Trump putting up a gaudy Jumbotron that blocks the view of the Lincoln Memorial is a perfect metaphor for his administration. pic.twitter.com/uVBv3GmqXe
— Talia (@2020fight) January 18, 2017
Here's the inauguration schedule: What is happening and when https://t.co/uBpJEOE8HA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 18, 2017
Figure I put this out there, for completeness, after which I’m gonna ignore the whole thing. I usually sleep from 6am-2pmEST, so by the time I get up, the ceremony will be over, Murphy the Trickster God willing. I’m sure someone will alert us if the old man actually drops trou and takes a dump on the podium, or if Steve Bannon attempts to Oswald Jared Kushner while all eyes are on Chief Justice Roberts…
The NYTimes, does, incidentally, include the Women’s March as the capper of the weekend. Complete with interactive graphic of the Sister Marches all over the world!
Friday in DC it’ll be… pissing down rain:
The forecast won’t budge — rain seems inevitable for Trump’s inauguration – https://t.co/1trsgCbkgP
— lori aratani (@loriara) January 18, 2017
@nytimes bring your gloves pic.twitter.com/GAeoSlBiw3
— RICHARD MIXIN (@RICHARDMIXINN) January 18, 2017
Mustang Bobby
I’ve posted a Youtube of crickets chirping for 10 hours. That’s my only post today. At home and at the office, no TV, and no radio other than jazz and classical music.
Major Major Major Major
I’ll be changing my Facebook picture to my same one overlaid with an upside-down flag and then, I don’t know, I’ll watch Hulu or something. See you all on the streets Saturday, going to the San Francisco one.
OzarkHillbilly
Awake since 1, finally gave up at 2:30. At a some point, death is going to start to look pretty good.
@Mustang Bobby: I’ll be listening to the birds in my yard.
SectionH
People who are marching on Saturday, whether in DC or in one of the more than 600 (yes, srsly!) Sister Marches: there are several times as many people who’d love to march with you but can’t for many reasons.
A dear friend, who’s cared enough all her life to march for good causes, offered to take a list of her friends who couldn’t march with her on Saturday, (she’s in a powerchair now and can has a hard time in that, but she’s going to be at the Seattle march). And a lot of us took her up on it. A lot of us. (I’m still sniffling too, but I’m sure that was just some dust in the air.)
Anyway, if you are going to be at a march, please consider posting on your own wall on Fb, friends locked if you want (I would, tbh) or anywhere else you post, that you’ll take a list of a
It moved me to tears, tbh.
And then I got this message from another friend:
To all my friends who will be marching tomorrow and who have offered to carry the names of those friends unable to attend. Please add me to your list. Since I will be unable to be somewhere marching, I wish to be everywhere…..
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: I’d do the same, except at this hour they are peacocks screeching, and they sound like a combination of Trump and Kellyanne Conway in the throes of …
Morzer
@OzarkHillbilly:
While there’s caffeine, there’s hope. Stay alive and we’ll see Donnie Putinobitch being dragged out in chains with his cronies in shackles behind him.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Commutations by President:
Obama………..1715
Bush Jr…………….11
Clinton…………….61
Bush Sr…………….3
Reagan…………..13
Carter……………..29
Ford………………..22
Nixon………………60
LBJ………………..226
JFK………………..100
Ike…………………..47
Truman…………118
Roosevelt……..488
Major Major Major Major
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: If he’d used the bully pulpit he could have commuted even more sentences. What a sell-out.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: My chickens don’t sound much better but I can usually hear the other birds too.
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Obviously the man is a secret Muslim. Such acts of mercy to sinners is not a Christian thing to do.
Kay
I know it’s hard to cling to reality at this point, but the reality is he’s unpopular, his transition is a mess, the majority of his appointees are unqualified and a lot of them have conflicts and ethical problems that would have disqualified the nominees of any prior President, and he’s already under investigation for corruption.
He’s a bad hire. He was always a bad hire. Nothing he has done since he was elected indicates he’s changed. It doesn’t get better with bad hires- it gets worse. His supporters rolled the dice and they lost. Now we’ll all suffer for their poor judgment.
Mary G
@SectionH: I will put you on my sign.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
CBS Poll — Jan 13 thur 16, 2017
Donald Trump Ratings:
Favorable………….32%
Unfavorable……..42%
Barack Obama Ratings:
Favorable………….62%
Unfavorable……..36%
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CBS Poll — Jan 16, 2009
George W. Bush Ratings:
Favorable………….22%
Unfavorable……..68%
Morzer
@Kay:
Sums it up it pretty damn well.
amk
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: weren’t the loony left whining about how the kenyan was being stingy with his pardon powers?
Kay
Trump, on the other hand, refers to the more than half of voters who didn’t vote for him as “the other side”. He did it again yesterday.
He’s a bad person. There won’t be a miraculous transformation where he becomes a better person. This is what he is.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Fascinating photo of Sidney Poitier and Cary Grant (photo)
raven
When Black Friday comes
I stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor
Dog Mom
I was thinking that marcher who are representing others who cannot attend should have something like “Plus 1” on there signs or their backs.
NotMax
Working to the last.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay:
I’ve also heard him refer to those voters as “enemies”. Nixonian without the brains.
Kay
Yup. The first word that comes to mind watching any of the Trump nominees is “greed”.
MomSense
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I still can’t believe he seriously wants to emulate Andrew Jackson. Giuliani said it Monday one of this nightmare andnInjsut heard Spicer or another forgettable hack say it yesterday when interviewed about his inaugural address.
Andrew fucking Jackson.
MomSense
@MomSense:
Monday should be day one of the nightmare. Can’t edit and I really should be sleeping. Aaarrrggghh.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Couldn’t sleep, got to go to work, and I’m cranky. Seems appropriate.
MomSense
@Kay:
That is exactly what it looks like.
Kay
@BillinGlendaleCA:
He’s right about me. I believe he’s a bad person. Fatally flawed. Lacking essential qualities. It’s not a matter of him tamping down his numerous bad qualities and accentuating his good qualities because there isn’t enough there to work with. It’s as impossible as straw into gold. Even if he tried he couldn’t do it.
Morzer
@MomSense:
Just look at Jackson on the 20 buck bill and you’ll realize that Donnie Putinobitch longs desperately to have Mad Andy’s amazing hair,
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: Hey, I was reading about “Pecos Bill’s BBQ” in Glendale. I don’t eat the swine but it sinned good.
Mary G
@Kay: Yes, I think under the pressure of the presidency and the scrutiny he thinks he can avoid, but can’t, his personality is going to go down fast, followed by his approval ratings. He is incapable of doing well on so many levels.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Text of Drumpf’s speech released (link)
Zinsky
As Sinclair Lewis wrote almost a hundred years ago, “When fascism comes to America, it will wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross”. That day is today. Darkness falls. I hope to God we are all ready…
amk
Kay
A journalist who is paid several million dollars a year bemoans the fact that no one knows anything about Donald Trump other than what Donald Trump says. Is this a coded cry for help? Are they being held hostage? They’re just out of ideas on how to investigate anything?
Morzer
@Mary G:
Trump has failed every time he tried to actually run a business. He’s got a crew of incompetent, deranged crony capitalists to help him try and figure out the biggest job on earth.
Chances of success? Somewhere south of zero.
Inmourning
So it is here. I am in a CLE all day, so no chance of catching any of the news. I will rely on the folks here to provide the appropriate commentary. I imagine his speech will be vapid and inane, with malice towards all he views as his enemies.
Raven
“God” has as much to do with this shit as she does with football.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
CNN died on October 10, 1996 when Ted Turner sold control.
MomSense
@Kay:
Where was he in April of last year? The poor IC. I can imagine that behind closed doors they are fuming that they have to spoon feed info to these idiots and they still can’t get it right.
OzarkHillbilly
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: As expected, incomprehensible word salad.
Kay
@Mary G:
I don’t know what will happen but I do know what’s already happened. He’s unpopular, his transition is a mess, his hires are either low quality or have ethical problems (or both) and he’s under investigation. That’s where we are and he’s not even President yet. No one else is responsible for the transition or the low quality people he’s hired or the fact that he’s under investigation. That’s all him. He alone made all those decisions.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ozark, if you are still coming in to St. Louis for Sat, a bunch of us Soulardians are meeting at Billie’s Fine Foods on South Broadway for breakfast around 7 AM and after. Launch from there. Join us! Don’t think Red is joining us, though. I’ll be the 55 year old chick with the rust and stitched tall Tony Lamas, salt and pepper hair, braided rat tail down my back. Yes, I’m glad to be done with the practice of law.? But I digress…..Hope you can meet us. I’m at Blues City Deli, Howards, or the Venice in the afternoon.
MomSense
@OzarkHillbilly:
Pretty sure he does a shout out to Russian prostitutes. They are the best. Tremendous.
ETA: as I thought about the words he offered at the concert and dinner last night it struck me that those talks would have been embarrassing at a Rotary Club meeting. He has about two sentence structures and he just swaps out the subject. He kept mentioning th IQ of his cabinet ehich is really telling for him.
Quinerly
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Hard to believe it’s been that long.
Raven
@Quinerly: what kind of hat?
Morzer
@MomSense:
He wants to shower them with gold like you wouldn’t believe…. but first he’s got to do a little Putin on the Ritz number….
Quinerly
Just now, BBC female Middle East guest/reporter (didn’t catch who she is) is talking about the US electing a man who bragged about grabbing a woman’s p*ssy. She said the word and BBC bleeped it. The Comb Over Caligula has even got Allah fearing proper Middle East women talking dirty.?
MomSense
@Morzer:
☂️
I think I should stick with emojis. I’m exhausted and not able to type.
Mustang Bobby
I read where some Republican said that Obama’s presidency was “historic but inconsequential.” Oh really? If so, then why are they spending all their time trying so desperately to undo what he’s done? If his presidency was “inconsequential,” they’d ignore it and just go on about their business. This desperate attempt to scrub it out of history proves that yes, it was both historic and very consequential.
Quinerly
@Raven:
I’m just not a hat person. My hair has always been too wild. Plus, a hat is like an all day commitment once you are involved with it. I have been offered a p*ssy hat. We’ll see.
SectionH
@Mary G: Thank you! I’m honored.
i’m incredibly embarrassed at the incoherence of my post – trying to paste 2 very different pieces together, failed bigtime. The message I wanted and still want to send is that lots of people can’t march for whatever reasons, and it’s great if people who are marching will offer to take names of their friends with them. Don’t wait for people to ask, because mostly it wouldn’t occur to people to ask.
That’s basic. Hope that works.
OzarkHillbilly
@Quinerly: Sounds good, I’ll see you there. I’ll be wearing a black “Resist” t-shirt and carpenter whites..
Betty Cracker
On the road to DC w/ my girls!
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Godspeed, Betty.
raven
@Quinerly: My bride is looking around for one.
Kay
@Quinerly:
His physical appearance isn’t why he’s repellent to me- although I don’t think he’s an attractive person- it’s the lack of ordinary emotions on his face. People flip thru a set of expressions when they talk depending on what they’re saying. Obviously some people are much more expressive than others but he has none. His face doesn’t change. I don’t think he has an ordinary or minimum capacity for authentic emotion- there’s not enough of a “person” there. The blankness is maybe practiced? If he shows anything it will be bad? That or there’s just nothing there. I suspect the latter- he doesn’t have it to draw on.
Quinerly
Biker for Trump being interviewed on BBC right then. He broke down and started crying….he’s so proud to be in DC to help Trump. I bet he was one of those fake “Wall of Meat” bikers.
Quinerly
@Kay:
I agree. Has anyone noticed how his appearance has rapidly changed in, say,the last 10 years? Facial expressions…plus speech pattern, tenor of his voice.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Yay! I’m going to the dentist. I hate the dentist. I took the rest of the day off after “my procedure” (which has something to do with a botched root canal which I don’t want to know) because I have to reward myself like I’m 6 years old or I’ll chicken out.
Have fun. Thanks for going.
Phylllis
I have a feeling the folks in my office will have it on. I have a graveside service to attend at inauguration time, so I won’t have to make excuses about not watching.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly:
Cool. Do you remember Joel, Soulard cabbie? He was going to drive us but we ended up changing plans. Might just park in Lafayette Square and walk straight to Union Station. Otherwise, just driving in groups. Hope to see you. I need greasy eggs as a stomach coating measure. South City Dinner sold and the food now sucks. Hence,the switch to Billie’s.
Mustang Bobby
One of my coworkers took off for the inauguration on Wednesday; she’s all excited about seeing it. I’m fighting the urge to TP her desk.
Kay
@Quinerly:
I never paid any attention to him before his birther campaign. I just think it’s weird to have like, maybe three facial expressions and all three are varieties of anger. He doesn’t have..enough. That’s why I think it can’t be fixed. If it were a whole range of qualities, some good, some bad, then it’s about tamping down bad and accentuating good. There’s nothing to work with on the “good” end. He’s 70. It’s not happening.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Never been there, I think Mnemo may have mentioned it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Be safe.
Joyce H
@OzarkHillbilly:
Does he rehash his primary victories? (I can’t bear to read it.) He hardly ever gives a speech of any length in which he doesn’t revisit and gloat over his primary victories. If it’s not in the text, I’ll bet he goes off prompter to say something about it.
As for me, I’m spending the day in WestWingverse. In my world, Matt Santos won the election. Isn’t Helen a wonderful First Lady?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: You’re on a “Mission from God”.
MomSense
@Mustang Bobby:
You could always decorate her space with all the photos of him that he said weren’t fit to print.
Make America Gag A lot
Quinerly
@Kay:
If you can stomach it, take a look at old interviews from 10-20 years ago. Very different. Actually capable of smiling, chuckling.
amk
@Betty Cracker: Be safe. Stay away from the nutjobs.
OzarkHillbilly
@Quinerly: Yeah, I remember Joel. How’s he doing?
I was in there a few months ago. I thought it was just what I ordered. Now I know better.
It would be good, if possible, to stage some vehicles close to the end of the march (stadium parking?) after dropping everyone off at Union Station, then bringing all the drivers back to US in a single vehicle.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly:
Great idea. But have you ever organized Soulardians on a Saturday morning?? I have… in a campground, on Chef Hwy, in NOLA, during Jazz Fest. Ain’t a pretty sight.
OzarkHillbilly
@Joyce H:
Don’t know, couldn’t understand a word of it. Probably put together by one of Putin’s speech writers. ;-)
OzarkHillbilly
@Quinerly: I was a regular participant in Mardi Gras parades for years so I know it can be done, but as one who served as a MG parade marshall I know how truly difficult it can be.
Morzer
@OzarkHillbilly:
When we discover that THE SPEECH begins with “Comrades, I call the meeting of the Moscow Sewage Workers Collective to order…” I think it’ll be pretty clear that Donnie Shortfingers didn’t get very far with his pen and pad of paper.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly:
I was second in command of three parades late 1980’s/early 1990’s…back when we launched from AB. For some reason having a clip board seemed to help.? 70 degrees forecasted for St. Louis tomorrow. Know where I can buy a Resist t shirt in an actual store? Ordered one online late in the game. Didn’t arrive.
OzarkHillbilly
@Quinerly: Red says we know each other. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find that you were the one who suckered me into the job (did it 2-3 years running). It took a while for me to get my shirt. I had almost given up when it arrived.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’ve been in Soulard since 1984. McGurks was my hang back in those days when it was two rooms. Venice Saturday afternoons, Molly’s, later the Shanti. We know each other. You built the bar at the Venice.?
Zinsky
Go get ’em, Betty! With you there, I know that Hell will properly be given to Donald J. Trump!
Lee
That is a pretty standard location for a jumbotron. When this popped up earlier there were pics of on for Obama.
J R in WV
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I dunno who done that, but they done good!
I woke up about 4:30, after finally falling asleep about 2. Tried to go back to sleep about 5:30, no good. Been reading a giant book of fiction, with evil doers on one side, loosing a war against good heroes. Since Tuesday, actually.
Glad to know I’m not the only person a tad bothered.
My next door neighbor, who helped us move in back in the late 1970s, is in Maryland with a group. Well planned, they had motel rooms booked near a Metro stop, probably will be looking to hit the Metro at 5 am. She’s a birder, used to being in the field well before sun-up. A strong woman. Proud to have her there representing all of us.
No one better mess with her, she works hard and won’t put up with any bullshit. She’s a health inspector, goes into bars, churches, strip clubs, hospitals, to inspect kitchens. Construction sites to inspect septic and sewer construction. Someone built a $500,000 house for a St Jude’s lottery, without a septic permit. No deal, you can’t give away a house without a permit. It wasn’t eligible for a permit, no where to properly install. Shut them down.
So she’s dealt with professional assholes for a long time now. Won’t put up with much.
Hope they are all OK at the end of the day!!
rikyrah
@Kay:
Tell the truth.
J R in WV
@Betty Cracker:
Best of luck! Think of us while you are there, and thank you for going! I wish I could, but health precludes being away from home right now. Dammit!
And just maybe, have fun with fellow human beans… ! IF no one interferes, it could be a great day in our nation’s capitol. I will pet a lovely dog for you while you are there!
ETA: Will be going to local group here in Charleston WV, close enough to home, familiar turf, think it will be OK for us oldsters.
J R in WV
@Quinerly:
I saw that too a couple of months ago, someone posted a 20 year old interview, and his affect was very normal, human, facial expressions and speech coherent, genuine smiles.
Then a recent interview, incoherent, angry and disjointed abnormal facial expressions! He’s now crazy/demented and We Are So Screwed…
PIGL
@Kay: how does any of that matter? the Republican Party has complete control of all three branches of government and most of the states, and they are fixing to implement the most extreme version of the oligarchical policy program … that’s the real consequence of the election, not Donald Trump’s preposterously epic fail.
Quinerly
@J R in WV:
Chris Matthews has done many interviews going back to the beginning of his show in the 1990’s. Throughout the campaign, he rebroadcast snippets. I think they are almost like two different people. Did electing a Black president drive him mad? Has undiagnosed syphilis caught up with him? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
PIGL
@J R in WV: yes I’ve noticed a difference too between older interviews that I remember and how he presents today he’s not well. But that only further condemns the American electorate for their viciousness and stupidity.
lol chikinburd
My work inures me from the Internet, so I’ll be able to dodge Piss Antichrist’s swearing in. Afterward awaits a weekend-long binge of The Americans/
bemused
@Kay:
He doesn’t laugh. Has anyone ever seen him laugh like normal people? Key components of normal human development in emotions, feelings, empathy, sense of humor, etc are just blank holes in him.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Morzer:
Not to mention he’s seemed to have scorned the help of anyone with the experience who might be sympathetic to him and it doesn’t look like he understands what the job involves. It’s hard to see Trump succeeding.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@PIGL:
And they ended up with to two most incompetent Republicans imaginable to manage it. This could be so much worse if say someone like the guy they wanted Chris Christie doing this,
opiejeanne
I’m going to the movies this morning, coming back to bake a cherry pie with frozen cherries from our trees, and making supper for younger daughter and her husband.
I’ve talking myself out of marching on Saturday. Probably a bit too soon after the appendectomy.