#Ashley Drudge | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

kawaii-riruka · 3 years

Text

Love me like you should do on your birthday, Director

In her room, Ashley paced around in her room in a panic. As she did, she took a quick glance at the box wrapped in different colors and with a blue bow on top. She stopped in front of it, "Dammit...I know he'll hate it. Seriously..a freakin' scarf? Ugh..." With a sigh and putting warm clothes over her nurse outfit she wore, Ashley placed the present in her bag and headed out.

Walking inside the hospital, Ashley sighed as she greeted the ones who greeted her and went toward the locker room, putting her bag inside. She sighed as her friend, Nakita, moved an arm around her. "Oh my god Ash..oh my god!!"

She giggled, "Haha what's up Nakita?"

From her question, Nakita moved her arm back and blinked. "Uh..you know the Director's birthday's coming up right?"

She smiled, "Haha yes of course I know. Now come on or Taketa will have our heads."

* * *

"Ugh.." Ashley sighed as she walked out of the operation room. "I never knew the brain was so sensitive.." She slowly walked out as her friend drudged out with a sick look. "I think I'm gonna throw up.." Ashley glanced and chuckled, "You want me to take you to the restroom Or-"

Nakita then patted her shoulder at a quick pace as the Director of the hospital, Ryuken Ishida, walked in. Nakita was shaking and freaking out, but Ashley just stood there;;with her blush showing easily. As he approached and noticing Ashley's blush, Ryuken smirked. "Good morning, ladies."

Ashley smiled and acted calm, "Oh morning Director-san." Still with a smile, he patted her head. "What did I say before? Just call me Ryuken." He looked over toward Nakita, "You as well, miss Nakita."

Nakita was a blushing mess as Ashley nodded with a smile. "Ah s-sure Ryuken." With a smile, Ryuken patted her brunette head again. "Heh. I love how you say my name." With a blink, Nakita looked at both of them and noticed Ashley's smile and Ryuken's as well.

"Now you two have some medical business, correct? Then you better go off." Ryuken smiled as he turned around and walked off. Ashley watched him walked off with a smile, until Nakita interrupted her. "You like Ryuken, don't you?"

"W-What?" Ashley snapped her head toward her friend while blushing, "N-No!! I..I just respect him I mean-he's my boss!!" Nakita chuckled as her and Ashley walked to their destination. As they did, Ryuken was in the hallway behind them.

He smirked, "Ashley likes me, huh? Interesting."

At lunch break, Ashley sighed as she took out her brown bag of her lunch out. "You should talk with him." Nakita appeared as she slowly blinked. She gasped, "Ah! Uh..who?"

Nakita rolled her eyes and slapped her hands on Ashley's shoulders. "Ryuken duh!!" Ashley blinked quickly and pushed her hands off of her. "What? No!!" Ashley sighed as she stomped off toward the cafeteria. Nakita frowned as she slowly followed behind. "I'm sorry Ash-huh?"

Frowning, Ashley sat down at a random table and took out her lunch. "He'll never like me..." She took her sandwich out of the zip-log bag and started to eat. Then, all of a sudden Nakita came over, "Ah s-sorry Ash! But..I was called to help to a sudden surgery..." She blinked but smiled, "Hey it's okay."

She smiled back as she left and Ashley was back to eating her lunch, never noticing Ryuken sitting in front of her. When she finished her sandwich and her water, Ashley let out a small burp behind her hand and was about to stand and throw away her empty bag but stopped from seeing Ryuken in front of her. "Ah! R-Ryuken~!"

Eating some dumplings with green tea, Ryuken smiled. "Hey. About time you noticed me." She blushed, "Ah s-sorry." He smiled as he took her trash and easily threw it in the nearby trash can. "Don't apologize, it's fine."

Ashley slowly nodded with a blush, having her head down. "Hey." With a frown, Ryuken leaned over and placed his hand under her face and slowly moved it up. "What's wrong?" From his movement, Ashley blushed. "Ah..I-I think lunch is almost over s-so.."

As Ryuken watched Ashley leave, he hummed. "Something must be troubling her, but I wonder what..."

* * *

Ashley was in the restroom, cleaning her hands when the surgery was done. As she did, Nakita walked in and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Go see Ryuken. Now. Also, give him your gift."

Ashley froze. Slowly she looked toward her friend, "Wha-I thought I told you I ca-"

Then, sudden to Ashley, Nakita slammed her hand on the sink and stared through her. "I know you like Ryuken, Ash. I can tell by the way you look at him and I know he likes you too with how he looks at you. So go."

And now walking down the hallway holding her present, she was close to the Director's office. Now in front of the large doors, Ashley was about to knock but stopped. "He probably won't like my present.." She sighed, "Maybe I'll just leave it at the door and-"

"Ashley?"

From hearing his voice, Ashley froze as she looked over. "R-Ryuken." He walked toward, with his hands in his lab coat pockets. "What are you doing here? Do you need something?" He smiled, noticing the colorful wrapped present she held. "Is that present for me?"

She blushed, "A-Ah um y-yes I uh-"

"Oh great. Come with me and I can open it in my office." Ryuken smiled as he went over and opened one of the large doors to his office. "Come in."

Still blushing, Ashley walked inside and noticed nothing but loads of presents on his desk. "W-Wow..so many.." Ryuken closed the door behind him and sighed, "Yeah..most nurses and others help gave them to me..such a hassle."

Walking toward his desk, Ryuken pushed his sleeves up and swiped off all the presents to the ground while sighing out. "So rough.." He glanced toward her, "Let me see your present." He walked toward a shocked and dumb founded Ashley as he took her present. "Now let's see..." With a smile, he started to tear at the wrapping as Ashley watched nervously.

Her lip shook as Ryuken gasped when he took out the pure white scarf. "Ohh would you look at this-"

"Ryuken, I'm sorry!! I..I didn't know what to get you and this popped in my head and-!"

All of a sudden, Ryuken smashed his lips against hers. "Silly, I love it." He patted her head with a smile and touched his head against hers. Ashley was blushing over a million shades of red still not believing what he said. "R-Really?"

He kissed her again, "Really."

Pulling back, Ryuken gently caressed her face. "You're so beautiful." She blushed very brightly, loving his warm touch. "R-Ryuken I-"

But Ryuken interrupted her as he smashed his lips against hers again, but more forcefully. Ashley was surprised at first, especially when he started to remove her clothes off but she didn't mind. She also tried to take off his clothes, starting with his white lab coat as he shook his shoulders to get it off easier.

Breaking the kiss, Ryuken chuckled as he slowly started to untie his tie and started to unbutton his shirt. She watched him, and blushes brightly.

Unbuttoning his shirt all the way down, Ryuken looked at her and smirked. "You like what you see~?"

She slowly nodded as Ryuken chuckled while slipping his shirt off completely, his chiseled abs clearly shown. "Come over here." He held out his hand in front of her as she gladly took his hand. "O-Okay."

With a smirk, he pulled her against him as he sat down on his desk. Having her head against his bare chest, she blushed bright red. "R-R-Ryuken?!! Ah I-I..!!" Grinning, he pushed her down on top of his desk as he crawled on top of her. He slowly leaned down next to her blushing face and hotly whispered, "I've been wanting to do this to you for so long~"

Slowly, Ashley's brown eyes widened, "Y-You have..? But Ryuken what ab-"

Ryuken, once again, smashed his lips against hers before she could finish. Ashley still blushed brightly, but she only just slowly closed her eyes and sank in the kiss. Ryuken grumbled a soft moan through the kiss as he ran his fingers through her hair and pulled on it.

As he did, Ashley started to moan as she also felt him squeeze her large breasts. "Oh just as soft as I imagined." Slowly, he leaned down and started to nibble on her nipples. Ashley sighed out, longingly, loving to feel Ryuken's long and wet tongue on her.

Hearing her moan, Ryuken smirked and pulled back. "It sounds like you're yearning for more." Seeing her confused face, he moved back a bit and unzipped his pants while his large cock bounced out. Watching him, Ashley watched in awe. "W-Wow..."

"You're amazed huh? Now. Spread your legs, please."

With a nod, she did as he said when he pulled her skirt off and along with her pink panties. "Ah pink panties..and lace at that." Ryuken smirked as he held her panties with his finger and thumb. "Can I keep these?"

Ashley blushed brightly from such a question but she nodded anyway. "Uh s-sure."

"Excellent." Ryuken smirked as he placed her panties in one of his drawers and pulled her legs back, getting ready. "Now, if I ever hurt you tell me and I'll stop. Okay?" She he saw her nod, Ryuken slowly went inside her small hole.

"U-Ughh so tight.." Ryuken breathed and when he put nearly half of him in, he grunted loudly. "Ugh!!!!" And Ashley gasped loud while she moaned. "Ohhh!! R-Ryuken!!!! A-Ahhhh yes!!!!!"

And, now, Ryuken moves his entire being inside her as he wrapped his arms around. "A-Ahhh!!! Ashley!!!!!! I love you!!!!!!!" Moving her arms around him Ashley moaned, "Ohh Ryuken!!! I love you too!!!!!!" - - - After a few hours, it remained quiet. It at late night, the doctors, nurses and other workers were heading home and Ashley and Ryuken were the only ones left. "Seems everyone's gone." Ashley, who was resting on top of Ryuken had sat up and saw some cars drive off from the large window in front of them.

"Oh?" Ryuken only glanced beside him as he was gently rubbing her back. "I see." He lad his head back on his desk, not giving a care. Then with a smirk, Ryuken took hold of Ashley and spun her with him now on top of her. "R-Ryuken?!!" She blushed brightly when all of that was happened as Ryuken still kept smirking.

"Too much?" He smiled, caressing her face as she smiled. "Not really. I just want to tell you something."

"What?"

"Happy birthday, Ryuken."

#hehe ^w^#Happy birthday Ryuken!!

0 notes

soul-music-is-life · 7 years

Text

Thoughts While Watching PLL “The Melody Lingers On”

1) Kenneth: “I don’t like the idea of 12 strangers off the street deciding what happens to my daughter.” Lawyer: “That’s the American way.” Me: “Yeah, Mr. D…have you never read a John Grisham novel?”

2) Veronica: “I can’t tell you and Emily what to do…” Me: “Sounds like you’re doing exactly that, Veronica.”

3) Veronica: “We’re not talking about ethics!” Spencer: “That’s for sure.” Me: “Zing.”

4) Insane stalker/killer after you: *leaves window wide open*. Emily, you know better.

5) “Hello, Ali.” “Hello, Emily.” Me: *fangirls so hardcore* Honestly, how the fuck did I get so invested in Emison?

6) All those jurors look so pissed to be there. Excellent casting. Very realistic.

7) Mr. DiLaurentis is a dickweed. Jason is definitely not his kid. Too soon?

8) Look at Hanna and Ali plotting in prison. My not-so-innocent lil smol bean babies.

9) Hanna trying to convince Caleb to get out of town because she loves him. Haleb is where it’s at.

10) Caleb comparing the girls to a band of Vikings. I love him.

11) I love Aria wanting to bail on talking to Mona’s mom to go shopping.

12) Ohhh, the Jason/Ashley tryst being drudged up in the courtroom. That lawyer is a slimeball.

13) Spencer be going at that Vanderwaal door like she’s a wrecking ball.

14) Spencer’s reaction to A’s note in French is that Emily’s French accent is getting better and I can’t stop grinning.

15) Emily: “Think like Mona.” Spencer and Aria: *look at Emily like she’s crazy* Emily: *clarifies* “Just for a minute…”

16) Ashley: “Do you know how much I love you?” Hanna: “Yeah, I do.” I love these two.

17) Jason and Ali: “We’re quite the pair.” Awww, sibling love.

#Pretty Little Liars #PLL spoilers #Kenneth DiLaurentis #Veronica Hastings #Spencer Hastings #Emily Fields #Alison DiLaurentis #Emison #Hanna Marin #Caleb Rivers #Haleb #Aria Montgomery #Ashley Marin #Jason DiLaurentis

14 notes · View notes

wallpaperpainting · 4 years

Text

Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes

Country-wide lockdowns accept appropriate us to absorb a lot added time at home (an acquaintance that’s appear with ups and downs). The good: we’re pausing to acknowledge the little things in life. The meh: aback activity takes abode aural the aforementioned four walls, things can go Groundhog Day absolute quick. Luckily, there are accessible means to inject some addition into our shelter-in-spaces — and the best abode to alpha is in bed.

Changing up your batt is a single-step adornment drudge that can absolutely about-face the attending and feel of a room. Considering this account is the focal point of your R&R centermost (there’s a aen it’s alleged a bedroom, afterwards all), use it to set a beginning artful accent by advance to an eyecatching new bedding or abacus a beefy bandy on top for a of texture. Even the use of a bold-hued blush arrangement — appropriate now we’re admiring minty greens and bawdy browns — can breathe activity aback into your dried atmosphere (and, by the transitive property, you).

Ahead, a alternative of arresting bedding that will advice you feel beneath like Bill Murray and added like a carpe diem quaran-queen.

At Refinery29, we’re actuality to advice you cross this cutting apple of stuff. All of our bazaar picks are apart called and curated by the beat team. If you buy article we articulation to on our site, Refinery29 may acquire commission.

Marimekko Onni Comforter & Sham Set, $, accessible at Nordstrom

Truly Soft Kurt Windowpane Bedding Set, $, accessible at Bed Bath & Beyond

Urban Outfitters Georgina Stems Bedding Set, $, accessible at Urban Outfitters

Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes – bedroom colour schemes | Encouraged to help the blog, within this time period I’ll provide you with regarding keyword. And now, this can be the primary impression:

Bedroom Color Schemes and Trends 2018 | Decor Or Design – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Why not consider photograph earlier mentioned? is actually in which wonderful???. if you think maybe consequently, I’l t teach you some impression once more underneath:

So, if you wish to secure all these great pics regarding (Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes), click on save link to save the pics in your pc. They’re all set for download, if you’d prefer and wish to grab it, just click save badge in the article, and it’ll be instantly downloaded to your computer.} Lastly if you wish to obtain unique and latest picture related to (Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes), please follow us on google plus or book mark the site, we try our best to present you regular up grade with fresh and new graphics. Hope you like staying here. For some upgrades and recent news about (Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes) images, please kindly follow us on tweets, path, Instagram and google plus, or you mark this page on bookmark area, We try to offer you up grade regularly with all new and fresh pics, love your exploring, and find the best for you.

Thanks for visiting our website, contentabove (Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes) published . Nowadays we’re excited to announce we have discovered a veryinteresting contentto be discussed, namely (Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes) Some people looking for info about(Ten Exciting Parts Of Attending Bedroom Colour Schemes | Bedroom Colour Schemes) and of course one of them is you, is not it?

Modern Furniture: 2013 Bedroom Color Schemes From BHG – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Choosing a colour palette for your bedroom shutters – California .. | bedroom colour schemes

Bedroom Colour Schemes: The Right Palette For Your Lifestyle – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

19 Bedroom Colour Schemes That Will Make You Happy – The Sleep .. | bedroom colour schemes

Bedroom Colour Combinations Photos Best Wall Color Try For Home .. | bedroom colour schemes

The York Priory Guesthouse Clic Twin – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Top Prime Best Bedroom Colors Modern Colour Schemes For Living .. | bedroom colour schemes

HOME DZINE Bedrooms | How to choose a bedroom colour scheme – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

20 Best Color Ideas for Bedrooms 2018 – Interior .. | bedroom colour schemes

12 Best Bedroom Color Scheme Ideas and Designs for 2020 – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Bedroom Color Schemes 2018 | Best Color Paint For Bedroom .. | bedroom colour schemes

19 Fantastic Bedroom Color Schemes – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Colour schemes: create a calm and relaxing bedroom – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Fizzy-Peaches-Bedroom-Colour-Scheme-Ideas – Sophie Robinson – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

The York Priory Guesthouse Clic Twin – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Laura Ashley Suite – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Choosing Our Bedroom Colour Scheme | Fifi McGee | Interior Blogger, UK – bedroom colour schemes | bedroom colour schemes

Decorating Your Home With Neutral Color Schemes .. | bedroom colour schemes

from Wallpaper Painting https://www.bleumultimedia.com/ten-exciting-parts-of-attending-bedroom-colour-schemes-bedroom-colour-schemes/

#Painting Ideas #bedroom colour schemes blue #bedroom colour schemes green #bedroom colour schemes id

0 notes

dailynewsfeedtoday · 5 years

Link

ASHLEY MADISON cyber-breach: 5 years later, users targeted with 'sextortion' scams... (First column, 16th story, link)

via Drudge Report Feed

#IFTTT #Drudge Report Feed

0 notes

mrmichaelchadler · 6 years

Text

Short Films in Focus: The 2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films

Once again, Pixar, kids in peril and refugees populate the Oscar-nominated Short Film landscape. And once again, Shorts TV will be bringing you the opportunity to view all fifteen films before the big show on February 24 (either streaming or in theaters).

This year’s batch feels mighty familiar with many of the usual kinds of selections, but there are some shorts within each category that nicely compliment one another. The documentary “Black Sheep” and the narrative “Skin” would work well together on the same thematic bill, as would the animated “Late Afternoon” and the live-action “Marguerite.” Nobody on the programming end plans that, of course. But many of the films here are worth being plucked from obscurity and discovered by a curious audience.

"Detainment" / ShortsTV

Live-Action Shorts

“Detainment” - On one hand, under normal circumstances, I’d be surprised if this didn’t win the prize (simple, English-speaking films tend to), with its harrowing true story and irresistible thriller elements. On the other hand, why drudge up such an unpleasant event if there is nothing to say about it other than pointing out the age of the two boys who committed an unthinkable crime? "Detainment" has courted quite a bit of controversy from the real-life parents who were never consulted for the film, along with many other Britons who feel the film has no business existing in the first place. Nevertheless, “Detainment” is hard to shrug off, especially given the two strong performances by the young leads, Ely Solan and Leon Hughes, as two boys being questioned in the disappearance of a toddler.

“Fauve” - Every year, it seems this category has to have at least one film with kids in peril. This year, we have four. The film follows two boys playing an innocent game in a salt mine until tragedy strikes. Unlike the watchable, but ham-fisted “Detainment,” “Fauve” has a subtler, more poetic approach to how tragedies occur between minors who have yet to grasp what nature can do and how unforgiving it can be. The performances here are equally strong and Jeremy Comte’s assured direction gives the viewer a true unsettling feeling at the end that might linger for some time.

“Marguerite” - Another French-Canadian entry (like “Fauve”), this film tells a gentle tale of an aging woman’s relationship with her nurse and how it brings back pangs of regret. While it may not be a big attention-grabber from the start, Marianne Farley’s “Marguerite” unfolds beautifully while giving the viewer a true feeling of how time slowly passes for this woman and just how long she’ll have to live with the choices she made in life (or the choices made for her). The ending is undeniably moving, achieving an arc that works perfectly for the short film format.

"Madre" / ShortsTV

“Madre” - This is technically another kids in peril film, but we never see the kid and the peril is left to our imaginations. A mother (Marta Mieto) receives a phone call from her six-year-old son who has been spending the weekend with his father in France--his father has disappeared and the boy is left with nothing but a cell phone with low battery life. This one-take wonder will keep viewers riveted and the believable interplay between Mieto and her mother (Blanca Apilánez), who is with her the whole time, adds to the tension. "Madre" is a mostly terrific little thriller that ends on a silly note with its unnecessarily flashy and distracting closing credits.

“Skin” - The kids in peril in Guy Nattiv’s film are the sons whose parents have different ways of teaching their kids a lesson, after a scuffle between a gun-toting neo-Nazi (Jonathan Tucker) and an innocent black man (Ashley Thomas) brings about a revenge that most can only dream of. Nattiv does a magnificent job of playing up the fact that the future of gun-toting Nazis will carry on into the unforeseeable future as long as small-minded lessons keep getting passed down to their kids. Will the child take away the right lesson from this tragedy? Hope comes in the form of his more mild-tempered mother (Danielle Macdonald from “Patti Cake$”), but even then we can’t be sure. This is my favorite of the five nominees, with “Marguerite” being a close second.

"Animal Behaviour" / ShortsTV

Animated Shorts

“Animal Behaviour” - Alison Snowden and David Fine’s short about an animal-based group therapy session has cute moments, but is hardly worth being put in the Top 5 Best Animated Short Films of the Year list, as this category would indicate. Some films just get lucky, I guess. It’s harmless and the animation gets the job done, which is not much to say. The movie loses its potential for a young audience once the animals start talking about their sex lives, which could cost it a win, since the award always goes to the most kid-friendly film.

“Bao” - Pixar’s entry [pictured at the top top], which played before "Incredibles 2," has grown on me with repeat viewings. Domee Shi’s film no doubt left many viewers thinking, “Well, that was nice, but ... huh?” “Bao” is better left unexplained. Enjoy it for what it is, a journey through the ups and downs of parenthood, no matter what the child turns out to be, culminating in an emotional climax that bears the Pixar trademark, one that is rarely duplicated.

“Late Afternoon” - Louise Bagnall’s lovely journey through a woman’s past snuck up on me. The seemingly unremarkable animation gives way to big, colorful, dreamlike sequences through childhood and adulthood memories experienced by Emily, now elderly and about to make another change in her life. This would have been nice to see on a big screen instead of the screener I had.

"One Small Step" / ShortsTV

“One Small Step” - Now here’s a film that does belong on the list of nominees, and is my personal favorite. There is a recurring theme this year of animated shorts that sum up a life’s worth of experiences in 10 minutes or less, but this one follows a woman who dreams of being an astronaut and her father who is always there for her. Maybe it takes a few easy routes to get there, but the emotional climax landed in a big way for me. I loved it.

“Weekends” - With the exception of “Animal Behaviour,” this year’s animated crop is rich with visual storytelling, and Trevor Jimenez’s film is a prime example of the art form’s true capabilities. A boy goes back and forth from his mother’s simple, penny-pinching household to his father’s bachelor pad where he has all the latest video games and gadgets. The fun eventually gives way to emptiness, but not with Jimenez’s film, which gets richer as it progresses. Along with having a moving and confounding conclusion, the film makes the best use of Dire Straits' hit song, “Money For Nothing.”

"Lifeboat" / ShortsTV

Documentary Shorts

“Lifeboat” - Much like last year’s short-doc winner “The White Helmets,” Sky Fitzgerald’s beautifully constructed documentary focuses on a non-profit organization that aids in providing a rescue for refugees. Here, the rescue takes place at sea as the German-based group Sea-Watch provides aid to Libyan citizens fleeing war, famine and torture in hopes of a better life. The central figure in the rescue, a good-hearted Englishman named Jon Castle, laments that not all will turn out well for these people once they reach the shore, but rescuing them is necessary for all humanity, for one day, they could be us and that all citizens “are our fellows.” Fitzgerald’s film is not so much about the urgency of the rescue, so much as it is a reminder of the different faces and expressions of the people being rescued and how each of these faces tell a different story. We have seen images of hundreds of refugees crammed onto a raft before. “Lifeboat” makes a point of humanizing each and every one of them. (Click here to watch "Lifeboat")

“Black Sheep” - Some may scoff at just how much of this film is just reenactment, but they would be foolish to let such technicalities spoil the richness of the story being told here. Subject Cornelius Walker tells the viewer a tale of how he survived moving to an English town where racism ran rampant and how he became the victim of it, how he survived it and how he came to terms with the violent streak that ran in him as much as the people he feared. Director Ed Perkins shoots the reenactments with a shaky-cam aesthetic that feels like puzzle pieces of a memory that has a hard time coming together, which fits with a moment in which Perkins asks Walker if he has regrets, a question that causes Walker to go speechless for the first time during the story. This is a complex and beautiful film about how to see an enemy in a different light by having the survival instinct to step into their shoes and come to terms with your own demons. (Click here to watch "Black Sheep")

"A Night at the Garden" / ShortsTV

“A Night At the Garden” - Filmmaker Marshall Curry seems to have broken precedent by making an Oscar-nominated doc-short that only runs just under eight minutes. It consists of found footage of a pro-white America rally that took place at Madison Square Garden in 1939. There, a speaker got up and drew rounds of applause as he deemed to media and the Jewish people as the enemy. A protester was violently dealt with and ushered out of the place, to the delight of all who attended. Sound familiar? That is basically the conceit of this piece, though Curry is smart not to draw direct parallels by spelling anything out. Its release in 2018 says enough. (Click here to watch "A Night at the Garden")

“End Game” - It’s hard not to be deeply affected by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s documentary about cancer patients and their families facing hard choices about how and where to spend a loved-one’s final days. The medical practitioners’ sole focus is to help the patients deal with the human element of dying, how to cope with the inevitable and make peace with it. “Hospice” is a dirty word for many and the film depicts one family determined to have their matriarch die in their home and not in a hospital. The lifeforce (so to speak) is a woman who has ovarian cancer, but has a deeply optimistic outlook on the hand she has been dealt. Epstein and Friedman’s film proves that a great film about death can also be a great film about life and “End Game” is that film. (Available on Netflix)

“Period. End of Sentence.” - This documentary examines the lack of education men and women receive (especially women) in a small town in India where the mention of menstruation draws blank stares from many citizens who have no concept of what it means. One woman wants to become a police officer “to avoid marriage,” so she teams up with a machinist who manufactures a superior tampon and then enlists the help of many women in her village to go door-to-door to try and sell them. Rayka Zehtabchi’s film is energetic, sometimes funny and very necessary in its cause to bring more education and awareness to parts of the world that still look at women’s biology with a medieval eye. This will be a likely favorite with voters, and for good reason. (Available on Netflix)

from All Content http://bit.ly/2UMty50

0 notes

blogwonderwebsites · 6 years

Text

Business Reliable Sources: Kavanaugh gives unprecedented interview to Fox’s Martha MacCallum

Business Reliable Sources: Kavanaugh gives unprecedented interview to Fox’s Martha MacCallum Business Reliable Sources: Kavanaugh gives unprecedented interview to Fox’s Martha MacCallum http://www.nature-business.com/business-reliable-sources-kavanaugh-gives-unprecedented-interview-to-foxs-martha-maccallum/

Business

Business A version of this article first appeared in the Reliable Sources newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.

Business Kavanaugh speaks

If you thought this was unprecedented, you were right: “It is unheard of for a Supreme Court nominee to give interviews during the confirmation process.”

That’s according to WaPo’s recap of Brett and Ashley Kavanaugh’s emotional interview with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum.

From the standpoint of the Trump White House, going with MacCallum made a ton of sense: MacCallum is a well-credentialed female anchor who hails from the news side of Fox, not the opinion side.

I’d love to know Bill Shine’s level of involvement in the interview. It aired in full at 7 p.m. ET, but I noticed that Fox shared several clips from the interview in time for the network evening newscasts…

Business Behind the scenes…

Via CNN’s Kevin Liptak: “One WH official says Trump has been pushing to take a more offensive approach in defending the nomination and that this was how aides interpreted his command. It’s not clear that he specifically instructed Kavanaugh to sit down with Fox (though it’s possible) but it was the result of his desire to be assertive in combatting the claims rather than just playing defense…”

Business “Not a good look for the Supreme Court…”

Law prof/CNN contributor Steve Vladeck texts me: “The interview is a microcosm of everything that’s been wrong with this confirmation process. We shouldn’t prevent nominees from speaking publicly, but to do so under these circumstances, in that context, and in a manner calculated to exacerbate the partisan divide over the nomination, is not a good look for the Supreme Court in the long term, even if it helps the political calculus for the nominee in the short term. It reinforces the view that nothing in this process matters at all except getting 50 votes by any means necessary…”

>> Another view, via CNN contrib Matt Lewis on Twitter: “People are more likely to rally to your defense if they see you’re fighting, instead of being passive.” So the TV interview was wise for Kavanaugh. “He hasn’t controlled the narrative for a week, now…”

Business Latest developments

— WaPo’s Erik Wemple tweeted: “I would have liked to see Martha MacCallum press Kavanaugh on his relationship with Mark Judge. In all, though, I thought she did a good job — and certainly didn’t serve up only softballs, as many predicted.”

— Brian Fallon, one of the left’s leading anti-Kavanaugh organizers, tweeted that “MacCallum is pressing Kavanaugh more than I would have guessed…”

— Perhaps the most memorable Q&A was about Kavanaugh’s virginity… He said he didn’t have “anything close to sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter…” Of course, intercourse isn’t at issue here…

— The TIME’S UP initiative just came out and said “the time has come” for Kavanaugh to withdraw…

— Earlier in the day, Mitch McConnell said “Judge Kavanaugh will be voted on here on the Senate floor…”

— A WaPo reporter found Mark Judge “holed up in the house of a longtime friend in Bethany Beach, nearly three hours” from DC…

— Trump’s best/worst typo ever? At 10:37 p.m. ET, he tweeted that the Dems are pushing “False Acquisitions.” He meant “false accusations.” He deleted and reposted the tweet…

Business Debating the New Yorker’s decision

Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer spent much of Monday explaining and defending their reporting about Deborah Ramirez. Charles C.W. Cooke, channeling many conservatives’ reactions to the story, said it “looks reckless beyond all reason.” Drudge’s Monday evening headline asked, “RONAN MISFIRES?”

Beyond the partisan battling, many journalists raised questions about the lack of corroboration of Ramirez’s account, and the fact that it took time for Ramirez to assess her own memories. Some suggested that their news outlets would not have published the story. Mayer rejected that — and pointed out that she “found a classmate who heard the identical story at the time.” Farrow said on “New Day” that “this is a fairly high level of evidence for this kind of a case.” And David Remnick noted that the pair “wrote with fairness and transparency about what doubts there might be.”

Other arguments in the mag’s favor: Ramirez agreed to go on the record. And Democratic senators were aware of the allegation and were already looking into it. So the debate continues…

>> The NYT said that it “had conducted numerous interviews but was unable to corroborate” Ramirez’s story. Some folks tried to turn this into the NYT v. TNY. But the paper dismissed that, noting that it “did not rebut her account and, unlike The New Yorker, was not able to obtain an interview with Ms. Ramirez…”

>> BTW: Given Farrow’s very public dispute with NBC News, Monday’s TV rollout made sense: Mayer was on NBC and MSNBC’s morning shows while Farrow was on ABC and CNN. Mayer also did CBS…

>> Correction: Yesterday I said that this was Farrow and Mayer’s second co-production. It was actually their third story together…

Business “The weaponization of haste”

Megan Thomas emails: This is a really good one from The Atlantic’s Megan Garber on “#WhyIDidn’tReport and the weaponization of haste.” This line stands out: “The game clock, the time bombs, the midterms, the calendar, the fleeting moment, the lifetime appointment, the mechanical tickings of political partisanship…”

Business All eyes on Rod Rosenstein

I was on a plane half the day, blissfully free of WiFi, so when I landed and loaded Twitter, I was super confused. There were tweets about Rod Rosenstein resigning, not resigning, thinking of leaving his job, staying in his job, etc. The tweets were out of order, of course, because of Twitter’s terrible algorithmic timeline. News apps were a much better way of finding out what really happened. By the end of the day, the NYT and CNN had excellent tick-tocks…

Business Thursday, Thursday, Thursday

Trump is set to meet with Rosenstein on the very same day that Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are set to testify.

>> Jim Acosta on “AC360” Monday night: “It’s almost going to be like watching tennis, looking up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

>> NYT’s James Poniewozik had the tweet of the day: “Thursday would be a good day for CNN to launch CNN8, ‘The Ocho.’”

Business “Anyone’s guess”

Maggie Haberman on “AC360:” “What will happen on Thursday is anyone’s guess. People I’ve spoken to around the president are not certain what will happen. They’re not certain whether Rosenstein will really walk in and say ‘I’m resigning…”’

Business FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE

— Ed O’Keefe called this a “metaphoric moment at the White House today.” While he was live on CBSN, “discussing a false alarm shakeup at the Justice Department, they tested the alert system on the White House grounds. It was only a test. All of it…” (Twitter)

— “Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, have resigned and plan to leave the company in coming weeks,” Mike Isaac scoops… (NYT)

— A must-read: Robert Silverman on the “culture of online hate” promoted byBarstool Sports… (Beast)

Business SiriusXM is Pandora’s savior

They’re billing the combo as “the world’s largest audio entertainment company.” SiriusXM is paying $3.5 billion in an all-stock deal for Pandora that had been foreshadowed for a while. As Chris Isidore reports here, “Pandora’s ability to stay an independent company was very much in doubt. SiriusXM had already invested $480 million to buy 19% of Pandora’s stock last year, and it was widely reported to be looking at a full purchase…”

— Peter Kafka tweeted: “Giant satellite audio company buying giant internet audio company could be an antitrust problem, but this one seems to pass what economists call the Trump/Murdoch test…”

Business Telegdy and Cheeks promoted at NBC

“Two veteran NBC executives — George Cheeks and Paul Telegdy — were named co-chairmen of NBC Entertainment on Monday, replacing Bob Greenblatt at a time of upheaval in network television,” the LAT’s Meg James writes.

It was reported on Friday that Greenblatt was ready to step down, and was going to talk with Steve Burke about it over the weekend. “But if his departure is not a surprise, the suddenness is. His last day is Monday, the same day the 2018-19 television season begins,” the NYT’s John Koblin writes.

Greenblatt said something similar in interviews with both Timeses: These jobs are challenging and tiring, and he’s ready to try something new…

>> Other factors noted by Koblin: “Greenblatt wanted to see if Comcast’s last-minute bid for 21st Century Fox’s properties would work and could possibly expand NBC’s portfolio. (It did not.) And two of Mr. Greenblatt’s close friends — the producer Craig Zadan and the Broadway star Marin Mazzie — have died in the last five weeks…”

Business Lowry’s take

Brian Lowry emails: Telegdy’s promotion at NBC Entertainment reflects a slightly wider lens in terms of the path to top entertainment jobs at the broadcast networks. Telegdy comes out of the reality/alternative area, just as CBS Entertainment prez Kelly Kahl rose through the ranks in scheduling. Both are paired with a veteran development executive, in Telegdy’s case, Cheeks…

Business NBC gets a huge Tiger bump

Frank Pallotta emails: Tiger Woods’ first victory in five years came with a huge ratings boost for NBC. The network’s coverage of the Tour Championship on Sunday earned a 5.2 overnight rating, a 206% spike over last year’s tournament. 206%! The telecast peaked at a 7.1 rating as Woods finished his round, ending his long victory drought. As a golf fan, I’m happy to see Tiger back but likely not as happy as NBC execs…

>> USA Today’s Dan Wolken: “Tiger Woods’ first win in five years feels like a new beginning, not the end…”

Business FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO

— Ryan Broderick’s latest: “Reddit’s largest pro-Trump subreddit appears to have been targeted by Russian propaganda for years…” (BF)

— “Sky shareholders are having a great day. Comcast investors? Not so much.” Here’s Hadas Gold’s full story… (CNN)

— “James Lipton is leaving the Actors Studio.” The program’s new home on cable, Ovation, says “a rotating roster of hosts still to be determined will replace Lipton,” effective next fall… (EW)

Business ABC touting its nightly news win

Nightly news #’s for the full 2017-18 broadcast TV season will officially come out on Tuesday… ABC’s “World News Tonight with David Muir” will be celebrating its second yearly win in the total viewer category… “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt” remains #1 in the 25-54 demo (22 seasons in a row!), but ABC has been making gains in the demo too…

Read more of Monday’s Reliable Sources newsletter… And subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox…

The big picture: Some of the 6:30 viewership gains of the past few years have dissipated. CBS has lost both total viewership and demo audience in the past year. NBC is basically flat in total viewership and down a bit in the demo. ABC is up year-over-year in both measurements…

CNNMoney (New York) First published September 25, 2018: 12:12 AM ET

Read More | Brian Stelter,

Business Reliable Sources: Kavanaugh gives unprecedented interview to Fox’s Martha MacCallum, in 2018-09-25 07:44:33

#Nature of Business in the Current Market

0 notes

kidsviral-blog · 6 years

Text

Givers: Helpful conservatives spread the word about Ashley Judd’s record

New Post has been published on https://kidsviral.info/givers-helpful-conservatives-spread-the-word-about-ashley-judds-record/

Givers: Helpful conservatives spread the word about Ashley Judd’s record

http://twitter.com/#!/RBPundit/status/310072976798277632

Even better will be the Kentucky Democrats destroying Ashley Judd while she calls them sexist for it. It’s going to be glorious.

— RB (@RBPundit) March 8, 2013

This is going to be fun. Thanks, Ashley Judd!

— AG (@AG_Conservative) March 8, 2013

Is it official? Is Ashley Judd tossing her hat in the ring as a candidate for the U.S. Senate?

IT’S ON:Ashley Judd to Run for McConnell’s KY Senate Seat… drudge.tw/YHCRku

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) March 8, 2013

It’s on(ish). An unnamed insider tells FOX411’s Pop Tarts, “At least in Ashley’s mind, it is happening.”

Heh.

A lot of things are going on in Ashley’s mind, and ever generous with their time, conservatives are making sure the public learns just what a Judd campaign would be all about.

Ashley Judd, who is left of most liberals, thinks she’ll be elected in the state that elected Conservative Firebrand Rand Paul?! LOL

— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) March 8, 2013

Will Judd’s Senate run shape up to be the rom-com imagined by @ExJon? Will it look something like this?

Please Please PleasePlease Please PleasePlease Please PleasePleasePlease Please Please let Lena Dunham campaign w/Ashley Judd!!

— LilMissErinGoBragh (@LilMissRightie) March 8, 2013

Calling it now —>The @ashleyjudd method of running a campaign: Step 1. Cry sexism when opponent criticizes her. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Win!

— LilMissErinGoBragh (@LilMissRightie) March 8, 2013

She’s already scored an endorsement:

BREAKING: The Right Sphere Endorses Ashley Judd for Senate: bit.ly/WPLasf #tcot #p2 #twisters #teaparty #kysen

— Tommy (@FirstTeamTommy) March 8, 2013

With a campaign possibly-maybe-sorta likely, the givers of the conservative Twittersphere are ready to assist with plenty of choice quotes and strategic advice.

Protip: ask Ashley Judd why Mitt Romney won Kentucky by 23 points. Bet she insults the state’s voters.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) March 8, 2013

Here are your @ashleyjudd senate campaign links. cosmoscon.com/2013/03/06/ash… #UniteBlue#tcot

— cosmoscon (@gdthomp01) March 8, 2013

Wait, Ashley Judd compared coal mining to rape? And we’re seeing it now. My God her oppo book must be deep. bit.ly/13B0foF

— Matt Cover (@MattCover) March 8, 2013

Ashley Judd said that “Christianity legitimizes male power over women.” Good luck in the Primaries, @ashleyjudd

— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) March 8, 2013

Ashley Juddsaid that Dads giving away daughters at weddings is “a common vestige of male dominion over a woman’s reproductive status.”

— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) March 8, 2013

Ashley Judd says that having kids is “Human Breeding” shouldn’t be done dailycaller.com/2013/02/26/ash… @ashleyjudd LOL

— Matt Dawson (@SaintRPh) March 8, 2013

Oh, the 30-second attack ad fun GOP will have with this one. @dloesch “It’s unconscionable to breed” – Democrat senate candidate Ashley Judd

— Josh Painter (@Josh_Painter) March 8, 2013

“I figured it was selfish for us to pour our resources into making our ‘own’ babies” – Democrat senate candidate Ashley Judd

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 8, 2013

Kentucky is 3rd state for coal production in US & their Dem senate candidate called miners rapists. VIdeo: buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynsk…

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 8, 2013

“Yes, you’re a rapist because you’re a miner, but can I have your vote?” to be Democrat senate candidate Ashley Judd pamphlet.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 8, 2013

Love it. @charliespiering puts together a video of all the stupid things Ashely Judd said during her GWU event: bit.ly/ZxmLt1

— Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) March 8, 2013

Protip to GOP operatives nationwide: Make Ashley Judd the Democrats’ Todd Akin.

— RB (@RBPundit) March 8, 2013

Here’s how you “Akin” Ashley Judd and Dems: “Dear (insert Dem candidate), do you agree that mountaintop mining is just like rape?” #tcot

— RB (@RBPundit) March 8, 2013

How to “Akin” Ashley Judd: “Dear (insert Dem here), are you against humans ‘breeding’ like Ashley Judd is?”

— RB (@RBPundit) March 8, 2013

How to “Akin” Ashley Judd: “Dear (insert Dem candidate), do you think reproductive health means ‘abortion’ like Ashley Judd does?”

— RB (@RBPundit) March 8, 2013

How to “Akin” Ashley Judd: “Dear (insert Dem candidate), do you also think it is unconscionable to ‘breed’ like Ashley Judd does?”

— RB (@RBPundit) March 8, 2013

In short, make every Dem candidate in 2014 have to explain how they’re different from Ashley Judd. Make it happen.

— RB (@RBPundit) March 8, 2013

A parting prediction:

Coal miners have ways of shutting Ashley Judd’s whole Kentucky Senate campaign down.

— S.M (@redsteeze) March 8, 2013

Zing!

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/03/08/givers-helpful-conservatives-spread-the-word-about-ashley-judds-record/

0 notes

milaleah · 7 years

Text

Untold Stories Of Election Day 2016

BELOW IS A RECAP OF ELECTION DAY/NIGHT FROM ESQUIRE MAGAZINE featuring ROGER STONE.

**** Roger Stone, longtime Trump ally: She was just dead in the water. ****

On November 8, 2016, America’s chief storytellers—those within the bubbles of media and politics—lost the narrative they had controlled for decades. In a space of 24 hours, the concept of “conventional wisdom” seemed to vanish for good. How did this happen? What follows are over 40 brand new interviews and behind-the-scenes stories from deep inside The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, and more—plus first-hand accounts from the campaigns, themselves. We’ve spent a year hearing the spin. Now it’s time for the truth.

THE RUN-UP

Steve Bannon, Trump campaign CEO: When I first came on the campaign, I said, “You have a hundred-percent chance of winning.” We just got to stick to that plan. Even with Billy Bush, I never wavered for a second.

Jim Margolis, Clinton campaign senior adviser: I am normally a glass-half-empty guy when it comes to expectations on election days. This was the first big election where I was absolutely certain we were going to win.

Dave Weigel, The Washington Post: I called Jeff Flake the Sunday before the election. I said, “I have one round of questions if Hillary wins, and one if Trump wins.” And he just started laughing, saying, “Why would you bother asking the second one?”

Rebecca Traister, New York magazine: We got up around 7 a.m., and there was an electric current running through my body.

Ana Marie Cox, Crooked Media, formerly of MTV: I was staying at my in-laws’ place in New York. They’re Trump supporters. They weren’t in town, but my father-in-law made a joking bet with me. He said, “The next time we see each other, there will be a President Trump.” I remember laughing at him.

Neal Brennan, comedian/writer: I was at SNL. Chappelle was like, “Dude, I feel like Trump’s gonna win.” I was like, “Dude, I’ll bet you a hundred thousand dollars he won’t win.” He did not take the bet, thankfully.

Sen. Tim Kaine, Democratic vice presidential candidate: I thought we would win, but I was more wary than many for the simple reason that the U.S. had never elected a woman president and still has a poor track record of electing women to federal office.

Ana Navarro, CNN commentator and Republican strategist: I schlepped my absentee ballot around with me for a month. It was getting pretty beat up inside my bag. I would open it up and look at it every now and then and say, “I’m not ready. I can’t bring myself to vote for Hillary Clinton. Please, God, let something happen that I don’t have to do this.”

Brian Fallon, Clinton campaign national press secretary: There had been a battleground tracking poll our team had done over the weekend that had us up 4 [points]. We were up in more than enough states to win, taking us over 270. The public polls all showed a similar outlook.

Zara Rahim, Clinton campaign national spokeswoman: We were waiting for the coronation. I was planning my Instagram caption.

Van Jones, CNN political commentator: The Democrats had this attitude, which I think is very unhealthy and unproductive, that any acknowledgement that Trump had a chance was somehow helping Trump, and that we all had to be on this one accord that it was impossible for him to win. I thought that was stupid. I’ve never seen that strategy work.

Matt Oczkowski, formerly of Cambridge Analytica (Trump campaign data firm): When you see outlets like the Huffington Post giving Trump a 1 percent probability of victory, which is not even physically possible, it’s just like, “Wow, people are going to miss this massively.”

Roger Stone, longtime Trump ally: She was just dead in the water.

Joel Benenson, Clinton campaign chief strategist: I go into the 10 o’clock call and we’re getting reports from the analytics people and the field people. And they finish, and whoever’s leading the call asks if there’s anything else. I said, “Well, yeah, I got a call 20 minutes ago from my daughter in Durham, North Carolina. People are standing on line and aren’t moving, and are now being told they need to vote with paper ballots.” To me, that was the first sign that something was amiss in our boiler room process. That’s essential information. We needed those reports so the legal team would activate. I was stunned, and actually quite nervous. I thought, “Do we even have what we need on the ground to manage election day?”

“I MEAN, IT LOOKED LIKE A LANDSLIDE”

5 p.m.

Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight: When I was coming in on the train at 5 p.m., according to our model, there was one-in-three chance of a Clinton landslide, a one-in-three chance of a close Clinton win, and a one-in-three chance of a Trump win. I was mentally preparing myself for each of those outcomes.

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker: I thought about, and actually wrote, an essay about “the first woman president,” and the historical background of it all. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the suffragettes, the relationship with Frederick Douglass…a historical essay, clearly written in a mood of “at long last” and, yes, celebration. The idea was to press “post” on that piece, along with many other pieces by my colleagues at The New Yorker, the instant Clinton’s victory was declared on TV.

Bret Baier, Fox News chief political anchor: We got the exit polls at 5 p.m. in a big office on the executive floor. Rupert Murdoch and all the staff were there. It looked like we were going to call the race for Hillary Clinton at 10:30 or 11 p.m.

Steve Bannon: The exit polls were horrific. It was brutal. I think we were close in Iowa and Ohio and everything else was just brutal. Losing everywhere. Florida, Pennsylvania. I mean, it looked like a landslide.

Ashley Parker, The Washington Post, formerly of The New York Times: The RNC thought they were going to lose. The Trump campaign supporters thought they were going to lose. They were rushing to get their side out of the blame game. I spent part of my day lining up interviews for later that night or the next morning to get their version of events.

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, Trump’s religious adviser: I called Sean Hannity and said, “I really think he’s going to win tonight.” Sean said, “Well, I’m glad you do, because the exit polls don’t look good.” I found out later that Trump was very pessimistic, too.

Steve Bannon: Jared [Kushner] and I were out on this balcony in Trump Tower. We looked at it on Jared’s iPhone. And the numbers were so bad that we regrouped inside. We look at each other and we go, “This can’t be right. It just can’t.” And Jared goes, “I got an idea, let’s call Drudge.” And Drudge says, “The corporate media—they’ve always been wrong the entire time—these numbers are wrong.”

Brian Fallon: I was hearing from my high school principal, people I hadn’t spoken to since college. Everybody is conveying thanks for taking on Trump. It was going to be a cathartic experience of him getting his comeuppance after months of representing something that was so egregious in the eyes of so many people.

Rebecca Traister: They were serving, like, $12 pulled pork sandwiches [at the Javits Center]. It was nuts, people were bouncing off the walls. Everyone genuinely believed she was going to win. I don’t know if it made me feel more confident or not.

Evan McMullin, Independent candidate: Our election night event was in Salt Lake City. I was drinking Diet Coke and eating hummus and olives.

Ana Marie Cox: At the MTV watch party, we had dancers and graffiti artists. There were people giving temporary tattoos. I remember my colleague Jamil Smith and I both bringing up at a meeting, “Hey guys, what if something goes wrong? What if this doesn’t go how we think it’s going to go?” And the answer from some MTV exec was, “We’ll pivot.”

Steve Bannon: Drudge snapped us out of it, saying, “You guys are a couple of jamokes. Wait until the second exit polls come out, or later.” We called the candidate and told him what the numbers were and what Drudge had said. And then we said, “Hey, ya know, we left it all on the field. Did everything we can do. Let’s just see how it turns out.”

Sen. Tim Kaine: Based on the returns from one bellwether Virginia county I know well, I realized that we would win Virginia by a significantly larger margin than President Obama four years earlier. This was a huge feeling given all the work that Anne and I have done for 30-plus years to help make Virginia more progressive. It struck me for the first time, “I will probably be vice president.” That feeling lasted about 90 minutes.

Ashley Parker: I walked over to the Hilton for election night. At some point they rolled in a cake that was like…a life-sized, very impressive rendering of Trump’s head.

Melissa Alt, cake artist: I got an order for a Hillary Clinton cake. So, I was like, “Okay, I’m going to make Donald Trump as well.” Just because that would generate a lot of interest. My manager, who has a friend who works for Donald Trump Jr., said, “Let’s contact them and see if they’re interested in having cake.” And obviously they said yes.

The Kid Mero, Desus & Mero: I’m surprised a stripper didn’t jump out of the cake.

Melissa Alt: I start getting phone calls of people saying, “This is TMZ, or Boston Globe, or People magazine. Do you know that your cake is trending all over the whole internet?”

Ashley Parker: I don’t know if I was ever allowed to eat it. It seemed fairly decorative.

Melissa Alt: Obviously, I wanted everyone to see it first and then eat it. That cake could probably feed about a hundred.

Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate: I was taken aback by the fact that, at least at the start of the evening, all the networks were showing three names on the screen for the first time, meaning mine and Clinton and Trump. But no, I don’t remember the cake.

“I THINK I’M GONNA THROW UP”

8 p.m. – 1 a.m.

Maggie Haberman, The New York Times: When I went downstairs at 8:15, Hillary was up in Florida. When I came back upstairs, it had flipped. I got a sense the second I set foot in the newsroom that something was going on.

Van Jones: You got smoke coming out of every gear trying to figure out what the heck is happening out there. And you’ve got John King who had said, over and over, that there is no pathway for a Trump victory. Suddenly, that whole thing starts to come apart.

Roger Stone: I was committed to be an on-air anchor for InfoWars. I think I was on the air for seven hours straight.

Steve Bannon: We had taken over the fifth floor of Trump Tower, which had been Corey [Lewandowski]’s original headquarters. It was a concrete floor with no carpeting. They didn’t heat it. It had computers everywhere, guys are tracking everything, we had a chain of command. We called the fifth floor “the crack den.” It looked like a crack den. We put all the maps up and we started getting raw feeds from both our local guys and also the secretary of state of Florida. They were putting up their total vote counts. And [national field director] Bill Stepien was sitting there with all of our modeling. They were really focused on Florida—particularly the Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Also North Carolina was coming in. And obviously Ohio and those states were starting to come in. But the big one we were focused on was Florida. Because if we didn’t win Florida, it was not going to happen.

Omarosa Manigault, Trump campaign: If we believed what was on the television, we would have thought we lost. But looking at the numbers that were in front of us in the key battleground states, we were up…or we were neck and neck, with expectations of higher turnout and more enthusiasm. We were going off of our own internal data. What was being shown on CNN and MSNBC and some of these other networks was showing a stark contrast to what was in front of us.

Reza Aslan, author and religious scholar: I thought, “Oh my God, how terrible are we that it’s even this close?”

Brian Fallon: As I was walking off the risers [at Javits], Jen Epstein, a Bloomberg reporter, grabbed my arm and said, “Are you guys nervous about Florida?” I gave her some sort of verbal shrug. Right after that I called into the boiler room and asked for a gut check.

Van Jones: My phone was literally warm from the text messages coming in.

Zara Rahim: I had been going back and forth between the venue and backstage. My face was really tense. All of these reporters can read your energy and your face. You never want a reporter to tweet like, “Clinton campaign members are nervous.”

Jim Margolis: I finally called Steve Schale, who ran Florida for us in the Obama campaign. I said, “Steve, what’s going on here? Is this just a lack of information?” He said, “I think you’ve got a problem.”

Bret Baier: At 8:30 I turned to Chris Wallace, who was sitting next to us on the set, and said, “This does not look like it’s lining up.” We came back from commercial break and Chris said, “Donald Trump could be the next president of the United States.”

Jerry Falwell Jr.: My 17-year-old daughter, Caroline, had been following the election. It’s the first time she’s ever followed politics. And she was so nervous about the result that her stomach got upset. She told her brother, “I think I’m gonna throw up.” So he took off his Trump hat and she threw up in it, right next to Laura Ingraham.

Felix Biederman, Chapo Trap House: At that point the blue wall hadn’t come in yet, and that’s when the air in the room started to tighten. It was like, “Oh, fuck.” She can still do it, but everything that needs to happen for Trump is happening. What if what’s always happened with Hillary—they did all the work, they know everything, they’re super qualified—what if they didn’t do it? What if they fucked it up?

Ana Marie Cox: I did a couple of on-camera news hits where I was told, “What you need to do here is tell people not to panic.” Meanwhile, I was panicking.

David Remnick: Not only did I not have anything else ready, I don’t think our site had anything, or much of anything, ready in case Trump won. The mood in the offices, I would say, was frenetic.

Dave Weigel: I’m in the parking lot of the Scalise party. There are Republicans drinking, some celebrating, some not paying attention. My editor was calling to see when I would hand in my story. One, I’m on a minor story that’s falling apart, and two, I’m probably in the wrong place. Three, I need to reorder the story, and four, how much did I tell people confidently about the election that I was wrong about?

Ashley Parker: We started running up to one another like, “He’s gonna win, he’s gonna win. We know it now, it’s gonna happen.”

Desus Nice, Desus & Mero: It’s one thing to find out Donald Trump is president, but another to be on TV with people watching you watch Donald Trump become president.

Michael Barbaro, The New York Times: Carolyn Ryan, who was the politics editor, pulled me aside and said, “I need you to be involved in a ‘Trump Wins’ story.”

Matt Flegenheimer, The New York Times: Michael and I build this thing out together into a fully sweeping and historical news story. Maybe 1,500 words. We lock ourselves in this little glass office in the Times building and try to tune out the unstoppable din of the newsroom.

Steve Bannon: Jared came down and the candidate was upstairs. Then when word got out that Florida was competitive, that it was gonna be real, he came down to the 14th floor, the headquarters, where we had what we called the war room, which had multiple TVs running. And so what we did is we moved the data analysis thing that we had up to the 14th floor. And I went over with Stepien and the others and just stood next to the candidate and walked him through what was going on. And he finally took a seat. And we sat there and watched everything come in.

Jacob Soboroff, MSNBC correspondent: I went from this feeling of, “Oh my god, wow. I can’t believe it,” to, in a matter of seconds, “Oh, whoa, I can totally believe it.”

Steve Bannon: Stepien looked at it and said, “Our spread is too big, they can’t recover from this.” Miami-Dade and Broward were coming back really slow. They were clearly holding votes back, right? And then Stepien looked at me and said, “We have such a big lead now. They can’t steal it from us.

“I FELT SO ALONE, I KNEW IT WAS DONE”

Ashley Parker: I received a frantic call from Mike Barbaro, so I was racing around the ballroom getting quotes and feeding them back to the story.

Joshua Green, Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent and Devil’s Bargain author: At 9:05 p.m. I sent Bannon an email and said, “Holy shit, you guys are gonna win, aren’t you?” He sent a one word reply: “Yes.”

Dave Weigel: I had told my parents, who are Clinton supporters—my dad actually knew Clinton growing up as he’s from the same town in Illinois she is. I texted him early in the night saying, “These Florida counties seem to be going the way they usually go.” But once I realized there was no way for Clinton to win, I called them saying, “I’m sorry, this is what I do for a living and I was wrong.” My dad said, “Well, I’m still holding out hope.” And I said, “Don’t bother. Process this, and figure out what you’re going to do next, because it’s not going to happen.”

Trae Crowder, comedian and author: I felt very mad at liberals, you know, like my team. I was very upset with all of us for a lot of reasons.

Rebecca Traister: I felt so alone, I knew it was done. I was by myself on the floor. I started to cry.

David Remnick: That night I went to a friend’s election-night party. As Clinton’s numbers started to sour, I took my laptop out, got a chair, found a corner of that noisy room, and started thinking and writing. That was what turned out to be “An American Tragedy.”

Steve Bannon: As soon as we got Florida, I knew we were gonna win. Because Florida was such a massive lift for us, right? We were so outstaffed. But then we won Florida. Just made me know that the rest of the night was going to go well.

Maggie Haberman: I started texting some of the Trump people and one of them wrote back, “Say it with me: ‘President Trump. President Trump.’”

“CAN WE STAY IN THE U.S.?”

Zara Rahim: A member of senior leadership came, and I’ll never forget him looking at us and saying, essentially, “If she doesn’t win Michigan and Wisconsin, Donald Trump will be president-elect.” That was the first time I heard those words.

Jim Margolis: The tenor had changed completely. People were very nervous in the room, we’re all talking to each other. I’m going back and forth with [Clinton campaign manager] Robby Mook, who is over at the hotel. We’re on the phone with some of the states that are still out there, trying to understand what is taking place in Wisconsin and Michigan, because those numbers are softer than they ought to be. That’s beginning to weigh very heavily.

Rebecca Traister: I was thinking everything from, “I’m gonna have to rewrite my piece” to, “Can we stay in the U.S.?” I texted my husband, “Tell Rosie to go to bed. I don’t want her to watch.”

Roger Stone: The staff at InfoWars is largely people in their late 20s, early 30s, all of whom are interested in politics, but none of whom would consider themselves an expert. So they would look to me and say, “Well, are we going to win or not?” And I said, “Yes, we’re going to win.”

Matt Flegenheimer: Michael Grynbaum—who covers media—we had been following the Upshot percentages on the race. We were trying to get our heads around it. If it’s 75 percent, two coin flips, Donald Trump’s president. You had dynamic, shifting odds on the meter. Maybe it’s one coin flip. Maybe it’s half a coin flip. At some point, when I was in that little room with Michael Barbaro, Grynbaum comes in, takes a quarter, slams it down on the middle of the desk. Doesn’t say a word. Just walks out. I still have that quarter in my wallet.

David Remnick: Obviously, we were not going to press “post” until a result had been announced. So I made some revisions, came across a quotation from George Orwell, played around with various sentences, but all in a kind of strange state of focus that happens only once in a while.

Steve Bannon: We stayed there until I want to say about 11 o’clock, 11:30, after Florida got called. It looked like others were coming our way, that we were obviously gonna win. That’s when we went upstairs to the residence, to the penthouse. In hindsight, we still had two and a half hours to go, because they didn’t call it ‘til like 2:30 in the morning.

Symone Sanders, Strategist for Priorities USA: Omarosa called [into MTV] saying, “It’s a good night over here at Trump Tower.” She’s like, “I knew Donald Trump would be the president. I told everyone months ago. And the day is here!” I was just dumbfounded.

Neal Brennan: Slowly but surely it dawns on us. And I had said things like, “You know, I’ve heard that technically Republicans can never win another presidential election.” I’m just saying dumb shit, all things I’d read on Politico or fuckin’ The Atlantic or whatever. And then slowly but surely it happens. It’s like we…it…fucking Hillary lost.

Van Jones: I picked up my pen and I wrote down two words: “parents” and “whitelash.”

Jeffrey Lord, former CNN political commentator: People get so obsessed with the race thing.

Ana Marie Cox: I happen to be in recovery. I had a moment of, like, “Why the fuck not?” I went on Twitter and said, “To those of us ‘in the room’ together, he’s not worth it. Don’t drink over this.” And the response I got was amazing. I said, “I’m going to a meeting tomorrow. Everyone get through this 24 hours, get to a meeting, we’re not alone.”

Evan McMullin: I looked at my staffers. In my mind’s eye, they were all seated up against this wall. They were disappointed, they were afraid, all of that. I told them that I didn’t want to see any long faces. I told them to buck up. And it had no effect.

Van Jones: I literally said, “This was many things. This was a rebellion against elites, it was a complete reinvention of politics and polls. And it was also about race.” But the “whitelash” comment became this big, big thing. What’s interesting about it is, I’m black, my wife is not. She and I were talking about what was happening in Europe. And I said, “The backlash is coming here.” She said, “Yeah, it’ll be a whitelash here.” That was in the back of my mind. People think I made that term up on the spot. It’s very rare you can put two syllables together and make the entire case.

Jeffrey Lord: I thought he was wrong. While Van and I disagree, he’s a curious and sensible soul. I thought at some point he would come to a different conclusion.

“WHAT’S OBAMA THINKING?”

1 a.m. – 3 a.m.

Melissa Alt: People were texting me the whole night, just congratulations on the cake. That was funny because the night turned out so different than I expected. Who knew cake could generate so much hype?

Bret Baier: The futures markets had taken a nosedive, so we were covering that aspect of things. Fortunately, we had Maria Bartiromo on the set, who looked at the numbers and said, “Well, I would think this is a buying opportunity, because if you look at policy, tax cuts, regulation roll back, and everything else, that’s probably going to mean the market turning around when businesses weigh in.” That turned out to be pretty prescient.

Ana Marie Cox: A Muslim colleague of mine called his mother. She was worried he was going to be the victim of violence at any moment. A colleague who is gay and married was on the phone with her wife saying, “They’re not going to take this damn ring away from me.”

Van Jones: I had Muslim friends who came from countries like Somalia asking, “Should we leave the country tonight?” Because in their countries of origin, if a president that hostile takes power, they might start rounding up people in the morning.

David Remnick: Jelani [Cobb] and I spoke around midnight. We were both, let’s put it this way, in the New Yorker mode of radical understatement, disappointed. Jelani’s disappointment extended to his wondering whether he should actually leave the country. He wasn’t kidding around. I could tell that from his voice.

Gary Johnson: Well, I was really disappointed at the results. But what I came to very quickly was, as I’ve said many, many, many, times, if I wasn’t elected president, I was going to ski a hundred-plus days and I was also going to ride the Continental Divide bike race.

Jill Stein, Green Party candidate: Did I have remorse about running? Absolutely not. I have remorse about the misery people are experiencing under Democrats and Republicans both.

Neal Brennan: That’s sketch-writing night at SNL. So all the writers are crestfallen, and it was up to us to write comedy for that Saturday. Me and [Colin] Jost wrote the sketch where Dave [Chappelle] is watching the election, and Chris Rock shows up and everyone’s bawling. It was based on the experience of being in Jost’s office and me saying incredibly stupid shit as reality crumbled.

Ashley Nicole Black, writer/correspondent, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: We all went into a room and sat in silence for at least five minutes. The conversation wasn’t like, “What is it going to be in the country?” It was like, okay, “We’re at work. We have a show tomorrow. What are we going to do?” And Sam goes, “I think this is my fault.” It’s Sam’s first time voting in an American election, and she told us how the first time she was on Law & Order, Law & Order got canceled the next day. And she got interviewed by Playboy, and the next day they announced they were no longer doing nudity. And now she voted for the first time and broke America. We all laughed, it broke the tension in the room. Then we started writing Act 1 with that idea in mind.

Rep. Adam Schiff, congressman, 28th District of California: I was at a victory party for my campaign at the Burbank Bar and Grill. And it was the most somber and depressing victory party I’d ever had.

Brian Fallon: Eventually there were conversations around the awkwardness. There started to be this pressure to concede even before AP called the race.

Nate Silver: I felt like if the roles had been reversed, and if Clinton had been winning all of these states, that they wouldn’t have been so slow to call it. In some ways, the slowness to call it reflected the stubbornness the media had the whole time about realizing that, actually, it was a pretty competitive election.

Jerry Falwell Jr.: The crowd at the Trump party was really aggravated because Megyn Kelly didn’t want to call it. She was so hopeful that Trump would lose. She let hours go by. Finally, the crowd started chanting, “Call it! Call it! Call it!”

Bret Baier: There was a growing group of people who had gathered outside Fox News who obviously were Trump supporters. They were going crazy.

Zara Rahim: There was a massive garage behind the Javits center. John Podesta stood up on a box and told us, “We will have more information for you soon,” which is the most frustrating thing to hear in that moment. Everybody was in this big circle of sadness and nobody knew what to do. Leadership didn’t know what to do. We were all at a loss.

Jon Favreau, Crooked Media, former Obama speechwriter: We were in a constant text chain with our buddies in the White House, asking, “What’s going on? What’s the boss thinking? What’s Obama thinking?” And finally they told us, “Oh, he just talked to her and he thinks she should concede and she agrees. She’s just waiting for the right moment.”

Jerry Falwell Jr.: I called the president-elect. He said, “Well, why don’t you come over to Trump Tower, you and your family, and watch the returns with us?” And I said, “I don’t want to do that, because by the time I get over there, you’re going to be coming over here to do your victory speech.” And he said, “All right, whatever.”

Matt Paul, chief of staff to VP candidate Tim Kaine: Senator Kaine, when the news became very grim…the senator actually went to bed. Nothing was going to happen that night. He had to put together a different type of speech.

Brian Fallon: I was on the phone with the decision desk people at AP, trying to glean a sense of their confidence about the numbers in states like Wisconsin and Michigan. I knew that when those got called, it was ball game, so I was trying to impart to them what we were hearing about what precincts might still be outstanding. We were also trying to gauge if they were about to call it, if and when she should speak.

Michael Barbaro: We really labored over a few paragraphs and a few words, just capturing the enormity of a Trump victory. That it wasn’t expected. The messages the campaign had run on, what they would suddenly mean for the country. And it was a real challenge to convey all of the things he had said and done in the campaign, and all the controversies that he had sparked and put those into the context of a traditional, sweeping, “This person has just been elected president of the United States,” New York Times story.

Matt Flegenheimer: I think after 1 o’clock we had our final version and we were ready to press the button on “Trump Just Won.” It did make the last edition of the print paper.

Michael Barbaro: There was so much going on that night and so many last-minute changes and such a hectic schedule that the story was published with the wrong bylines. The historic front page, “Trump Triumphs,” ran in the paper with the wrong bylines.

Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker: I saw the New York Times headline and I was very discomforted by it. For one, I knew that I had a child on the way.

Maggie Haberman: I was supposed to go on a CNN panel at 2 a.m., they were doing a very early version of New Day. I got stuck because of a deadline anyway, so it worked out I couldn’t make it, which I felt bad about. In reality, I wasn’t prepared to talk about it. I couldn’t really understand what had happened. And I think images of gobsmacked reporters probably wouldn’t have helped.

Michael Barbaro: We’re all sitting around and we’re all doing what journalists do after a big story, which is talk about it endlessly. I don’t think any of us wanted to go home. I don’t think any of us wanted to go off into the private space of figuring out what this all means. This gravitational pull kept us there much later than we needed to be.

Reza Aslan: My wife stayed up and I went to sleep, then she woke me up around 1 or 2 in the morning bawling and told me that it was over. My poor, sweet wife. She wanted to hug and kiss me but I went into a panic attack and couldn’t breathe.

David Remnick: We agreed that night, and we agree today, that the Trump presidency is an emergency. And in an emergency, you’ve got a purpose, a job to do, and ours is to put pressure on power. That’s always the highest calling of journalism, but never more so than when power is a constant threat to the country and in radical opposition to its values and its highest sense of itself.

Brian Fallon: We had this issue where the Javits Center needed us out by 3 a.m. The decision was made that someone had to come out and address the crowd.

Zara Rahim: There were die-hard Hillary supporters that were like, “We’re not going.” Folks who were sobbing and literally couldn’t move because they were so distraught. I remember pieces of memorabilia on the floor, little Hillary pins and “I believe that she will win” placards.

Rebecca Traister: People were throwing up. People were on the floor crying.

Steve Bannon: We had an agreement with these guys. Robby Mook had sent this email saying, you know, “When AP calls it, we’ll call and congratulate you right away.” Because they were expecting Trump to keep saying, “It’s rigged, it’s rigged.” So Robby Mook sent a thing over which I’m sure he regrets. [Laughs]. He sent an email to us, he said, 15 minutes after AP calls it, they would expect to hear from us. If they hadn’t heard from us, she would get up to give a victory speech. I think AP called it right when we left.

Roger Stone: We figured they had her in a straitjacket by then. Or that she was throwing things and cursing.

“LET’S GO ONSTAGE AND GET THIS DONE”

Bret Baier: It was around 2:30 in the morning, and I said, “Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States.” This whiz-bang graphic with all of these firework animations flashed across the screen with the words Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States. Just seeing that, everybody on the set was silent for a little bit, as the whole thing was being digested.

Stephen L. Miller, conservative blogger: The Onion headline kept flashing through my head really heavy. During the primaries they had the Trump story, “You really want to see how far this goes, don’t you America?”

Jorge Ramos, Univision news anchor: When he won, I said it as if I was reporting a football score or a soccer match. “Donald Trump is going to be the next president of the United States.” No emotion. Just the facts. That’s what the audience demanded. That is a sign of respect. As a journalist you have to report reality as it is, not as you wish it would be. That’s exactly what I was doing.

Jeffrey Lord: It was an amazing moment. Anderson [Cooper] came over to me and, in his classy fashion, shook my hand and said, “Congratulations, you were right.”

Steve Bannon: When it was called, he was actually upstairs in the kitchen. He has a small kitchen with a television. When he heard it was being called by AP, I shook his hand and said, “Congratulations, Mr. President.” So we kinda laughed. There were no big hugs or anything. Nothing crazy. He’s not a guy who gets overly excited. He’s very controlled. People around him are very controlled. We were obviously very happy and ecstatic. But it’s not a bunch of jumping around, high-fiving, anything like that.

Matt Oczkowski: It almost felt like a videogame, like you were playing something and won. You’re like, “Wow, this is the presidency of the United States.”

Roger Stone: The champagne tasted great. This was the culmination of a dream that I’d had since 1988.

Jim Margolis: I was on with Robby [Mook], who was in the room with her when she did the concession call to Trump. It was surreal. It was beyond my imagination that we would be in this position with this person being elected president.

Steve Bannon: It only took us 10 minutes to get there, it was right down the street. When we got there, we were in this weird holding stage, kind of off to the side. Very crammed. She called the president on his phone. Or it might have been Huma Abedin called Kellyanne [Conway] and then she hands her phone off to the president, and then Secretary Clinton was on there, you know, “Hey, Donald, congratulations, hard-fought win.” Two or three minutes. Then we looked at each other and said, “Let’s go onstage and get this done.”

Roger Stone: He looked surprised at the fact that he’d won. Which is surprising only because he pretty consistently thought he would win. Not unhappy, but rather, shocked.

Neal Brennan: I thought it was so fucking weird that he was like, “Is Jim here? Come on up here.” Like he was emceeing a sports banquet. But it was good that he set the tone right there. So long, context. So long, history.

Joshua Green: I thought he had actually made at least a cursory effort to try to unite the country by reaching out to Hillary Clinton voters. That sentiment probably evaporated before the sun rose the next day. At least on election night he said something approximating what you would expect a normal presidential victor to say in a moment like that, to try and bring the country together.

Symone Sanders: I still couldn’t believe it was happening. When he talked about us coming together and healing for the country, I wanted to throw up in my mouth.

“YOU’RE FUCKED”

3 a.m. – 7 a.m.

Maggie Haberman: I was getting bewildered texts from my child who couldn’t sleep, asking me what happened. I think this election was really difficult for kids to process.

Matt Paul: It was fucking terrible. We had these hastily organized calls every 10 minutes to determine what was going to happen the next morning. There was no advanced plan. Where were we going to do this massive global television event? How were we going to get people in the room? Who was going to say what in what order? That happened between 4 in the morning and when she spoke.

Rebecca Traister: In the cab home, the cabbie had on the news, that’s when I heard his acceptance speech, and I said, “Can you turn it off?” I couldn’t hear his voice. I was like, “I can’t listen to his voice for the next four years.”

Desus Nice: I went home, and it was like when your team loses and you watch it on SportsCenter over and over and over. I turned on MSNBC, and Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow were asking, “How’d you get this wrong? How did Nate Silver get this wrong? What did Hillary do?” I kept turning to Fox News and seeing them gloat and the balloons falling. I think I stayed up until three in the morning just drinking and watching.

The Kid Mero: I went home and smoked myself to sleep. I was like, “This sucks.”

Ashley Nicole Black: I took a shower, and then as soon as water hit me, I started bawling. I didn’t really have any feelings until that moment.

Ashley Parker: Times Square felt like a zombie-apocalypse movie. There was no one there. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I walked from the ballroom to the newsroom. They were like, “Go home, get some sleep, you’ll need it.” I walked back to my hotel. I couldn’t sleep. I watched cable news and then fell asleep.

Van Jones: I was walking out the building. Your thumb just kind of automatically switches over to Twitter. I saw that my name was trending worldwide. And I was like, “Whoa, that’s weird.”

Brian Fallon: I stayed in Brooklyn throughout the campaign, but that night I got a hotel in Midtown, close to the Peninsula. I actually walked past his hotel. I saw all the red hats that were still milling about outside of his victory party. It was pretty surreal.

Ashley Nicole Black: I looked at myself—I’m going to cry even saying this right now—I looked at myself in the mirror, and in that moment, I looked like my grandmother. The first thought I had was that I was glad that she wasn’t alive to see that. Then I felt so guilty because of course nothing would ever make me glad my grandmother is not alive. I love her so much, and I wish she was here. But she died when Obama was president, with that hope that the world had moved forward, and black people had moved forward. And she didn’t see the huge backlash that came after. In that moment, I was very grateful, and then guilty, and then I went to bed.

Jorge Ramos: I’ve been to wars, I’ve covered the most difficult situations in Latin America. But I needed to digest and to understand what had happened. I came home very late. I turned on the news. I had comfort food—cookies and chocolate milk—the same thing I used to have as a kid in Mexico City. After that, I realized that I had been preparing all my life for this moment. Once I digested what had happened with Trump and had a plan, which was to resist and report and not be neutral, then I was able to go to bed.

Rebecca Traister: I got back to Park Slope, I went to check on the girls. When I went to say goodnight, I looked at Rosie, and I had this conscious thought that this is the day that will divide our experience of what is possible. This is the day where a limitation is reinforced for her.

Michael Barbaro: I went home and woke up my husband, I think it was 4 or 5 in the morning, and asked him what the next steps should be journalistically. Should I move to Washington? Should I change jobs? It was pretty disorienting.

Maggie Haberman: One Trump supporter sent me a message saying, “You’re fucked.” [Laughs] If you use that, please recall me laughing about it. It was really something.

Van Jones: I got to my apartment and put my head down. I woke up like three, four hours later. And in my mind I thought, it was a dream. Just for a split second. I was still fully clothed. I had makeup all over my pillow. And I was like, “Shit.”

“IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST SPEECHES SHE’S EVER GIVEN”

7 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Jon Favreau: It felt like when you wake up after someone close to you passes away. Not nearly as bad, obviously, but that same feeling where you think, for like five seconds, you’re okay, maybe it’s a normal morning, and then it hits you what happened.

Roger Stone: I mean, we were walkin’ on clouds. We were still in the halo of the whole thing. I was very pleased.

Jerry Falwell Jr.: The feeling afterward was relief. I had worked so hard to help him. I’d risked so much and went so far out on a limb. Everybody thought I was crazy. It was a renewed hope for the future of the country, and a little bit of fear that I was going to be chosen to serve in the administration, because I didn’t want to.

Steve Bannon: I had my whole family that had come up to the victory party and I hadn’t seen anybody, so I went home and grabbed a shower, just like the night before, got another hour of sleep, and I was with Jared. And I think we were with Trump at like 8 in the morning. So it was just like the exact same thing as the day before. The day before I felt we were gonna win the presidency, and the next day we had won the presidency. It was odd, there was never any big insurgent feeling or anything like that. It played out how I thought it would play out. I didn’t have much doubt the first day of the campaign, didn’t really have much doubt on Billy Bush weekend. He was connecting. He had a powerful message.

Reza Aslan: I remember thinking, as clear as day, this is who we are. This is what we deserve.

Shani O. Hilton, U.S. news editor, BuzzFeed News: You get on the train from Brooklyn. It’s silent. And not in the normal way of people not talking to each other. It felt like an observable silence. I saw at least three people sitting by themselves, just weeping silently.

Melissa Alt: The next day my manager took the cake back to Trump Tower because they didn’t cut it at election night. Donald Trump Jr. told my friend that it was delicious.

Matt Paul: I remember rolling up in the motorcade and seeing some of our staff and organizers couldn’t get in. A reporter or cameraperson who was familiar to me said, “Can I sneak in with you?” I looked at that person, sort of stunned, and said, “Fuck no.” Then I realized I shouldn’t have said that. It was just a visceral, gut reaction to seeing some of our staff that couldn’t get in who had killed themselves for two years.

Nate Silver: If you read FiveThirtyEight throughout the election and listened to our arguments with other journalists and reporters, then you would’ve been much better prepared and much less surprised by the outcome.

The Kid Mero: We very quickly became familiar with the term “economic anxiety.”

Reza Aslan: You take your kids to school, you go to the store, you go to the post office, you’re looking around, and you’re thinking, “These people hate me.”

Jelani Cobb: I went to the airport the next morning for a 7 a.m. flight. There’s an African-American gentleman, maybe in his 60s, working at the check-in counter. He starts talking about how disastrous and dangerous this moment’s going to be. And he’s seen history in the South and thinking that we might be headed back toward the things he thought were in the past.

Dave Weigel: I was connecting through the Atlanta airport. I looked around and thought, well, for eight years, I didn’t really think about who voted for who. But as a white dude with a mustache, fairly bloated by the campaign, most of the people who look like me voted for this guy who, as far as they know, is a bigot. I remember feeling that this divider had come down, this new intensity of feeling about everybody I saw.

Van Jones: The next day, my commentary had become this sort-of viral sensation. Fox News is mad at me for saying “whitelash.” Liberals are treating me as some kind of hero. And literally, for the next two weeks, I didn’t have to pay for anything in any establishment in D.C. or New York. Not one meal. Not one cab. Uber people would turn the thing off and just drive me around for free.

Joshua Green: Bannon called me. He said, “You recognize what happened?” I’m like, “What the fuck are you talking about?” He goes, “You guys,” meaning you on the left, “you fell into the same trap as conservatives in the ‘90s…you were so whipped up in your own self-righteousness about how Americans could never vote for Trump that you were blinded to what was happening.” He was right.

Matt Paul: There were five or six of us standing in a hold room. One of Hillary’s brothers was there with his wife. A couple of the president’s people. Myself. A couple of campaign photographers. President Clinton walked in. It was very tough. Secretary Clinton walked in and was strong and composed. I stood there in shock at how put together and strong she was.

Rebecca Traister: As someone who covered her in 2008 and watched her struggle with speechgiving, it was one of the best speeches she’s ever given.

Jim Margolis: Everybody was basically in tears. Huma was in front of me. Jake [Sullivan] was on one side. It was one of those incredible scenes. Nobody had had any sleep.

Steve Bannon: Never watched it. Couldn’t care less. Her, Podesta, all of it. I thought they were overrated. I thought they were—they’re a media creation. People say how genius they were, how brilliant they were. Look, I’d never been on a campaign in my life. But I can understand math. Just looking at where it was gonna come down to. Morning Joe tells me they’re so brilliant every day. Why are they not getting some pretty fundamental stuff here? But no, I had no interest in seeing her concession speech. I have no interest in a damn thing with their campaign because I don’t think they knew what they were doing. I only have interest in what we did. Which was just, focus, focus, focus.

Rep. Adam Schiff: My staff both in California and in D.C. were absolutely devastated. People would come up to me, constituents and others, with tears in their eyes. And the astounding thing is, here we are now. People continue to come up to me with tears in their eyes about what he’s doing. I’ve never seen people have a visceral reaction over an election and be so deeply alarmed at what’s happening to the country.

Charles P. Pierce, Esquire writer at large: On the Sunday before the election, I drove out from Philadelphia to Gettysburg. Once I got out of the sprawling Philadelphia exurbs, I started to see improvised signs. There were several of those small portable marquees that you see outside clam shacks and chili parlors. I saw a huge piece of plywood nailed to a tree outside a motorcycle repair shop. I saw an entire barn painted red, white, and blue. “Trump,” it said, on the side of the barn. “Make America Great Again.” And I could see that barn, out in the field, in my mind’s eye, as Hillary Rodham Clinton gave her belated concession speech. And when she talked about making the American Dream available to everyone, I thought, damn, somebody had to want it bad to paint a whole barn just to argue about that.

Roger Stone: Trump is a winner. He’s a very confident, upbeat guy. That’s just his style. He thought all along that he would win. There’s no doubt that the Billy Bush thing shook him a little bit, but it ended up not being determinative.

Jerry Falwell Jr.: We had traveled on the plane with him during the campaign. He went and got the Wendy’s cheeseburgers and the fries, put them out on the table for us. I just think he’s a people’s president. I think that’s something we’ve not had in a real long time.

Gary Johnson: Well for me, just speaking personally, I do not aspire to be president of the United States anymore. Why would anybody want to be president of the United States now that Donald Trump’s been president of the United States?

##########

from Roger Stone – Stone Cold Truth https://stonecoldtruth.com/untold-stories-of-election-day-2016/ from Roger Stone https://rogerstone12.tumblr.com/post/167439001643

0 notes

rogerstone12 · 7 years