Read this one, guys, it's important, paywall be damned. Send it to your representatives in Congress (particularly if they are a Republican), and ask them how they can possibly condone treating humans like this. They may reject as "Fake News" (i.e. facts they don't like), but please do it anyway.
This should not be what we are.
He probably has never been in a body of water that has not been owned by one of his family's real estate ventures.
It's important to note the political realities, though. Elections matter, and voters put Republicans in charge of both the Presidency and Congress. And the House in particular is driven by majority rule, so there is very little to do there but cast votes against dumb shit which will pass anyway. The minority in the Senate has a little more sway, but not really all that much. Expecting the Congress to be meaningful opposition is unrealistic right now.
To see the resistance in action, we need to look to other parts of government. States challenged the Federal funding freeze immediately, and the Courts acted swiftly, and forced the administration to at least partially back down. They need to keep the pressure on. States have some real power in holding an imperial Presidency in check, and they need to use it. Courts have sweeping powers, also, but cannot use them on their own, they need cases brought.
The only quick end to this is if God files His Ultimate Veto on the Trump Presidency and ends it early. Failing that, it will be a long slog to remind him he is not a King.
Black is just a darker shade of brown
No, people would have said "don't just be against Trump, tell us what you're for" and still stayed home.
"But if we use taxes for healthcare, some of my tax money would go to brown people and other people I hate. How is that fair at all?"
I've only ever heard a Canadian say it, it means that they think your thoughts are all jumbled and if you shake your head a bit maybe some common sense will settle in. So maybe it's Canadian slang, eh?
Do you have any links to sources on this? I see a lot of people speaking authoritatively on this here but no links to sources.
Many of his supporters don't consider themselves poor or middle-class, they consider themselves pre-millionaires.
Yeah, individual emails can be picked off at any point in the chain while in transit. And someone who has hacked key infrastructure in front of your server can see all emails on transit. But your server might have stored emails, so someone with clandestine access to that will be able to access part of your email history (perhaps all of it, if you use that server for permanent email storage), and they are not limited to emails in transit.
Really? She was to the right of the Clintons? Obama? John Kerry, even? I think you have a selective memory.
My point is a bit different. The current government is trying to flood the zone with misinformation to get everyone riled up and seeing threats everywhere, while they attack specific points in the Federal Government. Not everyone can resist it all, and in fact, they are counting on people getting so worked up at the minor stuff that they miss the major things. And there is only a very limited amount that the minority in Congress can do. Resistance should be targeted, just like their actual harmful actions are.
I would follow the lead of the States here. State governments (particularly Liberal ones) have the most to lose is this county goes full-on Fascist. They also have staff who understand the laws and how best to argue in court over this. Some bad shit will happen (particularly on immigration and deportation, where the States' only option is to choose not to help ICE) but I will look to the States to ensure that four years from now, there is still a functional Union left.
Thank God the individual States still manage elections. If it weren't for that, we'd all be fucked. We might still be, but at least it won't be without a fight.