Month: January 2017

This is one of the things you see in an autocracy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-idUSKBN15A2L1

But don’t believe any of this media until it can no longer be ignored and encompasses all… See how that works out. True – media is manipulation, but what if it wasn’t around at all?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-resist-idUSKBN15A0DI

You know that when governments start shooting people for saying too much it’s too late to do anything about it, right? Think I’m being hysterical? How about his comment about standing in the middle of some street and shooting someone without losing votes? Just a joke? Not so funny when an apex predator with that much power says it.

First ‘alternative facts’ and the gag of government employees and science, then massive money to military, national guard and police, then the slow decimation of constitutional rights and whatever free speech is left. Happens again and again through history. Think it can’t happen here? We’re too smart for that? Now that’s audacious.

The man wants what Putin’s got. Putin’s countrymen gave it to him. I hope we don’t. We the people MUST work to protect our democracy. We have the responsibility and right now we still have the authority to think! Feelings of guilt for not doing the right thing after the fact are useless or worse.

 

“These are not normal times. These are extraordinary times. And extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

“When you have a spokesperson for the president of the United States wrap up a lie in the Orwellian phrase ‘alternative facts’…

“When you have a press secretary in his first appearance before the White House reporters threaten, bully, lie, and then walk out of the briefing room without the cajones to answer a single question…

“When you have a President stand before the stars of the fallen CIA agents and boast about the size of his crowds (lies) and how great his authoritarian inaugural speech was….

“These are not normal times.

“The press has never seen anything like this before. The public has never seen anything like this before. And the political leaders of both parties have never seen anything like this before.

“What can we do? We can all step up and say simply and without equivocation. “A lie, is a lie, is a lie!” And if someone won’t say it, those of us who know that there is such a thing as the truth must do whatever is in our power to diminish the liar’s malignant reach into our society.

“There is one group of people who can do a lot – very quickly. And that is Republicans in Congress. Without their support, Donald Trump’s presidency will falter. So here is what I think everyone in the press must do. If you are interviewing a Paul Ryan, a Mitch McConnell, or any other GOP elected official, the first question must be “what will you do to combat the lying from the White House?” If they dodge and weave, keep with the follow ups. And if they refuse to give a satisfactory answer, end the interview.

“Facts and the truth are not partisan. They are the bedrock of our democracy. And you are either with them, with us, with our Constitution, our history, and the future of our nation, or you are against it. Everyone must answer that question.”

-Dan Rather