[mpen-dayton] FW: "Jeff Sessions Confirmed" & "Our jobs are already disappearing" & Donald Trump: A Necessary Evil" & "A Back-To-Back Comparison..." and more
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- FW: NYT Today's Headline: Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General, Capping Bitter Battle
- FW: Silicon Valley is right—our jobs are already disappearing
- FW: Donald Trump: A Necessary Evil
- FW: NYTimes: Trump's F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules.and deletes help for low income Americans' access to the internet
- FW: Trump CIA Deputy Director Pick Gina Haspel Ran Secret Torture Black Site
- FW: three books said to predict the 2016 election.
- FW: "Wait Calmly" & "A Back-To-Back Comparison..."
- FW: Black people according to Breitbart News by abagond
- FW: The resistance (next steps)
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Subject: Today's Headlines: Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General, Capping Bitter Battle
Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General, Capping Bitter Battle
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MATT FLEGENHEIMER
The Alabama senator survived a near-party-line vote after a racially charged nomination battle that crested with the procedural silencing of Senator Elizabeth Warren.
From: LinkedIn
Subject: Silicon Valley is right—our jobs are already disappearing
Silicon Valley is right—our jobs are already disappearing
Andrew Yang, CEO and Founder of Venture For America
From: Judy Burnette
Subject: FW: "Trump is Not America's Real Problem" & "Donald Trump: A Necessary Evil"
David William Pear: "Trump is Not America's Real Problem" | OpEdNews
" ... Trump is the logical conclusion of the Worldwide War on Terror, US wars of aggression in violation of international law, empire building, acting as if America is exceptional, torture, indefinite detention, executions of American citizens without due process, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, Islamophobia and the construct of the military-industrial-banking-security-police state.
Sooner or later a Trump would have happen[ed] because Americans did not protect, honor and cherish their unalienable rights as proclaimed in the Bill of Rights 'to prevent misconstruction or abuse of [government] powers'.
The American public did not protect itself against domestic enemies in the highest government and corporate positions of power. ..."
"Trump is the dictator that America was waiting for after 16 years of concentrating unconstitutional powers by President George W Bush and President Barack Obama.
It would be naive to think that the US suddenly became fascist in two weeks! It took years to condition the American public to fascism. ... "
http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Trump-is-Not-America-s-Rea-by-David-William-Pear-Al-Qaeda_America-Freedom-To-Fascism_Fascist_Insanity-170204-572.html
Donald Trump: A Necessary Evil
As a recovering alcoholic, I see Trump's Presidency as a painful yet galvanizing precursor to real progress.
First, fellow liberals, the bad news: This is going to hurt. A lot.
Following his bullying January 11 press conference and dark, predecessor-bashing inaugural address, it's clear that President Donald Trump won't be too different from candidate Donald Trump. Everything from his Twitter feed to his extremist cabinet nominees suggests that the myths Trump peddled while campaigning – climate change as hoax, ObamaCare as disaster, illegal immigration as rampant and rapacious, manufacturing jobs as salvageable – will guide, poorly, his policies as President.
It gets worse.
The Republican Party, a collection of cowards coalescing behind an autocratic hijacker, control both houses of Congress. Most likely, we're about to helplessly witness a painful parade of legislation that leaves millions uninsured, hands billions in tax breaks to the super-wealthy, exacerbates and expedites the catastrophic effects of climate change, and deports vulnerable people whose only crime is seeking a better life. Roe v. Wade may be overturned, Citizens United will stand, and the financial sector will recommence the same predatory practices that caused the Great Recession.
Had enough?
OK, here's the good news: This needs to happen for truly transformational, progressive change to occur.
Trust me. My name is Chris, and I'm a recovering alcoholic.
Bottoming Out
No group is more intimately familiar with necessary pain than recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. Addiction takes us on downward trajectories until a point, unique to each, that is simply unacceptable. Nothing motivates like total desperation.
Alcoholics Anonymous describes this as the "jumping off point." Upon reaching this lonely, seemingly hopeless place, drunks and junkies either jump off the crazy train or jump off a bridge. We recover or die.
On my journey down alcoholism's steep, slippery hill I lost a job, my savings, nearly my wife. Finally, assisted by cheap beer and the NYPD, I lost my driver's license. I haven't drank since.
My weirdest-ever metaphor: I am like America. A diseased drunk that will only make significant changes amid unbearable suffering.
And since, for alcoholics like me, booze is but a symptom of deep-rooted spiritual sickness, let's diagnose America's political landscape separate from the toxic yet intoxicating Trump.
The obstructionism and divisive bile spread by the GOP through Barack Obama's presidency was not going to magically disappear under a President Hillary Clinton. Essentially, a Clinton win would have meant a third Obama term starring a less dynamic understudy. Though Democrats also may have won control of the Senate, the House of Representatives would have remained firmly in Republican hands. Cue four more years of gridlock.
Let's get real: Hillary had one-termer written all over her. The mass, misinformed frustration that bubbled up in 2016 would have sunk her in 2020, because we simply would have suffered through four more years of stalemate.
Not so with Trump. Things will get done. Shameful, terrible things, to be exact.
In this fashion Donald Trump, who is utterly unprepared and temperamentally unfit to be President, will bring about a groundswell of positive change through the inevitable backlash against him. Minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, people opposed to dying in a nuclear holocaust… the more groups he pisses off, the better.
Sobering Up
As AA's Step 1 proclaims, an integral initial aspect of recovery is admitting that life has become unmanageable. Considering that Trump entered the White House with the lowest approval rating for an incoming President on record, we're halfway there already.
And let's not forget how Trump became president: by a football stadium's worth of votes across three states. Everything had to break right for him to win the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote by nearly three million. Lost in the initial shock of Trump's victory was the incredible unlikelihood of its arithmetic; it was a perfect storm that, four years from now, will be virtually impossible to repeat.
Why?
Because Donald Trump is an impetuous fool, and will fail miserably as president. His cabinet is nearly as unsuited to govern as he is, and his administration will surely be marred by multiple corruption or sex scandals.
Most importantly: once even a small percentage of the underemployed, disaffected white working class realize Trump can't bring their jobs back, his chances for reelection will evaporate.
For them, the sharpest pain in America's approaching bottom will be realizing that their manufacturing jobs were lost to automation, not Mexico – and that their Charlatan in Chief can't make their employment prospects great again with the wave of a gaudy, gilded wand. The anger that Trump fed upon in 2016 will be unavailable in 2020; in fact, it may very well boomerang back at him.
The same people Trump catered too, then, are the ones he's about to most betray. The GOP is about to blast a huge crater in its own base, presenting an unprecedented opportunity for progressives to finally overcome its years-long legislative logjam and current governing hinterlands.
No pain, no gain. Trump's devastating wreckage will spark a much-needed national recovery.
In the meantime, buckle up. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
But it will get better only because it got worse.
From: Andrew Tierman
Subject: NYTimes: Trump's F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules..and deletes help for low income Americans' access to the internet
Trump's F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules https://nyti.ms/2kCH7pl
From: Judy Burnette
Subject: Trump CIA Deputy Director Pick Gina Haspel Ran Secret Torture Black Site
http://www.veteranstodaylive.com/2017/02/07/trump-cia-deputy-director-pick-gina-haspel-ran-secret-torture-black-site/
From: Andrew J. Tierman
Subject: three books said to predict the 2016 election & FW: Sign the petition: Stop Air Traffic Control Privatization
Three books said to predict the 2016 election
Sign the petition: Stop Air Traffic Control Privatization
Don't let Republicans privatize air traffic control (as they have been trying to do since ? Reagan fired all of the controllers.) - AT
Sign the petition: Stop Congress from trying to privatize our air traffic control system, again. Click here to sign.
With all the horrible things that Donald Trump and Republicans are pushing through Congress—from a stolen Supreme Court seat, to some of the most extreme Cabinet nominations ever—it is hard to keep track.
And if we don't pay close enough attention, they can get things done below the radar that they had failed to do in the past. While we are distracted fighting other battles, we can lose ones we had won before.
Last year, over 50,000 Daily Kos members (including you) signed our joint petition to stop Congress from privatizing our air traffic control system. The good news? We were successful at stopping it.
But now, Republicans are using shock and awe to ram it through again. And with Mitch McConnnell's wife Elaine Chao as the new Secretary of Transportation, we must be more on guard than ever.
Please sign the petition urging Congress to keep its hands off privatizing our air traffic control system.
From: Eric Kramer [mailto:krameres@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2017 12:35 PM
Subject: "Hail to the Arsonist-In-Chief", Wait Calmly" & "A Back-To-Back Comparison..."
- Hail to the Arsonist-In-Chief: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/opinions/trump-the-arsonist-dantonio-opinion/index.html
Hmmm,.... I wonder if he's also a bed-wetter? -
E - Adolf Hitler : "Wait Calmly" | ZEIT ONLINE
http://www.zeit.de/wissen/geschichte/2017-02/adolf-hitler-chancellor-appointment-anniversary - A Back-To-Back Comparison: Wow,.... The difference couldn't be more stark; like night and day.
Good job, Trumpers!! Looks like you've finally gotten the President that you deserve. -
E
From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Black people according to Breitbart News by abagond
Black people according to Breitbart News
Mon 6 Feb 2017 by abagond
The top image for "blacks" on Breitbart News, according to Google Images, 2017.
Here is some of what I have learned about Black people from Breitbart News. I read its top 15 articles for the search term "blacks". The articles were written from 2015 to 2017.
I have not fact-checked any of these:
· "Of course, there is racism in America. But, the fact is lacing your shoes up and working hard every day opens up broad opportunities."
· "The Huey P. Newton Gun Club says on its website it is seeking to 'develop over time to a regimented Black Army.'"
· "Despite the media's overindulgence on white cops killing blacks, there is still a far-larger amount of black bodies being sent to morgues by black killers. Here's five devastating facts, liberals can't deny, that prove it."
o "FACT 1. Over 1,400 more black Americans murdered other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968."
o "FACT 2. Black People (mostly men) commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime."
o "FACT 3. Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks committed half of homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years."
o "FACT 4. Chicago's death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined."
o "FACT 5. It would take cops 40 years to kill as many black men as have died at the hands of others black men in 2012 alone."
· "a Republican president would do a far better job of insisting that places like Baltimore and Ferguson are policed properly. Whacking black families on welfare and turning a blind eye to crime – the Democrat way – is why so many black Americans are miserable, and why they riot."
· "Blacks aren't benefitting from the Hispanic invasion: in fact, it's making their lives even worse."
· "You have to worry for black neighbourhoods when Hispanics, who have no lingering slavery guilt to worry about, are the ethnic majority in America."
· "Blacks seem to identify with Trump's swagger: they put him in enough rap songs, after all."
· "Members of the #FYF911 or #FukYoFlag and #BlackLivesMatter movements called for the lynching and hanging of white people and cops."
· "BLACK HARVARD ECONOMIST FINDS NO BIAS AGAINST BLACKS IN POLICE SHOOTINGS"
· "There is no epidemic of police killing black people in America. It simply is not true."
· "Kaepernick could save a million dollars and countless lives by addressing the wanton disregard for life in black America."
· "Historians estimate that 90 percent of the slaves captured and shipped across the Atlantic were the victims of a commercial partnership involving African tribes who had been in that business for centuries."
· "Whatever the intent of the abortion industry, by functional standards, abortion is a racist institution in the United States, with black children aborted at nearly four times the rate of white children."
Sage Steele
Advice gleaned: Black people should work hard, not kill White people, vote Republican (especially Trump), get their news from places like Breitbart, and, like Sage Steele, have the courage to call out the hypocritical Black racists who call them a coon.
Breitbart News is read by President Trump and was led by one of his top advisers, Steve Bannon, from 2012 to 2016.
– Abagond, 2017.
Source: Breitbart News (February 6th 2017), namely:
· NBA COACH GREGG POPOVICH SAYS HARD WORK WON'T HELP BLACKS ATTAIN AMERICAN DREAM, TOO MUCH RACISM
· SUBURBAN CHICAGO SCHOOL TEACHES 'BLACKENOMICS,' 'TRANS-RIGHTS,' AND 'WHITE GENOCIDE AGAINST BLACKS'
· ESPN'S SAGE STEELE: STOP THE 'HATRED AT OTHER BLACKS WHO FEEL DIFFERENTLY'
· 5 DEVASTATING FACTS ABOUT BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME
· DONALD TRUMP WOULD BE THE REAL FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
· CNN IMPLIES BLACKS WON'T BACK TRUMP IF HE DOESN'T GIVE FELONS VOTING RIGHTS
· TEXAS NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY LEADER: BLACKS 'ARE BEING PIMPED LIKE PROSTITUTES' BY DEMOCRATS
· BLACK ACTIVISTS CALL FOR LYNCHING AND HANGING OF WHITE PEOPLE AND COPS
· BLACK HARVARD ECONOMIST FINDS NO BIAS AGAINST BLACKS IN POLICE SHOOTINGS
· FIVE FACTS ABOUT 'BLACK OPPRESSION' COLIN KAEPERNICK NEEDS TO KNOW
· MUHAMMAD ALI WAS WRONG: ISLAM ENSLAVED BLACKS FOR CENTURIES, DID NOT FREE THEM
· AFRICAN CARDINAL DEMANDS APOLOGY FOR ABORTION 'GENOCIDE' OF BLACK BABIES IN U.S.
From: Robert Reich
Subject: The resistance (next steps)
In recent days, many of us (including me!) have been demanding that Democrats on Capitol Hill stiffen their spines—and throw as much sand in the gears of Donald Trump's agenda as possible.
Some of us are lining up outside of senators' offices. Some of us are packing senators' and representatives' town hall meetings. Many of us are flooding Congress with petition signatures, postcards, and other messages—and jamming congressional phone lines. (If you've tried calling recently, then you know just how flooded they are!)
And you know something? We are really getting through. We are being heard, loud and clear.
But to make sure that enough Senate Democrats stand strong on the most important fights—such as control of the Supreme Court, health care, women's rights, and civil rights—we all need to keep growing and intensifying this effort.
That's why MoveOn's team has mounted an ongoing, long-term effort to stiffen the spines of lackluster congressional Democrats and turbocharge the efforts of those at the state and local levels who are rising—courageously, creatively, doggedly—in opposition to Trump's unprecedented attack on our nation.
That means organizing peaceful rallies. Conference calls with tens of thousands of people. Recruiting for protests organized by others to grow their size and scope. Flooding Congress with more calls and petition signatures. Supporting state challenges and lawsuits going after Trump's worst policies. And getting creative to earn media attention and get our message heard across the country. MoveOn's doing it all.
As I recently mentioned, when it comes to leading the ongoing fight to strengthen the spines of Democrats, MoveOn is one of the most effective organizations I can think of. MoveOn has successfully pushed Democrats to boldly resist Republican extremism for nearly two decades. For example, under George W. Bush, MoveOn helped organize Democrats to block Republicans from privatizing Social Security and to stand strong against the Iraq War during a time when many Democrats were being too timid.
Rising to that level again will require substantial resources. But for our constitutional democracy to survive a Trump presidency intact, MoveOn must do more than ever before. Which is why I'm asking:
Will you chip in monthly to support MoveOn's critical, nonstop work to help stiffen the spines of Democratic lawmakers in Washington and block the worst of Donald Trump's agenda?
Because you've saved your payment information with MoveOn, your donation will go straight through.
Donate
What we're doing is working. "I'm prepared to shatter precedent in order to make it clear that we are not going to stand for what Trump is doing," Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut recently said. "The protests and the actions from Democratic senators are mirrors of each other ... We are rising to what is a truly exceptional moment."1
After an estimated 3,000 protesters gathered outside Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's Brooklyn apartment last week, Schumer said that Democrats would filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.2
We still have a very long way to go, of course. We've got to make sure that all Democrats get the resistance message. (And, it goes without saying, but just to say it: We need to keep the heat on Republicans—who've done SO much damage to our country by enabling Trump's rise.)
That takes building a movement, one person at a time. And it means showing up, again and again.
- It means calling your members of Congress, not just once, but as much as you can.
- It means showing up for as many peaceful protests as you can and getting your friends, family, and neighbors to show up too.
- It means signing petitions on important issues—and maybe even starting and delivering your own petition.
- It means not counting on others to do what we know must be done, but joining—and even organizing—ourselves.
- And it means providing substantial, ongoing resources to build a movement. Not just once, but again and again.
I recently read that it may take only 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator.3 Now, to be clear, Trump isn't acting quite like a dictator ... yet. I'm not yet sure how far he will go. But I do know that if we wait and see, it could be too late. Which is why we all need to grow our movement—and invest in critical organizing infrastructure—right now.
Our resistance is already having an impact. We need to keep at it and do even more. With your help, MoveOn can grow the resistance, month after month, year after year—and rise to this enormous challenge. It's critical, hard work. Together, I know we can do it.
P.S. One way that I spoke out recently against too-timid Democrats was by creating a video with MoveOn—which has now been seen millions of times.
Click here to watch it.
And then, if you can, click here to chip in monthly to support more efforts like it.
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Sources:
- "Democrats, pushed by grass-root protests, unifying Trump opposition," USA Today, February 1, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/8030?t=13&akid=177758.1195276.lyNWbK - "Progressives are Demanding Obstruction and Senators are Listening," NBC News, February 1, 2017
http://act.moveon.org/go/8121?t=15&akid=177758.1195276.lyNWbK - "It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator - with civil resistance," The Guardian, February 1, 2017
https://act.moveon.org/go/8075?t=17&akid=177758.1195276.lyNWbK
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