Donald Trump, the road that might not lead to the White House!

[J Ed]

fucking hell, that's an uplifting read.

Just knowing that I am dragging other people down to my levels of despair and misery makes it all worthwhile!

 

[J Ed]

A tale of two campaigns

Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

And the company took even more radical measures: starting in July 2016, a new app was prepared for Trump campaign canvassers with which they could find out the political orientation and personality profile of a particular house’s residents in advance. If the Trump people ring a doorbell, it’s only the doorbell of someone the app has identified as receptive to his messages, and the canvassers can base their line of attack on personality-specific conversation guides also provided by the app. Then they enter a subject’s reactions to certain messaging back into the app, from where this new data flows back to the dashboards of the Trump campaign.

How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election

Most importantly, multiple operatives said, the Clinton campaign dismissed what’s known as in-person “persuasion” — no one was knocking on doors trying to drum up support for the Democratic nominee, which also meant no one was hearing directly from voters aside from voters they’d already assumed were likely Clinton voters, no one tracking how feelings about the race and the candidates were evolving. This left no information to check the polling models against — which might have, for example, showed the campaign that some of the white male union members they had expected to be likely Clinton voters actually veering toward Trump — and no early warning system that the race was turning against them in ways that their daily tracking polls weren’t picking up.

 

[Idris2002]

It occurred to me while shaving this morning that one of the worst possible outcomes would be if Trump is quietly removed from office without any fuss - because then a lot of silly people in the USA will start slapping each other on the back and congratulating themselves on how "the system works".

 

[8den]

What are the odds of Donald doing anything quietly?

 

[Idris2002]

What are the odds of Donald doing anything quietly?

What were the odds of him being elected?

 

[Pickman's model]

What are the odds of Donald doing anything quietly?

bet he lets a few silent farts out

 

[Pickman's model]

It occurred to me while shaving this morning that one of the worst possible outcomes would be if Trump is quietly removed from office without any fuss - because then a lot of silly people in the USA will start slapping each other on the back and congratulating themselves on how "the system works".

i don't think the donald would depart quietly

 

[pogofish]

Theresa, could you do us a favour and arrange for the UK market to be flooded with some of that tasty hormone treated beef that those EU busybodies have been denying us for so long..

Already done - the deal was signed middle of last year and imports were supposed to resume this month.

 

[pogofish]

May is apparently going to give Trump a traditional Cup of Love.

wtf

A quaich - Quaich - Wikipedia

 

[Wilf]

i don't think the donald would depart quietly

My impeachment was GREAT! Everybody says that!

 

[elbows]

My impeachment was GREAT! Everybody says that!

Record ratings. Biggest star ever, on the cover every day.

 

[mojo pixy]

No president has ever been convicted like I was. I was so guilty you wouldn't believe it.

 

[killer b]

Trump Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself

This article asks some fairly fundamental questions about that one (although it's not entirely flawless itself) The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump | Little Atoms

 

[brogdale]

David Bromwich's LRB piece "Act One, Scene One" includes this observation...

The most credible explanation for the popular turn to the right – there are plenty of examples of people who voted twice for Obama but then for Trump – was offered by the Italian legal scholar Ugo Mattei. As he sees it, the resemblances between Trump and Berlusconi run deep, and in both cases the appeal derives from popular cynicism more than credulity. The voters have come to understand that the big banks, along with investment companies like Goldman Sachs and transnational corporations, are sovereignties as powerful as states and in some cases more powerful. By vesting a billionaire with extraordinary power, therefore, the voters are going straight to the relevant authority and cutting out the middle man – the politician.

Trump unquestionably shares this perception with the people who voted for him. In a radio interview in 2015, he recalled his visit to Russia in 2013, in an unsuccessful attempt to close a deal on apartment complexes. ‘I was with the top-level people,’ he said, ‘both oligarchs and generals, and top of the government people … I met the top people, and the relationship was extraordinary.’ Though it may seem a tiny slip, one notices the distinction between top-level people and the top people in government. Oligarchs and generals come first and rank highest in Trump’s estimation; top government people are worth knowing, but secondary. Trump likes the relationship of money to power in Russia – and specifically of financial power to government authority – more than he admires anything special about Putin, whom he has never met and about whom he knows little.

 

[editor]

Alex Jones is mainstream now

He should keep his filthy misogynistic mouth shut.

foWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was not pleased with singer Jennifer Lopez’s grammy speech on Sunday night. Lopez got political, telling the crowd, “At this particular point in history, our voices are needed more than ever.”

She then quoted author Toni Morisson and said, “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self pity, no need for silence, and no room for fear. We do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

Jones responded in a segment calling Lopez a “tart,” before noting how “all the leftists from big foundations … hoard the money for themselves, like you know, the Clintons and Oprah, and all the rest of it.”

He continued, “And she’s up there, ‘Oh and we just gotta do something, it’s we’re so oppressed, it’s all so horrible, what will’ — Yes, let’s critique this — ‘it’s so terrible … and Trump wants to build factories for poor people.'”

“He doesn’t want to bring people in from Somalia where women are sold on slave box,” Jones declared. “Why don’t you go to Somalia for five minutes, lady, you’ll be gang raped so fast it’ll make your head spin.”

Alex Jones Suggests Jennifer Lopez Go To Somalia Where She’ll “Be Gang Raped So Fast It’ll Make Your Head Spin”

 

[teqniq]

Disgusting individual. /stating the obvious

 

[J Ed]

"You and your friends will die of old age and I'm going to die from climate change. You and your friends let this happen"

LENIN'S TOMB: Letting go

It is as if the living world, of shivelight and suthering tides, of desire lines and whale’s ways, of glaise and drindle, sumping sea-lochs and high headlands, could be saved through re-description. As if it wasn’t already too late.

The last fourteen months have, one after another, broken global temperature records. Floods and droughts begin to assume Biblical proportions. Thousands of species disappear, forever, each year. Even on the mildest prognostications, they will disappear faster and faster.

With a 1.5 degree temperature increase above pre-industrial levels, 20-30 per cent of species risk extinction. With a 3.5 degree increase, the range is 40-70 per cent. We are already at 1.3 degrees, and 4 degrees is the current projected temperature by 2050, even if the Paris Agreement survives.

As the rate of acceleration increases, so does the probability of chaos. Scientists use the metaphor of ‘uncharted territory’ to describe this, since all we know for sure is what we are losing. What will never, ever be seen again.

Walking, in this way, becomes an urgent voyage, a pilgrimage, a visit to a dying patient. A stolen glimpse of what might have been won, had the earth ever been a common treasury.

But as Christopher Bollas points out, what we find in the environment is our own unconscious life — not in its narrative, nor in its scenery, but in keywords, objects. The more abstract, nonsensical and formless the terrain, the more we can project into it, and the more evocative it seems. Nothing is more evocative than what theologians, following Psalm 22, call ‘the night season’.

What you find in the burnt edge of a cool morning, the summer shimmer of riparian wetlands, clouds the size of cities soaking in a blue pool, or even in the literary outdoors, the cold mountains of Han-Shan, the freezing Yukon of Call of the Wild — is unconscious meaning.

Worlds of independence, adventure, possibility, decivilization, worlds teeming with potential, closer to birth than death. Oceanic immersion, the feeling of being held, protection. Phobias and anxieties. Screen memories. These private meanings always open out into public meaning. What Renee Lertzman calls “environmental melancholia” begins with lost worlds. Melancholia is a kind of freeze. Mourning is movement, and if you can’t mourn, you gather frost.

One of the biggest obstacles to mourning is that we can’t face our ambivalence: the extent to which we hated the lost object of our love. The ambivalence is complicated. On the one hand, it seems, no matter how much they meant to us, we’re always in some part of us glad to be shot of them. On the other hand, we also hate them for no longer being there. And there are the unconscionable pleasures and benefits that accrue from their absence.

We can hardly help being ambivalent about what we call ‘nature’ and its nemesis, fossil capital. The former means desperate, hard, labouring lives and early deaths. The latter, to the extent that it is coextensive with industrialisation, means comfort, central heating, celerity.

So what is the greenhouse defrosting of arctic sea ice, the bleached death of a coral reef, and the disappearance of thousands of species every year compared to air travel, moon voyages, genetic science laboratories, and the internet. What is the silence of the remote croft, or the murmur of the forest, compared to rising life expectations and falling infant mortality?

The other side of this ambivalence, the nocturnal side, is the knowledge — because this is no mystery, and anyone who wants to know already knows — that we are preparing a mass wake for the human species. It is a planned obsolescence. There are some hubristic billionaires who, by investing in survivalist Xanadus, fancy they will survive the collapse of the food chain and the destruction of habitable territory. Few have the luxury of that conviction. So, put another way, the questions above become: what is species death compared to another fifty years of life for capitalism

 

[NoXion]

LENIN'S TOMB: Letting go

Sounds like someone who's given up. Despair giving way to apathy, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of the apocalypse. Biblical references are thus totally unsurprising.

I've got little time for it, myself.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

And yet, it still just seems you don't like her for being a lady.

I thought you didn't use that word?

 

[spring-peeper]

I thought you didn't use that word?

Oh, for f*ck's sake - bump a thread to respond to an October 11, 2016 post???

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Oh, for f*ck's sake - bump a thread to respond to an October 11, 2016 post???

Six whole months ago? Shocking.

 

[spring-peeper]

Six whole months ago? Shocking.

....and how is your post relevant to the topic on hand???

 

[Magnus McGinty]

....and how is your post relevant to the topic on hand???

You came back as a mod? Sleek move.

 

[existentialist]

You came back as a mod? Sleek move.

I think that's stretching things a bit - she's only offered a comment, not threatened to ban you.

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh, for f*ck's sake - bump a thread to respond to an October 11, 2016 post???

You say that as though it was wrong

 

[gawkrodger]

as this now seems to be the Trump thread

Gorka gone

Sebastian Gorka to leave White House amid accusations of links to far-right

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

as this now seems to be the Trump thread

Gorka gone

Sebastian Gorka to leave White House amid accusations of links to far-right

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The dictator-wannabe speaks again:

Donald Trump has blamed the US constitution for the problems he has encountered during his first 100 days in office.

In an interview with Fox News to mark the milestone, the Republican called the system of checks and balances on power “archaic”.

Donald Trump blames the 'archaic' and 'really bad' US Constitution for his problems

Trump is the president now, and will be for four years. But there's nothing normal about that state of affairs; and imo there's a danger in allowing this situation to be 'normalized'.

One way to resist this normalization, is to document the outrageous things he says and does, on an almost daily basis.

 

[NoXion]

The dictator-wannabe speaks again:



Donald Trump blames the 'archaic' and 'really bad' US Constitution for his problems

Trump is the president now, and will be for four years. But there's nothing normal about that state of affairs; and imo there's a danger in allowing this situation to be 'normalized'.

One way to resist this normalization, is to document the outrageous things he says and does, on an almost daily basis.

Yup, constant exposure is a sure-fire way of preventing people from getting used to things.

 

[DotCommunist]

he's sore because the last thread got closed