The Trump presidency

[Johnny Canuck3]

somewhere abroad

It's north of Looeeseeanner.

 

[mojo pixy]

Tambien bordea Tejas

 

[Raheem]

Tambien bordea Tejas

C'est tout près de mes souris.

 

[bluescreen]

Cry havoc! and let slip the mice of war.

 

[ViolentPanda]

On Politico Heavy Are the Shoulders That Wear the Bathrobe

Note matching sofa:

The Gipper looks like a patient in a nursing home.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

<based on a pre election interview>

 

[Raheem]

<based on a pre election interview>

Isn't this guy a crooked, hokum-pedaling pseud, though?

 

[hipipol]

The horror

 

[gorski]

 

[teqniq]

It's past my bed-time

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Isn't this guy a crooked, hokum-pedaling pseud, though?

That's pretty obvious by now, but what do you think of Chopra?

 

[Raheem]

That's pretty obvious by now, but what do you think of Chopra?

He's a great president.

 

[Yossarian]

"EASY D?" What the fuck is he talking about now? Is it possible for a court to order him to have a physical carried out by a doctor that isn't on his private payroll?

 

[DotCommunist]

perhaps Easy D is like a hip-hop version of Jimmeny Cricket whispering stuff in his ear

 

[Raheem]

Easy D is when you sleep with your lecturer but you know you're not a very good lay so a D is fair enough.

 

[redsquirrel]

And your evidence race wasn't a significant factor in the US election is what exactly?

Never made any such argument

 

[Miss Caphat]

Easy D is when you sleep with your lecturer but you know you're not a very good lay so a D is fair enough.

lol

 

[bimble]

trump tweeted a link to this last night 'Sobering' poll finds majority in leading EU nations would back Trump-style travel ban
grim reading.

 

[J Ed]

trump tweeted a link to this last night 'Sobering' poll finds majority in leading EU nations would back Trump-style travel ban
grim reading.

Not surprising though.

 

[NoXion]

Where is "Arkensaw?"

Right next to Arr-Kansas.

 

[elbows]

perhaps Easy D is like a hip-hop version of Jimmeny Cricket whispering stuff in his ear

 

[Cid]

Dre: Eazy is his name and the boy is buying...
Eazy D: ...You outta Compton.

 

[Pickman's model]

Dre: Eazy is his name and the boy is buying...
Eazy D: ...You outta Compton.

Straight outta trumpton
Another crazy ass ligger...

 

[Old Spark]

Cartoons we love cartoons.


YouTube

 

[belboid]

I apologise that in my haste, I understated the proportion of African Americans who went Clinton and overstated the proportion of white folks who went Trump.

- 63% of white men and 52% of white women voted Trump.

- 13 % of African American men and 4% of African American women voted Trump.

- 31% of white men and 43% of white women voted Clinton.

- 82% of African American men and 94% of African American women voted Clinton.

So, massively different to the figures you made up. Even further from the truth than your average Trump comment.

A higher proportion of white voters went for a third party than black voters. If black voters thought Clinton was such a crap candidate, you'd expect more to vote third party.

No you wouldn't. There is no necessary connection between those things at all. All that says is that no candidate was particularly appealing to voters of colour.

Do you have some evidence for your claim that African Americans stayed away from the polls because Clinton was "unappealing?"

A basic look at the demographics.

Hillary Clinton failed to win over black, Hispanic and female voters - the charts that show why she lost the presidential election

 

[killer b]

This long piece in the LRB has plenty of interesting background on the commander in chief, his mob links etc.

LRB · Sidney Blumenthal · A Short History of the Trump Family

 

[CrabbedOne]

STOP THE SPIRIT OF ZOSSEN American Carnage

...
A couple of observations worth discussing now:

(i) the US status quo mindset is still its own worst enemy confronting WTA in power;
(ii) Americans outside the WTA clique/Republican revanchist base generally lack a political philosophy to answer WTA in power;
(iii) racial tribalism replacing conventional ideologies is more than ‘populism’;
(iv) the WTA/GOP rejection of US post-1945 liberal democratic international order is potentially the greatest strategic disaster in world history — yet US foreign policy stakeholders have decayed to the point of political impotence; and
(v) American society is unable to self-organize beyond sub groups in an era of demotic, non-rational communications, leaving the political advantage to activated minorities.

An evolving conversation to come on these specific points will be actually useful to an effective resistance to Trump, WTA and GOP revanchism. That’s not to deny the satisfaction derived from the eloquence of Canadian former speech writers or the like. AgitProp was always a Neocon forte. But the time has come for practical work.

That's white tribal authoritarianism (“WTA”).

Embracing "doing stupid shit" with a giddy sort of joy. The odd combination of Chicken Little fear mongering, nihilistic Thantos fondling and just pure toddler running with scissors recklessness is unprecedented.

Quite a lot of the people who voted for Trump did so with little enthusiasm. "Populism" does seem to be a bit of a misnomer for the creeping barrage of bullshit that is Trumpismo. It's only a couple of weeks in and is actually proving pretty unpopular. The "activated minority" really is a minority.

 

[CrabbedOne]

 

[chandlerp]

Proof he is the President for business.

 

[CrabbedOne]

Likely to happen anyway.