Between this and some posts I’ve seen from reddit about how to sow discord amongst the left it’s clear to me that in the 21st century activists won’t be battled by COINTELPRO, but by internet trolls. As an organizer in the late 90s and early 2000s we talked a lot about “safety culture” to combat government…

I recently had 3 weeks off and didn’t read or listen to the news the entire time. It was glorious -I was so much less stressed. I used to be a political junkie but it’s become too depressing and might turn me into a “real” junkie if I keep it up.

I think it eats him alive that he doesn’t have the respect of the people he’s been trying to get in good with forever.

I don’t find the Clinton example ironic. I think it is correct. And, if Kushner had any relevant experience or expertise, I would not have a problem with this. The issue is not nepotism so much as lack of qualifications. He is as unqualified as a number of Trump appointees- is Bannon more acceptable because he is a…

FDR didn’t promise to do those things *before* he was elected. Trump did. He literally said he would put muslims into interment camps. People asked him how that was different than japanese americans in WWII and his answer was “You tell me!”....

Your post does not contradict my post.

His state dinners should be fewer and even further in between, his White House lawn easter egg hunts, his turkey pardons, etc...non-existent. Every photo-op visit to a hospital or a military base or a factory should be met with open protest.

Good. No one associated with anything traditional should be anywhere near his ass to sully themselves. Everything about this inaugeration - and this presidency, really - should have to be harder for him than it has been for previous presidents just to ram home the point that this presidency is not normal.

He is not the president. He’s a puppet for Putin. He’s just like Pétain in Vichy France or Quisling in occupied Norway. He’s a traitor and the United States will cease to be a sovereign state on January 20th.

I feel you. Want to star the sh*t out of your comment.

I’m 60 and for the first time in my life I have no respect for the Office of the Presidency as long as it is occupied by that unqualified narcissistic megalomaniac. And I remember Reagan and Nixon.

It was four years ago that Republicans booed a gay solider and cheered the idea of letting a kid with no insurance die on a gurney in a hospital at their convention. Trump is a symptom of a conservative movement that made eating Oreo cookies gay and buying Cheerios means you support interracial marriage.

Lol, the founders of this country would be rolling in their graves. The President is a civil servant, not a prince or king. He deserves no more acknowledgment than that of DMV clerk.

I used to feel that way myself, once upon a time. I detested Dubya, but I only criticized his policies and didn’t go in for personal attacks. I felt that the position of Commander in Chief deserved some respect, even if the man himself didn’t earn it. But then we got 8 years of all the vileness and crapitude…

Having seen the Rockettes perform, it’s not a skeezy thing. Yes, dancers wear tight and sometimes revealing clothing. But the audience did not mirror a 2 am strip club crowd— it’s families.

Nope. You don’t get to play that card when our next President spent the last eight years claiming our current President wasn’t an American citizen and rode that wave to the White House.

Fuck that shit. I give the office as much respect as the person holding it.

I think a lot of performers are refusing to play for Trump because of their respect for the office of the President.

Nope. Performing should be entirely voluntary. I no longer respect the office of the presidency, because America has elected a man who not only brags about sexual assault, and coddles white nationalists, but who is supremely unqualified to do the job and doesn’t care.

“Women don’t need pockets! Pockets are for people with jobs that leave the home! What do you need pockets for, when you’re home baking and cleaning house all day??”