Have I told you how much I hate these people? - Mike Malloy. It is every thinking person’s responsibility not to side with his or her executioners. - Albert Camus. Popular democracy anywhere threatens fascism everywhere. - The Scallion. A fascist junta of neocons using George W. Bush as its shill has taken over America by bloodless coup. What will it take for us to stage a revolution and take our country back? - Dot Calm. Drive a hybrid. Leave a lighter footprint on the planet. - Dot Calm.
Like Granny D, I have watched my own beloved country change, and I am angry beyond words about what I see. I grew up seeing America as the equivalent of the movie good guy, the hero in the white hat who came to the rescue of those in need around the world. I have watched in silent horror as the corporations, the captains and the kings of industry, used a comparatively small outlay of cash to buy the Republicans to use as their shills. George W. Bush is the puppet cowboy-king of shills, the proverbial emperor with no clothes. Every day, I watch these evil men legalize, legitimize, and institutionalize robbing the poor to pay the rich. They are carving up America like a giant carcass and doling out choice chunks of its meat to themselves and their cronies. Since the Democrats have been sipping at the same corporate teat where the Republicans have been gorging for the past generation, the fascists are free to do their worst; there is no longer any opposition. There is no one left to stand up for the rights of the American people, the Constitution, or the democracy, which I fear will be replaced by a fascist dictatorship in my lifetime. Wake up, America: we need a REVOLUTION NOW!
It's the most wonderful time of the year: FOX News's War on Thanksgiving and New Year's
THIS IS NOT NORMAL NEVER LET IT BECOME NORMAL EVER!
DON'T GIVE UP DON'T GIVE IN STAY ANGRY trump voters stayed angry for eight years, which is why we are having this conversation.
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Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!
Ready to make a difference? Want to STOP Donald John trump from being inaugurated by convincing the Electoral College from electing him? Then TAKE ACTION NOW by signing up at https://electoralcollegepetition.com/take-action/#gs.hfJlnec. You can sign up to do as much or as little as you want to or can.
Also, go join Working Families: workingfamilies.org. They are ORGANIZING to protect us from this mess and hopefully get us out of it. Look for an emergency meeting by you!
Bernie has a new book out: "Our Revolution." DO NOT buy it from Amazon--they carry trump products! Go to Barnes and Noble instead: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/reviews/our-revolution-bernie-sanders/1124098246?ean=9781250132925. And then contact Amazon using the list in the WTF:TDL below and tell them why they suck. I finally contacted all the vendors on the list--yay me!--and posted an update below. Turns out some of the totes adorbz Mindy Fischer's links either were broken or didn't work. Me fix. Good til next time some links break or don't work.
On a lighter note of st00pidity, it's that time of year again: time for FUX Noise's War on Thanksgiving and New Year's. You see, they want everyone to say "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays" because their corporate overlords want to get rid of the holiday season altogether ([with droning intonation] their corporate overlords want to get rid of the holiday season) because the corporations don't want to pay for us all to have our little days off on Thanksgiving and New Year's. They're using Christians' biblical need to be "persecuted" to manufacture consent to rip us off and strip away our culture. The bastids.
Ironically, Donald john trump will be the first non-Christian president we'll have ever had...
(Yes, I'm being funny, and, no, I don't really believe in this conspiracy if for no other reason than I made it up myself from whole cloth many years ago. But I trot it out every year because it's no more absurd than the RWNJs' tearful hand-wringing about the fake war on Christmas. In fact, my little fake conspiracy theory is actually less absurd than the "war" on Christmas--when have you ever known the corporations to be anything other than disgustingly greedy? Nuff said. Now...your job is to spread my theory and make it go viral. Just because I made it up doesn't mean it-snot tr00....)
And then there's this disgusting-if-amusing piece of news: chump has fingered ol' Doc McSleepy Ben "Brain and brain! What is brain?" Carson of the ever reality-challenged fame to dismantle our department of Housing and Urban Development.
Nothing gives a great big Xmas FUCK YOU of contempt to poor people like putting someone in charge of their housing who says of himself that he's not qualified to accept a cabinet position--has anyone reminded him yet that he ran for a position running ALL the cabinet positions?!??
Penultimately, a piece of good news in the run up to our national execution, as announced by Daily Kos:
All of our calls, petitions, and letters made a difference--THANK YOU!!!!! My dad was thrilled--he's been calling every day, and he keeps trying even though he doesn't always get through. He's still going to call O'Bama and ask him to make Standing Rock a national monument so that chump can't bulldoze tribal land out of his own greed and spite. Please keep on keepin' on, too.
Lastly, I've come up with my own name for The Resistance...
SOPROUD: Save Our Planet--Resist Orange Ugly Donald
...how you likey?
Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
FiveThirtyEight: Trump Will Benefit From Obama's Strong Job Market
...Of course, timeline- and reality-challenged Republicans, like my Tea Party Christian friend, will give chump the credit for everything good that Obama did between 2008 and 2016.
Vox: The Daily Show looks at Michael Flynn, the Trump appointee who called Islam "cancer"
...Flynn also said that fear of Muslims is RATIONAL. Good. That means that fear of Christians is RATIONAL, too. Like the Christian domestic terrorists who shoot up Planned Parenthood clinics. somehow, I bet Flynn would find that sound reasoning to be a bit...unwelcome.
Vox: Facebook exec: "We resisted having standards" on fake news. "That was wrong."
...Unfortunately, they don't quite know what to do about it yet...how do they maximize sharing without falling into censorship? Too bad they didn't think about this sooner. And if you don't think that fake news contributed to chump's win, just read about "pizzagate." When you realize just how disgusting the fake news has been--and how eagerly the chumpkins gobble it all up--you'll have a hard time concluding otherwise.
Vox: The non-verdict of the police officer who killed Walter Scott is a national embarrassment
...Walter Scott was running AWAY. TYT thinks that the fat lazy st00pit callous heartless cruel [ok, that's my description of the murdering asshole] simply didn't feel like exerting himself...running after the fleeing Mr. Scott...so bang bang bang bang bang bang bang.... And he LIED about Mr. Scott taking his taser, too, the filthy lying asshole. I'm sure he was thinking to himself, "Who cares? It's just one more dead n*gger. Hell, they'll thank me for this!"
Vox: I had a miscarriage. Fetal burial rules would only amplify my grief.
...Sorry, honey--it ain't about you or your well-being except how we can control your ass. Our bible clearly says that you're the property of your male owner--be it your father if you're not married or your husband if you are. But we're so sanctimonious that we're going to just step in and take over your ownership in case your man is too much of a sissypants. So now WE own you. And don't forget--only the unborn are innocent, according to Christians and their bible. Once that fetus passes through the icky icky vagina, it's polluted and corrupted and ready for hell. That's why the Christo-fascist Republicans are more than willing to kill the little globs AFTER they're born but not before. (They conveniently forget the part about "in sin my mother conceived me," which means that the unborn are as guilty as the born because gawd hates all icky icky bodily fluids...but that would take away their excuse to control women, duh.) ...So, girls--it's time to send the Texas legislature all your used tampons and pads in case there's a miscarriage hiding in there. You could bleed for days expelling a miscarriage and not even know you'd been pregnant. Why take a chance on breaking Texas law? Make sure to tell them that burying or cremating the remains is their responsibility, since they're the ones making the law requiring it. Time for them to put their money where their big fat ugly hypocritical mouths are!
On Monday night, Democracy Now!
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Thom Hartmann: don't wait--resist fascism NOW!!! Friends, this may be the most important video you watch, not just today but ever.
Here's another don't-miss vid from Thom--this time on how skrooed we are if we don't fight like hell on global warming NOW.
Here's another really important video you need to watch: in addition to explaining why Marine Corps general "Mad Dog" Mattis isn't the best choice for the civilian-for-a-reason post of running the Pentagon, Randi Rhodes explains just how skrooed we've been by the rich elites and how it's going to get oh-so-much worse under chump.
Okay, David Pakman says that the election really was rigged in chump's favor: according to one source familiar with the exit polls, the numbers just don't add up. Gawd, it would be wonderful if that were more than wishful thinking...and if we could do something about it NOW.
David discusses 15 trump-defecting Electors...15 is far short of the 37 or 38 votes Hillary would need to win, and the defectors would have to vote for her, not just against chump. Again, it would be wonderful if this were more than wishful thinking. But we nonetheless have to do everything we can NOW. Like signing up to TAKE ACTION here: https://electoralcollegepetition.com/take-action/#gs.hfJlnec. I've already written my letter to the editor. Have you? Mine took me two hours to write, and I documented every point I made. All 26 or so of them.
20% of chump's Wisconsin win evaporated due to errors!!!!! And that's before the recount even started.
Oh, and Hillary's popular vote lead is over 2.3 million now. Some sources think her lead will top out at 2.5 million--pretty much in line with polling.
Thom Hartmann talks to Greg Palast about the recount--friends, our democracy is skr00ed. FML.
Our Revolution is here: Bernie talks to Thom Hartmann--again, buy the book from BN, not Amazon.
TYT: Bernie smacks down the House "Science" Committee--great bern!!!
Kyle on the biggest Donald john trump conflict of interest that no one is talking about
Thom Hartmann and guest discuss the many frightening parallels between Nixon and Donald john trump. Nixon WAS a crook--he was more of a con man and thief than most Americans ever knew. Like donald trump, Nixon was thick as thieves with the mafia. Here's a fun parallel...guess who's been a key strategist for both chump and Nixon: Roger Ailes. *blerch!!!* Oh, and guess where Donald trump's Christian Republican family values of sexual assault and predation come from: his forebears made the initial drumpf family fortune by running brothels in Alaska during the gold rush. I thot Reagan was the first Republican to start dismantling the middle class by attacking unions, but it was actually Nixon. Who gnu? And when you realize what Nixon was doing with the mafia as Ike's veep, you'll lose all respect for Ike for allowing it to happen. Yikes. JFK and RFK were doing yeoman's work rooting out the mafia and basically shamed the Eisenhower-Nixon administration to pursue charges against Jimmy Hoffa...which is what people in our government should be doing...and yet people like my Tea Party Christian friend praise Nixon and talk smack about JFK. Only goes to show that too many Americans have no idea which side their bread's really buttered on.
TYT: DAPL is a sham. The source for the oil already peaked some time ago, which means that the pipeline would only carry decreasing amounts of oil. All the corporations want to do is make good on their contract, even though the product is clearly failing, so that the contract doesn't get cancelled so that they don't lose money. And they don't care how many real actual human beings they sicken, maim, or murder in the process. As we all know, money is soooo much more important than human beings here in the good ol' U. S. of A!
Randi Rhodes: no charges in the Keith Lamont Scott case. Yet another asshole cop gets away scot-free with shooting an unarmed Black man dead.
TYT: Walter Scott's murderer walks, too. Fuck that one juror. Sonofabitch. This is why #BLM exists and why it matters.
Keith Olbermann's e-mail was hacked?!??
Trevor Noah on DAPL, which was rerouted around white areas and into Native American ones.
Thom Hartmann: the trump resistance is growing! Guest Valerie Ervin discusses Working Families, linked above and soon to be added to the WTFSOPROUD: TDL!
And now here's a Cold Open chuckle from SNL...as mentioned in the Vox article above!
The Daily Show's The Best F#@king News Team grieves: R.I.P., Facts. We hardly knew ye. And now you're gone...gone forever.
...or, if you just want something mindless and fun, try Tested
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Apparently our President Elect hates this picture so lets not post, share or tweet this picture like ever!
- Margaret Cho
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Memes & Funnies
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I went onto Amazon to harvest the funny reviews of the trump hat ornament, which lists there for $189 rather than the more modest $150 listed below, but damn evil Amazon took down some of the funnier reviews. So here are a few of the best from The Oregonian:
Trump hat Christmas ornament
The "Make America Great Again" hat that President-elect Donald Trump wore on the campaign trail is now a Christmas ornament. And it's getting savaged in the reviews section on Amazon.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, we've entered the only time of the year in which it's appropriate to hang up Christmas decorations.
And President-elect Donald Trump's campaign has released a red "Make America Great Again" hat ornament -- a $150 shout-out to the 62.3 million citizens who cast a vote in his favor as of this writing.
It's 15-karat gold. It's "sure to make any tree stand out." And the Amazon reviews of the thing are absolutely savage.
Here, for your benefit, we've collected the 13 best reviews of the "Trump Make America Great Again Cap Collectible Ornament" -- its official name -- sans screeds that make crude jokes about offenses against felines. All reviews appear as they do on Amazon.
This ornament is the best. Very high quality. Much better than those other loser ornaments. We will decorate, and decorate bigly! Let's make Christmas great again!
I mean, look at this ornament. Does this look like the type of ornament I'd put near my tree? I don't think so folks. Wouldn't be my first choice, believe me.
Despite ordering a more reasonable ornament, this one arrived. It. Is. Yuge. It's absolutely yuge. It's the biggest ornament. Yuge.
I hung it on my tree, but it is so yuge that it has totally unbalanced my whole tree. No matter where I hang it, the tree leans waaaaaay over to the far right.
I'm really excited about this ornament and what it will do for my tree. I hope the other ornaments aren't mean to it just because they are jealous. I think it might have some really good ideas and if the other ornaments will just put aside their differences, I think this ornament will really bring the decor together.
I didn't actually order this but somehow it's on my tree anyway. I'm trying to make the best of it... at least that's what people are telling me to do. But I don't know. I'm trying, but there's suddenly swastikas painted on my other decorations, half of my presents are just dog s***, and the tree itself is on fire. But my conservative friends are telling me the fire is a good thing and I should just be united in celebrating what this ornament has to offer. They're also saying I need to leave the tree in my house for four to eight years. That doesn't sound right. Source?
Until further notice, the purpose of this blog is to provide tools to help protect and preserve our rights, our liberties, and our country from the wrinkled fat orange clusterfuck that is Donald "acorn dick LOSER" trump. As I track down more information, I will continue to refine these tools.
If you value my work, please support me on Patreon: just point your browser to https://www.patreon.com/ and type "Dot Calm's shadow" into the search box at the top--thank you! Even a dollar a month from 20 people would really help right now--it would cover part of my Internet. Show me that there's more out there than just a lonely chorus of crickets!
1. If you need a loan, get it NOW--rates have already gone up; they went up at least three times in the two weeks after the election. MOVE your retirement out of the stock market and into a stable fund that is guaranteed NOT to lose your principal--if you're not risk averse, keep your money in stocks until after the inauguration...but move it out ASAP afterward because, once chump and the Rethuglikkkants deregulate Wall Street, we are in for a bust that makes chimp's Great Recession look like O'Bama's recovery.
2. If you're a woman of reproductive age or a man who knows and loves women of reproductive age, stock up on as much "Plan B" (the "morning after" pill) as you can afford NOW. Plan to take one pill either immediately after unprotected sex or the morning after unprotected sex, and plan to take another pill 24 hours later. No matter what else you do, STOCK UP NOW on Plan B because even the best contraceptives fail, and you won't be able to get an abortion once chump and the Rethuglikkkants take over.
3. If you're a woman of reproductive age and don't already have an IUD or contraceptive implant, get yours NOW. Mirena has progestin, not estrogen, and can reduce your period; the copper ones without hormones (like Paragard) can cause cramping and heavy bleeding that doesn't go away until the device is removed (think having the second day of your period for a year at a clip). Of these two IUDs, women seem to prefer Mirena, but the device can still fall out. Cosmopolitan has a great discussion on these and other IUDs, what's involved with getting one (not a big deal, but you'll bleed for at least a week afterward), what's involved with having one removed (also not a big deal, but you'll bleed for at least a week after). "Managing Contraception" has an article on Mirena (not scary). If I were you, I'd skip the Skyla--it only lasts 3 years, so you wouldn't even be done with the orange fuckwad's first term if you get one. Planned Parenthood has a video about contraceptive implants and great information about all forms of contraception. And if you think you might need a do-it-yourself abortion some time in the future, go talk to Planned Parenthood NOW and see if you can stock up on mifepristone now--the options for DIY abortions at home using substances like vitamin C seem promising to desperate women but don't have any scientific backing. You can also try womenonwaves.org and womenonweb.org.
Now, make your daily calls and do the rest...
DAILY CALLS!
CALL your U.S. Senators and Representatives DAILY at their LOCAL offices. SHOW UP in person if you can. Call each day with ONE issue--and KEEP CALLING. The staffers track your calls by issue, so don't give in to the temptation of giving them the whole laundry list all at once. Here is our list of demands:
0. Call your members of Congress now to ask them to denounce Stephen Bannon. And Jeff Sessions, and Mike Flynn, and Mike Pompeo, and MORON Ebell, and the rest of them. Just call and tell your elected representatives to denounce and block ALL of trump's appointments because they're all reality-denying bigots who hate so many actual Americans that they are unfit to serve all Americans.
1. DEMAND they support Barbara Boxer's bill to ABOLISH the Electoral College--popular vote only. DEMAND paper ballots only, and DEMAND audit trails be published in local papers. DEMAND they LET ALL Americans vote (undo voter roll purges and other Black voter suppression) and MAKE Election Day a national holiday for all. And STOP gerrymandering.
2. FIGHT trump's personnel appointments and FILIBUSTER ALL trump's SCOTUS appointments. Supporting Citizens United or opposing the rights of women, immigrants, non-whites, non-Christians, LGBTQ+, and the poor are UNACCEPTABLE. This is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
3. DEMAND trump's impeachment--DEMAND he be investigated NOW for corruption and conflict of interest. DEMAND to see his taxes. trump has already committed impeachable offenses, so DEMAND that he be held accountable NOW.
4. REMIND them THEY'RE FIRED if they don't obstruct, obstruct, obstruct trump and the Republicans from Day 1. If they resist, REMIND them that Hillary WON the popular vote by over 2.25 million and climbing.
5. DEMAND restoration of the Fairness Doctrine--DEMAND fair, fact-based, accurate media free from the false equivalencies and unchecked free coverage that foisted trump on us.
CALL President Obama every day:
1. DEMAND a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR to investigate FBI director James Comey and Donald trump for interfering with the election.
2. DEMAND the Army Corps of Engineers go to Flint to dig up and replace all the poisoned pipes.
3. PARDON Edward Snowden and consider pardoning Hillary Clinton--even though she's innocent--to stop the Republican witch hunts, especially since one of trump's campaign promises was to jail her: Republicans hate her so much that, if she'd as so much as farted, Republicans would have had her in jail faster than Martha Stewart. The fact that Hillary isn't in jail is proof positive that she's innocent, which is proof positive that the Republicans will keep coming at her.
4. STOP DAPL. DOJ MUST investigate the atrocities being committed against peaceful, non-violent water protectors who just want clean water and tribal sovereignty over their own lands. MAKE Standing Rock a national monument. The US Army Corps of Engineers MUST revoke all permits to build DAPL. STOP the construction NOW, PERMANENTLY.
5. DEMAND that NSEERS be dismantled to make it harder for chump to set up his Muslim registry.
AND THE REST!!
SIGN UP for daily headlines from Daily Kos, AlterNet, and "Democracy Now!" SIGN petitions. ATTEND town halls and protests. Jeremy Scahill's publication "The Intercept" is another high-quality resource of investigative reporting you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere. GET INFORMED and GET INVOLVED!
If or when trump really does set up his Muslim registry, SIGN UP! Trevor Noah suggested this to be funny, but it's gone viral because the racist bigoted assholes can't deport us all, now can they? If I can do it as a proud anti-theist atheist, then so can you as whatever religion or lack thereof that you are. Keystone Progress has a page where you can pledge to sign up: Pledge to register as a Muslim if Trump creates a registry.
VOLUNTEER for and DONATE to all the organizations that D. LOSER trump is targeting. Get on their mailing lists and donate as much time and money as you can to Planned Parenthood, NRDC, American Civil Liberties Union, and causes that matter to you. Change your cell phone carrier to CREDO, which is a Sprint re-seller that supports blue causes. Planned Parenthood is especially important to support right now--women will die if we don't. You can also donate to WomenOnWeb, who help women get safe abortions online.
ORGANIZE to TAKE OVER the Democratic Party: FIGHT trump and the Republicans, CLEAN UP Democratic Party failures, WIN the midterms, and apologize to Bernie and America for failing.
PROTEST all media that inflicted trump on us--BOYCOTT their advertisers and TELL them why. This includes FUX Noise.
GRAB the pussy-in-thief by the wallet: BOYCOTT businesses that sell trump products and TELL them why.
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Boycott List
Here's a twofer: let's save our money for when dump tanks the economy and grab the trumpussy grabber-in-thief where it hurts most--by his wallet!
There's also a spreadsheet of trump supporters and vendors that carry trump merch that includes the vendors below.
Don't forget New Balance, who praised and supported trump: 1 (800) 595-9138.
Here's the list from Mindy Fischer, featuring 28 vendors that sell trump merchandise. BOYCOTT them all and TELL them why!
UPDATE:
Here's my basic "script," which I personalized for vendors I use frequently: "I just want you to know that I am boycotting your company for supporting trump or carrying trump products. Please let me know when you dump trump so that I can shop with you again. Thank you."
Here are the results of my attempts to contact the vendors:
--The Amazon rep I spoke with "blamed" the individual vendors and basically said that Amazon doesn't care who its vendors are and isn't going to do anything about its vendors supporting or carrying trump products. Apparently, they are getting enough calls on this that they have a prepared answer--KEEP CALLING. Oh, and shop with Barnes and Noble instead!
--The Dillard's link was not working, so I replaced it with one that does.
--The Hudson's Bay and Lord & Taylor links were broken, so I fixed them. While I was at it, I e-mailed Gilt, which is in the same group:
--Zulily has an annoying floater in the website Mindy Fischer provided--it forces you to make an account. Friends, I did it so you don't have to! I have martyred myself in spamdom so that you can simply e-mail the bastards--for my sake, give 'em hell!!!!!
--Nordstrom's has no intention of pulling its Ivanka trump products, so there's a big FU from them.
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