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Today’s version of “let’s focus on some seemingly off the wall crap so that you don’t look at the actual malfeasance I’m performing right in front of you,” our esteemed President-Elect suggests that he “won” the entirely irrelevant popular vote, you see, because “millions of illegal voters” voted for his opponent (even as he chides his opponents for demanding a recount in the states with the closest margins) all while questioning the legitimacy of an election he won; our friend Joe Gandelman has a round-up. Here’s the thing: while the Donald has invited the chattering classes to take the bait...

I’ll give you this thematic piece of E.J.Dionne from WaPo called “How to Prevent Thanksgiving Armageddon” implying that “right-thinking people” should “gently chide” Trump supporters on issues such as the Donald’s business conflicts of interest, apparent support of racism (and the clear support of him by racists), and the man’s personal vindictiveness… far be it for me, but I’m inclined to replay what they said after the 2000 election (“get over it”) a phrase I wish we would have heard after the 2008 election. While I wish Jill Stein well in her recount efforts, I think we have an outcome....

A quickly organized public rally took place yesterday in Brooklyn’s tiny Adam Yauch Park, nestled next to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, decrying the recent defacement of the park with swastikas and the words “Go Trump” (as I recently noted); I was out there with many of my neighbors… note the sign that says “Hey Trump where’s your anti-Nazi tweet?” Meanwhile, a swastika showed up on an elementary school near Denver, CO. The President-Elect could condemn incidents such as these (possibly at the behest of his influential Jewish son-in-law), but we won’t hold our breath; instead, he is directing his ire...

Stately Dog Manor, it seems, is near the epicenter of something… perhaps a mile from Hillary’s campaign headquarters when they were operating, A politically-inspired assault just a few blocks from here. And now the defacement, complete with swastikas no less, of a nearby park named after Adam Yauch– one of the Beastie Boys— perhaps 800 yards from SDM. “Make America Hate Again” was one of the mocking variations of the Donald’s primary campaign slogans suggested by Hillary (at least at her convention.) It does seem to be all too prophetic, certainly in what was once the peaceable kingdom of this...

To Mrs. TD. There… something nice!

Josh Marshall reports on the cluster-fuckery going on over in Trumpland viz “the transition,” to wit, actual national security expert former Congressman Michael Rogers is out because of “his ties to Chris Christie.” What ties are those? None, really, except Christie asked him, as a seasoned Republican hand, to be part of the transition. But Christie is out now. Because of the Bridgegate Scandal, you say? Oh no… the Donald’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has a vendetta against Christie associated with former prosecutor Christie’s prosecution of his father Charles Kushner some years ago. So, Kushner, whose qualification, like Trump’s himself, is...

Random assorted incidents of petty violence– often in the variety of some kind of ethnic harassment– have been endemic both during the remarkably divisive Presidential campaign, and in light of the Trump victory (thanks again, Hillary). This particular report, of a random male diner dashing back into a restaurant so he could punch a woman with whom he disagreed over the Trump victory, is peculiarly jarring to me, insofar as it took place within a short walk of Stately Dog Manor. Feelings clearly remain strong. One hopes that Trump supporters will at least try to be good sports about their...

In a 60 Minutes interview-cum-victory-lap, President Elect Donald “the Donald” Trump (may as well get used to that) suggests he may still use his Twitter account while President, though presumably, much more carefully and much more sparingly. With luck, his handlers will break his short fingers, rather than let him do anything unfiltered on social media, or anything else, ever again. Can you spell “international incident”? The man has been a discipline problem since childhood; that will have to be dealt with. As with the case of the nearly half of voters who supported Trump… each will get what they...

Listen to your Uncle Bernie: there’s no going back.

Have to run out of the house early today, but I had to link to this piece from Politico, Clinton aides blame everyone but themselves. Listen, Trump was shocked he won. Michael Moore (and honestly, you and I) were horrified… but not “shocked.” Hopefully, the fact that this awful candidate (who’s the narcissist, Tim Kaine? who won’t listen?) has now lost to a Black man, a Jewish man (for whom she cheated to “win” by preempting the California primary) and now, she has done the ultimate– an inexperienced and unstable P.T. Barnum clone who seemed to be trying to lose…,...