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

popular vote deficit passed 1 mill! lol mandate

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 9:40 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hopefully the dems can use this as a weapon against mcconnell's bullshit 'the voters need a voice in the new supreme court pick'

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries),

really? just like in W's first term?

interesting stats lion

interesting stats lion

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 5:26 PM (fifty-seven seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It just makes me wonder if he's serious, what they'd plan to do to make removal easier. Obviously any legislative change in that regard is going to draw court challenges. Because I think, with those numbers, you'd have to bench half the immigration lawyers in the U.S. to achieve your goal. And they're not going to do it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/15/new-york-trump-buildings-trump-place-name-removed?CMP=share_btn_tw

lol

of course he isn't serious, he never thought any of this shit through

xp

signed that Garland petition and then saw this one that is much closer: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/appoint-garland-now-senate-has-waived-its-rights

whoah what the hell? that's a reversal from just a couple days ago. I think there are three, I signed them all

I've never looked into this process before, does someone at the WH really have to write an email like "Guys, free speech" to that YG one

probably

that's what interns are for!

if there's some other avenue to get Obama to take this idea seriously I'd happily pursue it but idk what it is

tombot xp except that border patrol guy.. you mad bc the budget's been slashed? pretty sure thats not entirely obama's fault

and the only reason the border patrol endorsed this clown was they'd get unlimited budget money forever. its all they care about.

i signed the petitions but obama ain't gonna do shit. it's not in his nature

if mitt romney or whoever had won this election I would be cool with this but I really don't want to give trump any precedent for pushing the boundaries in the constitution

I mean he's gonna do it regardless but this would make it easier

obama should've bluffed by outright saying "approve MG now, or I appoint someone 2x as liberal as lame-duck"

Have to admit this infighting/purging gives me a little bit of hope

speaking of which
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/15/sen-rand-paul-says-neither-giuliani-nor-bolton-would-get-his-vote-for-secretary-of-state/

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/602/the-sun-comes-up

Oh boy

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/11/14/was-election-vote-against-hamilton/HAT5A4m3msG6m8pPORbknL/story.html

OPINION | NIALL FERGUSON
Was the election a vote against ‘Hamilton’?

Have we already shared this, from Elizabeth Warren?

http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/2016-11-15-Trump_Letter.pdf

Trump: tl/dr

We're lucky if Trump becomes the new normal. There's no countervailing force against the direction Trump demonstrates we're heading in, so why on earth it would it get any better. Magic? I get why people want to make themselves feel better about this, but c'mon, this isn't going anywhere good.

if I was given the opportunity to vote against 'hamilton' I would

ugh sen warren's office needs a better scanner

Even 1 in 12 African-Americans voted Republican this year.

That sounds much better than 8.3%, I guess?

god fuck off niall ferguson you nauseating henry kissinger apologist with your "this is how democracy is meant to work" bullshit

lol!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/11/15/give-steve-bannon-a-chance-its-not-like-hes-literally-joseph-goebbels/?utm_term=.e298062f6c7a

also, why oh why isn't her column called The Petri Dish?

Our leaders, political, business, and otherwise, who are telling us to accept this as the new normal are the same people who are trying to gut our salaries, slash even more of our benefits, and have no particular issue with throwing us in the garbage when they're done with us. If they could sell our souls to hell for a couple of dollars, they wouldn't even blink at it. So yeah, let's listen to these guys, they're looking after us, they care.

Washington Post is Amazon owned, and they don't give a fuck that they literally kill people with their work practices. You think these people are gonna share the love with all of you?

Nevermind, that article was being ironic.

ha, yeah it was.

i laughed.

Have to admit this infighting/purging gives me a little bit of hope

― 龜, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

part of me thinks this way but the other part of me sees this as an authoritarian purging his staff of all remaining moderates in favor of loyalists

man, the Paul boys might be the most insidious of the white nationalists. So many otherwise decent people think Ron, most of all, is just a happy lil country doctor who doesn't want to interfere with your drugs and guns.

I played quiz bowl against Alexandra Petri when I was in high school, I just want to mention that somewhere

I have no doubt that a real racist sexist chauvinist white supremacist will be easy to spot. “I am coming for minorities now,” he will say. “I am an actual racist. I am, literally, Hitler, or at the very least Goebbels.”

I'll take the chuckle anywhere I can get it.

An excellent philosophy to live yr life by imo.

As good as any Onion response and even better for being in a msm daily, kiu

more on foster campbell's senate chances in louisiana

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/campaign/305812-democrats-have-one-final-shot-to-flip-a-senate-seat

http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/republican-john-kennedy-has-advantage-in-runoff-senate-race

i signed the petitions but obama ain't gonna do shit. it's not in his nature

― k3vin k., Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:57 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah obama believes way too much in acting in service of governmental norms, even when the other side is radically violating them

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/798721142525665280

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏@realDonaldTrump
Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!

9:55 PM - 15 Nov 2016

To be revealed on the next episode of Government Apprentice!

yeah obama believes way too much in acting in service of governmental norms, even when the other side is radically violating them

it's sad to have beliefs and principles and stuff

i'm not saying it's not, it's just that everyone who is clinging to the idea that he would try to sneakily slip garland while the senate is looking the other way is missing the nature of who obama is imo

agreed

One can hope. Maybe he can be convinced that roe v. Wade is that important, these are extraordinary circumstances etc. Idk what do we have to lose by pushing hom on it.

Having been burned, oh, a week or so ago, I take these "Team Trump in disarray!" stories with a serious dash of salt.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/15/im-the-trump-supporter-pollsters-missed/?tid=pm_opinions_pop&utm_term=.7e8e341149b0

This article is pretty good. By which I mean that through its floundering irrationality it eloquently demonstrates the exact immunity to logic that caused the Trump win. This is how a large chunk of voters who aren't entrenched with either party moves - that is, the voters who decide elections once the bases have laid down their solid, predictable, zero-sum foundations.

Dude does not sound like he would be a good hang.

BTW, it just occurred to me that maybe the floundering Team Trump stories are true, and that come January he will have only filled a fraction of the positions needed ... and then he will boast that they were not needed, and look at all the money he is already saving, because he is a smart businessman who knows how to staff a big operation.

They should RapGenius that with footnotes to all the insane shit like Obama not delivering on infrastructure and get him to respond.