Showing posts with label resist trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resist trump. Show all posts

Thursday, December 7, 2017

In the News: White House says "Okay to Hang signs: We don't serve gays here"

The WHITE HOUSE press secretary said the Admin. agrees on displaying "We don't serve gays here" signs. 

We really hate Republicans. 

WHERE AND WHEN IT HAPPENED:   If you were watching the White House Press Briefing on Dec. 6, you heard Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Pres. Trump's press secretary say "the president's devotion to so-called religious liberties extends to businesses hanging signs about refusing service to LGBT people."
   They have taken this country back 100 years as expected. They hate everyone that isn't a white,, straight, rich, evangelical (wacko) christian. There are ZERO redeeming qualities in these people. ZERO.
PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR THEM GETTING SCR***ED  - Everyone making under $75 K will see their taxes go up in 2018 while people making over $250,000 get tax breaks.
** Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are also on their chopping block.

WHO VOTED FOR HIM?  This is what people in the "White Lash" or coal country, or Evangelicals or "I Love the Uneducated"- (said Trump himself) voted for. 

HORRENDOUS.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Read the Indivisible Document and Take Action (Against the Conservatives)


FINALLY, progressives have come out with a plan for the Average Person so they can push against the ultra-
conservative Tea Party agenda (that is going to decimate science, education, health care, civil rights and more)
- This is a comprehensive strategy that requires citizens like you to take actions. Here's the 26 page outline giving specific actions you can/should do with your Members of Congress:
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT? - This guide will provide those who stand for Democracy and the progressive movement with useful tools to make Congress listen.
The chapters offer a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. The guide is intended to be equally useful for stiffening Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve.
We believe that the next four years depend on Americans across the country standing indivisible against the Trump agenda. We believe that buying into false promises or accepting partial concessions will only further empower Trump to victimize us and our neighbors. We hope that this guide will provide those who share that belief useful tools to make Congress listen.
WHAT'S IN IT? - The chapters offer a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents to stiffen Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve.
WHO WROTE THIS PLAN? - Are former progressive congressional staffers who saw the Tea Party beat back President Obama’s agenda.
- See more at: http://www.occupy.com/article/indivisible-practical-guide-resisting-trump-agenda#sthash.mWwAtkyw.dpuf

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

8 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Federal Happenings this Week

Can you find anything good in these things? 
For everyone who wants to understand what's happening with the "transition of power" in Washington, DC to the new adminstration, here are the facts on this past week's events. Each of these has links to the news sources, in case you have any doubts. It's difficut to see how any of these things are in the public good.


The federal week in review: Week of January 2, 2017.
 
1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day. Normally, they have always been given a grace period.
2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee's salary to $1, effectively firing Federal employees by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State.
3. Ethics  office accuses GOP of rushing Trump Cabinet confirmations - Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump's first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest.
4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the ACA.  So the costs cannot be tracked.
5. Trump continued to cast doubt on the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.
6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, the U.S. taxpayers) to pay for it.
7. -
Donald Trump just threatened Toyota — but it looks like he got the facts wrong
Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.
8.
Suspending the Rules: How Congress Plans to Undermine Public Safety - The House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department--for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don't like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.

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