Mourning in America - Trump Year One: November '16 to

First, we have an awful lot of nadir to endure.

I'm not even sure we'll know if or when we've hit a nadir. I think we're truly in an era of how low can you go, and the sky is the limit for the depths we may sink to. Gonna be exhausting.

I mean maybe she'll suddenly decide that The Today Show-style newscasting isn't her bag but there is literally nothing about her profile that shows any interest in governing or legislating beyond her family's last name.

It's also a bullshit window of exclusion that basically just says "someone get a Kennedy to run"

pretty sure the post was made in jest, dan

I want Warren in the Senate.

excuse me if I'm not a fucking barrel of laughs right now

Did someone post this yet?
https://twitter.com/i/moments/796417517157830656

Obama White House staffers watching Trump and his staff arrive for today's meeting: https://twitter.com/ColeLedford11/status/796777653432971264

just went out to lunch and the TV was showing trump & pence meeting w/ everyone. obama, paul ryan, walking around the capitol and white house. i can't handle this.

Phil D. i believe those are from yesterday not today xp

but still

xp Fuck off.

― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Thursday, November 10, 2016 2:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't post with hate in your heart

‏@AP
Israeli official: renewed wave of settlement construction now that Trump signals end to US opposition to settlements

https://www.apnews.com/318c64cb14a94a0985d56758057c1bd8/The-Latest:-Israel-minister:-New-settlement-push-with-Trump

I am sincerely worried about how I will react when/if I witness any of the racist shit that's going down. Just reading about it is filling me with fury.

Spent an hour this morning staring daggers at a really smug and creepy looking white dude on the train who kept looking like he was about to say some shit to the POC on either side of him.

Israeli official: renewed wave of settlement construction now that Trump signals end to US opposition to settlements

inevitable. i was talking to koplow about this a little bit + he agrees that Bibi benefited greatly from having Obama to "hold him back" as an excuse since he's so conservative he really does not see value in annexation/major settlement. with trump though he really has nothing to tell Bennett. it'll be interesting how he plays it.

if there's going to be a bulwark it's not going to come from the so-called "international community" which i think as of today is basically done as a source of global ethical leadership or authority. it'll have to come from the israeli electorate. generally speaking i think they're apathetic at this pt but who knows. i don't see how bibi can hold off forever when the president of the united states is telling him that annexation is a-go.

Obama White House staffers watching Trump and his staff arrive for today's meeting: https://twitter.com/ColeLedford11/status/796777653432971264

I want to hug all these people esp the ones LITERALLY CRYING in these shots. </3

i wonder whether the UN will still be in NY 4 years from now. seems like a lot of good reasons to think it might not be? Republicans hate it, Trump seems to hate it...

I was also thinking that Trump barely owes anyone since his own party gave him so little support but you know who stood by him through thick and thin? this goblin:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Sheldon_Adelson_crop.jpg/440px-Sheldon_Adelson_crop.jpg

i'm taking some smal, inevitably temporaryl solace in how deeply terrified trump appears to be rn

I prefer this one
http://i.imgur.com/MOcVtDH.jpg

i'm taking some smal, inevitably temporaryl solace in how deeply terrified trump appears to be

I noticed this too. It confirms he didn't know what he was getting into

why would trump be terrified? dude is thrilled. i never understood people saying "he doesn't really want to be president"

so many people saying "he has no idea how hard this job is", he doesn't give a shit. like he has any respect for the seriousness or demands of the role?

it's not his job, it's pence's job

I'm imagining Trump saying, "So what, you come in in the morning, put your feet up, flip on MSNBC, wait for your staff to bring you all the clips that mention you, spend a little time on Twitter . . ." and Obama being like, "No, I . . . I work, all day. Every day. Seven days a week sometimes. It's really hard work."

Knowing how the Presidency ages people, there's some comfort in knowing that by 2020 he'll be just a pile of loosely-organized dust.

why do you think he would submit himself to the hard work required by the role?

he wont

he doesn't give a fuck about that shit

yeah i'm sure he's happy to play the figurehead while pence and his staff run the day-to-day duties

he will surround himself with sycophantic imbeciles, he won't invest time in reading the memos and listening to the briefings. let pence handle this. Trump is every other dead eyed corporate dude who finds himself running a large governmental organization - he will provide the bullshit "vision" while letting his underlings do the real work. he will pop in every once in a while to blurt out whatever his very first thought is, authoritatively and scaring the shit out of everyone else in the room, ruining many plans simultaneously. he will spend his time being the face of the organization, enjoying the perks, and figuring out ways to benefit those that are loyal to him.

yeah I agree Trump looks absolutely petrified, and i got that sense during his acceptance speech, which as someone said in the election day thread, was this "delirious utopian fantasy," as if he were reading the lyrics of Lennon's Imagine. I fully believe he did not expect to win, has no plan, and Pence will effectively be leading the country. which is even more of a nightmare than Trump imo

Lol @ "ruining many plans simultaneously"

exactly, he'll run the presidency like a business owner since that's all he knows

i know i posted this upthread, but letting the VP run the country - domestic and foreign policy - is explicitly what Trump Jr offered to John Kasich when they were trying to woo him, on behalf of his father

lol he doesn't "look petrified" you guys are reading into it exactly what you want. otoh yes pence will do most of the hard work, that was the plan all along, cf that NYT story

I am sincerely worried about how I will react when/if I witness any of the racist shit that's going down. Just reading about it is filling me with fury.

Now, imagine worrying about how you will react when some of the racist shit that's going down happens to you. Ponder how that feels for a while. It's not a very good feeling.

check out this bird! this bird is TERRIFIED!

http://i.imgur.com/385EVn9.jpg

the bird is like "get me out of here guys i don't know wtf i'm doing"

lol he doesn't "look petrified" you guys are reading into it exactly what you want. otoh yes pence will do most of the hard work, that was the plan all along, cf that NYT story

― k3vin k., Thursday, November 10, 2016 3:10 PM (

I said he looks petrified and that's that

haha that stupid fucking bird that i definitely did not vote for looks very dumb and scared!

Smug fuckin bird

actually the more i look at the picture the more i think the bird is hiding something. wtf did you do, bird?? and don't keep staring back blankly like you don't understand what i'm saying, i know you do.

ok i'm sounding like john oliver now, i'm sorry for that.

i'm going to post a rant from SETH MEYERS on my Facebook wall right now!

im just reading the election day thread posts from tuesday night to kind of get a handle on what point things started getting really scary and i saw this post:

Lol what a bunch of nervous nellies you guys are

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 9:24 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

come back shakey where are you

fuck that bird

Shakey's usually good with reassurances (and accurate). His pollsters were wrong too?

He's taking a break.

bummed that Shakey checked out right when things started to turn. hope he's ok and comes back soon.

on the radio earlier (bbc radio 5) they talked about how there would be the usual PR happy smiles for the camera/media during the meeting etc.
but no .. not one single grin.
having watched that i now need to turn up the heating.

why would trump be terrified? dude is thrilled. i never understood people saying "he doesn't really want to be president"

so many people saying "he has no idea how hard this job is", he doesn't give a shit. like he has any respect for the seriousness or demands of the role?

― marcos, Thursday, November 10, 2016 3:01 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People are always desperately reading into images to fit some ideal narrative they want to be true. I could freeze a damning frame out of even the most positive, happy speeches or other footage of a politician/whoever without much effort.

Oh, what you all said above.

I think some people get paid decent money to do just that, actually