NSFW THE TRUMPOCALYPSE

[beancounter]

Trump Is Using Our Old Putin TV Propaganda Playbook

 

[Mischief]

The Affordable Care Act should only be replaced with a single-payer healthcare system.

There are other ways of doing it, such as Germany's system, with which people are generally very satisfied. The ACA is a first step toward implementing that kind of system.

 

[Andy_T]

This Trump voter didn't think Trump was serious about repealing her health insurance

I find it hard to understand people like this. How delusional can you be?

 

[Mischief]

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to name the former Texas governor Rick Perry as his secretary of energy.

The selection of Mr. Perry to lead the energy agency would offer a rich irony: During a televised debate in 2011, when he was seeking the Republican nomination, Mr. Perry intended to list the Department of Energy among agencies he wanted to eliminate, but he could not remember its name.

While Texas is rich in energy resources and Mr. Perry is an enthusiastic advocate of extracting them, it is not clear how that experience would translate into leading what is also a major national security agency. Despite its name, the Department of Energy plays the leading role in designing nuclear weapons and in ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation’s aging nuclear arsenal through a constellation of scientific laboratories.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/u...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

 

[Mischief]

This Trump voter didn't think Trump was serious about repealing her health insurance

I find it hard to understand people like this. How delusional can you be?

A surprising number of people are just plain idiots.

 

[Andy_T]

Indeed, and as good democrats we all think they should have the right to vote...

 

[Second Summer]

The appointments for the top jobs in the new administration are making a mockery out of democracy. It's demockracy. This is perhaps the clearest example of a corporatocracy yet. It's difficult to comprehend that the citizens of a supposedly advanced, developed nation would elect as their president someone as openly unfit and reactionary.

Indeed, and as good democrats we all think they should have the right to vote...

Maybe not all of us ...! Though it's incredibly difficult to define the criteria that should decide who should have that right.

 

[Mischief]

The appointments for the top jobs in the new administration are making a mockery out of democracy. It's demockracy. This is perhaps the clearest example of a corporatocracy yet. It's difficult to comprehend that the citizens of a supposedly advanced, developed nation would elect as their president someone as openly unfit and reactionary.

Just so.

I have woken, every day since the election, quite literally sick at the thought.

 

[Mischief]

A guy who exists purely to troll the Humane Society was just hired by Donald Trump

 

[Mischief]

You know, apart from everything else, even if a best case scenario occurs and the GOP loses in 2020, the U.S.A. will never again be viewed as a stable world influence. That's gone, for good.

 

[FortyTwo]

I agree, except for what the best case scenario would be.

Best case scenario is Clump and Pence are disposed of ASAP.

 

[Mischief]

I agree, except for what the best case scenario would be.

Best case scenario is Clump and Pence are disposed of ASAP.

That woulod leave us with President Orrin Hatch.

 

[FortyTwo]

That woulod leave us with President Orrin Hatch.

And that's horrifying, but at this point I'd take Bush back to avoid this.

 

[Calliegirl]

Jerry Brown strikes defiant tone: ‘California will launch its own damn satellite’

Gov. Jerry Brown, rallying a room of scientists Wednesday with his most heated rhetoric yet on the topic, suggested California would defy the federal government should President-elect Donald Trump impede the state’s efforts to thwart climate change.

“We’ve got the scientists, we’ve got the lawyers and we’re ready to fight. We’re ready to defend,” he said to boisterous applause at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.

Brown struck a more forceful tone than he has since the election, suggesting the energy and enthusiasm in the room for him would be needed in the “battles ahead.”...

 

[Amy SF]

Jerry Brown strikes defiant tone: ‘California will launch its own damn satellite’

I love living in California.

 

[beancounter]

 

[Amy SF]

I just saw a TV commercial for this group. What do you all think?

https://www.nolabels.org/

 

[FortyTwo]

I just saw a TV commercial for this group. What do you all think?

https://www.nolabels.org/

Sort of hard to tell. Looks pretty cool, but they, as with any group like this, have total control on their website to present themselves as perfect freedom fighters.

That being said I do think bipartisan cooperation, between at the very least moderates from both sides, will be absolutely necessary to get anything done in this upcoming hell term.

 

[Calliegirl]

At least they tried.
Judge Orders Colorado Electors to Vote for Hillary Clinton

 

[Mischief]

And that's horrifying, but at this point I'd take Bush back to avoid this.

Oh, I'd take Bush over Hatch, any day. I think that GWB was manipulated, and he has realized it.