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Good on the protesters of the new youth jail. I’m not as opposed to the jail as they are. But, I’m glad they’re keeping the pressure on it.

Some Mondays really suck. And, holy crap do we all need a drink today! Fortunately, we have the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Come on in, order a pint, and let’s talk resistance.

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 other 196 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

Y’all can guess I don’t like Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and her being Sec. of the Interior would have been bad. But holy shit, her being passed over for Donald Trump, Jr.’s hunting buddy is pretty awful. Trump can pick whatever unqualified asshole he wants. On the other, there should probably be a better process. I mean Trump Jr. is supposed to be running the business. Still, there has to be a better selection process.

Luke 19:23-27
Why didn’t you put my money in the bank? On my return, I could have had the money together with interest.”

Then he said to some other servants standing there, “Take the money away from him and give it to the servant who earned ten times as much.”

But they said, “Sir, he already has ten times as much!”

The king replied, “Those who have something will be given more. But everything will be taken away from those who don’t have anything. Now bring me the enemies who didn’t want me to be their king. Kill them while I watch!”

Discuss.

Mental Floss: 21 things that turned 21 in 2016

Samantha Bee: Democrats in the Wilderness.

Adam Ruins Everything: The truth about the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit:

Conan: Keegan-Michael Key on playing Luther & meeting Obama.

Jimmy Kimmel: The YEAR in unnecessary censorship.

President Elect Donald “Serial-Philander-Sociopath-Racist” Drumpf:

• Stephen: Drumpf meets with Kanye.
• Olbermann: The grave danger of Drumpf’s intelligence failure
• Kimmel: Christmas edition of Drunk Donald Drumpf.
• Trevor: “Truth Drumpf” comes out after the election
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf backs out of press conference that would have addressed conflicts of interest
• Jonathan Mann: Brief the Electors
• Young Turks: Donald Drumpf “tortured” Mitt Romney.
• Conan: Drumpf calls Obama, dad to dad:

• Conan: Drumpf calls Obama about the inauguration
• Jimmy Dore: Drumpf meets titans of tech & it goes exactly as you’d think
• Thom: Is Drumpf a target for blackmail?
• Mark Fiore: From Russia with loveski.
• Sam Seder: Presnit-elect pathological personnel appointment.
• Good Grief: It’s a Stephen Colbert Christmas Special
• Joy-Ann Reid: Vladimir Putin directly involved in US election hacking.
• Stephen: Putin hacked the election because of a vendetta against Clinton
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Drumpf, America’s Dairyland edition
• James Corden: Kanye and Donald are “just friends.”
• Stephen: Congratulations to Russia on winning the cold war.
• Young Turks: Drumpf ordered to give up hotel. Will he?
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf’s cabinet of plutocrats and hardliners
• Trevor: Profiles in Tremendousness—Secretary of State edition.
• The pros and cons of Drumpf’s Cabinet picks
• David Pakman: Drumpf National Security Aide claimed Hillary spied on her by helicopter
• Young Turks: Who is Drumpf’s worst cabinet pick?
• Stephen interviews Donald Drumpf
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf camp threatening defecting electors
• Sam Seder: Monica Crowley isn’t just another unqualified Drumpf appointee…
• The Drumpf kids audition to lead ‘blind trust’
• A loyal Republican who won’t vote for Drumpf
• David Pakman: 1/3 of Republicans don’t realize Drumpf lost popular vote BIG LEAGUE
• Olbermann: Hamilton’s plan to keep Drumpf from becoming president.
• Young Turks: Will Ivanka be running the White House?
• Randy Rainbow interviews Donald Drumpf:

• Kimmel: Drumpf on a Stump.
• Sam Seder: Ivanka and her father.
• Stephen: Even Drumpf didn’t see this coming.

The dark history of gay conversion therapy.

Vsauce: Spinning.

2016: The year the world went crazy.

White House: West Wing Week.

Stephen and friends: It’s the end of the year as we know it:

The HOSTILE Transfer of Power:

• North Carolina Legislature try to curb incoming Governor’s power
• Sam Seder: N.Carolina Republicans lose Gov. election, quickly pass laws limiting new Gov.’s power
• Joy-Ann Reid: North Carolina GOP makes power grab after election loss of Governorship
• Young Turks: Republicans scramble to strip Governor of authority
• Pap and Thom: North Carolina GOP politicos ignore democracy

Liberal Viewer: FAUX News hates San Francisco? (Sanctuary city policy.)

Young Turks: Republicans are after your Social Security.

Three-D view of climate change gas.

Samantha Bee: Ms. Robot.

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

Councilmember Sawant’s Wells Fargo, disinvestment bill is pretty rad. The city shouldn’t undermine its own values and positions with how it spends its money. I like this a lot better than Seattle boycotting states or cities.

I go to West Seattle via bus quite frequently, and I never noticed any problem with the bus shelters Metro is removing (h/t). That shelter in particular has some very neat history on it. I always appreciated those plates. Hopefully they can at least go somewhere. Also, maybe my least favorite thing in Seattle is when it rains hard and too many people share too few bus shelters.

It’s free. It’s fun. And, no extreme vetting is involved! Please join us tonight for an evening of politics over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally.

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 other 195 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.

Congrats to The Sounders! There will be a parade tomorrow and while good on the Sounders, I just hope it doesn’t screw up traffic too much.

Isaiah 34:7
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Discuss.

Farron Cousins: Repealing ObamaCare could kill 36,000 people per year.

Kimmel: The Christmas Wall.

Slate: What dinosaurs really looked like.

PsychoSuperMom: If there’s a war on Christmas, Christmas is winning:

All-Wrong:

• Are the Alt-Right the new Nazis?
• Seth Meyers: A message to media normalizing the Alt-Right
• Stephen: Pizzagate is an alt-right fever dream.
• Full Frontal: Fake news, real consequences.
• Young Turks: Adult Swim cancels alt-right show

Stephen: Family meeting with Joe Biden.

White House: West Wing Week.

Samantha Bee: Eroding electoral confidence.

Mental Floss: 16 myths about blindness.

The Sexual Preditor, Sociopath, Racist President-Elect:

• Daily Show: Drumpf’s “thank-you” tour
• Late Show: How Time choose “Person of the Year”
• Young Turks: White supremacists super triggered by new Star Wars
• Michael Brooks: Was Drumpf’s call with Taiwan buffoonery or intentional provocation?
• Conan: More leaked calls between Donald Drumpf and Barack Obama:

• Conan: Donald Drumpf keeps calling Barack Obama.
• Farron Cousins: Drumpf picks climate change denier for EPA
• Four things you need to know about Drumpf EPA nominee, Scott Pruitt
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Drumpf’s Carrier deal.
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Drumpf on Desert Storm
• Thom: Trump on the couch with Dr. Justin Frank, MD
• Trevor: Donald Drumpf fakes a deal.
• Sam Seder with Rick Perlstein: Gen. Michael Flynn’s former coworker says he’s seriously unqualified to be National Security Advisor
• Samantha Bee: The big lie.
• Stephen: Nothing makes Drumpf happier than being angry.
• Olbermann: Let’s take a look at Drumpf’s cabinet of villains
• Sam Seder: Drumpf defends plutocratic cabinet to crowd of people who will likely lose everything they depend on.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Local union President responds to Donald Drumpf’s tweet attack
• Seth Meyers: A closer look at Donald Drumpf’s false claims & “foreign policy”
• Mark Fiore: Exclusive audio of Drumpf phone calls.
• Kimmel: Drunk Donald Drumpf, “I’m asking you!”
• Stephen: Trump’s cabinet selections are making us queasy
• Young Turks: Greedy Drumpf won’t give up “The Apprentice”
• Jonathan Mann and Ben Carson: Facts Don’t Matter.
• Sam Seder: Al Gore meets with Ivanka and Ivanka’s dad about climate change
• Trevor: President Elect Dumb-Fuck talks to Taiwan.

Stephen: Will Joe Biden run in 2020?

Young Turks: Ohio destroys reproductive rights.

Trevor: Making sense of the Electoral College:

Sam Seder: Corey Lewandowski appears on Hannity propaganda vehicle to announces victory in fake war on X-mas.

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

When we get a little closer to the start of the legislative session, I’ll write my regular what do you want post. But for the legislative Republicans, they’ve already decided what they want. From being the worst to leaving and making their own state. They could chose to not be assholes instead of restricting abortion access, destroying the environment, and trying to make their own shitty state East of the Cascades.

I’m going to write a few letters to various state and local officials (and maybe my member of Congress and Senators). Mostly it’s urging them to do as best they can to resist Trump, but also other things maybe. Here’s the first one. I wrote the following to my city council members (at large and the one who represents me) and Mayor Murray and City Attorney Holmes. Murray’s has 2nd person language in the executive order section, but otherwise it’s the same.

I was heartened when Mayor Murray reaffirmed his commitment last month to make Seattle a sanctuary city. I hope you’ll do everything you can going forward to make that a reality.

I’m asking specifically that you use your power to have the city not to assist in deportations. People’s immigration status is not their value to the city. This is a moral issue in and of itself and it’s also a test for future issues.

Donald Trump has already threatened to do even worse. From Muslim bans to national stop and frisk. If you give in on the sanctuary city front, it will make it easier for him to do these other things.

Thank you,

Carl Ballard
horsesass.org

I don’t actually care about a temporary blip in Boeing stock. But I do care if Trump is trying to punish someone for saying they like trade. So here we are. Trump claims to want more manufacturing in the United States but is apparently prepared to lie about one of America’s biggest manufacturers out of spite.

Come in from the cold this evening, warm your hands at the wood burning stove, order the beverage of your choice, and then join us for discussions and merrymaking at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

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 other 191 chapters of Living Liberally, including ninteen in Washington state, three in Oregon and one in Idaho. Find, or go out and start, a chapter near you.