PRESIDENT TRUMP

author=kentona
Does this guy even know what the fuck he's doing?

playing the people who voted him in for fools

I came across this video last night and it made me laugh. I hope this is how it really happens when he takes over for Obama.

author=Solitayre
So far it seems like he wants to use the perch of the presidency to make deals for his businesses. The job of being actually president seems to be something he thought he could do for a few hours on the weekend.

I've said this before and I'll say it again, I read every single one of your posts in Eeyore's voice and I love that. XD

It seems especially on point with the current topic too. I honestly can't believe some of the stuff I've been hearing. His picks for office are mostly maniacs or insiders, actual white supremacists are feeling emboldened to be open assholes, and the guy still has no freakin' idea what he's even doing to actually, you know, do the job of president, nor does he seem to want to.

To quote the man of the hour, "It's a mess"

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author=EdgeOfChaos
The worst part of all this is that the "alt-right" now seems to be accepted, or becoming mainstream. And those people are not good news.

This is a tad concerning. You've got a battle for the definition of "alt right" happening. There's a spectrum.

On one extreme is civic nationalism and merely providing an alternative voice to the MSM. On the other extreme is pure ethnic fascist nationalism. The latter extreme is, fortunately, tiny and insignificant, but they are making the argument that they are the true "alt right".

Even though compared to most RMN members I am basically the equivalent of Joseph Goebbels, but within the alt right, I am as left as they come. Civic nationalist, my kids will be half-asian and that pisses a lot of them off due to race mixing.

Believe me when I tell you that the civic nationalists (which is what Trump is) are far more numerous, significant, and influential. The KKK wing of the alt right have the same level of street cred as the Westboro Baptist Church at this point and they're not going to get anywhere. I actually suspect most of them are just meme-magic /pol/ trolls and/or angsty shitposting dweebs who will look at my smokin' hot Asian wife and slam me for race-mixing, meanwhile they are probably 45 year old virgins.

"President-elect Donald Trump proposed on Tuesday a penalty -- including possible jail time or loss of citizenship -- for burning the American flag, in spite of two US Supreme Court rulings that protect the act under the First Amendment"

maybe this means that the 2nd amendment is off the table, too?

He has also claimed, with zero evidence, that millions of illegals voted for Clinton. He has reportedly spurned his national security briefings so he can embrace conspiracy theories.

Yeah America sure did pick a responsible level-headed executive.

Wapo article about how Donald has only accepted two intelligence briefings here. Headline: "Trump turning away intelligence briefers since election win" if you need to google it. Here's an article on where Donald's source of his "millions of illegal votes" tweet (spoilers it's infowars)

On the contrary, Trump has a habit of adopting the positions and opinions of whoever the last person he talked to was.

A few hours after talking to Obama, Trump decided maybe parts of Obamacare weren't so bad.

Speaking of biographies, Ivanka Trump's book "The Trump Card" which came out a few years ago really just spells out the trump Family Ethos. Here's a nice writeup about it:

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ivanka-trumps-terrible-book-helps-explain-the-trump-family-ethos?mbid=social_facebook

and some quotes

When Ivanka was a kid, she got frustrated because she couldn’t set up a lemonade stand in Trump Tower. “We had no such advantages,” she writes, meaning, in this case, an ordinary home on an ordinary street. She and her brothers finally tried to sell lemonade at their summer place in Connecticut, but their neighborhood was so ritzy that there was no foot traffic. “As good fortune would have it, we had a bodyguard that summer,” she writes. They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.” The lesson, she says, is that the kids “made the best of a bad situation.”

She offers a story about being forced, by her mother, to fly coach to the south of France as the moment she realized she needed to make her own money.

also, this isn't part of the article but a nice comment I saw, and thought I'd share:

I always find it fascinating when a rich or successful person writes about their life and struggles.

Most times they frame it as an motivational or inspirational piece to all of us trying to make it, because if they made it then we can too. The problem is they always have to kind of imagine the things that a 'lower' person would have to struggle with, and their interpretations are hilarious. The lemonade stand story from Ivanka is a great example of this, because it is so stereotypical and unnecessary to her actual life experience. Still, she presents it as something she needed to explain her position in life.

In his take-down of Tracy Austin's mostly-ghostwritten autobiography, David Foster Wallace nails the cliches that writers use to validate themselves and explain their successes. It's easy to replace "sports star" with "successful businessman" for Ivanka in passage like:

"...there is also here an odd loyalty to and penchant for the very cliches with which we sports fans weave the veil of myth and mystery that these sports memoirs promise to part for us. It's almost as if Tracy Austin has structured her own sense of her life and career to accord with the formulas of the generic sports bio. We've got the sensitive and doting mother, the kindly dad, the mischievous siblings who treat famous Tracy like just another kid. We've got the ingenue heroine whose innocence is eroded by experience and transcended through sheer grit; we've got the gruff but tender-hearted coach and the coolly skeptical veterans who finally accept the heroine. We've got the wicked, backstabbing rival (in Pam Schriver, who receives the book's only unfulsome mention). We even get the myth-requisite humble roots. Austin, whose father is a corporate scientist and whose mother is one of those lean tan ladies who seem to spend all day every day at the country club tennis courts, tries to portray her childhood in Posh Rolling Hill Estates CA as impoverished: "We had to be frugal in all kinds of ways... we cut expenses by drinking powdered milk... we didn't have bacon except on Christmas." Stuff like this seems way out of touch with reality until we realize that the kind of reality the author's chosen to be in touch with here is not just un- but anti-real."