2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumFIGHT BACK !!!!!!!!!!!
We all spend a lot of time here doing.. well, ya'll know what.
Crying, bitching, commissuraaating....etc etc etc...
And that is fine.
BUT
BUT.. we gotta fight back... Even me,
So, I have started to reply to some posts, comments, with this below.. just as a reminder, as encouragement, as a spine stiffener, a suggestion, support,, and to remind myself as well
If someone gets tired of it, just tell me to delete a reply and I will.. maybe.. LOL !!!
SO I suggest---
Get out and contact your reps and tell them to fight against every single nominee il duce puts up for his cabinet.
Write letters to editors.
Contact broadcast media.
Join groups fighting the coup.
Contribute $$ if you can.
Post on social media.
Join protests, marches, strikes, boycotts.
any other type of civil disobedience. .
PROTEST any way possible...
Anything else you might think of...
msongs
(70,145 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I never believed that they will actually do all they are doing..
KOCH !!!!!!!!
I DO NOW!
Maybe it too realizing that my SS and Medicare are about to get cut to convince me 100%..
triron
(22,240 posts)bur first fight to stop that thug from taking office!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)FIGHT NOW.....!
jalan48
(14,353 posts)Now,, what can you do..??
I have emailed Schumer, Gillibrand
Also Chris Collins.. my 'rep'' - an asshole if ever there qs one. He's on the tRump 'transition' committee..
BARF!!!!!!
I just told him he was basically a shit for brains and that I would do everything in my power to see he never gets elected again.. I am in a staunchly rep district in western NY.. a gerrymanderd district..
BUT about 10 years ago we DID elect a demo.. Eric Massa, a retired naval Commander, I think it was.. I campaigned for him...
Unfortunately, he was caught putting moves on congressional clerks and interns in the men's shower, so that was the end of that.
jalan48
(14,353 posts)There will be protests and demonstrations in my town I plan to be a part of. I will do everything I can to stop the steamrolling by Republicans.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)good work !!!
jalan48
(14,353 posts)I think we might be a little more rowdy as well. George Bush Sr. referred to Portland as "Little Beirut" after the welcome he received when visiting here.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Then Bernie lost the primary and I understood how it works. Good luck with your letters
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I fought in that war also.
But, there were the 2004 red sox and this years cubs and Cavs...
I just feel now that if I don';t do even a little.. then I will never know what might have been....
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yeoman6987
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Kingofalldems
(39,196 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I used to joke about that. "Oh, it is a coup d'etat. Oh my.
Then, OMG it really IS!!!
Kingofalldems
(39,196 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)@AndreaChalupa
Here's a disturbing thread about the Wisconsin recount and a way we can still save it. #RecountWI #AuditTheVote
1. The difference in Wisconsin is currently about 22,000 votes, or 0.75%. #RecountWI
2.Optical scanning computers in WI, esp. ES&S DS-200, too often fail to count votes where voter intent could be discerned by hand #RecountWI
3. In Florida, due to voting machines, a shocking 1.67% of the people wearing an I Voted sticker actually didn't. #RecountWI
4. In Michigan, where the margin is only 11,000 votes, there are 75,000 not counted votes in Detroit alone. #RecountWI
5. Hand counts will identify and include legal votes missed by the machine; anyone who says otherwise is simply wrong.
6. Contrary to popular belief, recounting is faster by hand than to feed thousands of ballots through the machines one at a time. #RecountWI
7. 47 of 72 counties chose faster/more reliable method of hand recount.But 25 using same unreliable machines as on election night #RecountWI
8. This violates the Equal Protection Clause central to Bush v. Gore in 2000: similar ballots must be counted in the same way. #RecountWI
9. Hand counts are being used in predominantly white counties.Unreliable machines r used in counties w/large minority populations #RecountWI
10. We the People can help file a fed suit to force all WI counties to count by hand. We must ensure all votes are counted fairly #RecountWI
11. Please RT! Long list of severe issues in #RecountWI & efforts by Trump to block recount call for federal lawsuit
How to save the Wisconsin recount
https://medium.com/ChrisSautter/how-to-save-the-wisconsin-recount-8e385db8fca5#.qy01pl4r3
https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807309236464156672