F17--THE NATIONWIDE GENERAL STRIKE IS ON!!!!!
Friends, I am posting a 9 Feb update to the 7 Feb post rather than putting together a whole new post. Scroll down, and I'll point out where the additions are (look for "[NEW]"). Peas!
-- Dot Calm's shadow
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.
STAY WOKE!!!!!
DON'T GIVE IN
STAY ANGRY
trump voters stayed angry for eight years,
which is why we are having this conversation.
STAY WOKE!!!!!
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Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!
Good n00z--
the GENERAL STRIKE
is ON!
17 February 2017
Click the links below and check it out...
Home page:
http://f17strike.com/
How to participate and what to do:
http://f17strike.com/how-to-participate
Friends, this is not a national day off--this is not for funsies.
This is a day of WORK, and we have a lot to do!
Want some moar good n00z?
How about a progressive take-over of the Democratic Party from within?
Friends, shake hands with the Justice Democrats!
We don't need no steenkin' corporate Democrats, like Cory Booker who denounced Jeff Sessions one day and sold US out to Big Pharm the next.
We don't need no steenkin' corporate Democrats, like Mark Warner who voted FOR destroying the environment--and, likely, the human species--by voting FOR Rexxon Tillerson when DINO Warner would have lost NOTHING and gained our unconditional support by voting against him.
We don't need no steenkin' corporate Democrats who are only too willing to rubber-stamp ALL of trump's nominees, including handing over Merrick Garland's SCOTUS seat to uber-right-winger Neil Gorsuch without so much as batting an eyelash.
See all about it here with Kyle Kulinski:
...The only topic I think he missed was reproductive rights; however, the platform fully supports a woman's right to the health care of her choice, including birth control and abortion, and Planned Parenthood.
So, for all the clusterfuckery and shitstormedness of chump's first weeks in office, at least there is the encouraging n00z that we reasonable, sane, and informed people are NOT taking it lying down, as our elected, corrupt Democratic officials are (with a tip o' the hat to the few, the strong, the notable exceptions like Al Franken, of course).
Unfortunately, though, since impeachment begins in the House, it looks like we are stuck with the assfuckery that is donald john trump until after the 2018 midterm elections...
...I sure hope that everyone who did NOT vote for Hillary is happy right now because they are getting exactly what they voted for--the bastards--everyone fucked over except the rich, white, straight, Christian men.
As Albert Camus once wrote, "It is the responsibility of every thinking person not to side with his or her executioner."
Perhaps, one day, I'll figure out why that is such a difficult concept for so many Americans to grasp.
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Despite the good n00z...such as it is...there is still plenty to do right now!
1. If you can, sign up for the 29 April 2017 People's Climate March. I called into the telecon Monday evening and found it very useful. Two things stuck out: People's Climate Movement is rather new, so it's small and not yet well funded. However, they're working with the other climate organizations to build the movement and fight trump's disastrous Big Oil, Big Destruction, Big Money, Big Death agenda.
2. If you can't make the climate march but can come out a week earlier--Earch Day, 22 April 2017--then please sign up for the March for Science. The climate telecon had nearly a thousand callers-in, some of whom lamented that it would be really difficult to attend both marches. I know it took me a week to recover from the Women's March, and I'm local. PCM suggested combining with the science march, but the science march wasn't interested, seeing the protection of science as a separate issue. I disagree in the sense that we have trump's disastrous Big Oil, Big Destruction, Big Money, Big Death agenda BECAUSE of all the climate SCIENCE DENIAL. So, I'll be one of the many PCM callers-in contacting the science march people to try to get them to combine with the climate march.
3. Go help NASA archive their data--wiki wiki! (Read about it here and click through to the links if you're too lazy to check the archive of this blawg for a direct link.)
4. Go call trump's businesses and make them pass along your comments to him! Here's the link: https://whitehouseinc.org/...have fun, kidz!
5. Contact Nordstrom's and Neiman Marcus and THANK them for dumping trump! Amazon may be caving, too, to pressure to ditch Breitbart, so keep bugging Amazon and the rest of 'em to do what's in EVERYONE's best interests--not just in the best interests of white supremacists, haters, bigots, and racists--by signing this petition and boycotting the offending advertisers: https://actions.sumofus.org/a/
6. [NEW] If you haven't already, go check out the Indivisible guide: https://www.indivisibleguide.
7. [NEW] Sign this fun petition!
Tell Australia: "We're sorry our president is such an ass."
8. Scroll down and get caught up on todaze headlines and m00bies!
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Hey, trump,
you so-called president...
I'm not criticizing you:
I'm giving you alternative praise.
Hey, trump,
you so-called president...
I'm not criticizing you:
I'm giving you alternative praise.
-- Dot Calm's shadow
*****Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:
Michael Moore's FB page -- go here first and do whatever activism he suggests
Daily Kos
AlterNet
Democracy Now!
Democratic Underground
Boing Boing
Vox
Conservatives are Destroying our Future
Conservative Clown Car
God, the Good Lord Above
...skip the media outlets in the boycott list unless you want trump propaganda. And TELL their advertisers WHY you are boycotting those media outlets!
And check out these great channels:
Randi Rhodes Air Force
Keith Olbermann: The Resistance
Thom Hartmann
Late Night with Seth Meyers
LastWeekTonight
Secular Talk
The Young Turks
The Thinking Atheist
MisterDeity
NonStampCollector
Peas, friends. Take care of yourselves for me. Trust me--you're worth it! And go have a Fireball and some chocolate while you still can, will ya? Time is short now that the mouth of
- Dot Calm's shadow
Consider the preemptive Blogger phuqued-up phormatting disclaimer to be in effect. Grrr.
-- Dot Calm's shadow
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Headlines
Choo choo time
The Independent: Donald Trump's team 'having meetings in the dark as they can't find right light switch in White House'
...The so-called president "is also reportedly obsessed with TV coverage and decorating." Apparently, they have no idea where the various rooms are and just resort to trying whichever doors they come to to see which ones are open...!
The Hill: Retired general re Trump's Putin remarks: "One could argue that's the most anti-American statement ever made by the president of the United States"
National Geographic: U.S. Animal Abuse Records Deleted—What We Stand to Lose
...Friends, chump is sucking us down the memory hole! This is why you HAVE to go to the NASA website and help archive their data! I'm on it, too!
Andy Borowitz at The New Yorker (yes, it's satire!): DeVos Confirmation Makes Immigrants America's Only Source of Educated People
US Uncut: Trump's Walk of Fame Star Might Be Removed Because People Keep Peeing on It
BuzzFeed: 15 Iconic American Things That Wouldn't Exist Without Immigrants
Vulture: Josh Gad Sings "You're Making Things Up Again Conway" In Response To Fake Bowling Green Massacre
Vulture: House of Cards Creator Tweets "Declaration of Resistance" Calling for Trump's Impeachment
VICE: 11 Albums You Should Buy on Bandcamp Right Now to Support the ACLU
Vox: Sweden's deputy prime minister trolled Trump with a feminist photo op
...I love it! All women, all signing on to protect the climate--a great big FUCK YOU to trump!
Vox: I read Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch's book. It's very revealing.
...In short, Neil thinks that all life is sacred from conception onward unless it's evil Black and Brown people we hafta kill in our war-wars.
The Guardian: Russia demands apology from Fox News for Bill O'Reilly calling Putin a killer
...What kind of bizarr0 world are we living in when BillO actually gets something right and PEWtin boldly demands for FUX Noise, which USUALLY lies, to lie to him by apologizing for breaking its rules by telling one rare, lonely, little truth?
Reuters: Over 9.2 million sign for Obamacare amid Trump repeal push
VICE: A Veterans Group Aired a Brutal Anti-Trump Ad on His Favorite Morning Show
...VoteVets is the group behind the ad; the ad is brilliant; the show is one of MSNBC's FUX Noise knock-offs--"Morning Joe"--because trump can't read and gets all his information on the teevee instead.
BuzzFeed: If You Look Closely, Lady Gaga's Halftime Show Seemed Very, Very Political
...Yep, that's how it looked to me, too. And I loved it! Alas, I was rooting for the Falcons...*sigh*
Vox:
...It links to ACLU! Go send 'em a buck o' five!
Vox: Cable news is channeling The Daily Show to cover the Trump era
Vox: Report: Donald Trump is deeply upset that SNL chose a woman to play Sean Spicer
...Great--let's find a woman to play donald trump! I hear Rosie O'Donnell is champing at the bit to take the part!
Vox: Obama's top economist says Trump's case for gutting investor protections makes no sense
...Because of course it doesn't! Except as a hand-out to the rich.
Vox: There are now twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs in the US
Vox: Neo-monarchist blogger denies he's chatting with Steve Bannon
...People like this snot-nosed moron and the Milo snot-nosed moron have grown up so safe and protected that they have no earthly clue what rights and privileges they are working so hard to throw away and take away from the rest of us. They and their ilk--so tired of democracy--really need to move to Iran...they'll be so much happier there, and we'll be worlds better off without their filth here.
Vox: Why Iran's supreme leader just thanked Trump for his Muslim ban
...trump is the Bestest Recruiter for Islamic Terrorists EVAR!
Vox: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: change the Electoral College
...All I can say is that I hope and pray to Atheist God that she survives 2017--trump's last year in office!
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The Guardian: Trump fears terrorists, but more Americans are shot dead by toddlers
Vox: Trump's Supreme Court nominee condemns Trump's attacks on the judiciary
...Am I just being paranoid, or does this sound like posturing to garner support from Democrats? FUCK OFF, NEIL, YOU FASCIST SCUM!!!!!
Vox: Elizabeth Warren couldn't read this letter on the Senate floor. Why did Jeff Merkley get to?
...Go to Democratic Underground (linked above the peas) and read Coretta Scott King's letter for yourself. If you want the letter and Ms. King's entire statement, check out WaPo here. That said, methinks that the repukes just poked the wrong bear, ha! I dunno about you, but I'm already polishing my can o' whupass for TURDleman and his ilk...
The New York Times:
...If cheeto benito wants to withhold federal money from California, he'll be in a world of hurt when California reciprocates by withholding its federal taxes. Damn, son--if only I could get me work in San Diego, methinks I'd be pushing for Calexit...
The New York Times: New York Today: Documenting Hate Crimes
...The deplorables have only gotten bolder since the mouth of
VICE: How and When You Should Leak Government Secrets
...Check out this handy dandy guide to holding the gubmint accountable in the age of post-truth, post-accountability, alternative reality Christo-fascist dictatorship...[urk!]...!
VICE: Mutated Fish Still Haunt Louisiana's Fishermen After the BP Oil Spill
...Just think, boyz 'n' girlz--orange twitler (or is that twatler?) and Rexxon and the Koch-suckers and all their ilk want the WHOLE COUNTRY to look JUST LIKE LOUISIANA, yay! ...URRRRK!!!
VICE: Top Advisor Scorches Exxon's Harassment of Environmentalists in Her Resignation Letter
...Rexxon doesn't take kindly to being invited to become a better corporate citizen. Rexxon would rather hide the data, lie to the public, maim and murder innocent Americans, and shoot the non-profit messenger for suggesting that there might be a more constructive, respectable way to go. I shit you not!
VICE: A Cheap New Metamaterial Offers Air Conditioning Without Air Conditioners
...It's still all very sciencey and researchy, friends, but maybe something good will come out of it before we fry the planet and ourselves along with it.
VICE: Is the Trump White House Turning into QVC?
...Illegal, schmillegal--there's no job too foul that Sewer Rat Propaganda Barbie Kellyanne Conjob won't do it for a buck. Hum, I wonder what she'll say when chump stiffs her pay like he does everyone else...!
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Malice, incompetence flow unchecked
from our so-called president.
trump is a disaster--
everyone agrees with me.
He's a DISASTER!
Bad.
-- Dot Calm's shadow,
now featuring trumpspeak
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Kellyanne Conjob
thinks all of us liberals
jamming Capitol Hill's switchboard
aren't "real"...
Let's tell her
we're alternative Republicans!
Kellyanne Conjob
thinks all of us liberals
jamming Capitol Hill's switchboard
aren't "real"...
Let's tell her
we're alternative Republicans!
-- Dot Calm's shadow
*****M00bies!
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Friends, this is fucking dangerous: those around chump, like ban'em, can manipulate him into doing whatever they want. Like signing an executive order that places ban'em in the National Security Council without reading it first. Or like approving a doomed military raid in Yemen. To make chump pounce on the latter, all they had to do was tell him that OBUMMER didn't have the BAWLS to approve the raid...
trumpism is simply teathuglikkkantism writ large, which is simply the Gish Gallop of governance writ large...
A-yup...nothing trump likes more than skr00ing over veterans, yessiree bob...
Teathuglikkkants are such phuquen hypocrites...Grrrr!!!
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Let's review--shall we?--just 50 of the most moronic things so-called president trump has done SO FAR since the inAUGHuration...
Dumb shit--sux for her famBly, but it serves her right...what the phuque did she THINK was going to happen, duh?!?? I mean, cheez, she VOTED for the guy...!
The so-called president is no so-called traitor--as far as traitors go, trump is as genuine as it gets.
orange twitler uses the National
Randi Rhodes is my go-to gal for timely, in-depth information. Her vids are NOT to be missed!
Here's the 84 Lumber ad: http://www.journey84.com/?_ga=1.165913021.2087453004.1486517905#whole-story
...It's sweet, beautiful, and moving. It celebrates the best of America--what actually does make Americans and good people everywhere great. Do click through and watch it!
So, it begins...trump is deregulating the hen-devouring Wall Street foxes who crashed the economy last time, in 2008 (that's BEFORE O'Bama was inaugurated, in case any FUX Noise adherents are reading this today). So get ready for the next crash, friends--I imagine it may come even more swiftly for chumpie than it did for chimpie--after all, deregulating Wall Street is only one tactic chump is using to crash the economy. Can you say pissing off our ALLIES? Or giving the store away to trump bromance butt buddy PEWtin? Can you say serial trade wars? How about a few hot wars? Don't say we didn't warn you!
Don't anyone DARE tell me that teathuglikkkants are pro-life when they're pro-pollution and the sickness and premature death that come with pollution...
Another teathuglikkkant pro-death measure: make sure that the mentally incompetent can buy all the guns their little hearts desire!
DONALD TRUMP CAN ONLY BARELY READ! Oh yes, friends, welcome to shades of chimpie holding "My Pet Goat" upside-down and Rick "still a moron even WITH glasses" Perry: Samantha Bee first half-jokingly broke the story that donald trump can't read, but David Pakman takes a more serious look at chump's lack o' literacy skills. It's comical that trump pretends he needs glasses to read when there seems to be zero evidence of him ever wearing glasses...and why the hell trump doesn't get audio books so he can "read" some of those precious biographies he claims to want to read...! Personally, while I totally agree with David's remarks that the illiterate or trumpesquely barely literate suffer in their cognitive abilities and strategic thinking skills--in other words, to any reasonably intelligent observer, it's abundantly clear that trump can't think straight and is incoherent more often than not--I think David and Samantha are both a little too polite: since trump has given us all permission to dispense with political correctness, I say let's just call trump a retard. Remember, mental disability and/or mental illness do not make one a retard; nor does being illiterate or semi-literate: being a repressive, regressive, teathuglikkkant shitstain MORON like trump makes one a retard. Just sayin'.
And what's really cray-cray: not only was trump NOT briefed on the executive order HE signed to put Steve Ban'em on the National Security Council, but TRUMP SKIPS his daily intelligence briefings of his own volition! Need me to connect the dots for you? trump can't read, AND he skips briefings--which means that he has NO information on anything!!!!!--and trump signs executive orders WITHOUT KNOWING FOR HIMSELF WHAT THE FUCK HE JUST SIGNED!!!!! Tell me again: HOW fucked are we?!??
Here's Samantha Bee's piece (Halloween 2016), ICYMI:
Moar from Sewer Rat Propaganda Barbie Kellyanne Conjob's sewer rat mouth: now, she's making up massacres...! Oh, and it wasn't a gaffe--it was a deliberate LIE, and she's spewed it to multiple venues.
A little good n00z--the media are finally fighting back! If only they'd started when chimpie was installed in the White House, we might have been spared this disgusting, revolting predicament....
Hey, immigrants! It-snot so bad! Here's a welcome video for you! Whaddaya reckon--will chump kick out everyone who isn't a white straight Christian male--preferably rich--and decide on a case by case basis whether or not to let each of us back in?
Slight misstatement in this skit--I don't think liberals would protest if trump actually did something helpful. But I'd bet a year's salary that we'll never find out because it would take a MORE than a miracle for trump to do anything to help us ordinary folks. It would have been more accurate if the skit writers had mentioned all the teathuglikkant furor over everything Obama did that DID help ordinary people. If he had cured cancer, THEY would have been out in the streets protesting all the poor, innocent oncologists that HUSSEIN OBAMA put out of work...
In case you missed these two, don't wait another minute--watch them both because they are just plain wonderful. The Sean Spicer skit is epic--I smell an Emmy. I hope it will be a recurring character because it's all just way too perfectly done. Talk about using a bully pulpit...! (Pro-tip: watch it twice so you can laugh the second time!)
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Memes & Funnehs
Um...too soon?
...Like, maybe we should wait
for it to happen first?
(Lol!)
Is it "never forget"...
or "never remember"?
...Maybe "Bowling Green Massacre"
is the new euphemism for
the trump regime,
in which case,
I hope our democracy
and all of us
survive!
Pfft...hehe!
Crying because we're skr00ed...
Laughing because teathugs are so st00pit
(click for story here)
We can't afford universal health care...
we're not RICH, like THESE countries!
I fucking LOVE this!!!
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.
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 teathuglikkkants 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 teathuglikkkants take over. Men, get yourself snipped while you still can, too.
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, do your daily actions, make your daily calls, and do the rest...
DAILY ACTIONS!
Go to Michael Moore's FaceBook page and do whatever is on his to-do list:
https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/
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 and demand they block trump's cabinet of swamp monsters in its entirety (from The New York Times):
Health
Tom Price
Commerce
Wilbur Ross
Education
Betsy DeVos
U.N.
Nikki R. Haley
Housing
Ben Carson
C.I.A.
Mike Pompeo
Attorney General
Jeff Sessions
Do not require Senate confirmation
Chief of Staff
Reince Priebus
Appointed
Chief Strategist
Stephen K. Bannon
Appointed
Jared Kushner Mr. Trump has named his son-in-law to a senior White House role. The appointment of Mr. Kushner, a major real estate developer in New York who is married to Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka, could test anti-nepotism laws. Dan Coats Mr. Trump has picked the former Indiana senator. Mr. Coats, who served on the Senate intelligence and armed services committees, would be stepping into a position that some in Mr. Trump’s orbit believe is superfluous. Robert Lighthizer Mr. Trump has chosen the international lawyer who served as a trade official under President Ronald Reagan. Mr. Lighthizer has been harshly critical of China, and in a 2010 Op-Ed article in The New York Times, he presaged some of Mr. Trump’s talk on trade. Thomas P. Bossert Mr. Trump’s choice was a top national security aide to President George W. Bush. Mr. Bossert runs a risk management consulting firm in Washington and is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council research institution, working on its Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Kellyanne Conway Mr. Trump’s choice is his former campaign manager, confidante and spokeswoman. Ms. Conway also has a pollster background and therefore may rely on this skill set to keep tabs on public sentiment. Peter Navarro Mr. Trump’s choice is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who holds a doctorate from Harvard and is the only credentialed economist in Mr. Trump’s inner circle. Mr. Navarro has been a staunch critic of current Chinese economic policies. Carl Icahn Mr. Trump has appointed Mr. Icahn, a billionaire investor and famed “corporate raider” who buys large stakes in companies and then forces policy changes to benefit shareholders. Mr. Icahn, who was an economic adviser during the campaign, is a longtime friend of Mr. Trump. Sean Spicer Mr. Trump chose the longtime spokesman for the Republican National Committee and top aide to Reince Priebus, who is the incoming chief of staff and pressed for his selection. While Mr. Spicer will be the face of the communications team, he will work with Jason Miller, director of communications, and Hope Hicks, director of strategic communications. Rex W. Tillerson Mr. Trump’s choice is the president and chief executive of Exxon Mobil, whose ties with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin may draw scrutiny during the confirmation process. Ryan Zinke Mr. Trump has selected Montana’s freshman representative, a former Navy SEAL commander who was an early supporter of the president-elect and ran for office largely on a national security platform. Rick Perry Mr. Trump has selected the former Texas governor, who in 2011 proposed scrapping the Energy Department while he was seeking the Republican nomination for president. Andrew F. Puzder Mr. Trump’s expected choice is the chief executive of CKE Restaurants — and a donor to his campaign — who has criticized the Obama administration’s labor policies. Linda McMahon Mr. Trump has selected the former chief executive of World Wrestling Entertainment to lead the agency. Ms. McMahon, a failed Senate candidate from Connecticut, was with her husband, Vince, one of Mr. Trump’s biggest donors. Scott Pruitt Mr. Trump has selected the Oklahoma attorney general, who is a close ally of the fossil fuel industry. John F. Kelly Mr. Trump has named the retired four-star Marine general, whose son was killed in combat in Afghanistan. James N. Mattis Mr. Trump announced at a rally that he had selected General Mattis, who led a Marine division to Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and led the United States Central Command from 2010-13. General Mattis, now retired, has been a critic of the Obama administration. He would need a waiver from Congress to lead the Pentagon because he has been out of uniform for less than seven years. Steven Mnuchin Mr. Trump has selected Mr. Mnuchin, who served as his campaign finance chairman. Mr. Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive, has deep roots in Hollywood but no government experience. Elaine L. Chao Mr. Trump has selected Ms. Chao, the labor secretary under President George W. Bush. Ms. Chao, who is married to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has been a fixture of the Republican establishment in Washington. Tom Price Mr. Trump has selected Mr. Price, a six-term Republican congressman from Georgia and orthopedic surgeon who has led opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Price has said the law interferes with the ability of patients and doctors to make medical decisions. Donald F. McGahn II Mr. Trump has chosen Mr. McGahn, who served as general counsel for the Trump campaign. Mr. McGahn, a Washington lawyer who pushed to deregulate campaign finance and election laws, served on the Federal Election Commission for five years. Wilbur Ross Mr. Trump has selected Mr. Ross, an investor whose fortune is estimated by Forbes to be $2.9 billion. Mr. Ross has said the United States must free itself from the “bondage” of “bad trade agreements,” and has advocated threats to impose steep tariffs on China. Betsy DeVos Mr. Trump has selected Ms. DeVos, a former chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party and an education activist who is a passionate believer in school choice, as his nominee. Nikki R. Haley Mr. Trump has selected Ms. Haley, the governor of South Carolina, as his nominee. The daughter of immigrants from India, she was a prominent and frequent critic of Mr. Trump early in his run. Ben Carson Mr. Trump has selected the former neurosurgeon and presidential candidate to be his nominee to lead HUD. Mr. Carson had previously said he did not want to work in government. Mike Pompeo Mr. Trump has selected Mr. Pompeo, representative of Kansas and a former Army officer, as his nominee. Mr. Pompeo is a member of the House Intelligence Committee and was a sharp critic of Hillary Clinton during the congressional investigation into the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Jeff Sessions Mr. Trump has selected Senator Sessions, of Alabama, as his nominee. Mr. Sessions is a strong proponent of strict immigration enforcement, reduced spending and tough-on-crime measures. His nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986 was rejected because of racially charged comments and actions, which are very likely to become an issue as he faces another set of Senate confirmation hearings. Michael T. Flynn Mr. Trump has selected the retired Army lieutenant general and former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. General Flynn has been outspoken about his view of the threat posed by Islamist militancy and was an ardent supporter of Mr. Trump during the campaign. Reince Priebus Mr. Trump announced on Nov. 13 that he had chosen Mr. Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Stephen K. Bannon Also on Nov. 13, Mr. Trump announced the appointment of Mr. Bannon, a right-wing media executive and the chairman of the president-elect’s campaign. Many have denounced the move, warning that Mr. Bannon represents racist views. 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. Demand that your elected officials 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 nearly 3 million.
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.
6. DEMAND that they UPHOLD AND EXPAND on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Dodd-Frank legislation. BRING BACK Glass-Steagall!
7. DEMAND that trump undergo psychological evaluation for fitness for office. Known narcissist, Dr. Sam Vaknin, explains that trump is a narcissist--and that DISQUALIFIES him for the presidency--in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5he5hXp-rU.
8. DEMAND a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR to investigate FBI director James Comey and Donald trump for interfering with the election.
9. DEMAND the Army Corps of Engineers go to Flint to dig up and replace all the poisoned pipes.
AND THE REST!!
SIGN UP for daily headlines from Daily Kos, AlterNet, and "Democracy Now!" SIGN petitions. ATTEND town halls and protests. The Guardian is independent news you can use; 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. Today, that means signing up for the JUSTICE DEMOCRATS and volunteering and donating whatever time and money you can!
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.
JOIN SOPROUD by joining organizations working to protect our future! SIGN UP at http://workingfamilies.org/ and find an emergency meeting near you! DOWNLOAD and FOLLOW the Indivisible Guide for instructions how best to resist trump by interacting with your elected officials in ways that will get their attention.
And don't forget to SUPPORT those in The Resistance who support YOU (like me)! If we all chip in a buck o' five, WE CAN DO THIS THING!!!!!
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Boycott List
Boycott media!
Don't bother with these media outlets any more unless you want trump propaganda--these media outlets have whored themselves out to trump for access for the low, low price of "fancy" cocktails and a "fancy" dinner, consisting of Donald's shriveled orange acorn dick, at chump's "fancy" (aka FAKE PLASTIC, just like everything else about trump and his FAKE PLASTIC family) "resort" in Florida. What an upstanding, responsible response to trump's denying press conferences since 27 July 2016...retch. So much for comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable, and speaking truth to power to keep that power reined in and in check...!
- Axios
- Bloomberg
- Breitbart because duh--according to AlterNet, Howard Dean Lends Voice to Consumer Activist Group Hitting Breitbart in the Wallet—And It's Working
- CNN
- FOX because of course
- MSNBC (includes Joe Scarborough, but Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes may still be OK as long as their corporate overlords allow it)
- NBC (they also have the reality TV show conflict of interest--and they just hired a couple of FUX Noise escapees, so beware a hard swing to the far, far right)
- POLITICO--their top editor(s) went and paid to party with trump, so now more and more trump propaganda has been showing up there, to my infinite disgust
Boycott vendors that support trump, sell trump shit, and otherwise pander to hate!
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--pressure them to DUMP BREITBART, while you're at it!
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
Joss & Main
Contact info: (866) 263-8325 HQ- (617) 532-6100
https://www.wayfair.com/help/faq.php
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
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 @ 7:42 PM
