US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

my friend defended the move by mentioning how 5 other US Presidents had no political experience.

Let's see, two of them are on most "worst Presidents" lists, one of them will make that list when his term is over, and a fourth on that list died less than halfway into his first term. Real inspiring company there.

She has a ton of positive qualities, yes, just not sure any of them qualify her for office. Just because she'd be a zillion times better than the walking abortion we have now, and because I actually like her as a person, well....that doesn't mean I want her to be President.

she'd be a good chief of staff

as long as drs. phil and oz are banned from the white house

Dr Oz should be banned from living above-ground

It’s fine if Oprah’s president because nothing matters but the next nominee should be Elizabeth Warren.

There needs to be a broad economic program. A rich celebrity is not the right messenger for that.

That matters more to me than experience. I would chamge my mind if Oprah made free public college, single payer healthcare, and a $15 minimum wage at the center of her message. But I don’t think she would.

I dont think anyone would :(

sanders m/l already did

Right. If there was a candidate who had a program like that but could also speak to minority constituencies in a way Hillary couldn’t — part of the reason for her suppressed turnout compared to Obama — that’d be the person. Maybe it’s Oprah. I don’t think so though.

Political experience doesn’t matter though if the person otherwise has good judgment. They would have advisors to execute their program. The problem with Trump is not his lack of experience, it’s that he is a malevolent person who can’t think coherently.

He felt women understood him. Or, the kind of women he liked — positive-outlook, can-do, loyal women, who also looked good — understood him. Everybody who successfully worked for him understood that there was always a subtext of his needs and personal tics that had to be scrupulously attended to; in this, he was not all that different from other highly successful figures, just more so. It would be hard to imagine someone who expected a greater awareness of and more catering to his peculiar whims, rhythms, prejudices, and often inchoate desires. He needed special — extra special — handling. Women, he explained to one friend with something like self-awareness, generally got this more precisely than men. In particular, women who self-selected themselves as tolerant of or oblivious to or amused by or steeled against his casual misogyny and constant sexual subtext — which was somehow, incongruously and often jarringly, matched with paternal regard — got this.

I had three exchanges today w/ people reflexively positing Oprah v. Trump as inevitable binary, "yeah but she'd be way better than Trump"

America fuck you

I mean, maybe we’re just going to have celebrity presidents from now on. Hope not.

The Rock 2028

Let's go

can you smell what the rock is nominating

i'd vote for oprah but i already have a car

seriously though i hate to be contrarian of the day but i would vote for oprah a thousand times over another craggy-faced, personality-free old white man with impeccable credentials and well-thought-out policy positions. that's not america anymore.

you might just get your chance to vote

for a craggy faced man

against a craggy faced man

sorry.

seriously though i hate to be contrarian of the day

you're not, you're dope of the day

you're not, you're dope

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:20 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw

catching up for the day.

1: karl qft:

i have no idea what oprah's politics are (which you'd think would affect her chances of becoming president, but no, it doesn't actually matter much)

2: hoos qft:

"you are so lucky that i gave you that privilege" is making me boggle in a way that i thought i'd become immune to in the last year

like oprah being president sounds okay if the extent of your politics is "woke facebook" but where does she stand on, say, Israel?

"you get a capital and you get a capital and you..."

can't wait to see which youtube celebrity runs in 2024 and which claymation adult swim character runs against him in 2028

lol like there's gonna be a 2024

Overly Attached Girlfriend in 2024!

Meanwhile, down at a certain big football game in Atlanta:

Welcome to Atlanta @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/5e6vnW9fey

— Metro Atlanta DSA 🌹 (@MetroATLDSA) January 8, 2018

But there’s a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory pic.twitter.com/AHp8QghzBk

— Metro Atlanta DSA 🌹 (@MetroATLDSA) January 9, 2018

FYI they can't show the stadium on tv because someone has FUCK TRUMP projected on it. Ha.

— RICHARD WADE HOW BOUT THEM DAWGS MORGAN (@studiowade) January 9, 2018

Activist from @MetroATLDSA: "We zoomed Downtown to our favorite location for a farewell beacon [as @realDonaldTrump departed]."#NationalChampionship pic.twitter.com/xo6cGLVcoT

— Sean Keenan (@ThatSeanKeenan) January 9, 2018

xp
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Satan/Gary 2028 - In your heart you know they're the ones.

I've been asked what I would've done with the 'Fire and Fury' cover by some folks who think the existing cover design is a disaster and a missed opportunity, so here is what I might have done with it pic.twitter.com/xV8W3L8oYu

— Edel Rodriguez (@edelstudio) January 7, 2018

i hadn't seen the real cover before: YIKES

Wow.

in other book news:

Toronto Prof's 'Fire And Fury' Book Now A Bestseller Thanks To Donald Trump
The 2008 book about World War II is now on three bestseller lists.
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01/08/2018 15:56 EST | Updated 9 hours ago
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Randall Hansen logged onto Amazon after a few glasses of wine and found that his book was a bestseller.

TORONTO — A Canadian professor's 10-year-old book is back on the bestseller list and he has Donald Trump to thank for it.

University of Toronto professor Randall Hansen published a book in 2008 titled "Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945.''

does it still count as a bestseller after all the copies are returned by the idiots who ordered them

have we done this yet because uh wtf

Just saw @Oprah's empowering & inspiring speech at last night’s #GoldenGlobes. Let’s all come together, women & men, & say #TIMESUP! #United https://t.co/vpxUBJnCl7

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) January 9, 2018

"that speech she gave was fucking dire."

I don't think she should run for President either but c'mon, that was not a dire speech.

Sorry IT, but you could have stayed on the sidelines with Tiffany. Wake up to the fact that after your father, contempt will follow you for the rest of your lives.

She could redeem herself if she really wanted to by leaving the admin and becoming a critic of her father

nah she'll wait until he's dead before she makes that pivot

just think of all those lovely 'ivanka trump's road to redemption' headlines

Lol you’re right, that’s definitely what will happen.

It must be hard when your loyalties are divided between the lady who introduced you to Steinbeck and the father who openly wants to have sex with you.

Oprah hates paying taxes, she's said, so there'd be continuity

OOBRHA WINFREDY FOR PRESIDETN

"like oprah being president sounds okay if the extent of your politics is "woke facebook" but where does she stand on, say, Israel?

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses)"

i mean, why would this matter? the main thing about having non-politicians for president is that they are more than ordinarily subsceptible to being manipulated by the people around them. in terms of america as a global leader this is obviously a terrible fucking idea, but a late julio-claudian presidency would be improved by not having the worst people in america fighting with each other to decide policy - and i do believe that oprah, if she runs as a democratic, would attract a better class of narcissistic manipulators.

trying to bring back in america where voters make rational decisions motivated by policy and facts is a fool's errand because that america never existed. the most important thing the democratic party needs to learn is to never run an uncharismatic candidate for president again.

Trump was convinced to run and secretly financed by Oprah, who knew that a brief Trump presidency would be enough to get a sizable portion of the skeptical voting public to break down and desperately implore, 'help us, Oprah Winfrey, you're our only hope.'

lmao I sometimes mistake myself for hopeless or cynical and then I read ILX again and remind myself there are greater depths to plumb xp