I saw a version juxtaposed with the scene from The Shining where there's a guy in evening dress and another guy in a dog costume.
It's good to know that even though us old people on blogs don't know how to deal with Trump's election yet, the young people on Tumblr are carrying on as usual.
it's going to be a very long four years
Eight.
That picture of Romney is mitigated by his words to the press later last evening declaring that it was a very productive, informative, enjoyable blah blah blah meeting.
It's probably terrible of me to think that Romney for Secretary of State would be one small consolation that there's at least one person who's not a complete asshole lunatic in the cabinet.
Twilight Zone isn't low-rent enough. He looks like the Devil on Fantasy Island.
I'll leave Branding Business School Case Lucrezia Borgia to the feminist Internet. All I want is sixty seconds alone in a stuck elevator with Huey and Dewey.
4.2: Not terrible of you, no; a reflection of terrible times. The thought of Romney and other despicable but establishment Republicans in the cabinet is as close to comfort as we'll get. I'm still weirdly upset that Christie and all his apparatchiks got purged. I still suspect Trump is just stringing Romney along to humiliate him later.
We are going to get a lesson in the power of economic populist PR. Sadly it will be in the service of crony capitalism and the building of a one-party state, rather than what it could have been in the hands of Democrats.
Yesterday I was musing how much easier life would be if I didn't believe in climate change. So I tried it on for a few minutes. It felt great. I successfully tried on the worldview where I could pretend that everything around me would be more or less the same for generations to come, sort of like peasants in the middle of some dull stretch of history. It really was such a mental relief.
I explained away a few forest fires and some flooding, but then I thought about the collapse of the fishing industry and the loss of big species and my house of cards fell apart. For a moment there, though.
I can only think of one person who could conceivably have written 6, but I'm not quite sure. I didn't know Louie was short for Lucrezia.
I had my first wave of actual nausea thinking about the rough beast slouching towards Washington yesterday. So much work to be done over the next four eight years, fuck me. Is... uh... is anyone else planning a life change, other than possibly our absent comrade Halford, as a result of the election? Anyone changing jobs? Anyone reallocating money?
Is... uh... is anyone else planning a life change, other than possibly our absent comrade Halford, as a result of the election? Anyone changing jobs? Anyone reallocating money?
Oh, yes. Changing jobs, selling the house up in NH, etc.
This long NYRB piece isn't lolworthy, but it's good.
Good luck, parsi.
10: Scoped out moving to New Zealand, but so far we've just got a bunch of spam e-mail from their immigration office.
We don't expect personal impacts unless the US literally becomes a dictatorship. My wife's job is secure for at least two years - she doesn't like it much but it's better than nothing - and if things are remotely normal in 2018 it should be fairly safe then too. My job is less certain, since I'm a contractor in the department that Romney might be running, but my office is very apolitical and even if there are problems my managers seem to like me. I think/hope they'd find something for me to do on another contract if this one goes belly-up. It would suck trying to learn my way around a new contract just based on what they can find for me, of course, but I probably wouldn't be at square one looking for another job.
I prefer this version since it took me a second to notice it.
Ivanka won't be 40 yet in 2020; doesn't that mean she won't be eligible to run? So we should be safe until 2024.
I've been wondering where Halford went. Did he leave a note that I missed? I'd be grateful if someone pointed me to it.
Last comment and some upthread.
Just to be clear, I was wondering if anyone without a compelling need to was choosing to change jobs, reroute money in various directions... just curious. Recent events have made continuing in my job seem close-to-worse-than useless, but flailing like this is also worse than useless.
4.2 The rumor from people at State is that Bob Corker and Stephen Hadley have signaled to Trump that they are a package deal, because neither wants to be the only adult in the room.
I would guess that beyond defining just how much shit he would eat for dessert at his after-dinner press conference, Romney probably also made some demands for Defense.
We're all apocalyptic now, and that ain't no shit. Yet another rending of garments, long.
This one is different because this is a scholar of dictatorships who can reference
More to the point, all these hate campaigns led to genocide (Modi's has not, so far, but he has years to go). The only really full-on hate campaign known to me that ended in a peaceful, sane, normal rule was that of Mahathir bin Mohamed in Malaysia in 1972.Mahathir in Malaysia 1972. Is that a first this month?
Anyway, this guy fucking guarantees genocide.
Okay, almost.
Also at the end is Timothy Snyder, E Europe guy who I hate, and his twenty pieces of advice
"1. Do not obey in advance. Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it without being asked. You've already done this, haven't you? Stop. Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom."
and 19 more good ones.
Thanks.
I don't care whether opposition to Trump is based on truth, conspiracy theory or a combination. I want him pressed on every single front, all the time.
I've been surprised at who is responding well to this moment. We've called Sausagely glib before, but I'm finding him very on-point and welcome his directness now. I had no opinion about Lindsey Graham besides 'kinda like Newt Gingrich', but damned if he isn't standing up tall now. A lot of people I admire, I am continuing to admire, but some are impressing me more than their usual baseline. Terry Gross has spent a few episodes on Trump analysis.
Also picked up some books on settler colonialism
J Sakai Settlers The Mythology of the White Proletariat is the foundational work, I think, but James Belich Replenishing the Earth: the Settler Revolution 1783-1939 looks more fun. From the Constitution to the Invasion of Poland, looks like everything is slavocracy on the march
Trump is already showing he has a gift for the diplomacy.
10: I withdrew from premed courses right after the election, because it was then clear that medical school made no sense anymore. (I had been having a lot of doubts anyway.) I'm just about to apply to programming bootcamps, which, since I'm soon to be unemployed, I might have done anyway, but it's importantly motivated by wanting to be able to work anywhere. A month ago I would have said I would never leave NYC, but now I am seriously considering University of Toronto and McGill for psychology in 2018 (both of which are great departments).
Millions for Romney and none for Defense.
I want him pressed on every single front, all the time.
This, dammit. There's been so much rending of garments about how other Liberals are attacking Trump all wrong.
Fuck all that. Its time for a full court press. Attack him - and his odious followers - with everything, all the time. There will be opportunities to take him down, but those opportunities need to be created, and its too early to know whats going to work. Recent history has demonstrated that anything can happen, but we need good people working all the angles to make sure that something does.
I am psyching myself up anew to do the work I need to do to get tenure at my current university when I go up in two years, because I cannot afford to have a precarious or more expensive health insurance situation, and my research and teaching are political enough that I can't afford to move to a school whose leaders can't or won't defend me if things get dicey. Also, my backup plan had always been to work for one of the few federal agencies that I liked, but that's no longer going to work.
Really, though, I just can't change my health insurance. Just dealing with co-pays for ongoing health issues is a big enough pain right now, and the only reason it's at all affordable for me is that I have cushy state employee insurance.
I had no opinion about Lindsey Graham besides 'kinda like Newt Gingrich', but damned if he isn't standing up tall now.
My niece is a lovely person, but for some strange reason she ended up becoming a Republican despite being raised in a family of good liberals. At one point she interned for Lindsey Graham, and she totally thinks the world of him. Like, she makes it sound like he's a decent human being, which seems odd to me.
Rumor has it she wrote his name in for President instead of voting for Donald Trump.
Anecdotally, most politicians are likeable in person. Which makes sense, and apparently is one the things that makes Ted Cruz remarkable.
That and his ability to show love with canned soup.
Nevermind. That's got to be the same thing as unlikable.
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Yesterday I was musing how much easier life would be if I didn't believe in climate change. So I tried it on for a few minutes. It felt great
The clueless and the uninformed really are happier, and more fun to be with. No angst; no second-guessing; no regrets, ever: no long, dark nights of the soul. When things go their way, they are almost aggressively cheerful: they positively exult in the power of positive thinking. And when things don't work out as planned? it just wasn't meant to be, better luck next time, it's time to move on (no regrets, ever). They make excellent life coaches and party planners, and are probably over-represented in real estate.
"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders." Seriously guys, way ahead of you here.
3. It seems quite possible to me that Trump won't have the attention span to serve two terms, and will hand it to Pence on some pretext or other after one.
It seems like he's already handing a lot off to Pence.
Looking back, historians will point to Trump-Pence as confirming a trend began by Bush-Cheney -- the President becoming a ceremonial head of state, with the Vice President as the actual head of government. Obama will be the last gasp of the old system.
In the future we are looking at, there will be no historians.
41: that's a good and interesting point. That said I think HST says something similar at the end of Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail and you know?
Did he? Who was supposed to be the real President behind Nixon's ceremonial one?
Obama will be the last gasp of the old system.
In all sorts of ways.
42: You think the corvids won't have history? They'll want to learn from our mistakes so that they can stay on top.
45: he thought the role and the expectations involved had simply become too much, and once Nixon blew up, you'd move on to a split between a president and a prime minister.
Instead, we got Gerald Ford. Which possibly speaks to the America ability to muddle through shit.
That is, to muddle through without actually fixing the underlying issue.
I disagree - even Cheney lost favor and power toward the end. I understand there's a lot more White House staff over time and someone in that coterie is likely to step in to the extent a president is uninterested or just overburdened - could be the VP, but also COS or any combination of close enough staff. (But not the Cabinet secretaries, who are supposed to take direction from WH in anything with headline potential.)
44: HST also said that the best thing the Democratic party could do for the country was implode so that some kind of genuine left party could take its place. True ~40 years ago, true today.
52: If you want a permanent Republican majority, then sure.
52, 53: yeah, after the party had been ripped apart and the contradictions nicely heightened he found he didn't like it much. not the first heightener to get contradiction vertigo.
If you want a permanent Republican majority, then sure.
We seem to be headed there anyway.
Halford's left unfogged againe?
Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih.
Ok, Smearcase. Are we gonna leave the Bay Area now?
I always dream of it but it feels like plans of any kind are a bit up in the air now. I feel like I'm waiting to see what happens from a totally open set of possibilities whose only unifying factor is that they're all bad, and it makes it hard to know what to do next.
Reasonable. For me the desire to move has ramped way up since the election. I can't see the good in my staying, beyond a certain amount of self-interest (and family interest). But the decision isn't really mine to make either.
55: Serious question -- are you young? People said the same thing in 2004.
60. Their make it impossible for Ds to vote strategy has been refined a lot since 2004.
59: Why has the election made you MORE eager to leave the bay area? Whatever else I have to say, practically everyone here voted the right way.
Because one more marginal vote for the national-level Dems is worthless here, and I feel that California can take care of itself without me; whereas in other cities I'd be more likely to afford to live on a do-gooder salary (after telecommuting for a year or two to pay down a mortgage) and could make a difference in politics and everyday life that I can't make here.
I'm surprised by this reaction. I remember wanting to wrap California around me like a blanket in 2004. Now it seems like a frivolous luxury I can't really afford anymore.
63: I suppose I had an equal and opposite reaction: wow, California sure sounds great, but moving there would just exacerbate conditions. And I do like it here
I live in a house that I own that is within 20 minutes of my office by public transit. I'm pretty sure that, barring inheritance or outside money, that isn't even possible for university employees in California. Especially non-faculty.
To be fair, I might run screaming after 48 hours in $cheapflyovercity. I've mentioned that the food in Knoxville, while nice, did generally seem to have about twice as many calories as usual for, say, a salad, or some Brussels sprouts.
Yes. I screamed and yelled for at least five years before I acclimatized myself. And that was after Ohio and North Carolina.
66: that describes my closest friend in CA, who bought in 2009. It is however not possible for me.
You should come here. French fries are a condiment.
68: I'm curious as to what here prompts screaming, relative to Ohio.
Having to make a separate trip to buy beer and wine was about half of it.
Also, getting used to a transit system that was both massively more useful (in terms of places and times you could take the bus), but also hugely more of a pain in the ass in terms of actually using it (crowds, complicated fare structure, trying to exit the front of the bus because of said fare structure).
Also, the fact that none of the roads even try to be straight. It took close to a decade for my brain to adjust to roads that didn't even try to be on a grid.
And that the Wendy's are shittier here.
74: Trust me that there are parts of Ohio that could have helped prepare you for that!
True. But I only ever lived in Columbus.
Those are all sensible and valid complaints. Our topography gives relief but is confounding and horizon-hiding, PAT is confusing (but getting better!), and our Wendy's* and alcohol laws are shitty. The nice thing about being a native Pennsylvanian who drinks is that traveling anywhere is automatically a delightful experience.
* Surely the plural of Wendy's should be Wendy's'.
Seriously though. I spent like three years getting lost all the time. Then they closed the Wendy's by my office.
Also, salaries are lower here. Taking less money than I made before was hard.
Lower than where? Research triangle? Ohio?
81: Yes. (Median across all households, but I'm sure that holds in academia, too.)
Scrolling through that table, the only MSAs with population over one million that had a lower median household income than Pittsburgh are Tampa (comparable), Oklahoma City, New Orleans, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"Chicago - Gary - Kenosha" is supposed to be a metropolitan area with meaningful statistics about median salaries? Wow.
CSAs are huge, but they should correspond roughly to the limit of commuting into the center city and so should capture all local economic activity integrated with the center. I don't see why they shouldn't be comparable to each other.
But those tables are more suspect because they're Wikipedia, and I'm not clear what time frame the first one is referring to, if it's even a single point in time. And I'm too lazy to troll through census.gov for the actual data. My bad. But: incomes really are lower here than most other metros. Personally, Pittsburgh is in the lowest-paying tier among metros I'd be interested in living in, given cultural and employment opportunities.
But those tables are more suspect because they're Wikipedia, and I'm not clear what time frame the first one is referring to, if it's even a single point in time.
Judging from the population it gives for Anchorage, the numbers may be quite out of date. Especially if that's for the MSA rather than the Municipality proper.
Oh shit, it really is faster to take [the?] Metra from Kenosha to the Loop than it is for me to get to my office. Sobering.
Also, in Ohio, I'd never, ever walk past an art gallery where the exhibit was a couple dozen people (living) dressed in those disposable biohazard suits and sitting in a circle facing outward on a hardwood floor.
88:
No "the." The was sold to Ohio State University.
And looking up the latest Census figures, the median household income is way off too.
89: Just went by. They looked a little sad.
