Things are so bad that the EPA’s buildingr just became a whistleblower. Good on you, building!
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ajm
Voters chose someone else. Bug in the Electoral College landed us with him. Plus some help from Russia.
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I know but still millions…tens of millions did vote for him and to me I find that deeply disturbing. Those people knew what they were buying and they did it anyway. They actively voted against their direct self interest. I have seen this behavior before but never at this scale. A huge majority of these folks still today avidly support trump against their self interest. They know full well the tax bill is ripping them off. That it enriches large corporations. They applaud the death of a free internet. They have no problem with Russian interference in our elections. They applaud trump’s making money from foreign sources (emoluments clause), his obstruction of justice, collusion, and all the rest. They are cool with it all. They are quite willing to hand our country to any adversary. We’re like a beached whale spewing goods and money and our sacred rights with a sign that says “FREE Come and Get It!” And I take deep offense at that.
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These people eat their own young! How else to explain making children pay for corporate greed?
Run for office- the 2018 elections are less than a year away! And if Trump and Louie Gohmert can get elected what’s to stop a qualified candidate?
Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes it’s a Ward officer. You’ll meet with neighborhood Dems and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.
Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led Voter run-around help them do that.
Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump and half of eligible voters stayed home last November. Today’s 12-year olds will be voting for President in 8 years.
Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly.
Get appointed to your Planning Commission. Know everything going on in your community.
Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020, just over 2 years from now, when we redraw Congressional Districts.
And get rid of GERRYMANDERING! Safe GOP seats gave us such intellectual giants as Louie Gohmert and Steve King. In most cases it’s the state Legislature that draws Congressional boundaries. Make it FAIR, OPEN and HONEST! We can do this!
Overturn Citizens United. Money is NOT speech and Corporations are NOT people- at least not until Texas executes one, and overturn any voter ID laws that are clearly an attempt to disenfranchise the poor and people of color.
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“If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some signatures, and run for office yourself.”
-President Barack Obama
“Those who would purposely mislead or seek to confuse others are bad people. Worse, they are evil.”
-Kathleen Parker
You Got To Run!
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I see. That explains the four indictments and guilty pleas that has been handed down so far.
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darrtown, I feel the same way. I can understand the variety of reasons people voted for Trump and how this clusterfuck occurred, but at the gut level I continue to circle back to “how did this happen and who are these people?” I just moved to the States from Canada (I have dual citizenship) and it is so bewildering and, honestly, at times, horrifying. Particularly as a young Jewish woman I feel nervous in a way I have never experienced. Maybe I’m over reacting, but when I think tens of millions of people voted for trump I too am deeply disturbed.
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Russia helped Trump win the election. Trump knowingly took that help through his eager agents. Trump tried to lift sanctions in defiance of Congress.
If the Republicans had any balls, he’s be impeached already.
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Nothing in the dossier has been disproven, a lot has been proven. So good luck with that.
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Get undisturbed.
The people who voted for him were chosen and groomed to vote for him by Russia. Data Analytics picked them out and made them Trump’s.
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The only way to get to that is elect democrats and to a veto level majority in both chambers.
Unfortunately.
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Well that IS the remedy that the founders established for us when they wrote the constitution. We resolve these things mostly at the ballot box. We were the first country to do it this way and it is a better way in general.
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I’m relatively certain the vast majority of Trump voters were huge fans of his TV show and think he’s a cool guy.
Rude Awakening in progress.
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It’s funny, I forgot he even had a show unless people brought it up. I have never seen a single episode. And it’s not like I don’t watch some shitty television, because I definitely do. But I always knew Trump as New York real estate crook. I never imagined that people would connect him with a reality game show and base his governing skills on 40 minutes of weekly edited footage. But, I guess I’m the idiot here.
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Don’t feel bad, I’ve never watched it either. 
Reality TV is pure fantasy.
(BTW, the “like” was for the entire post except the last sentence. )
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Here’s a bromide for ya’ll. Sorry Josh for bringing in Rawstory, but they never take the weekend off. As for me, like all news junkies, or junkies for that matter, I am always looking for more!
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Maybe this has something to do with it.
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Yeah think that’s all exactly right and I tend to say so often.
I don’t know why people tend to agree with Trump that he’s above the law but he is not.
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We are approaching what seems likely to become the Holiday break massacre (or Christmas break massacre for the right wing snowflakes). A very, very dire situation as we all know the Republican Congress is adding and abetting this. Impeachment is off the table. Our last line of defense appears to be the 2018 elections. We started out this week with a sliver of hope. However, I worry that the outcome of this week’s election will only further enhance the Republican traitor’s resolve to suppress, de-ligitimize, and sow chaos (with Russia’s help of course) into the 2018 elections. Wisconsin and Michigan are owned by the Koch brothers. We know what happened in 2016. There are no guarantees for the fall elections. I don’t know where we go from here.
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It was way more than a fucking sliver and if you want to worry go ahead but it doesn’t solve anything.
We won all over Virginia too. The GOP is running scared. But for some reason lots of Democrats are shaking in their shoes and for the life of me I do not know why.
He is not going to just get to do any old thing he wants to do and neither is the GOP. This is still a representative Democratic Republic that belongs to us. Everybody needs to pull up their socks and quit letting this bullshit scare you. I’ll be goddamned if I’m letting Trump or anyone of the morons who support him scare me.
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Yet!
He is not above the law in theory, but so long as he can stay ahead of the law by whatever means, he is de facto, not under the law.