US Election 2016 (1 Viewer)

[David Kronenbourg]

Steve Bannon looks like a reanimated corpse and is apparently registered in two states

 

[IFF]

This happened during the election

Iowa Woman Arrested After Voting for Trump Twice Because the ‘Polls are Rigged’

 

[pete]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/trump-bernhard-langer-voting-fraud.html

 

[rettucs]

hmmm, dunno

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[David Kronenbourg]

I keep waking up hoping to read in the news that he's been impeached, assassinated (waterboaded to death) or died horribly and painfully in the night.

This is a safe space, right? You guys won't rat me out that I said this...?

 

[rettucs]

I keep waking up hoping to read in the news that he's been impeached, assassinated (waterboaded to death) or died horribly and painfully in the night.

This is a safe space, right? You guys won't rat me out that I said this...?

It's only the Russians that are watching anyway, and they probably share the sentiment.

 

[therealjohnny]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/trump-bernhard-langer-voting-fraud.html

What a langer

 

[therealjohnny]

hmmm, dunno

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If this is real it's amazing...but who knows anymore

 

[therealjohnny]

An interesting view on getting over the "us versus them" hurdle

How to Culture Jam a Populist in Four Easy Steps | Caracas Chronicles

 

[Unicron]

If this is real it's amazing...but who knows anymore

The whole place is leaking like a sieve, and staff at various agencies who's official feeds are being gagged are setting up alternate accounts all over the place. It's totally mad. It'd be hilarious were it not so scary.

 

[ann post]

It's only the Russians that are watching anyway, and they probably share the sentiment.

Why would they? He's dividing a America into bits and bringing it back a few decades. I'd say they sit about on a Friday evening laughing thier holes off wearing 'make America great again' hats drinking vodkas. Him being a moron is great for Russia.

 

[hydromancer]

Anyone else finding this perversely entertaining?
The whole campaign, the blatant lying, egotism, defying logic and reality if it doesn't suit him ect...
The next 4 years is going to be so entertaining (for all the wrong reasons of course)

I do but I'm not to bothered really I should worry more now about what the US government might do now than I did in 1990s ? Or compared to last four years the next four will be a disaster ?

 

[hydromancer]

 

[therealjohnny]

Eno's what he's talking about


There was a Guardian interview with me earlier this week which had as its headline "We've been in decline for 40 years - Trump is a chance to rethink". I didn’t use those words in that way (as reading the article would make clear), and they've been taken (particularly by some American websites) to suggest that I support Trump. Anybody familiar with my views will know that this is not true.

So: may I make something absolutely clear: I think Donald Trump is a complete disaster. And Brexit is a disaster too. That said, what I think is an even greater disaster is that we in the US and the UK - and increasingly the rest of the world - live inside political systems that can produce absurd results like these.

We now see political careers built upon lies and deceit and encouraged by openly biased media organisations, more concerned about revenue and ratings than giving the public real information. It’s this whole system that has to change: not just who leads the government but something deeper and more fundamental in our political and social processes. Democracy assumes an informed public: it doesn't work if the media are corrupt. Changing the faces at the top doesn’t alter anything if the whole machinery beneath them stays the same - the rich become the super-rich, the middle class stagnates and the poor get poorer.

My hope - the only hope really - is that Trump in office will reveal himself for what he really is, and that the public will roundly and unequivocally reject him and everything he stands for - his terrible policies, his jingoism, his arrogance, his childishness, his lies, his prejudices and his small-mindedness. In rejecting Trump we’ll also start to take down the whole malignant media-political structure that so lovingly nurtured him.

As I've written before, I believe that Trump can turn out to be not the beginning of a long decline, but the end of one - the turning point. For 40 years we've been sliding into a deepening pit of inequality, fear-driven nationalism and conservatism, and mostly not noticing. Trump’s presidency could inadvertently change that - not because he's going to do anything right but because his election is energising people to come to grips with the fact that their political system is fundamentally broken and it's time to do something about it. The demonstrations that happened last weekend are a reflection of this new mood.

It would have been better if we hadn't got to this point, but that's where we are. My feeling is that a Clinton presidency (or even a 'remain' vote in Britain), though more comfortable in the short term, wouldn't have dealt with the fundamental problems that beset both our political systems. Trump has proven beyond doubt that the system is broken, so let's fix it.

– Brian

 

[David Kronenbourg]

dunno where this is

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[therealjohnny]

for fucks sake

 

[therealjohnny]

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My feeling is that a Clinton presidency (or even a 'remain' vote in Britain), though more comfortable in the short term, wouldn't have dealt with the fundamental problems that beset both our political systems.

Mine too

 

[ann post]

week 1 updated

• Passed global anti abortion moves
• Silenced the EPA (environmental protection agency)
• Charged a number of journalists with felonies for reporting from his inauguration
• Has restarted the keystone pipeline project
• Is poised to put through anti immigration laws today (wed)
• has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants.
  
• At least three senior U.S. diplomats at the State Department have left their posts, State Department officials told Reuters on Thursday.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Also didn't wave when boarding Air Force One!

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[Lili Marlene]

week 1 updated

• Passed global anti abortion moves
• Silenced the EPA (environmental protection agency)
• Charged a number of journalists with felonies for reporting from his inauguration
• Has restarted the keystone pipeline project
• Is poised to put through anti immigration laws today (wed)
• has ordered his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants.
  
• At least three senior U.S. diplomats at the State Department have left their posts, State Department officials told Reuters on Thursday.

But most of them happen everytime the presidency changes

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obviously Trump is going overboard with it all because he's Trump.