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

uh, so Trump said on 60M last night that the pop-vote winner should be president. In the future.

"I'm not going to change my mind just because I won. But I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. you know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win. There's a reason for doing this because it brings all the states into play."

and he knows from simple votes

The other popular petitions are pretty depressing (dualing petitions to declare Pakistan or India terrorist states). It should be mentioned that there are at least three Garland appointment petitions, whether by mistake or intentional right wing signature splitting.

Appoint Garland Now (Senate Has Waived Its Rights)
We the People ask President Obama to immediately appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court
Appoint Merrick Garland to SCOTUS by asserting that the Senate's inaction waived their right to advise and consent.

fine well I'll just sign all of them

jpod blames obama for the failures of the dem party -- lots to take exception with in that article but i do wonder what ppl think - does obama bear responsibility for the epic collapse of democratic political power in the US?

Newt Gingrich: Steve Bannon Can’t Be Anti-Semitic Because He Worked In Finance And Hollywood

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gingrich-bannon-anti-semitism_us_5829d117e4b02d21bbc99315?

friend shared a long Dana Gould FB post that bpiled down to "hey guys instead of disagreeing & yelling we should take the time to talk & debate with conservatives they were cool to me & were totes reasonable & willing to exchange ideas"

on one hand i agree
also i like Dana Gould a lot

but also: if he was a POC or a muslim or a woman or all of those things i guarantee it probably wouldn't be a meeting of the minds

it's great that it went well for YOU dude but don't sit here and tell me that that's what the rest of the country should do

fuckin tired of these instructive essays already

I'm not interested in assigning blame really (although I willingly accept my own share) just manically trying to think of everything I can do moving forward.

xp

xp Indeed - look at the shit Kumail Nanjiani is taking on Twitter for sharing his thoughts and experiences.

tbh debating white liberals as a POC often isn't a meeting of the minds either
xp

the media debate is certainly more complicated when you take into account how fast (mis)information spreads on the internet and that trump is the living personification of an internet comment section

This deserves that Jackie Chan "WTF?!" meme face. I know the AP is kind of a joke of an organization these days but ffs.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxPWBjmW8AAq42v.jpg

http://www.fostercampbell2016.com/

FYI - US senate seat still open in louisiana

Bannon will thrive quite well as one of Trump's close advisors, unless he tries to pull a Sejanus. He has the sort of deeply nasty, bullying personality to play well with Trump.

Whatever position Priebus fills after the inauguration, he'll be discarded as soon as it is convenient to do so. He's only there to teach the real uglies some of the ropes of DC inside politics, give Trump a veneer of respectability and then be tossed overboard ASAP. The day will come, and probably in 2017, when Priebus will wake up and discover he's inserted a monster into the presidency and there's not a fucking thing he can do about it.

secretary of state milo yiannopoulos

Yes, I have already been instructed by a conservative friend to keep an open mind because Trump is "making moves to inject diversity" by finding homes for Ben Carson and Kellyanne Conway. xp

friend shared a long Dana Gould FB post that bpiled down to "hey guys instead of disagreeing & yelling we should take the time to talk & debate with conservatives they were cool to me & were totes reasonable & willing to exchange ideas"

no. fuck this. the people sharing this stuff are the same people who declared Hillary a criminal with no evidence whatsoever. these are the people who HATED Trump because he was a racist, a con man, and treated women awfully, riiiight up until the point where he got the nomination, and suddenly they were cool with everything. these were the people who mocked everyone for believing the "lamestream media" because they spread false information, and decided to support a man who was nothing BUT false information, who apparently didn't think the people voting for him deserved to know a thing about his investments or his business interests. these are the people who cried "rigged" the entire way despite illegal meddling from the FBI and Russia, who only won because of the electoral college. we're not going to forget about all that.

Yes, I have already been instructed by a conservative friend to keep an open mind because Trump is "making moves to inject diversity" by finding homes for Ben Carson and Kellyanne Conway. xp

oh my god I got sent that too - "I THOUGHT HE WAS A BIGOT!!" - also showing a gay man, Peter Thiel, as one of his "first" appointments. it's so dumb. "you say he's a racist, but he's hired black people. are those the actions of a racist?" fuck off. not to mention that Thiel and Carson in the cabinet is fucking terrifying.

"making moves to inject stupidity."

I love dana but his FB post was wrong

I had a dream about a news story featuring the pictures of Trump's cabinet appointments, which included both Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope and which seems both horrifically on-the-nose but also way off the mark inasmuch as they, unlike most of Trump's cronies, have in the past demonstrated some intellectual curiosity re: magnets and what have you.

"A woman and an openly gay man...but it's Sarah Palin and Milo Yiannopoulos" #thefrogurtisalsocursed

I've mentioned previously my friend/co-worker (whose office is next door to mine) who went from Berniebro to Steinbro, and even the day before the election was posting pro-Green stuff and saying "Vote your conscience, don't let them scare you into thinking Trump can win."

Since last Tuesday he's been posting on FB every critical story about Trump he can find, and just posted the Deadspin piece about Trump's unprepared transition team with this note:

It's all happening... Trump doesn't really want to do the work. He just wants the status. Funny that they're trying now to see how much power they can legally give Mike Pence. And man, that is bad news for the country.
If you're gay, that dude literally wants to arrest you for applying for a marriage license. You may not agree with gay marriage, but that is scary. And a vote for Trump was indifference to these sorts of things, even though you might not be a bad person yourself.

It's all I can do, literally, to keep from getting up from my desk, opening my office door, walking into the hall, opening his office door and beating him to death.

I admire your self-restraint

v progressive of you

I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU, MORBZ

This Kurt Eichenwald piece in Newsweek is quite something.

On Friday, I almost assaulted a fan of my work. I was in the Philadelphia International Airport, and a man who recognized me from one of my appearances on a television news show approached. He thanked me for the investigative reporting I had done about Donald Trump before the election, expressed his outrage that the Republican nominee had won, and then told me quite gruffly, “Get back to work.” Something about his arrogance struck me, so I asked, “Who did you vote for?”

He replied, “Well, Stein, but…” I interrupted him, and said, “You’re lucky it’s illegal for me to punch you in the face.” Then, after telling him to have sex with himself—but with a much cruder term—I turned and walked away.

A certain kind of liberal makes me sick. They traffic in false equivalencies, always pretending that both nominees are the same, justifying their apathy and not voting or preening about their narcissistic purity as they cast their ballot for a person they know cannot win. I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump, because they wanted a Trump presidency. I have an enormous problem with anyone who voted for Trump or Stein or Johnson—or who didn’t vote at all—and who now expresses horror about the outcome of this election. If you don’t like the consequences of your own actions, shut the hell up.

"i want to beat people to the left of me to death, but i have restraint" -- sincerely, a very good liberal

yeah, both you blamesters are still disgusting Dem hacks.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/09/gary-johnson-jill-stein-voters-clinton

"people who wanted trump on the other hand, we're brahs"

Morbs now repping for Koch Bros Media, awesome

I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump
I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump
I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump
I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump
I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump
I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump
I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump
I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump

congrats on knowing who owns everything, pd, it's a full life. now go beat some idealists to death.

“You’re lucky it’s illegal for me to punch you in the face.”

Putin on the Hitz

I thought you were banned, you tedious fuckhole.

when do we get to find out how many people wrote in Harambe?

Coming from someone who not only knows the name of Chelsea Clinton's husband but what he does for a living, that's rich.

I think there's an errant comma in that Eichenwald piece, not that it makes it better. It should probably read: I have no problem with anyone who voted for Trump because they wanted a Trump presidency. Otherwise the next sentence makes no sense, since it begins, "I have an enormous problem with anyone who voted for Trump or Stein or Johnson . . ."

Yeah seems he means strictly in context of being upset at the outcome.

someone who not only knows the name of Chelsea Clinton's husband but what he does for a living

i dont remember that toad's name. i'm sure you've congealed every anti-Clinton poster into one

Eichenwald is possibly my least favorite person in media right now outside of the actual right wing.

He seems exceedingly stupid and craven, even for a mushy centrist.

Later I'll find the tweetstorm about how his "tech people" told him it was "not possible" for 600,000 emails to be stored on one laptop.

speaking of hysterical people, arthur chu has now taken to retweeting peter daou. think it's time to unfollow

Peter Daou literally tweeted that it's not the campaign's job to convince people to vote.

i managed to get blocked by arthur chu without ever interacting with him. still not entirely sure what his deal is

lol me too

Eichenwald deleted at least some of the tweets about how laptops can't possibly store that many emails locally. https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/795411365569658880

I mean the guy wrote The Informant. He has connections at the FBI, clearly. He's just an imbecile.

the posts of his i've seen read like a living satire of performative liberalism

I like the cut of this Merkley fellow's job: https://www.merkley.senate.gov/news/press-releases/merkley-denounces-appointment-of-white-nationalist-to-top-white-house-post

*jib