Winston Legthigh Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 https://media.giphy.com/media/l3q2TG7HKUh7hWIYE/giphy.gifRIP Rowdy Roddy... Link to post Share on other sites
Blackberry Rust Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Watching on with horror from Australia. Hard times, yet really inspired by the demonstrated resistance. My thoughts and support are with my American friends and colleagues. Stay strong. x Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Watching on with horror from Australia. Hard times, yet really inspired by the demonstrated resistance. My thoughts and support are with my American friends and colleagues. Stay strong. x Thanks. We Americans are watching with horror too. Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Remember when Republicans complained about Obama and his imperial presidency? Yeah, that was awesome. Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Holy dictatorship forming! Spicer tells diplomats to leave if they don't like the ban. Heaven forbid if someone doesn't agree with the Furor. https://www.yahoo.com/news/spicer-tells-diplomats-to-get-behind-the-immagration-ban-or-just-get-out-235644603.html Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Holy dictatorship forming! Spicer tells diplomats to leave if they don't like the ban. Heaven forbid if someone doesn't agree with the Furor. https://www.yahoo.com/news/spicer-tells-diplomats-to-get-behind-the-immagration-ban-or-just-get-out-235644603.htmlAngry Spice has spoken! Link to post Share on other sites
Shug Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 I just essentially broke up with many of my extended family members in a group email. I don't have time and space in my life for Trump supporters anymore.I am not speaking to any family members at all anymore. My Mom became a fundamentalist evangelical Christian and my only sibling an ultra-orthodox Catholic about 30 years ago, so our relationship has been hanging by a thread for decades. They all voted Trump and its the last straw for me. There is nothing there worth salvaging or working for. My family is now my wife, my stepboys and my friends whom I have always liked to call my chosen family. I've never seen anything like this, obviously, and I can't fucking believe this is happening. This article by Chris Hedges is mostly terrifying but there is a glimmer of a strategy for maintaining sanity. We must form communities with people who want to fight fascism and protect democracy and human rights and not isolate ourselves. I think i need to go surfing more! "To recover our mental balance we must respond to Trump the way victims of trauma respond to abuse. We must build communities where we can find understanding and solidarity. We must allow ourselves to mourn. We must name the psychosis that afflicts us. We must carry out acts of civil disobedience and steadfast defiance to re-empower others and ourselves. We must fend off the madness and engage in dialogues based on truth, literacy, empathy and reality. We must invest more time in activities such as finding solace in nature, or focusing on music, theater, literature, art and even worship—activities that hold the capacity for renewal and transcendence. This is the only way we will remain psychologically whole. Building an outer shell or attempting to hide will exacerbate our psychological distress and depression. We may not win, but we will have, if we create small, like-minded cells of defiance, the capacity not to go insane." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/american_psychosis_20170129 Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 i uncovered an angry nest of nutjobs today.http://ace.mu.nu/ Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 i uncovered an angry nest of nutjobs today.http://ace.mu.nu/yikes, what is that? Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 bunch of assholes?in a different light, this is possibly good news:http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/trump-apparently-didnt-realize-steve-bannon-will-need-senate-confirmation-security-council/1282/ Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 bunch of assholes?in a different light, this is possibly good news:http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/trump-apparently-didnt-realize-steve-bannon-will-need-senate-confirmation-security-council/1282/Hopefully this holds up. Trump v. Press. Nice work by Alter's team. Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 unfortunately it's not gonna...https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/826291398731300864 Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 unfortunately it's not gonna... https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/826291398731300864 Yeah, I was afraid of that. Press and others need to keep at it, though. Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 “What happened if we didn’t act and someone was killed?” Spicer asked the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sean-spicer-san-bernardino_us_588f3d65e4b08a14f7e6f416? I have heard the same argument from gun control advocates. More people die from armed toddlers than terror attacks. Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 More people die from armed toddlers than terror attacks. It seems like many things that conservatives are passionately for (Muslim Ban, voter suppression) have constantly been proven to be statistically unlikely. Whereas things they are passionately against (climate change) have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. It is clear the Republican party does not see reason or fact and are willing to push their agenda, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. . And I like to say this just as a reminder every once and awhile. Let us never forget, the leader of the Republican Party, our President, is a Racist, Misogynist, Xenophobe, who has regularly pushed policies that are in direct contradiction to our constitution. Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Columbia yearbook: Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Trump's remarks on Black History Month: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-full-transcript-of-donald-trumps-black-history-month-1791871370 Seriously WTF? Link to post Share on other sites
Lammycat Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Trump's remarks on Black History Month: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-full-transcript-of-donald-trumps-black-history-month-1791871370 Seriously WTF? Everything is always about him and self-aggrandizing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqz2fl9aJSM Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Columbia yearbook: Trump's remarks on Black History Month: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-full-transcript-of-donald-trumps-black-history-month-1791871370 Seriously WTF? I feel like all my language skills have lately been reduced to an outraged, sputtering, WHAT. THE. FUCK. A third grader could have written a more meaningful speech. He turns every single thing into an opportunity to praise himself. My hatred knows no bounds. Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 It seems like many things that conservatives are passionately for (Muslim Ban, voter suppression) have constantly been proven to be statistically unlikely. Whereas things they are passionately against (climate change) have been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. It is clear the Republican party does not see reason or fact and are willing to push their agenda, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. . And I like to say this just as a reminder every once and awhile. Let us never forget, the leader of the Republican Party, our President, is a Racist, Misogynist, Xenophobe, who has regularly pushed policies that are in direct contradiction to our constitution. Not a day goes by that I don't wonder if I'm part of the deluded group. It's nuts out there. Comments like this really bring me back to reality. Thanks! Very good point about the Right being against anything that is an actual threat. It's classic projection. Bring up racism and BAM, it's the Left and the Blacks who are racist. Link to post Share on other sites
Blackberry Rust Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 It's official hitting home on our turf as revelations emerge about the conversation Trump had with our PM, Malcolm Turnbull earlier this week: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/02/trump-told-turnbull-refugee-agreement-was-the-worst-deal-ever-report Predictably (and contradicting Spicer assurance that it's still on) Trump's now tweeted about this "dumb deal." Turnbull's currently in parliament trying to convince everyone the deal's still happening. FYI: this is likely the worst prime minister we've ever had (worse than the predecessor, Tony Abbot) - beholden to the conservative/right-wing factions of his party, spineless, lacking any judgement and painfully out of touch with the community. He's had a shocking start to the year and by all accounts this is a guy desperately trying to hang on to his position. FYI #2: Australia hasn't had a Prime Minister hold a full term in office since 2007. Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Enjoy your poisoned rivers everyone!! http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/02/01/house-republicans-just-voted-allow-dumping-coal-waste-rivers/ Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Enjoy your poisoned rivers everyone!! http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/02/01/house-republicans-just-voted-allow-dumping-coal-waste-rivers/This is amazing on two fronts. This wasn't a law until the Obama administration made it one? And, this should be proof enough that Congress doesn't have our best interests at heart. Industry and Commerce are priorities. Clearly. Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 This is amazing on two fronts. This wasn't a law until the Obama administration made it one? And, this should be proof enough that Congress doesn't have our best interests at heart. Industry and Commerce are priorities. Clearly. But there is this: "Make no mistake about it, this Obama administration rule is not designed to protect streams. Instead, it was an effort to regulate the coal mining industry right out of business," said Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, who sponsored the disapproval measure on the stream protection rule. We need to continue to burn our pressurized dinosaur bones! Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Threatening Mexico with military intervention. I wish I was Canadian. Link to post Share on other sites
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