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

That's pretty much what I've been thinking all written out in one place. Except I think the economic collapse will come sooner.

It's true, Tom! Showbiz is a big scam mostly. xxxxp

puzder sounds like an awful pos but this mark krikorian post from NR indicates that immigration hardliners might not be happy with him? http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442884/trump-labor-secretary-immigration

Trump’s pick for Labor secretary is perhaps the worst person imaginable for that role: Andrew Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of fast-food chains Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s, and others. He is one of the nation’s most outspoken business voices for Gang of Eight-style immigration policies. He didn’t just sign an open letter once as a favor to a friend; he’s been a high-profile champion of amnesty and huge increases in immigration and guestworkers. This op-ed in Politico, timed to coincide with the launch of the Gang of Eight effort in 2013, could have been written by Jeb Bush. Here he is at AEI in 2013 making the case for importing more low-skilled workers. Here he joins with the Bloomberg-Murdoch Billionaires for Open Borders outfit and Grover Norquist in an effort to “push 2016 presidential candidates and congressional Republican leaders to support immigration reform this year.” There’s plenty more.

I had a feeling the admin wouldn't really go as hard as they said on immigration -- it's shaping up to be more of a hard right pro-business admin with some gifts here and there for the social conservative base. Business loves immigrants.

business loves cheap non-union labor that they can demonize and demoralize when opportune

looks like they're going to purge the EPA https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/trump-team-s-memo-hints-at-broad-shake-up-of-u-s-energy-policy

Dear deity or deities, is there something I'm doing wrong when I implore you daily to allow Donald Trump to peacefully pass away in his sleep? Please let me know because we really need to rush this thing along. Thanks!

specifically targeting everyone who worked on Obama's climate "agenda" is a special kind of evil, I hope there is a hell and all these dumb fuckers have to live there, since they'll all be dead when Earth becomes Hell incarnate

(seriously though fuck any news org or politician who calls "trying in vain to save this dumb planet" an "agenda")

It's like how fighting for clean air and water is just part of libtards' stupid "trying not to die" agenda.

They'll suddenly remember who was involved in the manufacture of their air filtration systems and gas masks when that shit starts to fail.

was just hoping there's a hell this morning after reading about some of these picks xxp

('They' being GOP fucks who think they can comfortably ride out mass extinction in the safety of their fortified McMansions.)

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-spokeswoman-says-he-will-produce-the-apprentice-in-his-spare-time-c810df41dff4#.9j3ffpitn

trump has time to produce the apprentice but not to take daily intelligence briefings

priorities

I didn't even know North Carolina could read. Good job, North Carolina!

(I kid, I was born there, and I'm up to chapter books.)

We'll be in DC for the march in January. In fact, I know several people from my corner of the city alone who are going. I wonder if estimates of 130,000 or whatever are actually low? Anyway, how the fuck can they close public spaces from protesting? If Fugazi can play a free show at the base of the monument, surely my family and I can march to the Lincoln Memorial.

They played a show at the base of the Washington Monument because they got a permit

Dear deity or deities, is there something I'm doing wrong when I implore you daily to allow Donald Trump to peacefully pass away in his sleep? Please let me know because we really need to rush this thing along. Thanks!

― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch)

i suggest praying for an apology. we all deserve one.

Fine. If Fugazi can get a permit to play a free show at the base of the Washington Monument, surely my family and I can march to the Lincoln Memorial, per historical march precedent.

They played a show at the base of the Washington Monument because they got a permit

― a (waterface)

ok, there's our answer. fugazi needs to ask for another permit and then when they get one, bam! hundreds of thousands of women at the free show.

@CNBCnow
BREAKING: President-elect Trump picks Goldman Sachs president & COO Gary Cohn to be National Economic Council Director

that swamp is really drainin'

there is so much winning i can't even take it

xpost Park dude unfortunately named Mike Litterst, not Mark Litters.

otoh, maybe the first appointment Thrillary would've made too (cept perhaps she'd have been skittish about looking quid pro quo)

@CNBCnow
BREAKING: President-elect Trump picks Goldman Sachs president & COO Gary Cohn to be National Economic Council Director

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, December 9, 2016 11:42 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that swamp is really drainin'

you can appoint them all you want you just cant get paid to make speech to them .

pretty sure "draining the swamp" means creating a situation where civil servants in major government agencies are driven to quit because their leadership is actively trying to ruin their organizations

That's what they did to FEMA under Dubya. There's flippin' management school case studies on it now. Then they got to replace the entire New Orleans public school system with charters. Creative destruction! Move fast and break things!

we actually do need fugazi at this moment in time

No, "draining the swamp" means having runny, anxiety induced diarrhea

we actually do need fugazi at this moment in time

http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/pep-talk-ian-mackaye-eve-us-elections/

the trump/apprentice thing seems like more of an ethical issue on NBC's side than trump's

if you can't have Billy Bush at your network because he was involved in a dirty conversation with Trump, then I dunno how you can keep Trump himself

the apprentice thing is so far down my list of things to give a shit about right now, are we going to waste this administration complaining about how unclassy and tacky and "reality tv" he is or pay attention to what his admin actually does?

sadly, yeah

it's gonna be 4 years of coverage of him tweeting insults at comedy shows while his administration fucks over the planet and the working class every which way

I'd argue that the Apprentice thing is more about the incredibly uncomfortable conflict of interest of a standing president producing a television series on a major network than it is about Trump being tacky. It's not of paramount concern but it's nonetheless very concerning.

Accruing media mouthpieces while expressing general contempt for any exercise of the 1st amendment that's at all critical of him or his administration is a thing he's actually doing.

the conflict seems to be with NBC paying him a salary while also paying its journalists to write critically about him

Well

Outside of the Capitol Thursday night, a group of red state Democrats gathered to speak out about an upcoming must-pass spending bill they argue doesn't do enough for miners.

With the Capitol lit behind them, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bob Casey (D-PA) – all up for re-election in 2018 in states Trump won– literally stood with the miners they were fighting for. It was a photo op for sure and the first opportunity red state Dems have had since the election to make an overt play for the white working class voters they lost to President-elect Trump.

Here's the issue.

Congress has paved the way for a must-pass spending bill. Without it, the government runs out of money at midnight. The legislation easily passed in the House of Representatives, but in the Senate, there is a problem. Tucked in the legislation is a provision to extend health care benefits for miners and their widows, but it only funds the care for four months. Democrats want the benefits extended for a full year. And they want another measure to be added that requires all government-funded projects to be required to use American products like steel.

This came out a few months before the election, re plan to purge Obama admin people from civil service:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-purge-exclusive-idUSKCN10003A

Maybe it's wishful thinking for me, but it could turn out to be a mistake. A de-baathification of washington.

drain the baath

If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would seek to purge the federal government of officials appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama and could ask Congress to pass legislation making it easier to fire public workers, Trump ally, Chris Christie, said on Tuesday.

oh the irony of chris christie, widely reviled hated public worker, delivering this message

I'd argue that the Apprentice thing is more about the incredibly uncomfortable conflict of interest of a standing president producing a television series on a major network than it is about Trump being tacky. It's not of paramount concern but it's nonetheless very concerning.

and yet the most infuriating thing was hearing all the shrieks from Trump supporters (and Trump himself) that Obama PLAYED GOLF!!! a couple times when so-and-so was happening

Are you all familiar with the handy acronym IOKIYAR*?

*It's OK If You're A Republican

BTW, while it's quite true that you can march/protest without a permit, it's frustrating to show up and just have lots of people milling about with no focal point and shouting hey hey ho ho.

If you want stuff like a podium on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for your speakers, or jumbotrons for those too distant to see, permits are useful. Not to mention porta-potties and trash collection and and and.

Permits may be fascist, maaaan. But Martin Luther King had microphones in front of him when he told people he had a dream. The reason is because he had a fucking permit.

ExxonMobil Chairman Rex Tillerson’s with ties to Vladimir Putin stock is rising in Donald Trump’s ever-expanding search for a secretary of state nominee

Given his tenuous grasp on reality, I'm a little surprised that Trump has yet to nominate a fictional villain to a cabinet position.

Bobby Valentine floated as ambassador to Japan

you could not. make. it up.

...What the actual fuck is wrong with this man? And what the actual fucking fuck is wrong with anyone who has the power to stop this shit and fails to do so?

sadly my first thought was that it made slightly more sense than his last 10+ announced appointees

like, bobby valentine has at least BEEN to Japan, and is known there in the baseball community at least. and more importantly, unlike the education, EPA, labor, HUD, etc, picks, he doesn't completely hate and oppose the idea of Japan as an entity