US Politics

Ok, then nothing to worry about like usual.

still can't say President Trump with a straight face given methane connotations

Captain Methane
see also the french flautist ftw
La Petomane

DONALD Trump is bored of politics and wants to do something else now.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/trump-bored-now-20161109116846

La Petomane

I think the real problem is that the old guard of Labour MPs come from the Industrial heartlands of the North and Scotland, and now that these factories and productive centres have died so has the communities of workers and grass-roots activism that co-existed with their Unions who were directly co-dependent with the people around them.

Now it seems that most Labour MPs are drawn from a professional class that have no notion or experience of actual industry, aren't part of a wider professional community unless it's the Bar Association and the notion of 'the working man' refers to some vague notion of people that actually do or produce things somewhere that isn't London. Even those professions like Teaching or NHS that are Unionised seem to have been taken for granted as unquestionably supporting the party no matter how right wing they get or how little support they are given in return.

It's a pretty unsustainable model and it begs the question what the Left actually represents in a service-based, finance-dependant and largely urban economy.

Anyway. An oompah loompah with tiny hands just grabbed America by the cunt. What a time to be alive, eh?

begs the question

Quick. Delete that before @Oliver Schick gets here.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.......bring it on...

^^^tsk.

People get all worked up about this without understanding this

So Trump Tower has been closed to the public and is currently surrounded by dump trucks full of sand
WTAFIGO

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMma4T_gA_A/

Or 'lorries' on this side of the pond

There's a mass protest happening at 5pm so they've closed the shops in TT and there are barriers going up to protect Trump from the NYC public.

To make a celebratory glass statue of himself, 800ft tall?

Can't see a tank lorry with orange paint anywhere.

Blast barriers I guess - maybe they're expecting a big boom.

"Good evening President Bottom Burp, I mean , Trump..."

I think you got right

right there
https://microcosm.app/out/Btdjh

and this ^
Trump just wanted to be President - the most powerful man in the world etc. I don't think he gives a shit about actually doing anything once he's there.

Chris Hedges article ''The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism'' is worth a read.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_revenge_of_the_lower_classes_and_the_rise_of_american_fascism_20160302

Breakdown of voter demographics.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html

It's a good article but it is very binary in the use of "college-educated elites"

It's as if there's no middle between 1% and 99%. As if nobody college educated wanted Bernie. This binary talk is really starting to bug me lately, I find it a bit alienating and it puts people in two groups.

Writer may mean it specifically for elite, but then why drag education into it, there's already a lot of anti intellectualism.

from that ^

The even larger problem is that there is a kind of chronic complacency that has been rotting American liberalism for years, a hubris that tells Democrats they need do nothing different, they need deliver nothing really to anyone – except their friends on the Google jet and those nice people at Goldman. The rest of us are treated as though we have nowhere else to go and no role to play except to vote enthusiastically on the grounds that these Democrats are the “last thing standing” between us and the end of the world. It is a liberalism of the rich, it has failed the middle class, and now it has failed on its own terms of electability. Enough with these comfortable Democrats and their cozy Washington system. Enough with Clintonism and its prideful air of professional-class virtue. Enough!

Wow, that is really interesting and depressing to see why Trump won.

There's talk of the stock markets reaction well to Trump as he's promising more government investment (and lower taxes) rather than central back measures.

Interesting times if even stock markets now embrace government intervention.