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

re: bungled - she still won the popular vote and without Comey would likely be President. Getting lost in the shuffle is that 40+% of Americans are cool with a rapist racist President no matter who the Democrats had run or how perfect a campaign.

call me when they shoot christie in the brainstem

How would you tell?

I do kinda wonder if Putin's gonna offer to assassinate Trump's enemies for him

otherwise yeah, Hitler/Stalin refs to purges are a little melodramatic. If these guys start actually murdering their enemies let me know

christie is also going to get indicted yall

my dad just sent me and my sister a 4-page "debunking" of factcheck.org that somehow takes a detour to mention that "ACORN and many other left agencies work closely with them" (them meaning Snopes.com) and offers the sage wisdom "I know, do more than play with your so called smart phone to get facts. Actually read volumes of books as I have to see the truth."

christie is also going to get indicted yall

^^^ this is why

in other news, a statement from Mayor San Jose: https://medium.com/@SamLiccardo/weve-got-your-back-4c2fdcb0b915#.6il2rhxtc

I heard google is releasing a new search engine that only gets "true" results.

Honestly, if pretty much any of the proper names involved, from Trump on down were indicted in the next few years, who would be shocked?

If I print out pages of forwarded emails and bind them, does that count as a book?

midterms traditionally tend to go poorly for the party in charge. but we are now living in perpetual Anything Can Happen Day.

wasn't Virginia Heffernan's greatest crime til that piece being an awful TV critic for the NYT? omg she got promoted to op writer.

your precious Waze app won't give you directions to the truth, karl

The Sainted Reagan still holds the record for most corrupt admin, AFAIK and horrifyingly few people ever gave a shit (including Democratic leadership since Bill).

there's gonna be epic corruption in this admin, the question is who is going to be able to prosecute it

List of men and women convicted for crimes in Reagan administration.

Back to that Lapham essay, here's another excerpt from a better distillation of the idea of the provisional vs. permanent government: (plus the "ceaseless war of bureaucratic attrition" line that I love for some reason)

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2009/11/19/lapham-7/

The permanent government —

* the Congress,
* the civil and military services,
* the media,
* the legion of Washington lawyers and expensive lobbyists

occupies the anonymous hierarchies that remain safely in place no matter what the political truths voted in and out of the White House on the trend of a season. It is this government — sly and patient and slow — that writes the briefing papers and the laws, presides over the administrative routine, remembers who bribed whom in the election of 1968 and why President Carter thought it prudent to talk privately to God about the B-1 bomber. Except in the rare moments of jointly opportune interest, the permanent government wages a ceaseless war of bureaucratic attrition against the provisional government that once every 4 or 8 years accompanies a newly elected president to Washington.

is that meant to be encouraging

Latham often tried do sound like dollar edition Gore Vidal didn't he?

*Lapham

I'm mostly seeing "their ideological interests have aligned" fucking us all for decades to come.

KM, i'm really sorry you and your sis have to field that stuff your folks have bought into. That must be hard.

TNR piece on Obama's subtext seemed chillingly accurate. this is probably the biggest minefield an outgoing prez has had to tiptoe around.

now wait milo, the current Dem Admin certainly gave a shit about prosecuting the thieves and banksters who engineered the '08 bubb -- ohfuckit

this is your deep state america, cherish it

xp

there's gonna be epic corruption in this admin, the question is who is going to be able to prosecute it

State AGs finding heretofore questionable bases for state charges?

lapham's institutions of permanent government are real but as recently as the nixon admin a president imo attempted to quietly build shadow institutions, dependent on his person, to usurp or co-opt the functions of that whole list.

(That's not very recent)

i still wonder if trump winning stopped a lot of violence. bombings. race war type insanity. obviously we'll never know. could have been bad though. am i the only person who wonders that? i'm sure there were people waiting for that excuse.

trump winning stopped a lot of violence that would have happened in that scenario. trump winning will also create a lot of violence, probably much, much more violence. sorry to get all miss cleo but i think it's true

you're probably right.

christie is also going to get indicted yall

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 1:17 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/president-trump-can-thank-paula-jones-his-legal-troubles

ha yeah –  I cited that SCOTUS decision a couple days ago upthread

this is amazing

https://vimeo.com/190738676

can we find a way to drag Pence repeatedly into court though?

https://twitter.com/Abid_ism/status/798568643009318912

hehe

I can't stop thinking about this actual, totally real campaign ad that belongs in the "Things that just have to be Tim & Eric sketches" thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5kfC_VCXeQ

can we find a way to drag Pence repeatedly into court though?

obviously we don't want Pence president either, we just want the administration crippled/unable to act

yeah, agreed on that, whatever works

yeah just wait until an unarmed black man gets shot by the cops and blm protests it.. can see that escalating quickly

I hope this is good news and not someone even shittier getting the post. who am I kidding thats probably exactly whats happening.

In a surprise development, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared to take himself out of the running for attorney general.

yeah but the rumor now is that AG could be Kris Kobach

dem senators think they have an opening against bannon, looks like

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/798611435416854528

idg why Giuliani would prefer Sec of State tbh. Sitting through complex negotiations doesn't really seem to be a thing he's interested in.

In a surprising decision, Donald Trump has tapped Ann Coulter as his personal choice for attorney general, with the backing up key members of his inner circle.

I've been expecting way more ''old cronies from back home in the crooked real estate game'' types tbh. Would be totally sensible for Trump to pick an AG who's the equivalent of Harriet Miers. A loyalist, not necessarily a name we've ever heard of, specifically to shield himself from whatever's coming at the office legally.

http://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2016/11/15/13637936/anti-semitic-propaganda

is there a different thread where we've been covering Zuckerberg's non-apologies for Facebook's outsized influence on the election & the pile on of angry rejoinders?

http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/11/donald-trump-won-because-of-facebook.html
https://www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-alone-didnt-create-trump-click-economy/
https://shift.newco.co/im-sorry-mr-zuckerberg-but-you-are-wrong-65dbf8513424#.eqs30faco

nomar, you stop that.

I'm half-convinced that he's going to start recruiting death row inmates for cabinet positions at this point.

yeah just wait until an unarmed black man gets shot by the cops and blm protests it.. can see that escalating quickly

Trump will pardon the cops before there can be an investigation, and he'll spike in popularity.

is that after all the patriot gun squads have come out and shot up the town or before

Have we posted this yet?

DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series

https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/election/what-are-we-trying-to-figure-out