Новости за 18.11.2016

Trump is still lying, still bitching, and still a child.

"We do not have time for the White House Edition of Celebrity Apprentice starring President-Elect Pussy Grabber."

Give him a chance...because we're all supposed to pretend that this is a normal man, and this was a normal election.

Because we're all supposed to forget, that the Russians interfered with the election, and the involvment of the FBI, at a minimum, affected the outcome.

All we are saying is, Give Fascism a Chance. Читать дальше...

On yet another of CNN's interminable panels pitting liberals against conservatives this morning, Angela Rye dropped a truth bomb on the table just as former RNC director Doug Heye was working really hard to spin the Kentucky Ford plant lie Donald Trump tweeted last night.

Former Navy Seal and avid Trump supporter Carl Higbie followed up his disastrous Tuesday night appearance on The Kelly File, where he justified creating a Muslim registry by using WWII Japanese Internment camps as precedent, denying what he said and blaming Megyn Kelly for "putting words out there."

Yep, @realDonaldTrump can lie all they want about Ford Motor Company (stock symbol F, not ironic at all) and Ford just takes it.

Sen. Jeff Sessions was deemed to racially controversial to be confirmed as a federal judge under Ronald Reagan's presidency, but Trump has now tabbed him as his new Attorney General.

As one colleague put it about the Jeff Sessions nomination for Attorney General? "This is a damned disaster."

For the past year, Mark Halperin has served as nothing more than a shameless Donald Trump apologist. So much so that Brian Williams took a moment to call him a Trump shill to his face just a couple of weeks ago.

A publicity stunt, or just Kanye being Kanye? Who knows. Who cares. West was loudly booed (of course) and people are talking about him, which I guess was the point.

It's being reported that General Michael Flynn is the favorite to become Donald Trump's national security adviser:

Ann Coulter hates South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. It's unclear why, but she does.

Post-election, only one man counts in the New Day of the Trump era; that man (Paul Ryan) has the sole authority to bring spending bills before the House, the only constitutional body which can initiate government spending. That legislative authority, and the Speaker's sole authority to bring before the House bills to spend and distribute $3.2 trillion dollars in federal revenues makes Paul Ryan the most powerful revenue czar in public or private life. If he can secure the collaboration of the Senate... Читать дальше...

We did it! We made it to Friday. As our reward (other than happy hour tonight?), here’s some links to some great blog posts.

A message for then and today from Molly Ivins (yeah the video spells her name wrong). h/t Driftglass.

It was damp and cold this morning. Visibility was about a block and a half. Made the commute into the job a bit slower than usual. It gave me time to think up weird scenario's about the day. Things like "Is the biggest goth convention in the world coming to town later today and this is the big production number we are doing to welcoming them?"

The thing we have to remember about Donald Trump in the weeks, days and months to come is this: He lies. He lies every day, as often as he wants, about trivial things and about important things. It's why I'm putting no stock in the leaks coming out of Trump Ivory Tower about cabinet members, and it's why everything he tweets should be considered a lie.

For the first time in a quarter-century, we’re about to see a vacuum of political and intellectual leadership in the Democratic Party. An entire generation of leaders – including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bill and Hillary Clinton – will be leaving the political stage. With them will go an entire infrastructure of policy advisers, political strategists, associates, friends, and hangers-on.

During an interview with Chris Hayes tonight, Harry Reid unloaded on FBI Director James Comey, pointing at him as the sole reason Hillary Clinton lost the election.

We all saw the stupid memes and articles that were outright lies, but it seemed as though no matter what we did to counter them, they just flooded Facebook and Twitter. These articles were the real "fake news" of the election.

The ACLU published a full page open letter to Trump in The New York Times.

The next time you get ready to pull out a tiny violin for a Fox Newsie who whines about the unfair treatment Donald Trump gets from the so-called “liberal media,” you can also point to Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s disgraceful attempt to bully and humiliate Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the architect of Obamacare, while pretending to be a legitimate interviewer.

Students at University of California, Davis have been warned about removing white supremacist fliers because some have been found to have razor blades.