Seth Meyers breaks down what’s in the Tax Reform bill that Republicans are trying to ram through this week. Claire McCaskill, senator from Missouri makes a cameo appearance at the end that’s bound to become a classic:
Ok, so when the economy is wrecked by this tax cut, no one gets a raise and millions lose their healthcare, you can’t say you weren’t warned oh you intrepid Trump voters.
Sure, it *could* be fake news. It happens not to be but it could. But that’s not really the point.
The point is that if they wanted to, the Republicans could make this bill a LOT worse and Trump would still sign it. And you know why?? It’s because Republicans are in charge of all three branches of government. They can clear out your house, take your Christmas tree and presents and your last can of Who Hash if they wanted to. There is absolutely nothing to stop them. In fact, none of us can do anything for at least another year. Our hands are tied. We have to rely on the better angels of their natures to not rob us blind.
Lololololol!!!!
Omg, Republicans with consciences. Too funny.
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Matt Lauer is out. He was fired from NBC’s Today Show this morning after a detailed complaint against him for sexual harassment. The blurb says something to the effect that this might be an isolated incident but that The Powers That Be didn’t think so. Hmmmm… if they had suspicions, you’ve got to wonder why they didn’t do this sooner.
We’ll get to that eventually.
I’m beginning to see a method to this madness. Check out this tweet from Paul Krugman this morning:
And this one from Tom Watson:
The media steadfastly refuses to accept any responsibility for the Trump disaster. It refuses to admit that it pursued Hillary’s email issue to the extent that the average voter thought she had been carelessly slinging classified information around and was criminally involved in some kind of coverup. They did this partially for ratings. But they also did it because there is a stratum of political and opinion journalists, all men, who have this idea in their heads that no woman will ever be as good as the lowest man for the most powerful position in the world. So, nothing she did was ever going to be good enough for them. If she was smart and prepared, it only meant she was calculating. If she was tough, it meant she was a bitch. If she didn’t reveal every corner of her private life, she was being devious and lying.
Deviousness, calculating, bitchy, these are the characteristics that men who have no respect for women and see them as inferior intellects throw around all the time.
It’s curious that the worst offenders in the media last year were also the ones who turned out to be serial sexual harassers. Fancy that. It’s almost like it’s co-located on the same gene. And why should we be surprised that they behaved towards Clinton as they did? They see women as sexual objects with little understanding. When Clinton came along, it was necessary to bust down the idea that she was intelligent. What better way to do that than to play up her stupid email problem and make her look careless and incompetent. It turns out her server was very secure and her campaign team was fastidious about security and phishing. It took one man, John Podesta, to fuck that up. All of her female staff members rejected the phishing invitations.
Anyway, Hillary was unfuckable. That’s what all the “unlikeable” stuff was about. She didn’t excite them, this strata of guys in political media.
And now they’re dropping like flies. They had it coming.
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