trending on Twitter. Apparently a reaction to millions of Americans finding out the US has a T20 Cricket team, and it beat Pakistan in a World Cup match. Even more interesting, the star player works at Oracle.

  79. 79

    Chilling comment about the republican 2025 project

    “Try waking up every morning scared that republicans will revoke your legally adopted child’s citizenship and deport them to a country they’ve never been to.”

    Vote Democratic.

  80. 80

    The presumptive Republican Party nominee for President of the United States will meet for the first time this morning with his probation officer.

  81. 81

    Ben Meiselas meiselasb on Xitter
    Here is a short summary of Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s June 9 speech in Las Vegas:
    1. Tells crowd “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.”
    2. Tells contractors who set up mic and teleprompter they did a “shitty job” and he “won’t pay them.”
    3. Tells audience to choose “suicide over Biden.”
    4. Complains about teleprompter again.
    5. Asks “Do I get electrocuted or do I jump over by the shark?”
    6. Claims he “aced” a dementia test twice: “Not easy to ace!”
    7. Says “There has never been people treated more horrifically than J6 hostages.”
    8. Calls prosecutor a “dumb son of a bitch.”
    9. Complains media is too focused on health of crowd in heat when they should “care about Trump.”
    10. Glitches multiple times.
    11. Speech ends. Trump whisked away on private jet paid for by donors.
    There are receipts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A27GiTMmXjE

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