Bill Maher

Punk prayers, bankster DJ's and a blockbuster night + this day in history w/the 'Dark Knight' of Aurora and our song of the day by Twenty One Pilots on your Morning Monarchy for July 20, 2018.

Bill Maher: “Bring on the recession.”
Comedian and neo-liberal Trump hater Bill Maher wants economic collapse for America in order to “get rid of Trump.”

Texas' primary was March 6. Incumbent Ted Cruz coasted to victory in the Republican contest-- 1,315,146 votes (85.35%) and El Paso Congressman Beto O'Rourke coasted to victory in the Democratic race, 640,769 votes (61.82%). 1,036,467 people voted in the Democratic primary and 1,540,890 voted in the Republican primary. As of the February 14 FEC reporting date Cruz had raised $17,452,363 and spent $11,906,543 to Beto's $8,708,746 (and $4,168,970 spent). Cruz's war chest, as of that date, has $6,025,231 and Beto's has $4,938,475. Media is expensive in Texas for statewide races.

The old gerrymandered map is on top and the new ungerrymandered map is belowWhen the Pennsylvania Supreme Court moved to ungerrymander the state, the Pittsburgh area changed considerably. The city itself, PA-14 didn't change too much other than being re-numbered from PA-14 to PA-18.

Thursday, McClatchy ran a pretty eye-popping piece by Peter Stone and Greg Gordon, FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump. The jist of it was that Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank-- a Putin crony-- was illegally funneling cash to the Trump campaign via the NRA.

Yesterday Señor Trumpanzee was whining about getting equal time to respond to the late night TV hosts who are telling the truth to their audiences about his criminal escapades. Alan Grayson isn't a late night talk show host but I bet any one of them would welcome him and Trump on to debate anything... like Grayson's latest swing at Trump:

Yesterday on Fox New Sunday Karl Rove explained that Trump was "making a political statement" by pardoning vicious racist Joe Arpaio and that it's "a bad mistake." Not a bad mistake for the already tragic, written-in-stone Trumpanzee legacy, a bad mistake for the Republican Party.

When Pelosi and Ben Gay Luján cluck to the media that they're proudly, defiantly recruiting and financing Blue Dogs, anti-Choice fanatics and "ex"-Republicans to run as congressional candidates, they're talking about political opportunists like Jim Justice and Joe Manchin, two arch-conservatives from West Virginia.

Blockbuster brands, 'Music Mafia' and 'American Made' + this day in history w/the Hollywood Madam and our song of the day by Living Colour on your Morning Monarchy for June 9, 2017.

Bill Maher speaks to the crowd at the 26th Annual Literary Awards Festival, September, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif (Photo: Casey Curry/Invision/AP)