Trump Watch May 9 2017

Day 110:

 

Sally Yates Is A God Damn American Hero:

It seems increasingly rare that people in government care about the American people.  It might seem like that but the truth is that there are many people who work in government who do care about the American people.  Its the people taking and giving large sums of money that are the problem.  Your senators, governors, representatives and the cloud of people around them.  Below them is a mass of folks who just want to do right by the world, and to help the American citizen.

Sally Yates is one such person.  When confronted with an obviously illegal Muslim ban from President Trump, she ruled that it should be ignored.  When challenged to change her statement, she refused.  Under pressure she refused to crack, when push came to shove she would rather get fired than do the wrong thing.

And now that Trump is in big trouble with Russia, it turns out she had told him not to hire certain people, as did Obama, but he did so anyway because he is a moron, and is as corrupt as the day is long (and he probably owes very large sums of money to Russian creditors).  When challenged on his illegal behavior he chose to fire Yates instead of listening to her.  He chose to break the law, do highly questionable things, and fired someone who told him he was doing so.

This shows that Trump is not just bumbling his way into lawbreaking, he is a con man, intent on lying cheating and stealing as much as he can while in office.  Thank you Sally Yates for standing up for what is right, even though it cost you your job.

 

Further Reading:

Trump fired Sally Yates the day she offered evidence Flynn was compromised

Ted Cruz flees hearing after Sally Yates schools him on Muslim ban

Disbelief As Spicer Blames Obama For Not Showing More Concern About Flynn

Ted Cruz Tried To Corner Sally Yates On The Law. He Failed.

Sally Yates just schooled the sh*t out of Ted Cruz

Sally Yates demolishes White House defenses

Sally Yates just publicly confirmed important facts about the Trump-Russia story

Trump’s Statement Calling For A Ban On Muslims Entering The US Has Been Deleted

Trump staffers reportedly removed top secret documents from a secure facility

Nbc: Flynn never completed cia background check for Trump White House job

Spicer confirms Obama warned Trump about Flynn

Sally Yates Implies Trump White House Tried to Keep Her From Reviewing Travel Ban Before It Was Signed

Yates Fuels Questions About Trump’s 18-Day Delay in Firing Flynn

Yates: Flynn Was ‘Compromised With Respect To The Russians’

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: Something is preventing Trump from reaching ‘obvious conclusions’

This GOP senator tried to shame Sally Yates for opposing Trump’s travel ban. She demolished him.

Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials

Sally Yates Just Threw the White House Under the Bus

‘A danger to this republic’: Sen. Al Franken asks why the Trump administration took so long to fire Michael Flynn

Trump advisers had ‘sensitive’ contacts with Russian agents for months, Clapper testifies

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When Bernie Lost He Started A Political Grass Roots Revolution, When Hillary Lost She Started A SuperPAC To get More Money Into government:

Seriously Hillary?  You lost the god damn election in part because of your ties to big money donors, and the public’s inability to trust you because of it.  You really think that the answer is to taint more elections with more big money?  Are you not getting the fucking clue, WE DON’T WANT BIG BUSINESS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT!  Go do something useful for the world, call up Jimmy Carter and talk to him for an hour or two, see if you can get some ideas about what you should be doing with your hundreds of millions of dollars.

Meanwhile Bernie is rebuilding the party from the ground up with grassroots candidates who pledge not to take corporate money, he is fighting every day to introduce important legislation, and is literally touring the country (in many of the places Hillary’s campaign ignored) trying to rebuild the democratic party.

There is a huge fucking difference between the two, and its clear that Clinton’s vision of the political future for this country is one in which NeoLiberal big money rules.

Further Reading:

New study shows that the greater the societal inequality and instability, the more the groups on top of society tend to support a hierarchy between groups, protecting their own privileged status.

Jimmy Carter on Sanders: ‘Can y’all see why I voted for him?’

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Upcoming Action Against Trump:

June 9 – 11, Peoples Summit 2.0

June 11 – LGBTQA+ March on DC

Tools of change:

Feel like this is all a bunch of bullshit?  Want to do something about it?

Calling your government representative:

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Tell them in no uncertain terms that you want them to fight to stop Trump from doing these things. Tell them you will be watching them closely on how they vote, and will hold them accountable during the next election if they cave to Trump.  You can also call other states congress people and threaten to donate to their opponent if they don’t do what you want.

Phone Bank for Progressive Candidates:

https://www.grassrootspb.com/

Call the White House:

202-456-1111

Call the “White House”:

Use this  website to call one of Trump’s many properties he has not put into a blind trust yet, and let them know how you feel (be polite, they are workers just like us, but be firm).

Do a little Slacktivism:

Send Some Text Messages for progressive causes (I know it says textforbernie, but its for a range of progressive candidates)  Or you can have your texts turned into faxes by the ResistBot

Go to a town hall and talk to your congress person in person:

Check when the next town hall is here

Monitor your congressperson:

Keep track of how your senator is voting on cabinet picks here, so you can call them up and give them hell if they vote for any of these worthless fuckers.

See how your elected representatives are voting for or against Trump.

Elections!

Also be sure to keep track if you live in a district with an upcoming flip-able seat (flip to the left that is)

See if you have a special election in your area!

Is your mayor up for election?  Find out, get involved!

Upcoming house votes:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/

Upcoming senate bills:

http://www.senateseeker.com/vote.php?upcoming=true

Monitor Trumps Conflict of Interests:

From CNN of all people.

The Atlantic

General Guides:

Guidelines by former Congress staffers on how to get Congress to listen. https://www.indivisibleguide.com/

Run For Office!:

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