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

ah Kanye is the new Obama, playing Vulcan 9-dimensional chess

maybe he will pardon Snowden and Manning

Very disappointed in Kanye.

Maybe it would have been better for Hillary to have had a slogan that she herself could have said in speeches

"you're with me"

"please clap... for me"

fukcing kanye. george bush doesn't care about black people. but this guy trump! this fuckin' guy right here!!

I mean, he does care about black people, he cares about keeping them out of his places of business and about preventing them from voting, how can you accuse him of apathy in this matter

"If John Kasich wanted to be my dogwalker he might make it past the first round of interviews."

Romney wouldn't.

― ¶ (DJP), Wednesday, December 14, 2016 4:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually laughed out loud at this

so shocked kanye is drawn to this powerful narcissist...what could be the attraction...hmm

i mean i'd like to think this is what he was doing:

KANYE WEST ‏@kanyewest Dec 13
I wanted to meet with Trump today to discuss multicultural issues.

KANYE WEST ‏@kanyewest Dec 13
These issues included bullying, supporting teachers, modernizing curriculums, and violence in Chicago.

KANYE WEST ‏@kanyewest Dec 13
I feel it is important to have a direct line of communication with our future President if we truly want change.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzpmKpnWEAA4N96.jpg
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/809071452708360192

Kanye is not a narcissist in the way Trump is a narcissist. I reject this line of thinking totally xp.

Kanye is not a moral paragon but he doesn't appear to derive his joy in life from dominating or humiliating others. He wants to create things and to be remembered as an innovator.

not dominating and humiliating others doesn't mean someone's not a narcissist

Very long piece from (wait for it) Popbitch, linking up superinjunctions against the British press to Gawker to the coming of Il Douché (and his many unsavoury apparatchiks): http://popbitch.com/home/2016/12/08/pressing-on/

In a nutshell, OHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIII-

not dominating and humiliating others doesn't mean someone's not a narcissist

― k3vin k., Thursday, 15 December 2016 07:20 (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kanye is not a narcissist in the way Trump is a narcissist. I reject this line of thinking totally xp.

― Treeship, Thursday, 15 December 2016 07:00 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kanye is not a moral paragon but he doesn't appear to derive his joy in life from dominating or humiliating others. He wants to create things and to be remembered as an innovator.

― Treeship, Thursday, 15 December 2016 07:02 (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I appreciate the dollar book Freud I'm reading about Kanye's motives

Kanye looked like a hostage in the video of his meeting w/Trump

no he didn't

So some - NBC? - reporting that Putin was directly involved in and personally oversaw the hack.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-officials-putin-personally-involved-u-s-election-hack-n696146

So what is the end game with this, Syria, etc? Just chaos that it can take advantage of?

Even further underscores Trump's consistently insidious fascination with Russia. The litany, even if innocuous, goes so deep. Beginning with his son's admission that Russian interests comprise a disproportionate amount of his business, likely as loans.

https://theconversation.com/how-news-sites-online-comments-helped-build-our-hateful-electorate-70170

I appreciate the dollar book Freud I'm reading about Kanye's motives

I'm not psychoanalyzing him. I'm looking at the things he has been saying about himself throughout his career.

Putin: No, write the file with Esc-wq! Dammit comrade!

Donald, Imma let you finish but Millard Fillmore was the greatest president of ALL TIME

“If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House waite [REALLY?] so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?”

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/310516-trump-attacks-vanity-fair-way-down-big-trouble-dead

heh

what a fucking child

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

I just realized that we're all trapped in that Twilight Zone episode with the kid who controls reality and punishes people he doesn't like.

It's a nice Cabinet, Donny -- REAL nice.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bc/a1/01/bca101c76911199c54c8288180fa1f12.jpg

"If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, then why did people only report on it, in increasing detail and specificity, for the past 8 months, repeatedly bringing it up in the news and during the debates, both in regards to hacking as well as to real conflicts of interest and pro-Russia figures within my circle, again and again, to the extent that Russia stuff far exceeded any discussion of domestic policy, right up to the very edge of the election and beyond, leading me to repeatedly and publicly discount said reports and disregard any intelligence to the contrary? Tragic!"

OL that's my fave showbiz metaphor thus far, good work

I'll take a bow once I'm sure it won't anger little Donnie.

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