This is a website that gives you a weekly call you can make to fight Donald Trump and the terrible developments in the USA. It helps you find your representatives and then gives you a script:
Here’s a resource for what you needa try to get done before January when Trump starts changing shit and how to get that shit done. It includes things like name changes for Trans folks and healthcare resources. It might be helpful for someone even if it’s not helpful to you so please pass it on. Help marginalized people stay healthy and safe!
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For those of you who haven’t seen it, the Washington Post was tipped off by a high ranking official (a term not used lightly – more on that in a second) that a secret CIA assessment was conducted and found that Russia did indeed interfere with our US election – not for the purpose of just casting doubt on our system – but for the sole purpose of electing Donald Trump. Some have tried to allege that this is fabricated news, but here’s now we know it is not: back in late September, President Obama received this intelligence but thought if he were to give it to the American people, it would look partisan. He instead decided to have the intelligence agencies brief the “Gang of 12” or, a group of the twelve senior ranking congress men and women, so they could put out the information to the American people in a bipartisan fashion. The hope was that they would expose Russia’s interference and denounce any further attempt to sabotage our election system.
While Democrats said yes and some Republicans said yes, most notably Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said no. He refused.
Let’s say for a second he didn’t trust the intelligence. Let’s say he didn’t trust all seventeen security agencies about this information. Let’s say that.
But we also need to take into consideration that after the election, McConnell’s wife, Elaine Cho, was given a cabinet position.
This doesn’t even touch on the fact that America’s security agencies are almost certain (see: they won’t confirm it outright) that WikiLeaks was acting as a proxy for Russia and the FSB (their CIA) for a long time now, which explains why WikiLeaks has not gone after Russia with the same tenacity they’ve gone after the rest of the world with for years. They’re certain that Russia also hacked the RNC but sat on the information (and remember: WikiLeaks said the information on Donald Trump wasn’t “interesting” enough to leak).
And now Donald Trump has filled his cabinet with people who are not just alt-right they are billionaires with ties to the Kremlin and friends of Putin. I know this website doesn’t really give a shit about Eastern Europe, but realize that for people living beyond Germany and living in the Balkans, this is terrifying stuff. This is a return to the Cold War, and while I am no fan of America throwing itself into everyone’s backyard nor do I glorify Reagan (i fucking do not like Reagan), consider a return to the Cold War where Russia is left to invade countries at their leisure. We saw it with Georgia in 2008. We saw it with Crimea.
This is happening right now and if you don’t think Donald Trump isn’t Putin’s handpicked puppet, boy have I got news for you.
I misspoke when I said we have gone 24 hours without a Trump twitter controversy. This one’s less likely to start a war, though in some ways it’s more disturbing.
So, at around 8:00am this morning, Trump fired off a tweet which suggested he was going to take the contract for Air Force One away from Boeing. When I say ‘suggested,’ what I mean is that the tweet ended with the words, “Cancel order!” Boeing’s stock began dropping.
Evidently, Trump read this article, got pissed off, and decided to punish Boeing because its CEO dared to oppose him. I’ve figured out, incidentally, why Trump is so addicted to Twitter. It provides him with an instant gratification that he cannot obtain in any other way. He thinks it, he tweets it, he basks in the attention. The attention is what’s important to him, not the consequences. No wonder “Trump’s Unpredictable Style Unnerves Corporate America.”
All right. Let me see how succinctly I can explain why, in a capitalist economy, when you are the incoming or actual President of the United States, Words Have Consequences, and why even those of us who kind of hate corporate America share some of their unnerved-ness.
please if you’re a registered voter in the United States, make this call. You do not have to speak to anyone, you only have to leave a message if you have phone anxiety like me. Here’s a potential script:
Hello, my name is [your name] and
I’m a registered voter in the United States. I’m calling to urge
that the Electoral College vote be postponed until a full
investigation of Russian interference in the election, and the Trump
campaign’s potential coordination with Russia is complete.
For those of you who don’t know the context here, that woman lived in a period when women couldn’t vote and was meeting the nation’s first female presidential candidate.
The second photo is her watching one of the most qualified women in history with 30+ years geopolitical experience lose to a racist, sexist yam in a hair piece.
When asked over and over why she was supporting Clinton, Steininger always had the same answer: experience. Clinton had the training and knowhow, she said, and Trump didn’t.
Trump’s presidency is “not going to affect me because I am going to die soon,” she said. “It’s my children and my grandchildren that I am concerned about. Because our country is going to be set back. That’s what Trump promised to do. A woman’s right to choose is out the window. Health insurance he’ll do away with. Same-sex marriage he is opposed to.
“We made a lot of progress in my lifetime and it looked like we’d make a lot more,“ she added. “Now, we are not.”
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For Steininger, who has been sporting a handmade “Hillary ’16” sign on her walker since the caucus, early voting was the first milestone in her “plan,” as she called it. Beginning with her Christmas letter, she told her friends and family that she decided she had “to stay alive to vote for Hillary.”
With Clinton losing, Steininger said she isn’t sure she’d live long enough to complete that plan. And as the clock ticked past 11 p.m., then midnight and finally 1 a.m., Steininger’s hope faded and her body began folding in on itself.
“I want (Hillary) to know I did what I could and I am sorry,” she said. “There will be a woman voted president of the United States. It won’t be Hillary, but sooner or later there will be a woman voted president.”
She took an extended pause: “A woman got this far, so I think it will be easier the next time around. That’s progress.”
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