I don’t know, y’all. I think shitty dudes who do shitty things need to come up with better obviously bullshit excuses. Shared feelings? I thought she was hitting on me, so I grabbed her butt?
Really? How about, making sure first? Or, I don’t know, not trying to have sex with a subordinate who is young enough to be your granddaughter?
The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight for an evening of politics and conversation over a drink. Please join us.
We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.
There once was a thread that was open
And as I write it, I’m hopin’
That you won’t hate
How it’s seriously late
And not about the next guy who’s been gropin’
Matthew 10:34-37
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Discuss.
Last Week Tonight: Wax Presidents trailer.
Late Show: The DOJ’s Hillary Clinton announcement
VOX: Walking while black.
Full Frontal: What’s happening to Tangier Island?
WaPo: Race and incarceration in the U.S., by the numbers.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Alt-Diversity in the Courtroom.
The Dotard Трамп and His Nesting Dolls:
Adam ruins lab mice.
Matt Lieb: George Soros BIG secrets EXPOSED!!!!!!!!
VOX: The all-American fruit you’ve probably never heard of.
Trevor Noah: Even the keystone pipeline is exposing itself.
Tomi Lahren as an ’80s pop song.
Stephen: VP Joe Biden says Charlottesville was a turning point.
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Roy Moore Molested a Middle School Girl And Other Rapey Observations:
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: All Lives Friday—Serious deals for serious threats.
No wonder everyone hates Keurig.
Francesca Fiorentini: Newsbroke is skewed!
Colin Kaepernick visits Harlem for his GQ Men of the Year moment.
VOX: The environmental cost of free two-day shipping.
Randy Rainbow: Those were the good old days:
Late Show: Hannity made a chart.
ONN: How to talk to a family member about politics and that their jewelry business is a pyramid scheme.
Mental Floss: Twenty four facts about Koalas.
Bill Maher with Chelsea Handler: Women in office.
The G.O.P. Tax Scam Heist Reform:
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Puerto Rico’s hurricane recovery—A 10 out of 10.
Jimmy Kimmel: Supreme Court Justice League.
Young Turks: Of course the Keystone Pipeline is spilling thousands of barrels of oil.
VOX: Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work.
Stephen gets interviewed by the Russians.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Men knew, part a billion in an infinity part series: Al Franken.
The photographer knew. The man sitting next to her knew. The picture was sent to God knows how many people. It wasn’t just men, but plenty of men did nothing. Men on that trip were literally sent photographic evidence and nothing happened for a decade.
Now that the stock market is going down, I feel like it’s a good time to write this without it sounding like sour grapes. The stock market is a shitty way to measure the economy. And the ways we measure the stock market are usually an unrepresentative sample of the market in general. A few dozen stocks, or even a few hundred don’t get at small business anything, or hiring, or wages.
Please join us this evening for a post-election edition of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Debrief, discuss, and debate, over a drink.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.
Can’t make it to Seattle? Check out one of the 242 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, five in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.
Over the weekend, I saw The Government Inspector at Seattle Shakespeare. It was quite funny, but there were a few aspects that felt dated. One thing I wanted to comment on was the casting seemed to be gender neutral, or at least had some women playing male parts and it wasn’t commented on.
I don’t know if it was a lack of good parts for women, or what. I do know it took about a minute to figure out and then it was fine. I’d prefer better female characters, but if you’re reviving old plays that don’t have them, this is pretty good.
Leviticus 25:44-45
And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.
Discuss.
Seth Meyers gives a shout-out to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Trevor: So much winning for the Dems
Francesca Fiorentini: How the GOP plans to make the rich richer again:
Jim Jefferies: Becoming the second billionaire, reality-star President.
ONN: How much credit does the sitting President deserve for the tides?
The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Russophiles:
John Oliver: Economic development.
David Pakman: Obamacare signups set new record
GOP Tax winners and losers.
Vox: How to break the two-party system.
Jimmy Dore chats with Bill O’Reilly.
Moore Bad Shit Going Down:
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Cracking down on voter fraud.
Roy Zimmerman: Thank for the support.
Fact checking the estate tax
Jeff Ross roasts the border.
WaPo: What does temporary protected status (TPS) mean?
Gunz in ‘Merica:
Mark Fiore: Stealing is legal.
Seth Meyers and jokes he cannot tell with Hillary Clinton.
Slick Steves: Paul Manafort’s travel agent, shares his top tips!
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Donna Brazile—she’s with us.
Trevor: Saudi Arabia’s political purge.
Election 2017:
VOX: Harassment is breaking Twitter’s free speech experiment.
The Late Show: The Justice Department can’t stand CNN.
Bill Maher and friends: Overtime chat.
The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Swing states are in danger
Adam ruins psychics.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
I’m seeing a few people no big deal the Roy Moore and Louis CK allegations. Not just the usual (and despicable) bitches be lying. But there seems also to be a strain of even if it’s true, it’s not that bad.
I’m going to assume that everyone making that argument have something similar in their past, or ongoing.
Oh right, sometimes election results are good. I mean the statewide results are only from states that Hillary Clinton won. Other states are still busy dismantling unions and suppressing minority votes. They may well double down on that in the wake of the election.
Still and all, pretty good. Washington looks like we’ll have a Democratic majority in both houses. Seattle will have the mayor and 2/3 of the council be women on the day the election is certified.
6:00: It is looking like a blue night….
6:03: Democrats take gubernatorial races in NJ and VA. The former reflects the least popular governor in American history. The latter follows from the least popular President in American history. Sure, NJ might have swung a bit from Trump, but Chris Christie pretty much hand delivered this race to the Democrats simply through sheer force of douchebaggery.
6:08: Wait for it…Republicans will accuse Twitter of swaying the elections by bumping up the character count to 280 JUST BEFORE THE ELECTION.
Confirmed Virginia House of Delegates Demoratic pickups so far: 2, 10, 12, 13, 21, 31, 32, 42, 50, 52, 67, 72
That's 12 seats
We're not done— Fiddler (@cFidd) November 8, 2017
6:47: There is still some windbag on the teevee spewing sophomoric rhetoric and empty platitudes.
Medicaid expansion in Maine is up 54 to 46 in *rural* districts. Liberal Portland has not yet reported. This victory would be a massive signal.
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) November 8, 2017
Almost everything reported in Charlotte, NC. Democrat Vi Lyles leads 58-42, will be first African American female Mayor. Dems only won Mayoral race by 6 points in 2013, 4 points in 2015.
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) November 8, 2017
A Black woman, a Latina woman, a trans woman and a socialist walk into the Virginia House of Delegates
…
something-something The Aristocrats! #ElectionDay
— 🎅🏿Imani Gandy🎅🏿 (@AngryBlackLady) November 8, 2017
A Black woman, a Latina woman, a trans woman and a socialist walk into the Virginia House of Delegates
…
something-something The Aristocrats! #ElectionDay
— 🎅🏿Imani Gandy🎅🏿 (@AngryBlackLady) November 8, 2017
7:07: This is big:
BREAKING: Maine votes YES on Question 2 to approve Medicaid expansion #mepolitics pic.twitter.com/x5Gm3SC65F
— WCSH 6 (@WCSH6) November 8, 2017
I’m so upset my election celebration was interrupted by the president reading S Korea’s Wikipedia page.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) November 8, 2017
8:10: Manka Dhingra leads in the 45th, 55.4% to 44.6%
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