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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.

Stephen: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis”

John Oliver: Structured settlements & factoring companies

New York Times: Why some voters are turning on Трамп

Reign of The Felon Von ShitzOnUs:

• John D. Cundle: ♫ Трамп’s 37% “Victory Waltz” ♬
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Lullabye ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard completely destroys Lauren Boebert
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Breaking News—Трамп and U.S. in Steep Decline! ♬
• Paula Poundstone: Just leave, Dotard
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп wages war on Republicans & makes his bank account great again, and farewell to Colbert
• The Other Brother: ♫ Трамп’s Slush Fund ♬
• Parody Project: ♫ Extreme Deceiver ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Mar-a-Lago Construction Blues—Funding The Golden Ballroom Gone Wrong ♬
• LegalEagle: My blood is boiling (about that “settlement”)
• JoJoFromJerz: They are robbing us!
• Knotheadusc: ♫ 8647 in 26 ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ You Don’t Have The Cards ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ 8647 = Impeach—The Bedminster Fairway Protest Song ♬
• Paula Poundstone: Bunker, bunker, bunker!
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Трамп knows he’s losing his “slush fund” and his ballroom
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard calls butterflies gay
• Ronny Chieng: Трамп taps Todd Blanche for J6er slush fund & makes bank after boosting stocks
• John D. Cundle: ♫ 47 On The Run ♬
• Paula Poundstone: Two weeks Dotard
• Jen Psaki: Video suggests Трамп botched deadline for lawsuit at heart of $1.776 billion “slush fund”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Welcomes Ebola Virus In West Wing Ceremony ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ The Art of the Steal—Трамп’s $1.776B Anti‑Weaponization Slush Fund ♬
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Swindle While I Can ♬:

• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп makes his most brazenly corrupt move ever, blabs about ballroom & backs off Iran deadline
• The Resistance: ♫ Demanding More ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard reacts to end of Stephen Colbert
• The Other Brother: ♫ America’s Screwed ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Cancel Трамп, Keep Colbert ♬
• The Late Show: How President Трамп negotiates with himself
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard claims he dominated Xi in China
• Tommy Campbell: Трамп’s “dumb person” remark, Трамп phone & china trip mocked
• John Di Domenico: Трамп loves Xi!—Xi tolerates Трамп!
• Paula Poundstone: Poor Baby Dotard
• Lauren Mayer: ♫ Golden Ballroom ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Congratulations Mr. President—“Best of the Worst” ♬
• Knotheadusc: ♫ Stranglehold ♬
• Jon Stewart: Трамп gushes over Xi & Jon helps 2026 graduates land a job the Трамп way
• SNL Weekend Update: Трамп meets with Xi Jinping in China & rejects Iran’s reparations demands
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s crazy posting spree, embarrassing trip to China & a deep dark government conspiracy!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ 1.7 Billion Dollars for Dotard’s 25-cent Reputation? ♬
• Samantha Bee: The Трамп/Epstein Reading Room:

• JoJoFromJerz: Zero empathy—The truth about the sociopath running the country
• Paula Poundstone: Bull in a China shop
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard just owned the IRS
• The Other Brother: ♫ All My Tariffs ♬
• Parody Project: ♫ The Dotard Went Down To China ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Трамп Van Blinkle—The President who slept through everything ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Трамп Administration Explained Musically ♬

More Perfect Union: Billionaires found a new way to steal your retirement

Randy Rainbow: ♫ Where the hell is our Congress? ♬:

Robert Reich: Meet the biggest super PACs of 2026

The Rest of the Sycophants, Thieves, Imbeciles, Grifters, and Liars:

• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп DEMANDS reparations for January 6 rioters OUT OF YOUR WALLET!
• Paula Poundstone: Kash was scrapbooking?!?
• Jesse Welles: ♫ Masks Off ♬:

• Christopher Titus: Insurrection for profit!!!
• SNL: Jeffrey Epstein ghost
• LegalEagle: Трамп’s TV judge crashes out
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Whiskey Tango Foxtrot America Why Jan 6 Rioters May Get Paid While Epstein Victims Fight for Justice ♬
• Rocky Mountain Mike: ♫ DJT’s Slush Fund ♬:

• Stephen: Insurrectionists hit the jackpot & a Middle East chill pill & how the ballroom ties together
• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп’s circus of incompetence is stupider than you think
• The Resistance: ♫ The Plot That’s Not So Secret ♬

ONN: OpenAI announces construction of new data center on top of sick child

More Perfect Union: The shocking billionaire plot to steal the election

JoJoFromJerz: Political burnout—Is anyone else exhausted?

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

The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets this evening for more adventures in politics and elections. And you are invited, so stop by!

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 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.

Puppet Regime: The regime in the wild, for Sir David Attenborough

John Oliver: USPS Postal Inspectors

Parody Project: ♫ What a crazy-ass world ♬

The Resistance: ♫ I Want My Flag Back ♬

Reign of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:

• John D. Cundle: ♫ Dirty Deeds Трамп‑Level Cheap ♬
• The Late Show: ♫ “This war has been won” ♬
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: The Трамп Mobile Phone
• The Resistance: ♫ When I Think About You (I Think About Me) ♬
• Parody Project: ♫ Mini-War by a Mini-Mind ♬
• Knotheadusc: ♫ Just Remember November ♬
• Stephen: Handshake dominance & Трамп, “I only say the truth,” & FAUX News in China
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Worst President Lifetime Achievement Award ♬
• The God Show: Did Трамп shit his pants in China?
• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп HATES women—Don’t be surprised what he does next!
• Ari Melber: Трамп SPIRALS as gas revolt spans Rogan, GOP, Indys, Liberals
• Seth Meyers: Трамп mocked in China during trip, Australia scraps Трамп Tower due to “toxic” brand
• John D. Cundle: ♫ I Am the Very Model of a Modern MAGA General ♬
• Desi Lydic FAUXsplains Трамп’s big beautiful ballroom:

• Charlamagne Tha God isn’t laughing at Трамп’s third-term “jokes”
• John Di Domenico: Трамп gold statue—“Don the colossus”
• Chris Hayes: Трамп’s reflecting pool deal looks as CORRUPT as you think
• The Resistance: ♫ A Very Useful Idiot ♬
• SNL Weekend Update: Трамп dismisses Iran weapons fire as “love tap” & Kash Patel’s personalized whiskey
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Welcome to the Golden Age of Трамп ♬
• Get High, Watch This: Трамп’S golden super statue!!! It’s going to save AMERICA!!!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп Hopes to Turn D.C. into “Las Vegas East” ♬
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s Iran war confession, profane tirade & wild posting spree
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Ballroom for the Queen (No Health Care for You) ♬
• Chris Hayes: Трамп seeks BILLIONS in taxpayer cash in IRS suit
• Stephen: Трамп’s “very simple” Iran war plan, Трамп’s posterbating on Mother’s Day, and the golden calf Трамп idolatry
• JoJoFromJerz: Narcissism in gold—Трамп’s new golden statue
• Knotheadusc: ♫ Dream ♬:

• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dementia Dotard ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ I Only Say The Truth (And That Was A Lie) ♬
• Christopher Titus: (Трамп) He LOVES you??
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ The Only Low IQ Is You ♬
• J-L Cauvin: Honest Dotard explains his fund for criminals?
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Dotard Трамп’s a Dick ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ The Art of the Kneel—Трамп’s “Tough on China” Trade War ♬
• The Late Show: This Is Not A Golden Calf!
• Jordan Klepper: Xi makes Трамп climb stairs, learn ancient Greek history & tremble over Taiwan talk
• Stephen: Трамп, “I don’t think about anybody” & when does the President sleep & don’t worry about hantavirus
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Authoritarian Monopoly ♬

John Oliver: The Shadow Docket

Stephen: President Obama on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship

Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Monument Reflecting Pool Reflects Growth of Slime in DC ♬

Roll Call: Congressional hits and misses of the week

Deplorables:

• Stella Magz: Трамп supporter realizes he got scammed….
• Paula Poundstone: J.D. Vance called out fraud. Paula has notes
• Jordan Klepper: MAGA rages over missing Трамп phones & POTUS heads to China with Elon and the boys
• SNL Weekend Update: Tucker Carlson on liberal politics and the 2026 Met Gala
• Jen Psaki: Kash’s boozy boasts backfire as drinking questions follow him to another hearing
• Liberal Redneck: How the South is about to become even more MAGA and insane
• Patrick Fitzgerald: ♫ Under-Babied Tonight ♬:

• JoJoFromJerz: Why Dr. Oz’s “underbabied” theory is pure distraction
• Paula Poundstone: D is NOT a good grade!
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ The Rich are Getting Pissed (Oh heavens!) ♬
• SNL: Kavanaugh Hegseth Patel Bar
• Jordan Klepper: RFK Jr. dissatisfied with teen sperm & Sean Duffy gets back to reality
• Stella Magz: Conservatives are the new snowflakes….
• Jen Psaki: Vance focuses on fraud with especially bad timing for Трамп
• Paula Poundstone: The Dotard has a special job for you
• Jesse Welles: ♫ Call Me When You Win The War ♬

Robert Reich and Tara Raghuveer: What your landlord doesn’t want you to know

The Late Show: ♫ Who Showed Up To ChatGPT’s Birthday Party? ♬

Bruce W. Nelson: Release the (Epstein/Трамп) files!

The Resistance: ♫ We Are The Resistance! ♬

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

Please join us tonight as the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally gets together to discuss politics, elections, the media, and whatnot over a cold one.

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 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.

The Resistance: ♫ Not In The Mood To Celebrate ♬

John Oliver: Gas station drugs

Stephen: What powers should the President not have? Former President Obama weighs in

Reign of Jeffry Epstein’s Felon Best Friend:

• John D. Cundle: ♫ Seriously Unfunny—The Jimmy Kimmel vs Трамп Political Satire Song (People Are Angry) ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I’m soon to be banned (by our 1st Amendment protectors) ♬
• Seth Meyers: Трамп’s Strait of Hormuz plan fails, Spirit collapses, GOP redraws Congressional maps
• Robert Reich: How some felon is trying to control what you see on TV
• JoJoFromJerz: The return of Don Snoreleone—Трамп’s latest public nap
• Stephen: The true cost Of Трамп’s war & The Pope likes to have fun & kids beat online age checks
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп’s insane posting spree, lies about war & MAGA pins Giuliani’s health issues on Jimmy Kimmel
• Seth Meyers: Трамп violates Iran war deadline, claims “mini war” is over as US and Iran trade fire
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard announces Mother’s Day plan
• Paula Poundstone: Hey Dotard, take a nap!
• The Resistance: I’m Really Good At War!
• Parody Project: ♫ We’re Sort of Like Pirates ♬

• Tommy Campbell: Gavin Newsom trolls Трамп’s passport
• JojoFromJerz: Hands, neck, and health—What’s going on with The Dotard?!
• The God Show: President Moron’s polls CRATER
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Is He Dehdyet? ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Operation Endless Butthurt ♬
• Stephen: Iran mocks America’s “wishlist” & reflecting Lincoln & vape candy for adults & a MAHA compromise
• Desi Lydic: Трамп dumps toxic ballroom debris on golf course & DJ Marco Rubio loves 90s rap
• Seth Meyers: Late Night White House press briefing
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard says Spirit Airlines is in heaven
• Puppet Regime: ♫ New Трамп acronym on Wall Street, muchachos… ♬
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп threatens Iran with intense bombing, bullies the FDA on vaping & Rubio to meet with the Pope
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Commander‑in‑Chief of Make‑Believe ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп’s Populist Scam ♬
• John D. Cundle: ♫ Bohemian Autocracy ♬
• The God Show: Bless the reporter who made Трамп SNAP over gas prices
• Seth Meyers: Трамп says he’s taken three cognitive tests, tells kids about nuclear war
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп now wants Americans to pay for his ballroom & says crazy stuff to kids in the Oval office
• Christopher Titus: Spirit is dead!
• Mr. Newberger’s AI Funnies: ♫ My Name and My Face Go Everywhere ♬
• JoJoFromJerz: Трамп’s behavior has reached a new level of insanity
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Трамп—Giving a Bad Name to Regular Scoundrels and Creeps ♬

SNL Weekend Update: White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, Hegseth says Iran war costs reach $25B

LegalEagle: SCOTUS—No more Black politicians

Jesse Welles: ♫ Don’t Tread on Me ♬:

Brenna Perez: The ACTUAL solution to gerrymandering

Other Miscellaneous MAGA Grifters, Liars, and Pedophiles:

• Steve Shives: Voter’s Remorse Helpline—Dating edition
• Desi Lydic: ♫ Epstein’s alleged suicide note is “no fun” & Трамп sics military on autocorrect ♬
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ Pete Hegseth Battles “The Fog of Bar” ♬
• The Resistance: ♫ The Joke’s on You ♬
• J-L Cauvin: The Dotard calls Rudy Giuliani, “America’s vampire”
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ A Right-Wing Song of Empathy ♬
• Stella Magz: Remember, RFK Jr. and The Dotard will be in charge if hantavirus gets bad….
• The Late Show: ♫ Insane. Got No Brain. ♬
• SNL: Hegseth and Patel Iran press briefing
• Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: America’s top 5 Christian nationalist PESTS
• Stella Magz: Karoline Leavitt—It’s a girl….
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп does Iran war damage control, Kash Patel’s in panic mode & Rubio’s awkward Pope meeting
• The Resistance: ♫ Red State Blues ♬
• Stephen: Presidential fitness & Hegseth’s bubble & Трамп’s war is bad for business & Met gala’s wild looks
• Bruce W. Nelson: ♫ I Want A President Who’s Normal ♬

Desi Lydic: Boycotters skip the Bezos Met Gala & Трамп can’t focus on the economy…or anything

Stephen addresses the nation from President Obama’s Oval Office

Jon Stewart: Трамп ignores 60-Day Iran deadline & King Charles urges Congress to do its job

Parody Project: ♫ Don’t Teach Evolution ♬

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

That’s right. The Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally meets tonight. Swing by and join the conversation and relax 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 back room 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.