“Trump clearly resents the dissemination of info that could be viewed as delegitimizing his win in the slightest.” – The Washington Post
Yes, yes. That Trump guy’s Achilles’s heel. It is a patriotic act to “delegitimize” his ill-got position of self-serving power at the expense of the highest office of the land. He lost the General Election of Nov 2016 and clearly so! The “People” of the United States, the decisive majority of its voting citizens, rejected him as President. The only reason he has obtained his position is through a skewed Electoral College vote made on Dec 19th and the intensely partisan-focused Senate confirmation of the results of this skewed Electoral College vote subsequently made in the Senate on Jan 6th. And this up-turned election that stands against the clear voted will of the People of the United States was made fully possible through the galvanizing efforts of the minority white Christian nationalist voters, primarily, and economically hurting voters, secondarily, to the election booths on Nov 8th. By the number of votes, they are the clear minority in America, but they were able to skew the Electoral College results to reflect against “the voted will of the People.” How did they do this? This “illegitimately” gained election win by Donald Trump and his Wall-Street-Evangelical-White-Nationalist administrative partners was achieved very openly and obviously – for those watching the rise of white Christian nationalism in the United States of America – before the very eyes of the inattentive and disbelieving greater U.S. public.
It was achieved through the last eight years of deliberate Republican obstructionism in government (the “shut the Government down” and “do nothing” #GOP in the U.S. Senate and House) and an unrelenting railing of disparaging comments and attitudes towards the first black President of the United States – our 44th President, President Barack Hussein Obama. It was achieved through the constant demonizing of the Obama Administration, the President himself, and his family over the last eight years by Republicans and “Conservative” media, and their constant whining railing against the Liberal-slash-Democratic “godless, atheistic progressive agenda” of the Democratic “Left,” that would dare to stand for civil rights, economic justice, and real populism in the United States (which they call “communism,” but are actually talking about “democratic socialism”). It was achieved through the propaganda rhetoric spewing from religious pulpits across this nation, especially the televangelist ones, and “conservative” media outlets that have been disseminating expressions of fear, bigotry, hate, and false and out-right “fake news” to the masses for decades, to bring easily push-able angst and disillusionment into the public mind about the state of our democracy. More specifically to the time frame of this election, it was achieved through the deliberate and highly intricate “influence campaign” conducted by the Russian Kremlin during this election process to intensify this social media influenced disillusionment occurring in the U.S. populace, so that the citizens of the United States see Trump’s racist, misogynist, xenophobic rants as symbols of strength and change – not the hate and thin-skinned-ness for which these behaviors actually are. And, (Now, we Independent voters and Populist voters and Atheist voters told you so over a year ago!) it was achieved through the targeted political paybacks made against a highly qualified candidate for the job of President, but a candidate who was carrying with her considerable baggage to be targeted and does not have a charismatic personality like that deceptive and habitually lying con man Trump guy. “Perceived” political scores that needed to be settled by the head of the FBI (James Comey, a Republican who has unsuccessfully investigated the Clintons several times in the past) and the top man of Russia (Vladimir Putin, who himself gained power illegitimately in 2011, and blamed “Hillary” across the seas for all the rioting that occurred in Russia afterwards), thus discrediting the only candidate actually qualified for the job of President that was running in this election.
So, the #Trump guy has obvious and valid good reasons to be concerned about the U.S. public treating his “win” as an ill-gotten and illegitimate achievement, because it is true! He deserves to have the populace – who clearly by majority vote, by “the will of the People,” gave him the decisive and undeniable “No!” rejection vote, #NotMyPresident, in this #election2016 – seek to remind him daily that he does not have the support of the greater majority of United States citizens. Facts are simply facts, no matter how many times and how many ways you try to respin it, Trump, through your own mouth and “tweets” and through the mouths and tweets of the many puppets you’ve assigned to speak for you – to “explain” you to the general public. There is no reason for the citizens of the United States to ever unite behind Donald Trump and his proposed Wall-Street-Evangelical-Alt-Right administration. The clear majority of U.S. citizens, 73.6 million of us, said #NotOurPresident to the Trump guy choice, and we all meant this when we casted our votes. We must keep in mind (by continuously publicly voicing it) that 10.67 million more Americans voted against the Trump guy, than the total amount that voted for him. And we must keep in mind that 2.86 million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton as President, than all the votes made for that Trump guy. We must also keep in mind that the election was decided in just a few states, by electoral college numbers, *at the disenfranchisement* of most of the voters across the United States. And, we must definitely keep in mind and keep our focus on what the majority of U.S. citizens want for this country: a livable way of life that is based in a “level playing field” of justice, fairness, and opportunity for all our citizens.
These are just the facts of the 2016 Presidential Election. That Trump guy deserves no reprieve from this any day during the next four years, deserves to be reminded of it daily (regardless of his thin-skinned nature), and deserves no support from the People of the United States for his Wall-Street-Evangelical-Alt-Right #TrumpAdministration – the United States citizens deserve better than this! Continue to #Resist with the facts and with attentive populist-mindedness. It’s the patriotic thing to do! It’s time for the #NationalPopularVote movement in the United States of America, so the voice of the People is actually heard and listened too by our legislative and political bodies during our democratic processes!
Why the media can’t dismiss Trump’s call on Congress to investigate an NBC report
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/06/why-the-media-cant-dismiss-trumps-call-on-congress-to-investigate-an-nbc-report/?utm_term=.9d48d3b4076f
While Trump’s pride might have been wounded by the thought that journalists received information before he did, the incoming president probably will have a hard time getting members of Congress too worked up about these leaks. Trump clearly resents the dissemination of info that could be viewed as delegitimizing his win in the slightest, but even Republicans appear uncomfortable with his effort to undermine intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Russian interference.
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Joseph T Farkasdi · January 8, 2017 at 4:12 pm
“No matter how thin Trump’s veneer of religiosity may be, make no mistake that the Religious Right has just assumed a mantle of power that exceeds their fondest hopes and humanists’ worst nightmares.” – Roy Speckhardt
Despite the reactionary stupidity that occurred in the recent national election, that threatens the pluralistic and self-governing intent of the U.S. Constitution, there is hope. It was a very good year for separation of church and state at the state level, and a very good year for non-theistic (openly humanist, agnostic, and atheist) elected political representation in our legislative bodies. Even President Obama admits that religious bias against those not committed to religious theism is prevalent in national politics, and this stands against the fundamental principles of our republic, to be a nation “of the People” governed “by the People” (not some theology), with “no test” for religious office, and a separation between church and state to prevent violating these enshrined national principles. We are to be “one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!”
Since the founding of the radicalized Christian Right in America in the 1940’s and its influential rise into politics in the 1970’s, the fundamental principles of a people’s democracy representative of its population has been under attack for revision. The election of a con man who’s administrative platform is the Religious Right and Alt Right in America is the result of their actions and activities in the pulpits, in media, and in legislative acts that violate the constitutional vision for our country. Be not deceived, that #Trump guy can never be trusted! Neither can his Wall-Street-Evangelical-Alt-Right #TrumpAdministration. As patriots for the values enshrined in our constitution, we must #Resist the attempt by the Religious Nationalist Right (aka, “Conservatives”) to alter our fundamental democratic freedoms, in favor of their “Dominion Theology” theocracy intent for the United States. The United States of America was founded in the philosophies of European-born ‘Deism’ and ‘Era of Enlightenment’/’Age of Reason’ of the 18th Century (1700-1799 C.E./A.D.).
Freethought Equality Fund PAC
http://freethoughtequality.org/
The mission of the Freethought Equality Fund (FEF) PAC is to change the face of American politics and to achieve equality by increasing the number of open humanists and atheists in public office at all levels of government. The FEF PAC is affiliated with the Center for Freethought Equality, which is the advocacy and political arm of the American Humanist Association.
The FEF PAC will provide nontheist Americans the opportunity to make their voices heard in the political process by supporting candidates who identify as humanist, atheist, agnostic, and who share our goals of protecting the separation of church and state and defending the civil liberties of secular Americans.
When people see respected ethical humanists and atheists serve in public office, this will begin to dispel many myths about nonbelievers. The FEF PAC will also support a number of candidates who identify as religious but who are leaders in supporting the rights of nonbelievers.
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Joseph T Farkasdi · January 10, 2017 at 7:08 pm
“Russian intelligence monitored Donald Trump engaging in “perverted sexual acts” during his stay in a luxury Moscow hotel, according to an unconfirmed report about compromising material on the President-elect.”
America looks like a joke at this point. How easily manipulated almost half of the populace is by the Christian-Right and Alt-Right and Russian government. And how easily manipulated near all of the public is by partisan politics and affiliation. The United States is facing a serious wake up call. Will we be a democratic republic in four years? Or, will we be a weird combination of something else? Welcome to 2017 in the Un’united States of America. #election2016 #Trump #NotOurPresident – not in 2016, and not in 2017-2020!
Donald Trump engaged in ‘perverted sexual acts’ monitored by Russia intelligence, report says
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/russia-compromising-information-trump-report-article-1.2943045
A document published in full by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday said that during a 2013 trip to the Russian capital, Trump made Russian prostitutes defile a bed where President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had stayed on a previous occasion.
The accusations are unconfirmed, though Trump did travel to Russia in 2013 when he hosted the Miss Universe pageant there. The Obamas traveled to Moscow in July 2009.
Another allegation says that Trump had participated in sex parties in St. Petersburg, but that witnesses were “bribed or coerced to disappear.”
The 35-page report, which said that the presidential suite of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in central Moscow was bugged by the FSB intelligence agency, also includes other accusations that Trump was coordinating with Russia.
It says that Russian officials, with the approval of President Vladimir Putin, have been “cultivating” Trump for five years, and that he received intelligence information on political opponents from them.
Whether true or not, this is a pattern, and this is effing embarrassing!
Lawmakers broach possible Trump campaign coordination with Russia
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-russia-campaign-coordination-233439
Members of Congress made clear Tuesday they’re increasingly willing to broach a taboo topic: possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Their emboldened approach comes amid a bombshell CNN report that intelligence officials last week presented Trump with alleged claims by Russian operatives that they have compromising information on the president-elect. According to CNN, Trump was also presented with allegations there was an “exchange of information” during the campaign between his surrogates and intermediaries for the Russian government.
It’s a subject lawmakers have largely avoided discussing since the presidential election, even as anti-Trump advocacy groups have sounded alarm bells about the president-elect.
But that changed Tuesday, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s meddling in November’s election.
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 12, 2017 at 5:09 pm
Is it the end of the world? A 1950’s television show about a snake oil salesman called #Trump, who promises to build a “wall” to protect us from the end of the world. I kid you not!!! #NotOurPresident – not in 2016, and not in 2017-2020!
The television show is called Trackdown, the episode (S1, E30) is called “The End of the World, and it was aired on CBS in 1958. The synopsis of the show speaks of a confident man named Trump who tells the townspeople “that he is the only one that can save them” from impending disaster (our “Golden Showers” Trump’s very own words!). Lawrence Dobkin played the role of “Walter Trump.” Now the big question of our time is: Will the citizens of the U.S. prove present day Trump to be as much of a fraud as Trackdown’s Trump was? We shall see!
Trackdown Shakedown
http://www.snopes.com/trackdown-trump-character-wall
An episode of the 1950s western TV series ‘Trackdown’ featured a character named Walter Trump who claimed he would build a wall in order to protect a town from the end of the world.
http://ctva.biz/US/Western/Trackdown_RobertCulp_01_(1957-58).htm
1.30 [–] Trackdown: THE END OF THE WORLD
(1958.05.09)
Directed by Donald McDougall
Starring: Robert Culp (as Hoby Gilman)
Guest Cast:
Larry Dobkin ……………… Walter Trump
Richard Hale,
Claudia Barrett,
Dabbs Greer,
Neyle Morrow.
Synopsis:
Walter Trump, a confidence man, puts on a long robe and holds a tent meeting in the town of Talpa. He tells the townspeople that a cosmic explosion will rain fire on the town and that he is the only one that can save them from death. Ranger Hoby Gilman attempts to prove Trump is a fraud.
Trump is arrested for stealing at the end of the episode. Prophetic episode for the outcome of this U.S. #election2016 ?
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 13, 2017 at 3:55 pm
John Lewis: ‘I Don’t See Trump as a Legitimate President’
Amein! The citizens of the United States deserve an election do over. Like Vladimir Putin who became the illegitimate president of Russia in 2011, by stuffing ballot boxes and using the police to put down public protests (and, then, blaming U.S.’s Madame Secretary for *his* citizen’s protests), so it now is the case in the United States of America. That #Trump guy may have technically won the skewed Electoral College vote on who is to be president of the United States (due to the Evangelical-Alt-Right encitement of white voter fear-based turnout), but this *does not* make Trump a “legitimate” president of the United States – given all the “fake news” partisan demonizing of Hillary Clinton and given Russia’s Putin-directed “influence operation” into the American electoral process. Representative John Lewis is absolutely correct! And there is no reason for the U.S. citizens to unite behind an illegitimate 45th presidency. The citizens of the United States deserve an election do over! That Trump guy is #NotOurPresident – not in 2016, and not in 2017-2020! Patriots, #Resist!
“The long-serving Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader also said that he would not attend President-elect Trump’s swearing-in. “I don’t plan to attend the inauguration. It will be the first one that I miss since I’ve been in Congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.””
John Lewis: ‘I Don’t See Trump as a Legitimate President’
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/john-lewis-trump-won-t-be-legitimate-president-n706676
In an exclusive interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) said he does not believe Donald Trump is a “legitimate president,” citing Russian interference in last year’s election.
Asked whether he would try to forge a relationship with the president-elect, Lewis said that he believes in forgiveness, but added, “it’s going to be very difficult. I don’t see this president-elect as a legitimate president.”
#JohnLewis #POETUS
Dear President Barack Hussein Obama, our legitimately elected 44th President of the United States of America, we citizens of the United States are sorry to have to inform you of this, but we’re going to need you to continue being President for a little while longer. Just long enough for us to have an election do over. Please don’t be too upset over this inconvenience. Sincerely, we the People of the United States of America.
#POTUS #Trump is already compromised and simply cannot be our next President. America needs an Oval Office leader that is reputable, respected by the majority of the citizens, and not embroiled in scandals. Someone more like you, #Obama. Thanks.
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 15, 2017 at 4:30 am
In his eight years, legitimately elected 44th President Barack Hussein Obama made 533 campaign promises. Despite a racially-motivated obstructionist Republican government dominating the Senate and the House, he managed to keep 48 percent of his campaign promises, had to compromise on 28 percent, and was not able to fulfill 24 percent of them.
Now, it’s that illegitimately elected Trump’s turn under the spot light. Is he like what we all know him to be, a false populist and a false prophet? Let the Trump-O-Meter tell us the truth about him and his promises!
Introducing PolitiFact’s Trump-O-Meter, tracking the campaign promises of Donald Trump
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/introducing-politifacts-trump-o-meter-tracking-the-campaign-promises-of/2309441
For the past six months, PolitiFact has been cataloging promises Trump made to voters in speeches, appearances, interviews and debates. Today we launch our Trump-O-Meter, which will track 102 of the most significant pledges emblematic of his unconventional campaign. The Trump-O-Meter will measure whether Trump is able to accomplish what he told voters and ultimately rate each promise Kept, Broken or Compromise. It’s the same process we used to track the campaign promises made by President Barack Obama.
#PolitiFact #Trump #TrumpOMeter #CampaignPromises #TampaBayTimes
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 17, 2017 at 1:22 pm
“Donald Trump won this election fair and square,” Pence told “Fox News Sunday.” “The American people know that.”
Sadly, this is the case, from a strictly technical view of this election process. Yes, enough white Evangelical Christian Alt-right voters (and those white citizen voters who sympathized with them) came out to the polls in three key swing states to eek out a 76,588 higher Republican voter turn out over Democratic votes combined in these states. And, this, skewed the Electoral College to partisanly vote to rubber-stamp that Trump guy as President against the clear voted will of the rest of the nation, which by 2.89 million more votes chose Hillary Clinton for President and outright rejected that Trump guy. These are facts that simply cannot be denied.
So, maybe, he did win “fair and square” by the present election system. *But, to the majority of voting U.S. citizens,* that Trump guy is illegitimately elected, due to interference by James Comey of the FBI and Vladimir Putin of Russia in the U.S. electoral process (both acts of unjustified political payback against Clinton) and, by their vote, has said Donald #Trump is #NotMyPresident – not in 2016, and not in 2017-2020!
That Creationism, Dominion Theology, and Reparative Therapy believing Christian-Right Pence can believe what he wants, but this does not change the facts that Trump is a self-admitted sexual predator and by his actions a habitually lying, thin-skinned, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, selfish, and narcissistic economic opportunist with conflicts of business around the world that make him a liability to the position he has been illegitimately elected into and backed by Russia’s Putin. The reality of this does not change, just because you “winners” are unhappy that the general public refuses to “unite” behind you and support your bigoted nationalist agenda.
#Pence #election2016 #TrumpAdministration #inauguration #IStandWithJohnLewis
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 19, 2017 at 1:31 am
“For months and months my own very Progressive and Bernie loving friends would fill my Facebook page with quotes from these very hacked emails along with remarks of disgust about Hillary Clinton and The DNC saying that, as a result, they would “never” vote for her as a result… It is Donald Trump’s job to prove his legitimacy in the face of overwhelming logic that says that but for an illegal act of foreign influence (to sway enough voters in the key three swing states) Donald Trump would not be taking the Oath of Office on January 20, 2017.”
It’s all academic now, but he is on point here. It was both James Comey and his “fake news” offered to the public about more FBI investigations of Clinton’s emails and Vladimir Putin’s very well directed “fake news” and Wikileaks campaign to sway negative opinions about Clinton that sadly decided this election. Judged on votes across all 50 states, Hillary Clinton had clearly won the Nov 8th election by 2.89 million more votes for her. But, the election was *not* decided in all 50 states, but rather in just *three* specific states: Wisconsin (a mere 22,748 more votes for Trump), Pennsylvania (a mere 44,292 more votes for Trump), and Michigan (a mere 10,704 more votes for Trump). The 2016 presidential election outcome was decided, not by 2.89 million more votes for Clinton, by 77,747 voters who chose Trump in these three swing states. Not all of them were Republicans, many were Sanders supporters, and some were even Democrats.
The extreme amount of “fake news” inundating the internet during this election clearly skewed the Electoral College vote from 278 for Clinton and 260 for Trump to what resulted – 306 for Trump and 232 for Clinton. It only took persuading 77,747 people to vote for Trump out of disgust for the alleged and clearly unsubstantiated crimes of Clinton. The full tally of the popular vote in this #election2016 simply did not matter. And to make asinine claims like Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, and Reince Priebus (and everyone else also speaking for Trump) that Comey’s and Putin’s meddling in the election process didn’t affect the outcome and, thus, spinning revisionist history of the election events is to insinuate to the citizens of the United States that we are too stupid to figure out what actually happened. It’s time to return our country back to the Direct Vote system, the #NationalPopularVote. And that #Trump guy is illegitimately elected to the presidency, whether he accepts this fact or not. I suspicion that he clearly knows it, and that he knows the majority of America did not for him and knows it, too.
#IStandWithJohnLewis That Trump guy is #NotOurPresident – not in 2016, and not in 2017-2020! America’s citizens deserve an election do over!
The Argument For Donald Trump’s Illegitimacy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/the-argument-for-donald-t_b_14220416.html
Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Kellyanne Conway, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer and everyone else on Team Trump are adamant that the Russian hack of The DNC had “zero” effect on the election. They have to say that. It’s their only argument for legitimacy.
There is no question that these emails and this strategy had a devastating impact on the impression voters across America had about Hillary Clinton.
This extreme amount of “fake news” inundating the internet during this election clearly skewed the Electoral College vote from 278 for Clinton and 260 for Trump to what resulted – 306 for Trump and 232 for Clinton. It only took persuading 77,747 people to vote for Trump out of disgust for the alleged and clearly unsubstantiated crimes of Clinton. The full tally of the popular vote in this
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 19, 2017 at 1:48 pm
Be an American Patriot this January 20th by boycotting watching the inauguration of an illegitimately elected 45th president. By his own admission he is a sexual predator, he has a loving allegiance to Putin, his private business is more important than the responsibility he will have to the citizens that his oath will require, he is a demonstrated habitual liar, he revels in the racism of his white nationalist Alt-right followers and in the bigotry of his evangelical Christian-Right followers, he talks to “the blacks” of this country in a ’50’s mindset of their place and condition within society, he’s tapped into the xenophobia of a nation that ignorantly views itself as “exceptional” in this world (if we want to be actually honest, “imperial” is the correct word for America), and he denigrates the status and place of women in our society.
That #Trump guy is #NotMyPresident, and #IStandWithJohnLewis against this travesty of democracy. His Wall-Street-Evangelical-Alt-Right #TrumpAdministration has no intention of protecting and upholding our constitutional democracy, as we will see to our dismay very soon enough. The citizens of the United States of America do not need to and should not “unite” with and support this illegitimately elected #PEOTUS. That Trump guy is #NotOurPresident – not in 2016, and not in 2017-2020! His Pence, Bannon, Flynn, Mnuchin, and other sidekicks intentions serve only a few among the citizens of the United States, and the citizens must stand in unity for democracy and #Resist. That Trump guy lost the Nov 8th general election direct vote by 2.89 million more votes for Hillary Clinton for President.
The only reason he is being allowed to take the oath of office is because of the eight years of biased and demonstrably false rhetoric of the obstructionist Republican members of the Legislative branch, the partisan investigations into alleged acts and behaviors of President Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton that are objectively nonexistent, the James Comey and Vladimir Putin “fake news” interference into the election process to swing voters to Trump out of unsubstantiated fear in key swing states (77,747 voters combined in three states decided the election goes to Trump, despite the 2.89 million voted will of the People for Hillary Clinton), and the partisan rubber-stamping of Trump as this election’s president-elect against patriotic sensibility and responsibility to choose a qualified leader for the job who is not conflict of interest compromised.
As a patriotic citizen, I will not watch this inauguration. I will not support this nation’s political historical step backwards away from “liberty and justice for all.” I encourage all patriotic citizens to boycott going to this inauguration, unless you are there to clearly protest this wrongful election, and do not watch this shame on television. The United States had a choice this election – to rally behind a real populist candidate, Bernie Sanders, or to rally behind a false populist, a snake oil salesman, Donald Trump. Sadly, the undecided Republican, Democrat, and Independent voters of three swing states went for the false populist, because the DNC was too elitist to see the outcome of choosing an already partisanly hated candidate during their primary. This election is a wake up call to America, and damage control will now have to be done. May the People’s voice out-speak the minority voice of the extreme-right we just let into the Executive branch of our government this #election2016.
#Alllivesmatter in the United States only when white America embraces #TruthandReconciliation about its racist history and seeks to actually achieve #RestorativeJustice in the United States of America. The election of a habitually lying, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, selfish, narcissist to the nation’s presidency, against the majority voted will of the people, is not a sign that this is happening yet. It is time for all the citizens of the United States of America to come together, have the needed honest talks, and choose to willingly work together to build a nation that is as our Founders worded it to be in the United States constitution, as the socialist Baptist minister wrote it in the Pledge of Allegiance, “One Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” We are a European-born Era of Enlightenment (Age of Reason) nation, founded in the constitutionally established Deist and populist European beliefs about the inherent right of a nation of People to self-govern in democratic unity, free of the governance of monarchs and religions.
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Be a true patriot of the United States on January 20, 2017. Turn off the television for one day! Choose not to watch the inauguration of the illegitimately elected Trump guy and his Wall-Street-Evangelical-Alt-Right sidekicks. The United States deserves better than this! The United States citizens deserve to have their clear majority voted for candidate inaugurated on Friday, the one who won the Nov 8th election by nearly 3 million more United States citizen votes for her. Remember, 10.6 million more U.S. citizens voted against Donald Trump, than the minority number who voted for him. We are the majority in the United States and we must let our elected officials know this throughout 2017-2020! Let the federal government know that Trump guy is #NotOurPresident! #IStandWithJohnLewis #election2016 #WeStandUnited #MoveOn #Resist
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 20, 2017 at 12:19 am
“When the Republican Party voted in Donald Trump, they discarded all illusions that they cared about personal ethics or morality. They tossed aside character and exchanged it, instead, for the candidate with the most Twitter followers.”
“Our nation will be forever impacted by having a President with such poor character. He has normalized sexual assault, bigotry, xenophobia, the mocking of the disabled, and so much else that takes decades to bat away. In one swoop, the worst human instincts have now taken up residence in the White House.”
“This much I know — the Republican Party, from this point forward, can never again claim that it values integrity, or decency, or morality. They had it for the past eight years and couldn’t find it in their hearts to acknowledge it and then chose who may very well be the most immoral presidential candidate in the history of candidates as their next president.”
“The Obamas and the Bidens are good people. You know it. I know it. The world knows it. Yet, for eight straight years, they were never treated as such by American conservatives. Instead, they were treated like they were no good, filthy, dirty, lying, cheating, stealing, corrupt, immoral bastards by the Republican Party.”
And everything they did legislatively is treated, as well, as the worst things ever done by a presidential administration. Now, if they can pull it off, Republicans seek to wipe out the very footprints of President Barack Hussein Obama’s and Michelle Obama’s presence within the White House. They will fail, of course. For history is preserved thoroughly in these days and times, and the Obama and Biden leadership did a lot more for the sake of the citizens of this nation than the Republicans can ever undo.
KING: Republicans can no longer say they care about family values
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-republicans-no-longer-care-family-values-article-1.2950482
For my entire life, since before I could even vote, I have repeatedly been told that what the Republican Party values most is character, integrity and wholesome family values. It was my understanding that morality was the bedrock of the Republican brand. Nothing, I thought, excited a Republican more than a good, clean educated Christian man married to a good, clean educated long-haired Christian woman except such a couple with cute young kids and a reputation for honesty.
#Republican #GOP #Trump #BarackObama #BillClinton #JoeBiden #MichelleObama #ShaunKing
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 21, 2017 at 2:22 pm
Watch LIVE – Women’s March on Washington. Millions of American women stand in protest throughout the country to #Trump’s inauguration yesterday.
‘We’re Not Going Away’: Huge Crowds for Women’s Marches Against Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/womens-march.html
Organizers of the Women’s March on Washington said Saturday that despite the density of massive crowds, the march would go on.
“We are marching. We are marching straight ahead toward the Washington monument to the ellipse of the White House,” the organizers said in an email around 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.
#election2016 #DumpTrump #UnitedWeStand #NotOurPresident – not in 2016, and not in 2017-2020! #womensmarch #Resist
This is significant, folks, what is happening!
Washington D.C.’s Women’s March highlights Trump’s ‘illegitimacy’ (live updates, live stream)
They waved signs proclaiming “Fight Like a Girl” and chanted “Not my president.” They danced to live performances, their pink “pussy hats” bobbing. They cheered as celebrity speakers exhorted them to resist both President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric and the Republican Congress’ agenda.
An estimated 500,000 protesters marched through Washington, D.C., on Saturday, dwarfing the crowd that came out the previous day to see the new president walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Massive sister protests took place — and are still taking place — across the country and even overseas.
The turnout at the “Women’s March” events thrilled and emboldened the participants, marking the beginning of what activists hope will be a sustained resistance to Republican control of Washington’s levers of power.
http://www.oregonlive.com/today/index.ssf/2017/01/womens_march_in_washington_dc.html
Many Women’s March participants told reporters that the overwhelming crowds were a sign of things to come. They believe the turnout means that, while they’re facing political disappointment in the short term, eventually their goals will be achieved.
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 22, 2017 at 9:58 pm
“I accept that Trump is the president. And I despise him, reject everything he stands for, wish he hadn’t won and sincerely hope that he fails in implementing his policy proposals. But I don’t deny that he occupies the White House. And that might be the only common ground I find with Trump supporters over the next four years.” – Seth Millstein
Exactly! I accept that Trump is illegitimately elected the 45th president. But he will not get my support or my approval. I will simply call him Trump or that Trump guy. He deserves no more respect than this from we the People, the citizens of the United States, by his consistently demonstrated behavior. We are not required to help him “legitimize” his Electoral College-given position among the People. I do not have to accept him as our president, and neither do you. As a patriot, I hope, for the sake of our American democracy, that he fails magnificently! That he fails so badly, he wakes up the 62.9 million sheep that are blindly following him as their savior and shepherd. He is a con artist, a snake oil salesman, a habitually lying, #AlternativeFacts espousing, xenophobic, misogynist and narcissist – and nothing more.
I hope, as a nation, that we will *help* him fail. I have never said this about an “elected” official before. But, I stand with the 76.3 million who did *not* vote for him and what he clearly stands for. I stand with the 65.8 million voters (2.89 million more) who voted for Clinton. I stand with the 7.8 million others who voted for third party candidates, and refused to consider that Trump guy as president. I stand with the 76.3 million voters who had their votes disenfranchised this election by 77,747 swing state voters, who were influenced by the eight years of putrid Republican obstruction and vocal hate for Obama and Clinton, the blatantly false “fake news” of the Alt-right and the evangelical Christian-Right during Obama’s terms in office, and the direct interference of James Comey and Vladimir Putin in the election process with their deliberate unsubstantiated claims about Clinton, all to make petty political paybacks.
I hope, as a nation, that we will *help* Trump fail at being president, and his Wall-Street-Evangelical-Alt-Right administration, too. Seriously, if we do not want “alternative facts” to become the norm for our Executive branch, I say we must openly and clearly #Resist in all the legal ways granted us through our nation’s constitution. The next election, send all those Republicans packing for kneeling down before Trump! Make your voice clear! They, the #GOP, are *not* the “family values” party anymore, and we need elected officials who better represent all of the citizens of the United States of America. We need them to be a super-majority in the House and Senate of our nation. A super-majority of Democrats, Independents, and Third parties. It is time to take back our government and return it politically back to the People. And, bring back the Direct Vote election system by #NationalPopularVote!
“I condemn his unabashed bigotry, and his hateful comments about women, Muslims, Hispanics, and other marginalized groups. I condemn him for mocking Serge Kovaleski, and for welcoming white supremacists into his administration. I condemn him for running a campaign based on division and for lying to the American people. I condemn his inability to admit personal fault. I condemn his lack of intellectual curiosity and his disrespect for American norms and values. On the most fundamental level, I condemn Trump as a human being.” Amein!
What To Tell People Who Say You Have To Accept Donald Trump’s Presidency Now
https://www.bustle.com/p/what-to-tell-people-who-say-you-have-to-accept-donald-trumps-presidency-now-31726
If you’re an opponent of Donald Trump, you’ve probably heard one of his supporters insist that “he’s your president now, so you have to accept him,” or some variant thereof. The implication here is that, because Trump cleared 270 votes in the electoral college, Americans must refrain from criticizing him and root for his unabated success instead. But that is nonsense — accepting that Trump is our president now does not mean what a lot of Trump supporters think it means.
Joseph T Farkasdi · January 25, 2017 at 11:06 pm
So, let me see if I’m understanding this. Our illegitimately elected 45th president may be turning out to be literally bonkers, off his rocker. Maybe, already clinically insane, like many of his die-hard Twitter followers, just not diagnosed yet. Am I misreading the signs? Conspiracy theory alternate facts reality, which his administration is already trying to explain away? Wonder how this is making the 62.9 million citizens feel? You know, the ones who followed him blindly and voted for him? What a wake up call this is turning out to be, already!
We need to get our troops out of the middle east, and fast. His ‘let’s just take their oil’ policy is already spreading virally all over their side of the internet! To the world, the majority of sane and reasonable U.S. citizens, the 73.6 million whose votes were disenfranchised this election, deeply and sincerely apologize for what is happening at the Executive level of our federal government. Please be patient with us, as we as a nation address our #Trump phenomena. Remember, we didn’t choose him and we didn’t want him as our president! #ResistTrump #Indivisible #UnitedWeStand #Resist
I’m guessing that it must be the hard-right evangelical Christian guy, that Pence guy, who suggested to Trump’s public mouthpieces to play the ‘Burden of Proof’ card with the press. Like so many Christians will say that the burden of proving an invisible god to not be real is upon the non-believer, so it now is – according to Sean Spicer – the media’s burden of proving Trump’s conspiracy beliefs to not be true. And, as it is with a devoted believer, it doesn’t matter how much objective proof you provide to demonstrate his belief being wrong, so long as you haven’t found the evidence he believes in … then, in his mind, it still must be true, because he believes it to be true. I understand, I really do, why his administration is trying to pole balance before the public right now in regards to him. Something’s not quite right with this guy. #NotOurPresident
Joseph T Farkasdi · February 1, 2017 at 9:52 pm
In case you’re missing it, what Trump and gang are trying to do is to change the U.S. government from a three branched democracy, where each branch is independent of the other, and into a corporate structure, where the Executive branch is the CEO and the Legislative and Judicial branches work for the Executive branch, rather than for the People. In Trump and gang’s aggressive push for power and control over the government of the United States, if allowed by the People, the structure will look something like this: Trump is President; Bannon and Kushner are Senior Vice Presidents; Pence, Priebus, and Flynn are Vice Presidents; the rest of his administration appointments are Senior Managers; and the Legislative representatives and Judicial court Judges are managers.
From here everyone who works for a living, the average citizen, works for the perpetuation of Trump and gang’s government in some form or way. This is why he feels entitled to bully the Legislative and Judicial representatives to align with Trump and gang’s vision for America. Remember, the Legislative and Judicial branches work for the People, not the Executive branch. #Trump is illegitimately elected to the Presidency with the deliberate help of James Comey of the FBI and Vladimir Putin of Russia, with 10.6 million more citizens voting against his being president than for him, and with 2.89 million more citizens choosing Hillary Clinton for the presidency. These facts of reality do not change, no matter how many #alternativefacts are voiced to the public.
#ResistTrump #Indivisible #UnitedWeStand #WomensMarch It’s time to establish the #NationalPopularVote, so the United States is never shamed again by an illegitimate-election of an unqualified president being manipulated by a minority extreme-right administration.
Joseph T Farkasdi · February 10, 2017 at 5:12 pm
“When the said country is an adversary, and one that has been judged to have meddled in the election,” said Derek Chollet. “It’s just hard to imagine anyone having a substantive discussion with an adversary.”
Was there any doubt of his election illegitimacy? An Electoral College skewed against the voted will of the People after the deliberate interference in our election process by James Comey of the FBI and Vladimir Putin of Russia? An interference meant to achieve Trump and Pence an Electoral College victory, despite overwhelming United States citizen votes for another – Hillary Clinton? The whole gang needs to be booted out at this point, and the Hillary Clinton administration put in its place. It’s a stolen election, using an adversarial foreign power to achieve it.
#Resist #ResistTrump #Indivisible #UnitedWeStand #WomensMarch #NationalPopularVote #NotAChristianNation
#Alllivesmatter in the United States when America begins to fully embrace its history and its constitution, and when #WhitePrivilege ceases to have meaning in U.S. society.
Flynn Is Said to Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before Trump Took Office
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/flynn-is-said-to-have-talked-to-russians-about-sanctions-before-trump-took-office.html?_r=0
Weeks before President Trump’s inauguration, his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, discussed American sanctions against Russia, as well as areas of possible cooperation, with that country’s ambassador to the United States, according to current and former American officials.
The call is the latest example of how Mr. Trump’s advisers have come under scrutiny from American counterintelligence officials. The F.B.I. is also investigating Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort; Carter Page, a businessman and former foreign policy adviser to the campaign; and Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative.