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.”
In the days after her shocking loss, Democrats complained that Clinton had no jobs agenda. A widely shared essay in The Nation blamed Clinton’s “neoliberalism” for abandoning the voters who swung the election. “I come from the white working class,” Bernie Sanders said on CBS This Morning, “and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to where I came from.”
But here is the troubling reality for civically minded liberals looking to justify their preferred strategies: Hillary Clinton talked about the working class, middle class jobs, and the dignity of work constantly. And she still lost.
She detailed plans to help coal miners and steel workers. She had decades of ideas to help parents, particularly working moms, and their children. She had plans to help young men who were getting out of prison and old men who were getting into new careers. She talked about the dignity of manufacturing jobs, the promise of clean-energy jobs, and the Obama administration’s record of creating private-sector jobs for a record-breaking number of consecutive months.
What’s more, the evidence that Clinton lost because of the nation’s economic disenchantment is extremely mixed. Some economists found that Trump won in counties affected by trade with China. But among the 52 percent of voters who said economics was the most important issue in the election, Clinton beat Trump by double digits. In the vast majority of swing states, voters said they preferred Clinton on the economy. If the 2016 election had come down to economics exclusively, the working class—which, by any reasonable definition, includes the black, Hispanic, and Asian working classes, too—would have elected Hillary Clinton president.
The more frightening possibility for liberals is that Clinton didn’t lose because the white working class failed to hear her message, but precisely because they did hear it.
Trump’s white voters do support the mommy state, but only so long as it’s mothering them. Most of them don’t seem eager to change Medicare or Social Security, but they’re fine with repealing Obamacare and its more diverse pool of 20 million insured people. They’re happy for the government to pick winners and losers, so long as beleaguered coal and manufacturing companies are in the winner’s circle.
Massive deficit-financed spending on infrastructure? Under Obama, that was dangerous government overreach, but under Trump, it’s a jobs plan by a guy they know won’t let Muslims and Mexicans cut in line to get work renovating highways and airports.
If the CIA and this reporting is to be believed, the GOP-lead Senate deliberately ignored this information from the CIA to gain power. Someone needs to act BEFORE the Electoral College meets on Dec 19th.
So far Lindsay Graham is the only Republican to speak up in outrage. And the only Democrat to make waves has been Harry Reid (who is retiring). The GOP’s reaction is understandable. Trump’s reaction has been as scary as everything else he has done, but 100% understandable. But the Dems? Pure cowardice, as usual. Obama himself needs to do something about this, because any investigation will end on Jan 20th.
And YOU reading this need to make serious waves. Our highest Intelligence agency has claimed this election was stolen. Trump WILL get away with this if we don’t take to the streets, IMMEDIATELY. Call someone. Write something. None of this is politics as normal! People need to be jailed for this.This is the literal definition of influence from a foreign government, and exactly what the Electoral College was made to stop.
Now that Angela Merkel is running against a pro-Kremlin stooge, you’ll never guess which transparency crusaders dumped a whole bunch of hacked documents making her look bad.
Does it matter why the documents were leaked or does it matter that the BND is doing shady Stasi level shit?
Dude, OP is using the same kind of lazy ad hominem or ergo decedo attacks that Clinton supporters used against WikiLeaks.
Let’s be crystal clear here, even if some Russian hacker got those documents under less than ethical means, that doesn’t mean that government officials should get away with wrongdoings just because the “other guy” did something wrong too.
Lol, I love it when people on the internet use the latin names of logical fallacies as magic spells to win the argument. Here’s a funny foreign word for you: realpolitik. Russia will advance its interests by any means necessary, and will steamroll over other countries’ sovereignty to do it. That includes yours.
Do you honestly think the right-wing politicians he’s allied with wouldn’t have extremely shady things in their emails or other correspondences that would turn people off? Don’t you think it’s a little odd that Wikileaks only ever attacks one side, and it’s always the side making Putin’s life more difficult?
And what was Merkel’s crime? She worked with the NSA. Newsflash: allies share intelligence. If there are terrorist cells in Germany, it’s in both our interests to track them. But putting this necessary semi-evil in the spotlight will dissuade the left part of her coalition, just like another powerful woman running for office whose name escapes me at the moment.
Benjamin Franklin helped to create Impeachment Clause of US Constitution. He realized that if a president were to “render himself obnoxious,” then people would logically consider assassination unless there was a legal way to get rid of the president.
Just obnoxious. Not treasonous or acting outside of the best interests of the American people. Just really really fucking annoying.
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