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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.

Liberal Redneck: Are Liberals the real racists now? (Spoiler: no)

Matthew Cooke: The richest 12 people own more than half the world

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Voting is Vital ♬

Chris Hayes: “Cretins, flunkies and psychos”—the list of “uniquely bad candidates” on the ballot

Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Let’s Take His Name Off Of Here! ♬

Lawrence O’Donnell: Obama & other Dems make Трамп’s stupidity an issue in the campaign

Misadventures of The Worst U.S. President Ever:

• John D. Cundle: ♫ Трамп’s White House Cheesecake Factory ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Our Nobel Prize-less Prez ♬
• Jen Psaki: Трамп’s bad faith Alaska uproar exposed in record of GOP-backed ballot stacking
• Paula Poundstone: You sent your Treasury Secretary to Cheesecake Factory, Dotard?
• Tiny Hands Productions: This is peak political meme energy
• JoJoFromJerz: What is Трамп hiding?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Perv-Protecting Prez ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп comments on Nicki Minaj’s “beautiful ass,” Obama roasts Трамп & midterm shenanigans
• Brenna Perez: The Iran war is making “US” trillions
• Paula Poundstone: You’re sick to ask that, Dotard?
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ It’s A Reckoning! ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ This Land is Awesome, This Prez is Awful ♬
• Get High, Watch This: Трамп’s White House HALLOWEEN Trick or Treat party!!!
• The Resistance: ♫ Without a Doubt ♬
• Paula Poundstone: You praised RFK Jr.’s body, Dotard?
• Jon Stewart: Трамп gets roasted by Obama & transfixed by Nicki Minaj’s ass
• Chris Hayes breaks down Трамп’s “extremely telling” rally riff about gas prices
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ When Трамп Gets to Hell ♬
• Seth Meyers: Трамп unravels as Talarico & El-Sayed surge; Obama mocks MAGA meltdown over his joke
• Knotheadusc: ♫ Трамп Gets Heckled Because He Jives ♬
• Jonathan Jensen: ♫ Shove It Up Your Big Fat Ass ♬:

• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Blame it on Obama! (The Dotard Трамп Cheescake Factory song) ♬
• The God Show: The Dotard comes OUT!
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Netanyahu’s election results
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп tried to crush Cassidy Hutchinson. He failed
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Song To Cheer Trump Up a Little ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп lashes out at a reporter and hecklers take over his rallies
• Paula Poundstone: You said you were never on Epstein’s plane, Dotard?
• The Resistance: ♫ You Can’t make This SHIT Up! ♬
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Lady in Red ♬:

• John D. Cundle: ♫ Shove That Ballroom Up Your Ego ♬
• Tiny Hands Productions: The Internet is having a field day with these political memes
• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп’s bigotry backfires BIG time
• LegalEagle: Трамп met his match in court
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп gets heckled at his own rally, gifts us a GREAT moment & Don Jr’s oligarch hunting trip
• Paula Poundstone: You’re suing to block an election over a name, Dotard?
• Get High, Watch This: Трамп wants to cheat like hell in the midterms!!!
• Puppet Regime: US border policy has a new “Flava”
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Give and Let Lie ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Starving? Just Think About the Ballroom Instead! ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: The Most LEGENDARY Трамп rally heckler ever

The God Show: The MOST IMPORTANT video in US history

ONN: Should food cost more?

Tommy Campbell: Obama doubles down on Cheesecake Factory roast of The Dotard

Michael Kosta meets the activist fighting for America’s persecuted billionaires

The New York Times: How ICE arrests depleted a Haitian work force

JoJoFromJerz: Why voting isn’t enough—Here’s how we flip the House & Senate

Greasy Ghouls, Grotesque Galoots, Gullible Gudgeons and other GOP Goblins:

• Jordan Klepper: GOP gets ghoulish in last-ditch midterm fearmongering
• JoJoFromJerz: What JD Vance just told this woman WILL MAKE YOU PUKE!
• Tiny Hands Productions: The Internet is obsessed with these political memes
• John Di Domenico: Трамп says to hold your nose and VOTE for Ken Paxton NOT James Tala-Freak-o
• Paula Poundstone: Your own party is running from you, Dotard
• Jesse Welles: ♫ Whirlwind ♬:

• Desi Lydic FAUXsplains Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke at Трамп
• Jordan Klepper: Conservative media rallies behind The Cheesecake Factory after Obama serves up diss
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s ass obsession gets weirder, Musk targets Talarico, Obama sparks MAGA meltdown
• JoJoFromJerz: In the history of cults, MAGA is the dumbest! Here’s why…
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Трампler Youth? It Sounds SO Familiar ♬
• Jordan Klepper fingers the pulse—Red flags
• The Resistance: ♫ Calling All Deplorables! ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to Alina Habba’s corruption
• A Bird Named Douglas: There’s something strange about Pete Hegseth:

• John Oliver: The Republican Party & the far right
• Seth Meyers: GOP whines after Obama mocked Трамп’s White House makeover & Rogers flails on MAGA question
• JoJoFromJerz: Cheesecake Factory FREAKOUT
• LegalEagle: Трамп’s lawyer keeps breaking the law
• Steve Shives: If Republicans said the quiet parts loud about the midterms
• Jordan Klepper: Brent Taylor’s dick pics, Трамп’s ass obsession & Alaska’s dueling Dan Sullivans
• Paula Poundstone: Melanie did what you couldn’t, Dotard

Stella Magz: Wake up, America

Chris Hayes: Трамп can’t escape the hecklers

Lauren Mayer and Wanda Royse: ♫ Get Out & Vote ♬

The New York Times: Why Kansas ranchers are turning on Трамп

Christopher Titus: Watcha votin’ fer?

Desi Lydic: Are paid influencers influencing your midterm vote?

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

Election season is in full swing. Have you voted yet? If not, fill out your ballot and mail it today. If you don’t get it in the mail by today, it is best to drop it of in a nearby drop box. Let’s talk about it at this evening’s gathering of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub starting about 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.

LegalEagle: Трамп’s plan to deport Congresswoman Omar is legally absurd

The Felonious Fuck-up:

• Paula Poundstone: You’re mocking someone’s looks, Dotard?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп–Leaving Devastation AND a Slime Trail ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Pardons for Sale? Трамп’s Pay-to-Play Pardon Game ♬
• The Resistance: Take the Car Keys Away from Grandpa!
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard announces a MAGA dating site
• Paula Poundstone: You were waving to no one, Dotard?
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп & Hegseth are not telling how much damage to Navy base in Iran war
• Ari Melber: MAGA red melts into BLUE surge in TX, SC—Трамп spirals in “endangered” red areas
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Donald’s Dyeing Again! ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: All roads lead to Putin
• Paula Poundstone: You threatened a reporter, Dotard?
• The Resistance: Russia, Russia, Russia! Трамп, Putin & 30 Years of “Coincidences”
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Just Another Трамп Conspiracy ♬
• Steve Shives: Трамп threatens one thousand years of darkness if Republicans lose midterms
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп, A Massive Pain in the Past ♬
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Your House Be Falling Apart ♬
• Sandy and Richard Riccardi: ♫ Who Will Save Your Polls? ♬:

• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard endorses Netanyahu
• Paula Poundstone: You fired your press secretary for lying, Dotard?!?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Once Трамп’s Done Dying (He Seems to be Practicing) ♬
• Get High, Watch This: Трамп keeps forgetting stuff, like starting a war with Iran!!!
• SNL UK: President Трамп and Andy Burnham’s job swap
• Unsourced News: 60 Seconds—Трамп wants to beat China
• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп says he has “Very severe problems”. Yeah buddy, we fucking noticed!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ All the Glitters is NOT Golden ♬
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ What Does Vladimir Have on Him? ♬
• Jon Stewart: David Corn on Трамп’s man crush on Putin & “How Russia Won”
• Paula Poundstone: A record-low 31%, Dotard?
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard rips LeBron & praises Vivek’s hate
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Get that Ass Out of your Head! ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: The media is IGNORING Трамп’s obvious physical & cognitive decline
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s record-low approval rating, brags about D.C. golf course, Zacharia leaves WH
• John D. Cundle: ♫ November Smash 🎃 Трамп’s Blue Wave Nightmare ♬

Michael Kosta: Fayette County candidate gets piss drunk? Трамп drools over Sen. Jon Husted’s ass

Parody Project: ♫ The Voting Song! ♬:

America’s Most Deplorable:

• MockPolitrick: ♫ Fired In 5 Days?! The Truth About Katie Zachariah’s White House Exit ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: When do you disavow HIM?
• Seth Meyers: Трамп rants & raves, JD Vance hits rock bottom approval, GOP blames Biden for economy
• Ronnie Chieng: Трамп nixes Hegseth’s livestream execution & JD Vance unleashes new laugh
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Katie Zacharia ♬:

• ONN: Is Pete Hegseth’s bold pledge to ‘kill everyone’ by 2028 an unrealistic pipe dream?
• Jordan Klepper: Hello & goodbye Katie Zacharia, Трамп’s Press Secretary who lasted five whole days
• Robert Reich: What does lEon Musk want?
• JoJoFromJerz: Vivek Ramaswamy & JD Vance’s UNFORGIVABLE cruelty in Ohio
• Ross Childs: JD Vance Town Hall
• Grace Kuhlenschmidt: Meet the GOP operative who keeps Republicans in the dark about Трамп
• Randy Rainbow: ♫ Mitchcraft! ♬:

• Tiny Hands Productions: These memes are dragging politics with no mercy
• Unsourced News: 60 Seconds—Death livestream
• JoJoFromJerz: Little Marco Rubio’s complete surrender to The Dotard
• Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler plans to be appointed as Трамп’s next White House press secretary
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s brain glitches at SC rally, Vance & Ramaswamy spark fury over disgusting ad
• Lawrence O’Donnell: lEon Musk threatens Democrats in Congress saying, “Live by the sword, die by the sword”
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Jon Husted’s Ass ♬
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Rock Bottom Has a Basement ♬:

• Ronny Chieng: Трамп is hot for Tim Scott & Susan Collins side-eyes Troy Jackson’s second cousin
• Jen Psaki: New corruption scandal rocks Трамп just weeks before midterms
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s tracking down the worst of the worst ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: I’m STILL NOT backing down

Christopher Titus: You voting??

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

Ballots have dropped and voting has officially begun in Washington State. If you haven’t yet voted, fill out your ballot today, drop it of in a nearby drop box, and then swing by this evening’s gathering of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us out on the rear deck starting about 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.

LegalEagle: The Supreme Court is about to change EVERYTHING!

SNL Weekend Update: Mr. Wonderful on building an AI data center in Utah

The Putin-Loving, Hitler-Wanna-Be:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Denied Nobel Prize by Rigged Committee ♬
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп says he has “very severe problems.” One appears to be declining cognitive ability
• JoJoFromJerz: An attack on Democracy—Трамп orders investigation into Ilhan Omar
• Puppet Regime: Трамп strikes MASSIVE diesel deal with Russia
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп complains about Jimmy and throws a fit over not winning Nobel Peace Prize
• Robert Reich: Is THIS how Трамп goes out?
• Paula Poundstone: $5,000 to Vote for You, Dotard?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Putin Knows a Secret (About Трамп) ♬
• Tiny Hands Productions: These political memes are actually insane!
• Jesse Welles: ♫ Death By Firing Squad ♬:

• Paula Poundstone: You suck at ending wars, Dotard
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Putin’s Little Bitch ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The (Трамп?) Autopsy Report Song ♬
• J-L Cauvin: Shocker…Трамп supports Columbus & Indigenous Days!
• Christopher Titus: Трамп has gas
• Tiny Hands Productions: You won’t believe these political memes
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп is getting one thing right. If Republicans lose the midterms, they will blame him
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп is GREAT (at making life worse) ♬
• Paula Poundstone: Your Press Secretary “passed the bar” in China, Dotard?
• Shirley Șerban: ♫ What Does the Don Say? ♬
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Putin’s Puppet ♬
• Parody Project: ♫ Putin’s Puppet ♬:

• Rachel Maddow: Desperation creeps in as Трамп’s polls turn catastrophic
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп is laser focused on the midterms
• Paula Poundstone: Your secret donor list leaked, Dotard
• Unsourced News: 60 Seconds—Трамп’s super unintelligence
• Puppet Regime: Russia-Ukraine ceasefire posted (by Трамп)
• Tiny Hands Productions: The best over-the-top political memes
• mazlinithegreat: ♫ Трамп’s Midterm Anthem 2026 ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ If Трамп WAS Sent by God… ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп shares AI tiger video after REAL fatal incident sparks outrage!
• Paula Poundstone: No Nobel again, Dotard?

LegalEagle: Can the state kill you twice?

Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Old Town Vote ♬

The Red Hat Dunce Kleptocracy:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Sad State of Трамп Rallies ♬
• Sandy and Richard Riccardi: ♫ The Katie Zacharia Song ♬
• Jen Psaki: Oh, Katie!
• Stella Magz: Katie Zacharia—That was quick!!!
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ I’m a Mother F! ♬
• Unsourced News: 60 Seconds—That weird lady back there
• ONN: Will Трамп running for midterm President help down-ballot Republicans?
• SNL Weekend Update: Трамп doesn’t win Nobel Peace Prize, Hegseth’s new War Department logo
• JoJoFromJerz: Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Greek scandal is getting worse by the day
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ Kimberly, Kimberly ♬
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Dark-Souled Scum ♬

• J-L Cauvin: Трамп Jr reacts to Kim Guilfoyle scandal
• The Resistance: ♫ Corruption ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s new Press Secretary has disastrous first day
• Rachel Maddow: Deadbeat senator gets public shaming as Republican panic deepens
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s “Posse Idiotus” ♬
• Robert Reich: Republicans don’t even know what “America First” means
• Stella Magz: I’m back and Kimberly Guilfoyle is gone…
• JoJoFromJerz: Megyn Kelly just said something so repulsive! This is my response…
• Tiny Hands Productions: This is what political humor looks like right now!
• Randy Rainbow: ♫ The RFK Jr. Lament ♬:

• SNL: Hegseth USS Lincoln
• Tiny Hands Productions: The Internet is eating up these political jokes
• Jimmy Kimmel: The White House is ad at Jimmy AGAIN, Трамп’s Press Secretary mess & FAUX News betrays him
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Every Трамп White House press secretary has lied on their very first day at the podium
• JoJoFromJerz: Katie Zacharia’s DISASTROUS White House debut
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ I Can Lurk Better Than You ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard fires Katie Zacharia
• Hitler Rants Parodies: Hitler is informed Трамп has fired his new Press Secretary after just five days
• Tommy Campbell: Трамп’s new Press Secretary mocked over disastrous debut and lawyer claims
• Unsourced News: 60 Seconds—Katie Zacharia’s last interview
• JoJoFromJerz: The ultra-rich vs. the rest of us
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Let’s Publicly Execute Pete! ♬
• Jonathan Pie: American morality

The Resistance: ♫ We Can’t Agree to Disagree ♬

John Oliver: Generic drugs

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

Early voting begins later this week. And you still have time to register or update your voter registration. And while you have elections and voting and stuff on your mind, plan a trip to this evening’s meeting of the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. We have much to discuss….

We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us out on the rear deck starting about 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.