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By a 5-4 vote yesterday afternoon, the King County Council voted to adopt a Metro funding plan that would implement the first round of scheduled cuts in September, but would defer adopting further cuts in the hope that increased sales tax revenues, higher fares, transfers from capital funds, and additional savings could close the gap. King County Executive Dow Constantine immediately vetoed the plan:

“We need a reliable way to pay for bus service – but until then, we shouldn’t spend money we don’t have, we shouldn’t use one-time money to pay ongoing expenses, and decisions to save or cut service should be based on objective criteria and data, not on politics,” said Executive Constantine. “This ordinance falls short on all counts. I must respectfully veto this legislation, and ask that the Council keep working on a solution that is responsible and sustainable.”

Council member Rod Dembowski spearheaded the plan along with the four suburban Republicans, and no doubt his intentions are pure. His objective is to avoid unnecessary pain. The problem is, without substantial additional revenue, much of the pain will be unavoidable. And by putting off the decision as long as possible, we risk lulling voters and Metro riders into a state of complacency.

The anti-Prop 1 folks like to promote this meme that new revenue is unnecessary—that if Metro just tightens its belt a bit, everything will be okay. For example, yesterday the Seattle Times editorial board urged Metro to “begin the hard work of reforming the agency,” once again ignoring the fact that in response to collapsing revenue and a state performance audit, Metro has implemented substantial reforms that achieved hundreds of millions of dollars in long term cost savings.

The Demobowski plan, unfortunately, just feeds into this fiction that Metro has a spending problem, not a revenue one.

The other Democrats on the council proposed an alternative plan that would have adopted the proposed cuts, phased in over the next year and a half or so, but would have also given Constantine the flexibility to delay cuts if revenues rebound or cost savings materialize. That seems like a more responsible approach to long term planning, and a more realistic presentation to the public of what most likely lies in store.

Ostensibly small government representative Jay Rodne is still in favor of the state being able to put a needle into someone’s arm and put enough poison in them to take their life. You know, small government. Smallity small small. He’s angry enough to have a press release. Sorry this is a bit old.

Gov. Jay Inslee today announced he was suspending the death penalty in Washington state for as long as he is in office. In the wake of this announcement, Rep. Jay Rodne, R-Snoqualmie and lead Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement:

There has to be a more effective way of saying “cruel and lacking any political power” than “lead Republican on the House Judiciary Committee” but I don’t know what it is. Maybe just “powerless asshole.”

“The governor’s decision is a distraction from the issues that people care about the most. It also seems very political – at the expense of victims of violent crimes and their families. This must be a difficult day for these families as they are confronted with the reality that the governor cares more about a few convicted killers than justice for their loved ones. It’s unfortunate and prolongs the closure they deserve.”

It’s a distraction to even talk about it says the press release about it. And you know, I haven’t seen any polling on Washington and the death penalty, but I’m guessing the political thing to do would have been keeping it.

Also, what kind of a dickbag can write “the governor cares more about a few convicted killers than justice for their loved ones”? Seriously, is Jay Inslee making sure that victims of crimes are locked up for life? Because that’s what he’s doing with the killers. Unlike Representative Rodne, I won’t pretend to speak for all victims of crime or pretend they’re a monolith. However they feel about Inslee’s decision is the right way for them to feel. But to pretend that the state isn’t doing anything for them because the state hasn’t killed their killers is just so spectacularly dishonest, that I don’t know what to do with it.

Radical reality-denying rightist Congressman Steve “Never Heard of Anyone Getting Pregnant by Statutory Rape” King (R-IA-4) was recently on a call-in talk show and had this conversation:

CALLER: When I see the First Lady and the beautiful girls going off to the Bahamas waving goodbye to us, it’s really hard to stomach. When we’re tightening our belts, either all of us should do it or none of us should do it. This, I am pretty tolerant, I always have been, I usually shut my mouth. This is not acceptable.

KING: Carla, you’re on point and on the mark all the way through. […] You’re right on the president. He needs to show some austerity himself. Instead he wanted to tell America how bad it was going to be. […] We’ve got the president doing these things. He sent the daughters to spring break in Mexico a year ago. That was at our expense, too. And now to the Bahamas at one of the most expensive places there. That is the wrong image to be coming out of the White House.

A couple of corrections for the underformed nutburger of a Congressman. First, Obama did not “send his daughters to spring break in Mexico.” One daughter (Malia) was allowed to…

…join a school trip to Oaxaca [, Mexico], where students volunteered at an orphanage, visited archaeological sites and sipped vanilla milkshakes on the honey-colored town plaza.

The school has done such trips for years.

Second, the Obamas pay for their own vacations and school field trips. The government pays for security, as it should. And notice that King isn’t complaining about that—for good reason. Imagine the PR disaster he would endure should any member of the First Family get hurt.

King believes Obama “needs to show some austerity himself” because he was telling “America how bad it was going to be.” Obama has pointed out how the sequestration cuts will hurt Americans, but so have a bunch of Republicans Congresscritters—you know, the the ones whining about losing tax payer-funded economic subsidies to their districts.

How odd that King’s calls for Obama to show austerity.

Obama makes a fair amount of money. He is wealthier than most Americans. Oh…and he is the leader of the free fucking world. He certainly has the money (and credit line) to allow his child to go on a school trip to Mexico, or to send his family on the occasional vacation, like the trip to the Bahamas.

So what’s gotten up Rep. King’s ass that makes him think that the President shouldn’t use his own money how he wants to use it? Isn’t that the American way?

You know who would agree with King that Obama should renounce the trappings of wealth and live the life of a commoner?

Karl Marx.

Once again, I call upon the major newspapers of this country to investigate these members of Congress to find out if they are pro-America or FUCKING SOCIALISTS!

[In a fit of nostalgia (and laziness), I’m marking my remaining days here on HA by posting links to some of my favorite and most influential posts. If you have favorites you’d like to see, please let me know.]

04/25/2008: Goldy’s Adventures in Muniland

I crashed the Municipal League’s 2008 Civic Awards last night at the Olympic Sculpture Park, where my friend and colleague David Postman was being honored for “Governmental News Reporting of the Year.” Knowing that Postman’s bosses at the Seattle Times had forbade him from accepting the award in person so as not to compromise his impartiality—and unencumbered by these (or any) ethical burdens of my own—I realized that there must be an unused name tag at the registration table with at least half my name on it… and sure enough I managed to sign in as Postman, no questions asked.

His “Honoree” name tag firmly pinned to my lapel and a surfeit of free drink tickets in hand, I strolled into the PACCAR Pavilion determined to do Postman proud by mingling with our city’s power elite on his behalf. As it turned out, I would need the drink tickets.

I don’t do nearly enough straight satire here on HA, but this was certainly one of my best. Read the whole thing.

When I see bad, or for that matter good, polls I can’t be too worked up. Of course I prefer the Democrat up, and up by a lot. And of course I’d prefer the generic ballot look better. But I’m not staring into the abyss, because the Democrats aren’t in the same place as the Mariners.

Believe me, as a Mariners fan, I’ve slogged through some terrible seasons without being able to change anything. A few years ago at the end of a bear of a season when Seattle and Texas were long eliminated, I was sitting in the first row of an outfield seat. Right in front of me, a Mariner’s popup came near the warning track, and the Ranger’s right fielder went into a dive for the ball. “I got it, I got it!” I yelled, and the Ranger dropped the ball. While I like to think I made him drop it, the truth is he probably just bobbled it because he was an AAA call up without much Major League experience. That’s the closest I’ve come to changing anything on the field.

But it’s often said that politics isn’t a spectator sport. And this year as every year, I’m not going to just sit and watch. I’ve worked the phones, donated, and knocked on doors for candidates I believe in, and will continue through November.

And that’s where the next few months for the D’s can be a lot better than the next few months for the M’s. There are enough fine candidates that we can all make a difference. I don’t know what the polls show for DelBene, but I’ll be making calls and knocking on doors for her. Same with Patty Murray (the poll Goldy cited earlier aside). Those of you who live south of here can do the same for Heck.

If you aren’t inspired by those people, there are plenty of state and local races and initiative campaigns. If you don’t like to talk to strangers about politics, they can all use money. They can all use letters to the editor. They can all use you mentioning them on Facebook and Twitter. They can all use you talking to friends and putting up yard signs. All of those things will change the facts, and matter more than what you see in polls.

As a follow-up to Goldy’s post below, there’s already a group organizing an initiative for Washington. It’s called Sensible Washington and they expect to release the final wording of their initiative and begin signature gathering by March 1. Their initiative is not expected to specify the state liquor stores as the distributors, but will only legalize possession for adults. The state would then be on the hook for setting up regulations for where and how it can be sold.

One of the concerns of legalization advocates (both Goldy and I share this concern) is that there won’t be enough money to collect the necessary signatures. As the top post at Sensible Washington points out, PayPal has a history of freezing the accounts of drug law reform groups, and banks won’t work with them. I’d be curious to know how much of this results from archaic rules and misconceptions about drug law reform, and how much comes from potential crackdowns from the federal government. As for Paypal, one clue might be that one of its founders considers the era of alcohol prohibition as the last great era of American politics (I guess that makes him a libertarian).

So for now, they’re taking mail-in donations before a volunteer army of signature gatherers hit the ground across the state to put this initiative on the ballot. There’s certainly enthusiasm for drug law reform right now, but no one is really sure whether it will be enough to qualify. I guess we’re about to find out.

UPDATE (Goldy):
As an followup to Lee’s followup, Sensible Washington’s account of their difficulties in securing credit card processing is worth a read. On the one hand, if millionaire investment banker Michael Dunmire wants an initiative on the ballot, he just writes Tim Eyman a check; on the other hand, if a group of grassroots activists wants to raise money online from small contributors, the banks won’t give them a merchant account, out of fear of I don’t know what.

So much for “direct democracy.”

That said, I emailed the folks at Sensible Washington earlier today to suggest that they set up an account with ActBlue, the same progressive online fundraising site through which we collectively raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Darcy Burner. ActBlue is now set up to handle state legislative and initiative campaigns in Washington state, in addition to federal races, a feature that R-71 made good use of last year.

The 520 bridge replacement project is more than another transportation project.

It is an opportunity to build healthy places to live, work, and play that our region won’t see again for at least another half century.

It is an opportunity to be good stewards of the environment and to address climate change.

It is an opportunity for our many local communities to come together and act as a region.

It is an opportunity for us to determine what kind of city we want and the quality of life of our neighborhoods.

It is an opportunity for our state to offer a vision of transportation for the 21^st Century and not just building roads like its 1959.

Finally it is again an opportunity to move our transportation system forward.

It will take leadership to bring together all the many points of view on how to best move forward on transportation. But we have done it before.

During my time as Chair of the House Transportation Committee, working with my Republican and Democratic counterparts in both the House and the Senate, we passed fourteen and half cents in gas taxes by bringing road and transit advocates from the east and west side together.

(I point out the fact that I worked to pass the largest financing package for roads in our state’s history only to preempt the pigeonholing of my perspective here as that of another Seattle Democrat transit advocate.)

It will take leadership from the environmental community to get transit right. Transportation remains the single largest contributor to global warming in Washington State – over half our greenhouse emissions come from vehicles. The 520 bridge project offers a real opportunity to build a transportation structure of the future that contributes to the solution.

Neither the legislation authorizing the new 520 bridge, nor any of the current designs, integrate transit into the design or planning of the project. Nor is there any financing mechanism for new transit in the corridor, particularly for high capacity transit. The name alone — “The 520 Bridge and HOV Replacement Project” – is proof that again we are building a road to move cars, and not a transportation corridor to move people and goods. The current plan amounts to placing existing buses onto new HOV lanes to share with cars. Glaringly, it lacks a streamlined connection for transit riders between the north/south transit corridor at new Sound Transit Station at Montlake and any future transit riders moving east/west from the new 520.

It will take leadership from the City to bring neighborhoods that currently disagree amongst themselves together. Far more people live and work near the 520 bridges then the Viaduct. The City should use the model it developed during the creation of urban villages to approach the project in a comprehensive manner. It should put the Departments of Planning, Neighborhoods, and Transportation on the ground and bring together neighborhoods that are currently divided, creating an all-neighborhoods comprehensive mitigation and transportation plan. It is impossible for the Seattle legislators to support a city position when one is lacking.

It will take leadership on the part of the county to bring urban and suburban interests together. The county with the new leadership of Dow Constantine from Seattle and Fred Jarrett from the east side of Lake Washington is uniquely positioned to bring both sides of the lake together and act as a region. The state should consider allowing the County to assume all coordination for planning and financing for a new 520 and I-90 corridor transportation authority.

It will take leadership in the Legislature to address the fact that the current financial plan is unattainable. During the negotiations to pass the nine-and-a-half-cent gas tax east of the lake, legislators insisted on moving $1.5 billion out of 520 and applying it to I-405. Now we have a shortfall. The solution is to toll I-90 in addition to 520, and committing toll revenues to the construction, maintenance and operations of the bridge and of transit.

If we fail to come together as a region on a project that is crucial to our economic future, I believe we will destroy the coalition that moved our transportation system forward and return again to the defeats we suffered in years past.

We have succeeded in the past and we can do it again. Let’s capitalize on the many unique opportunities we face. Let’s move our transportation system forward.

— Sen. Ed Murray

Gov. Gregoire has a diary up at Daily Kos right now. Here’s a slice:

Why are they attacking me so early? Because they know there is something happening in our country – people are hungry for a new direction, away from the Bush Administration.

They are so aware of this fact that my opponent filed as a member of the “GOP Party,” hiding the fact that he is a Republican. And what is on my opponent’s website? The word “Change” in the largest font you have ever seen.

We all know that voters are desperate for change in our nation, ready to turn around the failed policies of the Bush Administration. But voters are smart. They know the kind of change they are looking for.

Republican Dino Rossi can spend millions on attacks, pretend he isn’t a Republican and even give lip service to change, but he can’t hide his George Bush record.

Remember all those funny acronyms from last fall’s mainstream media coverage of the Roads and Transit campaign? YOE, for year of expenditure was a favorite of many of Seattle’s newspaper writers and columnists. They were fixated (examples here, here, and here) on slapping the Roads and Transit plan with as high a price tag as they could by including inflation into the total price tag of the plan, not just the price tag in current year dollars. By doing so, they held the Roads and Transit plan to a standard never before seen for a tax measure or capital construction program in our region.

Yesterday Dino Rossi released his transportation fantasy and said it would cost $15.5 billion in 2007 dollars. Keep in mind, that’s in last year’s dollars.

I have done a little bit of “back of the envelope” math (you know the kind that Rossi’s Republican, anti-light rail pals did when they fed the media their scary cost numbers on Prop 1) and the results I get are staggering. Rossi’s $15.5 billion plan, when you account for 4 percent annual inflation over a 30 year construction schedule, suddenly balloons to $50 billion dollars. And this doesn’t even include the interest on the bonds that would be needed to finance all of Rossi’s made up project cost estimates. So we would have to add all of the interest payments to the $50 billion number to get the true cost, well at least according to our friends in the “traditional media.”

You can do the math yourself with this handy little inflation calculator.

UPDATE [Lee]: This part from a post by Martin at the Seattle Transit Blog made me laugh:

So I looked to Dino Rossi’s Transportation Plan with hope and anticipation. I shouldn’t have. This document was first sent to me by a Gregoire operative; when your own campaign literature is being gleefully distributed by the other side, that’s a bad sign.

John D. Cundle: ♫ Democracy (A Warning) ♬

Vox: The messy truth about free speech

Reign of “King” Felon Von Shitzonus:

• Stephen: Where is South Carerdddd? Date night with Kash Patel
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard wants an “American Godzilla”
• Dark Brandon: Is Трамп a low IQ President?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Fails ANOTHER Mental Exam! ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп rambles to our troops in Japan & Jimmy challenges him to a televised IQ test vs Crockett & AOC
• ScaredKetchup: Трамп Show Halloween Spooktacular
• Lauren Mayer and Scott Grinthal: ♫ Tearing Down The House ♬
• Stella Magz: Трамп’s Time Magazine cover…Take 2
• Desi Lydic:
• Christopher Titus: The White man’s house:

• LegalEagle: Can the President just demolish the White House?!?
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ What shall we do with our drunken leader? ♬
• Stephen: Трамп is crowned the Burger King of South Korea & fear of windmills
• Desi Lydic: Трамп puppy-dogs Japan’s new PM and rants about magnets to U.S. troops
• ScaredKetchup: Classic Hollywood roasts Трамп and it gets wild—Club dead
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard hates Canada
• Seth Meyers: Трамп says he’d “love to” run for unconstitutional 3rd term as polls hit “new lows”
• Jon Stewart: Трамп whines he’s “unappreciated” & self-soothes with ballroom and third-term talk
• Stephen: Трамп’s new military target—You & tariffs send food prices sky high
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп orders tests of nukes, Halloween at the White House & Ted Cruz vs Marjorie Taylor Greene
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: The Dotard’s MRI
• Steve Shives: About Трамп’s ballroom
• LegalEagle: So, Трамп’s lawyer keeps txting me…
• Seth Meyers: Трамп dances in Malaysia and gets a crown in South Korea amid shutdown pain at home
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп demolishes east wing of White House, reveals he had an MRI & Jimmy issues him an IQ challenge
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Brother Wants a Third Term ♬:

• Stephen: Трамп in Asia—Showmanship, but no Kim & signing the TikTok deal & drilling Alaska
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Drama Queen ♬
• Desi Lydic: Трамп gets a golden crown in South Korea while SNAP cutoff causes panic in U.S.
• JoJoFromJerz: Don’t take medical advice from the “drink bleach” guy
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ On and Off the Course, Трамп Lies About his Strokes ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard had an MRI
• LegalEagle: Трамп “sues” himself, wins, and you have to pay for it!
• Seth Meyers: Трамп rants about catapults, calls Schumer criticism “almost treasonous”
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп continues Asia-Palooza tour & Rep. Jasmine Crockett accepts his IQ test challenge
• ScaredKetchup: 5 dead Presidents ROAST The Dotard Трамп—Club Dead
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ It’s Time Трамп was Demolished and Replaced ♬

Liberal Redneck: Does the American electoral system favor Democrats or Republicans?

And Other Sycophant And Narcissists:

• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Speaker of the House ♬
• The Late Show: MAGA singles find it hard to date in D.C.
• LegalEagle: Five words to fix ICE
• Matthew Cooke: Why are the Nazis back?!?:

• Ross Childs: Did you hear that?
• Andy Hayes: Conservatives guide to New York
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Katie Miller Song ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ The Trade Warp (Hoekstra’s Horror Show) ♬
• Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: Top 10 tips for being a conservative Christian
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп is using the government shutdown to shut down the Epstein files
• Jordan Klepper: Meet Lawrence Jones—FAUX News’s free-thinking (totally MAGA) Libertarian
• and mayhem ensued: Трамп I Rump and the Epstein files:

• Caitlin Speaks: The January 6 “patriots” who keep getting arrested
• JoJoFromJerz: MAGA fucked around, but we’re ALL finding out
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s “Epstein Memorial Ballroom” ♬

John D. Cundle: ♫ The Scandal-Spangled Banner ♬

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

Feeling oppressed by our political system? Feeling helpless to make change? Empower yourself…vote! Find that ballot swimming in the sea of papers on the table, fill it out and drop it off. Then stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally to plot the revolution…or maybe to just relax over conversations and a drink.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us either in the back room or out on the back patio. We start at 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

Stella Magz: American cattle farmers are having a cow….

The Scary Scary Hardest Left Militant Antifa Horde Riots:

• The Resistance: ♫ The Big, Scary Radical Left Agenda ♬
• Champnella: Federal ICE agents shooting peacefully protesting pastors in the head
• Jonathan Mann: ♫ Arc de Трамп—No Kings Day ♬
• Robert Reich: Трамп has awakened America’s sleeping giant
• Jon Stewart: “No Kings” protests defy GOP expectations & Jon gives Трамп a Royal Inspection
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Signs (No Kings rally protest signs song) ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Feeble Трамп Emasculated by “No Kings” Turnout ♬
• ScaredKetchup: ♫ Frogs Together Still ♬
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Tips From Aunty Tifa ♬
• Rachel Maddow: “No Kings” protests send message to Трамп from EVERY state in the nation
• Liberal Redneck: The Dotard Трамп (still) hates rural America
• Marsh Family: ♫ Weird Toys ♬:

• Stephen: 7M attend peaceful “No Kings” rallies & Трамп dumps on Times Square & George Santos is a free man
• John D. Cundle: ♫ No Thrones, No Crowns, No Kings — and No Clowns! ♬
• Pawlitics by Phil: The best signs from the No Kings rally
• Seth Meyers: Massive “No Kings” protests defy Трамп; Трамп threatens to use Insurrection Act

Dark Brandon: Remember who we are

Reign of “King” Diarrhea Von Shitzonus:

• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s shocking White House demolition & DOJ payout; GOP insists he’s “not a king”
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: Kakistocracy
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard commutes Diddy’s sentence
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ We’re Gonna Get a Ballroom! Whoo hoo!!! ♬
• Jen Psaki: Трамп to test courage of American voters with apparent intimidation tactics at the polls
• The Resistance: How To Spot A Fascist
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Does History and the Facts Show That Tariffs Make America “Rich as Hell”? ♬
• Stephen: White House blocks views of East Wing demolition & beef price chaos & the Cobots are coming
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ MAGA Foreign Policy ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп, The “Anal Stage” Airman ♬
• Stephen: How low can The Dotard Трамп go? A dubious peace prize & failing the ICE fitness test
• Political Primate: When law and order means just order—An American tragedy
• The Late Show: ♫ Ballroom Grift ♬:

• Jen Psaki: Flimsiness of cases against people Трамп hates shows what’s really going on
• Michael Kosta: Трамп wrecks White House & new GOP Nazi group chat drops
• JoJoFromJerz: There is no fucking line
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Shitting on America ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Another Day, Another Трамп Drama ♬
• Seth Meyers: Officials urge Трамп to stop White House demolition amid shocking ballroom project
• Ross Childs: JD Vance got shelled!!!
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard brags about destroying the White House
• Brenna Perez: GRIFTOCRACY—Трамп Demands $230 Million From HIS DOJ
• Shirley Șerban: ♫ Conman! ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Ronald Reagan’s Ghost Warns America, “Tariffs Don’t Make You Great” ♬
• Get High, Watch This: The Felon Von Shitzenpantz demolishes the White House!!! But it’s for a ballroom, so…
• Jen Psaki: The Dotard’s demolition derby
• Christopher Titus: President Poop Plane:

• Ari Melber: Worst ethics scandal ever—Felon Трамп hits new low with cash demand grift amid WH destruction
• Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler is informed the East Wing of the White House has been demolished
• LegalEagle: This case is SHIT!
• Chris Hayes: Tourists BALK at White House demo as Трамп eyes ballroom tribute… to himself?
• JoJoFromJerz: Remembered for what he ruined
• Stephen: First Lady Melania Трамп is getting more comfortable in the spotlight
• The Resistance: ♫ Wrecking Ball (Трамп Edition) ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Cry Me to the Moon (Tariffs, Tantrums & Trade) ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Flinging Poo Like a Flying Monkey ♬
• ScaredKetchup: Ronald Reagan roasts Трамп from the grave
• Tommy Campbell: Gavin Newsom trolls Трамп With $11 insulin & Eric Трамп tries to cash in
• Jen Psaki: Трамп becomes a parody of himself as corruption and bad taste become hallmarks of his regime

Robert Reich: Is your grocery store ripping you off?

The Total (Epstein) Shutshow:

• Brenna Perez: CALL IT OUT—It’s not “budgetary twister,” it’s ILLEGAL
• Brenna Perez: Follow-up…they coulda paid this the whole time. Military now funded by anonymous private interests.
• Steve Shives: Voter’s remorse helpline—Government shutdown edition:

• LegalEagle: Can Трамп really pay the troops? (Spoiler—no)
• Michael Kosta: The Felon Von Shitzenpantz extorts DOJ for $230M while government workers scramble to make ends meet

Jonathan Mann: ♫ CEOs Are Kings ♬

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Miscellaneous MAGA Snowflakes and Whiners:

• Stella Magz: Someone please take Republican’s phones away….
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Mike Johnson, Shameless Shill ♬
• Ross Childs: JD Vance and the young Repulicans
• Dark Brandon: Трамп is consistently disappointing MAGA
• The Late Show: The Santosshank Redemption
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Troll of the Outrage ♬
• SNL Weekend Update: Трамп frees George Santos, Young Republican group chat leaks
• Caitlin Speaks: Mike Johnson’s wife exposed—The dark side of MAGA “family values”
• The Late Show: ♫ ICE ICE Baby ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Female Fascists’ Dream Date, Stephen Miller ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: MAGA Mike is complicit
• The Late Show: Not See—The app that cleans up your fascist-loving messages
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Advice for Guys Listening to Pete Hegseth ♬
• Stephen: The White House is being demolished & the GOP’s “Nazi streak” continues & cops tackle giant penis

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

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

Election season is upon us. I’m told that some campaigns receive returned ballot updates and will stop sending you campaign materials after you vote. If that isn’t an incentive to vote right now, nothing is. So fill out that ballot right now, drop it off in a drop box, and then join us this evening as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together for conversation over drinks.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us either in the back room or out on the back patio. We start at 8:00pm.

Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.

Steve Shives: One Nobel Peace Prize, please!

Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ You Know Who is Hating No Kings? ♬

John D. Cundle: ♫ No Kings—Because We Love America—Don’t Miss Your Shot ♬

Reign of The Felonious Dick-Tater-Tot-in-Chief:

• Stephen: The worst photo of all “Time” & GOP To blame for airport chaos & No Kings protests return
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ “Donnie Darkness” The Pam Bondi Song ♬
• Stella Maga: Трамп knocking on heaven’s door…no answer
• John D. Cundle: ♫ The Cover Heard ’Round the World ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп cashing in bigly, GOP calls No Kings protest the “hate America” rally & RFK Junior Jr. is back
• Rachel Maddow: Doors slam on a weak Трамп as PUSHBACK hardens at every level
• ScaredKetchup: Why Трамп hates his Time Magazine cover
• Jonathan Mann: ♫ President Grift ♬:

• LegalEagle: Illegal troops deployed to Blue states
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Rubbing it In for a Sore Loser ♬
• Stephen: Трамп’s Cinderella ballroom & why are Republicans so obsessed with Nazis?
• The Late Show: The real Chicago “chaos” video
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп celebrates ceasefire, blames Biden for January 6th & RFK claims circumcision linked to Autism
• Chris Hayes: The no pile up—MAGA overreach REJECTED by airports, colleges, jurors
• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп first. America LAST.
• The Late Show: How to avoid Трамп’s aggressive handshakes
• Stella Magz: Трамп’s Time Magazine cover: Make America Gobble Again…
• Get High, Watch This:Трамп watches a new TV show… Live from Portland!!!
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп can’t stop blaming and bragging, FAUX News has a grip on him & we see his “hellhole” cities
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Man He Be Rotten ♬:

• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard greets the released Israeli hostages
• Stephen: A doozy of a week & no Nobel prize & Трамп’s war on America & disease experts fired
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп lashes out over bad Time Magazine photo, MAGA minions push for Nobel Prize & Eric’s new book
• SNL Weekend Update: Трамп loses Nobel Peace Prize & RFK Jr.’s obsession with autism continues
• The Late Show: The McDonald Трамп Feed Bag
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ No Трамп. No Kings! ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ No Kings—The People vs. The Pretender (United We Stood) ♬
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: Der Ballon

The Resistance: ♫ We Dissent—A Modern Protest Anthem for No Kings Day ♬

John Oliver: Bari Weiss

Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Frogs Together Strong! ♬:

JoJoFromJerz: Get out there! NO KINGS

Christopher Titus: Who hates America? NO KINGS!!!

More Worst of the Worst:

• Brenna Perez: Leaked chat confirms Republicans are losers
• Stephen: ♫ Watching Трамп eat McDonald’s & racist Young Republicans & why Mike Johnson won’t seat Rep. Grijalva ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard frees George Santos
• Knotheadusc: ♫ Every Day They Write A Book ♬
• Chris Hayes: Kids telling edgy jokes? Shredding Vance’s defense of racist GOP group chat
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Mean Girl (the Pam Bondi song) ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Tom Homan, Grab Your Bag of Cash! ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Cold as ICE (The Deportation Anthem) by The Anti-Fascist Frog Rock Band ♬
• The Resistance: ♫ The Littlest Tyrant ♬
• Knotheadusc: ♫ Bad Knack for Flubbin’ Truth ♬:

• Stella Magz: Politico confirms what we already knew about Young Republicans….
• JoJoFromJerz: Karoline Leavitt has some damn nerve
• SNL: Pam Bondi hearing
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Dotard Трамп and His Kiss-Ass Cowboys ♬
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Did Трамп “czar” Tom Homan take $50,000 from the FBI? JD Vance’s answer is, ‘I don’t know’
• History Of Rock N’ Roll Channel: Rod Serling says the problem isn’t only The Dotard, it’s the uneducated people who voted for him
• Champnella: Mike Johnson re: No Kings sounds a lot like George Wallace re: civil rights movement
• Liberal Redneck: SHOCK and DISBELIEF at the revelation that Young Republicans might be bad people
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Stephen Miller, Nosferatu, and Creeping Death ♬
• Knotheadusc: ♫ Bad Speaker– Mike Johnson edition… ♬
• Caitlin Speaks: The Attorney General who might need a lawyer herself

Hot Garbage Productions: ♫ The Ballad of the Portland Frog Brigade ♬

Brenna Perez: Portland frogs—The joy (and power) of tactical frivolity

Matthew Cooke: Is ANTIFAscism really a violent, extremist movement?:

John D. Cundle: ♫ No Kings—Liberty Street ♬

The Late Show: ♫ A Message From The Frog Resistance ♬

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

• Your ballot was mailed out this week. Get your ballot postmarked or dropped off by November 4.
• Find your No Kings protest here. Tell me your favorite sign from past events in the comments.
• We really should stop building new roads until we get up to date on maintenance of existing ones.
• This article going through Lunarium’s tea list is a delight, even as a wet sider who has never been to Lunarium.
• I appreciate AG Brown’s proposed law to protect immigrant workers, here’s hoping the legislature picks it up in the next season.