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

wait i thought we were going to #draintheswamp

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/305727-bondi-honored-to-serve-trump-in-transition-team

who's saying that pogroms are a good thing?

― sarahell

nobody, yet, and i fucking well want to keep it that way.

My 30th birthday was on Wednesday. What a shitty way to start my third decade of life.

― monster_xero, Saturday, 12 November 2016 06:52 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hate to be the bearer of bad news but

Dude has no friends beyond his inner circle, who else is he going to pick?

To paraphrase myself: can we have somebody, anybody besides alt-right redditors flood this form, please?

OK so can "weird twitter" start flooding this please? https://apply.ptt.gov/

hoo boy

Marc Porter Magee
‏@marcportermagee

Democrats now control only 13 state legislatures (26%). If they lose 1 more they fall below the % needed to stop constitutional amendments.

https://twitter.com/marcportermagee/status/797462124788379648

amendments still require 2/3 of the senate

amendments still require 2/3 of the senate

To paraphrase myself: can we have somebody, anybody besides alt-right redditors flood this form, please?

I threw my name in the bucket. Maybe I'll get a job with the NEA before it's eliminated for good.

xp thank you

Yeah the new DNC's #1 job has to be to start recruiting and campaigning at the state legislator level and below. It's really insane how thin the ranks have been allowed to get

Obama apparently plans to make this his post presidency issue

source?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-holder-redistricting-gerrymandering-229868

ty

of course that was before trump won so who knows if it still holds

A good piece on the disconnect between Democrats and the working class, from the Harvard Business Review of all places:

https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

Oh no I guarantee that NDRC thing is still on like donkey kong

xp - yeah, a lot of these same points are echoed in that rural vs. urban america piece on cracked that's been making the rounds.

and in regards to that one, a lot of my friends laugh when I talk about how my mom refused to let me go to college in NYC because I would get raped and/or murdered, I'd be the next Central Park jogger or Kitty Genovese. Granted, I tell it like a joke, but realizing that many of my friends grew up in cities and that the notion of cities being dangerous places was foreign to them.

guys it was Saturday, you shoulda gotten outta the house (all day)

i saw Verhoeven's Total Recall on the big screen. not much of an escape.

fwiw I watched a documentary about the history of the Einsatzgruppen

I dropped off some knives for sharpening at dc union market

From that HBR piece

Massive funding is needed for community college programs linked with local businesses to train workers for well-paying new economy jobs. Clinton mentioned this approach, along with 600,000 other policy suggestions. She did not stress it.

Dead to rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY5KTVA_2ys

Massive funding is needed for community college programs linked with local businesses to train workers for well-paying new economy jobs. Clinton mentioned this approach, along with 600,000 other policy suggestions. She did not stress it.

The idea that people in exurban Wisconsin would have totally broken for Clinton if she'd only said more about her plan to increase federal funding for community college-based job training is beyond ridiculous.

What if she said it was only for white people?

The questions reflect what Mr. Trump’s advisers described as the president-elect’s coming to grips with the fact that his life is about to change radically. They say that Mr. Trump, who was shocked when he won the election, might spend most of the week in Washington, much like members of Congress, and return to Trump Tower or his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., or his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on weekends.

god how is this real

A good piece on the disconnect between Democrats and the working class, from the Harvard Business Review of all places:

https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

― o. nate, Saturday, November 12, 2016 6:42 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good article

the next four years are gonna be spectacular http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-what-we-got-wrong-n681956

gah, wrong link: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-gov-transition-website-plugs-firm-s-properties-n682401

A good piece on the disconnect between Democrats and the working class, from the Harvard Business Review of all places:

https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

The idea that people in exurban Wisconsin would have totally broken for Clinton if she'd only said more about her plan to increase federal funding for community college-based job training is beyond ridiculous.

"I have to believe everyone who voted for Trump was aware enough re incitations of violence, punishing women for abortions, judge Curiel, pussy-grabbing. if they didn't care about any of those then they just don't care about anything."

you know when i realized that his supporters wouldn't care no matter what he said or did? when it dawned on me that soooooo many southern, middle america, religious right, tea party, republican diehards, etc HATE anything from new york! it's hell to a lot of those people and the people in new york are evil hell-demons. so if they could overlook that, they could overlook anything.

i tell you, these people just don't play fair. their hate doesn't mean much to them apparently. they just dig hating on stuff.

it's possible that donald just translated as "t.v. star". they don't mind their law & order and their stories out there in the woods. those things come from new york.

xp i think the win-win solution is that all 60 million trump voters immediately uproot + move into america's elite coastal cities and pursue jobs in tech, data + alternative media

huffpo bloggers imho

two birds:

http://pitchfork.com/news/69783-kate-mckinnon-opens-snl-as-hillary-clinton-covers-leonard-cohens-hallelujah-watch/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnUqBLez-YU

Ha

I tell it like a joke, but realizing that many of my friends grew up in cities and that the notion of cities being dangerous places was foreign to them.

I grew up 6 hours from the nearest city over 100,000 people. I never met anyone who had lived in a large American city until I was in college and still can't imagine being a kid growing up in a place like New York or Chicago.

Big cities are absolutely foreign to lots of small town people, scary confusing places where everyone is dangerous and the food is weird and there are too many people around and everything is expensive and it's really hard to get around and you deal with them as little as possible and only when necessary.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/11/01/saudi-student-assaulted-wisconsin-dies-his-injuries/93101338/

on a policy level sure pence is nearly cruz-level terrible, but under president pence i would at least assume that the 2018 and 2020 elections will be fair and free elections, and with trump i just don't feel comfortable making that assumption. a trump presidency makes me feel threatened and powerless and makes me feel that i have no legal recourse whatsoever.

i'm with rushomancy. the thing that continues to give me deep anxiety over the past few days is the potential for a gradual, unwitting descent into authoritarianism (a la the excerpt elvis telecom posted about 1930s germany). i think there are plenty of reasons to believe that that won't actually happen, but on the other hand, i'm afraid that waving it away as implausible is precisely what *will* allow it to happen. president pence would be awful, but awful in ways that i'm confident we would recognize and be able to fight against.

Parts of that HBR I'm not too sure on - making the classes 30-50-20? I can say from experience that the 31st and the 79th have very little in common and the 31st even the 40th or 50th is closer to the anxieties of the bottom rung. That upper percentile is worried about buying a house in a good neighborhood for schools, the lower is worried about the car breaking down if not keeping the gas on.

Nor do I think you can sell out social issues - the left/liberals didn't make bathrooms an issue, the wingnuts did. Our side just refused to not be assholes about it.

guys it was Saturday, you shoulda gotten outta the house (all day)

i saw Verhoeven's /Total Recall/ on the big screen. not much of an escape.

I'm going to see Napoleon

Neat! did they have the three screen thing going?

The Black Chamber of Commerce building in Beaufort, South Carolina was burned to the ground late Friday/early Saturday. Any national news media reporting this story?

http://www.wyff4.com/article/fire-destroys-beaufort-black-chamber-of-commerce-building/8283393

xp no, they're not set up for it afaict. They have a ginormous screen tho, should be good

Trump seeking quickest way to quit Paris climate agreement, says report

We're not taking a step back to 2015. We're going 24 years back and leaving Rio framework.

Think about how hard it was to arrive at Paris Accords, however imperfect. All the disappointments at Cancún and Copenhagen. All just paper to him.

This moron will be personally responsible for tens millions of deaths, and untold more that could never live due to reduced carrying capacity. Even if he never drops a single bomb.

Trump’s popular vote deficit may approach two million\

Evidently, there are up to five million votes mail and provisional ballots still to be counted.

xp fuck this damn idiot. makes me more upset than anything else about this right now

But, emails.

When I step out of the house, I know that more than half my neighbors voted for this. It feels terrible to feel revulsion at your fellow Americans.