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About
The election of Donald Trump was a massive shock to much of America, causing widespread fear, outrage, and depression[1] Reasons for this include:
- fears that the Trump administration will:
- weaken LGBT rights
- weaken abortion rights
- engage in massive deportation of undocumented aliens
- end Social Security
- end Medicare
- cancel Obamacare (campaign promise)
- abolish the EPA
- abolish the Department of Education
- take steps which will reverse all progress towards carbon abatement and accelerate global warming
- withdraw from the Paris treaty and Kyoto accord (campaign promise)
- eliminate all incentives and regulations designed to encourage a transition from fossil to sustainable energy
- remove equal-rights protections for women and minorities
- do nothing at all to discourage, and probably encourage, police abuse of minorities
- withdraw from NATO, possibly destabilizing Europe and damaging our international relations
- stop providing pushback against Russian imperialism (invasions of Ukraine, Baltic states, etc.)
- start a trade and/or economic war with China
- significantly cut taxes for the rich, leading to more trickle-down poverty (and probably a major recession) as budgets are cut to compensate
- start a shooting war
- possibly with a nuclear first strike
- the fact that a near-majority of Americans apparently found Trump suitable for the highest office, despite his:
- blatant misogyny
- tacit approval of racism
- encouragement of violence against dissenters
- demonstrated lack of business sense and integrity
- deep disappointments:
- that a woman didn't finally become President, after it had looked almost certain that she would
- in the reversal of social progress which these results seem to indicate
Most of these reasons are solidly grounded in evidence, though a few are not.
Change.org user "elijah berg" of North Carolina started a petition to ask members of the Electoral College who normally would have placed their vote for Trump to instead vote for Clinton, in accordance with the popular vote. It had reached almost 3.8 million signatures by the morning of November 13 (metadata on the page suggests that the petition was created at "2016-11-09T23:35:41Z", the day after the election). While many have objected to this idea as a form of cheating, it is in fact directly in accord with the intentions of the Founding Fathers in setting up the Electoral College in the first place (while the fact of the College awarding victory to Trump despite the popular vote clearly was not).
Sanctuary
Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle have all pledged to be or remain sanctuary cities, and the government of California has also expressed opposition to any deportation plan that doesn't respect Constitutional protections. Prior to the election. hurches in Philadelphia had organized a movement to prevent undocumented immigrants from being deported[2]; these efforts intensified after the election.
Links
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- 2017-04-26 How to Stay Sane if Trump is Driving You Insane: Advice From a Therapist (via)
- 2017-01-09 Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump (via)
- 2017-01-08
- 2016-12-30 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Member Quits Over Trump Inauguration Performance: 'I Could Never Throw Roses to Hitler' (via)
- 2016-12-29
- 2016-12-28
- 2016-12-21
- 2016-12-20 Donald Trump’s political persona aligns with that of a fascist leader, according to 14 key signs (via)
- 2016-12-13 Time to Fight Like Hell (via)
- 2016-12-01
- 2016-11-30
- 2016-11-25 Why are mainstream media reporters still letting Trump play them for suckers? (via)
- 2016-11-23
- Trump Make America Great Again Red Cap Collectible Ornament (via) (original): satirical reviews
- Trump’s climate denial is just one of the forces that point towards war (via) by George Monbiot
- How Journalists Need to Begin Imagining the Unimaginable: Trump ran for autocrat, and won. We need to study other countries where this is happened, so we know what to expect.
- 2016-11-21 Why Jews have a special obligation to resist Trump (via) "American Jewish organizations can't pretend this is business as usual."
- 2016-11-19 John McCain: 'I don't give a damn' what Trump says, US will not resume waterboarding
- 2016-11-18
- Jewish activist vows solidarity with Muslims in the US (via) "Head of Anti Defamation League pledges to register as Muslim, if Donald Trump creates a database of Muslim Americans."
- The United States apologized for locking up Japanese Americans. Have we learned nothing? (via) “Earlier this week, Carl Higbie, an outspoken Trump surrogate and co-chair of Great America PAC, gave an interview with Megyn Kelly of Fox News. They were discussing the notion of a national Muslim registry, a controversial part of the Trump administration’s national security plans, when Higbie dropped a bombshell: "We did it during World War II with Japanese, which, you know, call it what you will," he said. Was he really citing the Japanese American internment, Kelly wanted to know, as grounds for treating Muslims the same way today? Higbie responded that he wasn’t saying we should return to putting people in camps. But then he added, "There is precedent for it."”
- Congressional phones jammed by calls for Trump conflict-of-interest investigation (via)
- Why Donald Trump's family being in the White House is problematic, explained (via)
- 2016-11-17 We have 100 days to stop Donald Trump from systemically corrupting our institutions (via)
- 2016-11-16
- Canadians invite liberal US states to break away from Donald Trump's America (via): California, Washington, Oregon and Nevada are invited
- Students And Faculty Rally To Designate USC As A 'Sanctuary' Campus (via)
- No, Most Educators Are Not "Fueling Student Anxieties" – Trump Is Handling That On His Own (via)
- 2016-11-15
- Ivy League students, professors, alumni ask schools to be sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants (via)
- Warren to President-Elect Trump: You Are Already Breaking Promises by Appointing Slew of Special Interests, Wall Street Elites, and Insiders to Transition Team
- "I feel like somebody kicked me to the ground and then stepped on me."
- Military Leaders Urge Trump to See Climate as a Security Threat (via)
- Trump’s First Year: The Nation in Peril (via)
- The Resistance: How to Defeat Donald Trump's Plot Against America (via)
- 2016-11-14
- California Not Down With Trump's Plan Of 'First I'll Come For The Immigrants' (via)
- Boston Is Sanctuary City, Councilor Reiterates to Trump (via)
- Betsy Hodges: Minneapolis will remain a 'sanctuary city,' despite Trump threats (via)
- San Francisco vows to remain 'sanctuary city' (via)
- NY lawmakers push new law guaranteeing women access to abortion if Trump Supreme Court ends Roe v. Wade ([via https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CindyBrown/posts/L91jCpv7iZb])
- LAPD will not help deport immigrants under Trump, chief says (via)
- Chicago to remain a sanctuary city for immigrants, Emanuel says (via)
- Protests continue on fifth straight day denouncing Donald Trump as president (via)
- 2016-11-13
- so I just found out that steve bannon is going to be donald trump's chief adviser and... (via) (see also Steve Bannon)
- California Senate Leader to Trump: Abandon this dangerous path on immigration (via and)
- Reid Spokesman: Trump’s Threats Should Concern All Americans "...Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, threatened legal action in response to Senator Reid’s comments on Trump’s election..."
- People are crying: It's not because they lost a race (via)
- CNN's Brian Stelter Implores Reporters To Value Truth And Facts, Unlike "Anti-Media" Outlets Breitbart And Fox News (via)
- Solid crowd here in Portland. Coaching on how to help POC in event of racist attack/incident #notmypresident (via)
- 60 Minutes Is Already Helping Normalize Trump’s Presidency (via)
- No Arrests or Vandalism After Hundreds Attend Anti-Trump Protest in Former Republican Stronghold Orange County (via)
- Demonstrators square off against opponents and police as Anti-Trump protests spread (via)
- ...please use this thread to inform others of the actions you (disempowered/non-normative people) would like to see taken to ease your burden and struggles. (via)
- 2016-11-12 What Now? (via): a conservative lectures Trump supporters
- 2016-11-11
- This is who to blame for Trump: captioned video explaining how the Hillary camp are complicit in their own defeat
- 'We Have Your Back,' De Blasio Promises Undocumented Immigrants (via)
- If you voted for Trump because he's 'anti-establishment,' guess what: You got conned (via)
- 2016-11-10
- 2016-11-09
Sources to mine: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CindyBrown/posts/QGjBJcGc6WV
Projects
- Indivisible: a practical guide to resisting the Trump agenda
- boycott of Trump business partners
- safety-pin project
- The Paperclip Campaign
- HOLYFUCK. NOW WHAT?: a step-by-step guide to dealing
Footnotes
- ↑ One friend reports that a friend of hers committed suicide over the news, and two people I know didn't eat for at least a day afterwards due to lack of motivation. My therapist reports receiving considerably more calls for help, and this is confirmed by things I've heard from other people. --~~~~
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