**Resources listed at the bottom of the post for people who need them**
But this post isn't about that. It's about the fact that Donald has been elected, and this means there will be a lot happening that is "inspired" by him.
So, two big things I have an issue with that I feel will influence his problematic supporters are that
Donald Trump's a racist:
Now, I'm not saying I support Hillary. Nobody is without faults and she is not a perfect person, and I am in no way saying that she would have been a better President. After all, I do not even know what kind of person she is when the cameras are off and she's behind closed doors. The "behind-the-scenes", if you will. (Her husband, Bill, has been accused of rape or sexual misconduct several times, and Hillary has been rumored to have gone to various lengths to shut the women he has been accused of raping, sexual misconduct or having an affair with up)
Not to mention how bad she must be that there were plenty of people who felt they should vote for Trump instead. I realize that the Republican party definitely has it's faults and tons of issues, but the Democratic party isn't comprised of saints. I feel that Bernie would have been the better option for the Democratic party. Not because he is a man, but because he seems like a better person with better intentions.
Not to mention how bad she must be that there were plenty of people who felt they should vote for Trump instead. I realize that the Republican party definitely has it's faults and tons of issues, but the Democratic party isn't comprised of saints. I feel that Bernie would have been the better option for the Democratic party. Not because he is a man, but because he seems like a better person with better intentions.
So, two big things I have an issue with that I feel will influence his problematic supporters are that
"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," Trump said at his campaign announcement. "But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense.. They’re sending us not the right people. It’s coming from more than Mexico. It’s coming from all over South and Latin America, and it’s coming probably— probably— from the Middle East. But we don’t know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don’t know what’s happening. And it’s got to stop and it’s got to stop fast."He's even said a judge was biased due to being mexican when it came to presiding over a class-action
"In May, Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.He's called black people lazy.
“He’s a Mexican,” Trump told CNN of Curiel. “We’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can’t even believe.”
Curiel, it should be noted, is an American citizen who was born in Indiana. And as a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.
Even members of Trump’s own party slammed the racist remarks.
“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in a reaction to Trump’s comments"
“I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it," Trump told John R. O'Donnell, the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, according O'Donnell's account in his 1991 book "Trumped!" "The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day."The Justice Department sued his company ― twice ― for not renting to black people.
Trump, according to O'Donnell, went on to say, "'Laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that."
"When Trump was serving as the president of his family’s real estate company, the Trump Management Corporation, in 1973, the Justice Department sued the company for alleged racial discrimination against black people looking to rent apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.Just three years after that, the Justice Department sued the Trump Management Corporation again for allegedly discriminating against black applicants by telling them apartments weren’t available.He's gone so far as to use the victory of a black man on his show as an example of how he, Donald Trump, is the least racist person out there.
The lawsuit charged that the company quoted different rental terms and conditions to black rental candidates than it did with white candidates, and that the company lied to black applicants about apartments not being available. Trump called those accusations “absolutely ridiculous” and sued the Justice Department for $100 million in damages for defamation."
"In May 2011, Trump pointed to the fact that an African American man, Randall Pinkett, won the fourth season of his NBC show "The Apprentice" as evidence that he is the "least racist person there is."The way he makes an example out of that win like that, makes it sound like he let that guy win just so he wouldn't seem racist.
In a telephone interview with "Fox and Friends," Trump was asked to account for a campaign by an African American advocacy group trying to get then-"Celebrity Apprentice" contestants Lil Jon and Star Jones to condemn him for "race-baiting."
"Well, you know, when it comes to racism and racists, I am the least racist person there is. And I think most people that know me would tell you that. I am the least racist, I’ve had great relationships," Trump said. "In fact, Randall Pinkett won, on the as you know, on 'The Apprentice' a little while ago, a couple of years ago. And Randall’s been outstanding in every way. So I mean, I am the least racist person."
He's even said, "I don't have a racist bone in my body," "The fact that I want a strong border and the fact that I don't want illegal immigrants pouring into this country, that doesn't make me a racist, it means I love this country and I want to save this country."
I'll admit it, no country is without it's share of bad people. There are bad people everywhere, but more often than not, the illegal immigrants or refugees that "pour" into this country are trying to find a nicer, safer place to work, live, and raise their families. There are good, honest, hard-working people who come here with their children to find peace and a home. Shoving them out of the country instead of trying to help them gain citizenship is damaging, and might even put those people into dangerous situations.
He's enough of a racist that he has and continues to receive support from the KKK.
"Three times in a row on Feb. 28, Trump sidestepped opportunities to renounce white nationalist and former KKK leader David Duke, who told his radio audience last week that voting for any candidate other than Trump is “really treason to your heritage."
When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if he would condemn Duke and say he didn’t want a vote from him or any other white supremacists, Trump claimed that he didn’t know anything about white supremacists or about Duke himself. When Tapper pressed him twice more, Trump said he couldn’t condemn a group he hadn’t yet researched.A leader of the Virginia KKK who is backing Trump told a local TV reporter earlier this month, “The reason a lot of Klan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes, we believe in.”
By Feb. 29, Trump was saying that in fact he does disavow Duke, and that the only reason he didn’t do so on CNN was because of a “lousy earpiece.” Video of the exchange, however, shows Trump responding quickly to Tapper’s questions with no apparent difficulty in hearing."
At a November campaign rally in Alabama, Trump supporters physically attacked a black protester after the man began chanting “Black lives matter.” Video of the incident shows the assailants kicking the man after he had already fallen to the ground.
"The following day, Trump implied that the attackers were justified.and,
“Maybe [the protester] should have been roughed up,” he mused. “It was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”
One reason Trump may have exhibited special disdain for that particular demonstrator in November, however, is because he believes the entire Black Lives Matter movement lacks legitimate policy grievances.
He alluded to these views in an interview with the New York Times magazine this week when he described Ferguson, Missouri, as one of the most dangerous places in America. The small St. Louis suburb is not even in the top 20 highest-crime municipalities in the country."
Donald Trump is sexist:
“Rosie’s a person that’s very lucky to have her girlfriend. And she better be careful or I’ll send one of my friends over to pick up her girlfriend," Trump continued. "Why would she stay with Rosie if she had another choice?”
O'Donnell is far from the only famous woman to feel Trump's scorn. He also tweeted about actress Bette Midler ("grotesque") and publisher Arianna Huffington on separate occasions.
He criticized Bill Clinton for much of Hillary's campaign for the affair Bill had while in the White House (as if that has anything to do with Hillary and the kind of president she would have been). He talks about Bill's past actions with such scrutiny.
He's no stranger to mistreating women or simply seeing them as something he can use to his advantage, or as just a sexual toy that he can fool around with, or seeing them simply as someone who should just be aesthetically pleasing in order to get by or succeed, saying things like
He is someone who is now facing multiple accusations of rape or sexual assault/misconduct against him by several women, One of which is a woman who has said she was raped by Trump at just 13 years of age.
This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of making inappropriate remarks about young women. He famously commented in 2006 that if Ivanka weren’t his daughter, he’d “perhaps” be dating her, and also gave Howard Stern the okay to refer to Ivanka as a “piece of ass.” He commented that then-12-year-old Paris Hilton caught his eye, telling Stern, “I’ve known Paris Hilton from the time she’s 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’”
The things that he has done in the past and will probably continue to do in the future is now something that will influence young and old men like himself to think that it's ok because why not, right? After all, the president does it.
and Now Donald Trump is The President-Elect of the "United" States:
It's only 4 years (maybe more depending on what happens in 2020) but there's so many things that could happen in 4 years, so much damage that not only Donald could do, but that his family could do. That his vice-president could do.
There are so many people who could be hurt by not only the things he and his vice president will do in office, but by the things his die-hard supporters will do. That they now feel they are free to do, which probably includes violence against those of which are in the LGBTQ community, muslims, POC, even women of any kind.
Afterall, not only is Donald Trump a racist, or a sexist, but so are a good portion of the people who follow and support him and in just the first day of him being elected President, his supporters, the problematic ones anyway, have already started with their intent for white supremacy.
A swastika and the words “MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN” (seen above) were spray painted on a baseball dugout in Wellsville, NY. A black baby doll was also found with rope around its neck in an elevator on campus at Canisius College outside Buffalo, NY. Campus police at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette received a report that a female UL Lafayette student was attacked and robbed by two males, one allegedly wearing a white Trump hat. Her wallet and hijab were stolen.
"In a New York magazine profile published in November 1992, a year after Trump divorced his first wife, Ivana, Trump was quoted dispensing his wisdom about how to handle the fairer sex.Megyn Kelly drew fire from Trump in the first debate for asking him about his past remarks about women, specifically of Rosie O'Donnell, of whom he remarked in 2006 to "Entertainment Tonight": “Rosie O’Donnell’s disgusting. I mean, both inside and out. You take a look at her, she’s a slob."
"You have to treat 'em like shit," Trump said in the article to friend Philip Johnson, who responded, "You'd make a good mafioso."
Trump's response: "One of the greatest."
“Rosie’s a person that’s very lucky to have her girlfriend. And she better be careful or I’ll send one of my friends over to pick up her girlfriend," Trump continued. "Why would she stay with Rosie if she had another choice?”
O'Donnell is far from the only famous woman to feel Trump's scorn. He also tweeted about actress Bette Midler ("grotesque") and publisher Arianna Huffington on separate occasions.
Now grotesque @BetteMidler is into the Trump act --- trying to become
relevant again.
.@ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision.
He criticized Bill Clinton for much of Hillary's campaign for the affair Bill had while in the White House (as if that has anything to do with Hillary and the kind of president she would have been). He talks about Bill's past actions with such scrutiny.
"Donald Trump was very proud of himself — well, even more proud of himself than usual — Monday night for not bringing up Bill Clinton's marital "indiscretions" during his debate against Hillary Clinton. Trump bragged about not bringing it up on national television, while also seemingly ignoring the fact that he famously cheated on his wife, as well.How can you be so obnoxiously against a man for past transgressions when you yourself are guilty of exactly what you are criticizing Bill for? Donald Trump has had 3 marriages. One of those marriages was to the woman he cheated on his first wife with. Hell, he didn't even want to marry Marla.
"But you want to know the truth? I was going to say something... extremely rough to Hillary, to her family, and I said to myself, 'I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. It’s inappropriate. It’s not nice,'" he said during the debate. Just days earlier, Trump tweeted that he had invited Gennifer Flowers, famous for having an affair with Bill Clinton, to the event in New York.
Following the debate, which many felt was won by Democratic nominee Clinton, Trump explained his remarks to a scrambling gaggle of reporters in the so-called "spin room." "Everything I wanted to say I got out except for the transgressions of Bill," Trump said to reporters, referring to Bill Clinton's cheating scandal during his White House administration. "I’m really happy I was able to hold back on the indiscretions in respect to Bill Clinton. Because I have a lot of respect for Chelsea Clinton." - Source
"Marla herself said at the time, on one of the serial soap opera tapes of Donald’s life that broadcast news has chosen not to replay, that even thinking about marriage caused a “little freak-out” in Donald, or a visit from the “fear monster.” (you know the fear monster, the one that children get visits from.)(If his pulse only pumps when he’s "on the hunt", the campaign may be more scintillating than the presidency.) His first wife, Ivana, was granted an uncontested divorce in 1990, on the grounds that Trump's treatment of her, such as his affair with Marla Maples, had been "cruel and inhuman".
She worked with him to “get over that fear monster” and carried a wedding dress with her when they traveled. “You’ve got to be prepared,” said Trump’s onetime fixation, whom he had sequestered in so many "love castles" that Ivana had to resort to hiring an army of detectives to track them. “I was bored when she was walking down the aisle,” Donald said years later. “I kept thinking, ‘What the hell am I doing here?’”
He's no stranger to mistreating women or simply seeing them as something he can use to his advantage, or as just a sexual toy that he can fool around with, or seeing them simply as someone who should just be aesthetically pleasing in order to get by or succeed, saying things like
“It’s certainly not groundbreaking news that the early victories by the women on ‘The Apprentice’ were, to a very large extent, dependent on their sex appeal.”He even said about the women on The Apprentice, “All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” — How To Get Rich, 2004
“You know, it doesn’t really matter what [the media] write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” — from an interview with Esquire, 1991
“I mean, we could say politically correct that look doesn’t matter, but the look obviously matters,” Trump said to a female reporter in a clip featured on “Last Week Tonight.” “Like you wouldn’t have your job if you weren’t beautiful."The way he goes after a woman's appearance, especially when it comes to women who have criticized him, said bad things about him or that he just doesn't seem to get along with, is reminiscent of the way a hurt 15 year old boy would be like "oh yeah? well i didn't really like you anyway you fucking cunt", or in some cases, the way a grown, 30-something year old guy on OkCupid would react if you were to reject him or were to simply not comply with everything he wanted. The name-calling and tantrum throwing he does is no better than that of a school-yard bully.
He is someone who is now facing multiple accusations of rape or sexual assault/misconduct against him by several women, One of which is a woman who has said she was raped by Trump at just 13 years of age.
"In the most recent suit, Trump's accuser asserted that while she was exploring a modeling career in 1994, she attended a series of parties at the Manhattan home of prominent investor Jeffrey Epstein. She alleges that during those parties the real estate mogul tied her to a bed and raped her. She also claimed Epstein raped her during that series of gatheringsOther accusations or reports have said
The accuser's lead attorney, Thomas Meagher of New Jersey, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. He filed a one-page notice dismissing the case Friday evening in federal court in Manhattan. No explanation was given for the action.
Bloom did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.
Through his attorney, Trump had flatly denied the woman's allegations.
"It is categorically untrue. It is completely frivolous. It is baseless. It is irresponsible," Trump attorney Alan Garten told POLITICO in September. "I won’t even discuss the merits because it gives it credibility that it doesn’t deserve."
"Former Miss USA contestant Temple Taggart McDowell claims Trump kissed her on the lips on at least two occasions without consent when she was just 21 years old. In 1997, McDowell was representing Utah in the beauty pageant, and was “shocked” that he thought he had the right to kiss her on the lips, according to the Daily Beast. After one of the kisses, a woman who accompanied her to Trump Tower allegedly warned her not to go into a room alone with Trump. McDowell told NBC News, “I would never approach or greet somebody like that unless it was somebody that I had been dating.”Trump has called the accusations ridiculous, much the way anyone in the spotlight would (see: Bill Cosby), but the problem is that there's so many of these "accusations", that it'd be "ridiculous" to just ignore it. Especially given his whole "grab them by the pussy" shtick.
"Another revelation from the incendiary New York Times report: In 2005, receptionist Rachel Crooks was allegedly assaulted by Trump in the elevator at Trump Tower. She was working as a receptionist for a real-estate firm in the building when she ran into Trump in the elevator. After they shook hands, he allegedly refused to let go, kissed her on the cheeks, and also on the mouth. “It was so inappropriate,” Crooks told the Times. “I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.”Newly emerged footage from CBS shows Trump talking about a 10-year-old girl’s physical appearance. In the tape, Trump joked: “I’ll be dating her in ten years. Can you believe it?”
This isn’t the first time Trump has been accused of making inappropriate remarks about young women. He famously commented in 2006 that if Ivanka weren’t his daughter, he’d “perhaps” be dating her, and also gave Howard Stern the okay to refer to Ivanka as a “piece of ass.” He commented that then-12-year-old Paris Hilton caught his eye, telling Stern, “I’ve known Paris Hilton from the time she’s 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?’”
The fact that he has said that if Ivanka weren't his child, he might have or might be dating her is unsettling. The fact that he could watch his daughter grow up and be so satisfied with how her appearance turned out that he would look at his daughter in a way any regular man would and think about how if she weren't his kid, he would "possibly" date her, or, considering this is Trump, fuck her, is so creepy.
He is so creepy.
"Natasha Stoynoff, a staff writer at People, came forward as an alleged victim of Trump on October 12. In an essay, Stoynoff wrote that Trump assaulted her and forcibly kissed her in 2005 while she was on assignment for the magazine. At the time, Stoynoff was asked to interview Trump and wife Melania on their one-year anniversary at Mar-a-Lago. While there, Trump allegedly insisted upon giving her a tour. Stoynoff wrote:There are so many more instances that women have recalled of when Trump tried to take advantage of them or force them to do something they didn't agree with or want.
“We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat. Now, I’m a tall, strapping girl who grew up wrestling two giant brothers. I even once sparred with Mike Tyson. It takes a lot to push me. But Trump is much bigger — a looming figure — and he was fast, taking me by surprise, and throwing me off balance. I was stunned. And I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself.”
Afterward, Trump reportedly told Stoynoff that the two were going to have an affair. The writer says she didn’t report the assault at the time, as she both blamed herself and wrote it off as one of the risks associated with her job."
The things that he has done in the past and will probably continue to do in the future is now something that will influence young and old men like himself to think that it's ok because why not, right? After all, the president does it.
and Now Donald Trump is The President-Elect of the "United" States:
It's only 4 years (maybe more depending on what happens in 2020) but there's so many things that could happen in 4 years, so much damage that not only Donald could do, but that his family could do. That his vice-president could do.There are so many people who could be hurt by not only the things he and his vice president will do in office, but by the things his die-hard supporters will do. That they now feel they are free to do, which probably includes violence against those of which are in the LGBTQ community, muslims, POC, even women of any kind.
Afterall, not only is Donald Trump a racist, or a sexist, but so are a good portion of the people who follow and support him and in just the first day of him being elected President, his supporters, the problematic ones anyway, have already started with their intent for white supremacy.
A swastika and the words “MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN” (seen above) were spray painted on a baseball dugout in Wellsville, NY. A black baby doll was also found with rope around its neck in an elevator on campus at Canisius College outside Buffalo, NY. Campus police at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette received a report that a female UL Lafayette student was attacked and robbed by two males, one allegedly wearing a white Trump hat. Her wallet and hijab were stolen.
A swastika and the words “Seig Heil 2016” were spray painted on a storefront in South Philadelphia. The Anti-Defamation League issued an official statement in response to the incident, saying that “while we view this as an isolated incident, we cannot allow this behavior to become routine. Everyone has a role to play in combating bigotry — we must advocate, educate and investigate until hate is no longer welcome in our society.”
He has released, in October, his apparent 100 day plan of the things he wants to do or start doing within 100 days of being in office:
I hope for the safety of people across the country of different genders, sexualities, races, and religions. I hope for safety as a bisexual woman. I hope for the safety of the homeless.
I hope for safety of immigrants and refugees, for the children who have fled here or were born here that might lose their parents to deportation the same way Diane Guerrero did when she was 14.
There's a lot that could happen in the time between now and the day he gets put in office (January 20th) and in the 4 years after.
Someone who has spoken about this election outcome is Laci Green and I agree with the things she says in the following video:
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He has released, in October, his apparent 100 day plan of the things he wants to do or start doing within 100 days of being in office:
"What follows is my 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again. It is a contract between myself and the American voter — and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to WashingtonHowever, there are things a president can not do:
Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC:
- * FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;
- * SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health);
- * THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated;
- * FOURTH, a 5 year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service.
- * FIFTH, a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government;
On the same day, I will begin taking the following 7 actions to protect American workers:
- * SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
- * FIRST, I will announce my intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205
- * SECOND, I will announce our withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- * THIRD, I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator
- * FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately
- * FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
- * SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
Additionally, on the first day, I will take the following five actions to restore security and the constitutional rule of law:
- * SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure
- * FIRST, cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama
- * SECOND, begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States
- * THIRD, cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities
- * FOURTH, begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won't take them back
Next, I will work with Congress to introduce the following broader legislative measures and fight for their passage within the first 100 days of my Administration:
- * FIFTH, suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting.
On November 8th, Americans will be voting for this 100-day plan to restore prosperity to our economy, security to our communities, and honesty to our government.
- Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate.
- End The Offshoring Act. Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free.
- American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral.
- School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable.
- Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications.
- Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-side childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families.
- End Illegal Immigration Act. Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.
- Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars.
- Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values
- Clean up Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.
This is my pledge to you.
And if we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by and for the people."
- Reverse any Supreme Court decision
- This includes Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage a constitutional right; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which reaffirmed a woman’s right to choose first articulated in Roe v. Wade, another Supreme Court case. Grutter v. Bollinger, which instituted affirmative action, the entire body of Civil Rights case law, plus anything related to due process, including the right of minors to due process, your right to an attorney, Miranda rights, inadmissible evidence, etc.
- (Even if Trump appoints the worst possible SC nominee, they still can’t reverse any of these decisions without a really significant case coming before the Court with new facts, and then they have to write an opinion stating how this case is different than that other case…it’s unlikely to happen.)
- Write law or repeal any existing law
- While traditionally, presidents have exerted influenceon the legislative agenda (see, Obama’s role in advancing and promoting the Affordable Care Act) they cannot actually write or pass legislation. Bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and simple resolutions must be introduced in the House by a Representative.
- Presidents cannot strike down law. Only Congress can repeal laws, and only the Supreme Court can strike them down as unconstitutional.
- Presidential influence is just that—influence.
- (And if—for example—you are hated by 95% of the party you joined last week, and burned all your goddamn bridges by insulting them at various points in your campaign…..they’re unlikely to partner with you in crafting legislation.)
- Make any law or declaration that infringes in any way on the rights of the states
- So in the US, most of the rights are reserved to the states. You name it, it’s a state-run power. Criminal procedure and law? States. Medicare and Medicaid? States. The definition of marriage? States. Insurance, health departments, housing, unemployment benefits, public education, all these are state programs. And the president cannot infringe on those powers given to the states.
- (This is why down-ticket voting is so important, because Mike Pence as governor of Indiana had 800x the power he’s going to have as VP.)
- Declare war.
- This one is the most complicated, because with the advent of our “conflicts” in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. there has been a significant shift in the articulation of the war doctrine, and it is one of the least restricted of the president’s “restricted” powers. But, despite all that, a president still has no power to declare war.
- Unilaterally appoint heads of administrative departments
- Unilaterally make treaties with foreign nations
I hope for the safety of people across the country of different genders, sexualities, races, and religions. I hope for safety as a bisexual woman. I hope for the safety of the homeless.
I hope for safety of immigrants and refugees, for the children who have fled here or were born here that might lose their parents to deportation the same way Diane Guerrero did when she was 14.
There's a lot that could happen in the time between now and the day he gets put in office (January 20th) and in the 4 years after.
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| Not to use his own words against him or anything but... |
Someone who has spoken about this election outcome is Laci Green and I agree with the things she says in the following video:
For the record, I like and agree with Laci's above video, not with her tweet:
"We are now under total Republican rule. Textbook fascism. Fuck you, white America. Fuck you, you racist, misogynist pieces of shit. G'night."
— Laci Green (@gogreen18) November 9, 2016
skip to 6:50
Resources:
- 7Cups - an emotional health and well-being service (includes self-help guides, self-care ideas, and 1-on-1 chatting with trained listeners)
- The Trevor Project (Also check out TrevorSpace, a social networking site for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning people between ages 13 and 24.)
- Crisis Text Line (A texting-based crisis resource that pairs you with a live, trained counselor to text with. Use it by texting START to 741-741)
- US National Suicide Prevention Hotline (A list of international suicide hotlines can be found here, in case you’re not in the US.)
- US Trans Lifeline (877-565-8860)
- The Quiet Place Project
If you know anymore and want to share them please leave them in the comments for other people to find.
Related Posts:
- http://www.cracked.com/blog/think-trump-cant-become-hitler-watch-these-4-signs/
- http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-stories-about-donald-trump-you-wont-believe-are-true/
- http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/11/aaron-sorkin-donald-trump-president-letter-daughter
- http://ineeners.blogspot.com/2016/09/brock-turner-stanford-rapist-my-thoughts.html
- http://ineeners.blogspot.com/2016/05/transgender-people-using-public.html
- http://ineeners.blogspot.com/2016/05/pro-life-or-pro-choice-pregnancy.html
- http://ineeners.blogspot.com/2015/09/kim-davis.html
- http://ineeners.blogspot.com/2015/07/bill-cosby-is-rapist.html
- http://ineeners.blogspot.com/2015/05/josh-duggar-child-molestor.html
- http://ineeners.blogspot.com/2016/06/massacres-mass-shootings-gun-laws.html
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