Trumpolini In Action
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
National Endowment for the Arts.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Minority Business Development Agency.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Economic Development Administration.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
International Trade Administration.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Legal Services Corporation.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the
Office of Fossil Energy.
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On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all
federal agencies frozen.
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On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop
using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the
crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.
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On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and
face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal
observers, journalists, and medics.
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On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the
World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle.
He remains in critical condition.
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On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a
meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted
almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.
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On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a
press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting
the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the
inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”
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On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended
Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television
news.
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On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James
Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a
gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat
on the back.
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On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which
defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a
medical option.
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On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate
China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially
threatening war with China.
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On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people
voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.
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On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the
anti-fascist protester in Seattle
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On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million
people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.
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On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter
account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and
will hang in the White House press room. The photo is curiously dated
January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the
Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.
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On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with
the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants
and contracts.
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On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating
with the public through social media or the press and to stop
publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press
would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.
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On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal
funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance
coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went
to the floor of the House for a vote.
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On January 24th, 2017, Director of the Department of Health and Human
Service nominee Tom Price characterized federal guidelines on
transgender equality as “absurd.”
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On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on
the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress
considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors
with cars if they are on roadways.
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On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had
used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the
230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on
January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts
contain privileged information of clients and sources.
* And today, the wall and a Muslim ban.
* And today, the wall and a Muslim ban.
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Address
any comments, critiques and hate mail to tomatomike@aol.com.
There’s
just too much material in the aether. DT’s ‘dt’s, the angst
I’ve attached to all of those edicts, the erosion of anything
resembling stability, downgrading of America’s democracy to flawed
status, and so on. Do we stay to do battle…to resist…or find a
more stable, progressive nation to accept us? How long does it take
to learn a Scandinavian language?
Apparently President Trump never read Mark Twain's counsel: “Never pick a public fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” MB
To
the left-liberal (Prof. Camille Paglia's term), to cut government
spending on almost anything is a sin. The left-liberal
never asks the question "How are you going to pay for that?"
unless the topic is (1) a tax cut, or (2) the military. Now you can
probably add a third: border walls. With everything else--
entitlements, parks, the arts, publicly-funded abortion-- they
consider it reprehensible even to ask the question "How are
you going to pay for that?" If one does, the response is
outrage at one's callousness: "How can you possibly talk about
money at a time like this? Those people (animals, plants, the
planet, museums) are suffering!" Never mind that annual
government spending is well on course to exceed gross domestic
product. It is refreshing, even amazing, to see the
left-liberal suddenly discover the existence of constitutional
concepts like states' rights and limitations on executive power, now
that the federal executive is not one of their own. A good place
to start ratcheting down hysteria about government "cuts"
is to abolish base-line accounting, in which any decrease in the
scheduled rate of spending increase is termed a "cut."
The real-world standard is Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (GAAP), in which the term "cut" is reserved
for those situations where we actually mean to spend fewer
dollars on an item this year than we did last year. It's
much more honest, and much less panic – Trog
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Is it good or bad that I’m so
stubborn and wouldn’t ever yield to tyranny? I’m new to that
path, but I’ll find out, won’t I? -- Larry
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In the "war" between Trump and journalists,
journalists are winning, at least among those people who recognize
bull crap and a jackass when the hear and see it. – Brat
Apparently President Trump never read Mark Twain's counsel: “Never pick a public fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” MB
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The working person in this country has been marginalized and eviscerated for many years and this didn’t occur overnight. It started with the Reagan administration and has systematically continued until now. The majority of the listed government agencies are bureaucratically bloated and useless. And even the ones that appear to be useful no doubt suffer some of the same issues. Do note the one on fossil fuels was also cut. Maybe it’s time to start over with them. At any rate what will get better is jobs and jobs are what it’s all about. Unions, I belonged to one for 35 years and still receive benefits. Unions have lost power because there are few jobs. We get jobs we get power. It might be painful for awhile but think of the people who’ve lost their lifestyles and didn’t deserve it. What future is there for young people with no jobs? I am as apprehensive as anyone about all this but the past administrations have done nothing but sell us out to foreign entities and make wars. It’s time for a change and I ain’t wussin’ out now. Give the guy a break and see what happens. – Wht
The working person in this country has been marginalized and eviscerated for many years and this didn’t occur overnight. It started with the Reagan administration and has systematically continued until now. The majority of the listed government agencies are bureaucratically bloated and useless. And even the ones that appear to be useful no doubt suffer some of the same issues. Do note the one on fossil fuels was also cut. Maybe it’s time to start over with them. At any rate what will get better is jobs and jobs are what it’s all about. Unions, I belonged to one for 35 years and still receive benefits. Unions have lost power because there are few jobs. We get jobs we get power. It might be painful for awhile but think of the people who’ve lost their lifestyles and didn’t deserve it. What future is there for young people with no jobs? I am as apprehensive as anyone about all this but the past administrations have done nothing but sell us out to foreign entities and make wars. It’s time for a change and I ain’t wussin’ out now. Give the guy a break and see what happens. – Wht
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There is hope! The damned republicans will only support Trump until they realize his stupid decisions will also affect them and not just their neighbors. – Gerard
There is hope! The damned republicans will only support Trump until they realize his stupid decisions will also affect them and not just their neighbors. – Gerard
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And today, the announcement of cutting EPA positions. Did you read about the EPA scientists who have been busy downloading scientific data from the website in order to preserve it? -- Brat
And today, the announcement of cutting EPA positions. Did you read about the EPA scientists who have been busy downloading scientific data from the website in order to preserve it? -- Brat
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We're fucked. -- Lynda
We're fucked. -- Lynda
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You should read the article in The New Yorker about how the richest of the rich already have places where they've squirreled away arms, ammunition, food, water, etc, in case of an apocalypse. So where does that leave the rest of us? HELP! -- Beaty
You should read the article in The New Yorker about how the richest of the rich already have places where they've squirreled away arms, ammunition, food, water, etc, in case of an apocalypse. So where does that leave the rest of us? HELP! -- Beaty
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People will go blind trying to keep track of things DT says, does, explains, re-explains, doesn't explain, fails to do, does stupidly, retracts, and brags about. And that's just this week. He's got four years. I am quite sure the media will jump on this bandwagon like never before, and Trump has a lot of learning to do about what to say, when, and how. Now, judging from past behavior, I doubt another four years of schoolin' will get that done, so I am pretty sure that in order to keep a vein from exploding in my neck, I am going to avoid quite frequently any television that focuses on him, and the rest of the time look at it as comic relief. Better to do that than to stress about what might happen here and around the world if he doesn't sort through his vocabulary and deliver something useful - and I'm digging through items I might need at the Army surplus store just in case he doesn't. I'm only comforted - and mind you, "comforted" is used loosely here - that our American soil is never run entirely by any one man.
People will go blind trying to keep track of things DT says, does, explains, re-explains, doesn't explain, fails to do, does stupidly, retracts, and brags about. And that's just this week. He's got four years. I am quite sure the media will jump on this bandwagon like never before, and Trump has a lot of learning to do about what to say, when, and how. Now, judging from past behavior, I doubt another four years of schoolin' will get that done, so I am pretty sure that in order to keep a vein from exploding in my neck, I am going to avoid quite frequently any television that focuses on him, and the rest of the time look at it as comic relief. Better to do that than to stress about what might happen here and around the world if he doesn't sort through his vocabulary and deliver something useful - and I'm digging through items I might need at the Army surplus store just in case he doesn't. I'm only comforted - and mind you, "comforted" is used loosely here - that our American soil is never run entirely by any one man.
I
didn't vote for Trump OR Hillary, so I am sure I'd be nearly as
disillusioned, scared, and frustrated with Hillary stepping into
office, and though the criticisms would look
completely different, they would be just as profound.
I
am still reeling over the fact that DT and HC are the best
finalists America could come up with. God help us. --
Zoey
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So
awful; great compilation of horror here. -- Julisari
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I've
donned my Activism garb, have been visiting Senator's offices, and
following The Indivisible Guide with a group of fellow Progressives.
My heart aches. -- Bach Lennon
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