Kinda goes to what @Timex has been saying, about the Republican party these days being about Authoritarianism as opposed to Conservatism.
Is it that, or is it just hate built up for anything liberal from the right. That on top of this new weird Putin-love going on with Trump supporters.
I’m going to start calling the Putin-loving Trump supporters, commiecucks on twitter, maybe it will catch on…
https://twitter.com/tamarakeithNPR/status/808451556572102658
Imagine that. Further reading:
https://twitter.com/business/status/808448618709585922
Trump had planned to make the announcement Dec. 15 but wants more time because he’s been occupied with filling out his cabinet and top administration posts, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. He’s preparing to reveal his choice for secretary of state as soon as Tuesday, they said.
The president-elect has consulted various legal specialists as well as Don McGahn, his pick for White House counsel, about how to deal with his organization, the officials said. A new date for the announcement hasn’t been set, but it will be before his inauguration on Jan. 20, they said.
Unless it’s, I don’t know, postponed again. This press conference would have been Trump’s first one since July, when he suggested that the Russians should hack the DNC.
The poor downtrodden CEO of Exxon, crushed by the ‘elites’. I have an unhealthy amount of disdain and disgust from every Trump surrogate.
https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/808501365299412992
During a presidential debate in 2011, Perry forgot the Energy Department as he tried to list the three agencies that he pledged to eliminate as president.
“It’s three agencies of government when I get there that are gone: commerce, education, and the uh … what’s the third one, there? Let’s see… The third one. I can’t,” he said, adding “Oops.”
Maybe he’ll fire himself once he gets rid of his department. Better write a memo, though, so he doesn’t forget.
I listed to David Brock’s Off Message interview. He’s usually considered the Bannon of the left, dirty tactics political operator etc. Doesn’t seem nearly on the level of Bannon though. He basically says Hillary should have used Trump tactics: never apologized for the email thing just stick to ‘it was allowed and it was 2008’. Push back more directly against negative coverage, Etc. I know some have wondered if the democrats should go in this direction, kind of interesting podcast if you do.
Also he’s super personally effected by PizzaGate which kind of humanizes him, I forgot that he was the partner of one of the owners there, that’s basically why the alt-right fixated on the place.
Jeez what a parade of horrors this cabinet is going to be.
Brock switched from the right during the Bush years, didn’t he?
Clinton years.
https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/808690649600032773
The Trump transition team did not respond to Newsweek when asked if the president-elect had intended to signal his approval of the carnage in the Philippines; did not believe the conclusions of the U.N. and Western nations that Duterte ordered the killings; or simply did not understand the magnitude of his comments. One thing, however, is clear: The Trump family has an enormous financial interest in keeping Duterte happy. Trump Tower at Century City in Makati, Philippines, is on the verge of completion, with potential buyers having placed deposits on at least 94 percent of the condominiums, according to Century Properties, the Trump Organization’s business partner there. During the U.S. presidential campaign, Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric traveled to Makati to shovel some dirt in a ceremony to celebrate the structural completion of the building; a photograph of the two men shoveling alongside top Century Properties executives was posted on the building’s website. (On that same website, a line of jewelry by Trump’s daughter Ivanka is offered for sale, and it is expected to be available for purchase at the $150 million property.)
This is something Rodrigo Duterte has said about himself in reference to murdering drug addicts:
“I’d be happy to slaughter them,” he said. “At least if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have [me].”
And Trump has stated that Duterte is doing things the right way. He’s even invited him to visit the White House, a courtesy he has yet to extend to Theresa May, the British prime minister.
I suggest reading this article. And remember that Trump announced yesterday that the press conference scheduled for 15 December to discuss his business dealings has been postponed until January.
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/808719940794597376
Find people to lead the agencies they hate.
John Stewart must be crying himself to sleep every night, but Trevor Noah is doing a good job.
It is surreal - but perhaps next election, if there is one, maybe 60% or more will go to the polls, unless they are all working in the organ-farms by then.
Turkey had an update on their democratically elected president recently did they not, it seems to have worked out for them, no? One part is in prison, the other part is happy.
In case anyone is interested in reading the court complaint of the pizzagate incident:
Why would someone vote for Trump when they depend on Obamacare?
[quote]
Debbie Mills is a 53-year-old furniture store owner in Bell County, an area of the state right on the Tennessee border. Earlier this year, doctors discovered that her husband has non-alcoholic cirrhosis. He now needs a transplant if he’s going to survive. Mills and her husband keep a bag packed, waiting for the doctors to call with news that a liver is available.
This all means that Mills really, really needs her health insurance. And she’s very grateful for the Affordable Care Act, because she couldn’t afford insurance before it was passed.
And yet she voted for Donald Trump. Until we spoke, she said she hadn’t taken Trump’s repeal threats seriously. As we talked, she started to process what his election might mean for her family’s future.[/quote]
[quote]
Sarah Kliff
Do you think if it does go away, you’ll regret your vote in any way? Thinking, “I voted for this person who took away my health insurance.” Or … it’s like, that’s one of so many things, like you said, jobs, the economy?
Debbie Mills
I don’t know. I guess I thought that, you know, he would not do this. That they would not do this, would not take the insurance away. Knowing that it’s affecting so many people’s lives. I mean, what are you to do then if you cannot … purchase, cannot pay for the insurance?
You know, what are we to do?
So I don’t know. Maybe he’s thinking about, you know, the little people that are not making the big money, like what they make in New York and Washington and all the places that, you know, this is not, you know, something — this is people’s lives that’s being affected.[/quote]
[quote]
Debbie Mills
I don’t know. I guess the next four years is going to be different. I don’t know what to look for.
You’re scaring me now, on the insurance part.
’Cause I have been in a panic, so I’m afraid now that the insurance is going to go away and we’re going to be up a creek.[/quote]
Sounds like Debbie should have actually thought about this shit before voting. Thanks, Debbie.
From reading the articles it also seemed like Kentucky decided to try and hide the fact that they signed up people for “obamacare” and instead had their own system, because so many in the state had a negative view of “Obamacare”.
The country is full of fucking Debbies. She voted for the man/party that wants to repeal the healthcare her husband requires to, you know, LIVE. My mother-in-law voted for the man/party that wants to drastically cut Social Security, the ONLY income she actually has at this point. My Facebook buddy who works as a middle manager in sales for a local company and has a brother who is gay absolutely loves and could not wait to vote for the man/party who will deregulate his industry, probably costing him his job in the process, and who want to repeal pretty much all progress made in the last decade on rights for people like his brother.
I like my friend, he’s been my friend since we were 8 years old. I love my mother-in-law, she is a sweet and kind lady who has done so much for my kids over the past 15 years. I’d probably even like Debbie and her husband if I ever met them, but for fuck’s sake people, what the hell?! I am so sick to death of conservatives who say things like “I’m tired of liberals always talking down to us and treating us like we’re stupid”. I will stop calling these people stupid when they stop going out and doing incredibly stupid things, like you know, voting DIRECTLY against their own fucking interests!!!
Hell, a lot of voters, not just Kentucky, think Obamacare is totally different from the high-risk low payment insurance they have and that repealing the ACA won’t hurt them.
Sometimes you just want to hold your head in your hands, don’t you?
Maybe there’s some truth to the cynical adage “People are idiots” after all.