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

The State of the Union is Long

The SOTU is #$%&!

Elliott Abrams’ Bitchin’ Plan for Venezuela

Is Resident Bone Spurs trying to mimic balls? Invade Georgia!

Real Black History (Abridged)

Today’s current events are tomorrow’s history. Both are equally subject to distortion by the Republican bubble machine.

Sam had lots to learn!

RESIST!!

Last night the Resident of the United States delivered one of the longest SOTU speeches in US history.  It’s length, made it like a root-canal when the dentist substituted Eau de Flatulence for nitrous oxide.  I watched the whole thing, and I’m afraid George is mad at me again.  To all other and my fellow Americans: The State of our Union is buried up to our eyeballs in the vile excrement of the Republican Reich.

President Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday that the economy would crash and no policy work could be done if lawmakers investigate his administration or stand in the way of his plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Syria.

The lines, delivered early in his State of the Union address, were so clearly designed to draw cheers from his Republican allies that they even included a rhyme scheme.

"An economic miracle is taking place in the United States — and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations," he said, eliciting an ovation from the GOP.

But then, as he asserted himself further on matters of war and the separation of powers, Trump went a bit too far.

"If there is going to be peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation," he said. "It just doesn’t work that way!"

Instead of applause, Trump was met at first with a brief moment of lightly scattered laughter and a few lonely claps — and then came steely silence as the president stood at the podium looking at lawmakers… [emphasis added]

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In spite of the threat that summarizes the character of his speech, he did say he wanted unity and bipartisanship.  He was actually telling the truth, as long as he was using the Republican definition of bipartisanship.

If you are a masochist, you may watch the entire speech here.

On the other hand, Stacey Abrams’ response is worth watching.

So is Bernie Sanders’ response.

The El Paso Sherriff blasted Trump’s lies about his city.

Here’s more about Trump’s threats.

Here’s some fact-checking.

For more extensive fact checking of Trump’s Republican lies, click here.

The speech makes one thing clear.  We need to…

RESIST!!

Before Putin’s Puppet was even sworn in as Resident (He never was, is not, and never will be President).  I wrote about the obscene amounts of money being raised for his inauguration celebration.  I remember discussing how cheap the actual inaugural was.  The crowd was nonexistent, the celebrities were unknowns, and except for billionaires only parties, the venues were cheap.  I wondered where all that money came from, what it bought in quid pro quo, and what happened to the millions that could not have been spent.  I’m not the only one.

Federal prosecutors in New York on Monday delivered a sweeping request for documents related to donations and spending by President Trump’s inaugural committee, a sign of a deepening criminal investigation into activities related to the nonprofit organization.

A wide-ranging subpoena served on the inaugural committee Monday seeks an array of documents, including all information related to inaugural donors, vendors, contractors, bank accounts of the inaugural committee and any information related to foreign contributors to the committee, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post.

Only U.S. citizens and legal residents can legally donate to a committee established to finance presidential inaugural festivities.

“We have just received a subpoena for documents. While we are still reviewing the subpoena, it is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry,” a spokesman for the committee said in a statement.

The subpoena — issued by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York — indicates that prosecutors are investigating crimes related to conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud and money laundering… [emphasis added]

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Click through.  There’s much more to learn there.

Here’s video analysis by Lawrence O’Donnell, Rosilind Helderman, Tim O’Brien and David Cay Johnston.

The Beauty here is that, no matter what Republicans do to Mueller, this will live on.  Drip… drip… drip…

RESIST!!

Somebody on the staff of Putin’s Pervert have enraged and embarrassed him by leaking his secret schedule.  While most Presidents have worked overtime on the nation’s business, this Resident spends 60% of his day in "executive time".  That begs the following question.  What, pray tell, is executive time?  I have two suggestions, illustrated by the two graphics displayed  below.

Over the weekend, we got a closer look at President Donald Trump’s “executive time” thanks to a leak of his schedule from the White House.

Alexi McCammond and Jonathan Swan from Axios published three months of the president’s private schedule on Sunday after someone from within Trump’s orbit leaked the information to McCammond. The information shows that Trump has spent 297 hours — or 60 percent of his scheduled time — since around the midterms in so-called “executive time,” hours of the day when there’s nothing specific for him to do.

That doesn’t mean he’s not doing anything — a White House official told Axios that Trump is always calling and talking to people and “always up to something; it’s just not what you would consider typical structure.” The schedules published don’t list all of Trump’s meetings and activities.

The schedule is a big deal not just because of what it reveals of Trump’s activities but also, and perhaps even more importantly, because the leak even happened in the first place. It is a notable act of subversion for someone that close to the president’s orbit to send to a reporter three months of what is supposed to be private information.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman noted as much on Twitter. “A White House aide is weaponizing his schedules, which says a lot about how people in the White House feel about the man they work for,” she wrote…

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Here it is from CBS.

Finally, here is my other suggestion.

RESIST!!