Showing posts with label January 3rd 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label January 3rd 2017. Show all posts

Monday, December 12, 2016

Diary 12/12/16, While America Slept, the hostiles take over.

My fellow Americans (and the Russians looking in), I appreciate that I’m just another no-count working stiff, but the messenger isn’t the point, it’s the message that matters.  

We have one week - and I at least want to create this little public record at this one irretrievable moment in time - when America has an oh so tiny window of opportunity.  A moment when nothing less than a huge public out cry is required for Democracy to survive as we know it.  

Looking at events from a historical perspective makes clear that our government is literally in a hostile takeover attempt by the oligarchs.  You know, the Kochs, Putins, Tillersons (check out the collection of articles at the end of this.) and Trumps with their mega-corporate obsessions, Too Much Is Never Enough, for them.  Now we are on their menu.  The concerns of regular citizens like us, don’t mean squat to them.  Think about itThis is for keeps.  

Look at the self-interested, self-certain people Trump is putting in charge of important agencies.  I mean people who are passionately hostile and have no desires but to cripple the agencies they are being putting in charge of - no good faith whatsoever.  What's that got to do with the American Way?  These agencies were created for a reason.  That’s more like treason than guidance!

We depend on healthy social and environmental protections, even if the greed blinded oligarchs can’t grasp that concept!

Why are we allowing this to go down?

Now, today, now is the time to demand our leaders Democratic and Republican act. 

DEMAND THAT OUR DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN LEADERS ACT AND RELEASE THE TRUMP AND RUSSIAN FILES - WE THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW HOW MANY FOREIGN OBLIGATIONS BIND THIS NEW PRESIDENT! 

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW BEFORE IT CARRIES OUT ITS CONSTITUTION DUTY DECEMBER 19TH !   

WE HAVE THIS ONE BALANCE AND CHECK, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, THAT WE AMERICANS SHOULD NOT PASS UP !  OUR POLITICIANS NEED OUR VOCAL SUPPORT AND DEMANDS !
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THEN ON JANUARY 3RD WE NEED TO DEMAND THAT THE DEMOCRATIC SENATE GIVE MERRICK GARLAND THE VOTE HE’S BEEN WAITING FOR, FOR THE PAST YEAR.  

Friday, December 9, 2016

REJECT Trump the Russian Obligate - a national security threat

It’s official Russia played a big role, quite probably the decisive role, in electing Donald Trump President of the United States (incidentally, by garnering 2.6 million less votes than Hillary Clinton despite various serious voter suppression actions by Republicans.)  

Citizens with a sense of history must realize our America is experiencing a hostile take over attempt.  Let’s get real, Putin is amoral and absolutely ruthless and he has set his sights on America - and Trump is his man.

The only ones standing between Putin and success are We The American People standing strong and demanding heroic action from our Democratic Representatives! - We need to flood our elected Representatives, give them the public support that strength’s those weak spines.  

If you love your country and don’t think its half as bad a Trump is trying to brainwash us into believing -  then it is your duty to get involved.  

Remember Trump does not become President-Elect until after the Electoral College meets December 19th.  The Electoral College system was put in place precisely for this kind of extreme circumstance, such as being defrauded on our election process.
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Here’s What Has To Happen 
Before December 19th

Roger Wolfson | 12/4/2016 | Attorney, writer

 Www.asktheelectors.org is a simple tool to reach out to electors directly. 

Sign a petition at Change.org, and share it on social media.
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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Demand Vote on Merrick Garland - JANUARY 3rd, 2017

Democrats have one last chance to return some checks and balances into our American political system before the Trump vandals arrival with their determination to dismantle much of American's most valued protections and advances. Think I'm exaggerating? Then you haven't been paying attention to who Trump's filling his Cabinet with (and here).



Senate Republicans pulled a historically unprecedented stunt to simply deny (the across the board highly regarded moderate) Merrick Garland a hearing for the past year. On January 3rd, while the Senate is temporarily in Democratic hands, please vote to confirm Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Trump and his oligarch pals already have grand plans in store for a right-wing reactionary Supreme Court.  Are We The People going to simply sit by and acquiesce to these belligerent political bullies?  When are we going to grow some backbone and fight back - reasoned, rational, but firm!    

The Republican Congress have made clear they want to lock up the Supreme Court with a packed house of right wing reactionaries - ready to put the seal on Koch's Transformation of America's Democracy into the Corporation of Amerika - and yes, our democracy is in precisely this serious an existential crisis - the likes of which America hasn't experienced since the civil war.  


DailyKos is circulating a petition that I'm featuring in this post along with information and quotes from a number of article that offer greater detail for the curious.  


By David Dayen | November 16, 2016 |  NewRepublic.com

By Maya Parthasarathy |  December 7, 2016 | Bustle.com

By Alan Rapport  |  AUG. 19, 2016 | Washington DC | NewYorkTimes.com

Commentary by Mark Kende | June 21, 2016 | Fortune.com

Michael Bowman  |  March 30, 2016 | VOA News.com 

FYI  - This is for keeps - America, it's your move.  Democracy Use It Or Lose It !
Trump's 21 potential court nominees are overwhelmingly white, male and from red states
Richard Wolf | USA TODAY | December 2, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump's 21 potential nominees to the Supreme Court -- the people he has said he will choose from, not just to replace Justice Antonin Scalia but for any other seats that fall vacant -- are straight out of conservative central casting.

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Sign the petition to Joe Biden and Senate Democrats: Confirm Merrick Garland to Supreme Court on January 3