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

Mr. Landslide reminds me of the cop in this clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HktV2yGtLv8

how much of a craven shitbag to you have to be to get schooled by don fucking lemon of all people smdh

this feels pretty otm to me:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/29/opinions/trump-the-sore-winner-sklar/index.html

how likely is it the GOP will try to defund Planned Parenthood via Medicare/Title X? Trump has seemed to waffle on that and the election wasn't driven by that as much as it usually is but I suppose Ryan/etc see this as their chance

and Pence is basically a psycho on the issue

Trump suggests loss of citizenship or jail for those who burn U.S. flags

ok so dude is now more or less encouraging people who protest him to burn flags. awesome. is this bannon at work?

this is an obvious provocation, just like all his tweets. dnftt

Someone pointed out that Fox News had a report on flag burning right before Trump tweeted. He's not a provocateur, nor a machiavellian genius who uses social media to distract from his true agenda. He's an idiot with no attention span.

One thing I'm definitely not wasting a lot of time or energy on in the next four years is overanalyzing Trump's tweets. Deliberate distraction, telegraphing his plans, 11-dimensional chess or stupid childish outburst -- what difference does any of this make to organizing against his agenda?

yeah I just saw this. he's a moron. trump's razor strikes again.

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Timing of Trump's tweet lines up w/ Fox segment at 6:25AM on students burning the flag foxnews.com/us/2016/11/28/… twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…

that is pretty funny though

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A testy John McCain to reporters: "I will not speak about Donald Trump, and I do not want to be asked again."

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PTX-uLKMqV8/Ubt_sOSKTjI/AAAAAAAAMWs/ZPfoSvq54rs/s1600/respond-to-it.gif

that is hilarious xp

it almost seemss like he's a right-wing chauncey gardner, speaking from the heart with childlike simplicity and having everyone read in deep strategizing

obviously ben carson is the right wing chauncey gardner

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 8m 8 minutes ago
New Rogue One Trailer has Darth Vader. Thought he died in Return of the Jedi. Confusing!

If Dan Quayle is coming back to Washington, we need Candice Bergen back on TV posthaste. And with more than a voice cameo on Bojack Horseman.

New York Times subscription growth soars tenfold, adding 132,000, after Trump's win

This is heartening (our household just became NYT and WaPo subscribers this weekend), and it's something I'd love to see happen wrt every entity that opposes the Trump administration or that the Trump administration opposes. Like, expect the worst (e.g. Planned Parenthood being totally defunded) and put your money toward offsetting the worst. When the holidays are over and I can budget for it, I'm setting up automatic monthly donations for PP (among others).

And maybe everyone can just, like, refuse to pay federal taxes for the next four years, as well? That'd be cool.

no need to refuse when they're gonna be slashed in half anyway

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 8m 8 minutes ago
New Rogue One Trailer has Darth Vader. Thought he died in Return of the Jedi. Confusing!

― nomar, Tuesday, November 29, 2016 3:30 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Donald Trump just telegraphed a terrifying plan to rebuild the Death Star. --Vox

ACLU, PP, WaPo, NYT have been my focus also. also thinking about contributing to the LA senate race- anybody see that as viable? xxp

TBF 132,000 is really not a lot of people.

I gave to the LA senate race. While it is seen as a longshot by "typical" election standards, this is not a typical election at all. And past LA senate runoff elections have been won with fewer votes than Hillary lost LA with.

I gave too.

xxpost I would assume, relatively speaking wrt getting people to pay for digital or print content that isn't super cheap, that that probably is a lot of people. Particularly over just a couple of weeks.

Oh I think it's a ton of people by "paid subscription" standards, I just don't think it's a ton of people by "meaningful political action" standards.

xp you can also see it as money that will help build the party in Louisiana even if he loses

^^^

In re Trump's filters and sources of information, I'm sure plenty of other people have noted this, but it's instructive to look at which 40 Twitter accounts he officially follows.

NYT was pretty much the worst major newspaper offender during this election idk why anyone would think they're suddenly going to be the righteous opposition

the hicks who voted for trump don't read the NYT

NYT is a thought leader in the media tho and drove a lot of the never ending email coverage and equivocation. and it wasn't just hicks that voted for trump.

Mordy otm

I am kinda pissed at the NYT these days. WaPo was way more aggressive w Trump.

I've been pissed at the NYT since Ferguson, they are bootlickers

they seem all too happy to let Trump completely control the media narrative. Their headline today is about this flag-burning nonsense.

the hicks who voted for trump don't read the NYT

― k3vin k., Tuesday, November 29, 2016 4:17 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Obviously we need some strategy beyond coastal media to reach people in swing states. Maybe papers in florida, ohio, michigan, wisconsin, PA etc. are better targets of support. There's also obviously a need for some kind of non-traditional media that can reach non-newspaper readers. I feel like there must be some possibility of a "left Breitbart" (which should not by any means actually be modeled on Breitbart, since that wouldn't work for the left).

have we mentioned yet that the popular vote is now the largest margin in 140 years?

what the fuck

huh? no it's not

I feel like there must be some possibility of a "left Breitbart"

isn't that what Huffpo is

I'm a stan of Chapo Trap House, which obviously has a highly limited appeal, but I think there might be something to learn from their approach, which dispenses with some of the high seriousness of a lot of left internet media.

high seriousness and also reaction gifs

in any case we need a counter to john oliver/john stewart 'buhhhh REALLY'??/mugging at the camera kind of humor

'republican said/did a thing'

re NYT - I feel like the biggest stories they had in the campaign were due to the fact that they were the ones who got the leaked pages from trumps tax return in the 90s. its not because they had reporters grinding it out.

the times were also the most egregious of posting news 'stories' that were posted and written in advance that didn't even accurately reflect what the fuck actually happened at the event/speech/whatever they were covering.

We just subscribed to the NYT even though I was not thrilled with them during the election. Feel like there's a potential onslaught coming and they're better than nothing.

xpz yr right, a friend misstated a maddow argument i should've double checked but it had an msnbc link. maddow is making a different argument [that confused my fb friend]
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/long-reach-to-find-precedent-for-2016-popular-vote-gap-in-us-past-816737347527?cid=sm_fb_msnbc

btw i think NYT did a terrible job and also i've had a sub to them for about a decade so i mean their reporting is really the without comparison most of the time they just stunk this election cycle. esp their foreign coverage is worth subbing for.

It pains me to think a penny of my money is going to David Brooks, Thomas Friedman or Ross Douthat

I think the nyt is 'okay' but I think the story of this election was that the nytimes matters less than patriotnewsrepublic.info and deplorableyorktimes.org and it has less control over the news narrative than it ever has.

pestering mark zuckerberg to push the nytimes harder on peoples' news feeds ultimately matters more than # of subscriptions.

NYT just hired a friend of mine who won a Pulitzer this year and she just had a baby, please don't take food away from my friend's baby