Happy Tofurkey Day Leftovers!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!
DON'T FORGET TO STOCK UP ON AS MUCH PLAN B AS YOU CAN AFFORD!
If you're a woman of reproductive age, or if you're a man who knows and loves women of reproductive age, stock up NOW. After the inauguration, once chump and the Rethuglikkkants take away birth control and abortion, be ready to take two Plan B's whenever you have unprotected sex (one the morning after unprotected sex and another the morning after that) unless you plan to become a mother.
That said, there was a thing or two I totally meant to post on Tofurkey Day that I didn't get around to, so enjoy a few yummy leftovers as you scroll down.
Two things are on my mind today: the deplorable selfishness of trump voters and the human rights violations going on against the water protectors fighting DAPL.
FUCK YOU, trump voters!!!!!
No sympathy for you!!!!!
A lot of people are calling for sympathy and empathy for trump voters. Well, waah waah waah. BULLSHIT on your sympathy and empathy--I have NO compassion for you, and I'll tell you why!!!!! Look, I've always been freaky smart--I've always known what it is not to fit in. I know what it is to feel like a stranger in my own beloved country. Since chimpie got into office, I've known what it is not to have a highly technical Ph.D. respected--FUX Noise and the Republicans have inflicted an alternative reality on us where at least a quarter of American adults cannot answer questions on basic science correctly. As Republicans dismantle our public schools and education system, those numbers are rising, and the questions Americans get wrong are alarming. I know what it is to toil and struggle...to lose jobs, benefits, and savings...while having people I know personally ridicule me for what I do for a living because they don't have the education to understand or value it. I personally lost one house and over $200,000.00 in salary when CAPITULATed Cruz shut down the government--in fact, I'm still recovering from that fiasco. I know what it is to live in financial insecurity--not knowing if I'd ever be rehired after being laid off. I feel your pain because I've been there.
But what you did by voting for trump is beyond the pale.
Against complete Republican obstruction, Obama nursed our economy--trashed by the chimp--back to delicate health but health nonetheless. Average salaries were rising; the income gap was closing. Average Americans' income was finally increasing faster than the incomes at the very top. But you decided it wasn't fast enough for you. Waah waah waah.
So, in your unbridled greed, you voted away my sister's right to feel safe in her own skin. You voted for open season on non-white, non-gender-conforming, non-cis-male, non-Christian Americans. People like my precious sister have been assaulted and attacked, harassed and hit. She's afraid to leave her house these days, thanks to you assholes. And we ain't seen nuthin' yet--wait til after the inauguration, when the Republican White House, Senate, and House of Representatives have complete control. Wait til you see what repressive, regressive laws they pass on people who don't look or live like them. Wait til you see what draconian monsters they load into the Supreme Court.
You voted away a woman's right to choose what happens to her own body because O'Bama's recovery didn't reach you quickly enough. Well, waah waah waah. Are you going to take responsibility for all the unwanted babies Republicans are going to force women to bear? Congratulations--they're all yours. Have fun feeding, educating, clothing, and sheltering all your new charges. Too bad you can't also take on these women's uteruses and live their unwanted pregnancies for them because that's part of what you've just signed on to do.
Guess what else! Yep--you voted away your and our right to current and future prosperity. In your desperation to fuck someone else over--the innocent Americans your right-wing media blame for all your problems--you've fucked yourself over. Donald trump's presidency is going to be a disaster for the white working classes. Oh, and a tax loophole in trump's plan would create windfall for the rich--and the rich are going to benefit from everything else trump does because trump only represents himself. And guess what else, sucker: when trump and Paul Ryan get busy cutting taxes for people who already have more money than they'll ever need to buy more stuff than they'll ever want, they'll whinge that the nation is too broke to afford social services. So you just voted away Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and the rest of the social safety net keeping people like my father alive and well. You just voted to kill my dad, assholes. I don't believe in karma, but I have an awful feeling that what goes around this time is going to come around with a vengeance and find your sorry ass. The shit you just launched into the fan is going to splat you at least as hard as the people you just voted to make America hate again. Congratulations.
What is it going to take to make you see reality? That's what I want to know. As long as there's FUX Noise and Breitbart and Infowars, and as long as you're getting your science from your megachurch pastor and your hatred of education from Republicans, you'll believe anything. You believe that you're one lottery ticket away from trump's hundreds of millions--and you're convinced that, because you're one special snowflake, you'll win that lottery next time. You're convinced that the earth is 6,000 years old and that 150+ years of data are wrong on evolution, but you lurves your GPS and your cell phone. You're the one holding the misspelled poster at trump rallies that says, "Keep your government out of my Medicare."
You are a victim of magical thinking. You tell survey after survey that the country is headed in the wrong direction, but you keep voting over and over for the same Republicans who are driving it there. Whoops, you did it again.
You are a victim of bad ideas. How many times do you have to lose your shirt to learn that trickle down economics DOESN'T? What is it going to take to convince you that reality is NOT impressed with what you eat or don't eat or what you fervently whisper to your imaginary sky friend?
You voted for trump. If you stayed home, you voted for trump. If you voted third party, you voted for trump. If you left the top slot blank or wrote in "Bernie fuckin' Sanders" (a non-existent person, so congratulations--you wasted your vote), you voted for trump. If you protest-voted, you voted for trump. If you did anything but vote for Hillary, you voted for trump. This means that you voted away every ideal we as a nation ever had for equality--including enough income equality to keep YOU and your family alive and well, even if you're not swimming in yachts and mansions around the world. YOU voted for misogyny, racism, bigotry, homophobia, xenophobia, and all manner of hatred. YOU told the world, "Yeah, we're NOT better than that. We're ugly, vindictive, hateful shits, and we're not only proud about it--we're smug about it." You let your hate flag fly. You voted against the safety of my best friend--literally the best person I've ever met in my life (even Dot Calm, like me, wasn't above pranks). You voted against the survival of my dad. You voted against economic security not just for yourself but for me, too--and you had no right to drag me down into your hate fantasies of beheading Muslims, re-enslaving Blacks, gassing Jews, and putting Latinos into concentration camps.
I care about your desperation--which is why I busted my hump trying to get Hillary into the White House so that we could all have better lives--but you lost my compassion by voting for and thus approving of trump and everything he represents. You deserve all the horrible things that await you--you deserve every awful thing you voted for. But that-snot going to stop me from continuing to fight on your behalf. I'm still going to fight tooth and nail for your well being--even though you deserve nothing but my disgust and my scorn, even though you deserve no better than the poverty and indignity you voted for yourself. Yup...in spite of yourself, I'm still going to fight so that you--piece of shit that you are--can have a better life even though you may have destroyed the very possibility. Can you tell I'm so angry with you that I could spit nails, brainiac? You could have had a better life. So could I. But you had to stamp your little feet and throw your little tantrum and nuke the possibility of a better next-four-years for all of us--at minimum. The damage chump does to our planet by exacerbating global warming...by the poverty he inflicts by starting trade wars, deregulating Wall Street, and cutting taxes for the rich and social services for the rest of us...and by the potentially nuclear wars he drags us into will cause ordinary Americans untold pain and suffering for the foreseeable future...assuming we as individuals or as a nation survive. And for some reason I doubt I'll ever understand, that seemed like a good idea to you.
Oh, and you may have just voted in the next Hitler. I wish I were kidding, but I'm not. Go check out Keith Olbermann's video on the similarities. Go watch his video on just how fragile our democracy is. And then go think about the implications of what you've done. How many adults and especially children have been damaged already--before chump has even been inaugurated? Have you even thought about how those 700+ hate incidents Donald John trump incited will affect our society in the long term--has that even occurred to you, or don't you even care? How many generations of non-rich, non-white, non-straight, non-Christian non-men will be damaged by the Supreme Court appointments chump and
I wonder what it's going to take for you to understand the sheer magnitude of what you did. Why it's so very hateful. Why it's so very harmful. Harmful to you, harmful to all of us who don't look or live like trump. Harmful to the fundamental foundations of our democracy, not to mention our relationships around the globe. As long as your right-wing fake news exists, you'll lap up the Kool-Aid and blame O'Bama for everything trump does, just as you blamed Bill Clinton for everything the chimp did. Timelines and reality are apparently not your strong suits.
This is why I believe that America as it is is not sustainable. We have idiots like you who believe in their own special-snowflake reality, and we have the rest of us who trust reality to be what the evidence shows us. You are beyond the reach even of the evidence under your nose. Trying to keep the country together with so many people like you in it reminds me of the old adage about playing chess with a pigeon. I just don't see how we will ever convince you that you make more money when you make more money, duh--you make more money when you stop giving it all to the rich. I just don't see how we will ever convince you that social programs make real Americans' lives better. I just don't see how we will ever convince you that science works and religion doesn't. I just don't see how you'll ever figure out what your own best interests are...or understand that progressives support them. I just don't see how we will ever convince you trump voters to be honest enough with yourselves to understand reality and start working in the best interests of the nation as a whole instead of your own filthy greed--the kind that seeks to enrich itself at others' expense rather than rising all boats so we all float better.
You fuckers had every right to vote away your own current and future peace, prosperity, security, safety, equality, and justice. But you didn't have the right to destroy ours, too. You voted FOR corruption and hate and against justice, equality, love, and democracy. And for that, I will never forgive you.
Making a killing to make a killing at Standing Rock...
If you're like me, you're completely outraged at the atrocities being committed against innocent Native Americans at Standing Rock. Are you outraged enough to incur a little inconvenience today for the sake of saving lives today and tomorrow? If so, then please consider helping defund DAPL by moving your money out of the banks that are currently funding DAPL:
The video posts these numbers in its summary:
Energy Transfer Partners: (214) 981-0700
U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers: (202) 761-0010; (202) 761-0014
Department of Justice: (202)-353-1555; (202)-514-2000
I've already called and left messages for DOJ and the Army Corp of Engineers; by the time you read this, I will have called Energy Transfer Partners and the White House--I've tried calling the White House already but have not been able to get through.
The speaker in the video mentions the website http://www.defunddapl.org/
I went on there and pulled these URLs for your comfort and convenience:
Description of the action: http://www.defunddapl.org/defund
Contact your bank: http://media.wix.com/ugd/4e1500_95739a7f13244bab8d2a846edb9c4b3b.pdf
I read the bank list and contacted the two banks that my dad and I have accounts with; I was already in the process of moving money out of my old bank--for this and other reasons--and will move my dad's money unless they can show that they're divesting from DAPL. Moving my dad's money is no small inconvenience for me, but it's nothing compared to the lives we can save--both short term due to militarized police attacks and pipeline leaks and explosions and long term due to global warming. At the very least, please contact your bank if it's on the list and voice your displeasure.
Please also donate what you can to the water protectors at Standing Rock--I'm tapped out, or I'd be all over this. According to Vox (What trump's presidency may mean for the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Standing Rock Sioux), the water protectors are badly in need of winter gear, like heavy-duty camp shelters, and supplies. Donate in a loved one's name for the holidays--you will be saving lives!
http://www.ocetisakowincamp.org
https://www.paypal.me/OcetiSakowinCamp
http://standingrock.org
Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Peas, friends. Take care of yourselves for me. Trust me--you're worth it!
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Consider the preemptive Blogger phuqued-up phormatting disclaimer to be in effect. Grrr.
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AlterNet: 5 Deeply Obnoxious Things We Learned About Donald trump This Week
..."None of this should be normalized, ever."
AlterNet: Robert Reich's First 100 Days Resistance Agenda
Daily Kos: 5 Keys to Taking Down trump
...Start NOW!
Daily Kos: NYC Mayor Teaches Democrats How To Fight trump
...Time to take the glubs off, boyz 'n' girlz!
Vox: The controversy over trump's tower project in Argentina: what we know
Vox: What trump's presidency may mean for the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Standing Rock Sioux
FiveThirtyEight: We Debate Five Claims About The trump Era
Slate: A Deadly Black Friday: At Least Two Killed (One Over a Parking Spot)
Slate: Stories on Ivanka trump wanting to mace dad and porn airing on CNN shows how easily fake news spreads
Slate: How Russian propaganda used Facebook to spread fake news during ...
Politico: The Bitter Feud Behind the Law That Could Keep Jared Kushner Out Of The White House
...Fascinating piece of history: remember when JFK anointed RFK his AG, despite RFK having zero relevant experience? This piece is well worth reading for the history alone.
Vox: Donald trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won
...When chump pulls shit like this, ask yourself two questions: (1) just how wussy is chump's ego that he has to engage in such histrionics and (2) what REAL news is he trying to distract us from?
Vox: Will economic populism lead Democrats to victory? Senate results should make us skeptical.
Vox: It turns out we should have taken trump literally as well as seriously
...Friends, this is a very important article to read. When chump says something, assume he means it. Try getting some sleep tonight with THAT thot in your haid!
Vox: What the alt-right actually wants from resident trump
...This will disgust and scare you. Ick and double ick. These people all need to hop into a time machine and spend the rest of their lives in Nazi Germany and leave the rest of us the hell alone.
Vox: François Fillon, the right-wing hard-liner who just won a major French election, explained
...France's version of chump except that Fillon is actually a seasoned politician. Is the world going crazy?!?? Do we all really hate each other THAT MUCH?!??
FiveThirtyEight: War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. trump Won In A Landslide.
Politico: The New Rules for Covering Trump
...In short, call him out on his lies and demand evidence for his baseless claims, but don't get distracted from the issues he tries to hide with his wild antics--THAT'S where the news is!! And we, friends, MUST demand this from our media! Otherwise, THEY'RE FIRED!!
Vox: Why science news embargoes are bad for the public
Vox: trump's latest Cabinet picks signal he has no intention of governing as a populist outsider
...They're as disgusting as chump is. Throw them all back in the swamp, and teleport the whole stinking mess into outer space!
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"...And no tax break for you, sucker--
you're not rich enough to deserve more money!"
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"...And no tax break for you, sucker--
you're not rich enough to deserve more money!"
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Democracy Now!
Friends, please click through and read or listen to Amy Goodman's interview with Bernie. He's da bomb!!
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Jimmy Dore: an Italian writes an article in NYT on how to defeat trump just as Italy finally defeated Berlusconi. Spoiler: attack trump on his policies, not his personality. Don't protest his misogyny--protest his opposition to equal pay. Protest the policies that come out of his personality. The author advises Democrats to support chump against the Republican establishment in ways that help the American public, like reinstating Glass-Steagall, which none of them actually wants to do. I fully support this, but I've also said in my to-do list that Dems should obstruct-obstruct-obstruct. I say that because there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that chump or the Republicans would ever do anything to help the American public. But, hey, if they should, why, then, help them along. Force them to do the right thing. Jimmy Dore doesn't think Dems have any fight in them; he's certain they'll eff it up. I hates ta admit it, but I'm sure he's right. Please, friends--let's force them to do the right thing for the American public. Otherwise, it's torches-and-pitchforks time!
Keith Olbermann: Donald John trump is NOT fit to be president--he's completely unhinged. He's a clear and present threat to our democracy for denouncing the election as rigged against him because he didn't win by enough. Please--someone get him a straitjacket and a padded cell before he injures himself.
TYT: trump makes a Macri of presidential conflicts of interest
Moyers & Company on what the top 1% don't want you to know. This vid is two years old but incredibly timely right now. Please watch--it will give you perspective on the vids below.
TYT on trump's infrastructure scam--call your Democratic representatives in Senate and the House and yell at them not to roll over!
Here's a more recent video from TYT on Bernie's bone to pick with trump's infrastructure scam. I lurves me some Bernie, but I saw this coming while Bernie was still saying he'd work with trump on infrastructure. My Tea Party Christian bud is all for privatization...until it comes to the interstates he drives every day, which have been privatized into foreign-owned toll roads that charge upward of $14.00 one way at rush hour. Then, he gets r-e-a-l quiet.... TYT makes a great point about not running government like business because there are so many government programs that do not and should not make money. Wish I could convince my Tea Party Christian friend of that.
TYT: Paul Ryan is coming for your Medicare: "Medicare as we know it is done." If he pulls it off in time to skroo my dad's Medicare, I may hafta move us to friendlier climes--Medicare is doing yeoman's work keeping my dad alive and well, but, of course, Republicans want to take that all away so that the people with w-a-y too much money can haz even moar. Fucking bastards.
Ring of Fire on Paul Ryan's plan to kill Medicare, which, despite Paul Ryan's lies, has MORE money now than it did BEFORE Obamacare BECAUSE OF Obamacare. If you thot for one minute that not all Republicans are liars, you'd be wrong. Paul Ryan doesn't give a flying fuck how many innocent Americans he kills by denying them health care, but, hey...it's no one he knows.
Ring of Fire: trump wants to dismantle Social Security, which is also doing yeoman's work keeping my dad alive and well. Fucker. He needs to just GO AWAY NOW. Oh, and the same Republican fuckers who crashed the economy in the chimp years are still in power and are lusting to crash the economy again. All they had to do last time was deregulate Wall Street, which is what trump and the Republicans want to do again this time. FML.
How many times have I said that trump wants to turn the rest of America into Kansas? Well...TYT agrees with me. Phuque...there are some times I really hate being right.
TYT presents the whistleblower whom Energy Transfer Partners wishes would just go away. The company has been covering up all the toxic spills that have injured and killed wildlife and people...including the people who get sick from eating the wildlife and local fish.
TYT: an eye witness describes how the militarized Morton County oil police nearly blew off Sophia Wilansky's arm with the concussion grenade as she was running with her back toward them--alone, unarmed, and obviously no threat. She was running because she was injured and frightened from already having been hit with rubber bullets and who knows what else--and they DELIBERATELY TARGETED her with that grenade at short range, 20-30 feet. Those sick, sick motherfuckers. Make no mistake: THE MORTON COUNTY OIL POLICE ARE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS. THEY BELONG IN JAIL. To donate to Sophia's recovery: https://www.gofundme.com/30aezxs
Here's a video from 16 November from TYT: drone footage shows the police violence, proving that the police LIE.
And don't forget, as Bobby Kennedy, Jr., points out to Thom Hartmann, that chump has a $2 million stake in DAPL...
Keith Olbermann says we can get rid of trump surprisingly easily. If only the Republicans had the ethics to do it...like I've said,
And why not get rid of trump ASAP? He couldn't be a bigger hypocrite. TYT presents one example: Donald John trump took $150,000.00 from a Ukrainian billionaire oligarch for a 21-minute video speech--it was personal income that he reported as income to his foundation...something that he accused Hillary of doing that he himself does. What's truly amazing: trump's speech throws his bromance butt buddy PEWtin under the bus for being aggressive toward Ukraine. I wonder if PEWtin didn't slap trump's
chump is such an incurious, uninformed, clueless moron that he has no idea what net neutrality is. Wants to get rid of it anyway.
If that's not enough, Paul Ryan hates you, too. He gives himself away by lumping regulatory "red tape" in with issues that actually affect ordinary Americans' daily lives. The problem? Regulations make us safer. They make our food, water, environment, and workplaces safer. Oh, but they cut into profits, so we can't have that. Paul Ryan and Donald John trump may as well just come out and say, "FUCK YOU, AMERICA!!!!! GIVE US RICH PEOPLE ALL YOUR MONEY AND THEN GO DIE ALREADY!!!!!"
Trevor Noah wraps up chump's fascist week
'Til next time, check out these great channels:
Randi Rhodes Air Force
Late Night with Seth Meyers
LastWeekTonight
Secular Talk
The Young Turks
The Thinking Atheist
MisterDeity
NonStampCollector
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Memes & Funnies
In case you missed it this year, Alice's Restaurant Massacree...
...And yes--it really happened!
And now, a dark smile from Dot Calm from the archives:
Gobble Gobble ... aarrrggghhhh!
Time to start thinking about Thanksgiving, folks...it is fast approaching. Hope we get to see that moving slice of film where Sarah Palin is being interviewed at a turkey farm while...I’m not kidding...a turkey was having its neck rung behind her.
There stood our lovely Sarah, oblivious to what was happening. She was there to engage in the time-honored practice of pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving, obviously not that one.
The interview was going swimmingly until a worker appears in the background shoving a couple of turkeys neck-first into the death grinder while our Sarah yammered on.
Hmmm, starting to feel all warm and fuzzy and in the holiday mood?
Once the pathetic creature went limp (the turkey, that is), the “murderer” casually tossed it into a large barrel I assume was filled with dead turkeys. SNL couldn’t have written a more bizarre skit.
So much for pardoning a turkey at Thanksgiving in Wasilla.
A New Tradition is Born
Along with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this film should be shown on an annual basis like It’s A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street is shown around the Christmas festivities.
You really have to watch this video if you missed it last Thanksgiving.
There stood our lovely Sarah, oblivious to what was happening. She was there to engage in the time-honored practice of pardoning a turkey for Thanksgiving, obviously not that one.
The interview was going swimmingly until a worker appears in the background shoving a couple of turkeys neck-first into the death grinder while our Sarah yammered on.
Hmmm, starting to feel all warm and fuzzy and in the holiday mood?
Once the pathetic creature went limp (the turkey, that is), the “murderer” casually tossed it into a large barrel I assume was filled with dead turkeys. SNL couldn’t have written a more bizarre skit.
So much for pardoning a turkey at Thanksgiving in Wasilla.
A New Tradition is Born
Along with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this film should be shown on an annual basis like It’s A Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street is shown around the Christmas festivities.
You really have to watch this video if you missed it last Thanksgiving.
Seems that where ever Sarah goes, disaster follows.
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TRUMP CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT Amazon
If you need a good laugh right now, check out the Amazon reviews on this piece of crap Trump Christmas ornament ($209.99) and if you have time add your own 1 star review.
If you need a good laugh right now, check out the Amazon reviews on this piece of crap Trump Christmas ornament ($209.99) and if you have time add your own 1 star review.
"The only Christmas ornament that will try to deport your nativity scene."
"Not safe if you have cats in the house."
"Singing "White Christmas" as I put this on the tree."
"It's a 4 at best , I like ornaments that are a 10."
"Not safe if you have cats in the house."
"Singing "White Christmas" as I put this on the tree."
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WTF: TDL
(Welcome To the Fight: To-Do List)
Action List
PROTECT yourself financially and reproductively.
If you need a loan, get it NOW--rates have already gone up; they went up at least three times between the election and the end of last week. MOVE your retirement out of the stock market and into a stable fund that is guaranteed NOT to lose your principal.
If you're a woman of reproductive age, stock up on Plan B NOW. If you 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 the swamp creatures. Just call your Senators and Representatives and tell them 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, 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 at 202-456-1111:
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.
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,
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.
*****
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!
Want to boycott trump? There's an app for that!
And here's a list of trump companies.
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!
6pm
Contact info: (888) 676-2660, HQ- (702) 943-7777
cs@6pm.com
Amazon
Contact info: (888) 280-4331 HQ- (206) 266-1000
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html?skip=true
Belk
Contact info: (866) 235-5443 HQ- (704) 357-1000
http://www.belkfeedback.com/(X(1)S(sbbxm3z11e1guxbtctk2wdkc))/Index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Bloomingdale's
Contact info: (800) 777-0000 HQ- (212) 705-2000
http://survey.medallia.com/?blm-tuwyt-com
Bluefly
Contact info: (877) 258-3359 HQ- (212) 944-8000
flyrep@bluefly.com
The Bon-Ton
Contact info: (800) 233-7626 HQ- (800) 937-5449
http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm
Bed Bath and Beyond
Contact info: (800) 462-3966 HQ- (908) 688-0888
https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/selfservice/ContactUs?…
Burlington Coat Factory
Contact info: (855) 355-2875 HQ- (609) 387-7800
http://www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/contactus.aspx
Carson's
Contact info: (800) 945-4438 HQ- (317) 971-6200
http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm
Century 21 department store
Contact info: (877) 350-2121 HQ- (888) 221-2551
https://www.c21stores.com/contact
Dillard's
Contact info: (800) 345-5273 HQ- (501) 376-5200
http://www.dillards.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContactUs
DSW Shoes
Contact info: (866) 379-7463 HQ- (614) 237-7100
http://www.dsw.com/dsw_shoes/customer_service/send_email.jsp
Hudson’s Bay
Contact info: (800) 521-2364 HQ- (800) 521-2364
https://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores…
HSN
Contact info: (800) 284-3900 HQ- (727) 872-1000
https://www.hsn.com/cs/email_us/default.aspx
Jet
Contact Info: (855) 538-4323 HQ- (844) 538-2255
help@jet.com
Lord & Taylor
Contact info: (800) 223-7440 HQ- (212) 391-3344
https://www.lordandtaylor.com/webapp/wcs/stores…
Macy’s
Contact info: (800) 289-6229 HQ- (513) 579-7000
http://survey.medallia.com/?mcy-tuwyt-com
Marshalls and TJ Maxx
Contact info: (888) 627-7425 HQ- (508) 390-1000
https://www.marshallsonline.com/contact-us
Neiman Marcus
Contact info: (888) 888-4757 HQ- (562) 463-9333
https://www.neimanmarcus.com/assistance/contactUs.jsp
Nordstrom
Contact info: (888) 282-6060 HQ- (206) 628-2111
https://nordstrom.custhelp.com/app/ask/incidents.c$sent_queueid/12
Overstock.com
Contact info: (800) 843-2446 HQ- (801) 947-3100
https://help.overstock.com/app/ask
Perfumania
Contact info: (866) 557-2368 HQ- (800) 228-3489
http://perfumaniaholdings.com/contact
Saks Off Fifth
Contact info: (877) 551-7257 HQ- (212) 320-4700
https://www.saksoff5th.com/contactus
Stein Mart
Contact info: (888) 783-4662 HQ- (904) 346-1500
http://ir.steinmart.com/contactus.cfm
Wayfair
Contact info: (866) 263-8325 HQ- (617) 532-6100
https://www.wayfair.com/help/faq.php
Winners
Contact info: (514) 788 4949 HQ- (905) 405-8000
https://www.winners.ca/en/contact
Zappos
Contact info: (800) 927-7671 HQ- (702) 943-7777
https://secure-www.zappos.com/contact
Zulily
Contact info: (877) 779-5615 HQ- (206) 724-0500
http://www.zulily.com/contacts
OK, friends--let's get busy!
posted by Dot Calm @ 8:27 PM
