The last new mayor of the year (touch wood) will be sworn in tomorrow. I didn’t vote for her, but I was always on team they’re both fine. So lets hope an even more liberal City Council can push her further to the left.
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Apparently the liberals at CFPB are the last to learn who won the 2016 US presidential election.
Leandra English has sent out a memo, calling herself ‘Acting Director’.
Mick Mulvaney has sent out a memo instructing all staff to ignore her, and to forward her communications to the GC’s office.
Ya shouldn’t have weaponized the CFPB, libbies. You’re not gonna like the pendulum swing.
The reasons the FBI didn’t refer #CrookedHillary to DOJ for prosecution become ever clearer as we learn more about Obama’s FBI.
FBI 'failed to notify scores of US officials that Russian hackers were trying to break into their personal Gmail accounts despite having evidence for at least a year'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new.....z4zeM7If00
You know, I believe this is the point Goldy was trying to make after #BLM disrupted that Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle awhile back.
Goldy Retweeted
Daniel Dale
✔
@ddale8
Replying to @ddale8
Also, the premise of these Humanizing Profiles of Nazis is that it’s surprising that very normal white people are anti-Semitic and anti-Black. As if dealing with well-dressed, prosperous bigots is new thing and not most of the history of Jewish and Black people in America.
Nov 25, 2017
Said Al Franken, with a straight face. Maybe he didn’t see the photo.
“What kills me about this is it gives people a reason to believe I don’t respect women.”
Bitter hypocrisy would be a better descriptor.
Franken told Minneapolis television station WCCO in another interview that his predicament was “a bitter irony” because he has championed women‘s’ issues and has employed them in both his campaign and Senate offices.
Oh, look. Franken has a casting couch.
“I’ve put them (women) in the highest jobs in my office,” he said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-franken/ashamed-franken-says-he-wont-quit-senate-over-groping-accusations-idUSKBN1DQ0V7?utm_source=applenews
1-4 nice trolling, Dumbfuck
Troll.
@1 There’s this little thing called a “statute” that might take the wind out of your gloating. Dodd-Frank says the CFPB director, not the president, appoints an acting director until a new permanent director is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Trump is trying to bypass that process. He might even get a Republican judge to agree with him, if his legal staff can figure out how to forum shop.* But ultimately the odds aren’t on his side. If longstanding legal precedent is followed, the specific language of Dodd-Frank should prevail over a statute of general application, e.g. the Vacancies Act. Every lawyer knows this, whereas a doctor, especially a dumbfuck radiologist, can’t be expected to figure out a statutory interpretation issue.
* The impediment to this, of course, is that Cordray’s appointee chose the court that will hear the case when she filed her lawsuit.
Morrissey, who should know, has redefined “sexual harassment” for us as “often just a pathetic attempt at courtship.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/morrissey-sexual-harassment-kevin-spacey_us_5a1c2310e4b0d4906cb024d0?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Question, though: Does this apply if the courtier
(1) is already married,
(2) is hitting on several women at once,
(3) is hitting on underaged girls,
(4) is hitting on boys?
Some clarification of this is needed.
@ 6
Any lawyer knows this…
No, but any lawyer should know which direction a perp subject to the Fleeing Felon doctrine would be running, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit.
The CFPB GC
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015f-fbe7-d90d-a37f-fff74f280000
backs the Trump Administration.
You’re expecting the statute to be interpreted as if an absence or unavailability refers to status including resignation or firing, rather than a place-holding device to ensure continuity of leadership when the director is out with appendicitis or is being rendered permanently incontinent and impotent by a TURP procedure, for instance. The latter may be more familiar to you.
GLWT, Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit. Oh, and listen to the NPR interview of Cordray aired this morning. Cordray is far less certain than you seem to be.
@8 “The CFPB GC backs the Trump Administration.”
Of course she does. She likes her job, and wants to keep it.
“You’re expecting the statute to be interpreted as if an absence or unavailability refers to status including resignation or firing, rather than a place-holding device to ensure continuity of leadership when the director is out with appendicitis or is being rendered permanently incontinent and impotent by a TURP procedure, for instance. The latter may be more familiar to you.”
At this point, that’s a legal argument, not a legal ruling. How long did it take you to find that on the internet? @6 was posted 28 minutes before @7, so I’m guessing about 25 minutes. Slow even for a dumbfuck.
It’s Cyber Melania.
Melania TrumpVerified account
@FLOTUS
6h6 hours ago
The decorations are up! @WhiteHouse is ready to celebrate! Wishing you a Merry Christmas & joyous holiday season!
Video on her Twitter feed. Maybe Melania can invite #CrookedHillary over to tour the ornaments.
@10 Did her husband go out and buy 500 Obama bobbleheads, snap their heads off, and hang them from little nooses as tree ornaments?
Trump can’t even honor Navajo codetalkers without making an insulting racist remark:
“‘You were here long before any of us were here,’ Trump said …. ‘Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.’ The remark was met with silence.
“Trump lobbed the name … with three Native American veterans sitting and standing next to him. He stood directly in front of a portrait of President Andrew Jackson, whose administration is widely criticized for its treatment of Native Americans.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/trump-repeats-elizabeth-warren-pocahontas-jab-at-native-american-event.html
But then, Trump has reason to be on edge today:
“Flynn attorney Robert Kelner visited the offices of the special counsel in Washington, D.C., Monday morning … amid speculation that Flynn had begun working to reach a plea deal.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/flynns-reportedly-attorney-met-with-muellers-team-monday.html
1,
memo vs. TRO. Ooooh. That’s a close one.
Al Green, Democrat Congressman from Texas, in the news.
Has something to do with this:
Last week, Texas Congressman, Al Green, filed a declaratory judgment seeking injunctive relief against Lucinda Daniels, a former employee who allegedly approached Green demanding 1.8M for an incident that occurred in May 2007. An incident he claims was a “romantic moment” and she alleges was a “sexual assault.” Green filed the suit to prevent what he calls a shakedown for money.
http://thezealousadvocate.blog.....edown.html
Note that the item above was written in 2008.
Yet today, for some reason, Green brought it up as part of a joint statement with his accuser.
@ 13
Maybe not so close as you might hope:
Zoe TillmanVerified account
@ZoeTillman
1h1 hour ago
Replying to @ZoeTillman
Some background on the judge handling the CFPB case: Judge Timothy Kelly was nominated by Trump in June and confirmed 94-2 in early September (Gillibrand & Warren voted no)
Oh, and in an earlier life he worked for Senator Grassley. I believe an unsuccessful candidate for Senate representing Arkansas once informed us that Grassley isn’t even an attorney.
Although considering the unbroken stream of abject stupidity emanating from one Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, who claims to be a former attorney, absence of a legal degree seems rather irrelevant.
Lest there be any question as to the ultimate outcome of the CFPB shit show, the agency is quickly becoming toothless.
Goodwin Procter Grabs Anthony Alexis, Formerly CFPB’s Enforcement Chief
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/sites/nationallawjournal/2017/11/27/goodwin-procter-grabs-anthony-alexis-formerly-cfpbs-enforcement-chief/?slreturn=20171027162757
That’s formerly as in only ten days ago.
10,
Oh goody! Perhaps in honor of President Russian Hooker Pee Melania will pick out some very very tiny cock rings to decorate the tree!
Credit where credit is due, after 25 years of this kind of insanity the radical right’s lunatic baggage capacity is indeed impressive.
@ 12
“‘You were here long before any of us were here,’ Trump said …. ‘Although we have a representative in Congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her Pocahontas.’ The remark was met with silence.
So I’d imagine. They’re all stone deaf by now.
“So lets hope an even more liberal City Council can push her further to the left.”
Gee…I wonder why the rest of the state thinks Seattle is a dumpster fire.
Trump today honored Navajo code talkers.
MGM made a movie about them, Windtalkers, starring Nicholas Cage.
Cage also was in Snake Eyes, which was set in a New Jersey casino event arena.
Trump owned New Jersey casinos at the time Snake Eyes was made.
Jus’ sayin’.
@13 My understanding is there’s no TRO yet, but a hearing began a few minutes ago, and something may happen this afternoon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/11/27/at-the-cfpb-two-acting-directors-show-up-to-take-command-one-brings-doughnuts-the-other-well-wishes/?utm_term=.df66df2f8c0a
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Given Trump’s track record in the courts thus far, I wouldn’t bet against Mulvaney being escorted out of the building by security officers before day’s end.
@ 21
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Given Trump’s track record in the courts thus far, I wouldn’t bet against Mulvaney being escorted out of the building by security before day’s end.
Sez the dumbfuck who claims he suggested to others that they short GE, while still holding on to his own GE stock.
Actually, if you were stupid enough to hold GE, you’d be stupid enough to bet against the Trump administration on this one, too.
12,
Nobody draws any heat from the Dumpster Fire. Not even his natural allies gain any reflected warmth from their tribal ignoramus-in-chief. The smartest of them stay far, far away.
So it never ceases to amaze me that anyone is ever willing to appear alongside this treasonous piece of shit. No matter the occasion, no matter the significance, no matter who is being honored, the orange man-baby is a dense singularity of narcisism that only absorbs energy.
@14 Update: “A woman who accused Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) of sexual assault has withdrawn her allegations against the congressman, prompting Green to drop a lawsuit alleging the woman had threatened to sue him for workplace discrimination if he did not pay her. ‘Congressman Alexander Green and Lucinda Daniels have both resolved and settled their respective disputes without payment, promise or receipt of any money,’ lawyers for Green and Daniels said in a joint statement. ‘They regret any circumstances that created this dispute. They do not wish to pursue any litigation against each other.’ Green’s attorney asked that his suit against Daniels be dismissed after Daniels signed an agreement releasing all claims against Green, the Houston Chronicle reported.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-.....-rep-green
Update of update: “Rep. Al Green (TX-9, D) denied any wrongdoing stemming from a 2007 incident with a staffer in a written statement Monday. ‘In the present climate, we wish to jointly quiet any curious minds about our former and present relationship with one another,’ Green wrote. The statement was signed by Green and the former staffer.”
http://abc13.com/politics/rep-.....t/2703179/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: In Doctor Dumbfuck World a protestation of innocence co-signed by the purported victim is tantamount to an admission of guilt if the non-perpetrator has filed articles of impeachment against Traitor Trump.
@ 24
In my world something wrong done by a Congressman more than a decade ago, which is old news and no one cares about, doesn’t need to be brought up by said Congressman unprompted.
Unless there’s guilt to cop to.
My suspicion is that there’s something Green did that is very, very similar to what Conyers is being outed for having done, and he’s trying to get ahead of it.
21,
They filed yesterday with the expectation that they could get a ruling early this week. Given the obvious haste with which the GC’s “authoritiative” memo was composed, and the rather low priority President Russian PeePee has given to the SG’s office (wasn’t Kellyanne’s baby-daddy an appointee?) the administration is probably not well prepared. And I’m assuming that Cordray laid the groundwork for this well in advance.
@15 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck predicts the outcome of legal cases based on which president appointed the judge. Just out of curiosity, what’s your system for predicting stock market rallies and crashes? I’m not interested in using it, but I think it may be good for some laughs.
Old news. No one cares. Besides, haint nobody got time fuh ‘dat when you spend every single waking moment carefully studying a 20-year-old splatter pattern on a blue dress for “clues”.
Who wants to borrow my copy of “Shattered” when I’m finished with it a second time?
The 50-year-old justice has been almost exactly what conservatives hoped for and liberals dreaded when he joined the court in April. He has consistently, even aggressively, lined up with the court’s most conservative justices. He has even split with Chief Justice John Roberts, viewed by some as insufficiently conservative because of his two opinions upholding President Barack Obama’s health law.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/11/25/gorsuchs_early_reviews_what_right_hoped_for_left_feared_135616.html
No, the link isn’t to “Shattered”. It’s to what Shattered meant.
Think on your sins, libbies.
@29 Heh. The doctor representing the party of Putin, white supremacists, the Klan, Nazis, goatfuckers, child-molesters and rapists wants us to think on our sins.
Fuck off.
@18 It’s too soon for much blowback yet, but I’m pretty sure Native Americans aren’t as deaf as you imagine. Not that they vote for Republicans anyway, so your party has little to lose from Trump’s racism in that community.
@ 27
Just out of curiosity, what’s your system for predicting stock market rallies and crashes?
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, have you not been paying attention?
I have spoken of it many times, initially here:
http://horsesass.org/friday-ni.....nt-1313391
This is by far the finest, most successful investment strategy I’ve come across:
I read carefully what Roger Rabbit says he does, or just did. Then I do the opposite.
I call it The Notadumbfuck Method.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit, I must thank you for the daily hanging curve over the center of the plate you seem to toss my way.
30,
Distraction is the only strategy left to them.
Seriously. They created, and then elected President Russian PeePee. However urgently they deny it all, at bottom they know most of the worst of it is true. And the least of it Fuckface freely admits to. They carefully manufactured this racist shitshow over five decades. This reaction is perfectly predictable from sociopaths.
@19 “Gee…I wonder why the rest of the state thinks Seattle is a dumpster fire.”
That doesn’t stop them from taking our money. In fact, they like our money so much they asked for more in the last legislative session to pay for their schools. What would they do without our money? They can’t pay for their roads and schools themselves.
@20 Yeah, honored ’em by making a racist remark while standing in front of a portrait of a notorious Indian fighter. I’m sure they’re real appreciative of these honors.
So many of Kevin Spacey’s movies I really enjoyed. The Usual Suspects, The Negotiator, Glengarry Glen Ross notable among them.
Due to recent events I’ll admit to wondering whether I’ll watch them again. After numerous viewings of each, perhaps I have seen them enough.
And now I learn that Roger Waters is an anti-Semite:
http://www.bild.de/regional/ko......bild.html
A protest against him ended up causing German public TV to pull its sponsorship of a Waters concert.
Pretty sure I can make do in life without Kevin Spacey. Not at all sure I can get by without Comfortably Numb.
For Doctor Dumbfuck’s latest legal argument on the CPFB issue, see #22. Probably just as well he chose medical school over law school. A stupid doctor’s mistakes can always be remedied by a good lawyer, at least for the patient’s heirs.
@ 33
Distraction is the only strategy left to them.
Well, having won the White House and with majority control of the House and Senate, there isn’t much left.
Besides, your ilk already took Weaponize.
We’re just in the process of taking @ 1 it back.
While you’re distracted by Trump’s bronzer.
See how that Distraction thing works, HA libbies?
@ 37
For Doctor Dumbfuck’s latest legal argument on the CPFB issue, see #22.
For Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s true lot in life, see the middle quintile.
@25 Of course you suspect there’s more to this story than the lawsuit being dropped, no money changing hands, and the purported victim signing a statement saying nothing happened. It’s why we call you a dumbfuck.
@29 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck celebrates the accession of an environment-hating son of a disgraced ex-EPA administrator to a poached SCOTUS seat. It’s one of many, many reasons why we call him a dumbfuck.
@32 “I read carefully what Roger Rabbit says he does, or just did. Then I do the opposite.”
I take it, then, you didn’t short GE when it was in the mid-20s and you’re now feeding your wife dog food.
@36 “A protest against him ended up causing German public TV to pull its sponsorship of a Waters concert.”
What a tragedy. You’ll have to do without Waters. But not to worry, there’s more like him out there. If you need a list, call the White House. The switchboard can help you.
@38 “Well, having won the White House and with majority control of the House and Senate, there isn’t much left.”
Just, oh, the ability to pass legislation and run the government. That still eludes him.
If you need a bit of Floyd and don’t want to enrich Roger Waters further, you could do worse than this:
https://www.amazon.com/Face-DVD-CD-Pete-Townshend/dp/B01IHVHFR4
David Gilmour featured rather prominently, and it’s the only time I have ever watched Pete Townshend on video with a smile on my face.
@39 Weak. You can do better. Put your mind to it. Take your time. Ask Puddy for help … no, wait, I have a better idea … ask Sarah Fuckabee Sanders. She can put professional speechwriters at your disposal.
“Ya shouldn’t have weaponized the CFPB, libbies.”
Yeah, making banks and financial institutions NOT rip people off is so mean to the 1%. This is a class war, and the 99% are losing. Hopefully we learned from this and vote appropriately. .
Trump says he won’t campaign for Roy Moore. Looks like he’s reading the same polls everyone else is and wants to be able to say Moore wasn’t his candidate after the election results are in.
Meanwhile, with a scheduled Senate vote on their highly unpopular tax bill just 3 days away, Republicans need to bring 9 of their own senators back into the fold, and can afford to lose only 2 of them. What’s certain is they don’t have the votes to pass the bill without making significant modifications to it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/heres-where-gop-senate-holdouts-stand-on-sweeping-tax-bill.html
Uh-oh, this could spell trouble for America’s dumbfucks. The Chief Justice is swinging leftward.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-chief-justice-roberts-a-secret-liberal/
19,
Yes, the rest of Washington views Seattle and King County as a dumpster fire.
It’s no longer a suspected bias attack because the attacker was a black dude.
A Morristown man was arrested Sunday in connection with the vandalism of five New Jersey churches over the weekend, authorities said.
Zuri C. Towns, 45, confessed to breaking signs and windows at the predominantly African-American churches, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office.
And based on the description of the attack he may very well be related to YLB.
Security footage obtained by The Post shows the suspect, clad in a hoodie and jacket, walking briskly up to the corner of Church of God in Christ for All Saints in Morristown around 6:45 a.m. Saturday, and limply tossing a rock at the building’s facade.
“It wasn’t a good throw, he wasn’t a strong guy,” 17-year-old Tahj Valentine said prior to the arrest as he vacuumed up glass before services Sunday.
https://nypost.com/2017/11/26/alleged-church-vandal-caught-on-surveillance-cam/
51,
adding 65,000 well above median income jobs in the next ten years. More of the same beyond.
More than 20 times the job growth for Pierce County. Twenty five times Snohomish.
It’s not looking good for you Hillbillies. You ignored every opportunity to update your skills. And you’ve let yourselves get old, fat, and out of shape. You don’t even have the energy to hang sheetrock. And most of you can’t pass the drug tests and background checks to clean soiled bed linens at the elder care home. If you can get on at Home Depot and hang in past the probationary period you can probably throw yourself off a loading dock and get a disability settlement.
Think about it. You are not going to make it to 65. And even if you do, your beloved Republicans are about to gut Social Security, and Medicare. That’s the only way they can pay for this tax cut for Seattle. It’s either that or go out in a blaze of glory from a corner room in Las Vegas.
52,
you know, I would like to thank Doctor Dumbfuck for at least getting the terminology correct. The statutes in question are correctly referred to as “bias crimes” statutes. For a reason. And it has everything to do with the law, and nothing whatsoever to do with “political correctness” or “mind control”.
A bias crime is one where there exists evidence to support a conclusion on the part of the finder of fact that the intent of the crime was to intimidate, harass, or infringe upon the civil liberties of a large group within the community. The race or ethnicity of the suspect isn’t really important. The alleged intent of the suspect is what counts. And that’s a normal thing for the criminal law to grapple with.
But here’s the good news for Doctor Dumbfuck and all the other racists out there: you can still intend all kinds of really awful things toward large groups of your fellow citizens. The law can’t take your hatred away from you. You get to keep it, and feed and nurture it, and bring it out to troll and play late at night on 4chan when nobody is around. Just don’t act on it. And if you do, then you’d just better hope you can run BitBleach on your devices before the police get to them.
The blowback has started.
“The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) was quick to condemn Mr. Trump … [t]he Navajo Nation, too, … complained that ‘in this day and age, all tribal nations still battle insensitive references to our people. The prejudice that Native American people face is an unfortunate historical legacy.'”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/native-americans-respond-to-trumps-pocahontas-comment/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: It could have been worse. At least Trump didn’t refer to the descendant of Cherokees and Delawares as a “half breed.”
The Supreme Court today let stand a Maryland assault weapon ban.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-turns-away-challenge-to-maryland-assault-weapons-ban/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Maybe there’s still a glimmer of hope for a rational gun policy in this country someday. After, of course, Republicans are gone from office. Sadly, innocent Americans, including schoolchildren and worshippers, will continue to bleed while they’re there.
@51 “Yes, the rest of Washington views Seattle and King County as a wallet.”
ftfy
“The federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 gives the president the power to temporarily authorize an acting official to perform the duties of an officer of an executive agency. The critical language in the Vacancies Reform Act is this: It is the ‘exclusive means’ for authorizing the appointment of an acting head unless another statute expressly designates a particular officer to serve in that acting capacity.
“In fact, the law establishing the CFPB does just that: It expressly designates a particular officer and states that the CFPB’s deputy director shall ‘serve as acting Director in the absence or unavailability of the Director.’ …
“The DOJ’s interpretation is that because the Dodd-Frank Act designates how the CFPB vacancy is filled, then Dodd-Frank just becomes one of two ways to fill the vacancy. The Vacancies Reform Act continues to be an alternative legal way to fill the vacancy. Under that interpretation, the Vacancies Reform Act is no longer the exclusive way to fill vacancies — it becomes an additional way to do so.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/dispute-over-trump-s-consumer-appointment-could-hinge-one-word-n824341
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I wouldn’t bet too heavily on DOJ’s interpretation. After all, they’re getting their legal advice from a dumbfuck doctor.
56,
But, but, but, Gorsuch?
I should have appointed my sister. She’s definitely not hot. Maybe not a pig. But not hot. Hotness isn’t really important in a SCOTUS. It couldn’t hurt. But not a requirement. Covfefe. My fingers smell like french fries. WINNING!
“…affluent, elite, healthy, and highly educated coastal progressives.”
That’s all you have to know about the trolls on this blog. They are all in love with themselves.
@55 “At least Trump didn’t refer to the descendant of Cherokees and Delawares as a “half breed.”
There is always tomorrow. Trump can’t stand any criticism, he will lash out and I’m sure your suggested slur is on the tip of his tongue.
Next year’s health insurance went up by $120 a month. So much for that portion of my disposable income. Thanks Republicans. You caused this.
Trump is not serious about “draining the swamp.” The first step that’s needed is establishing term limits for the House and Senate members. I’d like to see both Congress people and Senators be limited to two four-year terms. Once those two terms are up, they should not be allowed to have ANY federal employment (elected or otherwise) for ten years. Also, any retirement system enjoyed by members of the House and Senate should be immediately converted a defined contribution plan. No more fat pensions for these oligarchs. Let them have defined contribution plans as they exist in the private sector. None of this bullshit about going to Washington to do good and end up doing DAMN good. Damn good for themselves, that is!
If Trump were serious about draining the swamp, he’d be a big supported of term limits, but that isn’y the only problem with the federal government. The big problem is that we have too many damn people on the federal payroll. The federal government does not produce any wealth to support this bloated work force and must seize from private wealth producers the funds to support this obese bureaucracy. It’s time to downsize all of the federal government, including the military, and make those pompous bureaucrats get real jobs in the private sector to survive. No more government teat for them!
Trump’s tax plan does nothing to pay off the $20 trillion we have on the credit card. Getting the debt paid off should be his biggest priority. If we were serious about it and started today, it would take at least half a century to pay that debt down to zero. It should be felt most by government workers and their overseers by reducing pay and benefit packages. If those folks don’t like it, I advise them to see if they can do better in a private sector job. It’ll take about two seconds for those louts to realize how good they had it working for government.
Trump has not acknowledged we have a far flung empire that is not getting us anything but more dead and maimed military members. Do we really have to have 900-plus bases all over the globe? Can’t Europe and Israel take care of themselves by now? As fas as the Korean situation goes, it’s time for Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines to have defensive and offensive nuclear/chemical/biological capabilities to counter misbehavioir by China or Russia.
It’s time for the US to worry about itself and tell everyone else to fend for themselves. We cannot be the world’s police force nor its welfare office.
@62. I’m sure China and or Russia would love to step into the power vacuum left by our withdrawal.
@61 –
Why doesn’t Elizabeth Warren take the Ancestry.com DNA test to prove her native American ancestry? It only costs about $100, and once she gets the results, she can publish the results on her website to prove herself to have Cherokee blooded make Trump eat a shit sandwich, publicly.
@63
Then fucking let ’em!
very normal white people are anti-Semitic and anti-Black.
Don’t HA DUMMOCRETINS call themselves very normal white people?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Till Next Time!
Let us be very clear here!
Elizabeth Warren claimed she was “Native American”. Even CNN wrote how she used that “moniker”! http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/29/.....index.html
PuddyCommentary: Single word response to her being a fraud: Oopsie!
shitstain steve will call this hate. Butt there is a small problem. This is from the libtards at CNN!
Till Next Time!
53 – Does all that the economic data reflect all the people who live in Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties that have o commute to Seattle and King County for their jobs? Take those people out of your figures.
Nancy Pelosi claims not to rush to judgment on John Conyers. The same thing Sean Hannity said about Roy Moore!
Yet we see the hypocrisy of the leftist libtards in action because here’s how libtards look at sexual misconduct…
Every leader (and each of us) is human and flawed and makes mistakes, but there is a difference between those who are flawed who work for the common good and those who are flawed who could care less about the common good. Huge difference. — Matthew Dowd ✔ @matthewjdowd 6:47 AM – 22 Nov 2017
Seems libtards don’t care if a libtard is for the common good. Who cares about some poor DUMMOCRETIN wimens being abused.
The ends always justifies the means!
Till Next Time!
Here’s what a big time Hollyweird libtard saw in #CrookedHillary! https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/26/susan-sarandon-i-thought-hillary-was-very-dangerous-if-shed-won-wed-be-at-war
PuddyCommentary: Well well well! TRUTHS!
Hey shitstain steve, The Guardian is a platform for liberal and left-wing editorials. So it’s hateful per your “definition”.
The ends always justifies the means!
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So why aren’t DUMMOCRETINS speaking out on this too? https://hotair.com/archives/2017/11/27/chinese-communists-keep-tabs-students-studying-abroad/
Communists {read DUMMOCRETINS} will always use their power to silence the opposition because their ideas can’t stand on their own. But their ability to control students here in the U.S. through threats and government-affiliated student groups like the CSSA ought to be discouraged. Chinese students come here for an education. They shouldn’t be allowed to become foreign agents acting at the behest of a communist government on U.S. campuses.
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@10 Did her husband go out and buy 500 Obama bobbleheads, snap their heads off, and hang them from little nooses as tree ornaments?
You have a sick mind Roger senile idiot wabbit!
Sux to be you! shitstain steve will call this hate. Oh wait… Puddy didn’t write the bobblehead comment!
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Tonite NPR went into some detail explaining why Trump said what he did about Warren.
It’s detail we didn’t hear during the Warren v. Brown race.
Now Warren’s inability to document her claim to Indian heritage is national news.
What wasn’t delved into is how Warren used her faux-Indian heritage to advance her career.
Plenty of time for that later.
Hey shitstain steve,
These are PMSNBC’s Joy Reid’s own words… http://freebeacon.com/politics.....democracy/
Farmers are a threat to US democracy? Really?
The ends always justifies the means!
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68,
53 – Does all that the economic data reflect all the low income people who live in
Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties thatrural trailer parks surrounded by auto recycling yards and gravel quaries and have o commute to Seattle and King County for their jobs?ftfy, hillbilly.
Luis Gutierrez is out. Ain’t gonna run again.
It’s understandable – DACA didn’t do #CrookedHillary any favors last year, and Gutierrez’ power is probably on the wane for similar reasons.
He’s still young enough to make some money, directly now, off of those he has purported to represent.
Uh-oh. The loon is back and he’s delirious with HATE! Oh well, sad, but at least we know his friends didn’t lynch him while he was gone.
Little Jimmy O’Keefe got busted today trying to scam the Wasington Post on behalf of Senator Aqualung (R) AL.
I see a lot of the O’Keefe family Christmas gifts getting stuck in a fulfillment center until after New Years.
@ 78
Yeah, but aren’t you just a bit interested in what he got on video before WaPo figured out what he was doing?
@78 Yeah, O’Keefe tried to punk WaPo, and it blew up in his face. Instead of discrediting the newspaper, he proved its journalistic safeguards work.
@79 Are you interested in what WaPo got on tape?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inmgbVHjKAM
@59 President Pee Pee probably doesn’t trust his sister.
@60 “They are all in love with themselves.”
Why not? We’re a highly educated affluent elite. Conservatives’ own definition of success.
It’s only sexual harassment if Republicans are the ones who do the harassing. Men who are Democrats are automatically innocent if any woman charges them with sexual harassment.
It’s just the best double standard ever!!
@61 Trump probably spends at least 20 minutes every day watching his favorite Cher tape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt9XDdzzp2k
79,
“We will have to get corroboration and independently verify the details like dates and times, etc.”
“Actually a team of editors will decide that only after the basic facts have been checked, verified, and corroborated.”
“Um, I’m afraid that isn’t how this works.”
“At this point we wouldn’t be able to publish any of your claims without the details needed to do basic fact checking.”
“I’m sorry you feel that way. Maybe you should be talking to Matt Drudge.”
Scintillating.
Face it Hillbillies. Your whole shitshow is just so ooozing with deplorability that no reporter even has to work for the dirt anymore, much less bend any rules for it. It fucking comes to them like FedEx.
This is where you people are now: legitimate qualified journalists reporting discernible facts is a juicy scandal.
@66 “very normal white people”
I’m starting to think Trumpies are what passes for “normal” among you stupid humans, and not necessarily only the white ones, but you shouldn’t forget that crowd wants you dead.
@69 “Who cares about some poor DUMMOCRETIN wimens being abused.”
You sure don’t. You only want to use them for trolling bait.
@71 It ain’t our side who’s cozying up to an ex-KGB agent.
@72 “You have a sick mind Roger senile idiot wabbit!”
No, I’m just being realistic about your friends would like to do to you.
@73 “What wasn’t delved into is how Warren used her faux-Indian heritage to advance her career.”
Gee, how did the conservative propaganda media miss a story like that? You’d think they would have been all over that one. Are they incompetent?
One of Trump’s finest has pled guilty to “conspiracy to distribute marijuana and money-laundering conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court.”
“Alex Chapackdee, 44, a 16-year [Seattle Police] department veteran, entered the plea Monday morning in Seattle before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Brian Tsuchida, who set sentencing for 1:30 p.m. March 1 before U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/seattle-cop-accused-in-coast-to-coast-marijuana-ring-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-conspiracy-charges/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: The vast majority of cops are fine people who do a professional job, and deserve our support and respect. But Trump reaches into the barrel, grabs apples, and bites into them without looking to see if they’re rotten.
“There are at least seven freight trains coming at Trump … my work here is done.” — Keith Olbermann on his retirement from political commentary after 187 episodes of “The Resistance”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/keith-olbermann-retiring-political-commentary_us_5a1cd3cde4b0e2ddcbb2300c?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Looks like the tax bill has lost another GOP senator. One more GOP defection and it goes down to defeat.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/republican-sen-corker-signals-possible-committee-no-vote-on-tax-bill.html
Meanwhile, some Wall Street pros are signaling they have serious reservations about the bill.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/27/some-wall-street-pros-see-congress-tax-plan-as-too-much-of-a-good-thing.html
Meanwhile, in Alabama, a write-in candidate who potentially could split the GOP vote has jumped into the race.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/11/27/john-kellys-former-top-aide-plans-to-launch-a-write-in-campaign-in-alabama-against-roy-moore/23289680/
@6 Of course attorneys are familiar with section II, Article 2 of the US Constitution which will be used by the courts to decide if the general statute is constitutional and if the more specific is also in compliance with the general statute, and just adds an requirement without taking away Presidential Authority under the Constitution.
Of course this is just about politics than the statutes.
@7 Depends totally on if the courtier is a musician of either sex.
@34 Roads that people on Seattle use directly or indirectly. Schools that educate the future workers that will work in firms in Seattle. Assuming there really is not a dumpster fire that will spread out to the actually city.
@41 Definitely sour grapes. Making wine or vinegar?
@50 Such shifts are not unusual in justices of the court. Most justices are not real creatures of the right and left. It also depends on what type of case, and who the parties are. A conservative judge can be very liberal in some criminal cases. Amore liberal judge can be friendly to business, Politics and the limited power of the court also affects the courts decisions.
@86 Understandable as you certainly do not pass as a normal rabbit. Associating yourself with those humans certainly is not doing your rabbit social life much good at all.
@91 Wow an old fashion corruption case. And the FBI can still make the right moves, and the prosecutor gets a win. Nothing is said about any connection between this guy and Trump. It does not say the guy was a good or bad cop, just corrupt. And is typical in these kind of cases he had mingled in the family business.
@92 Well so much for the mans resisting as long as it takes. Could it be that he realized that most or all of his trains are BS. Or wake up to the reality any of them put VP Pence into the White House. At the moment Trump is more likely to be assassinated than any of his predictions coming true. The votes in Congress are not there folks, Sure the mid terms could swing things to where the Democrats can start the process, but they are unlikely to have enough votes, and do they really want President Pence?
I would not at all be surprised if Trump is unable to win the Republican nomination. If he intends to run again. Still Trump maintains a solid base for the primaries and the next Presidential election.
Apparently Keith has found resistance tiring and frustrating. And Donald Trump is still in the White House. Is 6 months from now a good cut off date for Keith’s prophesies? Or is the rest of the resistance getting tired and fracturing and to be of little use in the mid terms and next Presidential election? Could it be the stock market is just not working with Keith either or his predictions?
@94 He could take votes from both candidates. He’s late to the table, and not enough time for him to get enough water carriers to get water anywhere. If it’s he could swing the election one way or the other. If enough Alabamians are annoyed with parties he has a chance, just he’s way behind.
No, I’m just being realistic
Yes Obummer bobbleheads is really realistic racist Roger senile idiot wabbit!
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shitstain steve is really a HATEFUL guy these days. Did you break up with the Mormon lady so now Psych 101 Projections are all you have left?
Hmmm…?
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I just flip-flopped on the Conyers story.
The blowback grows.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/families-of-navajo-code-talkers-decry-trumps-pocahontas-jab/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Unpresidential. Untoward. Unfit.
On the tax front, Sen. Corker wants middle class taxpayers to backstop the business tax cuts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/28/sen-bob-corker-proposed-tax-cuts-on-individuals-are-not-where-they-need-to-be.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Because the GOP’s economic growth projections — disputed by most economists — are almost certainly overly optimistic, this would make tax increases on wage earners and retirees all but certain.
Taxing the middle class to subsidize the rich was already implicit in the GOP tax scheme, but they tried to disguise this by giving the working classes a token tax cut upfront, and then hitting them with big tax increases several years from now. This would simply make the ripoff explicit and upfront.
Hope told me it was supposed to be “Fauxcahontas” not “Pocahontas”. What difference does it make? Whatever the spelling, Indians are drunken savages. Hope is hot. I slipped her the tongue once. I sweat when I eat. WINNING!
@95 You’re an ignoramus. “Specific” statutes do not have to “comply” with “general” statutes. The relevant rule of construction holds that where two statutes conflict, specific controls over general. And if you intend to read constitutional law to us, at least try to get “Article” and “Section” in the correct order.
@97 Roads the irrigated counties use to bring their crops to market. Schools their children attend. They’re not paying the full cost of either. We’re givers, they’re takers, not the other way around, numbnuts.
@98 Sour grapes? No, not wanting Republican swine shitting in the nest I live in (and you do, too) is something else, of an intensely practical nature, going way beyond anything that could be characterized as “sour grapes.” You again display your customary density and lack of comprehension.
@99 Either tell me something I don’t know, or stop wasting my time.
@100 Confronting idiots like you is necessary for planetary survival. You mammalian morons are not only going to drag yourselves into extinction, but you’re on track to take the rest of us with you, too.
@101 They’ve got a riproaring corruption case pending in Baltimore, too, where a cop was just murdered the day before he was to testify against fellow cops in a federal corruption trial. In some places, the police are the criminal element; here in Seattle, crooked cops are for the most part individual operators, although our city suffers its share of racism-motivated police brutality. Of course, I don’t expect you to know this, given that your comments repeatedly demonstrate you don’t know anything about anything.
@102 You grasp nothing. It won’t be the Democrats who impeach Trump, just as it wasn’t the Democrats who forced out Nixon. The Republican Party will eject Trump like the festering foreign body he is. They will do it for self-preservation just like in 1974.
@103 Not really. Only one of the parties has a candidate problem.
Democrats have suspended negotiations with Trump to avert a government shutdown next month after Trump tweeted that he didn’t see a deal happening. Earlier this year, Trump tweeted that he thought a shutdown would be a good thing. Democrats say they will now negotiate with the Republican counterparts in Congress instead of the nut in the White House. (My language, not theirs. They’re diplomatic. I don’t have to be.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/top-democrats-pull-out-white-house-meeting-after-trump-tweet-n824556
Headline in this morning’s Seattle Times: “Seattle-area homebuyers needed $11,000 pay raise in past year to keep up with rising prices.”
The minimum wage boost to $15, phased in over several years, won’t cut it. What will happen, of course, is that workers who don’t already own homes with affordable mortgages will be pushed out of the Greater Puget Sound homebuying and rental markets by the influx of higher-paid tech workers who can win the bidding wars for the available housing stock.
That means there will be no one to serve food, sweep floors, or drive ambulances and tend to the wounded in emergency rooms. Seattle will become depopulated of people who make the city run. This is fine if everything can be done with robots, but those robots had better get here pretty soon, before this city shuts down.
I’m not arguing Seattle’s minimum wage should be raised to $80,000 a year, which seems to be the minimum income required to support a middle class family in this town now. That’s obviously not feasible or realistic. All I’m saying is Amazonians will have to cook their own food, sweep their own floors, and watch their kids themselves, because there won’t be anyone else here to do it.
Btw, if anyone needs a 5-bedroom tract home of 1960s vintage in the $600s price range, in a close-in north end suburb with good schools and convenient access to shopping, bus lines, and I-5, my neighbor just moved to assisted living and her one-owner home is now vacant and will soon go on the market. It’s the usual split-entry with 2-car garage, on a secluded 7000 sq ft off-street lot nestled under towering fir trees. We’d like it to be bought by an owner-occupant family, not turned into a rental. This area votes blue by about a 2-to-1 margin.