US Politics November 2017

destroy all golf clubs imo

Build social housing on every golf course

god, that Johnstown article

“We’ve been trying to reach out to him to say, ‘Hey, remember us? We need help here,’” he told me. “That’s my only frustration. I’d just like to tell Trump, ‘Hello? We’re still here. We’re ready for you.’”

imo golf courses should be changed to a mixture of public parks/social housing and natural grassland prairie

put some buffalo in your back yard, it's good

I mean the level of cognitive dissonance on display is just depressing, you point out how Trump hasn't done jack shit to help nor made good on any of his campaign promises and you just get this

“But I like him,” Frear reiterated. “Because he does what he says.”

I'm so tired of stories about die-hard Trump voters. Who gives a shit? You want a minority, there's your minority. The shittiest, stupidest minority.

Trump should compromise and get them more coal jobs and more opioids.

what sports are going to be left for these guys to watch at the end of this? hockey? lacrosse?

still waiting for the longform pieces about the people who did not vote for Trump but I won't hold my breath

These idiots are the forgotten people for a reason.

"Shame on them,” Del Signore said over his alfredo. “These clowns are out there, making millions of dollars a year, and they’re using some stupid excuse that they want equality—so I’ll kneel against the flag and the national anthem?”

“You’re not a fan of equality?” I asked.

“For people who deserve it and earn it,” he said. “All my ancestors, Italian, 100-percent Italian, the Irish, Germans, Polish, whatever—they all came over here, settled in places like this, they worked hard and they earned the respect. They earned the success that they got. Some people don’t want to do that. They just want it handed to them.”

stout genial man who wears gold chains around his neck and rings on both pinkies

“Everybody I talk to,” he said, “realizes it’s not Trump who’s dragging his feet. Trump’s probably the most diligent, hardest-working president we’ve ever had in our lifetimes. It’s not like he sleeps in till noon and goes golfing every weekend, like the last president did.”

It’s not like he golfing every weekend
It’s not like he golfing every weekend
It’s not like he golfing every weekend
It’s not like he golfing every weekend
It’s not like he golfing every weekend

wtf he literally does go golfing every weekend!!!!

“But I like him,” Frear reiterated. “Because he does what he says.”

It's true. His words and his actions are expressions of ignorance and incoherence. Oh, and spite and hate and venality.

he is, without a doubt, the golfiest president to have ever lived, in a way that shows the true rot behind golf culture

Oral history of Inside Donald Trump's Election Night War Room:

https://www.gq.com/story/inside-donald-trumps-election-night-war-room

reality never was a friend o' theirs xxp

Can't fix stupid

““All my ancestors, Italian, 100-percent Italian, the Irish, Germans, Polish, whatever—they all came over here, settled in places like this, they worked hard and they earned the respect their whiteness.”

The irish actually did have to earn their whiteness tbh

All my ancestors, Italian, 100-percent Italian, the Irish, Germans, Polish, whatever—they all came over here, settled in places like this, they worked hard and they earned the respect.

And yet somehow I'll bet this guy doesn't love Jews

My favorite Trumpster loss last night was a local one, Tom Coyne, the shitstain mayor of Brook Park, OH (a working-class suburb which includes a Ford engine-assembly plant). He lost to an independent auto-worker's union rep:

Coyne served as mayor for two decades from 1982 to 2001. He declined to comment Tuesday night.

He then was reelected in 2013. Most recently, he made headlines by switching from the Democratic to the Republican party and supporting Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.

He lost to Michael Gammella, a former city council president and an United Auto Workers union-Ford international representative.

Coyne said Tuesday night that he did not want to comment until results had been finalized.

Thomas Coyne Jr.: 37.59 percent

Jan Powers: 9.41 percent

Tom Colburn: 10.09 percent

Michael Gammella: 42.92 percent

he made headlines by switching from the Democratic to the Republican party and supporting Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election

lol waht

Good morning to 69 people who decided NOT to stay home yesterday and defeated the chair of the VA House Republican caucus. pic.twitter.com/0wVor0ij2j

— Leigh Walton (@leighwalton) November 8, 2017

nice

I'm glad the end of that article spells out in no uncertain terms why these people are so hostile towards the NFL

amused by the comments calling this a "hit piece" when it just allows these people to speak freely. reminds me of the people railing against "biased" media coverage that just quoted Trump verbatim.

Sweet

Xp

man that is so awesome, so proud of VA right now

Oral history of Inside Donald Trump's Election Night War Room:

https://www.gq.com/story/inside-donald-trumps-election-night-war-room

this is worth a read if you can stomach it

a choice selection:

Charles Johnson, alt-right activist: I went first to the Hilton around five-ish, six-ish, and then I was like, "Oh man, it's pretty dead, it's pretty boring. Fuck it, let's go to the Proud Boys thing," which was downtown. So we said, "All right."

(The Proud Boys—a pro-Trump "Western chauvinist" fraternity founded by VICE media's estranged co-founder, Gavin McInnes—are hosting an election night party at Gaslight lounge in New York's Meatpacking District.)

Charles Johnson: I saw Martin Shkreli there, and I was like, "Martin, I think you're going to go to jail. I don't want to be mean to you." He was kind of indignant, like, "No, man." I was like, "I hope you're having a good time, because you're going to prison." I wasn't trying to be a dick about it. And then Gavin came by and I was like, "Hey, he's going to jail," and he was like, "Don't say that!"

never let them tell u the proud boys don't know how to party

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/upshot/the-other-virginia-elections-and-what-they-mean-for-2018.html?_r=0

The big question in 2018 might prove to be whether Democrats can have it all: Will it be possible to combine a Virginia-like near sweep of Republicans in Clinton districts with a broad Democratic overperformance in white working-class districts?

All my ancestors, Italian, 100-percent Italian, the Irish, Germans, Polish, whatever

the ability to "whatever" this is pretty funny imo

you know, whatever they were, italian and polish, same thing whatevs

GASLIGHT LOUNGE jfc you can't make this shit up

Charles Johnson: I saw Martin Shkreli

in a time when twitter banned virtually no one for being abusive dipshits, both these guys were banned. Chuck way back in 2015

what a party

34 percent of voters said expressing opposition to Trump was a reason for their vote, with almost all of this group favoring Northam, per our in-house pollster Scott Clement. Half as many (17 percent) sought to express support for the president, while 47 percent said Trump was not a factor in their choice.

In Virginia, the network exit poll asked respondents which one of five issues mattered most in deciding their vote for governor: 39 percent said health care, far more than any other issue. And health-care focused voters favored Northam by a giant 77 percent to 23 percent margin in preliminary exit polls. Gillespie won handily among those who named taxes and immigration as their top issue. The candidates split among those who picked gun policy.

All 14 of the seats that Democrats flipped are held by GOP men. Ten of their replacements will be women.

amused by the comments calling this a "hit piece" when it just allows these people to speak freely

lol and they even evince awareness that they shouldn't be speaking freely and they know they're talking to a reporter and then they fucking do it anyway, fuck them

happy 1-year anniversary everyone

ugh that article

how has it only been a year

Pfft.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/08/corey-lewandowski-carter-page-email-244689

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said Tuesday night his "memory has been refreshed" regarding his email exchange with Carter Page in which the former foreign policy adviser requested Lewandowski's permission to travel to Moscow.

hard to remember all your shitty decisions when you spent so much time grifting and grafting

Carter Page: clarification - although I asked for Lewandowski’s permission, note that I did not ask for his approval. Totally different things.

why would you remember the totally normal request from a colleague to travel to russia in the middle of a presidential campaign

Carter Page: not even a request! More like an open ended question, really.

I plead the fifth, if I told you what I did on Monday evening, it might make me look bad on the internet

this story about the pound shop trump who ran for nyc mayor and got 1% of the vote is amaaaazing

would anyone like to hear a good Bo Dietl story right now, courtesy of my step uncle

— extremely employable (@rachelmillman) November 8, 2017

via lag00n

lol