And I suppose you think the courts will be hunky-dory with this?
So you don’t support the First Amendment?
You want to shut out the press from being able to report on the President? No more freedom of the press?
Well, yeah, if you don’t think one of the cornerstones of our democracy is important to keep, then you probably think everyone’s being hysterical. But, you see, most of us like our freedoms.
No one said anything about “post-Trump America.” We’re talking about right now, when racists are going out of their way to attack people of different races. Post-Trump America would be when we fix this mess–I pray to God.
Plus, frankly, you were a defense attorney. You’re basically loaded. Yeah, you don’t have to worry as much about racism. It’s the working class legal immigrants with thick accents who are going to be attacked.
Now, if your kid(s) goes to public school, he may face it. I sure hope not.
Except the media hasn’t changed at all. What changed was a bunch of CONSERVATIVE media that tells you that the real media is biased.
Even now, all the fake news sites that show up were on the Right, not the Left.
Well, the Supreme Court probably will, once it’s packed with right-wingers.
Furthermore, Republicans’ Senate Tactics Leave Trump Wide Sway Over Nation’s Courts
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Except the recovery has completely passed by whole States.
Towns are dying.
Many of his supporters do not care about the race stuff either way.
They feel, with some justification, that both Parties either ignore them, or take them for granted.
This is an angry demand for government policies designed for Middle Class/Working Class/non-Rich/non-Poor citizens.
I suppose any such initiative by the Trump administration would either have to get around the courts, or have their blessing. I’m talking possibilities here, not certainties. In any event, that was not my point. I’m merely expressing my personal view of where I would begin to consider the incoming administration ‘totalitarian’.
I have been informed that Trump has said nice things about Hispanics and may even mean them. I am cautiously withdrawing this characterization.
He’s still an ass.
Well, the man ate a taco. Or was it a taco salad? For him, that’s very sincere.
Hysterics much?
What people call Japan “moving to the right” or “militarization” is simply a pacifist-leaning country becoming a normal country with a normal attitude towards a military, an attitude change about 50 years overdue.
But yes, denial of WWII atrocities ain’t cool.
I just realized that so far I haven’t directly addressed my politics. I’m non-partisan. I do this novel thing called “thinking” and vote for whoever I think will do the best job for a particular office. I registered Independent after my first election (I registered Republican like my father at first) and have historically voted for members of both parties. I find the idea of political parties to be slightly repugnant.
If anything, the press was culpable for some of this mess because they were not critical enough of Trump. They didn’t give his espoused policies anywhere near the same scrutiny they would a regular candidate. They used the entertainment value of his tweets, rallies, and off-the-cuff pronouncements to juice their view stats in much the same way they’d throw a vapid media icon on their front pages. Trump would have had way less of an audience if the media hadn’t been sucking his propaganda dick in the hope of a reach-around from the public.
The only world in which the mainstream media was an organ of the Democratic party is the imaginary one the fact-free right-wing media have created for themselves.
Good point about Guantanamo Bay and the other extra-territorial prisons the US is still maintaining. Thanks, Obama.
Trump has already said quite a lot about how he’d like to change libel laws to make it easier to sue a critical press. A meeting with the NY Times a couple of days ago was apparently a complete goat-fuck, with Trump berating reporters for his “unfair” treatment in the paper over his (apparently non-existent) charitable contributions and other subjects. In normal reporting, that’s called fact checking and verifying, not hounding and harassing.
I see absolutely nothing in any of his policies and plans so far that would do anything positive for working-class Americans. Most of it will be actively harmful.
Erasing the first steps toward universal medical care, for example, is going to be horrible. I know from experience what I’m talking about. I grew up poor. My dad was laid off from GM in the late 70s and didn’t work for over a year. I almost died from pneumonia when I was a kid because my parents couldn’t afford to take me to a doctor until I was really goddamn sick.
I remember what government cheese tasted like. I bought “new” school clothes from Goodwill and Salvation Army for years. I didn’t have anything approaching a middle-class life until the dog grooming businesses my mother started to do better when I was in my early teens.
That only lasted a couple of years until she got cancer around the time I was 16, forcing my father to liquidate the business. He had to cover bills above the medical insurance he got from the job he took with the county (which he got mostly because he was a veteran) that he hated, but kept working at because it provided good medical coverage for us; his kids and wife.
When future valedictorians were studying and doing extra-curriculars and internships, I was helping out on weekends and after school at the shop. When other kids were applying for scholarships, I was watching my mother die and worrying about where my next meal or tank of gas to get to school was coming from.
I was the first person on either side of my family to graduate from college, ever. It took me 8 years to work my way through, because I sure as hell didn’t get any help from my family and didn’t qualify for grants with my exceptionally average grades due to shitty circumstances, admittedly compounded by my own ample faults.
My background is as working class as it comes. The only way it could be more blue-collar is if I’d grown up in Appalachia with a coal-miner for a father.
And guess what? I still think Trump is a con-artist shitbag who is going to fuck the American middle class in the ass until they bleed while playing to every nasty little self-destructive bias and fear in an attempt to distract them. His tax policies alone look sufficient to plunge the government into trillions more debt, while other policies seem to be focused on cutting just about every strand of safety net available. In the meantime, he grifts money from his campaign, uses his political office to influence real-estate deals, and put his family and cronies into positions of power. It’s fucking sick.
It pisses me off that people who do legitimately need positive change did the political equivalent of accidentally shooting themselves in the gut, thinking they were going to get sent home from Vietnam with a flesh wound to their pinkie toe. I’ve undoubtedly got some family, especially the branch in the Sierra Nevada foothills — islands of Trump country in the ocean of California blue — who voted for him and will end up the worse for it.
I dunno, how long until partisan bullshit devolves into purges and factional killing? I mean, worse than it already is. We’ve already got enough problems to start self-organizing social movements like #blacklivesmatter as a reaction to persistent systemic problems. Now we’ve got open racists being appointed to political offices and positions of influence. Gotta tell you, the trend isn’t looking good, especially for the groups which were specifically targeted during the campaign.
Just to let you know, like I said in the dystopian fiction thread, I personally know people who escaped from Cambodia. In less than two years, the mother and father of the family went from being respected members of the community as a nurse and a school teacher, to smuggling themselves and their kids out of the country to avoid being liquidated as intellectual enemies of the state. This shit happens in a much shorter time period than you’d think. If you grew up in a stable democracy, with no contact with someone it has happened to, or have not seen first-hand the dissolution of social order, you literally cannot understand how fast things can go wrong; you don’t have the emotional experience to connect to the intellectual concept.
I’m a pessimist. I love being wrong. I’d love for this to look hysterical in 4 years instead of prescient.
Sleel– I never said the Trumpist were right about Trump.
But they are right about the neglect.