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Botany

(72,483 posts)
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:09 AM Jan 2017

Call your democratic senators and congresspeople and demand they don't go to Trump's inauguration.

John Lewis is right in that Trump is not a legitimate President. Trump worked with Russia and cheated
by using "cross check" to steal the White House he should not be normalized.


From Paul Kruagman's NY Times article .... Standing up against Trump is Patriotic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/opinion/with-all-due-disrespect.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

With All Due Respect.

snip

Now Mr. Lewis says that he won’t attend the inauguration of Donald Trump, whom he regards as an illegitimate president.

snip

By any reasonable standard, the 2016 election was deeply tainted. It wasn’t just the effects of Russian intervention on Mr. Trump’s behalf; Hillary Clinton would almost surely have won if the F.B.I. hadn’t conveyed the false impression that it had damaging new information about her, just days before the vote. This was grotesque, delegitimizing malfeasance, especially in contrast with the agency’s refusal to discuss the Russia connection.

Was there even more to it? Did the Trump campaign actively coordinate with a foreign power? Did a cabal within the F.B.I. deliberately slow-walk investigations into that possibility? Are the lurid tales about adventures in Moscow true? We don’t know, although Mr. Trump’s creepy obsequiousness to Vladimir Putin makes it hard to dismiss these allegations. Even given what we do know, however, no previous U.S. president-elect has had less right to the title. So why shouldn’t we question his legitimacy?

And talking frankly about how Mr. Trump gained power isn’t just about truth-telling. It may also help to limit that power.

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Call your democratic senators and congresspeople and demand they don't go to Trump's inauguration. (Original Post) Botany Jan 2017 OP
Alas I'm in Texas vlyons Jan 2017 #1
At least call their office and tell them that working with Russia was treason Botany Jan 2017 #2
And when no repubs show up to inaugurate the new Democrat Pres in 2020? Who is that good for? jmg257 Jan 2017 #3
Good God in butter Botany Jan 2017 #4
I get exasperated as well with some of these triron Jan 2017 #5
I'll be standing up all week/end in DC in protest, but I am not a member of Congress. jmg257 Jan 2017 #7
Sent mine an email saying "Thanks"... Wounded Bear Jan 2017 #6
Contacted my 2 senators in NM triron Jan 2017 #8
I did, and he isn't going. kairos12 Jan 2017 #9
kick for visibility triron Jan 2017 #10
kick again triron Jan 2017 #11

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
3. And when no repubs show up to inaugurate the new Democrat Pres in 2020? Who is that good for?
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 08:58 AM
Jan 2017

This downward spiral will never end.

Botany

(72,483 posts)
4. Good God in butter
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 09:14 AM
Jan 2017

Last edited Tue Jan 17, 2017, 09:59 AM - Edit history (1)

This was a coup. If you aren't going to stand up now when are you
going to stand up?

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
7. I'll be standing up all week/end in DC in protest, but I am not a member of Congress.
Tue Jan 17, 2017, 02:34 PM
Jan 2017

I do understand the sentiment. But memories in DC are long. And constant playing of politics sucks.

I guess de-legitimizing trump's presidency as much as possible does make sense...we shall have to see how it comes back to bite us in the ass.

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