It’s that time of week again, so here are three interesting video clips from Bill’s show last night.  Enjoy!

Monologue: Double Down Politics

Bill makes a good point, It has been a hell of a week. I wonder if Trump would allow that woman to hack Mar a Lago in exchange for a happy ending or a golden shower.

Chelsea Handler: Life Will Be the Death of Me

“Alcohol and outrage are not a good mix.” Amen!

Overtime: Julián Castro, Chelsea Handler, Salman Rushdie, Danielle Pletka, Gideon Rose

“We can’t use the honor system, but one side is fresh out of honor. Good coverage of Brexit. Pletka is wrong about CNN and MSNBC. CNN is Center-Right, MSNBC is Center-Left. There is no Faux Noise Left.

I normally don’t include the overtime, but they did not release a New Rules clip this week.

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Here is the one hundred fifty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Republican Secretary of Labor and pervert enabler, Alex Acosta. He is so honored for letting billionaire pervert and Trump buddy, Jeffrey Epstein, to duck federal charges and avoid prison for trafficking underage sex slaves.

On Wednesday, Trump Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta appeared before a House Appropriations subcommittee to, in theory, testify about his department’s proposed 2020 budget. It was inevitable that Democrats were going to use the opportunity to demand answers of Acosta after recent revelations that he was the driver of an extraordinarily lenient 2007 plea deal for billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein that allowed Epstein to skirt federal charges entirely. In February, that plea deal was deemed improper by a federal court, ruling that Acosta’s team violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Acts.

Democratic Reps. Katherine Clark and Lois Frankel were not going to let Acosta skate through the hearing without addressing the simmering scandal.

“The judge found you broke the law, Mr. Acosta, when you chose not to tell the victims about this deal and you gave them the impression that the investigation was ongoing,’’ said Clark at the hearing. “Was the judge right?’’

Acosta attempted to pivot, but Clark continued. “I asked you a yes or no question,’’ she demanded.

Acosta was unwilling to say much of substance, aside from repeating his prior defenses that he takes sex trafficking “seriously” and that it was “the work of our office that made it so the world was put on notice that he is a sex offender.” That may have been a humiliation for Epstein, but it didn’t amount to much punishment; Epstein spent 13 months in county jail, but was allowed to leave the jail for up to 12 hours a day to conduct his business as normal…  [emphasis added]

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Lawrence O’Donnell has more detail.

There’s a special word to describe this Republican POS: typical! I bet Trump hopes Acosta will throw a pervert party for Trump, Epstein, Robert Kraft, Judge Roy Moore, Clarence Thomas, and Injustice Kava-Nazi.

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It’s that time of week again, and here are four excellent video clips from Sam’s show last night.  Enjoy!

Roe V. Wade V. Everyone

Women’s reproductive health must be exclusively women’s choice. The Republican Reich wants government to fit between women’s legs.

Anti-Anti-Vaxxers

Once upon a time, I thought that Anti-Vaxxers were ‘harmless fruitcakes’. I am now convinced that only the second half of that description is true.

White at the Museum

Is “white culture” skin-deep or cultural bias? I think the latter.

Samantha Bee Responds to Joe Biden

In my day (I’m 71), behavior like Biden’s was considered acceptable, and I often hugged people innocently. If it made women uncomfortable, they never told me. As time changed, I learned about personal space and changed. I still hug people. Man or woman matters not. But now I ask, until I know it’s expected and appreciated. I think Joe was oblivious to cultural growth, and as long as he changes, he should not be pilloried for this. Spot-on Sam!

Good Show, Sam!

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The Republican Reich are masters of projection.  One of the easiest ways we have to discover their crimes du jour is to watch what they accuse innocent Democrats of doing.  At the moment, Resident Donald Trump, who owes his Residency to his idol, Vladimir Putin [R-RU], is accusing Democrats of Election Theft.  So, who really steals elections?

 

This is what Trump said last night at an RNCC event:

We’re going to watch those vote tallies. I keep hearing about the election and the various counting measures that they have. There were a lot of close elections that were — every single one of them went Democrat. If it was close, they say the Democrat — there’s something going on. You’ve got — hey, you’ve got to be a little more paranoid than you are. We have to be a little bit careful. I don’t like the way the votes are being tallied.

In other words: Heads I win, tails you lose! Booga booga!

CNN’s New Day explained the obvious.

“So it seems to me he has a problem with the way the votes are being tallied when people he wants to win lose. That’s where he has a real problem. I didn’t hear him concerned about the rampant election fraud that invalidated an entire election in North Carolina, for instance,” John Berman said….

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Here’s the video:

Here are ten documented examples of Republican election theft.

Removal of voters from rolls:

 

1a. Jon Husted GOP Ohio Secy of State removed 2 million nonRepublicans from voter rolls prior to the 2016 election, giving OH to Trump. Some registrations were eliminated because of a missing zip code.

 

1b. Jeb Bush and K Harris in Florida removed hundreds of thousands of voters from rolls in 2000 and 2004 giving election to G W Bush twice.

 

1c. Governor Scott Walker, Republican of Wisconsin, removed 300,000 registered voters, a crime which helped in Trump’s fraudulent win.

 

1d The NAACP has sued the Senator Burr-connected GOP establishment in North Carolina for removing blacks from the voting rolls

 

2. Gerrymandering by Republicans in many states has stolen Democratic vote power. Karl Rove has been 1 architect of this.

 

3. NH Republicans jammed handicapped Dems’ ride request lines. Some were jailed.

 

4. Nathan Sproul was employed by Mitt Romney in 2012, McCain in 2008, by Karl Rove, and by state Republican parties in Virginia, Minnesota, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, MInnesota. In at least 8 states he ran phony voter registration drives throwing away all nonRepublicans’ registrations

 

5. In Ohio Kenyon College students were kept waiting til 4 am. In Akron’s N Hill, a Democrat city, people left in rain for 1/ hour.  Delaying poll openings or shutting them entirely is a Republican tactic.

 

6. Around the state of Ohio in 2000 available computer numbers were reduced.

 

7. Republicans in many states have shut down precincts requiring, e.g., African Americans to drive or bus 2 hours.

 

8. Republicans in many states have frequently moved precincts.  Republicans have over and over in many states opposed same day registration, automatic registration when getting a driver’s license, expanded voting hours, automatic and universal voter registration etc.

 

9. In Ohio and elsewhere some voters have not been notified of the move.

 

10. The Jacksonville Times Union in cooperation with Jeb Bush ran a special newspaper edition in African American areas instructing voters to vote every page of the ballot. 20,000 black votes were invalidated…

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I shared the first 10 examples of 114.  Click through for the other 104.

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