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

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

These fucking people don't care about improving their lives -- they just want to know that someone's beneath them. Vile attitude.

https://twitter.com/michaelpielocik/status/808507027567874048

Shades of Cruz at the campaign call center

it pains me to think of that joyous moment, that cruz call photo

the good old days when this campaign was in free fall

ctrl-f "game theory"?

i know gawker et al clown this guy but i found this is some bleak (and less unhinged than "game theory") reading https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/807994501977505792

is it customary for a contemporary GOPer to mention "peace" as romney does in that post? does that seem unusual to anyone else?

Jay Rosen Verified account
‏@jayrosen_nyu

19/ The problem is not at the level "how to cover Trump," but how to recover conditions in which anything journalists do makes a difference.

otm

also otm on twitter dot com

Rusty Foster
‏@rustyk5
"Rex Tillerson" is a Philip K Dick character name if I ever saw one

has anyone thoroughly clowned that stupid game theory thing yet in column form cause some normally smart folks were RTing that today and it drove me nuts

I just think "Guys, it's time for some game theory" is a classic
I'm going to start using that at parties

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/808445203694682112

I don't know who jay rosen is what his thoughts on game theory are but that series of tweets about press in the trump era were chilling

“We struggled to find voices that could advocate for Donald Trump’s ideas,” said James Bennet, the Times’ editorial-page editor.

from a link from that jay rosen tweetstorm. i can picture the aneurysm the times' standards editor just had

jay rosen is not thought highly of by actual journalists afaict (e.g. http://gawker.com/do-not-listen-to-the-crazy-man-telling-you-to-quit-your-1674046932) but yeah that's a dark thread. also actual journalists think the game theory thread is good writing https://storify.com/jbordeaux/a-patriot-game-theory

past a certain point I wonder if the NYT is going to tell its staff to stop talking about internals to WP colleagues

obv hamilton nolan is not an actual journalist, but that captures media twitter consensus.

anyway good thread, and i want to live.

re: game theory, glad someone finally has the balls to defend the surveillance state, that's really been lacking in the public discourse

God, I didn't get to his stirring Bill Paxton fighting the aliens speech when I read it before.

I think I'm just getting sick of reading tweetstorms about this shit
it seems like all these edumacated dudes on twitter are just having manic episodes or drunk in the middle of the day or both

This Bernie town hall in trump country thing is a pretty clever bit of political theater

Twitter should be reserved for links to cool shit to read and things to look at.

He won by 200 votes, according to Hayes.

It was very close in Kenosha County overall, which includes a lot of exurb. Clinton won the city of Kenosha going away.

The jay rosen twitter thread. The game theory one made me claw my eyes out and now i am just dictating this post to an associate

*jay rosen thread was good.

so glad y'all are mocking that terrible game theory twitter rant

seeing stuff like this is so disheartening:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzgkO07VQAEVxDt.jpg:large

(editor of Mother Jones)

I don't understand how that thread is "game theory." It is just a recap of the history of the past decade and a half done in an infantile snark voice.

There aren't any new insights. It's clear that the Russian regime is interested in weakening states and alliances that stand in the way of its ambitions

@KeithOlbermann
It's an attack by Russia. It's a coup. It's war. Those supporting it are TRAITORS. Brief the Electoral College NOW

WASHINGTON ― The former acting director of the CIA said Sunday that Russia’s interference in the 2016 elections constituted a significant attack on the United States, calling it “the political equivalent of 9/11.”

“It is an attack on our very democracy. It’s an attack on who we are as a people,” Mike Morell told The Cipher Brief.

idk where the hype goes from here.

The original 9/11 was, of course, not political at all.

Yeah like what is the plan here? Do they have a plan with this or do they think they're just going to hyperventilate him out of office?

is it customary for a contemporary GOPer to mention "peace" as romney does in that post? does that seem unusual to anyone else?

Well, considering the job is Secretary of State..

Time for some game theory

http://www.mtv.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/image-w-520-h-292-scale-crop/public/mtv_uk/articles/2016/09/21/gettyimages-489651500.jpg?itok=9Dc_CGPX

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41J%2B5vQbxKL._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Ta-Nehisi Coates's has a new, huge longread out in the Atlantic. Saving this for after work.

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Yeah like what is the plan here? Do they have a plan with this or do they think they're just going to hyperventilate him out of office?

I believe the technical term for the distal end of this trajectory is coup d'etat

It's remarkable how, with all of his shennanigans, Trump hasn't run afoul of the law in a way that could land him in jail (or at least hasn't been caught.)

what has he done that's illegal?