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Seriously…it’s the best thing going on a Tuesday night: The Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. All are welcomed, so stop by for an evening of politics and drinks.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Ok…then check out one of the 250 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

The VA has had problems for a long time. Still, I don’t think it was the best idea in the world to give the position to someone with no relevant experience. Call me old fashioned.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14
When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.

Discuss.

Space: The next trillion dollar industry.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Mad props to Judge Jeanine Pirro

Daily Show: Hasan Minhaj breaks down “punish a Muslim Day”.

Stephen launches a Facebook alternative.

Vox: US voting machines are failing and here’s why.

Samantha Bee: A message for Ted Cruz.

Stormy Sunday and the Naughty Dotard Трамп:

• Stephen interviews Anderson Cooper’s interview of Stormy Daniels
• Conan’s take from the Stormy Daniels interview
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer and Dotard Трамп’s legal team’s “catastrophic mistakes”
• WaPo: The key to good political satire in the Трамп era? Sticking to the facts.
• Trevor: Someone needs a proper spanking
• Vox: Why the Stormy Daniels lawsuit matters.
• Maddow: Senate Democrats ask DoJ officials to protect Mueller from President Трамп
• Our Cartoon President: You miss him don’t you?.
• Young Turks: Jim Carrey is The GOAT at trolling Трамп
• Ari Melber: Dotard Трамп’s CIA pick busted for destroying secret torture tapes
• Stephen: The scariest, hairiest Трамп appointment
• Late Show: Galino & Farnes—Lawyers that sue lawyers
• Chris Hayes: President Donald Трамп’s odd one-letter Twitter abbreviations, explained
• Our Cartoon President: I’ve got a great, great, lawyer:

• Rachel Maddow: Robert Mueller reportedly eyeing Sessions as Sessions cheats on recusal
• Stephen: Трамп has a new nickname in Washington
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Prosecutors say Трамп’s campaign leaders are tied to Russian intel officer
• James Corden: The Трамп 5-day forecast is looking *Stormy!*
• Stephen: New GoFundMe project—A border wall
• WaPo: Fact checking The Dotard Трамп’s gripes with Amazon
• Late Show: John Bolton’s terrifying ideas sung by Michael Bolton
• Our Cartoon President: A bonus Трамп!
• Maddow: Jared Kushner under investigation… by the White House?
• Slate: Why Трамп’s decision to allow drilling on our coasts is so shocking
• Stephen Stormy Daniels’ “60 Minutes” tatings beat Трамп’s
• Trevor: Profiles in courage—John Bolton edition.
• Ari Melber: Трамп lawyer’s mind-blowingly stupid offering of a pardon to Gates and Manafort.
• James Corden: The Dotard Трамп denies an affair with Stormy
• Stephen: Dear Robert Mueller, Is it collusion yet?
• What do people really thing about Трамп
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Stormy Daniels beats The Dotard Трамп
• Our Cartoon President: We’re going to make you a real Трамп
• Mother Jones: Трамп’s plan to rig the 2020 census, explained
• WaPo: Трамп under oath—What Трамп’s past depositions indicate about ones to come
• Stephen: John Bolton is a madman
• Трамп Combat TV: How to be a successful bully
• Stephen falls victim to CNN’s “fake news”
• Songify the News: Porn stars, video games, and weed:

• Mark Fiore: Pruitt’s 5 steps to environmental apocalypse
• James Corden: It’s the military’s turn to pay for the WALL
• Chris Hayes: What do you call a see through wall?
• Rachel Maddow: President Трамп shops for new hires from TV and small, familiar circle
• Lauren Mayer: Dayenu (For the Трамп era)
• Late Show: The “Dirty Dossier” gets salacious
• Young Turks: Parkland survivor epically takes down Laura Ingraham
• Ari Melber: Трамп proposes “infrastructure week” but can’t get funding passed
• Stephen: Robert Mueller pities the fool
• Chris Hayes: The Dotard Трамп picks his personal doctor as new head of V.A.
• Maddow: Трамп may rue selection of Bolton for National Security Adviser

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

Adam ruins everything: The true messed up story of Pocahontas

Roll Call: Congressional Hits and Misses.

The veterans are running for Congress, as Democrats.

Out of control Chinese space station Expected to crash into earth Easter Sunday.

Vox: Why old buildings use the same leaf design

Trevor: An Alabama sheriff legally siphons cash from inmates

Marching for For Our Lives:

• Stephen: Rick Santorum’s hot take on the March For Our Lives
• Mother Jones: A Las Vegas survivor marches for gun control
• Jim Jefferies: attends march for our lives in San Diego
• Vox: How the NRA hijacks gun control debates:

• Lawrence O’Donnell: Student protesters did what most of us could not
• Daily Show: Montana gun owners rally against the March For Our Lives
• Heads of State: Santorum tells March for Our Lives students to learn CPR
• 17 year-old gives a blistering spoken word performance at SLC’s March For Our Lives
• Mother Jones: Highlights from the epic March For Our Lives rally in D.C.
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Parkland Students’ sway hits those who mock them
• Slate: Multiple generations explain why high school kids are now better than adults at talking about guns
• Samantha Bee at The March For Our Lives
• Lawrence O’Donnell and friends: High costs for mocking Parkland student survivors
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Second amendment Yoga
• Mother Jones: High School students speak out at the New York March For Our Lives rally
• Chris Hayes: The reality of gun violence in America

Mental Floss: Behind the scenes secrets of shopping malls.

Stephen: Jeff Sessions loves the secret Wu-Tang Clan album.

Slate: Why we need “queer”.

Francesca Fiorentini: Will social media destroy democracy?

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Passing judgment

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

Still a bit blah. Sorry.

I went home fairly early after Drinking Liberally last night. Nonetheless, I am feeling tired. So instead of a coherent post, I am just going to do the half-sleep on public transit thing. Talk among yourselves.

Stormy days, these. But you can find shelter at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally. Stop by this evening for conversations over a drink.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Ok…then check out one of the 249 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

So. Now we’ve seen the Stormy Daniels interview, does it add much? I think we all knew the outlines. I guess it’s good to hear it from her. I don’t care about an affair. And consensual sex is less gross than the sexual assault he has bragged about.

Campaign finance violations? Sure, probably. So blackmail possibilities from his careless behavior? Maybe. Hypocrisy of his religious supporters? Doy, but we already knew that.

Nahum 1:2-6
The Lord is a jealous God, filled with vengeance and rage. He takes revenge on all who oppose him and continues to rage against his enemies!

The Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.

At his command the oceans dry up, and the rivers disappear. The lush pastures of Bashan and Carmel fade, and the green forests of Lebanon wither.

In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed.

Who can stand before his fierce anger? Who can survive his burning fury? His rage blazes forth like fire, and the mountains crumble to dust in his presence.

Discuss.

Stephen: Putin wins election (with some help from the Russians).

The week in Congressional hits and misses.

NASA: Astronaut Moments with NASA astronaut Drew Feustel.

Samantha Bee: The history of women’s pain.

WaPo: Audio and texts show how two men worked to discredit one of Roy Moore’s accusers.

Minute Physics: The brown dwarf debate.

Vox: Why female condoms are so hard to find.

The guy who won’t talk about politics.

The Dotard Трамп:

• Rachel Maddow: Трамп chaos takes out McMaster and alarms with appointment of Bolton
• Stephen: The Dotard Трамп congratulates Putin for electing himself
• Seth Meyers: Трампs’ advisers told him not to congratulate Putin
• Joy Reid: Dotard Трамп’s invisible plane
• Ari Melber: Secret memo warned The Dotard Трамп data firm about breaking U.S. law
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп is furious and bad at spelling
• Chris Hayes: Betsy DeVos finally answers Congresswoman’s question, a year later
• A PSA by Our Cartoon President
• Jonathan Mann: Who Wants To Go To War (John Bolton That’s Who)
• Lewis Black: Трамп’s golfing milestone
• Seth Meyers: McKay Coppins on what really motivates Трамп
• Rachel Maddow: Robert Mueller following the money on Трамп’s Middle East policy
• Late Show: Rex Tillerson gets fired on the toilet
• Stephen: Трамп’s lawyer paid off Stormy Daniels because he “cares.”
• HeadsOfState: EPA’s Scott Pruitt explains spending $43,000 on s soundproof booth:

• Rachel Maddow: Against advice, Трамп congratulates Putin on sham election win
• Conan: The damaging information Russia Has on Трамп
• Samantha Bee: Firings, facebook, and (not-so-fond) farewells
• Jimmy Kimmel: Security footage proves Ben Carson’s furniture is fangerous
• James Corden: First ad for Трамп’s anti-drug campaign
• SNL: Anderson Cooper White House turmoil
• Seth Meyers: U.S. cybersecurity
• WaPo: Not just a “coffee boy”—Papadopoulos’s role in Трамп’s campaign
• Stephen: Трамп shuffles his legal counsel to fend off Mueller
• Jim Carrey’s art causes a stir.
• Our Cartoon President: Stormy Daniels
• Lawrence O’Donnell: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer sends “warning shot” to President Dotard Трамп
• Chris Hayes: Senator Chris Murphy on John Bolton: “I can’t imagine” a more dangerous pick
• Rachel Maddow: As legal team withers, Трамп adds cable news legal pundits
• Seth Meyers: McKay Coppins on why Трамп’s White House is like the hunger games
• Stephen: Dotard Трамп Jr. colluded with a woman who wasn’t his wife
• Ari Melber: Some Republicans talk impeachment if Трамп fires Robert Mueller
• Jimmy Kimmel: Lots of turnover in the White House
• Trevor: Трамп sacks Andrew McCabe and takes aim at Robert Mueller.
• WaPo: Four of Bolton’s mustache’s hawkish moments
• Seth Meyers: The Dotard trades barbs with Biden as legal problems mount
• Stephen analyticizes Cambridge Analytica
• Trevor: Трамп takes on the opioid crisis
• David Pakman: Трамп says he could beat up Joe Biden
• Conan: Canadian has a strongly worded message for Трамп
• Late Show: Трамп’s new legal team—conspiracy theorists at law
• Seth Meyers: The Dotard attacks Mueller and McCabe, and Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica
• Trevor: Electronic brainwashing—Cambridge Analytica’s sinister Facebook strategy
• Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп vs Biden—Sarah Knucklebee Sanders weighs in
• Stephen: Let the Robert Mueller tweets begin!
• Joy Reid: Maxine Waters on impeachment—we can’t wait for 2020
• Rachel Maddow: Cambridge Analytica scandal rocks already rattled Трамп world
• Lawrence O’Donnell: ohn Bolton and the madness in the White House
• Jonathan Mann: Will he or won’t he fire Mueller
• James Corden: Трамп’s new lawyer and Dotard Jr.’s affair:

• Seth Meyers and John Oliver on John’s children’s book about VP Pence’s gay bunny, Marlon Bundo
• Chris Hayes: Трамп ignores all caps warning and congratulates Vladimir Putin

Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Redpilled—The Storm

Our Cartoon President: Who gets out to turn the jets on?
Our Cartoon President: Biparti-Satans busted!

Vox: Why eating healthily is so expensive in America.

Jimmy Kimmel: Happy 88th Birthday Pat Robertson.

Samantha Bee: The Iraq war, 15 years later.

Stephen works out with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Gunz in ‘Merica and the March for Our Lives:

• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: March For Our Lives vs. Brave adults who do nothing
• Trevor and Parkland students discuss gun reform and March for Our Lives
• Locked and loaded Трамп.
• Ari Melber: Parkland survivor—Congress need to “get up” and fix gun violence
• Mother Jones: He survived the Las Vegas massacre, and he’s protesting for the first time
• What? ANOTHER GODDAMN SCHOOL SHOOTING?!?
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Baltimore teens speak out about underreported gun violence
• Francesca Fiorentini: School shootings—A good reason to lower the voting age?

• Late Night: Teenagers—Saving our country so you don’t have to
• WaPo: “Too many of my friends have died because of guns”
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Laura Ingraham vs. March for Our Lives
• Trevor: Tucker Carlson’s bad take on teen activists
• FL Students: “We’ve been silent for too long”
• Mother Jones: Newtown students heading to D.C. with the message “Enough is enough”
• The Opposition with Jordan Klepper: Adult-splaining grammar to teen activist David Hogg.
• Vox: What students really think about school shootings.

Samantha Bee: All you get is birth control.

Trevor: Facebook fallout—Mark Zuckerberg rolls out an apology

Garfunkel and Oates: Both sides can laugh:

Adam ruins the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

Stephen: Mark Zuckerberg is silent smid Facebook’s privacy scandal.

Vox: Women are not as divided on #MeToo as it may seem.

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

Shouldn’t the President know what’s in a spending bill before Fox News tells him? Honestly, the bill is probably a piece of shit, but it’s his fucking job to know what’s in it during negotiations. He has experts at his disposal; Don’t rely on a semi-fictional TV talk show.

I have been listening to The History of English podcast, and it’s very strange for me to listen to a history podcast that’s still going. Usually I will binge a series once it’s done. Anyway, it has got to Edward I. The podcast hasn’t got there yet, but pretty soon, he is going to ban Jewish people from England.

As I was listening to this, I walked by Seattle Shakespeare. I see that The Merchant of Venice is coming up. It. Made me realize that the vast majority of people who the play was written for had never met anyone Jewish. It had been over 300 years, and yet the stereotypes were popularly understood.

According to the data that we pilfered from Facebook and analyzed into a profile by our team of data scientists using the very latest in neural network-based AI, you need a damn drink! So stop by the Seattle Chapter of Drinking liberally this evening and join us for conversations and/or rants over that drink.

We meet every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the small room at the back of the tavern beginning about 8pm.

Can’t make it to Seattle? Ok…then check out one of the 249 chapters of Living Liberally, including 23 in Washington state, six in Oregon and three in Idaho. Find a chapter near you. Or consider starting your own chapter.

At this point, any Republican who hasn’t actively denounced Donald Trump is trying to turn the US into a dictatorship. The McCabe firing means that a Muller firing is almost inevitable. At some point, a point that has almost certainly passed, anything but actively working against him is complicity.

Ecclesiastes 5:12
Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

Discuss.