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

https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/808407221616918528

SEC/NYAG should see if anybody shorted lockheed stock prior to trump's tweet

Does 'the president elect is going to make a snarky tweet in six minutes' count as actionable insider information?

my wife is in a constant state of "why isn't anybody DOING anything to stop Trump?!" and I'm like well technically he hasn't done anything we can actually do anything about yet

lol, otm. the extent to which are chomping at the bit is encouraging though

“Dear Donald,” the bizarrely prescient correspondence from Nixon, dated Dec. 21, 1987, reads. “I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show. As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/richard-nixon-letter-oval-office-wall-232517

Do we think Trump and his people coordinated with Russia or not? His defensive aversion to a "probe" into Russia's interference looks... bad

Why not say, "if Russia intervened in any way I condemn them. I don't have any idea why Putin would think a Trump presidency would be in his interest but I can assure him, right now, that nothing is more important to me than the integrity of our electoral process. If it turns out his government undermined this, even to my benefit, there will be consequences."

A friend of mine pointed out that he can spin this as "All they did was release the DNC's emails. If they were so bad that it made people not want to vote for Hillary, that's not my fault."

Yeah. But instead he tries to deny there was any Russian interference at all. It's weird.

I suspect people in his campaign were in touch with wikileaks and Russian state actors, yeah

It sounds crazy but the evidence points that way

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/12/donald-trump-interviewed-mitt-romney-to-torture-him-roger-stone-says.html

explains trump's creepier-than-usual smile in that photo

i mean, it was obvious from the start

Yeah. I have no love for Romney, but that was painful to watch.

I reiterate the point I made during the campaign: I wouldn't want a next-door neighbor who behaved like that. Why the fuck would anyone want such a leering goblin to be in charge of the country?

https://twitter.com/intlspectator/status/808434536962924544

Yeah, Trump is truly a ghoul xp

That Lockheed thing is odd.

it makes sense insofar as Trump thinks his job as president is to bully companies/manipulate the stock market/"make deals"

What I don't understand is how Romney wouldn't have understood from the beginning that he wasn't really in the running and that the whole thing was to fuck with him. Maybe he figured he had nothing to lose playing along?

being a toadying lickspittle comes naturally to him

I think he was being punished for having faith in the system, Charlie Brown style.

Yes, probably yet another who believes the presidential election to be a process wherein the wisdom and gravity of one's forebears is mystically passed into the winner's soul. It could still happen, though. Let's give him a chance, folks.

That Lockheed thing is odd.

Simply calling it odd, instead of what it is (probable cause for an insider trading investigation implicating the President-Elect), already feels like normalization.

the 2020 election will involve ingesting the water of life and inheriting the memories of all past presnits

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WAmjkr4RISU/hqdefault.jpg

Lol @ "presnits"

A friend of mine pointed out that he can spin this as "All they did was release the DNC's emails. If they were so bad that it made people not want to vote for Hillary, that's not my fault."

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, December 12, 2016 4:39 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is 100% the line being taken by folks at, eg, r/The_Donald

http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/12/12/donald-trump-interviewed-mitt-romney-to-torture-him-roger-stone-says/jcr:content/image.crop.800.500.jpg/49385962.cached.jpg

black suit = high probability of being a racist (if not a waiter)

The big tip off for me of the guy in the photo being a racist is that he's roger stone

That Lockheed thing is odd.

Simply calling it odd, instead of what it is (probable cause for an insider trading investigation implicating the President-Elect), already feels like normalization.

― El Tomboto, Monday, December 12, 2016 5:41 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

AFAIC, I just want to know from people who actually understand these things if there's any innocuous way to read the data (like maybe the timestamp is off somehow?), if only because I want to be sure that every scorched earth crusade against Trump is watertight. There's no need for reckless straw grabbing with someone this deeply venal, so I hope the appropriate people are dotting i's and crossing t's on this one.

The former Texas governor, Rick Perry, who wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy but could not remember its name on live television, has emerged as a leading candidate for energy secretary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/us/politics/donald-trump-transition.html

Huh. Have we had a president who was a complete nihilist before?

Calvin Coolidge?

The comments on the Lockheed twitter seem to say it was a small amount of shares (700) and that the money saved by selling early only would only amount to about $4000. And that it's common for shares to have pre-market activity.

Chris Hayes is hosting a fascinating segment with Bernie Sanders in Kenosha, Wisconsin talking to Trump voters.

Watching it now but eh

H8 this person who doesnt think "people working at mcdonalds" should make a living wage because then "everything would go up"

Feeling rage at these Trump voters tbh, especially dumb mustache man and racist blue scarf woman.

I like the white streak in her hair.

I can't imagine HRC sitting on a stool talking to them as comfortably as Sanders tbh

hillary's too woke

say it was a small amount of shares (700) and that the money saved by selling early only would only amount to about $4000.

how many shares of lockheed did Kushner own yesterday lol

Chris Hayes is hosting a fascinating segment with Bernie Sanders in Kenosha, Wisconsin talking to Trump voters.

Why didn't they go someplace Trump won? He got killed in Kenosha.

He won by 200 votes, according to Hayes.

Why was Jennifer Palmieri the communications director of the Clinton campaign? She is so lame

It's rex tillerson confirmed

Tillz

Gonna be a fun confirmation fight

H8 this person who doesnt think "people working at mcdonalds" should make a living wage because then "everything would go up"

Capitalism's ability to pit the poor vs. the working poor never ceases to amaze.

Crazy how he's going to start his administration under a cloud of scandal right out the gate.

Xp

HOW YOU GONNA AFFORD THE BIG MAC WHEN IT GETS MORE EXPENSIVE BC YOU'RE GETTING PAID MORE OH WAIT