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

and Trump too

If he were savvier he'd be more dangerous, but as it is I dislike Dan Quayle more than most surviving politicos: a cynical, hungry little chiseler with a brain smaller than a sauropod's.

I'm so glad the children of today can experience the 80's just like we did; ghostbusters, dan quayle. maybe crack will make a big comeback

hell Reagan never went away. Neither did Duran Duran

Can someone start making quaaludes again? Kind of sad I missed out on those.

Jesus Christ, flag burning? Are we doomed to relive all of the '90s culture wars?

Absolutely, get 2Live Crew on tour again

i sort of hope the republicans waste a lot of time on flag burning legislation tbh. something useless and time consuming that won't hold up in court

continuing in my "greatest hits of hyperbolic numbered lists of shit to watch out for"

https://medium.com/@nziehl/coping-with-chaos-in-the-white-house-697fa2ca3ddf#.7rios21qa

I love that "flying monkeys" is a technical term from "the literature" on NPD

i sort of hope the republicans waste a lot of time on flag burning legislation tbh. something useless and time consuming that won't hold up in court

― k3vin k.

For a couple more months, anyway.

i sort of hope the republicans waste a lot of time on flag burning legislation tbh. something useless and time consuming that won't hold up in court

― k3vin k., Tuesday, November 29, 2016 7:43 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm

OT re: sumac or other odd ingredients, try vitacost.com. Things I've had endless headaches finding elsewhere (like the veggie better than boullion) are there for about 2/3 of what they cost on Amz. eg, 12 oz sumac for $4.49.

My first reaction upon reading of the flag burning tweet: What other gaffe is he trying to hide today?

I'm kinda hoping my usual inputs stop reporting on Trump tweets. Yes, we all know he's a knuckle dragger, but its not news, and its being used to distract from actual perils.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyeU0lVVEAEOQQu.jpg

something Lynchian about this

trump looks like he's about to eat mitt

only in America would two plutocratic teetotalers eat an exquisite meal.

how is it possible they can eat a meal without a glass of wine?

Mitt's caption: how can I excuse myself before becoming the 3rd course.

Blink twice if you're there against your will, Mitt.

Mitt, I'm sure we can find 19 electors.

NYT at least pretending to wrestle with the advisability of treating Trump's diarrhea drops like news and considering reader opinion on the matter

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/

did u guys talk about this article yet?

But a closer look reveals that some of the biggest fake news providers were run by experienced political operators well within the orbit of Donald Trump’s political advisers and consultants.

Laura Ingraham, a close Trump ally currently under consideration to be Trump’s White House press secretary, owns an online publisher called Ingraham Media Group that runs a number of sites, including LifeZette, a news site that frequently posts articles of dubious veracity. One video produced by LifeZette this summer, ominously titled “Clinton Body Count,” promoted a conspiracy theory that the Clinton family had some role in the plane crash death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as the deaths of various friends and Democrats.

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But LifeZette, for all its influence, pales in comparison to the sites run by Floyd Brown, a Republican consultant close to Trump’s inner circle of advisers. Brown gained notoriety nearly three decades ago for his role in helping to produce the “Willie Horton” campaign advertisement, a spot criticized for its use of racial messaging to derail Michael Dukakis’s presidential bid. Brown is also the political mentor of David Bossie, an operative who went to work for Trump’s presidential campaign this year after founding the Citizens United group. In an interview this year, Brown called Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway a “longtime friend.”

Brown now produces a flow of reliably pro-Trump Internet content through a company he co-owns with his family called Liftable Media Inc., which operates a number of high-impact, tabloid-style news outlets that exploded in size over the course of the election. One of Brown’s sites, Western Journalism, is the 81st largest site in the U.S. with 13 million monthly unique monthly visitors, according to rankings maintained by the site Alexa. Another, called Conservative Tribune, is the 50th largest site with over 19 million monthly unique visitors. Liftable Media is run on a day to day basis by Brown’s son, Patrick, who is the president of Liftable Media.

But LifeZette, for all its influence, pales in comparison to the sites run by Floyd Brown, a Republican consultant close to Trump’s inner circle of advisers. Brown gained notoriety nearly three decades ago for his role in helping to produce the “Willie Horton” campaign advertisement, a spot criticized for its use of racial messaging to derail Michael Dukakis’s presidential bid. Brown is also the political mentor of David Bossie, an operative who went to work for Trump’s presidential campaign this year after founding the Citizens United group. In an interview this year, Brown called Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway a “longtime friend.”

Brown now produces a flow of reliably pro-Trump Internet content through a company he co-owns with his family called Liftable Media Inc., which operates a number of high-impact, tabloid-style news outlets that exploded in size over the course of the election. One of Brown’s sites, Western Journalism, is the 81st largest site in the U.S. with 13 million monthly unique monthly visitors, according to rankings maintained by the site Alexa. Another, called Conservative Tribune, is the 50th largest site with over 19 million monthly unique visitors. Liftable Media is run on a day to day basis by Brown’s son, Patrick, who is the president of Liftable Media.

this sort of willful spreading of misinformation, fear and confusion is a kind of terrorism.

hey all you have to do is google James Conway, Kellyanne's husband, whom I first learned about in the late '90s.

well Mitt totally caved, because of course he did

republicans are cowards, degenerates, and perverts

why are we using the term "fake news" to describe propaganda?

Was talking to a friend about this today -- facebook has no need to "play censor" or fact-check every article, it should just ban egregious websites.

hey all you have to do is google James Conway, Kellyanne's husband, whom I first learned about in the late '90s.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assume you mean George T. Conway III unless she's a serial conway-marrier

friends just call him jimmy or sometimes jim bam bojangles

slimy jim aka george

Just had a heated phone conversation with my dad (I made a friends-only Facebook post advocating burning the flag and tweeting it at Trump; he freaked the absolute fuck out and is convinced I will never have a job), tried talking him down by mentioning the importance of not normalizing THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, who will appoint 2-3 Supreme Court justices, talking about stripping citizenship from people for exercising their most basic First Amendment rights, talked about local actions like delivering recount affidavits to city hall yesterday and volunteering for Planned Parenthood, when some fucking south Philly lowlife came up behind me and starting smacking me in the mouth and chest. Knocked my glasses off, I have a little bit of a fat lip, otherwise fine, but THIS IS NOT FUCKING OKAY. I don't know if this is because I was talking loudly about PP or if it was just because south Philly is full of shitheads, but I'm not taking any chances.

ugh I'm sorry that happened to you.

Bradd Jaffy ‏@BraddJaffy 1h1 hour ago
Romney on Trump in March vs. Romney on Trump tonight. Breathtaking.

http://i.imgur.com/DA7wNM6.png
http://i.imgur.com/tvXTVMh.png

buncha cucks amirite

I like the Trumpian "By the way" - nice touch Mitt

i feel like his anti-poetry is going to infect us all in the end

that ship had sailed man. people can't help imitating him

it's a compulsion

"He's just been out of the race for about six months...It's still good...it's still good"

jesus, telephone thing that's awful!

baldwin as trump telling himself 2 weeks ago "don't worry, hillary's still ahead in the polls."

I sort of want to see the_donald's reaction to Mitt (laughing at victory over the cuck, presumably - but not so much swamp-draining) but I'd rather have my IP logged spying on Stormfront at this point.

How does one create an ongoing culture of active engagement and resistance? how does one create any sort of culture? Should I start a new thread for this?

If we give a damn about the constitution, Donald Trump has to sell off his empire and place his assets in a blind trust, just like every other president has done for the last half century. If he chooses not to do this, then Trump is constitutionally unable to be president, just as if he was born in Kenya. It's that simple.

http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/andrew-ross-sorkin-s-joke-letter-to-trump-he-has-to-sell-the-stuff

hey all you have to do is google James Conway, Kellyanne's husband, whom I first learned about in the late '90s.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 10:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assume you mean George T. Conway III unless she's a serial conway-marrier

― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 11:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

friends just call him jimmy or sometimes jim bam bojangles

― Treeship, Tuesday, November 29, 2016 11:50 PM

eh call him ishmael

it feels useless/pointless but it is kind of weird that we now live in a world where you can directly, personally insult the president via the internet

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:48 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If you were a racist you would have learned this 8 years ago tbf

How does one create an ongoing culture of active engagement and resistance? how does one create any sort of culture? Should I start a new thread for this?

― (rocketcat) (kingfish)

on the one hand i can see people not wanting this entire board to be all trump, all the time, but on the other hand this stuff is important, and it's too big for one thread, which we can't all keep up with anyway.

the most effective forms of resistance, i feel, will be off-internet, but at the same time i don't think we can or should just say "ok we'll abandon the internet entirely", it's not practical.

I know this was commented on even before the election, but I was just jarred by the realization that, regardless of what he actually does or even if he drops dead before his inauguration, the office of POTUS may have been fundamentally altered and tainted by the simple fact that Trump won. How many presidential election cycles are going to be (even more) fucked up circuses of nakedly sociopathic adult babies unleashing their ids first upon one another and then subsequently upon the nation that voted them into office? How do we come back from a president who doesn't care at all about the foundations of the country he's been appointed to run?

All rhetorical questions. Just needed to vent my fresh horror.