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

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:

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(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

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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?

Nothing I guess but he does a lot of obnoxious, sneaky things, and runs his business/life in a way that had gotten him sued thousands of times. What's remarkable is that he hasn't crossed that line.

Trump is as clear a refutation of the concept of justice as one is likely to encounter. Would love to see him finally face the consequences of something while in office but I'm not holding my breath.

Alternately, his life is an equally-solid confirmation that it's totally possible to be endlessly rewarded for being the living embodiment of a diarrhea torrent.

what has he done that's illegal?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 8:16 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sexually assault some folks iirc (allegedly, i know)

p sure he raped his first wife

i understand he won't be charged with those crimes because he's a bully but.

the trump university stuff looked pretty out-and-out damning, although obviously it never made it to trial

He also paid a bunch of workers less than minimum wage and threatened to have them deported when they challenged it iirc

That was actually how Trump Tower was built. Through the labor of a bunch of undocumented Polish workers he treated abusively.

Aren't most of his legal troubles civil suits though (hence the faultless settlements), rather than criminal prosecutions?

That he's completely lacking a moral center is inarguable. As is, I believe, the assertion that he's done something (probably many somethings) for which he would have done jail time for in a just world. There are very few crimes that I can't imagine him committing, frankly, and who knows what he'll get up to now that he's emboldened by holding the most powerful office in the country.

"Cannibalism? Sure, I'll try it."

Xp Yeah -- that was my point about how its remarkable for him to be such a flagrant rule violator but never risk prison. In my view withholding wages is stealing.

Also he is totally a rapist but he was never charged unfortunately. Ivana's charges did show up in a deposition. His awfulness has brought him trouble in court but bizarrely not in a way that would prevent him from becoming the fucking president.

i believe he's dead-set on abolishing incest law xp

It's a 'fun' (read: really scary) game. Knowing what we know about him, imagine Trump being presented with the opportunity to commit a consequence-free crime of any nature and turning down the opportunity.

But anyway pizza.

I happen to believe he raped a bunch of people at Jeffrey Epstein's house. If only the nominee was anyone other than a family member of Bill Clinton, that could have been a real scandal.

I dont understand why pizzagate is a thing but the epstein stuff isnt, both for trump and william jefferson clinton

Because this is a fallen world, is why.

Rick Perry for Energy Dept...

Kanye for Minister of Arts and Culture?

the trump university stuff looked pretty out-and-out damning, although obviously it never made it to trial

― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:05 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i just had that thought trying to fall asleep last night -- remember when our president-elect had to settle a $25 million fraud lawsuit 10 days after he was elected and then everyone promptly forgot about it when he called a bunch of theater folks "rude" and "overrated"?

Trying to remember: are there any serial post office arsonists that Trump can nominate for Postmaster General? I mean, since his administration is just going to be one long troll on the people who dared oppose him.

Unabomer?

he should nominate an Amazon drone

yea i just had that thought trying to fall asleep last night -- remember when our president-elect had to settle a $25 million fraud lawsuit 10 days after he was elected and then everyone promptly forgot about it when he called a bunch of theater folks "rude" and "overrated"?

there's been so much of this shit that most people have just shrugged over and instantly forgotten about that i'm starting to wonder whether scott adams was actually speaking literally when he talked about trump being a master hypnotist

xpost Sure, why not. Confirmation hearings would be pretty breezy for a machine without sentience. Which is why I expect most of his cabinet to be cleared with a minimum of friction.

https://twitter.com/JoshuaChavers/status/808688303688024064

everyone chill, Bob Gates says Tillerson is a great pick

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/310116-gates-endorses-tillerson

Rick Perry ... now, see, that's just funny. It's one thing to pick the anti-EPA guy to run the EPA, it's another to pick the anti-Department of Energy guy most famous for forgetting he wanted to abolish the Department of Energy.

hmmm xp

ExxonMobil is a client of Gates' consulting firm, RiceHadleyGates LLC.

LOL:

Remember, Exxon is a company so famously awful that it's been the basis of a Marvel villain group for more than 40 years!

https://twitter.com/Wheeler/status/808687198262403072

Between the plutocrats and oligarchs and the yellow journalism, feels like we are at the dawn of the wrong century. Let me know when monocles make a comeback.

psyched for the 'make america great again' stovepipe hats

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/808428602970796033