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!
Why we SHOULD keep Dickless donald from being elected--or impeach him once he is elected.
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!
So, Michigan Republicans stopped the recount in their state. That is an outrage. To me, it shows that Republicans know that honest investigations into their actions will prove that they have defrauded the American people of their duly elected president: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
We have two major problems in this country: those in power put money ahead of people, and they have no accountability.
As long as we the governed allow this, we will have corrupt mafiosos like Dickless Donald "LOSER" trump in the White House.
RESIST!!!!!
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STOP
CHEETO BENITO!!!!!
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On a completely unrelated note, here's a PSA: beware the shit-the-bed virus-or-whatever-it-is. Apparently, there is a sneaky virus-or-something, I know not what, running up and down the east coast and who knows where else that causes fecal incontinence during the night, when the victim is sound asleep. So far, there are four cases I've heard about within the last week. Fecal incontinence during sleep is extremely rare and usually indicates something serious, like nerve damage. But if it's happening to a number of people all at the same time, it may not be something to worry about once you bleach your jammies and bedding in hot water after the incident and start taking psyllium twice a day. That said, if it happens to you and you're concerned, or if it happens more than once, then don't wait--see the doctor immediately. (Disclaimer: don't take health advice from random bloggers.) And now...back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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Donald trump and Rex Tillerson want to make Russia great again.
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As usual, there is no justice. The system rewards the greedy rich.
It-snot the greedy rich who suffer most from global warming--it's the
innocent poor, who did nothing to cause it. The poor will be
exterminated, but the greedy rich will live on. The Armageddon to come
will decimate the human species, leaving only the greedy rich--the
ruthless, merciless, pitiless, and cruel
--to perpetuate humanity after
global warming kills off the rest of us. Why? Because they have the
money and power to insulate themselves from the mass extinction their
policies produce. We don't. We'd better break out the torches and
pitchforks while we can, people--our time is running out!!
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STOP
THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN!
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Many progressives are saying that we should not lobby the Electoral College not to elect trump and that we should not impeach trump if he is elected. Why? Because penis pence is so much worse.
Friends, that is exactly why we should fight to keep trump from being elected and why we should fight to impeach him if he is elected.
Let me elaborate.
Picture trump "in office"--tweeting lie after moronic outrageous lie every news cycle to distract from how he's skr00ing us ordinary Americans over...playing executive producer on his shitty reality teevee show...manipulating stocks like Boeing's, bribing companies like Carrier, self-dealing tiny hand over tiny fist, taking bribes from foreign dignitaries...and generally turning the Oval Office into a three-ring circus.
If you've been following the blawg, and especially if you've been watching the Randi Rhodes videos I've been posting, you know by now that donna "tiny hands" trump (as it sounds like Jimmy Dore calls him) has NO INTENTION of governing. No--he plans to shop it all out...as Randi Rhodes says, to give himself PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY.
Think about that for a moment...
Donald john trump running the circus show as interference for the Koch brothers to run America into the ground...to strip the country like a carcass for parts because they can...because we're all too distracted watching chump's Cheeto Benito freak show to realize what the captains and the kings are doing behind our backs.
Now picture this...
Donald john trump fails to win the 270 electoral votes to become president, or he is impeached within his first year because he broke the law from day one. chump is out, pence is in.
Then...
Without the reality teevee freak show, there is nothing to distract us--or the media--from seeing what the Christo-fascists are doing to skroo us over. No tweet-storms, no egregious lies, no bribe-giving or bribe-taking, no self-dealing. No pitting us ordinary Americans against each other when it's really the greedy rich who are the cause of all our problems.
No more smoke 'n' mirrors...
Just the cold, hard reality that the Republican party, with pence at the helm, is inflicting austerity measures on us and turning us into the Impoverished States of Koch Kansas so that the rich can get even richer while the middle class turn poor and the poor starve, sicken, and die.
Taking Donald trump out of the picture strips away the cheap plastic veneer behind which all the greed so desperately wants to hide...like cockroaches in the dark until you turn the kitchen lights on.
And since pence would be a Republican president with a Republican Senate and a Republican House, it would be crystal clear to anyone who's paying attention how the sausage is being made--and how we ordinary Americans are the meat getting thrown into the grinder for the fat-cats to devour. If you're not sitting at the dinner table, you're sitting on the dinner plate.
Is it really just me, or is shining a bright white light on the cold cruel reality of Tea Party Christo-fascism a goal well worth fighting for? RESIST!!!!!
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Don't forget to go outside tonight and check out the Geminid meteor shower! Read more about it in the Vox article below.
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Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
There's so much you need to know on CCC today--please just click your way over there when you're done here and scroll down til you're caught up on the n00z you can use. Please and thank you!
The real reason Trump's denial that Russia hacked Democrats' emails is so worrying
...In short, because it means that Cheeto Benito and cr00 will simply dismiss out of hand whatever inconvenient truths happen to pop up to vex them. Welcome to post-truth America, boyz 'n' girlz. I blame religion. If we didn't force people to quash their critical thinking skills in favor of buying into the mental narcotic of magical thinking, we wouldn't be in this fix. Oh, and we'd have started long ago to address global warming. I hate to think how many cultures American Christian missionaries have destroyed for a st00pit bunch of obviously made-up myths....
CIA report: Russia hacked the Democrats to help Trump
...They hacked the Republicans, too, but aren't releasing what they found. Clever people are speculating that it's because they are holding what they found over the haids of chump and the Republicans for blackmail...like making sure that chump named Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State as PEWtin's preferred choice.
Donald Trump has weaponized Twitter — with dangerous consequences
...Tweeting is Cheeto Benito's way of sic'ing his alt-right white supremacist attack dogs on his critics. They've been well organized for these fights and have been for a long time (remember Gamergate?). Victims are subject to all manner of insults and threats, including to their children. chump is one sick bastard, and don't tell me he doesn't know exactly what he's doing when he does this.
Donald Trump producing The Celebrity Apprentice is a big conflict of interest--for NBC
...Can you imagine: NBC gets an exclusive on a corruption scandal so big it torpedoes trump's presidency right outta the water (it could happen). But NBC is in bed with trump because he's producing one of their shows. What do you think they'd do? Need a precedent? Remember that "Access Hollywood" tape where trump's pussygrabbing boasts made it round the world? Yeah, well, apparently NBC dragged its feet publishing it.
The FDA is slowly getting weaker. Here's why that's dangerous.
...Current FDA standards use randomized, double-blind studies to prove that new drugs are safe and effective, and the FDA gets the raw data so they can check on the drug makers and make sure they didn't cook the books. But Republicans have been slowly defunding the FDA, hampering its ability to investigate new drugs in depth. Now Republicans want to take away the raw data AND the standard of proving that new drugs are safe and effective. This means that your new drug might be safe...or not...and it might be effective...or not. And all the drug company has to do is provide a report of trends to the FDA...meaning that the chickens have to rely on the foxes to guard the henhouse. Eesh. Note to self: DON'T take any drug approved after 2016!
FiveThirtyEight: Inequality Is Killing The American Dream
...It-snot like we didn't know...but it's chilling to see the numbers and see just how much ground the middle class has lost.
Tell Republican Congressional leaders: “Launch an immediate and public investigation into all of Donald
Trump and his cabinet’s inappropriate financial ties to the Russian
government.”
Add your name:
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Electors from both parties are calling for the truth about Russia’s interference in the election before they are forced to vote in eight days. Let’s give them the support they need to win their right to know!
With
new revelations about Russian interference in the election and ONE WEEK
LEFT until the Electors cast their ballots for President, we need every
single person who signed this petition to help STOP TRUMP NOW.
On December 19 the Electors will gather in their state capitals to cast their vote for President … and we need you to be there.
We are collaborating with a coalition of organizations to manage the logistics of December 19 protests across the country. We need your commitment to participate, and we need more organizers on the ground.
With
just six days until the Electors choose our President, it's crucial
that everyone who signed this petition takes action every day to STOP
TRUMP.
Today, we're calling on Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to provide intelligence briefings to the Electors.
Call Director Clapper at (703) 733-8600. You may have to wait on hold for a minute.
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Contrary to what you may have heard in the media, Donald Trump has not yet officially been elected President.The real election takes place December 19,
when the 538 Electoral College Electors meet to cast their ballots
their ballots--and these electors have the constitutional obligation to
do reject Donald Trump.
You see, the Founders created the
Electoral College for the exact purpose of stopping a demagogue who's
unfit to serve from becoming President.
Donald
Trump received unprecedented support from a foreign power, has called
for a religious test to enter the country, and will be in violation of
the constitution on his first day in office because of payments he
receives from foreign governments. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton won the
popular vote by 2.84 million votes--a larger percentage victory than
Jimmy Carter in 1976, Richard Nixon in 1968, John F. Kennedy in 1960,
and eight other elected presidents.
Conscientious electors,
utilizing the rights and responsibilities afforded them by the
constitution, have an obligation to reject Trump.
If
they all the electors vote the way their states voted, Donald Trump
will be elected. However, in 14 states, electors can vote their
conscience without any fear of penalty. In other states, they face only a
possible fine.
The electoral college was created as a "break
glass in case of emergency" fail safe to protect American democracy.
This is that emergency.
When
the Standing Rock Youth first started their campaign to stop the Dakota
Access Pipeline, no one had even heard of it – yet they went on to
inspire hundreds of thousands of people to take action to stop a project
that threatened their community. Today, I want to tell you about
another equally dangerous pipeline that is threatening our water and
animal life in Florida and neighboring states.
Please sign my petition to ask the Army Corps of Engineers to stop the Sabal Trail Transmission Pipeline.
A
few weeks ago I finished up a campaign to run for Congress in Florida,
during which I spent many months talking to voters in the state. Since
then we launched Progress For All, a community action group committed to
protecting our environment. You know what has stuck with me most from
these collective efforts? The hundreds of conversations I’ve had with
Floridians about their commitment to protecting our beautiful state from
projects that prioritize profits over our safety and planet. Projects
like the Sabal Trail Pipeline.
This
pipeline will span more than 500 miles across Alabama, Georgia, and
Florida. It will run right by the Crystal River, a crucial sanctuary for
endangered manatees, and the Suwannee River, also home to several
endangered species. Not only that, but the pipeline’s construction could
also damage the fragile limestone which surrounds the Floridan Aquifer,
one of the largest freshwater aquifers in the world.
Help us stop this project before it hurts Florida’s natural resources.
A
few months ago, Governor Rick Scott’s administration changed our
state’s water quality standards, opening the door for fracking and
possibly more pipeline construction in Florida – all of which pose an
even greater threat to our aquifer. But I know for a fact that
Floridians are ready for a move away from these destructive industries.
More and more cities and counties across Florida have passed resolutions
to ban fracking. Voters recently passed a statewide referendum for
solar energy and voted to protect state support for solar energy power.
I’m worried that some of Florida’s most precious natural treasures won’t be around in twenty years – all because politicians are defying the will of the people and pushing for fracking and more pipelines.
This is unacceptable. Please sign our petition and take action against this dangerous pipeline.
Scientists say we’re in
the midst of the next great extinction, humanity is taking a chainsaw
to the tree of life. But an ambitious new plan to protect 50% of our planet would heal our home, and governments are meeting right now to discuss the crisis. They will only deliver if they hear a giant chorus behind this plan. Add your name -- before our Earth falls silent:
Petition to House Oversight Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz: "Immediately investigate President-elect Donald Trump’s
financial arrangements to ensure he does not have any actual or
perceived conflicts of interest and he and his advisors comply with all
legal and regulatory ethical requirements when he assumes the
presidency."
Add your name:
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Friends,
2016 has been a tough year. Devastating climate impacts and the
reality of a dangerous, anti-climate federal government means holding
onto hope is more important than ever -- so let's take a moment to
recognize our movement’s successes and learn from our victories.
A new report released today with our friends at Divest-Invest shows that the divestment movement doubled in size since 2015. 688 institutions across 76 countries who represent more than $5 trillion worth of assets have committed to divest!
And there’s more good news: New York’s American Museum of
Natural History, one of the world's most respected science museums, just
slashed fossil fuel investments from its $650 million endowment.
This is big! Today's news shows just how powerful divestment
continues to be in the resistance against a rogue fossil fuel industry,
and in shining a light on its devastating impacts. In times like these,
it's important to take a moment to reflect on what the divestment
movement has been doing right.
We are organizing for the long haul: It’s more
important than ever to organize our communities and grow our movement
from the grassroots up. The fossil fuel divestment movement has always
believed that it will take more than just governments to address climate
change, and that remains as true as ever.
We are powerful: The fossil fuel industry is
fighting for its life against a growing climate movement. 688
institutions including faith groups, cultural institutions, pension
funds, and universities have committed to divest from fossil fuels, and
resistance to fossil fuel projects is taking root all over the world.
This is what happens when we organize and fight, and we must continue to
fight.
We are keeping the pressure on: In the face of a
dangerous and anti-climate federal government and intensifying climate
impacts, it's more crucial than ever to push our institutions --
especially locally -- to step into their leadership and fight with our
communities for climate justice.
Our work is not over, and there are many more challenges ahead. But
the fossil fuel industry is weaker than it’s ever been and we remain
strong on the side of climate justice.
Last week we got another subpoena from ExxonMobil.
They’ve hired a team of expensive lawyers to try and intimidate us
into handing over all of our internal emails, documents, and
communications. They're clearly worried about our work opposing the
fossil fuel industry, and right now is an incredibly crucial moment to
stand strong.
Not long after we got the Exxon subpoena, we learned that the
company's CEO Rex Tillerson was being considered for the position of
Secretary of State. Then, just yesterday, we learned that prominent
Exxon apologist Scott Pruitt has been picked as the next head of the EPA
(after public outcry forced Trump's first pick, climate denier Myron
Ebell, out of the running).
With Trump preparing to populate his cabinet with fossil
fuel industry allies -- if not outright industry executives -- the only
way forward is to make this movement even stronger. Can you help us get ready for the battles ahead?
At 350.org, we’re preparing to go on the offensive against the Trump agenda.
That means making sure that the climate movement -- and the majority
of Americans who rejected Trump -- know how reckless his appointments
are. That means sending the message to members of Congress who believe
in science and clean air that we are watching them closely. That means
holding them accountable when they say one thing and do another. And
that means challenging all the fossil fuel projects this administration
will try to greenlight.
But we can’t do this work without your support. The
dollars you donate help us organize rallies and direct actions, support
frontline struggles to halt fossil fuel projects, and help support our
legal defense when companies like Exxon try to come after us.
Our strategy isn’t dictated by the confines of what’s convenient, but
by the requirements of what’s necessary. We can do that, because we are
and have always been fueled by the bottom-up energy of a grassroots
network -- that is, by people like you.
Exxon is clearly worried about what we've done together so far. They know we can take on the fossil fuel industry -- because we have.
Petition to House and Senate Democratic leaders: "Block and resist any Trump nominee who embraces racism,
xenophobia, misogyny, bigotry, corporate cronyism or Wall Street greed."
Add your name:
...And block and resist PEWtin, too, please and thank you. Russians are awesome, but PEWtin stinks. Kinda like Americans are awesome, but chimp stank and chump stinks even worse! -- Dot Calm's shadow
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“EPA” stands for “Environmental Protection
Agency.” It’s our cop on the beat, protecting our families and our
environment from hazardous waste, harmful pollution, and the polluters
who dump it into our environment.
But with President-elect Trump’s pick of Scott Pruitt to lead it, the “EPA” could come to stand for “Every Polluters’ Ally.”
Scott Pruitt denies the science of climate change. He’s deep in the
pockets of Big Oil and the fossil fuel industry. As Attorney General of
Oklahoma, Pruitt put the health of millions of Americans at risk when he
tried to undermine the Clean Water & Clean Air Acts.
This man is entirely unsuitable to head the EPA. I will vigorously
oppose his nomination when it comes to the Senate. Today, I need you on
my side.
The American people want clean air in our communities. We want clean
water running from our faucets. It helps protect our health and preserve
the future for our kids.
President-elect Trump should
respect that. He should not fill his cabinet with science-denying,
oil-soaked, polluter allies like Scott Pruitt.
Last week, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand laid down a clear marker: She’ll filibuster the waiver that retired Gen. James Mattis would need in order to serve as secretary of defense during Trump's administration.
A 70-year-old federal law
bars retired members of the military from holding senior defense posts
if they’ve served on active duty within the last seven years. Mattis
retired only three years ago and thus requires a special waiver to pass
both houses of Congress.
While the filibuster for cabinet appointees was eliminated a few years
back, meaning a nominee can be confirmed with just 50 votes in the
Senate, the waiver Mattis requires is subject to a filibuster. Mattis
would therefore need 60 votes in order to become secretary of
defense—so he’d need the support of at least eight Democrats to overcome
a filibuster.
Sen. Gillibrand's filibuster is the type of leadership needed in the
face a president-elect dead set on eroding constitutional norms. Help us
call on other Democratic Senators to follow her lead.
Call Senator Tim Kaine at (202) 224-4024 and Senator Mark R. Warner at (202) 224-2023. Tell them to filibuster the waiver Gen. Mattis needs to become secretary of defense.
Sample script:
Hi, I'm (say your name) from (say from where you're calling).
I'm calling today to urge my senator to filibuster the waiver Gen.
Mattis needs to become secretary of defense. Civilian control of the
military is a bedrock foundation of any democracy, and it’s more
important than ever to uphold it now that we have a president-elect dead
set on eroding constitutional norms. Thank you.
Thanks for all you do,
David Nir
Political Director, Daily Kos
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Hi there,
This week, the plot thickened with respect to Donald Trump's exact
position on the minimum wage. Two weeks ago, in this email, we focused
on the fact that Trump appeared to have evolved on the question of
whether to raise workers' hourly paychecks above $7.25 per hour. In
July, for instance, he stated at a news conference that "the [federal] minimum wage has to go up."
But on Thursday, Trump nominated
fast food executive Andy Puzner to serve as his secretary of labor.
Puzner, who is the CEO of the parent company to Carl's Jr. and Hardee's,
is a staunch critic of raising the minimum wage and believes that a pay
hike for workers will lead to job loss and increased automation. As ATTN: reported last week, however, the opposite is proving true in Seattle, which raised its minimum wage to $15 in 2014 and is currently experiencing a new low in unemployment.
Last Sunday, the United States Army Corps of Engineers
announced it will reject the permit for construction of a key section of
the Dakota Access Pipeline project!
Their decision will effectively bring the construction of the 1,172
mile dirty oil pipeline to a halt -- at least for now. We owe a huge
debt of gratitude to the Standing Rock Sioux and the courageous water
protectors who spent months on the ground in North Dakota. The credit for this hard-earned victory goes to them.
Although this huge win for people power over corporate power should be celebrated, we also need to be vigilant and make sure that it doesn’t get rolled back when we’re looking the other way.
The decision from the Army Corps of Engineers may well be reversed after Obama leaves office on Jan 20th. And the main company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline is still hell-bent on finishing construction-- in fact, at the very same moment as the announcement was made in Standing Rock, Energy
Transfer Partners was drilling into rock under the Des Moines River in
Iowa to lay down another section of the very same dirty oil pipeline.
That’s why it’s even more important than ever to target the banks funding this unethical project and convince them to sell their assets.
Our pressure is working. Last month, nearly 240,000 SumOfUs members called on banks around the world to stand with the Standing Rock Sioux. We delivered hundreds of thousands of signatures right to Bank DNB’s offices in Norway, and together we successfully got the banking giant to commit to sell its assets in the project. The
next step is to get major investors like Wells Fargo, Citibank, TD Bank
and Royal Bank of Scotland to follow Bank DNB’s lead.
Together we’ll continue to fight to put a stop to projects that
threaten our natural resources and threaten the livelihoods of
Indigenous communities around the world. And we’ll make sure that the Dakota Access Pipeline never gets built.
Until then.
Thanks for standing in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux.
The
Australian government wants to give a $1bn loan to a toxic coal
complex next to the Great Barrier Reef, threatening the home of sea
turtles and more! Let's stop the reef-killing deal with a massive call in Australian media:
Donald "Cheeto Benito" trump only believes in global warming when he thinks he can get free money, like from the Irish government to build a sea wall to protect his ickle golf course from rising sea levels. Apparently, the Irish government doesn't believe in Cheeto Benito enough to give him a red cent!
With
over 100,000 signatures on the #NatureTrumpsWalls petition, Trump
International Golf Links (TIGL) has officially rescinded their proposal
for the controversial 3km seawall at Doughmore Beach, Ireland!!!
This
represents a HUGE campaign milestone and we THANK YOU for your activism
on the issue. Each petition signature was sent to the local...
Investigative
reporter Greg Palast has just returned from Michigan, where he went to
probe the state's closely contested election. Trump won Michigan by
fewer than ... Read More →
In less than one week, on December 19,
members of the Electoral College will meet in their respective state
capitals to cast ballots to determine who will be the next ... Read More →
Donald
Trump has officially announced he will nominate retired four-star
Marine General John Kelly to be secretary of homeland security. Kelly
was formerly the ... Read More →
Over
the weekend, news reports began to circulate saying President-elect
Donald Trump is expected to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as
secretary of ... Read More →
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continue our conversation about ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, whom
Donald Trump is expected to nominate for secretary of state. Speaking on
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continues in Oakland after the death of at least 36 people in a fire at
the Ghost Ship warehouse, where the victims were overwhelmingly young
artists, ... Read More →
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Donald Trump has picked fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder to become the next
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presidential vote can proceed. We speak with Green Party presidential
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Trump attacked union leader Chuck Jones on Twitter this week, after the
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Now
that the CIA has determined that the Russians intervened in the
presidential election to help Trump win, the Cold War politics of left
and right have been flipped. READ MORE»
In
a Facebook post in November, Clay County Development Corporation
Director Pamela Taylor insulted the current first lady while celebrating
the election of Donald Trump. READ MORE»
In
a new study, participants reported psychological insight and often
deeply meaningful experiences of the interconnectedness of all people. READ MORE»
Regardless
of sex, age, gender or sexual orientation, strong Kegel muscles can
make for bigger, better and more frequent orgasms, not to mention better
overall health. READ MORE»
The
former Republican political candidate and TV commentator said that
Pres. Obama’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016
election is unpatriotic. READ MORE»
Black
bag jobs were sold as a necessary tool to fight terror, but they're
being used mainly against people who have nothing to do with that. READ MORE»
Jamie
Raskin, member-elect of the U.S. House from Maryland, brilliantly
explained why the Electoral College works for neither small states nor
large ones. READ MORE»
A
litigious businessman with thousands of employees and a history of
labor disputes is assuming the presidency. Will Trump’s worker policies
create an ethical quagmire? READ MORE»
"Just
about every word that's used in social and political discourse has two
meanings.. its literal meaning and a meaning that's used for political
warfare." READ MORE»
“The conversation was, ‘What is this? Do the locals have any idea that this has been introduced into this piece of legislation?’ The answer to that was no.”
RESIST FASCISM NOW!!!!! Bear with me...I'm going to keep running this for a while.
Keith Olbermann on the Russian coup--PEWtin's bloodless take-over of the United States. I'd like to see Comey prosecuted, too. A recent article in Vox spelled out the difference between the CIA position and the FBI position on Russia's intent in interfering with our elections: the CIA used common-sense inference to decide that the intent was to hand trump the election; the FBI won't reach such a conclusion without proof that would stand up in a court of law. Interesting difference--minor, in a sense--but I'd trust the CIA's conclusions over the FBI's right now because of the FBI's direct interference in the election to hand it to trump. Like it or not, Comey has confirmed that the FBI is trumpland--a Tea-Party-far-extremist-RWNJ partisan agency that is SUPPOSED to be neutral.
Randi Rhodes on CIA: Russia Tried To Help Trump; Entire Intelligence Community Fears Trump Will Retaliate.
Remember that Vox article above about chump weaponizing Twitter? Well, here's a prime example: criticize trump, and he'll tweet about you so that his followers dox you so that all of those alt-right pieces of shit can harass you in person and tail your children...
TYT: if you ask me, CORPORATE news is more dangerous to us than fake news. Corporate media hacks are the same people who gave Donald trump billions of dollars of free advertising and pretended that trump's very real crimes were no worse than Hillary's imaginary ones until they finally got frightened and woke up--too late to fix their mistake and stop trump from winning the White House. Watch this video and remind yourself of all the lies we've been sold by corporate media--not even mentioning all the false equivalencies. Newsweek especially and The New York Times and The Washington Post did some good reporting on trump in the run-up to the election; Newsweek actually did some sound investigative reporting, and they are still hard at work. But it was all too little too late. We need full transparency NOW--TELL your media and BOYCOTT their advertisers until we get it!
Besides, corporate media is also responsible for fake news!
chump's cabinet of villains...in case you had any doubt how quickly we're marching into fascism
Seth Meyers takes a closer look at chump's Carrier scam...
...and at chump's false claims and foreign "policy" moves
Redacted Tonight: recounts point to REPUBLICAN voter fraud
Randi Rhodes on the consequences of fake news and chump's plugged and overflowing swamp...and how badly, royally skrooed we are
Trevor Noah on trump "fakes a deal"
ICYMI, Keith Olbermann's take on chump's Carrier scam: chump just flushed our economy down the toilet (because DONALD JOHN TRUMP IS A SHITTY BUSINESSMAN!!!!!! Duh.)
TYT: gruesome details give Dylann Roof's mother a heart attack in court. Whenever a suitably white person commits an atrocity, people beg, "Consider his family!" What about when unarmed Blacks are shot by police? Do they ever ask us to consider the victim's family then? Or is it, "FUCK the family--that thug died a good death"?
FBI releases investigation statement re trump and the election. Weirder and weirder. The FBI pretended it couldn't release its non-statement, which this is, before the election...as if doing so would interfere with the election but throwing Hillary Clinton under the bus repeatedly was not. The point, I suppose, is that the FBI was investigating trump at all. Those fuckers damn well better investigate that bastard--NOW!!!!! And then we'd damn well better investigate the FBI!!!!!
So! chump only plans to be preznit part time so that he can keep taking a $50,000.00 pay check as executive producer of his shitty reality teevee show. That, of course, means that he'll be shopping out the responsibilities of his office to the now well-plugged and overfilled swamp. And that, of course, means that he is creating plausible deniability for himself...as if he-snot responsible for choosing the people he's chosen to fill those positions and therefore for their decisions to fuck us all over as early and often as possible. How little is this fat little man worth that he has to chase around $50,000.00 pay checks?
David Pakman: Carrier's CEO ADMITS that trump just gave him ammunition to kill jobs. He'll use the $7 million in taxpayer money to build robots, putting more Americans out of work.
David Pakman: Leonard Cruz outlines why trump's narcissism is DANGEROUS
Stephen Colbert: does opting out of intelligence violate break a norm or a law? What about trump's many other offenses?
David Pakman: Edward Snowden says that David Petraeus disclosed "more highly classified" secrets "than I ever did." Again, think about the double standard here. Donald trump is considering Petraeus for his administration while many of his advisors and adherents are demanding Snowden's execution. Think about why each man disclosed what he did. Now, with a straight face, tell me that trump has one ounce of integrity if you can. Oops--sorry about your keyboard there! Maybe put the drink down next time.
More from David: will ANYONE not suffer under Donald trump's kleptocracy? Except the top 1%, of course.
TYT: Sofia Vergara's "embryos" are...suing her?!?? This will make your blood boil.
Secular Talk: Weather Channel scientist shreds climate deniers using her image to mislead the American people. Yummy! Moar, please!!!
Here's another ICYMI I ran some time ago: how to adapt to trump's lies. Trevor Noah says to just keep demanding that trump elaborate on his outlandish claims and provide evidence. Let's all nag and boycott our media until they counter every idiocy, every destructive lie out of chump's fat, wrinkled, orange, ugly, face anus.
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 "dickless LOSER" trump. As I track down more information, I will continue to refine these tools.
I've moved the full to-do list, including all the vendors to boycott, to the bottom of the post for your comfort and convenience.
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Action List
PROTECT yourself financially, reproductively, and medically.
1. If you need a loan, get it NOW--rates have already gone up; they went up at least three times the first week or two 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. Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, and their guest speakers agree that the Rethugs and chump will crash the economy by deregulating the stock market so quickly our haids will spin. The boom-bust cycle repeats every 80 years or so--as long as it takes for the last people who remember what a depression was like and fight the greedsters to die off. We're phuqued.
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.
4. Don't take any new drugs approved after 2016 without doing your own research into whether they're safe and effective. Republicans are weakening the FDA to the point that it will no longer be able to verify that new drugs will work and not harm us.
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.
6. DEMAND that the government release ALL of its data before trump gets into office and lets the Republicans hide it all and make shit up.
7. DEMAND the immediate release of every wrongly-held prisoner and anyone else who will suffer unfairly if not pardoned.
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.
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!
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