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.
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.
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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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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
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?
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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:
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Democracy Now!
Vox
Conservatives are Destroying our Future
Conservative Clown Car
God, the Good Lord Above
Democratic Underground
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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Actually, I found a lot of interesting--and scary--stuff on Conservative Clown Car yesterday. Here's one:
http://forward.com/culture/
...I read the pose as chump turning his back on the rubes who voted for him. And he's most definitely using his posture to hide something nasty.
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!
A word from Vox
Donald Trump canceled his planned press conference on how he'll extricate himself from his business
...As if we didn't see this coming! Hey, now...you didn't really think he'd divest himself, let alone 100%, did you? I figure anyone who did must be a trump voter--only they would be that gullible! Hey, rube!
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.
Either Harry Reid has an explosive secret on Trump's Russia ties or he's just making things up
...GIVE TRUMP HELL, HARRY!!!!!
Donald Trump's expected pick for secretary of state is a Putin-friendly Exxon CEO
Mitch McConnell just backed a bipartisan investigation into whether Russia helped Trump win
..."The Russians are not our friends," the Senate majority leader said. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Trump's team is asking for the names of Energy Department employees who worked on climate issues
...Scary shit right here. Looks like the trumpistas are setting up their bonfire to torch a few witches....
Goldman Sachs alumni will have the 2 top Trump economic policy jobs
...Read this article. It will scare the shit outta you! We are so fucked it-snot even funny....
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's tweets fit a pattern of harassment Twitter has banned before
...Friends, write to Twitter and tell them to BAN TRUMP PERMANENTLY NOW!!!!!
Call 415-222-9670, report Donald trump's use of Twitter to harass people at https://support.twitter.com/forms, and see The Best Way to Contact Twitter Through Email Support - Follows.com for more!
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!
A new report shows the hell LGBTQ kids go through in school
The Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight. Go outside.
And the rest
Daily Wire: Nate Silver: Hillary Would Have Won Without Comey Letter
POLITICO: When Daily Intelligence Briefings Prevented a Nuclear War
...Donald john trump is a FOOL for skipping his daily intelligence briefings, and this article spells out why. Cheeto Benito is risking OUR national security for his own vanity out of his own hubris and ignorance. Please, dear Electoral College--keep Donald john trump OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
POLITICO: Here's What America Needs to Know About Trump and Russia
...And this is from a subject matter expert, friends--you know, the kind of people Republicans hate.
POLITICO: Covering Politics in a 'Post-Truth' America
...Good luck, us.
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.
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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 is exactly the kind of demagogue the Electoral College was created to stop. Will you sign my petition urging the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton?
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.
Will you sign my petition urging the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton?
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.
Sign the petition calling on "Conscientious Electors" to protect the Constitution from Donald Trump, and to support the national popular vote winner.
Thank you,
Diane Russell
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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 is exactly the kind of demagogue the Electoral College was created to stop. Will you sign my petition urging the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton?
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.
Will you sign my petition urging the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton?
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.
Sign the petition calling on "Conscientious Electors" to protect the Constitution from Donald Trump, and to support the national popular vote winner.
Thank you,
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- 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.
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Russians are awesome, but PEWtin stinks.
Kinda like Americans are awesome, but chimp stank and chump stinks even worse!
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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.
Once you've placed the call, please click here to tell us how it went.
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+ The Right to Money: We Need to Discuss This Big Economic Idea + How Heroin Deaths Compare to Gun Homicides + Unlike America, Israel Gets 30 Percent of Its Water from the Ocean + Why We Should Shower Less + If 39% of Prisoners in America Pose No Threat to Public Safety, Why Are They Still in Jail? Talk to you soon, Matthew
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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!
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Bonus from HuffPo! If you likey, I keepy.
In Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike are demanding more clarity about Moscow’s role.
“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.”
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M00bies
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.
Here--have a giggle courtesy of SNL
'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
...Donald trump skips out
on NEARLY ALL
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...doesn't he remember
slamming Obama
for skipping fewer than half?
on NEARLY ALL
of his intelligence briefings
...doesn't he remember
slamming Obama
for skipping fewer than half?
SOPROUD: TDL
(Save Our Planet--Resist Orange Ugly donald: To-Do List)
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.
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!
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,
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.
TELL Twitter to BAN TRUMP PERMANENTLY NOW!!!!!
Call 415-222-9670, report Donald trump's use of Twitter to harass people at https://support.twitter.com/forms, and see The Best Way to Contact Twitter Through Email Support - Follows.com for more!
JOIN SOPROUD by joining organizations working to protect our future! SIGN UP at http://workingfamilies.org/ and find an emergency meeting near you!
And don't forget to SUPPORT those in The Resistance who support YOU! If we all chip in a buck o' five, WE CAN DO THIS THING!!!!!
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Boycott List
Boycott Victoria's Secret--they kick out shoppers who are guilty of shopping while Black!
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 @ 6:23 PM
