Have to admit this infighting/purging gives me a little bit of hope― 龜, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 龜, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:31 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
part of me thinks this way but the other part of me sees this as an authoritarian purging his staff of all remaining moderates in favor of loyalists
― qop (crüt), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
man, the Paul boys might be the most insidious of the white nationalists. So many otherwise decent people think Ron, most of all, is just a happy lil country doctor who doesn't want to interfere with your drugs and guns.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
I played quiz bowl against Alexandra Petri when I was in high school, I just want to mention that somewhere
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
I have no doubt that a real racist sexist chauvinist white supremacist will be easy to spot. “I am coming for minorities now,” he will say. “I am an actual racist. I am, literally, Hitler, or at the very least Goebbels.”
I'll take the chuckle anywhere I can get it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
An excellent philosophy to live yr life by imo.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 01:02 (seven years ago) link
As good as any Onion response and even better for being in a msm daily, kiu
― imago, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
more on foster campbell's senate chances in louisiana
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/campaign/305812-democrats-have-one-final-shot-to-flip-a-senate-seat
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/republican-john-kennedy-has-advantage-in-runoff-senate-race
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 01:30 (seven years ago) link
i signed the petitions but obama ain't gonna do shit. it's not in his nature
― k3vin k., Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:57 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah obama believes way too much in acting in service of governmental norms, even when the other side is radically violating them
― Clay, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 02:27 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/798721142525665280
Donald J. TrumpVerified account@realDonaldTrumpVery organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!
9:55 PM - 15 Nov 2016
― 龜, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:04 (seven years ago) link
To be revealed on the next episode of Government Apprentice!
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
it's sad to have beliefs and principles and stuff
― j., Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:10 (seven years ago) link
i'm not saying it's not, it's just that everyone who is clinging to the idea that he would try to sneakily slip garland while the senate is looking the other way is missing the nature of who obama is imo
― Clay, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:15 (seven years ago) link
agreed
― j., Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
One can hope. Maybe he can be convinced that roe v. Wade is that important, these are extraordinary circumstances etc. Idk what do we have to lose by pushing hom on it.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
Having been burned, oh, a week or so ago, I take these "Team Trump in disarray!" stories with a serious dash of salt.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/15/im-the-trump-supporter-pollsters-missed/?tid=pm_opinions_pop&utm_term=.7e8e341149b0
This article is pretty good. By which I mean that through its floundering irrationality it eloquently demonstrates the exact immunity to logic that caused the Trump win. This is how a large chunk of voters who aren't entrenched with either party moves - that is, the voters who decide elections once the bases have laid down their solid, predictable, zero-sum foundations.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
Dude does not sound like he would be a good hang.
BTW, it just occurred to me that maybe the floundering Team Trump stories are true, and that come January he will have only filled a fraction of the positions needed ... and then he will boast that they were not needed, and look at all the money he is already saving, because he is a smart businessman who knows how to staff a big operation.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
They should RapGenius that with footnotes to all the insane shit like Obama not delivering on infrastructure and get him to respond.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) link
How I wish we could have selected someone with Newt Gingrich’s command of the facts, Sen. Marco Rubio’s eloquence, Mike Huckabee’s character, Sen. Ted Cruz’s deep love of the Constitution, Carly Fiorina’s clarity of thought and Ben Carson’s humility and gentleness.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha fuck you dude
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) link
"Secretary of State Giuliani" or "Secretary Bolton" would've been a thing in a Christie or Rubio administration.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
Steve Vai's guitar skills, Lars Ulrich's acumen, Ted Nugget's diplomacy, the guy from Jackyl's mastery of the chainsaw, Jon Bon Jovi's longevity and Kid Rock's inclusivity.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
Ha, Ted Nugget. Thanks, bourbon!
"How would the person seated next to you in a New York City television studio know?"
Like the set of the Apprentice?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:08 (seven years ago) link
also, why oh why isn't her column called The Petri Dish?― scott seward, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:41 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― scott seward, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 6:41 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Her Twitter handle is @petridishes.
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:09 (seven years ago) link
i don't feel like i have any way to predict what a trump presidency will be like. forced deportations and impulsive wars sounds outlandish, but i just watched like, 500 days of trump saying something, everyday, that should disqualify him from the presidency, and then be elected president.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:13 (seven years ago) link
Maybe it's not that he was elected president and more that no one else was elected president.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
Quick question: when reports state that Trump asked that top secret briefings be given to his children and son in law, am I to read that as ... top secret briefings are being given to his children and son in law? Because if the president asks for it, can anyone tell him no? Is there any law against who the president OKs for secret briefings? Wonder how long backstage (and back-stabby) stuff starts leaking publicly. The first I saw was this today:
Prominent American allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Mr. Trump. At times, they have been patched through to him in his luxury office tower with little warning, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private conversations.President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt was the first to reach Mr. Trump for such a call last Wednesday, followed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not long afterward. But that was about 24 hours before Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain got through — a striking break from diplomatic practice given the close alliance between the United States and Britain.
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt was the first to reach Mr. Trump for such a call last Wednesday, followed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel not long afterward. But that was about 24 hours before Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain got through — a striking break from diplomatic practice given the close alliance between the United States and Britain.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:22 (seven years ago) link
the incompetence and disorganization is really grotesque
― Treeship, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:31 (seven years ago) link
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link
Holy Hell!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:56 (seven years ago) link
Really motherfucker? It should be nothing but organized you shit head!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 04:57 (seven years ago) link
posted upthread :)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:00 (seven years ago) link
Fuck idk even know. I'm just is such a rage atm and I hate this fucker so damn much any every idiot that voted for him.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
lol at "ted cruz's deep love of the constitution"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:10 (seven years ago) link
he particularly loves the 2 ply version
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:13 (seven years ago) link
his go-to when he runs out of athletic socks
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:21 (seven years ago) link
http://www.action-force.dk/cobra/figures/serpentor/serpentor-filecard.jpg
― dustalo springsteen (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link
don't blink or you'll miss emhttp://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-expert-mike-rogers-leaves-trump-transition-team-amid-shake-up-1479221847
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
should staff the cabinet with all reality stars
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
Trump appoints horse to Secretary of Defense
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:29 (seven years ago) link
Trump appoints Norman Schwarzkopf to Secretary of Treasury
(one week later)
Trump team learns Cabinet appointees must be living, learns Schwarzkopf has been dead for 4 yrs
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 05:44 (seven years ago) link
bahahahahaha
― augh (Control Z), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 06:14 (seven years ago) link
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, November 15, 2016 11:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^
I like to imagine Trump realizing just how far out of his depth he is, panicking, and feigning a health crisis that forces him to resign, disappearing from public view swiftly thereafter, retreating to Mar-a-Lago to live out his days as a semi-invalid suffering from dementia, leaving the republic in even greater disarray but safe at least from his special brand of depredations.
― augh (Control Z), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 06:40 (seven years ago) link
the meetings have got to be a total shitshow
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 06:41 (seven years ago) link
I finally had the talk with my mom on facetime today (she lives near Bham, Al). I had been hoping that her disdain for disgusting men like Trump would overrule her disdain for corporate elitists like Hillary enough for her to write in Ben Carson or something but the right wing talking point bubble that she lives in has fully taken hold of her. She's usually able to articulate her thoughts about things well (she's an accountant and has been known to talk my ear off about credit union profit equity laws or w/e) but when she started talking about Hillary she wasn't even forming complete sentences, just stuttering shards of talking points like a 12 year-old trying to justify why he had to throw a rock at the other kid. It was sad and disappointing and she straight up shocked me in an exchange when I asked her what Obama had done that was so horrible and she said "Obamacare" and I said "yeah, I wish we just had a socialist single-payer system" and she said "well that's what we have, a socialist system, that's why it's so expensive" and I had to use wikipedia to prove to her that all the top insurance companies are for-profit. She's usually the first to admit it when she's totally ignorant of a subject matter but when it comes to right-wing media topics she completely falls into that stupid "skeptical=smart" trap and argues for ridiculous falsehood until she says "well you believe what you believe and I believe what I believe" like there's no such thing as facts.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 06:51 (seven years ago) link
I dunno; I've tried to resist directly attacking people head on, and try to shift them by a few degrees at a time.
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 07:15 (seven years ago) link
That's mainly the route that I took today. I wasn't even the one who brought up the election but she seemed compelled to defend her vote (she knows where I stand politically). I'm hoping that by asking a few non-pointed questions and rebutting them with a fact here and there I can slowly whittle away at her certainty about these foolish positions but I don't talk to her as much as local Bham morning DJs do on her commute so I'm not sure if it's wasted effort. I've tried prodding her about climate change over the years, hoping that as studies and evidence and international consensus continue to pile up she'll start to believe it's real and man-made but she still brings up that one time those scientist emails leaked about maybe skewing the results of one study.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link
Jeb Lund posted this fun timeline today, wondering if the fuckery would be reported on by media types with the same zeal as "the Obamacare website doesn't work!1" but wasn't holding his breath
http://i.imgur.com/2JCUAjN.jpg
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 07:32 (seven years ago) link
Climate Change is one of those things that is a perfect storm(sorry) of falling into the cracks of human risk perception.
David Roberts writes about this kinda thing, that it won't becomes tenable for them until it slowly or quietly becomes an acceptable idea for members of consertivate tribal identity.
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 07:35 (seven years ago) link