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!
GENERAL STRIKE NOW!!!!! TRUMP'S ACTIONS ARE UNACCEPTABLE!!!!! REPUBLICANS' RULE-BREAKING IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!!! DEMOCRATS' CAVING IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!!! SHUT IT ALL DOWN NOW!!!!!
Greetings again, friends.
I'm leaving Tuesday's post in place and just updating it so that you can still read it--so that this post won't knock it into the archive.Apparently, Blogger has its panties in a knot--AGAIN!!--so I have to post both daze posts separately. Phuque, I hate having to fight with the goddamn tools....
Sonofabitch, dear ones--I gotcher n00z, and it is all bad.
The Virginia contingent of the SOPROUD rapid response team heard that Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) voted FOR Rexxon Tillerson--KNOWN climate science denier. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Joe Manchin (D-WVA), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Angus King (I-ME) also voted for Rexxon--the bastards!!!!!
I will post a wall of shame--Dems who voted for ANY trump nominee--so that we know whom to vote AGAINST in 2018.
Srsly--there was ZERO risk to them in voting against every trump nominee, but there's plenty of risk to them in voting FOR the ignorant, greedy, corrupt, lying, criminal bastards.
If these Democratic bastards are not fighting FOR us, they're FIRED. Half-baked, half-hearted, half-assed defenses will not help us now--we're ALL skr00ed.
The risk of filibustering Neil Gorsuch and every other trump nominee is minimal in the sense that there is an election coming up in 2018: Dems are going to have to fight tooth and nail lest we oust them wholesale. But I don't think they realize that yet...
Smh, smh.
Grrrrrr!
One thing I can say: there are a few pearls of good news today: apparently, there IS going to be a general strike 17 February (I think)--I'll find out more about it and post when I do. Mark Warner's website now has a page dedicated to nominations so you can go in and tell him how you disapprove of each one individually--I'm doing a few each evening when I get home from work. Things ain't exactly looking up, but at least people are fighting mad, and they're getting active and actually DOING something about this fucking mess we're in.
So hang in there, friends--we CAN do this!
Scroll down to the peas--I'll meetcha down there. I'm ready for a goddamn Fireball at this point, and I'll bet you are, too. I had another late start blawgging today, so the rest of whatever it was I had to say will have to wait til next time...assuming I still remember it all.
Oh, and pardon the typos etc. in Tuesday's post and todaze update--I simply don't have time to make a proofreading pass this evening, duh. Maybe tomorrow, assuming chump doesn't get us all nuked to hell by then....
- Dot Calm's shadow
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IMPEACH "PRESIDENT" BAN'EM DEPORT trump FIRE MARK WARNER
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Get involved--sign a petition! Oh, look--here comes one now! It's from ActionNetwork.org, so you know it's gotta be good...
In the course of the most disastrous and alarming first days of any presidency in our nation's history, Donald Trump's administration has ...
blocked health care to millions of women around the world,
threatened to close down all federal domestic violence programs,
appointed an apparent white nationalist to the White House staff and the National Security Council,
on Holocaust Remembrance Day, failed to mention the Nazi regime's Jewish victims,
also on Holocaust Remembrance Day, issued a blanket travel ban against citizens of majority Muslim countries, causing panic around the world and affecting around 90,000 refugees, dual passport holders, and U.S. permanent residents, then firing the acting Attorney General when she refused to defend the ban,
recklessly turned the goodwill of the Mexican and Chinese governments into hostility,
been in violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which forbids elected officials from accepting any kind of payment or consideration from foreign governments, from his first day in office,
used legislative branch staff do work for the executive branch without telling Congress,
rolled back an interest rate cut for homeowners,
gone back on his promise to negotiate lower prescription drug prices,
forbidden civil servants from communicating with the media or the public regarding their work and research,
threatened the media and called for journalists who report on the administration's dishonesty to be fired,
and directed the Department of Homeland Security to begin construction of a wasteful, destructive wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.
That's only the beginning.
This administration is a disgrace, even without considering Trump's extensive known and suspected ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and other white nationalists at home and abroad. They're a disgrace even without considering Trump's praise of brutal authoritarian leaders in Turkey, India, and the Phillippines, on the basis of that brutality.
In less than a month, our country went from shaking hands with China's leaders on a climate deal, to senior officials in both governments talking openly about the possibility of war. That's how badly this preidency is going. I don't want to see how much worse it can get.
The Guardian: 'My worst nightmare': high-skilled tech workers fear Trump visa crackdown
..What sucks about this story is that the FUNDIES HATE SCIENCE, so trump's "tech sector" will be chock full of all-American flat-earthers and hard-sky-ers who get their science from their preachers every Sunday and who think you can breed striped goats by making unmarked goats look at striped scenery while mating....
VICE: The Painful Legacy of Australia's Forced Adoption Policy
...Once the state owns women's bodies, it can tell them whether, when, how, and with whom to have children. It can mandate forced birth, or it can mandate forced abortions, like China's one-child policy that led to an entire generation of men without prospective wives because daughters are so devalued there. And, of course, once the state owns women's bodies, it's not a huge stretch for the state to decide it owns ALL bodies...including babies, which it can then decide to adopt out--without the mother's permission. Let that sink in for a moment....
Patients treated by foreign-educated doctors less likely to die, study finds
...I read this on the way home on VICE, but it-snot showing up on my non-cell-phone mobile computing DEEvice. Hm. Guess you'll hafta settle for statnews (whatever the F that is) instead. But think about that headline for a minute, even if you don't click through to the article...isn't it good to know that trump will deport every last foreigner so that Americans can die more easily at the hands of American-educated doctors? Again, what do you expect when your population gets its science education from the pulpit vice the classroom? What do you expect when Teathuglikkkants have their minions trained to disbelieve in vaccines, evolution, and climate change? Things that make you go, "Huuuuuuuurrrrr?!??"
VICE: Could a General Strike Against Trump Actually Work?
...The answer is "yes," but we have to be organized in what we want, and we have to get the word out and the attendance up--and if you choose to strike, too, then DO NOT go to work, DO NOT buy anything...just DON'T. Just stay home, unplug, and read a book. Srsly. Give the economy as big of a hit as you can by just not playing that day. Ya know what my demands are? I'll take "DEPORT TRUMP" for starters--send the boi back to PEWtin's arms in Mother Russia.
The Trump administration has announced plans to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants living in so-called sanctuary ... Read More →
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During a chaotic day on Capitol Hill, the Senate confirmed Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson by a vote of 56 to 43. Reuters reports it was the closest vote—by a wide ... Read More →
New information is emerging that the U.S. State Department has provisionally revoked all nonimmigrant and immigrant visas of nationals from Iraq, Iran, Libya, ... Read More →
Prominent white supremacist and Donald Trump supporter Richard Spencer has praised Trump for not mentioning in a statement commemorating ... Read More →
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President Donald Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night, just hours after she announced the Justice Department would not defend ... Read More →
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We turn now to Sarsour v. Trump—a sweeping lawsuit the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed Monday challenging Trump's executive order temporarily ... Read More →
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"If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" Trump tweeted. READ MORE»
The record is relatively sparse, but the Denver-based jurist is aware of the contradiction in state and federal pot policy. He also goes easy on police. READ MORE»
Last week, I stood staring at my bathroom shelf. How many new rolls of toilet paper should I buy? The question is so difficult it makes my throat close up. READ MORE»
Weighing in is Elizabeth Holtzman, a former U.S. congresswoman who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard Nixon. READ MORE»
You can now legally possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana and up to six plants in the state. But you'll have to wait awhile for pot shops to open. READ MORE»
Citizen-led climate action is going on trial. READ MORE»
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M00bies
trump is ISIS's BESTEST RECRUITER EVAR, and WE are under a bloodless COUP.... Srsly, friends--don't miss this video.
Put Merrick Garland in--HE is unimpeachable according to BOTH sides of the aisle. Like Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. But by accepting Judge Garland's STOLEN SCOTUS seat, Neil Gorsuch is receiving STOLEN PROPERTY?!?? Randi lists five Senators who voted for Rexxon--the bastards.
DONALD JOHN TRUMP IS AIDING THE ENEMY!!!!! donald john trump is ISIS's Bestest Recruiter Evar!!!!! trump WANTS ISIS to murder Americans--especially on American soil. Otherwise, he would NOT have BANNED MUSLIMS, duh....
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Memes & ...well, nothing seems funneh today
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Hey, trump!
Your stinking wall
won't keep them illegals out!
Ain'tcha ever heard
of them new-fangled invention
the aereoplane?
Them thangs flies OVER walls!
THAT's how the people get in.
No, sir...
You don't need no wall.
What YOU need
is a DOME
(like your bald haid)
!
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(Now click to the 31 January post in the archive to keep reading...grumble, grumble!)
