Monday, December 26, 2016

"LET IT BE AN ARMS RACE" - Trump's Self Fulfilling Prophecy

"LET IT BE AN ARMS RACE" - Trump's Self Fulfilling Prophecy
By Thom Palmer
December 23, 2016

 Wiping out a half-century commitment to deny and reduce nuclear weapons, not just in
"This is gonna be so fun"
the United States, but world-wide, Donald Trump has called for nations both great and small to develop and procure nuclear arms. While there is no credible threat of terrorist organizations having nuclear capability currently, Trump has given not only our adversaries the political will to advance or develop nuclear weapons, but currently weaker allies as well. 

 Trump has, on several occasions during his campaign, suggested that we should feel free to use a nuclear bomb to wipe out ISIS. The statements made during the campaign clearly showed that to him, it would be worth vaporizing millions of civilians, mostly law abiding Muslims, in order to win a war against a terror organization which consists of 30,000 fighters who are spread around the world. These terrorists have already been diminished, and are currently close to defeat. Large scale bombing, whether conventional or nuclear, simply adds fuel to the terrorist fire. 

 Now, after Iran had agreed to abandon its nuclear program, Trump has poked the bear, which will more than likely cause Iran's nuclear program to resume once Trump walks away from the agreement which the current administration worked for six years to procure. 

 THE DANGERS OF A RECKLESS PRESIDENT
Playing with toy Army men is not a game that we should be allowing our President to do. It appears that every day there's another violation of everything that our nation has worked toward is enacted by the President-Elect, and he's still a month from inauguration. Bypassing our current President and changing treaties and policies, and relationships with nations around the globe, he has made it clear that his objective is NOT to make the world a safer place, but to increase fear world-wide, and to being tensions to a level not seen since the 1970's with regard to the real fear of a new devastating World War. 

 Eight years ago, and again four years ago, the American people voted in a peacemaker. One who would use brains over brawn, technology over dead American bodies. Precision strikes over carpet bombing. Now, we're moving in a different direction. One that we must not accept.

 A military adviser who tweets fake news generated by Breitbart and foreign propaganda machines, designed to mislead the public, in particular the alt-right faction of the Republican party, and advising the President-Elect on action based on a false reality, put the entire planet on red alert.

 An EPA head that is hell bent on eliminating important and critical environmental protections, in fact, previously calling for the elimination of the EPA.  Exxon people running State Department, and climate change deniers running the Energy department. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see where this is going. It's not just the Constitution of the United States that is being attacked. It is humanity itself. Thousands of species of animals are headed for extinction in the 21st century alone, and up to a billion people; people without a voice in low-lying areas of Indonesia and near sea level islands around the globe will be displaced, rendering them refugees searching for higher ground, clean water and food. Tens of thousands of deaths will occur due to starvation and disease, and who knows how many people will die in oil and food wars world-wide. 

 It's a really dangerous path we're about to take. We have no choice but to reject it, obstruct it, deny it, and protest it. This is not about the economy. It's about humanity. 

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

THE HAMILTON ELECTORS EXPOSED


The “Hamilton Electors” Exposed
By Daniel Gever
December 20, 2016

America is now coming to grips with the reality that we, some of us, a minority of us, just 62,979,636 of us, elected the wrong presidential candidate. The results of the November 8, 2016 general election, which awarded Donald Trump 306 electors and Secretary Clinton 232 electors, was confirmed by the Electoral College on December 19, 2016. Despite the hopes of Progressives, Liberals, Democrats, disaffected Republicans, and other well intentioned Americans, who desperately wanted to believe that the “Hamilton Electors” would be able to stop the new President Elect, it was never possible. The final Electoral College vote will record that Trump received 304 electoral votes, Clinton 227, with seven “Faithless Electors” going to others. The question is, what did we learn from these faithless, “Hamilton Electors”?



HISTORY
First, a bit of history. Prior to December 19, 2016, there had been 157 so called “Faithless Electors” in the history of the United States, with just nine Faithless Electors since 1948. History and the law of the United States in 48 states plus the District of Columbia, allowing the nominee of the political party winning the popular vote in those states to appoint all of the electors for that state, assured the result in the Electoral College.  The states of Maine and Nebraska assign electors to the party winning the popular vote in the congressional districts. 



The reason for the drop in Faithless Electors can be traced to a 1952 Supreme Court case, Ray vs Blair, which held that:

“It is not violative of the Federal Constitution for the party to require the candidates for the office of Presidential Elector to take a pledge to support the nominees of the party's National Convention for President and Vice-President or for the party's officers to refuse to certify as a candidate for Presidential Elector a person otherwise qualified who refuses to take such a pledge.”


There is also the fact that 30 states plus the District of Columbia can enforce upon the party electors requirements to vote for the popular vote winner through criminal sanctions and pledges.


The “Hamilton Electors” was an organization that was coming for our money on the internet, FaceBook, and on Twitter, never interested in seeing Secretary Clinton elected President of the United States. They were:

“Calling upon other Electors from both red and blue states to unite behind a Responsible Republican candidate for the good of the nation.”



Bret Chiafalo from the state of Washington and Michael Baca from Colorado, co-founded the “Hamilton Electors”. Both are Bernie Sanders supporters and both were Democratic Party electors. The intentions of the “Hamilton Electors” not to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton were telegraphed prior to the November 8, 2016 general election. 


Mr. Chiafalo on November 4, 2016 when asked if he would withhold his vote for Clinton, even in a close election, told the Seattle Times that:

“I have no specific plans, but I have not ruled out that possibility,”


It is clear that Mr. Chiafalo and Mr. Baca were considering voting against Secretary Clinton before the general election. Politico reported on November 14, 2016, that the two men:

“Insist they’re not seeking the election of Clinton — or even a Democrat. Both, in fact, had already been considering voting against her when the Electoral College meets.”


It is also clear that Chiafalo and Baca were planning this revolt against Hillary Clinton, who prior to the November 8, 2016, was widely expected to win, with other Democratic electors who also were Bernie Sanders supporters. Washington State Democratic elector, Robert Satiacum, was also interviewed by the Seattle Times on November 4, 2016. Here is what he said when asked if he would cast his vote for Clinton;

“No, no, no on Hillary. Absolutely not. No way.”


Satiacum, a member of the Pullayup Native American Tribe, also said:

“I hope it comes down to a swing vote and it’s me. Good. She ain’t getting it. Maybe it’ll wake this country up.”


Chiafalo, also known as P. Bret Chiafalo, filed in Washington State Federal Court for an injunction stopping fines levied for failing to vote HRC. The motion was denied. 19 year old Levi Guerra, another Sanders supporter and Washington State Democratic elector, joined Chiafalo in seeking that injunction.



We now know that when the Electoral College votes came in on December 19, 2016, instead of getting 306 electoral votes, Mr. Trump got 304. Two Texas electors went rogue with one voting for Ohio Governor, John Kasich and one elector voting for former Texas Congressman, Ron Paul. A third Texas elector, Art Sisneros, resigned because of a refusal to vote for Mr. Trump, but was replaced by an elector who did vote for Trump.


Senator Clinton received 227 of the 232 electoral votes that had been pledged to the Democratic candidate as a result of the general election.  Four Democratic electors tried but failed to get votes cast for someone other than Secretary Clinton. Five electors in states won by Clinton did succeed in casting votes for another candidate.


In Colorado, Michael Baca, one of the Bernie supporters leading the “Hamilton Electors”, as expected, tried to cast his vote for Governor Kasich. Mr. Baca was replaced, also as expected, by an elector who cast a Clinton vote. 



A Maine Democratic elector, David Bright, had announced in advance that he would be voting for Senator Bernie Sanders. Mr. Bright followed through on his plan but it was ruled out of order so he changed his vote to Clinton.



A Minnesota Democratic elector and former Bernie Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention, Muhammad Abdurrahman, tried voting for a Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard ticket. Those votes were declared invalid and Mr. Abdurrahman was replaced by an elector who did vote for the Clinton/Kaine ticket.


There were also four Washington State electors who failed to honor the will of the people of Washington, and voted for someone else. Joining Brett Chiafalo in casting votes for former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, were Sanders supporter, Levi Guerra, and Esther Johns, an elector from Seattle, Washington. It should be noted that Clinton won Washington with 52.6% of the vote. The never Hillary, Bernie Sanders supporter, Robert Sactium, cast his vote for Puyallup Tribal Elder, and Standing Rock protester, Faith Spotted Eagle.





Finally there is the state of Hawaii where Secretary Clinton won with 62.2% of the vote. Three of the state’s electors did cast their votes for Clinton. One elector, Janice Bond, cast her vote for a Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren ticket.



The answer to the question what did we learn from these faithless, “Hamilton Electors”, might be this. The “Hamilton Electors” believed, as most of America did, that Hillary Clinton was going to win the 2016 presidential election. As “never Hillary”, Bernie Sanders supporters, they had themselves pre-positioned as Democratic Party electors dedicated to use Republican Hillary hatred to convince Republican electors to violate their legal duty and join them in casting their electoral votes for Bernie Sanders, thereby electing Bernie Sanders the 45th President of the United States or throwing the election to the US House of Representatives which would prevent Clinton from taking the oval office by voting for the Republican candidate.

We, the majority of the American people who voted for Secretary Clinton over the new President Elect, need to step forward and use our time, money, and efforts wisely in opposing the incoming administration, and organizing for every election to come. We must also take care not to buy what snake oil salespeople are selling. The Hamilton Electors, the petitions to the electors, the letters to the electors, Jill Stein and the solicitations to fund lawsuits and petitions for recounts that for the most part never happened and did not change the results in a single state, was the snake oil being sold. The goals of those salespeople were not in our interests. To quote George W. Bush, the man who will now go down in history as the second worst President in most of our lifetimes:

“Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!” -George W. Bush

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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Dear 2016 Electors, Protect the Nation and Take Your Place in History

Dear 2016 Electors,

 A very rare opportunity is at hand, where a small group of non-elected Americans can
correct the course of our nation.  For the first time in the nation's history, you have the opportunity to use the tools given to you by the Founding Fathers to protect the nation, and the Constitution of the United States of America. 

This letter IS NOT a plea to vote for Secretary Clinton. It is a plea to you, to use the guidance and instructions from the Founding Fathers, and the Constitution of the United States, to send the election into the House of Representatives in order to send a message. 

 This election was corrupted. From espionage to election tampering, to voter suppression. There is enough evidence at hand for you to understand that the Trump campaign worked with Russia in order to affect the election. As evident in the connections between campaign managers and workers, cabinet appointees, and statements made, the clear course of the nation is a complete reversal of the progress that we have made in several areas. Adding interference from our own FBI, and the evidence of fraud soon to be released from the CIA, we believe that democracy itself is in jeopardy. 

 By rejecting Trump and his proposed administration, you will have rejected an overthrow of the United States of America by a foreign government. You will have denied Vladimir Putin and Julian Assange their prize, and will have protected the environment and billions of people world-wide from the disastrous consequences of oil wars, global warming and hunger. In addition, you will be rejecting hyper partisanship, and sending a mandate to Congress to work together to solve the problems facing our nation and world. 

 You will be rejecting white supremacy, who have been empowered by the election, as hate crimes have risen over 40% in the last year. Rejecting hatred and divisiveness, you will send a statement to all of our elected officials that we expect more of them. 

You stand in proxy for our Founding Fathers. How they could have been so wise as to charge you, 230 years later, with protecting the United States and our Constitution from a foreign takeover is pretty amazing. What they DID NOT anticipate, however, was hyper partisanship and appeasement for political expediency.

 We learned in World War II that failure to push back against fascism nets catastrophic results. In this case, takeover by big oil, increased air and water pollution and a major shift in the world order is at stake. You're the only ones who can fix this.

 They will write about you in history books for centuries. The people that saved democracy. You will write your opinions in books and articles for mass distribution. You will school future generations of Americans on the responsibilities of not just our candidates and elected officials, but also any foreign power that thinks they can use our Constitution against us. The great experiment is being challenged, and it's you that can make the difference.

 YOU ARE THERE to protect us. YOUR rejection of this flawed election is a renewal of the liberty and freedom that the Founding Fathers have placed your charge.

 You'll still end up with a Republican in the White House, but you will have rejected the corruption that the Electoral College was set in place for.

 Please help. We need you to be strong. 

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Monday, December 12, 2016

CNN and MSNBC's Dirty Little Secret : CO-CONSPIRATORS IN MULTIPLE COVERUPS

CNN and MSNBC's Dirty Little Secrets

Maybe it's because they're embarrassed that they allowed themselves to be conned by the
Media Refuses to Admit The U.S. takeover by Trump's Russians
Trump campaign, allowing themselves to give credence to all of the false information spread to millions of Americans on a daily basis for a year. It could be that they're embarrassed for cowering to Trump's threats of lawsuits, or his threats of imprisoning journalists like Putin does. Or, it could be that our media is already in the control of Putin and Trump's Russia. Let me explain....

ABOUT FAKE NEWS STORIES  
Every time I turn on CNN or MSNBC, I hear the whack-jobs talking about "fake news stories" and how they affected the election. They turn to the fake internet news articles which circulated throughout the closing months of the campaign season. I actually heard Chuck Todd say "People believed these fake news sites rather than listen to us, the ones that vett these articles for factual information before broadcasting it". My jaw dropped to the floor. I thought to myself "ARE YOU F*@#ING KIDDING ME?"

For an entire year, CNN and MSNBC acted as a stage for fake news. While every negative story and false allegation against Hillary Clinton had been long debunked, they allowed equal time to Trump surrogates and Republican conspiracy theorists to spread their lies. Many times, most times, the false attack went unanswered by the host, and the surrogates were invited back to the show the following day, flooding the electorate with false information. This was a tactic to anger voters, and further addict them to the news shows, thereby increasing their ratings and subsequently increasing corporate profits. MEDIA SOLD US OUT, AND ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESULTS.

They are NOT ALLOWED to say "It wasn't our job to investigate".  Oh..yes it was, you jerks. We expect honesty in media. Investigative Journalism is required in order to maintain integrity, which was abandoned in this election cycle. This failure to call out the lies and repeat false information on a daily basis trashed the First Amendment. The future of the nation and planet was altered as a result of mainstream media turned tabloid rag.

WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE TO THE ELECTION
I can't, for the life of me, figure out why CNN and MSNBC are not tying together the influence of Russian and Wikileaks espionage to the Russian operatives within the Trump camp. This is way too obvious. Campaign manager and trump surrogate Paul Manafort worked closely with Viktor Yanukovych, ousted leader of Ukraine, exiled to Russia under the protection of Vladimir Putin. Manafort is also known for taking secret payments, in the millions, directly from the Kremlin.

General Flynn, trump's National Security Advisor was and more than likely still on the payroll of Russian state television. Flynn regularly defends the tyrannical leadership of Putin, including the murders of journalists who express opposition to Putin. 

Boris Epshteyn, trump surrogate, is an investment banker, who has spent the last few years trying to get American investors to invest in Russia. He is also a Russian immigrant. Epshteyn was a panelist in the "Invest in Moscow" conference in 2014. 

Trump himself, there are too many ties to Russia to list, so I'll direct you to this July 2016 article by CNN, which lays it out. Interestingly, now CNN refuses to tie the Russian connections and election tampering to the Trump campaign. WHY IS THAT? WHO IS PAYING OFF WHO? Our media has taken part, and is currently taking part in the destruction of the United States of America, and the perversion of our democracy.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/29/news/donald-trump-russia-ties/

We are now EIGHT DAYS away from the Electoral College voting. It was NINE DAYS before the election that Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani conspired with the New York division of the FBI to hack into Huma Abedin's ex-husband's computer with the sole purpose of finding any emails from Abedin, which would allow them to throw more questions about Hillary Clinton's personal email server into the electorate. If you notice, there was NOTHING found against her husband. The fact is that the entire exercise was to rig the election in Trumps favor. In the absence of cause to search and seize Wiener's computer in order to fish for anything against Clinton, they used Wiener's computer to get Huma's emails.

MEDIA..... PLEASE STATE THE OBVIOUS. YOU HAVE EIGHT DAYS TO CONVINCE THE ELECTORS TO GO "FAITHLESS". This would be the only way to redeem yourselves, and partially reverse your reckless abandon of true journalism.

Media was all over the email garbage, and propelled the treasonous act of espionage and election tampering. Willing partners in crime, allowing Trump surrogates to say things like "Hillary Clinton is guilty", "Crooked Hillary will be in prison", etc. every day, dozens of times per day. Even as they could clearly see that these allegations were false, and the entire story line was trumped up, they allowed these surrogates to talk and talk, as Clinton's poll numbers fell.

As a result, we have a climate change denier, one that actually wants to DELETE the Environmental Protection Agency, to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

We have Exxon executives and Wall Street crony capitalists, in the cabinet. We have people that want to REMOVE the minimum wage as a way of increasing corporate profits. They're using the threat of automation, even automation in fast food service as a weapon against the low wage American worker. This, even as corporate profits have never been higher. GREED, GREED, GREED.

Now, it's up to the ELECTORS. Electors who were appointed by Republicans, and are obligated to vote for the Republican, not by law, but by agreement. The Constitution of the United States allows Electors to vote their conscience if they feel that the choice made by the American people was made through misinformation.

MEDIA CAN PRESSURE THESE ELECTORS TO PROTECT THE NATION. To send the election into the House of Representatives would more than likely produce another Republican to sit in the White House, but it would be a clear message sent to Trump, his surrogates, Vladimir Putin and other Russian operatives, and to the FBI and other federal agencies who would wish to pervert our democracy in the future.

INVESTIGATIONS WILL HAPPEN, and heads may roll, but not soon enough. We need the Electors to stop this corruption dead in its tracks over the next NINE DAYS.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS THE ABILITY TO REPAIR SOME OF THE DAMAGE THEY'VE CAUSED. Now, it's just a matter of whether or not they give a damn. Whether or not they are patriotic enough to blow up the November 8th election. They have the power, but do not seem to have a backbone. 

2018
We MUST keep our coalition together. In 2014, just 17% of Democratic voters showed up at the poll. With a 10% approval rating, Republicans gained seats in both the House and the Senate.  

WE MUST NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN. Everyone needs to stay focused and pay attention, and make it to the polls on NOVEMBER 6, 2018 where we can build a Senate and House that represents our progressive ideals.

DO NOT QUIT. We have the task of fixing Washington and saving democracy. If not us, then who?

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016


DEAR CNN & MSNBC : The Blood is on the Hands of your Political Directors and Anchors.

DEAR CNN and MSNBC POLITICAL DIRECTORS and ANCHORS, 
THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS.  Allow me to explain.....
By Thom Palmer
November 16, 2016

You gave him his ONLY path to victory. Where Trump may be a Putin puppet, You, the mainstream cable news media, are Trump puppets. You allowed yourselves to be manipulated, cowering to Trump's threats and were fascinated with his foul mouth and images of his great big airplane bouncing around. 

Political Directors, CNN's David Chalian and MSNBC's Chuck Todd, along with many hosts and Anchors BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY of a President Trump. Responsibility for the damage to race relations, the damage to women and families, the damage to Mother Earth due to the advancement of dirty energy and quashing of clean energy corrective measures is yours. Responsibility for the thousands of American men that will DIE in foreign oil wars as a result of the oil and weapons industries dictating policy to the Republican led government is yours. The responsibility for the many thousands of unnecessary gun deaths here in the United States due to the gun lobby and their control over Congress now, etc. is yours. Congratulations again.

I'm calling out Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Chris Matthews, Jake Tapper, Chuck 
Todd, Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brezinski and all of the rest. All but one of these people more than likely voted for Hillary Clinton, but all bear the responsibility for Trump's election along with the ensuing national and global disasters to follow.

You have no right to ask what the Clinton campaign did wrong. You bear the responsibility for the thousands of extinctions that will ensue due to rising ocean levels and extreme drought in other areas throughout the world over the next century. You bear the responsibility for up to a billion refugees from low-lying areas in Indonesia and island nations throughout the world. Death and starvation. Congratulations, you made a lot of money this election season, and at the same time screwed 7 billion people living on this planet.

GIVING OVERTIME TO PROVEN LIES and HATEFUL RALLIES
You're still doing it, and it makes me sick. Every day, 24-7 you allowed proven lies to be told in front of millions. Equal time given to those who would savagely slander and politically crucify a very good woman, one far more experienced, educated and prepared to lead the nation. You perverted the First Amendment for corporate profit. True that you did a certain amount of push-back on many of the false claims made by Trump, his surrogates and Republican extremists, but you STILL allowed them back on your shows over and over and over, as if it were a valid debate. It was disgusting. I know that you didn't actually want Trump to win. Instead, you wanted the race to be close, and keep controversy at the forefront, because the tighter the race, the more angry your viewers became, the higher the ratings and the higher the profits. 

Trump had just one real path to victory, and it was YOUR willingness to cater to bigotry and hate, and cower when Trump said that you were rigging the election. You knew that there was election rigging going on, but also knew that it went in the other direction. You knew that when Trump said Hillary was a bigot, that he was covering his own bigotry through "projection", and any decent Journalist could plainly see that the Trump campaign was working hard to manipulate the election through espionage and FBI tampering. You buried his many scandals and legal problems in favor of a close race. Instead of correcting the record by proving to the public once and for all that Hillary Clinton was in fact NOT crooked, was NOT going to end up in jail, etc., you chose instead to let them say it thousands of times on your news shows. News shows that have become tabloid news. With the exception of a couple of hosts, you are not much better than Fox News now. Congratulations. You pushed him over the top.

You, the media, knew of Trump's legal battles. You knew he was the corrupt one....under indictment for racketeering and other cases. You knew that he lied to his followers over 75% of the time, and you knew that he is unqualified and uneducated. You knew that his lack of experience made him too dangerous a candidate. Yet, you gave him and his surrogates the megaphone. YOU gave them the ability to spread their hateful and xenophobic rhetoric. You were suckered by Trump, who put one of his top campaign managers (Lewandowski) on your payroll. He took you for fools, and you bit the apple.  You gave a megaphone to FULL BLOWN FASCISM. 

YOU allowed them to lie about the direction of the nation. Allowing them to convince 60 million voters that things are bad, when in fact the recovery we've made has surpassed expectations since the economic crash of 2008 and 2009. You never told the public how good we have it and how far we've come in the last 8 years as compared to the rest of the world. 

BLAMING THE ELECTORATE
There is plenty of blame to go around for Trump's electoral win. From the "Bernie-or-Bust" Democrats, to Gary Johnson and Jill Stein protest voters, to the seven million Democrats who decided that the election is too stupid to vote, to voter suppression as states with Republican legislatures have actively worked to cut down on voting precincts in highly Democratic areas, causing a certain percentage of voters to refuse to wait in a three hour or more line to vote, etc.

BLAMING TRUMP CAMPAIGN, FBI, RUSSIA, WIKILEAKS
You can blame the Trump campaign. Not for running a great campaign, because they did not. They ran a rag-tag, disorganized campaign with little grass roots effort. You can blame Trump and his Campaign Managers Paul Manafort and Steve Bannon working with Russians to commit espionage against the United States, giving hacked emails from the DNC to Wikileaks and Julian Assange for mass distribution. You can blame Trump and his campaign managers and surrogate Rudy Giuliani for conspiring with the New York office of the FBI, where some of his right-wing friends and former co-workers worked.

BLAMING THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN
Hillary didn't pay enough attention to rural white America. She didn't defend the email controversy properly. She didn't cater to middle America enough. Oh, just shut the hell up, Chuck, and take the responsibility for your own actions, and quit deflecting. 


BUT... NONE OF THAT WOULD HAVE MATTERED IF NOT FOR MEDIA MANIPULATION
Being the Political Director of CNN or MSNBC, major sources of political information among many millions of Americans, means that you are responsible for content, truth, and true investigative journalism. Ratings MUST come secondary to truth if our democracy is to survive.

CORRECTIVE ACTION REQUIRED
You need to correct this, and fast. In two years, we expect you to TELL THE TRUTH. We expect you to use the First Amendment as it was intended. While it is true that it gives great latitude, and allows for stories of alien invasions, fake conspiracies and scandals, and pornography, YOU, the media bear the responsibility of getting to the truth, and having the best interest of America as your foundation. YOU FAILED.... AND YOU BETTER FIX IT. 

Since you gave Trump the Presidency, it is now your responsibility, your job to....

  • Save Medicare from being dismantled
  • Prevent Trump from abandoning the Paris Climate Agreement
  • Stop the Keystone Pipeline from being built
  • Prevent Mexican Concentration Camps
  • Protect religious freedom across America and around the world
  • Protect the First Amendment
  • Protect the ACA
  • Protect Social Security
  • Heal the racial divides
  • Refuse to accept xenophobia
  • Refuse to accept sexual inequality
  • Refuse to accept sexual abuse
Democrats, who SHOULD be in charge of the Senate and White House at this point, will continue fighting for truth and justice, but you made the task so much harder through your greed and reckless reporting. FIX IT, and don't tell us that it is not your job. You made it your job.

WE ARE GIVING YOU NO TIME TO THINK ABOUT IT, and if you don't respond, we're going to take you down. Better to have no news media than to have media that pushes misinformation for profit. In the meantime, it's your responsibility to make sure the GOP doesn't run us over the cliff. If you do not respond, we will protest. We will march on and boycott every damn one of your advertisers and bring you to your knees. This will be a 60 million person effort that you won't be able to survive.... I PROMISE.
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