nice to see Dom's brother is having so much success
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 January 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
Jim Acosta on CNN quoting the President of the United States:
"Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out."
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
FUCK THIS ASSHOLE
can't wait until Jan. 20th, gonna scream til I'm mute
― sleeve, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
primary every single one of these scumbag motherfucking Democrats
Taking Short Break From Denouncing Trump Authoritarianism, House Dems Join With GOP to 'Violate the Privacy Rights of Everyone in United States"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/11/taking-short-break-denouncing-trump-authoritarianism-house-dems-join-gop-violate
― sleeve, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
Weird - no mention of the Trump story at all on the ABC News homepage. Nowhere to be found. It's the lead story on CNN, NPR, CBS, NBC, and Fox.
― timellison, Friday, 12 January 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
incl Shakey's pal Pelosi xp
Many people have been in the streets. However, we practically had a second civil war in this country 1965-71, and most citizens remained safely inside. People generally think of national politics as a TV show.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
Trump's mega-rant about how he is the smartest and best at everything, as WSJ tries to ask him about Bannon, must be read to be believed. https://t.co/WAH6qyifpb pic.twitter.com/Gw3vx2nSc7— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 12, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 January 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link
was not expecting the sydney morning herald to go with 's---hole'
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 January 2018 02:18 (six years ago) link
Yeah our media are usually pretty laissez-faire about swears on TV at least up to "shit" level. I feel like Ive heard "cunt" on ABC news before but Im not so sure.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
"I was always the best athlete, people don't know that"
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:48 (six years ago) link
i gotta admit — i didn't know that
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
as per the sign, this episode of Black Mirror sucks
― sleeve, Friday, 12 January 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
"Just - and so - so I was successful, successful, successful."
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:00 (six years ago) link
"But the difference is I’m president; other people aren’t. And I know more about wedges than any human being that’s ever lived"
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:02 (six years ago) link
Why the fuck doesn't this hold true for the US in 2018? The situation has been dire for months now, and it doesn't look like anyone is actually doing anything effective about it. As a foreign observer, it's hard not to consider the 'other America' complicit – I mean, why is no one is out in the streets? The tipping point was reached ages ago, for fuck's sake.
― pomenitul
Professional organizers are divided, all having to prioritize their own battles rather than having the capacity to come together to plan strategic escalation. I spoke with one of the organizers of the Hong Kong student protests who marveled at the way Trump opened up so many battlefields of protest simultaneously, that he divided the forces of opposition by attacking them all separately.
There was an impeachment encampment that lived down the street from the White House for a month. It didn't grow organically. It wasn't well planned (they had no escalation plan and largely flew by seat of their pants) and the folks who might have known how to plan it better had they come together were occupied planning the next steps in the health care fight, or trying to figure out how to make the DREAM Act happen, or trying to figure out what to do about the tax bill.
I think regular (anti-Trump) people aren't coming out in the numbers one might expect because they've become exhausted by the different forms of protest they've had to take up this year. The psychological toll of living under this guy does not feel light as we undergo it.
Why haven't *spontaneous* millions-strong mass protests broken out? Many rural people feel he's embarassing & coarse but not wrong. Throw in the actual white nationalist types and the craven right wing policy types and you wind up with his 30% approval rating. That means that for many more people than that this all feels more like an ugly & scary turn in the culture war than a real threat to their personal future.
All that's to say that for the everyday middle class white person going to school or work there's not an acute sense of national crisis that might propel them into spontaneous protest. The media has become such an outrageous drone that their coverage isn't sparking that sense of national crisis either, though this Wolff book in being so singular seems to have turned on a panic bulb in newsrooms all over, puditocracy soul searching about "how bad it's gotten." And the social movements are divided fighting battles for survival.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 January 2018 03:05 (six years ago) link
Is there even a way to identify a successful person if they don't regularly inform you of their success like they have a tic? I can't imagine what metric you'd even use to measure success beyond the manic self-reporting of a successful person. It may come across as a desperately insecure cry for help to those who aren't successful, but that's just how jealousy manifests sometimes, I guess.
― the smartest persin in the room (Old Lunch), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
HOOS otm.Also a lot of us are planning for big MLK Day marches and Women's marches coming up next week.
― Fetchboy, Friday, 12 January 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
s-word-hole
i'll give him a swordhole
― porg and bess (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
what's amazing about all this is that many people say that trump is the last racist person you've ever met
― Karl Malone, Thursday, January 11, 2018 3:36 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
God if only
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
for foreign observers who consider us complicit, I might point you to the list of US cities by population, where it should be clear that Trump's current residence is not even in the top 20; also, the gestalt position of my neighbors and I is, as we say, "crystal"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
lmao at "swordhole"
― Simon H., Friday, 12 January 2018 04:28 (six years ago) link
xp thank you
― sleeve, Friday, 12 January 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
christ he's dumb
Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for “peanuts,” only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2018
― Karl Malone, Friday, 12 January 2018 05:00 (six years ago) link
he's not going to london because they wanted him to cut the ribbon
― Karl Malone, Friday, 12 January 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
You tell 'em Donald.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, 12 January 2018 05:23 (six years ago) link
just in case you were wondering how his supporters rationalize today's events:
Which is worse: Obama publicly praising Iran and Cuba, or Trump privately criticizing Haiti and El Salvador?— Ezra Levant 🇨🇦 (@ezralevant) January 11, 2018
― Karl Malone, Friday, 12 January 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link
OK, here is a summary:- The president is claiming he's not going to visit a top ally because he's unhappy about a real estate decision by the Obama admin- The decision was actually made by the Bush admin- The decision was made for anti-terror reasons- It is midnight— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 12, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 12 January 2018 05:30 (six years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, everything about that excuse is nonsense. but also it's so brazenly, defiantly off-topic. he might as well say he's not going to london because he is not a big fan of mcdonald's shamrock shakes. yet he actually is really pleased with himself for coming up with such an awesome excuse.
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:33 (six years ago) link
Please don't drag us into this
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 12 January 2018 07:51 (six years ago) link
we have shamrock shakes?
― "Taste's very strange!" (stevie), Friday, 12 January 2018 10:29 (six years ago) link
we "has" shamrock shakes.
― Mark G, Friday, 12 January 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
we "can haz" shamrock shakes
― j., Friday, 12 January 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
"we"
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 12 January 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
thanks, now I want a shamrock shake.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 January 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
I get up everyday at 6am to get my daughter to school. then I with until five, and get home to pick her up or start dinner. then it's dinner, homework, bedtime, so then i have about 2 hours to read or watch TV before I go to sleepmy wife is unemployed and her benefits ran out after six months so now I'm gonna be working for a transcription service or driving Lyft on the weekends while trying to spend time with my daughterI guess that's why I'm not out on the street you condescending fucks
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 January 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
oh and we have a bunch of medical bills I don't how we're gonna pay if my wife doesn't get a job in the next 2 months I guess we sell the house or start the slide into bankruptcy
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 January 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
I don't think the US is complicit. It's a f'ing avalanche. No one is able to focus on any one thing because it's everything, everyday. He is driving the country absolutely mad. I no longer have a relationship with my entire family because of this administration.
― Yerac, Friday, 12 January 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
it's also -23C outside
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 January 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
Also the US is too big. I am all for dividing this up (pipe dream).
― Yerac, Friday, 12 January 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link
I always wonder what all you are doing in your own countries to help people being victimized by racism and global capitalism? or maybe it's easier to enjoy our little reality show looking down on those that have to live in this every day while stroking yourselves off with pseudointellectual concern trolling
― Keak da Sneaky Dianne (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
The US is fucking huge, and while we've hit the streets a few times (individually, in groups, and as a family), it's such a shit storm that hitting the streets every time something bad goes down - which is literally every day - is not possible. We donate, we have signs, we campaign, we canvass, we call, we organize. I have a couple of friends who have all but dedicated their lives to protest (at some mental cost, imo). But in the end it seems almost pointless, at least in a city/state with two Dem senators and (locally at least) a bunch of Dem reps. I've heard that described as one of the downsides of the liberal/rural divide: the cities are dense with people and Democrats, but because of that these huge voting blocks have no minds to change. Swing districts, GOP districts ... there is effective movement to be made. But here, not so much.
Anyway, in the end many of the administration's most ambitiously terrible ideas have been stopped or slowed, in part due to protest but also the way the legal system works. They won't all be wins, but it's been one year, and next year could determine literally everything, from policy to potential impeachment.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 January 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
In the meantime, Trump's televised meeting competence offensive lasted, as predicted, less than 24 hours.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 January 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
― Yerac, Friday, January 12, 2018 7:53 AM (twenty-six minutes ago
oh good! We get our bimonthly let's-divide-blue-and-red-state argument!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
i think all red states should be paired up with a "buddy" blue state, then strengthen those regions' abilities to raise their own taxes, and of course create a new "appellation" system where they could all compete on who makes the best barbecue
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
Appellation d'Appalachian
― mime kampf (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
When considering the successes of mass civil resistance movements around the world in bringing down governments in the last 50 years, it's important to remember that, say, Serbia (where mass protest brought down Milosevic) is approximately the size of the state of Maine.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 12 January 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
trump now profusely, sweatily denying the shithole comment btw
― Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link
He's denying the word, not what he communicated by that word, and everybody understands that.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 12 January 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
lol cuck
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 January 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link