[Severian]

I'm not sure I can involve myself in this. This shit has become all-consuming. Constant alerts from AP, from friends on social media...

This is essentially an echo-chamber of people who agree with me, but... still. I barely have the stamina to comment on the past week.

Donating to the ACLU. Don't know what else to do.

[ilduclo]

I am actually respectful of the ACLU, but I don't like the fact that they've actually defended NAZI's rights in the past. Man, let them fucks hire their own lawyers....now these are my goto national groups

 

 

 

[Severian]

I'm considering heading to O'Hare as soon as thing strike up again, as they surely will. I have friends there, and at SeaTac, and at JFK. But... does being a professional protester come with bennies and a 401k? Cause I kinda like having that stuff.

Sorry. Not the time to joke.

[pepper_green]

ooh, I got my 1099 in yesterday. that means I have to spend a day going through all my receipts from this past year. I write off anything I can. add it up and take it to my nice accountant lady.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

I am actually respectful of the ACLU, but I don't like the fact that they've actually defended NAZI's rights in the past. Man, let them fucks hire their own lawyers....now these are my goto national groups

 

Hell yeah, SPLC.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by pepper_green

ooh, I got my 1099 in yesterday. that means I have to spend a day going through all my receipts from this past year. I write off anything I can. add it up and take it to my nice accountant lady.

When I was first hired at the paper I worked as an "independent contractor," freelancing for a while before actually joining the staff, so obviously that involved a 1099. I didn't have the time or energy to go back through all my stubs and deduct accordingly, so I just added the total to my income. I don't envy having to do that all the time. Not not bit. I sill freelance a bit on the side so I'll get a 1099 at some point.

If I worked that way year-round, I think I would try to deduct as I went, if you know what I mean. Keep track of Rx costs and medical bills for insurance, and donations, etc. Easier said than done, I know, but maybe it's the way to go. Be tax-minded all year.

[pepper_green]

I had no ideal about a 1099 until I hooked up with a good accountant and realized that I was a sub contractor. lets just say I write off my rent too and claim it's my office. lunch, phone bills, pretty much everything...check. every week I put my receipts in a grocery bag. it takes me about 2 hours to add it up then let so and so do the rest. they can audit me all they want but I have proof.

[!@#$%!]

drunkface steve bannon as permanent member of the national security council is the horror. that on top of sidelining the chairman of the join chiefs and the dni is true lunacy.

hide under your desks while you wait for the nuclear detonation lol.

fire...
melting...
people...
buildings...

 

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

drunkface steve bannon as permanent member of the national security council is the horror. that on top of sidelining the chairman of the join chiefs and the dni is true lunacy.

hide under your desks while you wait for the nuclear detonation lol.

Oh! yeah! that! That was just... fucking lovely. I read that last night and briefly thought that I was being #FAKENEWSD.

What in god's ever loving crap is happening?

I was ready (or resigned) to let this play out a bit. To watch as my fears and the fears of those around me proved unfounded; as Trump became a typical Republican president after all, perhaps a bit Bushier than Bush (after all, Bush was trying to realize some legitimacy in the face of his father's disapproval — that wasn't all Oliver Stone,), but there is nothing typical about this.

Inserting a perpetually hungover, pedophiloc looking Breitbart motherfucker into the NSC to cap off a week of defying the Geneva Convention and placing a gag order on the EPA... honestly, I know it's only been a week, but how in the hell has the word "impeachment" not at least been floated yet?

"1984" is a best-seller...
Cue the ironic "Curb Your Enthusiasm" music.
For now, it's still a bit funny, as we sit and imagine Trump in what is meant to be the highest and most esteemed office in the country, pointing at TV screens and flopping his fat mouth about crowd sizes, spitting Cheeto crumbs all over Obama's desk calendar, while aides contemplate administering the afternoon Ritalin dose a bit early. But soon... even this unofficial national anthem will lose any semblance of humor. That beloved theme, and universal indentifier of the absurd is SO apt that soon it will sound as ominous as Flight of the fucking Valkyries.

[!@#$%!]

i know what you're saying. but if vico was right, or hegel if you want, then the pendulum is already starting to swing really hard in the opposite direction, or some sort of new evolutionary step occurring.

that--or the earth is gonna scratch us off like a bunch of fleas. which would be temporarily painful for us but not so terrible for the planet. but disappointing, cuz here we thought we were its highest form of consciousness lololol. "not so quick, ape..."

well. us primates had a chance. let the roaches try next.

btw, did you ever play ALPHA CENTAURI?

[ilduclo]

this covers a couple of bases. Trump and MISSING JOHN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmum3glL1DA

[!@#$%!]

which of these 3 white men will be trumpet's supreme court nominee?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...otus-nominees/

given trump's serial rape/ scorched earth tendencies, i predict the dreaded william pryor will be his pick

[ilduclo]

I predict the Hardiplank guy

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by ilduclo

I predict the Hardiplank guy

shit, seeing as how he used to volunteer at AYUDA, which helps immigrants in the DC area, he'd be my favorite candidate as well, considering.

but from there to predicting it's another story.

trump is THE WORST. hence he'll do THE FUCKING WORST.

he doesn't just like winning-- he likes clobbering his enemies to shit

look at what he did to ted cruz

he's gonna give us the more extremist and sinister judge

[Severian]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

he's gonna give us the more extremist and sinister judge

 

[tesla69]

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

The US was, and still is, the only major nation in the world to fully embrace neoliberalism. Every other country or economic bloc, from China to the EU, has barriers in place to rig the market to create or protect good jobs at home

and look how everyone flips out if you suggest we should put citizens first. The leaders for the past 30 years gave away our country in exchange for their own wealth and a pseudo peace within the 1st world. It seems unthinkable that say Germany and France would go to war in 2017.

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

Multiculturalism

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

. Anti-assimilation. All cultures celebrated. Expanded cultural identity revered (hyphenated). Cultural resurrection and diversity. Extreme version: traditional US culture was/is inferior to all other global cultures, deprecation of tradition as biased/flawed

This leads to the conclusion there is almost no mass culture remaining - that system of signs and rewards shared among most of the population. The US used to share the Bible, then we had various pop culture movements united though 3 channels of corporate TV, now sports may be the remaining shared experience among a large generalized group of citizens.

Originally Posted by Robert Schunk

Finally, and most importantly to me, Trump isn't dismantling neoliberalism to return to the old nation-state. He's building, with the help of social networking, a new model of governance for the US. One that operates more like Russia and China does (a reactive authoritarianism).Sincerely,John Robb

They're sure going to try!

if I was Trump I'd move the plan to reduce the global population to 500 MM into overdrive. 2018: YEAR OF THE STINK What would be the toxic load of 7 billion rotting people - even if it was staggered out over a few years... Obviously, I've lived in NYC too long.

[ilduclo]

 

[!@#$%!]

shit, NEIL GORSUCH

neither of us won

[evollove]

Wait. Isn't congress in session? What are those scumfucks up to while we're focusing on the executive branch?

[Severian]

Originally Posted by evollove

Wait. Isn't congress in session? What are those scumfucks up to while we're focusing on the executive branch?

Your state should have a .gov site with a complete list of legislative actions taken, searchable by senator and representative, just fyi.

U.S. legislative action is also available.