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

There was a debate where Trump was blurping on about how important "cybers" were, right? I'm sure we mocked it? PRESCIENT, imo.

No, people just aren't being fair. It isn't fair! Everybody's so mean!

― My Lunch Is Older Than Your Lunch (Old Lunch), Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:09 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

More like Vanity Unfair

See, I could at least toss Trump a few points if he'd employed that zing but I legitimately believe it's a formulation that lies outside of his cognitive abilities.

Mock me if you think this is ridiculous, but having dealt with narcissists in my life before, I think there might be some relationship psychology that is also applicable to how to deal with Trump. I think there's a danger of getting into an "anger dance" with him, where people equate taking random shots at him with resistance and then he takes shots back and people freak the fuck out about it and lose their cool. That's how I feel about all this furious tweeting, it just feels like a pointless anger dance. The real "resistance" is going to be thwarting his political objectives, slowing down his power grabs, and, ultimately, organizing people to vote him out of office, and that's best done via targeting congress and local and state governments.

Is there anyone here actually claiming that @ing realDonaldTrump is the true face of resistance or progress or activism, though?

That makes a lot of sense to me. Will require a lot of discipline on our side to make it happen. xp

Is there anyone here actually claiming that @ing realDonaldTrump is the true face of resistance or progress or activism, though?

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:38 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, but I don't literally mean just tweeting, I mean all of the kind of aimless rage and panic that I see flying around.

This is a good doc on how to get Congresspeople to listen, btw. Even with a GOP majority, congresspeople still want to get reelected:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DzOz3Y6D8g_MNXHNMJYAz1b41_cn535aU5UsN7Lj8X8/preview#heading=h.fwfuc1708kuz

good link

Can't read it at my stupid job but I'll repost it in the social activism thread.

@GaryMiles_DN
BREAKING: State launches audit after voting discrepancies leave 60 percent of Detroit precincts unrecountable.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/vote-audit/95358702/

http://qz.com/862412/trumps-16-cabinet-level-picks-have-more-money-than-a-third-of-american-households-combined/#int/words=dinner_supper&smoothing=3

feel like that's bad news since detroit probably voted hillary - republicans will seize upon it as evidence of voter fraud? xp

I figured that was why Dr. Schadenfreude posted it.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/06/it-was-a-corruption-election-its-time-we-realized-it-trump-united-states/

ugh horrible truths

I feel like the Detroit polling places being fucked up and the FP column I just linked are of a piece
Since nobody cares to even defend our institutions anymore, why bother doing your job if you work for one? It's hard to tell whether it's apathy, incompetence, corruption or enemy action at this point

We Americans may not be subjected to shakedowns by the police, the judge, or the county clerk.

was inclined to stop reading here tbh

as in Goldfinger, i opt for enemy action

i made no presumptions about who did what in Detroit fwiw

from ft

When 2 million American adults are behind bars for trivial offenses, their lives permanently derailed, while no legal institution has punished any executive for bringing about the collapse of the world economy?

here here. obama got a pass because he 'fixed' the mess. he failed in the end because nobody was held accountable.

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/809472667506081792

Trump 2016: You Asked For One Thing But You'll Wrap Your Lips Around Whatever The Fuck I Give You

Is the Naked Cowboy a permanent fixture at Trump Tower Bar? I had some family visiting in september and we walked into the lobby for kicks on a weekday afternoon. The place was dead but the cowboy was standing at the bar taking tequila shots and since then i've him in the background a lot in news broadcast.

that wine glass martini probably cost $18

Trump doesn't give a fuck what you want to drink, why should he

alcohol's for losers!

i'd probably hate him a little less if he were a drunk tbh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4037802/Donald-Trump-taps-Sylvester-Stallone-arts-role.html

lmao

weird shouldn't he be appointing someone who hates the arts/wants to abolish the NEA

you have got to be shitting me

the funny thing is that i bet we are going to see yearly turnaround in these positions, it will be a spectacle

i guess america might as well stop pretending and just go full idiot cliche

I bet we see Donald in a future installment of The Expendables.

The first step in getting people to understand trump is pointing out how he uses rapid-fire spectacles to divert attention, like a three-card monte dealer.

The second step is that his rapid-fire spectacles consist of hiring lunatics and incompetents to run the country.

That's just the opening salvo.

I guess Sly won't be smart enough to let Creed be his swan song

There's always president!

To his (screen?)credit, at least Stallone wrote/directed/produced a lot of his flicks, morseso than anyone else in the American 80s pantheon.

And out of the positions announced in the last 6 weeks, dude's done some least damage to American society, Planet Hollywood franchising included.

I think you're forgetting Rhinestone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4raj5m575M

Oh I'm _including_ Rhinestone. And the Estelle Getty movie. And that weird period gangster comedy in the late 70s. And everything after Demolition Man.

And come to think of it, the _other_ period gangster comedy, too

I first rolled my eyes and said to myself, well, he'd be the least objectionable of Trump's appointees. And then it fully sank in that Sylvester Stallone would be the least objectionable appointee of the incoming president, so now I'm just typing this real quick as I plummet from the top of a very tall buildi

isn't Sylvester Stallone actually an active & well-known collector of fine art?

youre thinking of frank surely

Sylvester Stallone is artsier than people tend to think. This cabinet post is also less important than the Secretary of State or Department of Ed positions so I'm not going to worry about it to much

(Quick cheap plug for the drunken podcast convo I recorded about Stallone movies with some folks a couple months back)

xp, yes a collector and a painter - though a fairly terrible one. He must have pretty good contacts to get shows at MoMA and the Russian Museum.