The man can't even pretend to wish a simple thing without being a complete asshole. Just completely incapable of putting up a facade decency.
Just wait until he has to start consoling families of fallen soldiers, or handling a massive crisis when something awful happens during his administration. Think of all the times Obama had to stand before the nation after a mass shooting or other tragedy.
I was going to put a satirical version of how I think it'll go down here, but I just can't. It's too dark, and frankly at this point I won't be surprised if he's an even bigger asshole than I could imagine.
The best case scenario will probably be generic platitudes and vagueness. But what the GOP might try to push through following such an event legitimately concerns me.
Whether through indifference, ignorance, or actual malice, their capacity to do harm is going to be staggering.
"It's time we put guns in the hands of the good guys!"
*roaring applause from out of state audience not impacted by the shooting*
The man can't even pretend to wish a simple thing without being a complete asshole. Just completely incapable of putting up a facade decency.
Just wait until he has to start consoling families of fallen soldiers, or handling a massive crisis when something awful happens during his administration. Think of all the times Obama had to stand before the nation after a mass shooting or other tragedy.
I was going to put a satirical version of how I think it'll go down here, but I just can't. It's too dark, and frankly at this point I won't be surprised if he's an even bigger asshole than I could imagine.
The best case scenario will probably be generic platitudes and vagueness. But what the GOP might try to push through following such an event legitimately concerns me.
Whether through indifference, ignorance, or actual malice, their capacity to do harm is going to be staggering.
I was gonna say that being an ass himself to the family of fallen soldiers might get some people to turn on him.
The man can't even pretend to wish a simple thing without being a complete asshole. Just completely incapable of putting up a facade decency.
Just wait until he has to start consoling families of fallen soldiers, or handling a massive crisis when something awful happens during his administration. Think of all the times Obama had to stand before the nation after a mass shooting or other tragedy.
I was going to put a satirical version of how I think it'll go down here, but I just can't. It's too dark, and frankly at this point I won't be surprised if he's an even bigger asshole than I could imagine.
The best case scenario will probably be generic platitudes and vagueness. But what the GOP might try to push through following such an event legitimately concerns me.
Whether through indifference, ignorance, or actual malice, their capacity to do harm is going to be staggering.
I was gonna say that being an ass himself to the family of fallen soldiers might get some people to turn on him.
Then I remembered the Khans.
Fuck everything.
The Khan situation did get alot of people to turn on him. It's just they all seemed to not care a week later. From media to the voters.
The man can't even pretend to wish a simple thing without being a complete asshole. Just completely incapable of putting up a facade decency.
Just wait until he has to start consoling families of fallen soldiers, or handling a massive crisis when something awful happens during his administration. Think of all the times Obama had to stand before the nation after a mass shooting or other tragedy.
I was going to put a satirical version of how I think it'll go down here, but I just can't. It's too dark, and frankly at this point I won't be surprised if he's an even bigger asshole than I could imagine.
The best case scenario will probably be generic platitudes and vagueness. But what the GOP might try to push through following such an event legitimately concerns me.
Whether through indifference, ignorance, or actual malice, their capacity to do harm is going to be staggering.
I was gonna say that being an ass himself to the family of fallen soldiers might get some people to turn on him.
Then I remembered the Khans.
Fuck everything.
The Khan situation did get alot of people to turn on him. It's just they all seemed to not care a week later. From media to the voters.
Sometimes it seems like Trump has sold his soul to the devil. He had hundreds of gaffes that would have each killed any other Republican campaign. Remember how a somewhat ill-thought statement about taxes just about killed Romney's campaign?
Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote.
“Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” the former Alaska governor said during an interview with Breitbart.
“We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block,” Palin said. “I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the UN, and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying–look what the U.K. just did,” as she referred to the Brexit vote.
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Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote.
“Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” the former Alaska governor said during an interview with Breitbart.
“We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block,” Palin said. “I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the UN, and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying–look what the U.K. just did,” as she referred to the Brexit vote.
It's almost as if the Christian wing of the GOP wants to start nuclear war I mean the rapture sooner rather than later.
Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote.
“Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” the former Alaska governor said during an interview with Breitbart.
“We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block,” Palin said. “I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the UN, and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying–look what the U.K. just did,” as she referred to the Brexit vote.
It's almost as if the Christian wing of the GOP wants to start nuclear war I mean the rapture sooner rather than later.
I think it's more that Americans have no idea what the UN actually does. (Note, this may not be a trait unique to Americans.)
Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote.
“Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” the former Alaska governor said during an interview with Breitbart.
“We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block,” Palin said. “I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the UN, and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying–look what the U.K. just did,” as she referred to the Brexit vote.
It's almost as if the Christian wing of the GOP wants to start nuclear war I mean the rapture sooner rather than later.
I think it's more that Americans have no idea what the UN actually does. (Note, this may not be a trait unique to Americans.)
And the Right has been demonizing then, in large part via conspiracy theory bullshit, for decades now.
Like, you know Trump's insanely dangerous cockwaving macho "glass the sand-n****rs" foreign policy style? That's really appealing to a lot of people and part of it is the whole idea that the UN holds the US back.
Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote.
“Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” the former Alaska governor said during an interview with Breitbart.
“We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block,” Palin said. “I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the UN, and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying–look what the U.K. just did,” as she referred to the Brexit vote.
It's almost as if the Christian wing of the GOP wants to start nuclear war I mean the rapture sooner rather than later.
I think it's more that Americans have no idea what the UN actually does. (Note, this may not be a trait unique to Americans.)
And the Right has been demonizing then, in large part via conspiracy theory bullshit, for decades now.
Like, you know Trump's insanely dangerous cockwaving macho "glass the sand-n****rs" foreign policy style? That's really appealing to a lot of people and part of it is the whole idea that the UN holds the US back.
And here I thought it was common human decency keeping us from killing millions of innocent civilians
Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote.
“Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” the former Alaska governor said during an interview with Breitbart.
“We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block,” Palin said. “I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the UN, and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying–look what the U.K. just did,” as she referred to the Brexit vote.
It's almost as if the Christian wing of the GOP wants to start nuclear war I mean the rapture sooner rather than later.
I think it's more that Americans have no idea what the UN actually does. (Note, this may not be a trait unique to Americans.)
And the Right has been demonizing then, in large part via conspiracy theory bullshit, for decades now.
Like, you know Trump's insanely dangerous cockwaving macho "glass the sand-n****rs" foreign policy style? That's really appealing to a lot of people and part of it is the whole idea that the UN holds the US back.
And here I thought it was common human decency keeping us from killing millions of innocent civilians
Nope
Edit: OK, actually it is. It's just that they wish it wasn't.
The man can't even pretend to wish a simple thing without being a complete asshole. Just completely incapable of putting up a facade decency.
Just wait until he has to start consoling families of fallen soldiers, or handling a massive crisis when something awful happens during his administration. Think of all the times Obama had to stand before the nation after a mass shooting or other tragedy.
I was going to put a satirical version of how I think it'll go down here, but I just can't. It's too dark, and frankly at this point I won't be surprised if he's an even bigger asshole than I could imagine.
The best case scenario will probably be generic platitudes and vagueness. But what the GOP might try to push through following such an event legitimately concerns me.
Whether through indifference, ignorance, or actual malice, their capacity to do harm is going to be staggering.
I was gonna say that being an ass himself to the family of fallen soldiers might get some people to turn on him.
Then I remembered the Khans.
Fuck everything.
The only way being a dick to military families is going to harm Trump is if the family is white christian. Period.
Republicans didn't care about him antagonizing the Khans because they were brown muslims. They weren't "real Americans".
He's definitely the personality type that believes that happiness is zero sum.
It is a pretty common idea in American culture that everything is zero-sum. Its why people freak out so much when politics and movements try to deal with other people's issues. Making things better for black people must mean making things worse for white people*. Allowing gays to get married must make marriage worse for straight people*. Acknowledging other religions' holidays must mean you are diminishing christianity*. etc.
* In all cases no one can answer "how?"
EDIT: Also shown in Americans opposition to/negative view on sport games ending in ties.
Answering "how" is easy - "to the privileged, equality feels like oppression." Let's be honest - there are things that in order to improve things for minorities will require making things "worse" for whites. Of course, the flip side is that this is because whites have held a massive advantage, and thus the remediation is to remove that advantage.
Come on. There's no way to look at that and not think that the man is falling apart literally day by day. That's no the statement of someone who is aware of or believes there is going to be another election. Thats not the statement of a president. That's the statement of someone sitting in a pair of plastic underwear, soaked in sweat after watching porn for three hours and eating cold beans with his hands.
I cannot believe that the republicans in the Senate will stand for this. Impeach him and replace him with pence.
The man can't even pretend to wish a simple thing without being a complete asshole. Just completely incapable of putting up a facade decency.
Just wait until he has to start consoling families of fallen soldiers, or handling a massive crisis when something awful happens during his administration. Think of all the times Obama had to stand before the nation after a mass shooting or other tragedy.
I was going to put a satirical version of how I think it'll go down here, but I just can't. It's too dark, and frankly at this point I won't be surprised if he's an even bigger asshole than I could imagine.
The best case scenario will probably be generic platitudes and vagueness. But what the GOP might try to push through following such an event legitimately concerns me.
Whether through indifference, ignorance, or actual malice, their capacity to do harm is going to be staggering.
"It's time we put guns in the hands of the good guys!"
*roaring applause from out of state audience not impacted by the shooting*
Oh no, no, no. That's too tame.
I expect him to include some kind of ethnic or religious fearmongering in there somehow.
Either the shooter is justified because he is oppressed white man or because its the fault of "those rapists and murderers who flee Syria/Mexico" or something along those lines.
Come on. There's no way to look at that and not think that the man is falling apart literally day by day. That's no the statement of someone who is aware of or believes there is going to be another election. Thats not the statement of a president. That's the statement of someone sitting in a pair of plastic underwear, soaked in sweat after watching porn for three hours and eating cold beans with his hands.
I cannot believe that the republicans in the Senate will stand for this. Impeach him and replace him with pence.
It's tough to get more rock bottom than staying up to the wee hours of the morning telling people they need to track down the sex tape that will prove you aren't an asshole
I think the reason the incident with the Khans thing didn't stick was because it was just one family, that wasn't white and the media found other ways to distract people. I don't think that will go over well long term when it's more than one family, when some of those families are white, when there might not be something quick an easy to distract people from and when some of these people come off as either apolitical or conservative. Hell, we know Trump got more minority votes than Romney and that not as many showed up for Clinton, as they did for Obama. So even if him being a dick to numerous military families doesn't sway white conservatives, could persuade less minorities to vote for Republican in future races and more of the ones that stayed home for non-voter suppression, health or emergency reasons to start showing up again or even to show up, if they aren't voting now.
I'm wondering if this behavior might actually undermine the NRA. It's easy for the callous and/or ignorant gun enthusiast to cheer on their shit, when it's not their community. I doubt this will work out well for those people when it finally happens to them, to get the NRA's shit line because certain policies hurt their bottom line. Then not only get salt added to the wound, but have several more inflicted upon them, which also get salted, by Trump being an absolute, uncaring ass.
Also not looking forward how he handles all the natural disasters we're going to get. Some coast in the US Is going to get hammered by a Hurricane in the next four years, the only questions are when, where and how many. We'll probably get a major earthquake in the states some time soon, god help us, if the expected big one on the west coast during a Trump Presidency. A bunch of places are going to get trashed by twisters. We'll also probably see the usual round of droughts, floods and blizzards as well. All of this before we get into all the shit that is a result of human fuckery, which likely will be an all time high or close to it, under Trump's watch.
Honestly, maybe we would be better off getting conquered by an alien race. Under Trump's watch, the bar of "well we're the better option," won't be that high.
Come on. There's no way to look at that and not think that the man is falling apart literally day by day. That's no the statement of someone who is aware of or believes there is going to be another election. Thats not the statement of a president. That's the statement of someone sitting in a pair of plastic underwear, soaked in sweat after watching porn for three hours and eating cold beans with his hands.
I cannot believe that the republicans in the Senate will stand for this. Impeach him and replace him with pence.
It's tough to get more rock bottom than staying up to the wee hours of the morning telling people they need to track down the sex tape that will prove you aren't an asshole
Before he won, he could say that all this bluster was just good optics for him. Gotta motivate the base and get the democrats focused on the wrong thing. But now he desperately needs his opponents to go back to sleep. Electoral college nonsense and gerrymandering are all well and good, but when it comes down to it the gop knows their supporters are old, unhealthy and outnumbered. They need the democrats to calm down and not just pull them down from their pedestals and throw them in jail. If we don't go back to sleep, and they keep us angry, then the very best they will get is a disaster in 2018. If democrats vote, they lose. If democrats strike, they starve. If democrats just stand up and say, 'no more' and March on Washington to remove them then they go to jail. Their power depends on us respecting the system and its integrity.
As much as I'd love for Trump to actually suffer consequences for crossing the line, what the election taught us is that that line no longer exists.
It exists.
It just doesn't exist when your base is willing to ignore it.
Which, of course, many... many Trump supporters were more than willing to do all through the election, and currently still seem more than willing to do despite the massive hypocrisy (that they also ignore).
Come on. There's no way to look at that and not think that the man is falling apart literally day by day. That's no the statement of someone who is aware of or believes there is going to be another election. Thats not the statement of a president. That's the statement of someone sitting in a pair of plastic underwear, soaked in sweat after watching porn for three hours and eating cold beans with his hands.
I cannot believe that the republicans in the Senate will stand for this. Impeach him and replace him with pence.
It's tough to get more rock bottom than staying up to the wee hours of the morning telling people they need to track down the sex tape that will prove you aren't an asshole
Before he won, he could say that all this bluster was just good optics for him. Gotta motivate the base and get the democrats focused on the wrong thing. But now he desperately needs his opponents to go back to sleep. Electoral college nonsense and gerrymandering are all well and good, but when it comes down to it the gop knows their supporters are old, unhealthy and outnumbered. They need the democrats to calm down and not just pull them down from their pedestals and throw them in jail. If we don't go back to sleep, and they keep us angry, then the very best they will get is a disaster in 2018. If democrats vote, they lose. If democrats strike, they starve. If democrats just stand up and say, 'no more' and March on Washington to remove them then they go to jail. Their power depends on us respecting the system and its integrity.
Honestly, the anti-vaxxer movement was probably the canary warning us that things were about to get super fucked. I don't think Trump and co realize that they are dependent on cities for many things. I think the more self-aware republicans realize that the current trend, is not sustainable and more electioneering and Jim Crow shit, won't buy them any real time. Unfortunately, a sizable chunk of them are cowards or/and care more about keeping their power than doing what is best for the country. Though they will want non-GOP voters to stay home because their base will be even more insufferable, if it is made clear they only won because not enough democrats showed up. A huge chunk of Trump voters do not get they aren't the majority and feel that their America is being stolen, even though we have very clearly proof that it is they who have the unfair influence.
I'm hoping the bolded doesn't happen. We're all fucked if things go there because it won't end up being a peaceful march, nor will many that have rallied behind Trump let such a march peacefully throw him in jail; especially, the worst parts of a America. Though at this point, looking around, I'm afraid to say we are pretty damn close to some nasty civil unrest. I want to believe we haven't gone over the edge, while things will be shitty under Trump, we'll be able to get the ship righted and prevent too much permanent damage. However, I worry that a Trump presidency could put us on a collision course with lots of bad shit happening.
Our best hope is that the GOP held Congress and Trump get into some major fights and fuck all gets done for two years. Then if we're lucky, we get a democratic wave that either nets the democrats the Senate, the House or both. Another acceptable option would be, the GOP properly removes Trump from office because he is unfit and they'd rather take their chances with Pence and the resulting blowback from butthurt Trump supporters.
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Maybe, just maybe, leftists in general will care less about rules, norms or argumentative "style points" and actually just try good, effective propaganda and activism.
The left believes that if you are correct, you win. The right knows that if you win, you are correct. Or, it suddenly doesn't matter if you are correct or not when you win. Ever.
Maybe, just maybe, leftists in general will care less about rules, norms or argumentative "style points" and actually just try good, effective propaganda and activism.
The left believes that if you are correct, you win. The right knows that if you win, you are correct. Or, it suddenly doesn't matter if you are correct or not when you win. Ever.
The Age of Principles is at an end.
Begun the Age of Memes has.
e: no but seriously we had fucking effective propaganda, we had millions more votes. Our election system is just fucked and one side literally doesn't care about democracy.
Meanwhile Sessions is just leaving out giant gaps of history in the documents he's submitting for his confirmation hearing.
Like omitting the last time he needed a confirmation hearing and was rejected for being too racist.
Among other major details from his time as an attorney in Alabama, Attorney General, and his first term as a senator.
Naturally Sessions himself when on the Judiciary committee complained about multiple Obama nominees saying he didn't think they submitted enough documentation and that failing to do so should be considered breaking the law.
I think the worst part of this is that it proves to me, once and for all, that time travel is impossible.
not necessarily, what if trump's presidency motivates young people to vote and third wave democrats get booted out and we end up with a new party structure and start actually addressing social problems
probably not but who woulda thought the cuban missile crisis would end positively while it was happening
Yet there won't be any end to the people thinking, "Surely Trump won't seek that petty revenge against me if he has the chance."
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I think the real story here is that Trump just pissed off one of the Kochs.
Fairly certain that there's no love lost there. They didn't back him, he didn't attend their little primary ring-kissing summit (I think?), and I think they have gone on record as less than reverential regarding him.
Maybe, just maybe, leftists in general will care less about rules, norms or argumentative "style points" and actually just try good, effective propaganda and activism.
The left believes that if you are correct, you win. The right knows that if you win, you are correct. Or, it suddenly doesn't matter if you are correct or not when you win. Ever.
The Age of Principles is at an end.
Begun the Age of Memes has.
e: no but seriously we had fucking effective propaganda, we had millions more votes. Our election system is just fucked and one side literally doesn't care about democracy.
I utterly detest memes on principle.
Maybe I'm just turning into an old man who hates the new things all the kids are doing, but in my day, we called these things jokes.
Sometimes you'd retell a joke. Sometimes it'd be a referential one or an obscure in-group joke.
Now those are the only jokes that we tell and they're usually no longer funny. It doesn't matter, you pass the buck along to confirm that you're in the coolest of ingroups.
I'm sure I had a thought connecting that Pepe the Frog and the alt-right. I'll just attribute it to kids these days having no proper critical thinking or ability to actually genuinely express themselves
You know, like connecting to actual fucking human beings and having something meaningful to say.
Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote.
“Our government, our bureaucrats and our elected leaders, work for us,” the former Alaska governor said during an interview with Breitbart.
“We are the ones that need to call for this, that the UN shackles be next on the chopping block,” Palin said. “I think many of us have called for America to really step up and consider what it is that we are funding and supporting via the UN, and how it works so hard really against U.S. interests, and just saying–look what the U.K. just did,” as she referred to the Brexit vote.
It's almost as if the Christian wing of the GOP wants to start nuclear war I mean the rapture sooner rather than later.
I think it's more that Americans have no idea what the UN actually does. (Note, this may not be a trait unique to Americans.)
And the Right has been demonizing then, in large part via conspiracy theory bullshit, for decades now.
Like, you know Trump's insanely dangerous cockwaving macho "glass the sand-n****rs" foreign policy style? That's really appealing to a lot of people and part of it is the whole idea that the UN holds the US back.
And here I thought it was common human decency keeping us from killing millions of innocent civilians
Oh, certainly not. Human decency always kills as many people as possible when we look away from eachother.
Continued support for Trump makes perfect sense to me. If I thought a politician could give me what I want? I'd be entirely okay watching them turn into their lizard form one night to devour a random citizen and sate the hunger. Shame about that motherless family I'll think, as I pull the lever again and again. I suppose if pressed I'll say oh no, I totally think everyone family should be safe. Please don't mistake me for supporting the eating of mothers. Real shame. So it's better if the feeding was a private affair and did not produce any political fallout.
I want things. If I happen to believe I'll get them, indulgences can be made. I'm low down and dirty like that, though.
Trump just happens to not hold any goals I agree with and is also a mediocre politician on top of that, but winning is a great aphrodisiac that gets people into all sorts of fantasies about how fucking wonderful their candidate is.
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"It's time we put guns in the hands of the good guys!"
*roaring applause from out of state audience not impacted by the shooting*
I was gonna say that being an ass himself to the family of fallen soldiers might get some people to turn on him.
Then I remembered the Khans.
Fuck everything.
The Khan situation did get alot of people to turn on him. It's just they all seemed to not care a week later. From media to the voters.
Sometimes it seems like Trump has sold his soul to the devil. He had hundreds of gaffes that would have each killed any other Republican campaign. Remember how a somewhat ill-thought statement about taxes just about killed Romney's campaign?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sarah-palin-calls-on-president-elect-trump-to-leave-the-united-nations/ar-BBxHmXp
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
It's almost as if the Christian wing of the GOP wants to start nuclear war I mean the rapture sooner rather than later.
The unknown is whether he will listen.
I'm leaning no, they've been opposed recently.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I think it's more that Americans have no idea what the UN actually does. (Note, this may not be a trait unique to Americans.)
And the Right has been demonizing then, in large part via conspiracy theory bullshit, for decades now.
Like, you know Trump's insanely dangerous cockwaving macho "glass the sand-n****rs" foreign policy style? That's really appealing to a lot of people and part of it is the whole idea that the UN holds the US back.
And here I thought it was common human decency keeping us from killing millions of innocent civilians
See, that's your issue right there. You assume some of the worst of these people think those people we'd bomb are even human to begin with.
Was easier to glass an entire region of the world when they think of them, all of them... not just the terrorists, as sub human garbage.
understatement of the decade
Nope
Edit: OK, actually it is. It's just that they wish it wasn't.
The only way being a dick to military families is going to harm Trump is if the family is white christian. Period.
Republicans didn't care about him antagonizing the Khans because they were brown muslims. They weren't "real Americans".
Answering "how" is easy - "to the privileged, equality feels like oppression." Let's be honest - there are things that in order to improve things for minorities will require making things "worse" for whites. Of course, the flip side is that this is because whites have held a massive advantage, and thus the remediation is to remove that advantage.
Come on. There's no way to look at that and not think that the man is falling apart literally day by day. That's no the statement of someone who is aware of or believes there is going to be another election. Thats not the statement of a president. That's the statement of someone sitting in a pair of plastic underwear, soaked in sweat after watching porn for three hours and eating cold beans with his hands.
I cannot believe that the republicans in the Senate will stand for this. Impeach him and replace him with pence.
Oh no, no, no. That's too tame.
I expect him to include some kind of ethnic or religious fearmongering in there somehow.
Either the shooter is justified because he is oppressed white man or because its the fault of "those rapists and murderers who flee Syria/Mexico" or something along those lines.
It's tough to get more rock bottom than staying up to the wee hours of the morning telling people they need to track down the sex tape that will prove you aren't an asshole
I'm wondering if this behavior might actually undermine the NRA. It's easy for the callous and/or ignorant gun enthusiast to cheer on their shit, when it's not their community. I doubt this will work out well for those people when it finally happens to them, to get the NRA's shit line because certain policies hurt their bottom line. Then not only get salt added to the wound, but have several more inflicted upon them, which also get salted, by Trump being an absolute, uncaring ass.
Also not looking forward how he handles all the natural disasters we're going to get. Some coast in the US Is going to get hammered by a Hurricane in the next four years, the only questions are when, where and how many. We'll probably get a major earthquake in the states some time soon, god help us, if the expected big one on the west coast during a Trump Presidency. A bunch of places are going to get trashed by twisters. We'll also probably see the usual round of droughts, floods and blizzards as well. All of this before we get into all the shit that is a result of human fuckery, which likely will be an all time high or close to it, under Trump's watch.
Honestly, maybe we would be better off getting conquered by an alien race. Under Trump's watch, the bar of "well we're the better option," won't be that high.
Before he won, he could say that all this bluster was just good optics for him. Gotta motivate the base and get the democrats focused on the wrong thing. But now he desperately needs his opponents to go back to sleep. Electoral college nonsense and gerrymandering are all well and good, but when it comes down to it the gop knows their supporters are old, unhealthy and outnumbered. They need the democrats to calm down and not just pull them down from their pedestals and throw them in jail. If we don't go back to sleep, and they keep us angry, then the very best they will get is a disaster in 2018. If democrats vote, they lose. If democrats strike, they starve. If democrats just stand up and say, 'no more' and March on Washington to remove them then they go to jail. Their power depends on us respecting the system and its integrity.
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It exists.
It just doesn't exist when your base is willing to ignore it.
Which, of course, many... many Trump supporters were more than willing to do all through the election, and currently still seem more than willing to do despite the massive hypocrisy (that they also ignore).
Honestly, the anti-vaxxer movement was probably the canary warning us that things were about to get super fucked. I don't think Trump and co realize that they are dependent on cities for many things. I think the more self-aware republicans realize that the current trend, is not sustainable and more electioneering and Jim Crow shit, won't buy them any real time. Unfortunately, a sizable chunk of them are cowards or/and care more about keeping their power than doing what is best for the country. Though they will want non-GOP voters to stay home because their base will be even more insufferable, if it is made clear they only won because not enough democrats showed up. A huge chunk of Trump voters do not get they aren't the majority and feel that their America is being stolen, even though we have very clearly proof that it is they who have the unfair influence.
I'm hoping the bolded doesn't happen. We're all fucked if things go there because it won't end up being a peaceful march, nor will many that have rallied behind Trump let such a march peacefully throw him in jail; especially, the worst parts of a America. Though at this point, looking around, I'm afraid to say we are pretty damn close to some nasty civil unrest. I want to believe we haven't gone over the edge, while things will be shitty under Trump, we'll be able to get the ship righted and prevent too much permanent damage. However, I worry that a Trump presidency could put us on a collision course with lots of bad shit happening.
Our best hope is that the GOP held Congress and Trump get into some major fights and fuck all gets done for two years. Then if we're lucky, we get a democratic wave that either nets the democrats the Senate, the House or both. Another acceptable option would be, the GOP properly removes Trump from office because he is unfit and they'd rather take their chances with Pence and the resulting blowback from butthurt Trump supporters.
The left believes that if you are correct, you win. The right knows that if you win, you are correct. Or, it suddenly doesn't matter if you are correct or not when you win. Ever.
The Age of Principles is at an end.
Begun the Age of Memes has.
e: no but seriously we had fucking effective propaganda, we had millions more votes. Our election system is just fucked and one side literally doesn't care about democracy.
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Jeff Sessions is such an enormous piece of shit even George Will hates him.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/the-very-bad-reason-jeff-sessions-is-very-unhappy/2016/12/23/213a3cb8-c86d-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html
Yet there won't be any end to the people thinking, "Surely Trump won't seek that petty revenge against me if he has the chance."
I wonder if Civil Forfeiture could be used against Trump Tower.
Do everything exactly according to existing laws. It'd be an awesome fuck you that would hopefully result in Civil Forfeiture laws being changed.
then again Koch is far less petty than Trump is so
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I think the real story here is that Trump just pissed off one of the Kochs.
not necessarily, what if trump's presidency motivates young people to vote and third wave democrats get booted out and we end up with a new party structure and start actually addressing social problems
probably not but who woulda thought the cuban missile crisis would end positively while it was happening
Fairly certain that there's no love lost there. They didn't back him, he didn't attend their little primary ring-kissing summit (I think?), and I think they have gone on record as less than reverential regarding him.
I utterly detest memes on principle.
Maybe I'm just turning into an old man who hates the new things all the kids are doing, but in my day, we called these things jokes.
Sometimes you'd retell a joke. Sometimes it'd be a referential one or an obscure in-group joke.
Now those are the only jokes that we tell and they're usually no longer funny. It doesn't matter, you pass the buck along to confirm that you're in the coolest of ingroups.
I'm sure I had a thought connecting that Pepe the Frog and the alt-right. I'll just attribute it to kids these days having no proper critical thinking or ability to actually genuinely express themselves
You know, like connecting to actual fucking human beings and having something meaningful to say.
Oh, certainly not. Human decency always kills as many people as possible when we look away from eachother.
I want things. If I happen to believe I'll get them, indulgences can be made. I'm low down and dirty like that, though.
Trump just happens to not hold any goals I agree with and is also a mediocre politician on top of that, but winning is a great aphrodisiac that gets people into all sorts of fantasies about how fucking wonderful their candidate is.