We need to keep making calls — they’re working! 5Calls, as always, has some suggestions, scripts, and phone numbers for your congress members.
Especially important, at least for voters in Ohio and Kansas: Calling to oppose Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary. The vote on her nomination was delayed, and now could come Saturday or early next week. See here for the latest news on the anti-DeVos efforts and phone numbers for the possible swing-vote Senators.
Another issue which has gotten zero media attention: Congresswoman Maxine Waters is calling for a serious investigation of Trump’s Russian ties. Urge your congressperson to support her!
But if you want to go beyond calls, consider joining a local Indivisible group and visiting your elected officials in person with a large number of new friends.
Find (or start) a local group here, and check out the Indivisible Twitter feed to see some inspiring pics of these groups in action.
Indivisible is a DNC astroturf organization run by DP beltway political operatives connected to a DP front group called the Center for American Progress (CAP). In other words, it’s about as authentic as Donald Trump’s hair piece.
Pay no attention to the literally millions of people who have come out to protest Trump in the last two weeks, many of them inspired by the Indivisible guide — they’re just “astroturf.”
I’m not sure I understand how being linked to political operatives would make something inauthentic, assuming you, Alan Smithee, are not making things up. I’m not being snarky. I really don’t get it.
Some of you may be familiar with Kevin O’Leary. The Canadian businessman has been on ABC’s reality series Shark Tank since 2009, and has appeared on Canadian TV shows, including the now defunct Lang and O’Leary Exchange on CBC’s 24 hour news channel, and the reality business show Dragon’s Den. He’s been compared to Donald Trump, and is following in Trump’s footsteps, currently running for the leadership of Canada’s Conservative Party.
Today he made a misstep, although how serious a one remains to be seen. He posted a video of himself firing various weapons, including a machine gun, on his Facebook page. It appeared not long before the funeral service began of three victims from the Quebec mosque shooting. It was quickly pulled. Apparently O’Leary isn’t seen as being pro-gun enough in some circles, and wanted to correct the idea.
http://globalnews.ca/news/3223403/kevin-oleary-gun-video-called-dumb-and-insensitive-on-day-of-funeral/
@AlanSmithee, hi! welcome to WHTM. If you would like a welcome basket, they are linked on the right. Full of scented candles! The scent is “Misandristic Pine Chair” this month I think.
… so?
I mean, sure, I’ll buy it – the DNC and the Democrats are pumping money into an organization that funds popular opposition to Trump. What exactly about that sentence is bad? It would be an indication that there are elements in the DNC that want to fight for democracy in the United States instead of surrendering outright. They’ve been called Justice Democrats, which is a term I adore. Even if the funding is coming from lobbyists, it still represents a modicum of vertebral integrity. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, as they say.
This is the attitude that got Trump into the White House, @AlanSmithee, this perfect-solution-or-nothing approach. If the DNC /Democratic Party want to help the fight against Trump and the carnage he’s bringing to America, we take the help.
Fuck you, fuck George Soros, and fuck your shitty globalist agenda.
A good number of the Indivisible groups near me (one of which I joined – thanks, David!) are sponsored by UU churches. Plz explain how an astroturf organization infiltrates several churches in Texas
serrana, I’m surprised he didn’t mention George “He’s everywhere!” Soros. Some people are convinced Soros paid a whole bunch of people to attend the Women’s Marches. Because apparently Soros has unlimited funds o’ evil to throw around.
Is that the same “globalist agenda” Roosh was talking about a few posts back?
@tim gueguen: I don’t know if Peter F. King’s comment was posted when you posted yours, but the very eloquent Peter has indeed made that connection.
Honestly though, what is a globalist agenda? *googles, does not click the first news link that is a bitefart article thank you very much google*
oh, okay, it is about things passing between borders easily.
But on another topic… Is there an add-on I can get from firefox that would block bitefart from ever showing up in my results? I was looking at the parental controls, but I would like everything to show up except for that site.
Surely there has to be a way!
Also @tim gueguen: I am wondering how O’Leary is going to do. He never seemed to get any deals on Dragon’s Den, because he was always out for number one. I know everyone on there is about a good deal, but it felt like his deals were more screwing the entrepreneurs than the others.
(Though I won’t discount him getting the leadership position, since so many people know his name. After all, Trump got elected.)
It’s weird how much of the right thinks anyone is only ever progressive because of George Soros brainwashing.
Soros is 86 years old. I just checked. He’s got a maximum of about 20 years left alive. And that’s unlikely. It’s probably more like 1-10 years. Who are they going to blame us on after Soros dies?
I feel kind of squicky writing that because I’m uncomfortable with people speculating about when other people are going to die. But I don’t know how else to make the point I want to make. At least not with my brain being tired from lack of sleep all week.
Speaking of squicky. I’m really tired of seeing the trailer for the next 50 Shades movie. I don’t even watch all that much TV. I watch most things online. But every time I do watch TV, that damn thing plays on every commercial break. It’s not coming out for another two weeks. They’re really pushing that mess hard. Ick. Ick. Ick.
I’ll add a few more “icks” to the pile here. The whole 50 Shades franchise annoys me on so many levels, not least because the author doesn’t seem to understand why consent is important.
@Peter No F. King pls k thx
You didn’t bother to put your nazi dog whistles away.
@Scildfreja
I agree. That’s basically what I was trying (so poorly) to say in my original post about “Standing Together”, that I’m very afraid of people on the Left splintering over this or that specific concern.
How is “lobbyist” in and of itself bad? If we were able to pool our money so that, say, one of the lead bloggers here could spend full time as an advocate, doesn’t that make them a lobbyist?
It’s WHAT you lobby for, not that you are paid to do it.
Good news: the alt-right subreddit has been banned!
@Scildfredja
Yes, yes, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Preach it from the mountain tops! Amen!
(Can we get you to speak at every left leaning gathering in the nation over the next 4 years?………)
There’s no group in my town, but there’s one in my county, just up the way. Hmmm.
@AlanSmithee, Lord Dampnut’s doctor done did said that he takes a small dose of a prostate drug to promote hair growth. We can trust the man. He’s a doctor. He’s given L.D. a clean bill of health (by saying he probably won’t drop dead in the Lincoln Bedroom).
@Peter F. King, wow, you sure did tell us. I’m going to hang it all up, now. Yup. Can’t argue with such scintillating verbal gymnastics.
Anything I, an Australian, can do in the meantime until this meeting on Sunday? I’ve already attended the women’s march, asked Turnbull to condemn the ban, and rang and thanked my MP for condemning the ban, but now, since it doesn’t look like there’s any follow-up march on Saturday, any airport protests in Australia, or any Indivisible chapters in Australia, I’m not sure what to do next. I’m still dubious about writing to the Australian ambassador to the US, the Queen, and Obama/Clinton/Sanders – personally, I think I’ll pass that up.
I just joined a group in my voting district! My homework tonight is going to be a more thorough investigation of their website and a plan concerning which events I can routinely be a part of.
I’m duplicating this from the other thread. It’s all worth it!!
…
Saw this very encouraging piece from Rachel Maddow yesterday.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/anti-trump-backlash-rapidly-outpacing-tea-party-in-its-prime-868179523728
Exemplified by this even more encouraging item in The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/02/republican-selling-public-lands-bill-withdraw-jason-chaffetz
Way to go, chumps! Offer legislation that unites the environmentalists and the huntin’-fishin’-shootin’ crowd in opposing you. Now see how far you get with trying to turn public land into private profit.
Hello.
> weirwoodtreehugger: chief manatee
Maybe Sauron ? Or any Saurus (after all, they are often the same who think there is something like a “reptilian” conspiracy, so…) ? In all case, something with a close spelling, in order to make the shift in their algorithms as short as possible…
Have a nice day.
re: George Soros
I’ve posted this before, Soros represents the “Emmanual Goldstein” character (see Orwell’s 1984). He’s the one the Alternate Reality Media blames for everything that looks like resistance to their Doublespeak/Doublethink.
And @Peter F. King, if you aren’t familiar with the Alternate Reality Media, Google Kellyanne Conway AND Bowling Green Massacre.
Everyone else, gird thy loins for the upcoming onslaught of “Bowling Green Massacre Coverup” right-wing blather.
@Falconer
He takes a T(estosterone) Blocker? Seriously? I’m guessing Spiro, since Androcur isn’t used in the US.
@MAWG,
Y-you want me to speak? Like, uh, like in public?
http://media.giphy.com/media/kNrxGZ5ch8dbi/giphy.gif
We all know that the Left has a problem with purity tests (Though the Tea Party movement showed us that it happens in the Right too). It was more that it’s the first thing you said, and you came in with the perfect solution that got you your bad reaction there.
The issue is that, well, we don’t necessarily want a “big tent” that will let anyone in. The Big GOP Tent let in frickin’ Nazis after all. There’s no easy solution to the divisiveness in the Left (or either side). Fortunately, this current problem is big enough that it’s galvanizing lots of resistance all over.
The difference I suppose is that the Democratic Party isn’t asking us to sacrifice our ideals or positions to contribute – they’re just contributing. Whereas most pleas for unity involve sacrificing ones’ position. If the DP were contributing but were also saying “We will contribute, but only if you agree to help dismantle healthcare” or something stupid, we’d say helll no. That isn’t happening. They’re just helping. So, good!
And we can still critique them, too – and we should. The Democratic Party deserves a lot of white-hot anger, even if they’re finally doing the right thing. Saving the soul of their party may have cost the soul of America, and has certainly cost actual human lives and suffering. That can’t be forgotten. But they’re pulling in the right direction now, so – great, keep pulling. Pull harder, you bastards, you owe us that at least.
@Peter F King,
Fuck you, King, your aspirations in your name,
Fuck your addle-headed red-string-on-corkboard conspiracies.
Who the fuck’s George Soros? your proof is fuckin’ lame.
It’s just anti-semite, anti-human black-smoke-from-smokestack degeneracies.
The fuck’s a globalist agenda? Is that where they put you in hobbit homes?
Or when Obama takes your guns? The UN holds all the worlds’ loans?
Talk plain, you fuckin’ puke, stop with the fuckin’ buzz-words.
So we can see your hate laid bare, so we can see your sickly soul.
You talk like you wear brown shirts, you shit, you sound absurd,
put on your fuckin’ jack-boots already, we can all see that that’s your actual goal.