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

sorry, i've been grumpy for several months

the republican race is arbitrary. none of those losers is going to be president.

― Treeship, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 10:22 PM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That is lovely wishful thinking the Huffington Treesh, but in sober reality what is actually going to happen is that more republican voters are going to vote than democrat voters, and they are going to elect president Donald whatever Trump

― • (sleepingbag), Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:26 PM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Truly impressed that you both know exactly what is going to happen in the future

― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:36 PM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no only me

― • (sleepingbag), Wednesday, April 27, 2016 11:37 PM (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have adjusted my view of America after November 8th, but I don't think Trump ever did anything surprising during the whole campaign, nor this transition period?

Sorry, sleepingbag, but April 27 clearly falls outside the "July 2015-November 7 2016" time frame Karl referenced above.

adjust yr bifocals and try again

sorry i just... this is fun

kinda surprised everyone is freaking out so hard about PRESIDENT TRUMP, calm down you guys

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, February 24, 2016 2:28 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's going to happen. dems have been bigger idiots than reps this election by like a million miles. they've talked themselves into believing that 'old white guy with empty promises' represents a real political revolution, and on the other hand have managed to paint their own 'potential first woman president in us history' as worse than hitler. meanwhile every time trump says something that you think should end his candidacy... really, where do y'all think this is going?

― • (sleepingbag), Wednesday, February 24, 2016 2:48 PM (nine months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really, where do y'all think this is going?

Trump needs huge chunks of a population that currently hates him to vote for him. how is that going to happen. There are just not enough angry white guys to win the office anymore, that is a demographic fact.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, February 24, 2016 2:55 PM (nine months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

taylor swift look like a lorax

― • (sleepingbag), Sunday, January 31, 2016 3:42 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Go fuck yourself.

― markers, Sunday, January 31, 2016 3:43 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hahaha

He must have realized that even Palin was mad about the Carrier deal, back to tariffs and protectionism... on Twitter... in the middle of the night.

I don't think you can say he's not charismatic. He's a TV star! His charisma might not work on you personally, but objectively he obviously has star power.

― birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom (tipsy mothra), Sunday, December 4, 2016 8:32 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There's a diff between being charismatic and being on TV a lot, as if simple repetition generates charisma.

His charisma is, like, the reassuring appeal of your barista or your mechanic being dumber than you are.

i mean he's just a blustering asshole, which i understand has charismatic appeal for a lot of people. plus he's very good at making himself the news (cf. john barron)! but i have been sick of his shit for like three plus decades now :\

He's not charismatic, but people find sociopathic bluster and insensitivity alluring for some stupid reason. Cf. When people admire someone for "not giving a fuck"

he's got a certain new yorker playboy flair. he's been on TV shows and in rap songs for decades

“Trump was a businessman and an entrepreneur,” Putin said in the interview, which also touched on international affairs, including the war in Syria. “Now he’s a government official, now he’s the head of the United States of America, one of the leading countries of the world, one of the world’s leading economies, one of the world’s leading military states. To the extent that he was able to achieve success in business, this shows that he’s a smart person. And if he’s a smart person, that means that he will totally and quite quickly understand the different level of his responsibility. We presume that he will act based on this position.”

Remind me of how they reacted to the warship deal.

iirc, they lodged a formal complaint, called the US ambassador in for a bollocking - saying it threatened permanent damage to Sino-US relations and promised a wave of retaliatory sanctions against any US business involved in any aspect of the agreement. The reaction to this has been relatively mild so far.

Yes, well, the warship deal was a, how do I put this, an agreement under which the US would sell Taiwan warships, whereas the topic in question this week is an idiot taking a phone call he shouldn't have. But as long as apples = oranges supports your theorem of how Trump is totally being strategic, hey, who am I

xpost At least Putin knows he's spouting complete bullshit, as opposed to most of the people who affirm Trump's intelligence and ever-impending maturation.

I liked this bit of detail:

Putin called Trump “talented” and “colorful” during the U.S. election campaign (Trump said Putin had called him “a genius,” thanks to a mistranslation)

excited to see trump doubling down on china

Fake news seemingly almost caused a mass shooting today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/12/04/d-c-police-respond-to-report-of-a-man-with-a-gun-at-comet-ping-pong-restaurant/?postshare=8831480898259994&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.8f6a65150e5f

The restaurant’s owner and employees were threatened on social media in the days before the election after fake news stories circulated claiming that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief were running a child sex ring from the restaurant’s back rooms. Even Michael Flynn, a retired general who President-elect Trump has tapped to advise him on national security, shared the stories.

So Joe Lieberman is still alive, I assumed he had crawled under a rock and died
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/joe-lieberman-democrats-left-taking-over/2016/12/04/id/762064/

Fucking idiot

Imagine the voice, trembling with outrage.

Not you milo, lieberman.

"To me, both parties better watch out not to go back to the extremes —— left and right —— and not working with each other," he said.

What extremism are we seeing in the democratic party that goes beyond basic new deal ideology? Meanwhile the republicans are gleefully inspiring attempted mass shooters by convincing them that democratic politicians are pedophiles.

And tweeting a bunch of provocative, insulting shit about China in the middle of the day as if China was some sort of celebrity rival

"Even Michael Flynn, a retired general who President-elect Trump has tapped to advise him on national security, shared the stories."

This is terrifying

Yeah that guy is a fucking lunatic

DC Police has confirmed the assault was PizzaGate related.

Wait, not assault, he had an assault weapon - I think - didn't assault anyone. Sorry.

jesus fucking christ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/12/04/d-c-police-respond-to-report-of-a-man-with-a-gun-at-comet-ping-pong-restaurant/

posted above

Fucking rube loons are convinced this is an "inside job"-type incident: a left-wing elite conspiracy to discredit pizzagate so Democrats can continue doing what the most love: ruining the lives of innocent children. I can't even.

*they most love

i honestly can't even bring myself to read about "pizzagate"

not the shooting, but the whole controversy. there's no way i don't come out of that a little dumber

Jet fuel can't melt real cheese

A+

It's about ethics in pizza journalism

I really want this to be more funny dumb online shit, but gunman showing up plus Mike Flynn's son tweeting about it is not sitting well with me. Apparently Mike Flynn himself also made some reference to unspecified "pedophilia investigations" in discussing Clinton-related stuff on Fox News

xpost the story above is the shit I find myself most terrified in the "post-fact" landscape. I might not bat an eyelid if some idiot wants to post some Snopes-debunked horseshit on FB, but when they're shooting outside a Planned Parenthood or bringing a deadly assault weapon to a pizza parlor....that's terrifying, and it can happen pretty much fucking anywhere.

replace can with will and welcome to the next four years

I'm trying to repress these feelings, see...

I'm still thinking about that woman whose Twitter feed I posted. Like, what if you asked her, would you support abortion being illegal throughout the country? Would she be into that? Opposed to that? She didn't come off as religious.

she'd probably be down with that ban. a lot of pro-life people don't take any kind of larger view of the issue of abortion -- how it relates to women's autonomy over their own health decisions, how before abortion's legalization it happened anyway but was dangerous, etc. they just look at the issue in itself and decide they are uncomfortable with the idea so it shouldn't happen.

I think the vast majority of people involved in "pizzagating" don't really believe it, it's total 4chan schtick. The hard part is figuring out who if anyone actually does, it's like a turing test for basement-dwelling losers.

Well it was banned from /r/the_donald, then it was banned from /r/conspiracy to /r/pizzagate, then it was banned from Rediit in it's entirety, so by this stage if you've followed it to voat.co (which is running rife with 'false flag' and 'the Oregonian ran an article about this 10 hours before it happened') then you're either a true believer or you're pretty dedicated to exoteric lols.

wtf is voat.co ?

Well I don't know what it was a fortnight ago, but now it's mostly "the Reddit clone tha pizzagate moved to"

https://voat.co/v/all/top

Ben Carson, u got a job despite yr protestations

i guess trump can now cross 'diversity?' off the to-do list he scrawled on the back of an envelope on nov 9