DemocracyMouse
DemocracyMouse's JournalDoes anyone know what the ties are between Fox and Putin?
I would love to see aerial shots...
of last weeks' Wonen's March(s). Last year Trump, in his hallucinogenic fashion, managed to keep the public riveted on the women's movement by constantly reminding us of how small his inauguaral was in comparison.
Can we get some of the best shots back in rotation?
Best photos from Women's Marches...
PLEASE POST YOUR COOLEST PIX FROM THE MARCH BELOW.
(Crowds, charts and people holding signs)
Last year Trump's attempt to compare the size of his puny inauguration with Obama's and the Women's March the following day kept photos of the groundbreaking Women's March in the news for weeks, even months. It was a huge boost to the resistance and provided constant, VISCERAL proof that progressives, LEAD BY WOMEN OF ALL ETHNICITIES, were in the majority and a force to be reckoned with. (And we do have a message: stop the hate and fix this country, beginning with economic inequality)
Please post your best pix of this year's march (from any city) and let's keep that profound statement in circulation right up to November 6!!!
Blank check to Trump? We ignored this?
I'm REALLY worried about the following.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article196056019.html
We've just authorized secret intelligence funding powers over to Trump??? Both Dems and Repubs expressed serious concern, but the spending bill was rushed through. If I understand things correctly, now Trump doesn't have to have oversight on how he moves funds around in the intellgence arena.
This was first reported in The Intercept, but has also migrated to the link above (The Intercept is considered out of bounds by some DU editors. I'm not sure why and would love to hear the reasons.... the Intercept had issues in the past, but not sure where they are currently going astray if they are reporting stories like this).
But more importantly, see the next step in building a Trumpian police state in the link above.
We're Giving Trump a license to spy on us???
Really? 55 Democrats joined even more Republicans and voted to extend NSA surveillance power a truly paranoid hold-over from 9/11 that has pushed our country into the current climate of distrust and extremism.
This is from NBC News:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna836836
Yet, with the help of some Democrats, the House of Representatives voted today and the Senate will do so sometime in the next week to extend a controversial NSA surveillance power that potentially affects millions of Americans privacy rights.
The New York Times:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html
And here's CNN:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/12/politics/fisa-surveillance-weird-politics/index.html
This issue transcends partisan politics and should be given as much space in our daily dose of dialogue as Trump's stupid tweets or the latest cute cats. We are still victims of Osama Bin Laden if we continue to inflict so much destruction on our freedoms. This is a Democrat speaking. I want my country back!
The fact that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders supported the continuation of FISA suggests that they are not tuned into the growing progressive wave which is going to change a lot of things in November.
Get ready to vote, and vote with your eyes wide open.
Peace,
Democracy Mouse
As a privacy-dependent ANIMAL, I find this distressing
55 Democrats joined even more Republicans and voted to extend NSA surveillance power a truly paranoid hold-over from 9/11 that has pushed our country into the current zeitgeist. Here's NBC News:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna836836
Yet, with the help of some Democrats, the House of Representatives voted today and the Senate will do so sometime in the next week to extend a controversial NSA surveillance power that potentially affects millions of Americans privacy rights.
It's also reported in the Times:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/fisa-surveillance-congress-trump.html
And CNN:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/01/12/politics/fisa-surveillance-weird-politics/index.html
This issue transcends partisan politics and should be given as much space in our daily dose of dialogue as Trump's stupid tweets or the latest cute cats. We are still victims of Osama Bin Laden if we continue to inflict so much destruction on our freedoms. This is a Democrat speaking. I want my country back!
The fact that Pelosi and other Democratic leaders supported the continuation of FISA suggests that they are not tuned into the growing progressive wave which is going to change a lot of things in November.
Get ready to vote, and vote with your eyes wide open.
Peace,
Democracy Mouse
Why DO Republicans hate Anerica?
This devastating rundown of US self-destruction by Carol Anderson should be shared far and wide. It's an excellent short list of what we need to fix when the BLUE TSUNAMI comes this November ("Vote for your country, vote Democratic" needs to be on EVERY Democratic car bumper and yard sign starting Labor Day)
The perplexing thing is that the author, however brilliant in her breakdown of the problem, didn't answer the question "why?" Is it just short-sighted greed and servile obedience to their masters? (Russians and campaign funders). Or is the Devil a real friggin' thing??? (says the spiritual atheist).
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a58d5efe4b04df054f860a1?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
This is GROWING: Democrats command the narrative
There is a lot of noise and attempts at obfuscation among the punditry, but a single over-arching consensus is emerging: Russia under Putin is bad news and anyone taking money or connected to cyberwarfare support from Russia, is a traitor.
The Democrats don't need to control this narrative because it happens to be true. They do, however, need to continuously FOCUS the narrative by reminding the electorate that they have REAL patriots to elect next November.
Here's a reminder of what Democrats will protect America from:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-live-in-putin-russia-life-luke-harding-collusion-politics-military-alexander-litvinenko-2017-11
Muellar timing arrests near Women's March
I'm certain Muellar is holding out for two reasons:
1) He's building an iron-clad case.
2) It's wise to wait for warmer weather. It will bring more people to the streets to back him up. Although there should in theory be no correlation, if I were tasked with saving the country from Putin and his sickly band of US traitors, I'd schedule more arrests just before the 2nd Women's March in cities around the country (January 20, 2018). Other roll-outs, leaks soon after that.
PLAN ON IT: Wonen's March 2018
https://qz.com/1139150/womens-march-2018-when-and-where-it-starts-in-new-york-los-angeles-chicago-philadelphia-san-francisco-and-more/
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