We Need a Reckoning
We need to actually hold accountable the GOP, Trump, and all those involved with the insurrection.
Period.
If we don’t, they will succeed next time.
Please DO SOMETHING!!!
Category: General Politics
Impeach and Convict Trump
It’s really very simple. If we don’t impeach and convict Trump and everyone that was directly involved or supporting the coup on our democracy, the next one will succeed.
- How to contact your representatives.
- Send a Letter: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-draw-up-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump
No Healing Without Accountability!
Primary or Caucus for Bernie Sanders 2020
Head out to vote in the primary or caucus for Bernie Sanders in 2020. It is vitally important! Our power lies in our participation in the political process. One of the places where our vote still holds a huge amount of sway is in primaries and caucuses. It is arguably the place where the individual voter’s vote still has real, tangible power. Use it!
In some years the differences in candidates for president for each party is minimal. This year is not the case. In fact, the democratic candidates are remarkably different. This difference will mean whether we have a chance to fix and correct our political system and society or if we remain in the embarrassing and dysfunction quagmire that is our corrupt political process and government functionality.
Much of what Joe Biden proposes is to stick with what we already have, such as healthcare and energy policies. The same systems that have lead to Americans to ruin.
When looking at each candidate’s stance on issues both in the past and present, their outlined plans for American policy, and the drive they have to make a difference in the coming years, the choice is clear.
- Bernie Sanders is the best choice to advance American policy in meaningful ways demonstrated by his decade’s long history of fighting against the corporate takeover of America.
- Bernie Sanders clearly has the majority of American’s people’s best interest in mind demonstrated by his empathy and vigor through demonstrating for civil rights.
- Bernie Sanders is the best choice to bridge the gap between people in America demonstrated by his ability to compromise and find middle ground on long lists of passed legislation.
- Bernie Sanders also has the ability to bring out the disenfranchised voters that won’t even show up for “normal” politicians.
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Vote or Caucus for Bernie Sanders
Please take a little time out of your day today and head out to your local Primary or caucus and vote. It is a rich and rewarding experience. Your vote holds significant weight in the outcome of who will end up being the Democratic nominee for president.
Ask those around you if they would like to join you. Make a night out of! It will be fun and it is so very important to be involved in our democratic process. If we don’t use our democracy, we just might lose our democracy.
So get out there today and caucus or primary for Bernie Sanders!
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Bernie Sanders for President 2020
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Happy Presidents Day! It’s a great day to pull out that primary ballot, get it filled out, and drop it off. If your state does not have a primary please make sure to caucus. It is vitally important your voice is heard!
I invite everyone to join me in voting for Bernie Sanders for President! He not only will Bernie trounce Trump but Bernie has the bold, and proven, vision of America. We need to CATCH UP to the rest of the world and Bernie Sanders can get it done.
#GreenNewDeal #MedicareForAll #EducationForAll #EqualityForAll #JusticeForAll are just a few of Bernie’s goals for American. These are not only great for us. They are great for the future of everyone in the world. Know that these things CAN BE accomplished in America. They will take your support, your voice, and your vote.
#MedicareForAll and #EducationForAll are already in many, if not most, first world countries. Humans deserve these things and we can get them done here.
So, on this sunny Presidents Day, please fill out your primary ballot for Bernie Sanders for President. Encourage your friends and family to do the same. Your vote counts. Your vote matters!
I look forward to your help in fighting for a better future!
#Bernie2020 #BernieSandersForPresident #FeelTheBern #NotMeUs
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Now, perhaps more then ever, your voice and your vote are needed. We need your help to assure there is a future for our children’s children and that future is one of kindness, caring, and compassion. A future we can all believe in and look forward to. Please vote for Bernie Sanders for President!
Aggressive Climate Action Needed Right Now
My family and I went camping this summer in an area full of beetle-killed trees. Many of these beetle-kill areas were also burned by wildfires, because dead trees provide excellent fuel for an errant spark or lightning strike. The forest used to be beautiful—thick and green. Now, it was clear that in the forest, only the campground area had been saved from the insects and the fire. The only reason we were able to camp amongst green trees was because the campground trees are sprayed with insecticide and firefighters worked to save the campground. Colorado could not afford to lose this tiny bit of forest that brings in revenue from camping reservations. This green oasis exists because people don’t want to camp amongst burned tree corpses. Once the trees are lost, it takes YEARS for new trees to take their place. And even with this human intervention, all through the campground were signs of beetle-killed trees that had been cut down in order to try to save the adjacent trees. This level of intervention is not possible for the thousands of square miles of national parks, state parks, and forests in Colorado alone.
The people in charge of protecting our parks have begun removing protections that have stood for many years, and allowing drilling for the very fossil fuels that have caused the forests’ demise.
I sat on the shore of the lake, with the healthy pines at my back. The pines provide home and cover for birds, chipmunks, caterpillars, longhorn beetles, deer, and many other species. On the other side of the lake was a hillside covered in the unrelenting light brown of dead trees. No birds called from that side. No deer stepped down to drink from the lake, since there was no tree cover for them. The ecosystem had fallen apart. The National Park Service has worked for over one hundred years to preserve the ecology of its parks. This work is being undone by the very government that is tasked with the parks’ protection. By that argument, this country’s citizens are seeing their own health and well-being undone by the government in exacerbating and accelerating climate change.
Humans are Breaking the Environment
Those who argue that wildfires are natural need to know that the conditions that have led to extensive beetle kill are due to climate change. Bark beetles have lived here for thousands of years. The area’s cold winters have traditionally kept the beetle’s population in check by killing some eggs and larvae. But higher temperatures fail to keep the population in check and low precipitation weakens the trees’ response to the invaders (trees can expel invaders or their eggs with sap flow). The last ten years has seen a massive infestation and the resulting devastation of our forests. https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/nature/mtn_pine_beetle_background.htm
We Must Stop Enabling Climate Change
I find the idea of opening up previously protected lands to obtain fossil fuels repugnant. In essence, taxpayers pay subsidies to oil companies. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/upshot/do-oil-companies-really-need-4-billion-per-year-of-taxpayers-money.html. The oil companies then sell fossil fuels back to us to do our part to irretrievably change our environment—increasing the number and severity of natural disasters and continue in our complacency of this reckless global experiment in greed and apathy.
I know that it is too late to reverse these effects on our environment. I know that these dead trees are the least of our worries. But why are our elected government officials NOT looking out for our national wonders AND their constituents’ health and well-being? Climate change and the weather changes it’s bringing are affecting us all—killing or displacing many of us.
Elect Climate Change Champions
It’s time to elect officials who understand the effects of climate change and will not serve the corporations who have the most to gain short term, but instead help protect the health and well-being of the voters they represent. It’s time to divorce money from politics so representatives can do the right thing. When you vote in the upcoming election, please take into consideration who the candidates are beholden to and which candidates take climate change seriously. Our lives and our beautiful world depend on candidates willing to say no to dirty money.
September 11th – Remembering All That Was Lost
As we all remember September 11th, it’s important to not only remember the horrific events of that day, but what it meant to us as people, as a country, and as a world.
September 11th hits me the hardest in this way, for a brief flash I saw the very best of humanity. When the horrific events unfolded I not only saw my fellow Americans, by my fellow humans putting aside differences to come together in one worldwide call of humanitarianism. I saw true outpouring of human love and empathy from all corners of this globe. I am still awestruck to this day of the potential I saw in humanity during this brief flash of remarkable humanity.
However, over the days, months, and years that followed I watched as the goodness of humanity faded through fear. I watched bigotry explode from our hate. I watched evil flourish as we let our worst traits take over. It became ok to take advantage of each other. A smile on our faces as we let our hate, anger, and fear take over while we deceived ourselves through false justifications.
Now I look at this world almost two decades later, I can see how the worst of us has shaped us. I can see how our fear defeats us. I can see how our bigotry turns our family, friends, and neighbors into our enemies. I see how we use hate to justify our amorality. I see too many embracing the worst parts of us for their own personal gain.
That’s why I find September 11th so hard. I see how we squandered that glimpse of goodness. Instead we allowed the hate, fear, anger, and despair into our lives. In doing so we have made this world an uglier place then it was on September 10, 2001.
In my view, terror won that day. Hate’s still winning. Fear has had a grip on us for nearly an entire generation. Along with those lost, we need to also remember the lessons lost.
This is not to say that we humans are lost. We can choose hope over fear. We can choose understanding over anger. We can choose compassion over bigotry. We can choose peace over violence. We can choose good over evil.
When you take a moment to remember September 11th. Remember that flash of goodness and humanitarianism. We can choose to shine again like we did that fateful day, every day.
I Think Less Of You
This saying of “Think less of you.” has been around for a bit over a year, but it really does sum up my sadness and helps to tamp down the ager I feel towards others. I think it sums up my thoughts on our political opponents and current situation.
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I am not mad at you that Clinton lost. I am unconcerned that we have different politics. And I don’t think less of you because you vote one way and I vote another.
No …
- I think less of you because you watched an adult mock a disabled person in front of a crowd and still supported him.
- I think less of you because you saw a man spouting clear racism and backed him.
- I think less of you because you listened to him advocate for war crimes, and still thought he should run this country.
- I think less of you because you watched him equate a woman’s worth to her appearance and got on board.
It isn’t your politics that I find repulsive. It is your personal willingness to support racism, sexism, and cruelty. You sided with a bully when it mattered and that is something I will never forget. So, no … you and I won’t be “coming together” to move forward or whatever.
Trump disgusts me, but it is the fact that he doesn’t disgust you that will stick with me long after this election.
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Donald Trump Grabs America
Trump Grabs America – 45th President
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Please Post These Everywhere – Trump Grabs America
Use this, and any other means at your disposal, as a form of non-violent protest. Now, more than ever, the citizens of this country need to stand up and shout out against evil, corruption, sexism, misogyny, sexual assault, bullying, anti-intellectualism and general lack of morality that is sweeping into acceptance with Donald Trump’s win. His swearing in is an all too real sign of the trouble that America, and the world, is in.
Our world just got grabbed by an absolutely awful individual. He now has the power to actually ruin it instead of just being a stain on it. So fight to take it back. Anyway you can.
Post this image everywhere on social media. It is a small step. But we must keep telling the world and those in power that we are not ok with a president that was just sworn in even though he was caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women.
We can’t continue down this path.
What the world thinks of Trump Voters
This great video sums up the thoughts of so many voters that were shocked that Donald Trump won. Things have somehow progressed well beyond basic policy ideas. They have transcended into basic human rights and decency. This quick video does a great job of summing up our thoughts.
Thanks!
Credit: Tess Rafferty.
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Fight the Hate
We must all come together and fight the hate that has taken root! Add this profile picture to all your social media. Share it with your friends and tell the world you will not sit idly by while hate takes over.
Fight The Hate!
Do not sit by and let America repeat the horrific mistakes of the past. Fight the Hate. Fight the Fear. Call it out and do not tolerate it anymore. Our complacency has let it take root.
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