We're experiencing a Russian coup d'etat

[SHRED]

And our Democratic leaders, including the President, sat on their hands all summer.
In typical Democratic Party fashion they apparently didn't want the "appearance" of partisanship.

That's what I'm gathering.

We need to look in the mirror and stop making excuses.

[superpatriotman]

1. Join the movement

Or get run over by it!

[pangaia]

2. We need to fight NOW!!! Not tomorrow.. today !!

Get out and contact your reps and tell them to fight against this coup d'etat and every single nominee il duce puts up for his cabinet.

Call the White House
Call Attorneys General
Write letters to editors.
Contact broadcast media.
Join groups fighting the coup.
Contribute $$ if you can.
Post on social media.
Join protests, marches, strikes, boycotts.
any other type of civil disobedience. .
PROTEST any way possible...

Anything else you might think of...

[SHRED]

3. I'm calling Feinstein and more

[pangaia]

5. YES !! That's the way...

[SHRED]

9. I'm going to ask her office when did she know this

And follow up with why was nothing done?

If our leaders can't recognize a coup occurring then they are worthless.

[Maraya1969]

12. Contact the White House and tell them not to allow the Russians to take over our country!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

[pangaia]

13. tHANKS !!!

DONE !!!

[jovibennett]

23. Done!! Thank you

I copied and pasted to all the electors emails addresses through my email. We need to spread the word!! 159,000 have done it already but we need a million or so!!

[marybourg]

28. Done. Also my Senators. nt.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

40. sent. plea for a state of emergency until Congress address so the matter. . n/t

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

4. Tell the electors directly what you want...

http://asktheelectors.org

Join the throngs of loyal Americans asking that the EC electors not vote for trump.

Pass this to all your friends the more the better.

Time to revolt is now!

[pangaia]

10. DONE.

What's that at the bottom about sending an email somewhere?

ON EDIT:

Well looks like I am not done.

It appears one has to personally send emails to all those electors..

OK I have started..

[Maraya1969]

16. You just copy all the email addresses

[pangaia]

17. Right, Got it.

I'll send about 20 at a time so as not to bloat my server. :&gt )
Frontier UN-Communications

[Aimee in OKC]

20. A message from George Takei

George Takei @GeorgeTakei
6:44 AM - 10 Dec 2016

If there was interference on the play, you don't count the touchdown. Russia meddled in our election, says the CIA. Electors, do your jobs.


https://mobile.twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/807596961150930945

[Calculating]

6. The Russians have taken our country without a shot being fired

...

[SHRED]

15. And the President's response...

...another "study".

[RKP5637]

51. With all respect to Obama, I don't think he's made of the stuff to handle things like this.

This requires swift hard nosed action, like waging a war, and ASAP. There is no time for studies. The congressional vacation needs to be stopped. This, is a crisis.

[Ilsa]

18. He's in, according to msnbc sources. Bolton to be deputy. nt

[Horse with no Name]

7. That is kind of what I am feeling

since they picked the President and a friendly SOS and all.....
I actually am wondering what the Europeans are talking about behind closed doors.

[mopinko]

8. no shit. me too.

how is the rest of the world going to react to this election? what the hell kind of example does it set for the rest of the world if russia can do this to us and get away with it?

[pangaia]

14. I have many friends aorund the world.. mostly artistic types,. many classical musicians

We mostly follow each other on FB... and PMs and see each other when traveling..

Those 'closest' to these events live in..
Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, South Korea, China, etc..

Their take on all this is really interesting, and actually a little varied...
They are much more detailed in their discussions, but to simplify it...

Putin is dangerous and is screwing the US, AND Russia..

The US does the same thing.. well, true..

The EU threatens Russia..

Russia is a threat to the entire world.

HOWEVER.. ALL of them, every one, knows exactly what has happened. They knew it was happening long ago because they know Putin and the Russian political machine.

They are NOT happy!

[world wide wally]

11. I hate to say this, but...

It would be better to fight NOW than later if we have to fight.

[Pachamama]

19. I am shaking and have chills about this and am really in shock right now trying to process this

….and figure out how this has happened and even was able to happen. And I want something done and done quickly to investigate this and full transparency and there needs to be something done. This is a security breach and act of war. And I thought our members of congress and our President take an oath to the Constitution to defend the country and constitution from enemies FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC and we have a situation of both here.

[jalan48]

21. Oligarch's uniting.

[CrispyQ]

41. The Billionaire White Man's Club. --nt

[jalan48]

42. I think the billionare club is color and gender blind. It's all about money.

If black men or women can get enough money they can buy their way in.

[dawnie51]

22. If the members in government know....

and just do nothing, is it really a coup? Or a gift? Starting to sound like everyone knew, and no one did anything. What'd the military know? What do they know now? Does anyone give a damn? Perhaps the whole damn bunch has dreams of Russia.

[SHRED]

34. What did they know and when did they know it

[mountain grammy]

24. Yep, the Siberian candidate caught the Democrats napping..

Why? You'd think after the last 8 years, Obama would be happy to bring the hammer down on these criminals.
This will not end well.

[StevieM]

25. We have already experienced a coup by the FBI and James Comey. (eom)

[RKP5637]

52. There is definitely some serious sh** going on, a coup, none of this happened by chance or

coincidental timing ... it's been orchestrated, and it continues.

[lark]

26. Obama has chosen not to stop this, why?

He knows russia stole the election and that drumpf will be their willing fool and sink the world to enrich himself, so WTF? Why isn't he having drumpf arrested for treason?

[bucolic_frolic]

30. You need proof to do that

Don't even know if politically he could use War Powers to nullify the
election and force a do-over in 2017, plus he'd have to deal with the
Russians - expel diplomats at the least, and the GOP Congress would
scream.

So he had no good choices, he has none now that I can see

What would you have him do?

[MBS]

32. He did try, back in September: McConnell blocked investigation

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/10/mitch_mcconnell_prevented_stronger_action_against_russian_election_meddling.html

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was apparently one of the Republican leaders who was most responsible for putting the brakes on a stronger White House pushback against Moscow’s efforts at trying to affect the outcome of the U.S. election. At the end of a bombshell Washington Post piece about how the CIA has concluded that Russia was trying to help Donald Trump win the White House, there is word of a secret meeting on Capitol Hill with a group of key lawmakers in September. It was at this meeting that McConnell reportedly expressed serious reservations about the intelligence and threatened to politicize the agency’s findings if they were made public.

The Post explains that the White House was so convinced by the evidence that Russia was trying to affect the outcome of the election that by mid-September, it decided that stronger action was needed. But White House officials were afraid that the effort would be seen as an attempt to affect the outcome of the election, so the administration wanted both parties to come together and criticize Russian interference as well as urge local governments to accept federal assistance in protecting the voting process.
The Democratic lawmakers all agreed that the threat of Russian interference needed to be taken seriously but at least two Republicans, including McConnell, pushed back.
The Post reports:

According to several officials, McConnell raised doubts about the underlying intelligence and made clear to the administration that he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.

. . . .McConnell has refused to comment on the reports about the CIA conclusions on Russia’s meddling in the election. McConnell’s office told BuzzFeed News that it “would not violate federal law by providing classified information.”

[lark]

35. Not good enough.

Arrest drumpf for treason, that's the only thing that can be done, providing he has the real proof of drumpf colluding with Russia to steal the election. Repugs are traitors, they don't give a shit so Congress is out of the picture. This is a law enforcement issue, this is about the very survival of our way of life and constitution. Share the information with the world, this is more important than any intelligence sources, this is not only our survival, but the survival of the democratic world.

[MBS]

44. Obama is the guy who plays a long game.

Someone said once (on DU?) that Obama plays chess when everyone else plays checkers.

Yes, he's known exactly what's going on since the summer (or whenever those 17 intelligence agencies made their report). When the White House first made mention of this stuff back in (??) July, I thought to myself, "Obama is so careful not to make accusations without factual support. For him or his staff to say something must mean that they've got truly damning evidence. :
And, since Obama surely received more information than what's reported, and earlier than we learned about it, he surely knows way more than we know, and he's known it for awhile.

I am positive that intelligence agencies have been hard at work throughout this period, and they that they and Obama are working on strategies.

I also am aware that Obama has been boxed in politically, because it would not have been in the Democratic party's or Hillary's interest ( in the country's, either) - if his accusations or actions could be dismissed as "partisan bias" or "election rigging." That's why he wanted bipartisan support (and should have received it, had McConnell not chosen self-interest and partisan interest over country).

I have confidence that Obama will come up with an effective response.

[lark]

55. Hope you are right.

This is too important to get wrong.

[MBS]

57. I agree!

I've been freaked out about this whole thing ever since hints of the Putin-Trump connection caught my attention about a year or so ago, starting especially with that photo of Flynn at Putin's table at the RT dinner.

[underpants]

27. Don't blame President Obama for this

[SHRED]

33. He's calling for an investigation now yet...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said on Friday that despite Russian attempts to undermine the presidential election, it has concluded that the results “accurately reflect the will of the American people.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/politics/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html?_r=0

..

Why is he so confused???

[underpants]

36. Being President (as a normal person) tempers your reaction

He relented to McConnell, by all accounts, out of respect for both of their positions.

We knew this in September. Hillary mentioned it in at one debate.

President Obama shouldn't have to highlight it.

[lark]

37. Don't think he's confused.

There's something else going on, not sure what?

[Skidmore]

43. So do you believe

POTUS is a Kenyan Muslim spirited into the US as a baby in order to become President too? That is exactly how kooky this sounds. The coup you posit was brought by right wingers and covered up by a GOP which is morally and pollitically bankrupt an ideologues on the left who sat on their votes. Does it make you feel better to include President Obama as a co-conspirator. So sick of this endless crap.

[MBS]

46. I agree. This is not Obama's failing here.

The Republican leadership and the Trumpites, on the other hand. .
My guess is that Obama (handy also that he is a constitutional lawyer) and the intelligence agencies (though presumably not the disgraced FBI) are working hard on an effective and constitutionally and diplomatically appropriate strategy to address this extremely serious, and unprecedented problem.

[SHRED]

50. What's Obama gonna do now?

That's the real question.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Oil companies rule the world

we're about to get plundered

and polluted

Provocative act by a hostile foreign power if you're saying coup d'etat

We're cornered with two options. 1) Slide into dictatorship as a puppet state
2) fight with a super power

Take your pick

[awoke_in_2003]

53. Zappa was right, and this may be the time...

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

[TrekLuver]

31. I agree. Enough of this bullshit. You need to fight fire with fire.

[LittleBlue]

38. It isn't like the American people were unaware

We knew this about Trump months before the election. They just didn't care.

[OlWiseRedEye]

39. Best part is...

Absolutely nothing will come out of any of it...

Any other country and they would be protesting in the streets.

This country, "oh well, no big deal".

Sorry folks, this democracy checked out long ago.

[SHRED]

45. Correct

The time is now for our streets to be filled...Oh well.

[Abu Pepe]

47. The dems in the gang of 12 clearly did leak this during the campaign

but somebody was spinning the "it isnt to help Trump but just be a dick making chaos" meme. Probably the GOP gang of 12 mambers like MConnel who sold their country out to Putin to beat HRC.

[QED]

48. The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!

and this time is isn't a comedy.

[WiffenPoof]

49. Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Sometimes I feel like we are living in some sort of political suspense novel.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

54. Yeah, but at least Trump is

white!

[ecstatic]

56. I'm really disappointed in dems who are attempting to normalize this shit

And unfortunately, that includes my favorite president of all time, Obama. This is not normal. WTF is really going on here?