2 days in and Trump creates a holiday in his honor:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/trump-names-his-inauguration-day-a-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion/?utm_term=.0fe7b1c0aa24Disgusting.
Paul Ryan's smug face in the background of that picture makes it worse.
2 days in and Trump creates a holiday in his honor:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/trump-names-his-inauguration-day-a-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion/?utm_term=.0fe7b1c0aa24Disgusting.
its just funny imagineing it in future
A pretty good looking image about where news outlets fall on the political spectrum. Also, how decent they are at telling "real news". I can confirm the left and right sides look pretty accurate. Not sure about the bubbles along the center though, unfortunately I don't have as much contact with those.
http://imgur.com/gallery/iPLkz
Want to read my webcomic?
@Serra:
A pretty good looking image about where news outlets fall on the political spectrum. Also, how decent they are at telling "real news". I can confirm the left and right sides look pretty accurate. Not sure about the bubbles along the center though, unfortunately I don't have as much contact with those.
http://imgur.com/gallery/iPLkz
That seems pretty accurate, but it's missing some big stuff like Buzzfeed.
2 days in and Trump creates a holiday in his honor:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/trump-names-his-inauguration-day-a-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion/?utm_term=.0fe7b1c0aa24Disgusting.
Do we get a day off? If not then he can create his stupid holidays to make his poor hurt feelings feel better. It'll be another holiday with no actual meaning.
2 days in and Trump creates a holiday in his honor:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/23/trump-names-his-inauguration-day-a-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion/?utm_term=.0fe7b1c0aa24Disgusting.
Uh, guys, this is getting eerily close to a personality cult. Those aren't fun. Ask Hungary.
The USDA and EPA are no longer allowed to share date and findings with the public.
i think obama made his into a holiday too so i guess its at thing a little less creepy
According to the Associated Press, President Trump has instructed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff to freeze all grants — including funding for research, redevelopment of industrial sites, air quality monitoring, and education (among others) — as well as barring employees from discussing this or other EPA news outside of the agency.
This includes discussion on social media, and to reporters. For now, reporters and citizens are left to get all environmental news directly from Trump’s channels within the White House.
Oh Jesus….is the Trump administration trying to deprive the public of vital knowledge and keep the citizens unaware of what they should know? The bolded segment concerns me greatly because you know they're going to feed the public complete lies and "alternative facts".
This, this is bad. And probably the beginning of something worse.
Happy FreezaTrump Day!
It's only been a couple of days and it's already worse than I imagined.
This is literally going to end up being 1984, isn't it
Someone married their stepmom and then got murdered?
Sounds like he used a monkey paw to make a porno story come true.
Then the curse of the paw eventually killed him.
Department of Commerce staffers also aren't allowed to share information anymore.
@Rogues':
This is literally going to end up being 1984, isn't it
We saw them putting the Ministry of Truth in place already.
Not even hyperbole or exaggeration, "What everyone else tells you is a lie. Only what we say is true, regardless of evidence to the contrary."
Trump beating CNN at its own game I see.
Guys, what did you expect to happen?
Complicating things since 2009.
The ratfuckery is already so predictable, just three days in, that, like clockwork, I can rely on some new horror being revealed when I check facebook on my lunch break.
Maybe I should make bingo out of it… "Abortion restriction, environmental destruction, disenfranchisement, 1st amendment limitation, break for the wealthy- that's bingo on the diagonal!"
Ben Carson was confirmed unanimously by the senate committee, which included Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown. Dems should just dissolve their party since they're worthless anyway.
Is it possible they're only counting on being able to actually block one or two megavillains, so a dumb sack of potatoes like Carson is a "small" sacrifice in the meantime? No? I've got nothing… T_T
South Dakota voters passed a ballot measure aimed at corruption by public officials. This has been deemed a state of emergency by the state legislature.
SEE GUYS, Hilary was the corrupt one!
Boy am I sure glad she's not in the Oval Office, just image all the blatant unethical corruption that would be going on!!111!1
Someone married their stepmom and then got murdered?
Sounds like he used a monkey paw to make a porno story come true.
Then the curse of the paw eventually killed him.
I'm not mocking anyone. Just pointing out that the alternative to this was some seriously dangerous email management.
@Rogues':
SEE GUYS, Hilary was the corrupt one!
Boy am I sure glad she's not in the Oval Office, just image all the blatant unethical corruption that would be going on!!111!1
Trump is doing bad things at a faster rate than any of us had anticipated. It's important that people from both sides of the isle come together to acknowledge that and call him out on it. Sarcastic mocking is extremely counterproductive, and only gets Trump allies.
I'm not mocking anyone. Just pointing out that the alternative to this was some seriously dangerous email management.
Well yeah… I don't understand how anyone believed that she was worse than Trump at the time.
Complicating things since 2009.
It's going to be loooooong f*cking four years, or even 8 years what after 2016 events would not even surprise me that much.
There is of course real chance that Trump will spawn scandals so atrocious that he is forced to step down but I would not put my hopes on that, Trump in his mind is perfect and infallible and his cabinet is firmly demonstrating how far they can go twisting truth.
I knew they were going to push bad shit through immediately like ACA and abortions and all, but I didn't think they'd get to "deny all government facilities from reporting to the press and only the White House can say anything" quite so quickly.
He'll never step down willingly. It's gonna take impeachment by congressional republicans, which will only happen once they've extracted everything terrible they want and can no longer stomach the mad dog personality cult. Then we get equally evil Pence, who…well...at least probably won't try to create new national holidays in his honor. Yay.
Good one these folks for ignoring this stupid gag order.
http://usuncut.com/resistance/national-park-service-defies-trump/
Good one these folks for ignoring this stupid gag order.
http://usuncut.com/resistance/national-park-service-defies-trump/
A goddamn hero, tweeting necessary knowledge against the threat of suppressive tyranny.
Trump is using his authority to attempt to silence any opposition and keep the public completely in the dark. It's similar tactics to Soviet style propaganda.
That's gotta be some sort of abuse of power violation.
So NY's own Kirsten Gillibrand is the only dem (I know of?) so far to oppose all of Trump's nominations (bai Elizabeth Warren). Just called her office and told the aide to make sure she actually votes no when the time comes, especially on DeVos and Tillerson.
Meanwhile, Schumer wouldn't even answer the phone in DC or Rochester, and I only got an answering machine at the Albany number…
tl;dr: Call your senators, people! This matters, and it's super easy to do!
Would have been nice for the press and media to stress this before elections. That he doesn't have the temperament for this sort of work.
@CCC:
So NY's own Kirsten Gillibrand is the only dem (I know of?) so far to oppose all of Trump's nominations (bai Elizabeth Warren). Just called her office and told the aide to make sure she actually votes no when the time comes, especially on DeVos and Tillerson.
Meanwhile, Schumer wouldn't even answer the phone in DC or Rochester, and I only got an answering machine at the Albany number…
tl;dr: Call your senators, people! This matters, and it's super easy to do!
But my senator is that old, two-faced bootlicker McCain. :(
@CCC:
So NY's own Kirsten Gillibrand is the only dem (I know of?) so far to oppose all of Trump's nominations (bai Elizabeth Warren). Just called her office and told the aide to make sure she actually votes no when the time comes, especially on DeVos and Tillerson.
Meanwhile, Schumer wouldn't even answer the phone in DC or Rochester, and I only got an answering machine at the Albany number…
tl;dr: Call your senators, people! This matters, and it's super easy to do!
This got me trying to look up the voting record of my freshman senator (and potential female Barack Obama) Kamal Harris but I was only able to find information on 5 votes. She voted against Pompeo and for Mattis.
I wonder if Gillibrand is considering a presidential run. "I never voted for a single Trump appointee" is a good line four years from now when we've experienced the horrors that the Legion of Doom have dished out.
@Cyan:
"I never voted for a single Trump appointee" is a good line four years from now when we've experienced the horrors that the Legion of Doom have dished out.
I also wonder if after four years, all the dumbasses in the Rust Belt who elected the Legion of Doom would have wizened the fuck up.
Someone married their stepmom and then got murdered?
Sounds like he used a monkey paw to make a porno story come true.
Then the curse of the paw eventually killed him.
@Rogues':
I also wonder if after four years, all the dumbasses in the Rust Belt who elected the Legion of Doom would have wizened the fuck up.
Hahahahaha, I'm going to say no. In four years they'll still be blaming foreigners for all the terrible stuff happening.
Hahahahaha, I'm going to say no. In four years they'll still be blaming foreigners for all the terrible stuff happening.
Unless the lack of healthcare that Trump will inevitably take away kills them all.
The unpersoning of Muslims begins.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-exclusive-idUSKBN1582XQ
Complicating things since 2009.
The hell he is. Anybody who didn't expect this has no experience with the GOP.
To say nothing of Trump's love of NDA.
Trump is doing bad things at a faster rate than any of us had anticipated. It's important that people from both sides of the isle come together to acknowledge that and call him out on it. Sarcastic mocking is extremely counterproductive, and only gets Trump allies.
Not sarcastically mocking people gets Trump allies. These people deserve it because it was their lesser of two evils/both sides are bad mentality that helped get us here. And some are still doing this bullshit.
Well yeah… I don't understand how anyone believed that she was worse than Trump at the time.
Because wikileaks would never do anything to help Trump get elected and Hillary taking money for paid speeches is just as bad if not worse than a guy who cons people out of money.
FOUR DAYS IN…
I don't care who you voted for, or what party you're in. I hope you're ready to fight for this republic.
Those who study authoritarian regimes suggest keeping a list of abnormal events after a demagogue is elected, as a way to remind yourself that this isn't normal and to keep from being overwhelmed into acceptance by the onslaught of attacks on our rights.
Here is a list below. We are 4 days in.
As the author says, "when you see all of this in one list, it is easy to get overwhelmed, at first-- it is also easy to see a pattern and to finally, finally recognize that none of this is normal, nor is it ok."
Trump beating CNN at its own game I see.
This doesn't even mean anything. Your posts have less and less content the farther from the election we move it seems.
In a month you're going to shrivel up and vanish altogether at this rate.
someone posts article about Trump banning R&B
HA, JUST LIKE HUFFINGTON POST RIGHT.
Could you please not go out of your way to mock people?
When he makes a post that produces something like seventeen posts of outrage directed at it, that might be the actual time to consider if a person is being inflammatory or not.
Not when they make a post mocking an general idea, that is politically relevant to be discussed and yes mocked if needed.
The unpersoning of Muslims begins.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-exclusive-idUSKBN1582XQ
Soo.. this is pretty horrible. Not even sure what to say, just sad disbelief.
Would have been nice for the press and media to stress this before elections. That he doesn't have the temperament for this sort of work.
Reading this makes me hope that Trump will step down once he fully grasps how much responsibility he's been given and doesn't want to deal with.
But the spotlight beckons him too much.
Tweets the white house had deleted:
Just for funzies, I present my lyrics for "Trump", set to the tune of The Presidents of the USA's "Lump".
[hide]
He’s Trump, he’s Trump
What’s in his head?
He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump
Is he braindead?
Trump lingered last in line for brains,
And the ones he got were sort of rotten and insane
But still his campaign made a real big splash
His opponent Clinton he would relentlessly bash
He’s Trump, he’s Trump
He’s not all there
He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump
What’s with that hair?
And so Trump’s the leader of the free world now
And left us dumbstruck just wondering how
Will he make a wall or a Muslim ban?
Well, the one thing I know is I’m moving to Japan
He’s Trump, he’s Trump
We’ve made our bed
He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump
And we’re all dead
Is this Trump out of his head, I think so
Is this country going to hell, I think so, yeah
Will he soon be impeached, I hope so
Is this Trump out of his head
FOUR DAYS IN…
I don't care who you voted for, or what party you're in. I hope you're ready to fight for this republic.
Those who study authoritarian regimes suggest keeping a list of abnormal events after a demagogue is elected, as a way to remind yourself that this isn't normal and to keep from being overwhelmed into acceptance by the onslaught of attacks on our rights.
Didn't vote due due to being in a heavily red state and thinking Hillary would swoop in the swing states she needed. Not sure what I can do since I feel doing anything related to a public event could just get me labeled as a non-voter that would then be used to label all the people who voted as lazy do-nothings. It would be great if a lot of people who voted Trump turned against him though.
More detail into the gag order that Trump signed on abortion. Note that it goes farther than Bush.
http://www.undispatch.com/global-gag-rule-just-got-way-intense/
Also we're one step closer to martial law.
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