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

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

I have to say I've enjoyed following young socialist dems on Twitter

of course, 600 posts ago. Help me out, how many I'm With Her posters recanted their primary votes? xxp

Are you talking about us? I don't regret my vote one bit.

oh good let's relitigate this shit

this is not a court, unless it's the one at the end of Bananas

but yeah, i have no interest. Da Bernie Bros on Twitter, never forget

In Trump's America we might as well all become psychopaths. Just follow the course the US has been going to its end conclusion.

I kind-of like the idea, the entire country becoming one giant fist fight and looting spree. Nothing means anything anymore, so why the hell not.

hm

are you drinking again?

me or lawrence appleton?

sorry that was an xp

are you drinking again?

Yes

i'm drinking sprite

I'm not drinking now, but I'm starting to understand why alcoholism is such a big problem in Russia.

Tell me about it (and yes, I've had some Four Roses single barrel). It's been a struggle not to just embrace some sort of wtf nihilism, like America has had its chance and it's all going to shit now in the worst, most aggressive way, and there's nothing to be done about it. The irony is we're nowhere near as bad as Russia, and so much better than we were, say, 60 years ago. And yet, I find our national embrace of anti-intellectualism, tacit and explicit racism, and just all around mediocrity just so dispiriting.

I despise Donald Trump and everything he represents with a fury you cannot imagine. He's like an allegorical figure of evil, it's mind boggling how this guy has become the leader of the US.

i'm not fond of him either

def don't like the donald

it's all going to shit now in the worst, most aggressive way

great scott! don't you realize the world has been going straight to hell for centuries now? but somehow some measurable fraction of humanity manages to pull themselves together, find a few good things to do with their lives, and their collective efforts, small as they might seem at the time, divert the whole shebang from plunging over a cliff. just don't go crazy like some disgruntled postal employee and keep your eye on whatever's right there for you to do.

fist to the back of the head, spitting out a tooth Yeah, gotta look at the bright side!

OK. You're right. Give up now. It'll save time.

I'm talking the exact opposite of giving up. I'm perfectly happy making this guy out to be the personification of evil, because he's pretty fucking close to it. I know it means holding onto an ambient ill ease his entire tenure, but that's the cost. I don't want to become comfortable with this shit.

OK. You're right. I'll stop pointing out that responding to evil by seeking out positive actions might prevent the worst. No good can come of that.

What I said was a luxury! Cripes, there are a lot of people on the radar of this guy's crazed supporters. What was it, a week or two ago some looney tune Trump supporter raided a pizza place with a loaded gun because he thought it was a child sex dungeon? Hate crimes are spiking, and as Trump trashes the country and people begin to really suffer under it, who do you think these guys are gonna blame, Trump??? They think a pizza parlor is a child sex dungeon.

C'mon. This guy needs tales told for a hundred years about what a piece of shit he is, and I'm fine starting now.

Don't let me stop you.

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

This is intensely and painfully true.

My first political memory is Nixon's resignation. When as a 6-year-old I saw all the hoopla on TV I asked my dad, "Daddy, what's going on?" My dad said verbatim, "the President is quitting his job because he lied to everyone." Thanks for telling me the truth, Dad. And it's all been downhill since then.

that's amazing

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/310309-harvard-professor-says-gop-electors-are-close-to-blocking-trump

Several liberal friends shared this tonight. Beyond the delusion of thinking it's possible, I truly don't understand how they think a Kasich or Romney Presidency would be 'better' than Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/13/scientists-are-frantically-copying-u-s-climate-data-fearing-it-might-vanish-under-trump/

"Scientists are frantically copying U.S. climate data, fearing it might vanish under Trump"

(stolen from the appropriate thread, but literally the next page I opened had an answer to milo's astonishing statement - I'm sure half of the pages I open today will as well)

Help me out, how many I'm With Her posters recanted their primary votes? xxp

be honest, you didn't write any material for trump because you didn't think he would win and now you're just burning off all this hillary material you'd stored up for the expected outcome

i'm not fond of him either

"This guy, this is not my kind of guy"

i'm sick of seeing my liberal friends go down the PutinPutin path.

it's mind boggling how this guy has become the leader of the US.

It's not, now. Punch the people in the face for 40 years and they might rebel in unappetizing ways.

i'm sick of seeing my liberal friends go down the PutinPutin path.

i know he seems like a really good guy