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

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.

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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)

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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

hm, i thought i wouldn't be surprised by any further appointments but it turns out i was wrong

so this is kind of obvious but isnt the gop basically telling the youth to go fuck themselves?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gop-plan-major-social-security-cuts

no no, they're "saving" social security don't you see?

his fucking idiotic rally is on in the background here right now. It's mind boggling what this shit head is babbling on about. I want to cry!!

I refuse to listen to him at this point. The very sound of his voice makes me sick.

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

― Karl Malone, Friday, December 9, 2016 3:12 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― Karl Malone, Friday, December 9, 2016 3:13 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sadly otm

yea i can't watch videos or listen to his voice either xps

just watching him gesticulating is ridiculous and infuriating.

I genuinely (and blessedly) don't think I've heard Trump speak or seen any video of him since he was elected.

Oh no wait, I saw that fucking first 100 days video but I think that's it.

I genuinely (and blessedly) don't think I've heard Trump speak or seen any video of him since he was elected.

― The Pleasure Principal (Old Lunch), Friday, December 9, 2016 2:46 PM (thirty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

possibly the worst part of being in the inauguration protests is the risk of that
well and it's going to be cold as fuckin balls

you'd also be able to avoid people with signs calling him like 'orange' and 'a cheeto' like okay we get it

oh god, sitting through that cold was interminable when it was a president I was enthusiastic about, I can't imagine being in that environment for Trump

yea i was there in 08 and it was unbelievably cold

anger warms the heart more than pride though
it also lasts longer

Anger is an energy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-GGeNPQEg

Maybe it will rain, and Trump ends up pulling a William Henry Harrison.