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

obv. I would disagree w/that, regardless of the "effectiveness of protest" this really needs to start happening just as a gesture

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.\

complicit in what, exactly?

🐦[BREAKING: Donald Trump ’cancels visit to UK next month after fearing he won’t be welcome’ https://t.co/jOusv38GDu🕸 pic.twitter.com/KftRUIQLLj🕸
— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) January 11, 2018🕸]🐦

Gunna be fun if he never actually makes it over there for four years

Or

He drags his feet so long by the time he finally gets there, Corbyn is in charge

Trump push notification watch:

WaPo: Shithole
NYT: Vulgar language
CNN: Shithole
LAT: Slur
AP: Shithole

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) January 11, 2018

didn't know you could say "shithole" on CNN

― frogbs, Thursday, 11 January 2018 23:00 (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When the president does it, it's legal

I think the only thing mass protests alone do is just keep the dude from visiting your country

live on the air, i've heard s-hole, bleephole, s-word-hole, and shithole

Hilarious that the language is so scandalously awful but the same people who find it thus are cool with the president having this view.

So will it should be fine to refer to the President as 'that asshole' on most media outlets from now on?

“Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people,” Mr. Shah said.

gotta love that the spokesperson's main line of response is that trump hates all countries equally, not just haiti and "african nations"

What Norwegian would?

and meanwhile happily tracking upward toward 40% approval on the 538 poll integrator, which would be his highest approval since May 2017:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

nice to see Dom's brother is having so much success

Jim Acosta on CNN quoting the President of the United States:

"Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out."

FUCK THIS ASSHOLE

can't wait until Jan. 20th, gonna scream til I'm mute

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

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.

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.

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

was not expecting the sydney morning herald to go with 's---hole'

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.

"I was always the best athlete, people don't know that"

i gotta admit — i didn't know that

as per the sign, this episode of Black Mirror sucks

"Just - and so - so I was successful, successful, successful."

"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"

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.

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.

HOOS otm.
Also a lot of us are planning for big MLK Day marches and Women's marches coming up next week.

s-word-hole

i'll give him a swordhole

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

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"

lmao at "swordhole"

xp thank you

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

he's not going to london because they wanted him to cut the ribbon

You tell 'em Donald.

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

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

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.

Please don't drag us into this

we have shamrock shakes?

we "has" shamrock shakes.

we "can haz" shamrock shakes

"we"

thanks, now I want a shamrock shake.

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 sleep

my 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 daughter

I guess that's why I'm not out on the street you condescending fucks

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