What kills me about Trump is that all of the shit he’s pulled since being elected should be disqualifying. The refusing to do press conferences, not getting in touch with key agencies, flirting with treason by supporting a foreign actor in a potential act of war against the U.S. instead of his own countries’ agencies, the completely insane Twitter usage, etc. Like…all of these things taken together should essentially fire him. “Oops, turns out you’re a fucking nutjob and completely incompetent, you’re out.”
But we are just so woefully underprepared for someone like this taking power, and we have basically no safety net to deal with a worst case scenario outside of the Electoral College – which, in our current political climate, is functionally useless, as it relies on people choosing their country over their party.
Frankly, if we survive him, we need to like…get some laws in place about codes of conduct and correct procedure, because it’s utterly obscene that we have to watch this man and his party laying the groundwork for completely destroying this country, even gloating about how they’re getting around longstanding traditions and procedures, and all the while knowing we have exactly zero way to do anything about it.
The whole hit job on federal employees that is coming should be enough to scare people, but unfortunately that tweet is right: There aren’t enough people alive in the US who remember what fascism looks like.
‘President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the State Department to list its workers who focus on gender equality and ending violence against women, in what’s being seen as an echo of an earlier request for the Energy Department to list employees who work on climate change.
In a brief email that was sent Wednesday morning, the Trump team asked the State Department’s bureaus and offices to list any programs or activities that “promote gender equality, such as ending gender-based violence, promoting women’s participation in economic and political spheres, entrepreneurship, etc.”
The email was acquired and published by The New York Times, which reports:
“Although the wording of the memo is neutral and does not hint at any policy change, it rattled State Department employees, even those at senior levels. Some officials said they feared that the incoming Trump administration was trying to determine what programs were focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, though the memo did not refer to them.”
The team also asked the department offices to “note positions whose primary functions are to promote such issues” and to highlight any funds for the current financial year that are “already allocated to such programs and activities.”’
Enforcement of a political orthiodoxy and singling out anyone who goes against it within the governmental apparatus is pretty much part and parcel of both fascism and Stalinism (although Soviet Communism always had a tendency to this, it reached literally lethal levels in Stalin’s era).
This should make anyone sit up and seriously take notice.
The good, great, wonderful news? Is that you’re hearing about this authoritarian bullcrap.
Kudos to everybody whose smart enough to see this, and rather than be intimidated? Gets pissed and laughs at it at the same time, and passes it to the nearest person who can get it public so we can all get pissed and go “HA HA NOPE” to the dangerous morons slinging this shit.
Drag their mud into the light, kiddos. 2017 and onward in a nutshell.
Planned Parenthood volunteers arrived at House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office armed with nearly 90,000 petitions in response to GOP plans to strip the organization of its funding.
Ryan delivered the news at a press conference, announcing that the legislation would be folded in with the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Apparently, the House speaker wasn’t quite ready for the impending backlash: According to tweets from Planned Parenthood’s official account, volunteers were greeted by a sign on Ryan’s door informing visitors that only “scheduled appointments” would be admitted into his office.
The organization also alleged that six security guards had been sent to physically block the delivery of the petitions. Read more.
The right to petition the government for rests of grievances is in the First Amendment to the Constitution.
Time to start calling Paul Ryan’s office and inconveniencing his staff, folks. That seems to be the only thing congressmen like Ryan respond to.
So with the recent UN resolution regarding Israel many disgusting racist antisemitic republicans such as Paul Ryan and Orange Mussolini have either tweeted or made comments about it.
They neither care about Israel nor about Jews.
So what worries me is that in time where being a Jew is clearly no longer somewhat safe in America will have even less safety and protection.
There is already rampant antisemitism such as blood libel, Jews control media/banking/world canards, and rhetoric that would not be out of place if it came from neo-nazis in leftist activist progressive circles.
This is a massive problem and terrifying in its own right and I worry that that those that would be the more likely group to help Jews during these times will look at the right and go see they care about Jews and won’t do anything to Jews and Jews must clearly agree with them.
Basically I worry that the shit the people to right who don’t actually give a fuck about Jews and who are antisemitic will be taken as an excuse to harass Jews and as a reason to not have our backs in time when being a Jew is very much not safe.
When neo-nazis are making lists of Jews and their address, when newspapers are inciting mobs to go after Jews for crimes we haven’t even committed such as cancelling a xmas play, white supremacists are coming into the white house, the president to be is an honorary Cossack, and more along these lines being Jewish is extremely dangerous.
It has never been safe to be Jewish in America it has just been far more safe then most places.
Even in liberal blue cities being Jewish has not been safe no matter the year, but now it is not just not safe it is actively dangerous.
If you, yes you, consider yourself to be a progressive person who cares about marginalized minorities, racism, and discrimination then you need to step and have the backs of Jewish people and help us because these are some dangerous times for us.
The founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has announced that the site’s campaign of harassment against Jews in alt-right leader Richard Spencer’s hometown of Whitefish, Montana will continue with an armed march in January. Andrew Anglin claimed on Thursday that 200 people are already expected to participate in the march “against Jews, Jewish businesses and everyone who supports either,” which will take demonstrators carrying “high-powered rifles” through the center of the town.
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