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

Trump just had a meeting with press figures in Trump Tower:

"he executives and news personalities spotted entering Trump Tower included NBC's Deborah Turness and Lester Holt; MSNBC’s Chuck Todd; CNN's Jeff Zucker and Wolf Blitzer; Fox News' Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace and Suzanne Scott; CBS' John Dickerson, Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell; and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, David Muir and Martha Raddatz."

Clarence Thomas' memoir, of all places, has one of the few evocations of Geechee life I've found.

few here are from Wyoming or Alaska. but then, few people are from there period.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Monday, November 21, 2016 3:44 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There are more people in my county of Ohio then there are in those two states combined, frankly they shouldn't get any EV at all.

(That's a joke just in case The Usual Suspects decide to say something stupid)

Donald Trump's media summit was "a fucking firing squad," according to the New York Post

omg

sac up you idiots

is this real???????? are we all living the same goddamn dream????

huck Todd asked some pretty pointed questions. David Muir asked how are you going to cope living in DC while your family is in NYC?

David Muir asked a pretty pointed question

Jesus christ

gonna be a long goddamn four years

we already knew the media was completely worthless and yet it's still somehow disconcerting to read that

those pictures esp at the bottom. wolf blitzer.

It is completely beyond me why any self respecting journalist would wiggle his way up to Trump's lair to be shouted down.

This is not happening, right?

y'all don't think it made them bind together

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that we're all probably better served by an adversarial media right now

i mean they thought they were going for access and they got yelled at

i hope so but they seem a lot more like chastened puppies than bold professionals atm

No, I get you now - I misread you as suggesting that it was invented by misogynist trolls.

I'd struggle to criticise the sign though - the murder rate among black trans women, for example is much higher than black cis men, but they don't get to be the backdrop. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing but respect for Black Lives Matters, and I'm well aware that it has a higher rate of female leadership than any non-gender-focussed organisation - but I don't know that it lives in a gender-free vacuum.

i'm going to be breathing into this paper bag for 4 years, arent I

And you people with the "four years". Make that eight, if not more...

not helping

fuck off with that "if not more"

A moment of clarity: none of these people has reported much less done anything remotely investigative in, what, twenty years?

Wolf Blitzer's job is to gesture at screens

for many of them ever

These are the men and women Trump worries about!

Another moment of clarity, I hope -- maybe this isn't entirely a new thing?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/nixons-revenge-his-media-strategy-triumphs-40-years-after-resignation/375274/

if none of them have reported then they can hardly be liars

Make that eight, if not more...

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, November 21, 2016 5:54 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck off with that "if not more"

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, November 21, 2016 5:55 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guys donald trump is seven million years old and he lives off burger king and four hours of sleep a night. he's not going to live eight more years.

Keep in mind that an "unnamed source" reporting this to the Trump-friendly NY Post means it probably came from "John Barron" and that may not be the most truthful recap of what went down.

The fact that all these people, journalists who consider themselves journalists, showed up is bad enough tbh

i don't like my republican family members any more than anybody else, but women are more than capable of being republicans on their own two feet and denying them any agency in their votes isn't cool.

many x-posts: FWIW, the first person who ever said "Donald Trump should run for president" was my mom back in 2008. If she were still alive now I believe she would be really happy.

To wit:

Paul Szoldra Verified account
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Two @CNN sources say that basically, the @nypost retelling of Trump/media meeting is bullshit

There's a Trump hotel two blocks from the White House that one assumes has been sufficiently coated with gilded diarrhea to satisfy anyone in that family; why stress over the actual accommodations in the House of Whiteness?

but for 45% of the country this will be one of the best parts in the Trump section of real american patriot rock flag and eagle folklore

can't wait for when Breitbart launches a cable TV news network next year and is granted exclusive access to President Trump

The doublespeak from his spokesperson on the radio is completely maddening.

http://www.youtube.com/7xX_KaStFT8

https://youtu.be/7xX_KaStFT8

(Trump on TPPexit and a gazillion other 'hilarious' dumb plans)

hearing trump speaking in anything other than trump-cadence is pretty jarring

trump's gonna end the visa programs that allow him to stock his hotels with cheap immigrant labor every summer, is that right

There will be college grads vying to clean his toilets.

my god he could barely make it through that ("So important")

If he's going to hide in Trump Tower and communicate via youtube clips and twitter, then I guess we can expect full on Big Brother. This is going to be a rough four years.

Incidentally, per vitriol and sore winners, every interview with a Trump supporter I've read has either been gloating or cynical, either "you lost, get over it" or "I don't really expect much, let's see what he does." Add in that piece on also-cynical Milwaukee non-voters and it's just so completely broken down I can't imagine things getting better in less than a generation. So maybe it will!

is the post story supposed to be "trump friendly"? i guess the idea is that people will love their guy dressing down a bunch of big wigs?? cause it just sounds pathetic and absurd to me

Imagine the mind of a person who gets his jollies from picking on Lester Holt.

xp good call, breitb@rt is playing up this very angle