admit I am kinda bummed about Newtie though. I wouldn't say that I like him exactly, but I do have this sort of attitude similar to one would have for a misbehaving puppy that thinks it's people. Like aw isn't that cute he has an IDEA! And then sometimes he brings you your slippers. But mostly he just chews up the carpet and shits in your shoes.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
this dog will eat your baby and insist on your patting its head for the bright idea
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
fuck, i was taking solace in the hope that Gingrich was going to be murdered in Newt of the Long Knives
― qop (crüt), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
have we covered this thinkpiece yet?http://www.stereogum.com/1910381/moby-writes-letter-to-america-what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you/
― sarahell, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
well, very few of us are vegans, for starters
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
can we get eminem to write a dissenting opinion just for lols?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
maybe I'm just sympathetic to Newt because he seems to actually believe in science
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
some good news
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/218185540-story
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Digby located the hottest of takes from a PUA/MRA fuckface who basically thinks anything goes now. Can't wait to see these dudes get maced, stabbed in the dick, or both. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/controversial-pick-up-artist-roosh-v-celebrates-donald-trump-s-victory-if-the-president-can-say-it-a7421161.html
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
funny how "the best" people don't actually want to work for Trump
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
a couple days ago there was this video of a totally unhinged trumpist woman losing her shit, uncut, at an msnbc reporter:
https://twitter.com/nick_ramsey/status/796908208241643520
seemed pretty embarassing to me! but now i see she's become a minor culture hero
https://twitter.com/HarshObserver1/status/799162593910759425
gonna be a long 4 years
― goole, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
is the Kurt Cobain quote ironic or
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
blue collar middle america has en masse helped elect a trust-fund baby who has, over-time, inherited over $600,000,000.00 from his father.
is that actually true cuz if so lol
― frogbs, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
But mostly he just chews up the carpet and shits in your shoes.
Shitting out Amazon reviews, no less
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
at the risk of sounding like a broken record, how come more isn't being made of the louisiana senate race? https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-16/democrats-can-t-write-off-the-last-senate-race-in-louisiana
― 龜, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
cuz Democrats are a bunch of pussies? you'd think the party would be expending resources to bolster turnout in New Orleans at least
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
just shared that fwiw
Shakey otm
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
right wing co-option so far includes:
pepecuckoldingnew balancespostmodernism
what's next?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
haha oh boy here we go again http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/17/jon-stewart-slams-liberal-hypocrisy-for-branding-d/
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Lady Lindsay cool w either Giuliani or Bolton at State, or Cruz on the Supreme Court...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/politics/lindsey-graham-rand-paul-donald-trump-confirmations/index.html
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
― goole, Thursday, November 17, 2016 5:37 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh wow, the Girl Who I Shouldn't Have Started a Conversation With at a Party really let herself go
― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 November 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if the washington times is all pissed off about doing the hard right news outlet thing first
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
Re: the Louisiana race, when I looked into it there was every indication that run-off or no, he was going to get trounced. I guess you never know, though.
More interesting, North Carolina still has not decided its gov race.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
entirely possible, but turnout in runoff elections is notoriously low + unpredictable. you'd think some anti-Trump anger might be channeled effectively
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
israel's ambassador shouts out bannon? http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/ron-dermer-israeli-ambassador-praises-trump-bannon-231578
― 龜, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
I don't find that surprising. Breitbart Jerusalem, etc
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
Sorry for the shorthand reply (in a rush)
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
Penzey's Spices guy is angry
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxfw5NYVQAAEhK7.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
the us ambassador from israel is a fucking gop humping scumbag
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
good on him tbh xp
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
David Remnick talks to Obama.
The official line at the White House was that the hour-and-a-half meeting with Trump went well and that Trump was solicitous. Later, when I asked Obama how things had really gone, he smiled thinly and said, “I think I can’t characterize it without . . . ” Then he stopped himself and said that he would tell me, “at some point over a beer—off the record.”
I wasn’t counting on that beer anytime soon. But after the sitdown with Trump, Obama told staff members that he had talked Trump through the rudiments of forming a cabinet and policies, including the Iran nuclear deal, counter-terrorism policy, health care—and that the President-elect’s grasp of such matters was, as the debates had made plain, modest at best. Trump, despite his habitual bluster, seemed awed by what he was being told and about to encounter.
Denis McDonough strolled by with some friends and family. The day before, the person Trump sent to debrief him about how to staff and run a White House was his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. They had taken a walk on the South Lawn.
I asked McDonough how it was going, and he gave me a death-skull grin. “Everything’s great!” he said. He clenched his teeth and grinned harder in self-mockery. McDonough is the picture of rectitude: the ramrod posture, the trimmed white hair, the ashen mien of a bishop who has missed two meals in a row. “I guess if you keep repeating it, it’s like a mantra, and it will be O.K. ‘Everything will be O.K., everything will be O.K.’ ”
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
n the Oval Office, the President was quick to comfort the young members of his staff, but he was, an aide told me, even more concerned about the wounding effect the election would have on the categories of Americans who had been routinely insulted and humiliated by the President-elect. At a social occasion earlier this year, someone asked Michelle Obama how it was possible for her husband to maintain his equipoise amid so much hatred. “You have no idea how bad it is,” she said. His practiced calm is beyond reckoning.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 November 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
If they both take faculty positions at a law school somewhere I might have to apply to law school
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 18 November 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
Meanwhile, for those curious, here's a breakdown of what happened in Florida, specifically the famous I-4 corridor:
http://steveschale.squarespace.com/blog/2016/11/14/florida-2016-in-the-rearview-mirror.html
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15085475_10210931517514233_7017732641750945736_n.jpg?oh=4dabdc894a504fcc4f37e25f42f1747e&oe=588A9569
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15134529_10211195870957766_6173996564034086870_n.jpg?oh=5d922e3bc28b599a7bef6b5ca6458486&oe=58BBE662
― scott seward, Friday, 18 November 2016 01:08 (seven years ago) link
man, must be heartbreaking for Obama to pass the baton to this doofus
― flopson, Friday, 18 November 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/surlyurbanist/status/799414446959435776 (via jamelle bouie)
this seems like the sort of nuanced take on the intersection of race and class (and possibly the implications on electoral politics, though i like that the tweeter didn't force himself into a definitive conclusion) that i'd like to read more of, rather than the binary-minded, blame-laying type of thinking that is much more prevalent all over the net
― k3vin k., Friday, 18 November 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
definitely have that remnick article tabbed for later tonight
― k3vin k., Friday, 18 November 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
it's a great article. you're touched, again, by Obama's depth and resolve. And I'm dying to know what he really thought, which he says is 'off the record'
― akm, Friday, 18 November 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
Remnick article is heartbreaking
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
Maybe the only president in 40 years I'd have a martini with and ask wtf drones
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
yeah i think many of us had issues with the president early in his tenure, and still do, but he's a fundamentally decent man and i think all the abuse he's taken and obnoxious opposition he's had to face has softened me toward him a considerable deal
― k3vin k., Friday, 18 November 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
probably the only president since Truman to emerge from the presidency with his humanity intact too
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:27 (seven years ago) link
It may not survive the next two months.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
yeahhhhh, i'm not gonna take another ban this soon.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
Good morning!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
you use that whenever you're "in the mood," eh
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:36 (seven years ago) link
Good mourning!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:37 (seven years ago) link
On The Pulse Of Mourning
― scott seward, Friday, 18 November 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
maya angelou humor never really a crowd pleaser...
― scott seward, Friday, 18 November 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link