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Why Can’t We Cope With The Fact Trump Won The Election? Let’s Do An Already Outdated Recap

Michael Masiello wrote this January 31, 2017, on the reasons why we can’t cope with the fact Trump won the election:

It isn’t a question of why we can’t cope with the fact Trump won the election; it’s the fact that he’s doing so much of what was feared he would do.

No, “we’re” not children — we’re watching what he’s been doing, and what it means for us geopolitically, socioculturally, etc., with all the horror that used to fill the hearts of people on both sides of the aisle when grotesque indecency occurred.

America has scorned totalitarianism and touted its moral superiority to extremists throughout its history. The compulsive liar and psychopath this country’s morons elected is trying to destroy that in a matter of days. He has been very industrious.

Below is an accurate list you can fact-check (it’s circulating like crazy on social media platforms) of Trump’s actions so far (and it’s already outdated — more of America has been made great again since). Tell us, is this the America you want to live in? Is this who we are? Isn’t the “Hitler’s been elected! Accept it! So? He’s killing some Jews. What are we, children? Poor babies, are we traumatized? You pussies!” attitude simply hiding from the truth?

LOOK AT IT:

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.

* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.”

* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.

* 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.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.

* 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.

* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.

* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.

* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.

* On January 21st, 2017, approximately 3 million people in D.C. and sister cities around the country participated in the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* On January 24th, 2017, Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterized federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd.”

* 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.

* 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 that’s outdated. If you can accept that not all negative assessments of Trump are predicated on nothing, consider:

Twitter Is Full Of Trump Voters Who Regret Their Decision And It’s Bittersweet

Opinion | Trump’s erratic first week was among the most alarming in history

Trump orders ISIS plan, talks with Putin and gives Bannon national security role

I know it’s painful and oh so hard, but try to think.

Anyone who supports this man now is either stupid or evil.

Of course we’re fucking worried. And I won’t rest until everything Trumpism represents is repudiated and destroyed. I refuse to cope; I plan to fight. I am fighting already. My representatives must be sick of my calls. They won’t stop.

But there’s more to do than call representatives and vote. That only happens if people do not accept the new status quo — if they cannot, and will not, bear it.

Fuck Trump and fuck his followers. Get thee behind me, Satan.

 

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2 thoughts on “Why Can’t We Cope With The Fact Trump Won The Election? Let’s Do An Already Outdated Recap

  • November 28, 2019 at 4:22 pm
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    Didn’t see this piece before. Seems folks are afraid to give voice to their opinions, convictions, prejudices , preferences, in a forum. Hurrah for you.

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    • November 28, 2019 at 6:53 pm
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      I’d forgotten about that. Two years ago already and one more to go. Wow. All the business about how someone’s “life has been destroyed” because of Trump just made me gag. I don’t like a lot of what he’s done, but people need to get a grip. Bombs aren’t dropping on your house (one time this was said by someone who lives isolated in an expensive home in the desert), there’s food on the table, and government troops aren’t patrolling the streets. Which actually happened during Obama’s administration once.

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