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It is necessary but not sufficient to vote out Trump.
The Republican Senate has enabled him these past 3½ years.
They must go too.
Here are three things you can do to help:
Vote.
Donate.
Encourage others to do the same. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
The Republican Senate has enabled him these past 3½ years.
They must go too.
Here are three things you can do to help:
Vote.
Donate.
Encourage others to do the same. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
Nixon didn't resign because he got caught.
He resigned because his party's leaders in Congress told him they would impeach and convict him.
This Senate could have reined Trump in with the same threat.
Instead they encouraged him. https://www.politico.com/story/2007/02/when-the-gop-torpedoed-nixon-002680
He resigned because his party's leaders in Congress told him they would impeach and convict him.
This Senate could have reined Trump in with the same threat.
Instead they encouraged him. https://www.politico.com/story/2007/02/when-the-gop-torpedoed-nixon-002680
Here are just a few of the awful things that this Senate endorsed.
First of course, the travel ban: clear religious discrimation and racism.
The Supreme Court eventually endorsed this too, which only emboldened Trump. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39044403
First of course, the travel ban: clear religious discrimation and racism.
The Supreme Court eventually endorsed this too, which only emboldened Trump. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39044403
Breaking up families at the Mexican border.
Imagine being a 5yo arriving with your parents, who are hoping for a better life, and instead the U.S. takes you away from your family and cages you with tons of other kids. Imagine being the parents. https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline
Imagine being a 5yo arriving with your parents, who are hoping for a better life, and instead the U.S. takes you away from your family and cages you with tons of other kids. Imagine being the parents. https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline
The family separations and kids in cages at the border continue to this day, including one instance where a border agent asked a child to pick which parent would be allowed to remain in the US. https://www.splcenter.org/news/2020/06/17/family-separation-under-trump-administration-timeline
Then there's foreign policy. Trump has ties to the Russian mob going back decades and has been mysteriously submissive to Putin & Russia for years, long before the election. https://www.vox.com/world/2018/9/12/17764132/trump-fbi-russia-new-york-times-craig-unger
And of course there's Russia paying bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan. The intelligence was clear enough to be included in the PDB but in July Trump admitted “I have never discussed it with [Putin].” https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/trump-russian-bounties-putin-call-385925
Hardly surprising, given that Trump thinks that people who dedicate their lives to serving their country and their fellow citizens - or really any cause other than themselves - are losers and suckers. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/
Why wouldn't Trump think he can get away with this? He conditioned foreign policy help to Ukraine on their help manufacturing dirt on Biden for the election, and the GOP Senate refused to call even a single witness during the impeachment trial. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/31/799372257/republicans-ready-for-likely-acquittal-in-trump-impeachment-trial
The GOP Senate endorses all of this behavior. They must go. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
Why does the Senate put up with this? In large part because they get to appoint judges. Lots and lots of judges, in part because of a blockade during Obama's final years, culminating in the stolen Garland/Gorsuch Supreme Court seat. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/mitch-mcconnell-judges-225455
Garland/Gorsuch seemed like a low point, but then along came Brett Kavanaugh.
The GOP Senators' response to a credible accusation of attempted rape was to plug their ears, refuse to hear anything or investigate further, and rush a vote through. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html
The GOP Senators' response to a credible accusation of attempted rape was to plug their ears, refuse to hear anything or investigate further, and rush a vote through. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/california-professor-writer-of-confidential-brett-kavanaugh-letter-speaks-out-about-her-allegation-of-sexual-assault/2018/09/16/46982194-b846-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html
The GOP Senate also squashed serious questions about Kavanaugh's finances: how he went from hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when appointed a judge in 2005 to being debt-free in 2018 without reporting enough income to cover those debts. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/the-many-mysteries-of-brett-kavanaughs-finances/
Mitt Romney voted for one of the two impeachment counts, infuriating Trump, but now that Romney agreed to vote to replace RBG before the election, Trump has forgiven him. “I'm no longer angry at Mitt because he’s being very nice on the Supreme Court.” https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/518131-trump-no-longer-angry-at-romney-because-of-supreme-court-stance
A 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court portends the end of legal abortion and perhaps even contraception, and the end of the limited gun control laws states have managed. But most pressing of all right now, the end of the Affordable Care Act. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-ginsburg-conservative-supreme-court-majority/2020/09/25/17920cd4-fe85-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html
The ACA (Obamacare) was modeled on Massachusetts's universal health care law, which was based on a Republican blueprint and supported and signed by then-Governor Romney. The cardinal sin of Obamacare is that it was signed by a Black President. https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/23/451200436/mitt-romney-finally-takes-credit-for-obamacare
This is the payoff for the GOP Senate, the thing they want most (even if they also agree with many of the other Trump actions): a 6-3 SCOTUS majority to end gun control, women's control over their own bodies, and Obamacare.
Trump signed an EO claiming that the U.S. govt position is to cover pre-existing conditions, but it has no legal force. Instead, the Trump admin is arguing (again!) before SCOTUS, right after the election, that the ACA should be struck down. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/883819835/obamacare-must-fall-trump-administration-tells-supreme-court
That decision likely won't arrive until June 2021. Buy your healthcare before then, especially if you've had any exposure to COVID, which could be a pre-existing condition for lots of problems down the road. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/22/health-202-coronavirus-could-be-considered-preexisting-condition-if-obamacare-is-struck-down/
We all know how botched the COVID response has been. Trump knew - and is on tape saying - it was airborne and deadly in early February. He tried to spin and deny it away and caused as many as 100,000 unnecessary deaths. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
The Trump White House also squashed a USPS plan to send five masks to every American household in April 2020. Imagine that! (Or imagine if Trump started selling MAGA masks in February!) We could have saved so many lives! https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/17/usps-trump-coronavirus-amazon-foia/
Even today, Trump does not really want to admit that we still have a problem. Instead, Trump and his administration (most notably AG Barr) compare mandatory mask laws to slavery. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/ag-barr-covid-lockdowns-are-worst-threat-to-civil-liberties-since-slavery/
Why doesn't Trump care about COVID? In part, it seems because it kills Blacks, Latinos, other minorities, and poorer people at a higher rate than rich White people. Even Trump supporters who die, like Herman Cain, don't matter to Trump. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/americas-racial-contract-showing/611389/
The GOP Senate endorses all of this behavior. They had a chance to replace Trump with Pence (hardly a star himself) and said nope, we're good with Trump. They must go. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
Then there's the response to the extrajudicial killings of Black people throughout this country. This was a moment that called for understanding and healing, and Trump chose instead to stoke racism and division. He knows exactly what he is doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/opinion/james-comey-trump-racism.html
Trump sent in the military to attack protestors for a photo-op. Hours before, in preparation, the military tried to obtain a “heat ray” that had been deemed too dangerous to use IN ACTUAL WARS. That's what they wanted to use on American citizens. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/17/military-police-heat-ray-against-d-c-protesters-congressional-letter/3476175001/
Speaking of heat, there's also climate change. Trump pulled out of the Paris Agreement, with the blessing - no, encouragement! - of the GOP Senate. And he continues to deny the problem while California burns and the Gulf coast is battered. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/01/republican-senators-paris-climate-deal-energy-donations
Last of all, Trump knows he may lose this election, but he's made clear he won't go quietly. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/
The GOP-led Senate passed a resolution calling for a peaceful transfer of power on January 20, but that's an empty promise. They will certainly support all his efforts before that date to steal the election and be re-inaugurated - peacefully! - on January 20.
A contested election ultimately is decided by the House and Senate, not the Supreme Court. And not today's corrupted Senate, but the one we will elect in November. The GOP Senate must go.
These are the important races deciding the control of the Senate. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
These are the important races deciding the control of the Senate. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
Only U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents can donate, up to $2,800/candidate/election, so $28,000 for these ten candidates. I hate how much money goes to elections instead of more worthy causes. The alternative today is the GOP outspend and keeps the Senate and maybe the WH.
If Biden wins, he can stop a lot of the awfulness Trump has started, but not all of it. Laws need to be passed, which won't happen with the GOP-led Senate. They will obstruct Biden like Obama.
Vote them out for enabling Trump. Vote them out to let Biden fix what Trump did.
Vote them out for enabling Trump. Vote them out to let Biden fix what Trump did.
I wasn't sure who to give to, so I took time to do the research and put this slate together.
Please help. Please give what YOU can. Help stop not just Trump but the GOP-led Senate as well. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
Please help. Please give what YOU can. Help stop not just Trump but the GOP-led Senate as well. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
My wife and I will match donations on this page, up to our combined $56,000 max. If we can get back on track, then this could be the best investment we ever make (like Arnold said), especially compared to leaving the US to escape autocracy and fascism. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
(If you missed Ahnold's news yesterday.) https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/517992-schwarzenegger-offers-grants-to-reopen-polling-places
And VOTE, even if you're in a solidly blue state!
And please consider writing letters or making calls to encourage others. See SwingLeft to start. https://swingleft.org/
And please consider writing letters or making calls to encourage others. See SwingLeft to start. https://swingleft.org/
For those of you following me for tweets about tech and programming, trust me, I'd rather be tweeting about those.
We have to right this ship first before we can get back to more leisurely activities. Please help. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42294-the-science-of-government-it-is-my-duty-to-study
We have to right this ship first before we can get back to more leisurely activities. Please help. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42294-the-science-of-government-it-is-my-duty-to-study
One last link. Please donate, and I'll match it. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/enough-2020
