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

Digby located the hottest of takes from a PUA/MRA fuckface who basically thinks anything goes now. Can't wait to see these dudes get maced, stabbed in the dick, or both. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/controversial-pick-up-artist-roosh-v-celebrates-donald-trump-s-victory-if-the-president-can-say-it-a7421161.html

funny how "the best" people don't actually want to work for Trump

a couple days ago there was this video of a totally unhinged trumpist woman losing her shit, uncut, at an msnbc reporter:

https://twitter.com/nick_ramsey/status/796908208241643520

seemed pretty embarassing to me! but now i see she's become a minor culture hero

https://twitter.com/HarshObserver1/status/799162593910759425

gonna be a long 4 years

is the Kurt Cobain quote ironic or

blue collar middle america has en masse helped elect a trust-fund baby who has, over-time, inherited over $600,000,000.00 from his father.

is that actually true cuz if so lol

But mostly he just chews up the carpet and shits in your shoes.

Shitting out Amazon reviews, no less

at the risk of sounding like a broken record, how come more isn't being made of the louisiana senate race? https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-16/democrats-can-t-write-off-the-last-senate-race-in-louisiana

cuz Democrats are a bunch of pussies? you'd think the party would be expending resources to bolster turnout in New Orleans at least

just shared that fwiw

Shakey otm

right wing co-option so far includes:

pepe
cuckolding
new balances
postmodernism

what's next?

haha oh boy here we go again
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/17/jon-stewart-slams-liberal-hypocrisy-for-branding-d/

Lady Lindsay cool w either Giuliani or Bolton at State, or Cruz on the Supreme Court...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/politics/lindsey-graham-rand-paul-donald-trump-confirmations/index.html

a couple days ago there was this video of a totally unhinged trumpist woman losing her shit, uncut, at an msnbc reporter:

https://twitter.com/nick_ramsey/status/796908208241643520

seemed pretty embarassing to me! but now i see she's become a minor culture hero

https://twitter.com/HarshObserver1/status/799162593910759425

gonna be a long 4 years

― goole, Thursday, November 17, 2016 5:37 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh wow, the Girl Who I Shouldn't Have Started a Conversation With at a Party really let herself go

I wonder if the washington times is all pissed off about doing the hard right news outlet thing first

Re: the Louisiana race, when I looked into it there was every indication that run-off or no, he was going to get trounced. I guess you never know, though.

More interesting, North Carolina still has not decided its gov race.

entirely possible, but turnout in runoff elections is notoriously low + unpredictable. you'd think some anti-Trump anger might be channeled effectively

israel's ambassador shouts out bannon? http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/ron-dermer-israeli-ambassador-praises-trump-bannon-231578

I don't find that surprising. Breitbart Jerusalem, etc

Sorry for the shorthand reply (in a rush)

Penzey's Spices guy is angry

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxfw5NYVQAAEhK7.jpg

the us ambassador from israel is a fucking gop humping scumbag

good on him tbh xp

David Remnick talks to Obama.

The official line at the White House was that the hour-and-a-half meeting with Trump went well and that Trump was solicitous. Later, when I asked Obama how things had really gone, he smiled thinly and said, “I think I can’t characterize it without . . . ” Then he stopped himself and said that he would tell me, “at some point over a beer—off the record.”

I wasn’t counting on that beer anytime soon. But after the sitdown with Trump, Obama told staff members that he had talked Trump through the rudiments of forming a cabinet and policies, including the Iran nuclear deal, counter-terrorism policy, health care—and that the President-elect’s grasp of such matters was, as the debates had made plain, modest at best. Trump, despite his habitual bluster, seemed awed by what he was being told and about to encounter.

Denis McDonough strolled by with some friends and family. The day before, the person Trump sent to debrief him about how to staff and run a White House was his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. They had taken a walk on the South Lawn.

I asked McDonough how it was going, and he gave me a death-skull grin. “Everything’s great!” he said. He clenched his teeth and grinned harder in self-mockery. McDonough is the picture of rectitude: the ramrod posture, the trimmed white hair, the ashen mien of a bishop who has missed two meals in a row. “I guess if you keep repeating it, it’s like a mantra, and it will be O.K. ‘Everything will be O.K., everything will be O.K.’ ”

n the Oval Office, the President was quick to comfort the young members of his staff, but he was, an aide told me, even more concerned about the wounding effect the election would have on the categories of Americans who had been routinely insulted and humiliated by the President-elect. At a social occasion earlier this year, someone asked Michelle Obama how it was possible for her husband to maintain his equipoise amid so much hatred. “You have no idea how bad it is,” she said. His practiced calm is beyond reckoning.

If they both take faculty positions at a law school somewhere I might have to apply to law school

Meanwhile, for those curious, here's a breakdown of what happened in Florida, specifically the famous I-4 corridor:

http://steveschale.squarespace.com/blog/2016/11/14/florida-2016-in-the-rearview-mirror.html

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15085475_10210931517514233_7017732641750945736_n.jpg?oh=4dabdc894a504fcc4f37e25f42f1747e&oe=588A9569

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15134529_10211195870957766_6173996564034086870_n.jpg?oh=5d922e3bc28b599a7bef6b5ca6458486&oe=58BBE662

man, must be heartbreaking for Obama to pass the baton to this doofus

https://twitter.com/surlyurbanist/status/799414446959435776 (via jamelle bouie)

this seems like the sort of nuanced take on the intersection of race and class (and possibly the implications on electoral politics, though i like that the tweeter didn't force himself into a definitive conclusion) that i'd like to read more of, rather than the binary-minded, blame-laying type of thinking that is much more prevalent all over the net

definitely have that remnick article tabbed for later tonight

it's a great article. you're touched, again, by Obama's depth and resolve. And I'm dying to know what he really thought, which he says is 'off the record'

Remnick article is heartbreaking

Maybe the only president in 40 years I'd have a martini with and ask wtf drones

yeah i think many of us had issues with the president early in his tenure, and still do, but he's a fundamentally decent man and i think all the abuse he's taken and obnoxious opposition he's had to face has softened me toward him a considerable deal

probably the only president since Truman to emerge from the presidency with his humanity intact too

It may not survive the next two months.

yeahhhhh, i'm not gonna take another ban this soon.

Good morning!

you use that whenever you're "in the mood," eh

Good mourning!

On The Pulse Of Mourning

maya angelou humor never really a crowd pleaser...

that poem was a cowl, yeah

The Associated PressVerified account
‏@AP
BREAKING: Senior official: Trump has offered retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn job as national security adviser.

...better than secretary of defense... i suppose... ?

he can have an incompetence-off with condi

One of the articles about how really Trumps win was about the economy told the story that he went to Michigan and said that he would demand the Ford factory kept it's carmaking in Michigan, otherwise he'd levy a 35% tariff on imported Ford cars. How the fuck would he keep that promise? Well, he just tweeted that Ford won't move it's carmaking to Mexico. From Kentucky.

The Kentucky production was never getting moved to Mexico to begin with. Trump's known this for weeks. The Michigan cars will still move to Mexico. And none of this matters at all...

read that as "officially retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's job as national security adviser" at first

So uh flynn's son

http://cnn.it/2g15qZ6

notably that position doesn't require a Senate confirmation