bando–grand-scamyon:

tormans-space:

sulemania:

yungmethuselah:

vaguelyconcernedtriangle:

yungmethuselah:

yungmethuselah:

Honestly, it’s irresponsible to treat Trump supporters in any way that suggests their actions and views are excusable. The ones you know, shame in both public and private. Shun them. Large-scale social enforcement works. Bigots’ going unrebuked is why we’re in this mess.

The deluge of desperate, whining pleas from so many Trump supporters circulating right now to not “bully” them, to extend them respect as though they didn’t just vote to strip it alongside actual, tangible rights away from masses of people, essentially to coddle their consciences and pretend their vote wasn’t a vote for injustice itself—this is evidence that enforcing accountability via social means WORKS, and plenty of these assholes are indeed afraid of it.

Could you specify what rights that Trump has threatened?

Yeah, sure.

“Sealioning is the name given to a specific, pervasive form of aggressive cluelessness, that masquerades as a sincere desire to understand.

A Sealion is a person who, when confronted with a fact that they don’t care to acknowledge, say, the persistence of systemic racism in America, will ask endlessly for ‘proof’ and insist that it is the other person’s job to stop everything they are doing and address the issue to their satisfaction.

Sealions are just ‘asking nicely’ but they are asking questions that have been asked and answered fully many times, and are unwilling to so much as open a tab to look up the answer, nor will they recognize the validity of your sources, your experience or expertise.”

— Erica Friedman

For further reference

BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOP

This whole fucking post!

dontshootus:

So accurate.

quantum-displacement:

White House Chief Strategist:

Steve Bannon (CEO of Breitbart News)

• He was arrested for three counts of domestic violence in the 90s.

• The charges were dropped after him and his attorney threatened his ex-wife into fleeing the state.

• He choked his ex-wife and smashed her phone so she couldn’t call 911.

• He was accused of sexual harassment by female co-workers. “Saftey Regulations? I’m going to ram those Safety Regulations down her fucking throat,”

• “There are some unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement, the women that should lead this country would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children. They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England.” ― Bannon during interview when asked about women in government

• He was outraged when he found out that Jews were allowed at his daughters school and complained to them over it.

• He helped promote the white supremacist novel The Camp of the Saints which depicts non-white immigrants as barbaric invaders who’s goals for moving to Europe and America is to bring forth the downfall of civilization.

• He was a member of a Facebook group that produced racist rants and death threats against President Obama.

• He complained about there being to many Asian CEOs.

National Security Advisor:

Michael Flynn (Disgraced former General)

• He says Islam is Cancer and it’s irrational for people not to be afraid of Muslims.

• He ordered female Defense Intelligence Agency employees to “dress sexy” and wear short skirts and makeup.

• He was fired from the Military for trying to demand to much power and authority. Though he says the reason was, “political correctness.”

• Leaked Bush Administration emails show he show he had extreme anger issues, refused to follow orders, went against policy and became, “physcially abusive with staff.”

• He wants to bring back torture.

• He retweeted anti-semetic Tweets.

• He is a Board Member for what The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the largest Anti-Muslim Hate Group in America.

• His son and top adviser is famous for posting online Conspiracy Theories and racist memes.

Attorney General:

Jeff Sessions (Alabama Senator)

• He said he supported The K.K.K until he learned they smoked pot.

• He admitting to making racist jokes during the investigation of two Klansman whom had kidnapped, beaten, tortured, slit the throat and murdered a young black man in 1981 before hanging his body in a tree at a local park in Mobile, Alabama.

• He called an attorney a “race traitor” for defending a black client in a voting rights case.

• He was considered by the Reagan administration to racist to be a Judge 30 years ago.

• He called the ACLU and the NAACP “un-american” and “communist” for forcing civil rights down Americas throat.

• He used racial slurs to address black co-workers. And told one Black Attorney, “You best be careful how you talk to white folks, boy.”

• He referred to the only black commissioner in Mobile Alabama as “the n*gger.”

• Dozens of former co-workers allege he is a racist and when asked about racist comments he has refused to give a straight answer.

• Q: “Did you refer to him as the N-Word? Yes or no?”
• A: “I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create.”

• He tried to fight against the passage of the violence against women act and fought against laws to make spousal rape a crime.

• He said if a person is gay it should automatically disqualify them from getting a job as a judge.

• He attempted to pass laws that would defund any school that allowed gay student groups or clubs such as the Gay-Straight Alliances. “An organization that professes to be comprised of homosexuals and/or lesbians must not receive state funding or use state-supported facilities to foster or promote those illegal, and sexually deviate activities that break the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws.”

• He voted in favor of laws that would make it legal for the U.S military to perform torture.

• He has received a 0% rating from The Human Rights Campaign.

Secretary of Education:

Michelle Rhee (Owner of a multi-billion dollar Charter school lobbying group)  (Refused the job)

• She is one of the leading supporters for Charter schools and public school privatization, in 2007 became Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school District, during that time she was accused of closing schools and firing teachers so she can steal the pension money for herself.

• She fired 266 teachers who were members of the union and justified it saying, “I got rid of teachers who had hit children and who had had sex with children.” After public outrage into the comments over why she would fire teachers who were pedophiles instead of having them arrested she refused to provide any evidence the 266 union teachers had ever abused children and refused to apologize for her comments.
• She has been accused of making the school district worse on purpose to help lobbyist groups justify their stance that public and free education is a failure.

• She fought against School District Employees Unionizing.

• She made up her resume.

Betsy DeVos (Billionaire private education advocate )

• She wants creationism taught in public schools.

• Her family made their fortune through a literal pyramid scheme. 

• She wants to bring back child labor. 

Secretary of Agriculture:

Forrest Lucas (Billionaire owner of the company Lucas Oil)

• He used company money to buy himself a mansion and avoid paying property taxes then justified it saying he’s using it as a, “corporate retreat for himself” since he is an employee of his company.

• His wife wrote on Facebook saying, “I’m sick and tired of minorities running our country! As far as I’m concerned, I don’t think that atheistss, muslims nor any other minority group has the right to tell the majority of the people in the United States what they can and cannot do here. Is everyone so scared that they can’t fight back for what is right or wrong with his country?” He defended his wife’s statements by saying he has donates to Veterans groups and since they (presumably) help veterans who are minorities he’s not a racist.

• He is famous for being the biggest proponent against animal rights on earth and created a lobbying group called Protect the Harvest who’s motto is “keeping America free and fun.“ to fight against animal rights groups. His group is accused of being a corporate front that openly vows to fight groups such as The Humane Society of the United States and The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Many of the groups board of executives are state politicians who have used Lucases money to try do things like legalize puppy mills, legalize hunting endangered animals and shorten the punishment for crimes like animal cruelty.

I have done extensive research to try and find out why anyone would support these things. And why someone would go as far as to spend millions of dollars so people don’t go jail for beating their pet dogs, and the closest answers I have gotten from interviews is that Forrest Lucas seems obsessed with the idea, “That a man has a god given right to do with, what he pleases to his property.”

Secretary of Energy:

Harold Hamm (Billionaire Oil Tycoon)

• He ordered The Dean of The University of Oklahoma to fire researchers who published papers or did research into the environmental effects of Fracking and Drilling.

• He is against wind turbines because unlike oil wells they don’t look Americans.

• He uses

  slippery slope fallacy

  to argue if the U.S passed environmental regulations it will lead to genocide because the end result of environmental laws would be the U.S massacring people and performing forced abortions to stop overpopulation.

Secretary of Homeland Security:

Michael McCaul (Texas Congressman and the 2nd Richest U.S Politician before Trump with $300 million dollars)

• He attempted to remove the right of deceased soldiers families to choose which prayers, if any, were to be read at a soldier’s funeral. Meaning that if an Atheist or Hindu or Muslim soldier dies by law the family would have to recite and read Christian Prayers during the funeral.

• He wants Putin to lead the monitoring of the situation in Syria rather than an international commission or the U.N

• He violated Ethics Laws when he was responsible for the Keystone Pipeline deal avoiding the entire time to bring up the fact that his family owns the company that would build and own the pipeline.

Secretary of the Treasury:

Steven Mnuchin (Worked for Goldman Sachs and produced American Sniper)

• He has been accused of racism by enacting company policies to refuse to give loans to minorities and giving Latinos higher mortgage rates than whites.

• If you were a Latino who didn’t pay your morgue to Steven Mnuchin’s bank you are 20% more likely to be evicted than if you are white and in the same situation.

• The bank he headed broke the law numerous times with unethical and illegal foreclosure practices. Trying to evict an elderly couple who had already paid them $525,000 in mortgages for a house that was only worth $200,000.

• He has been sued dozens of times and settled or was found guilty in multi-million dollar lawsuits on several separate occasions.

• He has been forced to testify and received subpoenas from the Department of Housing and Urban Development multiple times.

Secretary of Commerce:

Peter Thiel (Billionaire Trump donor)

• He wrote a book called “The Diversity Myth: ‘Multiculturalism’ and the Politics of Intolerance” some highlights of the book is when he argued that the point of awareness about rape and sexual assault victimization is to vilify men and that Ivy League Universities have been forced to dumb down curriculum ever since they allowed blacks to attend their schools so minorities will be able to graduate. The book was so offensive that even Republicans called it out as bigoted and filled with lies.

• He published an essay where he argued that women being allowed to vote hurts democracy.

• He wasted millions trying to build an artificially made island that could be turned into a Libertarian paradise after he was inspired by reading Atlas Shrugged.

• He believes that performing blood transfusions with the blood of young people will stop the aging process. 

Director of the Office of Management and Budget:

Tom Coburn (Former Oklahoma Senator)

• Back when he was a doctor he sterilized a 20 year old woman against her will.

• Back when he was a doctor he committed medicare fraud according to the State Attorney General. (Ironically he wants to end Medicare because he says it’s used primarily for fraud.)

• He demanded the Holocaust film Schindler’s List be banned from airing on television.

• He used legal loopholes to attempt to prevent several bills from coming to the Senate floor. Some of the bills includes one that would assure Veterans get health benefits. The law that criminalized online child pornography and one law that would cut funding to the Ugandan terrorist group, The Lord’s Resistance Army. Who are famous for massacring entire villages but letting the young children live so they can be used as child sex slaves. The LRA currently is killing more people each year than ISIS is.

• He has close connections to a Christian Advocacy group known as, “The Family” which has been described as a cult, and who’s influence is responsible for the passage of laws in Uganda which in 2008 made Homosexuality a death penalty crime.

• He tried to bribe the Mistress of another Congressman when he found out she was going to the press about their affair and other ethics violations.

Director of the Environmental Protection Agency:

Myron Ebell (Lobbyist for Climate Change Deniers)

• He pretends to be a scientist despite any actual education or training as one.

• He receives millions of dollars from the oil industry.

• He thinks Pesticides are harmless.

• He fought to take away all protection for endangered species in the name of “property rights.”

• He believes smoking isn’t anymore dangerous then breathing in car exhaust fumes when you walk around a major city. (He wrote these articles while getting funding from Cigarette company Philip Morris.)

• He bragged about being labeled as one of the most dangerous people in the world by environmental and animal welfare groups such as Greenpeace and Rolling Stone in his autobiography.

• He claimed it was “unconstitutional.” for Obama to make a speech talking about how the world should focus on environmental issues.

CIA Director:

Mike Pompeo (Congressman who was elected thanks to The Tea Party)

• He falsely claimed after the Boston Bombing that not a single Muslim has spoken out against terrorism and that Muslim leaders were “complicit” in the attack.

• In 2010 he tweeted asking his followers to read a blog post a supporter of his wrote which ranted against Raj Goyle (The Democrat opponent who was running against him for his Congress seat) with racial epithets and calling President Barack Obama an “evil muslim communist USURPER.”

• He wants more government surveillance to “stop terrorism.”

• He is obsessed with having Hillary arrested.

• He thinks Edward Snowden should get the death penalty. 

Domestic Policy Advisor

Ken Blackwell (Former Ohio Secretary of State)

• He says, “Gays can be reformed, just like arsonists.”

• He works for an anti-gay hate group who wants gays deported.

• He advised Trump to change the laws so youth Homeless shelters could legally refuse to help gay and transgender youth.

• He believes mass shooting are caused by America’s lack of morality which stems from the country allowing gays to exist.

• He wrote an article saying Mosques don’t have a right to exist in New York City.

• He was accused of rigging the 2004 election in Ohio for George Bush. After he was called to testify in legal hearings by Congress he just refused to show up.

• During his term he had 18 major lawsuits.

• He accidentally published a list of 1.2 million Social Security numbers of Ohio citizens.

• He fought tooth and nail to move to electronic touch screen voting machines instead of paper ballots, after it was discovered the machines had a backdoor software “glitch” it was revealed that Blackwell owned the company that made the voting machines.

• A group of 31 pastors contacted the IRS alleging that a number of Churches in the state had been secretly funding Blackwell which violates laws prohibiting charity groups involvement in political campaigns.

• Blackwell sent an email claiming he had never heard of any of the churches that he was accused of getting illegal donations from. But after media outlets traced the I.P address of the email it was revealed he sent the email inside of the church that he was claiming he had never heard of in the email he was sending from their building…

sashayed:

sashayed:

xlivvielockex:

Reposted from something I saw on Facebook

“I just called the House Oversight Committee (202-225-5074) to support the call for a bipartisan review of Trump’s financials and apparent conflicts of interest. It took me two minutes, and the woman on the phone said that they are absolutely tallying calls – the more they get, the more likely the Committee is to demand ALL of Trump’s financial information.

She said that there’s not much time left, as they are out of the office next week for Thanksgiving. And after that, they’re going to make a decision.

NOW is your chance to use what’s left of democracy to send a strong message and demand change. Please, do this ASAFP. If you get a “mailbox is full” message, call back in a minute or so – that seems to be the default when lines are busy.

That number again is (202-225-5074). Website here:

https://oversight.house.gov/

“Likes” feel nice in the short term. “Shares” get the word out. ACTUALLY CALLING ACTUALLY DOES SOMETHING.”

NICE; GOOD; AS IMPORTANT AS CALLING YOUR REPS. I sometimes have an instinctive feeling that I have to stay focused on just one issue or lose the effectiveness of my voice. In some situations that might be true, but it’s just not the case when it comes to phone calls. Especially once you realize how easy they are. I have not gotten through yet, but I intend to keep trying!

We can also call committee members directly. Here’s a full list. If your own rep isn’t on there, I recommend going after the following two:

Jason Chaffetz, Chair
DC Office:  (202) 225-7751
UT Office: (801) 851-2500

and the amazing Elijah Cummings, ranking member:
DC Office: (202) 225-4741
Baltimore Office: (410) 685-9199

There’s a great sample script from @theworsthobby here.

“Hello, my name is _____ and I live in _____ and I would like to log my support of the bipartisan review of Donald Trump’s financials and conflicts of interest. Thanks! Have a great day.”