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

Japanese internment camps, COINTELPRO, previous Muslim registry - there's precedents for all that stuff. the discourse normalizing extreme and ridiculous "solutions" is bad, no doubt, but it's not unprecedented.

Xpost photo was referred to upthread as Lynchian, and it certainly is, and then I get back from lunch and open up my newsfeed to this horrifying pic of Giuliani, which looks like Robert Blake in Lost Highway.

http://s259.photobucket.com/user/yodelagogo/media/giuliani.png.html
https://media2.giphy.com/media/2zOEcqG4EuvF6/200_s.gif

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/giuliani_1.png

Having a president and his cronies wilfully spread confusion and paranoia via hundreds of thousands of viral "fake news" articles, however, is a new ripple in the history of American authoritarianism: it shows his naked disregard for the principles of constitutional governance.

that is a new one yeah

I'm sure Nixon would've done it if he could have

You don't need to whitewash American history to recognize that Trump's rise is a remarkably fucked up developmeng that threatens to undermine everything worth preserving in our society.

Yeah Nixon was a nefarious dirtbag. He at least felt the need to try to hide it though. Trump just makes up his own script and scorns any sort of accountability, Big Brother style

that's all true. I just don't feel compelled to spend a lot of time worrying about what he's tweeting or whatever. I don't want to be complicit in ceding power to the medium or his use of it. The sooner a skepticism about shit people see on twitter/facebook/etc. is adopted as a cultural norm the better imo. So I'll treat it as what it is: noise designed to distract.

xp

okay, that's better. thanks, internet.

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15253385_10210167664041750_6738994999794603389_n.jpg?oh=ecc50c6708913528a8f2202e2a0fea4f&oe=58AEF49D

https://i.imgur.com/RjNN4uu.jpg

mitt with the "i picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue" face

mitt's all like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think Trump is doing something under the table to Mitt, the kind of thing only stars can get away with

That lighting makes it look like they're eating little stacks of gold coins.

https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/803821372006875137

wow, incisive tweet

Get someone who can do both

I guess legislation that has a reasonable chance of passage and ending on the president's desk for signature scares me more than our moron president sharing an opinion on Twitter.

probably would happen with any ol' Republican president though

i know we're already past it but that fucking NYT waving the white flag economics article is the worst and most depressing thing I've seen today and I saw a pigeon get run over in the street

typical mammalian bias

"I think what he's done so far shows two things. Number one: He has picked people that know how the system works and are willing to make the commitment to him and his policies to make sure the trains run on time and the train stays on the track, and I think that's very important, particularly for someone who ran as an outsider," Chambliss said.

Making sure the trains run on time, hmmmmm.

O_O

People who are completely ignorant about history, or people who are way too knowledgeable about particular aspects of history?

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--5ZCmxAme--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/qkmh7jwn0ify6wbirndk.png

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lol unreal

wow, incisive tweet

― k3vin k., Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:55 PM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How bout this one?

https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/804038449300959232

I totally misread 'felicitated' as 'fellated.' I need to step away from the internet.

Mike Cernovich posted a similar tweet and then deleted it. It has of course been screenshotted and RT'd.

fellated Navidad
prospero año y felicidad

don't know why I got curious and hopped over to this dummy's blog again but my god the delusion here is so palpable

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153865618451/the-idea-you-are-least-likely-to-believe

When Trump was running for election, facts and reasons and policy details didn’t matter to the outcome. He knew that. I knew that. Every trained persuader knew it. But the general public did not, and that is the realization that is beginning to dawn on the world.

this is just so stupid - Trump DID have "facts" and "reasons" and "policy details" but that facts were wrong, the reasons were dumb, and the policy details were impossible or completely vague, and yet this is a good thing? fuck off.

wow, that press release.

that is unbelievable.

Everything is believable now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfgAbFY4CA

The irony would be if Trump did manage to make America great again strictly through empty flattery.

Nobody tell Trump that Pakistan is like 98% Muslim.

I wanna see the look on his face.

Wait, what does Trump have against Muslims? They're terrific.

Reminds me so much of this which is my favorite Trump-related thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5kfC_VCXeQ

i think it's a mistake to think that he gaf about muslims outside how he can use them to get support - i don't think he cares about anything really if being nice to muslims made his bank account larger he'd do a 180.

I hate the Times as much as you guys, but they were an all but official arm of Hillary's campaign. So your preferred candidate benefited from their corruption before she lost, right?

I'd be interested to know how many of the thread regulars supported Bernie during the primary. From a distance it seems like most here supported her in the primary. Is that correct?

No

clinton+email site:nytimes.com

About 6,700,000 results (0.85 seconds)

no ilx was pretty evenly split and if the NYT was an arm of the Hillary campaign why did her bogus email story get front page headlines every day?

NYT def not an "arm" of HRC's campaign gtfo w that. WaPo went way harder against Trump.

Xp

lol Iago that is so mindboggingly wrong, unless you spelt "WaPo" wrong in which case, yeah I guess

From a distance it seems like most here supported her in the primary. Is that correct?

What, in terms of active, regular posters? I would say this is decidedly not correct

Iago, you've clearly been mainlining some Trumpist news sources throughout this election. Facts are generally pretty easy to discern when you exercise a little skepticism wrt the things that loud, crazy people are telling you.

Meanwhile, ILX alum Mr Read was on the cspan today, talking about fake news and taking calls.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?418867-5/washington-journal-max-read-internet-fake-news-democracy

I'd like to thank Cspan's auto-transcriber for the new display name.