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

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.

How I wish we could have selected someone with Newt Gingrich’s command of the facts, Sen. Marco Rubio’s eloquence, Mike Huckabee’s character, Sen. Ted Cruz’s deep love of the Constitution, Carly Fiorina’s clarity of thought and Ben Carson’s humility and gentleness.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha fuck you dude

"Secretary of State Giuliani" or "Secretary Bolton" would've been a thing in a Christie or Rubio administration.

Steve Vai's guitar skills, Lars Ulrich's acumen, Ted Nugget's diplomacy, the guy from Jackyl's mastery of the chainsaw, Jon Bon Jovi's longevity and Kid Rock's inclusivity.

Ha, Ted Nugget. Thanks, bourbon!

"How would the person seated next to you in a New York City television studio know?"

Like the set of the Apprentice?

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

― scott seward, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:41 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Her Twitter handle is @petridishes.

i don't feel like i have any way to predict what a trump presidency will be like. forced deportations and impulsive wars sounds outlandish, but i just watched like, 500 days of trump saying something, everyday, that should disqualify him from the presidency, and then be elected president.

Maybe it's not that he was elected president and more that no one else was elected president.

Quick question: when reports state that Trump asked that top secret briefings be given to his children and son in law, am I to read that as ... top secret briefings are being given to his children and son in law? Because if the president asks for it, can anyone tell him no? Is there any law against who the president OKs for secret briefings? Wonder how long backstage (and back-stabby) stuff starts leaking publicly. The first I saw was this today:

Prominent American allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump. At times, they have been patched through to him in his luxury office tower with little warning, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt was the first to reach Mr. Trump for such a call last Wednesday, followed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not long afterward. But that was about 24 hours before Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain got through — a striking break from diplomatic practice given the close alliance between the United States and Britain.

the incompetence and disorganization is really grotesque

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

Holy Hell!

Really motherfucker? It should be nothing but organized you shit head!

posted upthread :)

Fuck idk even know. I'm just is such a rage atm and I hate this fucker so damn much any every idiot that voted for him.

lol at "ted cruz's deep love of the constitution"

he particularly loves the 2 ply version

his go-to when he runs out of athletic socks

http://www.action-force.dk/cobra/figures/serpentor/serpentor-filecard.jpg

don't blink or you'll miss em
http://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-expert-mike-rogers-leaves-trump-transition-team-amid-shake-up-1479221847

should staff the cabinet with all reality stars

Trump appoints horse to Secretary of Defense

Trump appoints Norman Schwarzkopf to Secretary of Treasury

(one week later)

Trump team learns Cabinet appointees must be living, learns Schwarzkopf has been dead for 4 yrs

bahahahahaha

Fuck idk even know. I'm just is such a rage atm and I hate this fucker so damn much any every idiot that voted for him.

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 11:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^

I like to imagine Trump realizing just how far out of his depth he is, panicking, and feigning a health crisis that forces him to resign, disappearing from public view swiftly thereafter, retreating to Mar-a-Lago to live out his days as a semi-invalid suffering from dementia, leaving the republic in even greater disarray but safe at least from his special brand of depredations.

the meetings have got to be a total shitshow

I finally had the talk with my mom on facetime today (she lives near Bham, Al). I had been hoping that her disdain for disgusting men like Trump would overrule her disdain for corporate elitists like Hillary enough for her to write in Ben Carson or something but the right wing talking point bubble that she lives in has fully taken hold of her. She's usually able to articulate her thoughts about things well (she's an accountant and has been known to talk my ear off about credit union profit equity laws or w/e) but when she started talking about Hillary she wasn't even forming complete sentences, just stuttering shards of talking points like a 12 year-old trying to justify why he had to throw a rock at the other kid. It was sad and disappointing and she straight up shocked me in an exchange when I asked her what Obama had done that was so horrible and she said "Obamacare" and I said "yeah, I wish we just had a socialist single-payer system" and she said "well that's what we have, a socialist system, that's why it's so expensive" and I had to use wikipedia to prove to her that all the top insurance companies are for-profit. She's usually the first to admit it when she's totally ignorant of a subject matter but when it comes to right-wing media topics she completely falls into that stupid "skeptical=smart" trap and argues for ridiculous falsehood until she says "well you believe what you believe and I believe what I believe" like there's no such thing as facts.

I dunno; I've tried to resist directly attacking people head on, and try to shift them by a few degrees at a time.

That's mainly the route that I took today. I wasn't even the one who brought up the election but she seemed compelled to defend her vote (she knows where I stand politically). I'm hoping that by asking a few non-pointed questions and rebutting them with a fact here and there I can slowly whittle away at her certainty about these foolish positions but I don't talk to her as much as local Bham morning DJs do on her commute so I'm not sure if it's wasted effort. I've tried prodding her about climate change over the years, hoping that as studies and evidence and international consensus continue to pile up she'll start to believe it's real and man-made but she still brings up that one time those scientist emails leaked about maybe skewing the results of one study.

Jeb Lund posted this fun timeline today, wondering if the fuckery would be reported on by media types with the same zeal as "the Obamacare website doesn't work!1" but wasn't holding his breath

http://i.imgur.com/2JCUAjN.jpg