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

^^ Let alone all those legitimate reasons, Putin nationally has far more to gain by being a hardman towards the US instead of making up and being friends.

now seems like an appropriate time to know the difference between hamas and hezbollah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUe4sFKvJUY

the hamas/hezbollah thing was from september 2015

And I'm sure, now that the time is appropriate, Trump can totally tell the difference now.

it's depressing that literally every single straw we've grasped at over the last month has turned out to be a bust. we lost almost every important election, the recounts won't change anything, the cabinet appointments are terrifying, trump hasn't toned down his message and if anything seems more insane and unqualified than he did before the election. now ppl are clinging to the shred of hope that an electoral college largely composed of people who are fanatically loyal to a party that values its own power over everything will somehow do the right thing and throw the election to the person most hated by the party base. and i'm still hoping for that too! when you're in a situation this dangerous you try every strategem you can think of, no matter how ridiculous it is. maybe they'll impeach him, i keep thinking. but if republicans don't give a shit that a hostile foreign power intervened to help elect their guy, they're not going to care about anything he does in office enough to impeach him. maybe they'd impeach him if he raised taxes.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, December 11, 2016 1:49 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think it's really, really important to get dug in for a long, challenging fight right now and not grasp at straws. Bc yeah, Campbell, recount, investigation of Russia changing things, these are all extreme longshots/hail maries. Even impeachment, which seems slightly more probable than the others, is kind of out of our hands and only going to happen if he displeases the GOP establishment.

So I think we have to think about how to protect our own, obstruct, win seats in 2017 and 2018 elections or at least hold ground, shift public opinion, etc. I'm not going to completely knock any approach people are trying, but I'm a little concerned about desperation and unstrategic flailing around and screaming playing into their hands.

this remains essential reading;

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russia-hillary-clinton-united-states-europe-516895

Aside from the arguments over what might and might not have happened, the whole election campaign exposed Eichenwald as a fantasist who knows nothing about Russia. Take anything he has written with massive emphasis handfuls of salt.

Not sure why my phone added emphasis there!

I took a call.
I heard the call.
This was a call.
I didn't make the call.
And it was a call.
Very short call.
It was a very nice call.
I can't take a call.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, December 11, 2016 11:11 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Could only read this in Seinfeld's voice.

:)

US and Russia together go to war with Iran in order to split Iran's oil reserves

This would be a much bigger fiasco than the Soviets in Afghanistan or US in Iraq. It just plain would not work irl.

I imagine "emphasis handfuls" to be the technical term for that gesture conductors make during crescendos like they're deadlifting the planet by her bazooms

Lol

Did not know! Thanks - it's written in a tone of such authority.

It's pretty insane to watch Joe Walsh slowly grow a conscience in the wake of all this Russia information.

https://twitter.com/walshfreedom/status/807703919069630464

i wonder how many more of those that supported trump in the election are already coming to terms with having been swindled

3?

yeah none

oh OK thx

There's a whole tumblr for it y'all

sorry, an insignificant number of people

stop the straw-grasping. quit looking for silver linings. get ready for a fight

yeah, after 17 months of campaigning it isn't like people didn't know who they voted for

quit looking for silver linings. get ready for a fight

― k3vin k., Sunday, December 11, 2016 2:49 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Don't worry about Trump voters with buyer's remorse. Fight for your sick aunt's Medicaid benefits.

Teen Vogue=Teen Woke

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/donald-trump-is-gaslighting-america

Despite their 60-seat deficit heading into 2016, the Democrats didn’t appear to do much candidate recruiting except in the most competitive districts. In Texas, Hillary Clinton won in a congressional district where Democrats didn’t even field a challenger. Numbers, not potential, guided the DCCC efforts. Instead of looking for possibilities, or trying to create them, the committee only paid attention to the districts that looked viable on spreadsheets.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/how-the-democratic-party-lost-its-way-214514

Thanks, Obama

Thanks Pelosi

More like thx wasserman-schulz

yeah, i realize the article was about the DCCC but it was weird to CTRL+F schulz and come up with 0 results

thanks... ben ray luján?

i should have moved there and run

July '96

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1996/1101960715_400.jpg

freaking out about the weakness of the current democratic party is... it's a thing, i guess, but it's so remediable. some vanishingly small proportion of the electorate votes in the primaries. americans have given tremendous amounts of cash to a candidate as terrible as dr. jill stein, way more than during the election, because she's doing something the democratic party refuse to do. if the democratic party continues to refuse to listen to what we're saying, there's pretty good evidence that we have the power to change that. there's less evidence, but still decent evidence, that making that change will give us a better shot against the republicans. the biggest problem will be just fucking surviving the next two years.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/democrats-donald-trump-232491

I realized this morning why Trump thinks the daily intelligence briefings are stale from day to day. It's because they're ordered on topic area and mostly focused on specific regions of interest- and his attention span can't get past the heading. "I heard about the South China Sea yesterday."

given that his objection to the daily intelligence briefing is that 'he's, like, a smart person' i genuinely suspect that he thinks it's an actual test of his intelligence every day rather than, y'know, information which might help govern the country

'they want me to take these iq tests every morning rather than letting me get on with making america great again!'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-bomber-flight-send-message-donald-trump-taiwan-a7468021.html

everything is fine

i hate to do the internecine bitching but man the violent and revolutionary rhetoric sucks. i'm not gonna say i don't sympathize or haven't had moments of "TEAR IT ALL DOWN" but you know talk to a therapist about it, don't post it on the public internet. even if you don't wind up getting busted for it, stuff like that can and will be used against us pretty easily.

sorry for getting all boring but i think a lot about the roman revolution, which octavian succeeded at by bringing about significant reforms which were _not_ portrayed as "revolutionary" but as a restoration of the ancient system. i'm not saying that the reforms we should be after are the same as octavian's (not super jazzed about the prospect of an American Empire), but strategically i feel like we should try to model ourselves after the winners like octavian, not the losers like marc antony.

reforms which were _not_ portrayed as "revolutionary" but as a restoration of the ancient system

so...make rome great again?

It's a strange world we live in...never thought I'd see Establishment Dems go all HUAC, let alone Infowars! When Joy Reid and Joe Walsh are on the same page, we are in truly batshit territory.

So China flew that plane before the Taiwan call?

"Treason" is not a word I would've imagined trending among Portlandia types a year ago.

I wonder if Trump's boredom with repetition will extend to "Hail to the Chief," saluting the Marine detail, etc.

Whatever the deal is with Russian interference, I can't really argue with it being investigated, and I hope the investigation does some damage to Trump and GOP credibility.

"Treason" is not a word I would've imagined trending among Portlandia types a year ago.

this is such a weird claim, as if basic matters of state were something one leaves behind past a certain lefterly point on the political spectrum

LOL but its Morbs, what do you expect?

the real villain always has to be dems or popular modern comedy