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

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

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

so...make rome great again?

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)

hahaha, augustus was a deeply charismatic political genius who put in place a system that survived close to 200 years of blatant misrule. i doubt history will judge a certain d. trump as favorably.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/mcconnell-backs-congressional-investigation-into-russian-interference-232504

heh

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

― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi)

oh, it's the whole post-truth thing. "the center-left and the right are doing the SAME THING!". like all that matters is tactics and strategy, not facts.

so this 'Russian interference,' so far as we know, amounted to uncovering the Podesta & Co emails, as far as we know? Which were read only by political junkies and TP types who wouldn't vote for Clinton in a million years. They didn't reveal much besides Camp Clinton struggling to make it look like their candidate believed in something/anything, which about half the ppl who voted for her knew was a problem.

the real villain is the rich, who need to be boiled and eaten.

hahaha, augustus was a deeply charismatic political genius who put in place a system that survived close to 200 years of blatant misrule. i doubt history will judge a certain d. trump as favorably.

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, December 12, 2016 1

was he? Gibbon and SPQR posited Augustus as a kind of anti-charismatic ruler – a man who subsumed his personality for the sake of an idea of Rome.

Either way, not Trump.

well, it's arguable (as is most of ancient history), but i'd say that you don't get augustan levels of auctoritas without charisma. but yeah. most definitely not trump.

the real villain is the rich, who need to be boiled and eaten

no fuckin' way boiling is a waste of good meat. they need to be marinated then slow-cooked, i really wanna relish the taste of their flesh

A point that has definitely been made already but not nearly enough is that, AFAICT, Trump doesn't have a bad word to say about Putin or Russia. This is someone who has insulted almost everyone, even his allies, over the smallest slight, who has lambasted his own party and told us all for months how broken and fucked up America is, but who also deflects any and all criticism of Russia and who insists that the election he won was rigged but pooh-poohs overwhelming evidence that Russia was a prime suspect in any rigging that's been uncovered.

Shame on everyone who has the power to stop this fucker and fails to use it.

see ya at the Clinton donor soiree, hope you have a kitchen pass. xp

it's almost like russia has some kind of power over the man, some might say xp

Trump called for Russian planes to be shot out of the sky if they buzzed US warships again, fwiw.

as if basic matters of state were something one leaves behind past a certain lefterly point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIhVR2OolWk

FOR YEARS, members of Congress have fumed about what they regard as ineffective U.S. public diplomacy, including the failure of broadcasting operations such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to match the reach and apparent influence of networks such as Russia’s RT and Qatar’s al Jazeera. A frequent and arguably fair focus of criticism has been the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the body created to supervise government-funded media outlets while serving as a firewall between them and the political administration of the day.

A radical change to that system is now coming — and it looks like one that Vladi­mir Putin and Qatar’s emir might well admire. An amendment quietly inserted into the annual National Defense Authorization Act by Republican House leaders would abolish the broadcasting board and place VOA, RFE/RL and other international news and information operations under the direct control of a chief executive appointed by the president. The new executive would hire and fire senior media personnel and manage their budgets.

With a confirming vote by the GOP-controlled Senate, President-elect Donald Trump will be able to install the editor of Breitbart News or another propagandist of his choice to direct how the United States is presented to the world by VOA, or how Russia is covered by RL. If Congress’s intention was for U.S. broadcasting to rival the Kremlin’s, it may well get its wish.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-big-change-to-us-broadcasting-is-coming--and-its-one-putin-might-admire/2016/12/09/6c6d5786-bcb7-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.ce496f9b3f5c

fuck that's genuinely chilling

Amazing that it only takes a month for a 240-year-old country to unravel.