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

Considering he ran on turning the clock back to the 1950s ...

1950s in what country

Some of his supporters would prefer the 1850s, it's true.

As satire (I suppose), I thought this was funny: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/new-york-should-seize-trump-tower/2016/12/12/6dfdfc50-c0b2-11e6-897f-918837dae0ae_story.html

Kos ain't exactly helping things here with shit like this:

Be happy for coal miners losing their health insurance. They're getting exactly what they voted for

The idea that people deserve suffering for not voting correctly seems a bullshit holdover from dumber times, like how your kids only going to learn if you beat them repeatedly. Feeds into the Accelerationist thing. Can tribal groups or societies even "learn" like that?

Petty vindictiveness is a human reaction, but one don't do shit 'cept make everything worse.

OTMFM

manthreading

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hate this phrase, not the least because it will forever remind me of this:

https://vimeo.com/40608388

I liked Jeet Heer's thread about representations of ppl having sex with animals and vegetables in Canadian fiction, more twitter threads like that please

― soref, Tuesday, December 13, 2016 11:14 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, this ruled

The ongoing anachronistic focus on the coal industry is yet another thing that seems very dawn of the 20th century. It's like blaming Brexit on disgruntled chimney sweeps.

yeah and its not like mother coal held its beautiful employees tight to its bosom or anything like that. it was all child labor, black lung and murdering people at the picket lines

all fine upstanding american traditions, sir

Thanks to a random reference I stumbled across the other day, I learned about Harry Caudill and his book Night Falls on the Cumberlands, which by all accounts essentially started the modern focus on Appalachia, with special reference to the coal industry, as a problem to be solved/ignored/pondered at, take your pick. A couple of years ago, the Lexington Herald Leader did a multistory look back at the book, its and his impact and numerous other points of history up to the present, under the overall title Fifty Years of Night. There's an ebook, but the individual stories can be read here:

http://www.kentucky.com/news/special-reports/fifty-years-of-night/

I highly recommend it -- among other things, it functions as a snapshot up to a pre-Trump candidacy, as well as allowing for the sheer amount of ambivalence threading through so much of what has happened there among those interviewed -- regrets, realizations, internal resignation. Not to mention a deeply ambivalent take on Caudill as he aged; he could almost be an American model for Ibsen's Enemy of the People, and some of what he eventually espoused is no-joke bad.

You'll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do.

for all your FB friends swooning over Obama's Christmas card.

"In the summer of 2009, less than a year after President Obama took office, one of the first orders of business for the newly empaneled Senate Judiciary Committee was passing a long-stalled federal ‘media shield’ bill, which would finally provide a uniform level of protection to reporters who get subpoenaed to testify against their sources in court....

But just as it looked like the bill would sail through Congress and make its way to the president’s desk, it was stopped in its tracks. President Obama suddenly reversed course from his previous position and announced he would oppose the bill if the Senate didn’t carve out a giant national security exception that would make the important protections within it all but meaningless....

Sadly, this incident was only the first of several moves by the Obama administration that laid the groundwork for a potentially unprecedented crackdown on the press by the incoming Trump administration...."

https://freedom.press/news/how-obama-administration-laid-groundwork-trumps-coming-crackdown-press/

Cool, was wondering what I should use my time machine to fix today.

who has grounds to sue over this kind of thing? state attorney generals? the justice department?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/13/donald-trump-will-still-be-violating-the-constitution-as-soon-as-hes-sworn-in/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.53e931381f5f

any citizen?

this new act is worse than the old one, OL; consider that a "note"

Thx, I'll deliver your "note" to my past self but my act is probably a more futile problem to tackle.

perhaps you let the White House know you didn't approve of Obama's abuse of the Espionage Act in the past?

andy borowitz "joeks"
convince the electors to vote against trump
watch this brutal trevor noah takedown
john oliver
samantha bee
jill stein recount petition

^^ half of my FB feed, plus OMG RUSSIA

me too it is bad

Keep up, Morbz, I've spent the past month wearing the armchair liberal hairshirt. But time, like one's FB timeline, moves forward.

you need more trump-loving soviet emigres on your feed, then you will learn all about how george soros is bussing fake protestors all around the country ("here's proof -- I LOOK A PICTURE OF A BUS")

ok maybe you don't need more, i've only got 3 and they provide me with all i need of this stuff

you need more trump-loving soviet emigres on your feed, then you will learn all about how george soros is bussing fake protestors all around the country ("here's proof -- I LOOK A PICTURE OF A BUS")

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:14 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha i do have an uncle giving me that shit

lots of infowars/breitbart stuff although a lot that is even way less respectable than those :/

The most recent Borowitz appearance on my timeline was my wife posting one of his pieces and effectively saying "what the fuck is this shit"

"Your office cut-up getting paid for his political insight" is basically what the fuck that shit is.

Borowitz cited for identifying Russian-hack-obsessives as PATRIOTS! his funniest yet....

@glcarlstrom
Netanyahu: Israel needs to govern more like Trump, with more political appointees picked by the PM.

also

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.758821

this is a start. http://neveragain.tech/

ctrl-f "facebook" (who literally have a muslim database) = not found.

more on this https://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/never-again-tech-pledge?utm_term=.ejOLK01le#.ucn53JPpm

there's also this thing https://sfbay.techsolidarity.org/2016/11/28/meeting_notes.htm (nyc, boston, etc. coming soon although a lot of the surveillance culture tech is in sf for now)

lmfao that their sole volunteer link is SURJ

(Re: neveragain.tech)

andy borowitz "joeks"
convince the electors to vote against trump
watch this brutal trevor noah takedown
john oliver
samantha bee
jill stein recount petition

― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:07 (two hours ago) Permalink

^^ half of my FB feed, plus OMG RUSSIA

― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:08 (two hours ago) Permalink

The B&W rant by some actress basically saying "Hey Trump voters, you're stupid." for ten minutes.

Honestly it's very disheartening, these things all bespeak denial and a lack of real political tools.

i really am going to have to block the new yorker from my feed. they have some decent journalism but all that ever gets shared from it is borowitz crap.

Perhaps explains his continued employment

We never discussed one of my favorite NRO columns, and it's about Rick Perry.

Perry’s roof-raising speech Friday, which was festooned with ten-dollar words and an emphasis on state governance as a mechanism for crowd-sourcing solutions, broke through in part because it came in a new package: Perry the collected-but-not-cool thinking man, wearing a muted tie, a bespectacled elder statesman whose long tenure as chief executive of the Lone Star state bestowed wisdom on him while showering prosperity on Texans.

Honestly it's very disheartening, these things all bespeak denial and a lack of real political tools.

It's almost as if the President is the most powerful person in America, and individuals and even groups and even millions and millions of people are pretty ineffectual when it comes to countering said power. Even in the '60s, with far worse, far more egregious shit going on than is going on now, it took years and years of hundreds of thousands of agitated people pushing back against the government before the most basic of concessions happened. And then, over the hump on a lot of fronts, we rewarded ourselves by voting for Nixon.

the political apex of modern America was 8/10/74, and juvenile me thought such pleasures were going to be a regular occurrence.

mostly downhill ever since

the political apex of modern America was 8/10/74

that's when my mom realized I was gonna be a boy!

t was Saturday, under the sign of Leo. The US president was Gerald Ford (Republican). In that special week of August people in US were listening to Feel Like Makin' Love by Roberta Flack. In UK She by Charles Aznavour was in the top 5 hits. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam Peckinpah, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1974 while Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré was one of the best selling books.
But much more happened that day ...

^^^^ IS this Lefsetz?

Lefsetz would've dropped some cunnilingus refs in there

did anyone see the Bernie Talks to Trumpists thing on MSNBC? The Manic Pixie Dream Editor at work was over the moon.

We discussed it here last night.

lol @ Manic Pixie Dream Editor