Take any given scenario that calls for a political appointment to fill. Find the worst person you could possibly imagine to fill that post. Trump will pick someone even worse.
The 2020 U.S. Census will determine which states gain or lose electoral power for years to come, and President Donald Trump is leaning towards appointing a pro-gerrymandering professor with no government experience to help lead the effort.
Iâm shocked I tell you! Just shocked that trump is a dirty low down pond scum sucking carnival barking kindergarten tweeting mob boss wannabe chicken fucking crook.
Okay, Iâm just sure about the chicken fucking part, but some people are talking about it.
Okay, you were more eloquent than I was. Iâm not doing eloquent today thoughânor can I spell it without spell check telling me that Iâm WRONG and it doesnât have a âgâ in it.
This is precisely the kind of thing that a competent opposition party would immediately and loudly and vociferously start communicating to the public and the media about, because this can potentially drive a stake into the efforts of the Democratic Party to regain some of the legislative seats itâs lost since 2008.
Which means that theyâll start talking about it in December of 2019.
Letâs consider why he wants to always be regarded as illegitimate by a sizeable segment of the populace, that his party only can gain and hold power by cheating, gerrymandering, disenfranchising voters.
It seems that trump really thinks âtake care that the laws be faithfully executedâ means he gets a choice between firing squad and lethal injection for programs he doesnât like.
This is also precisely the kind of thing most Americans would hear about, shrug and yawn. If itâs not sexy nobody cares.
Oh please, he wonât be in office in 2020.
Trump is killing America- the Orange Menace must be stopped!
Run for office- the 2018 elections are less than a year away! And if Trump and Louie Gohmert can get elected whatâs to stop a qualified candidate?
Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes itâs a Ward officer. Youâll 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. Todayâs 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 itâs 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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So Kris Kobach is on the WH payroll, after all. His sinister fingerprints would be all over such an appointment.
coupla thoughts
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if 2018 turns into the wave election that it appears feasible to be, use the Texas legislatureâs precedent setting move of off cycle redistricting and draw maps that heavily favor dems pre-census and the 2020 vote (this side keeps losing because it is not willing to do that which it takes to win, as ugly as that is, whatâs more important, winning, or losing fair?)
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in the same light of playing the game the same way your opponent does, this professor can be ceaselessly harassed for his views, non-stop bombardment for being the asshole that he is, shine a light on him, heâll crawl back under his rock wishing never to be known outside of his community (again not pretty, but effective?)
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#1 has potential for leveling the playing field for real, rock the boat so far back against the right by using their methods that they capitulate to a more equitable solution
stuff like this is putting this country on the brink, I think repubes are so hungry for control, see the demographics lining up against them long term, that their only solution right now is a scorched earth policy (as determined from their continuous promotion of awful legislation) to get what they want before its too late, and then hold on like hell to keep it from changing back
You know Paul Ryan will shrug because thatâs all he ever does.
An overt , contemplated act to suppress the vote and fuck over the will of ordinary people? You may rely on itâŚ
The grand plan is to turn the entire government into a stockyard of ignorant, incompetent, mal-intents so that even the liberals will want to drown it in a bathtub. Then use those 300 million guns and conservative gun manufacturers to enforce the resulting dystopic Christo-state.
American Conservatives are a disease hampering the progression and even viability of the species. Any organism that wants to survive would send in anti-bodies to root out thie existential threat. We too should treat Republicans in such a way.
It appears that when Little Donnie arrived in Washington D.C. he found the swamp to be to low to drain. He has gone a long way toward raising that level so the his successor will have no difficulty draining that swamp.
In other news: Net Neutrality repeal
No day goes without my hoping that some 20-something from the âbut the emails,â âshe picked on poor Bernie,â and âbut her speeches to Goldman Sachs, theyâre just the sameâ crowd realizes the magnitude of mistake they made in not working hard to elect Hillary. She was never great. The alternative was always clearly so much worseâŚ
Maybe he heard someone use the term âlaying henâ, and misunderstood.
Destroying the country, democracy and representative government one appointment at a time - to agencies, boards, commissions, the courtsâŚ
Far more effective than $100,000 in Facebook ads (which most people ignore) or tweets from Twitter bots (which 93% of Americans will never have the opportunity to see), and No Russians Required. But everyone is still pining for a pee pee tapeâŚ