“Not My President” x San Francisco, Ca x November 09 2016 (Part 1)
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ACLU STATEMENT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
NEW YORK — In response to Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States, Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, had the following statement:
“For nearly 100 years, the American Civil Liberties Union has been the nation’s premier defender of freedom and justice for all, no matter who is president. Our role is no different today.
“President-elect Trump, as you assume the nation’s highest office, we urge you to reconsider and change course on certain campaign promises you have made. These include your plan to amass a deportation force to remove 11 million undocumented immigrants; ban the entry of Muslims into our country and aggressively surveil them; punish women for accessing abortion; reauthorize waterboarding and other forms of torture; and change our nation’s libel laws and restrict freedom of expression.”
“These proposals are not simply un-American and wrong-headed, they are unlawful and unconstitutional. They violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. If you do not reverse course and instead endeavor to make these campaign promises a reality, you will have to contend with the full firepower of the ACLU at every step. Our staff of litigators and activists in every state, thousands of volunteers, and millions of card-carrying supporters are ready to fight against any encroachment on our cherished freedoms and rights.”
“One thing is certain: we will be eternally vigilant every single day of your presidency and when you leave the Oval Office, we will do the same with your successor.”
You can donate to the ACLU and/or join in their actions help them with the fight to defend the freedoms of those who need it most.
All those posts talking about how we can fight– this is one good way to do it.
If you want a cause to contribute to in the aftermath of this wretched election, the ACLU is one of your best bets. They cover a wide variety of issues, and they get RESULTS. They are fighting in your corner, they punch way above their weight class, and there is nothing they love more than fucking authoritarians’ shit up.
They’re also a long-beloved, nonpartisan, well-organized Civic Institution™ with a variety of ways to contribute. Dollars, volunteer hours, legal aid, participation in local letter-writing campaigns and petitions, signal boosting, swinging by their online store and picking up a pocket Constitution, etc. The ACLU is basically one-stop shopping for where the meaningful battles are and what you can do to help just about every group–and every civil right–Donald Trump is about to try and fuck over.
Seriously, though. If you’re feeling helpless, frustrated, like nothing you do or say or contribute could even help restrain the 2016 political dumpster fire, let alone strike a decisive blow, you might want to take a stroll through the ACLU’s greatest hits.
You may have heard of Loving v Virginia?
Or the Scopes monkey trial?
How about a little court case called Roe v Wade?
Or fucking every precedent-setting free speech case in the history of ever, including New York Times v Sullivan, aka those libel laws Trump wants to “open up” so he can sue people who say mean things about him into silence. Buddy, that’s not how
the Forcethe Constitution works.Or basic safeguards like the right to a lawyer for indigent defendants (Gideon v Wainwright), the inadmissibility of evidence obtained by illegal searches (Mapp v Ohio), public schools not being Constitution-free zones (Tinker v Des Moines), being informed of your right to remain silent before the police can wring incriminating statements out of you (Miranda v Arizona), the Constitutional right to privacy (Griswold v Connecticut, in the specific context of contraceptive bans)…
Lawrence v Texas: states can no longer make gay sex illegal (2001). Goodridge v Department of Public Health: gay marriage in Massachusetts (2003). Obergefell v Hodges: gay marriage nationwide (2015).
Fuck yes I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU. THEY GET SHIT DONE. They’ve been a thorn in the side of powerful bullies since 1920, and if Donald Trump tries to make good on even a fraction of his campaign promises, I will take enormous pleasure in being there to help the ACLU fucking rip him to itty-bitty wannabe-totalitarian shreds.
vox:
One tweetstorm that perfectly captures the problem of being walled off to other communities
“Coastal elites” are in a bubble. So are white working-class Americans. See the full story (and the rest of Patrick’s tweets) here.
This is what I’ve seen in France too, where the National Front makes disproportionately high scores in some rural areas where there are zero immigrants. It’s easy for populists to exploit this fear of the unknown to convince people that “staying among us” is the best option.
A small set of photos from last night in NYC.
Being a part of this, marching with close friends and strangers last night, and feeling the collective roar of pain and support for one another, was an honour I will never forget.
We marched from Union Square to Trump Tower, peaceful protestors blocking traffic to keep those of us marching safe from cars. We chanted in English, Spanish, and Lakota. We cried out for Muslim, black, queer, Native, Latinx, trans, female, undocumented lives, now more in danger than ever before. We brought Manhattan to a standstill for hours, and we did it peacefully, with no police interference, because this was by the people for the people.
No matter what this looks like, I’ve never been surrounded by such unfailingly polite people. I’ve never been apologised to by so many people for bumping into me. A girl next to my group of friends started passing out Snickers. A young man fell to the ground sobbing at one point, and everyone nearby swarmed to protect him from the oncoming march, to hold him while he cried it out.
This may change nothing. Except that we know we’re not alone. That our capacity as individuals to take care of one another is more immense, more powerful than any corrupt government.
livebloggingmydescentintomadness:
I do take some small, cold, bitter satisfaction in one thing, and that’s the fact that Trump is going to be absolutely fucking miserable for the next four years.
He’s an entertainer and an attention whore, not a public servant. He wants to be on TV and in front of crowds, not actually working a difficult, grueling, stressful job he can’t opt out of. He’s going to have to sit through SO many meetings, be forced to read SO many briefings, get shoehorned into serious business all day every day, without crowds to perform for, and he’s going to hate Every. Single. Minute.
And then, when he doesn’t deliver on his promises, when he doesn’t build the wall or create jobs or make people rich, when it becomes clear how incompetent and buffoonish he is, the country and all his supporters will turn on him. They’re gonna start blaming him for everything, and those crowds that cheered for him are going to start booing. He’ll be humiliated at every turn, and leave office with the lowest approval rating ever, and he’ll be universally despised.
Because if he’d lost to Hillary, he would have played the martyr forever, called everything rigged, and had a cushy gig on Fox News complaining every day about how he would have done it better. But now he’s going to have to actually WORK, he’s going to be forced to deal with RESPONSIBILITIES, while surrounded by people who hate him and don’t respect him, people vastly more intelligent and competent than him, and he will be exposed as a loser. And then, we’ll fire him. He’ll go down as the worst president in history. And he’ll have no one to blame but himself.
I know this isn’t much against the fear of what’s going to happen, but friends, hear me. We are going to make Donald Trump’s life a living nightmare, and I for one take immense pleasure from that.
Fun things to do when Donald is inaugurated
- Never, EVER call him “president”, it strips the most powerful title in the world away from him and it will drive him insane, call him “Klansman” “Bozo” “Jackass” just anything BUT president
- NEVER call him “Trump”, instead, do as John Oliver made popular, call him “Drumpf” it strips away the power of “Trump” (there’s Chrome and Firefox extensions to help change any “Trump” to “Drumpf”)
- Vote in the 2018 mid-term elections. Fill it up with Democrats so his life will be made a living hell (and hopefully impeached)
- Be proud of whatever the hell you are, whether it be Hispanic, Black, LGBT, poor, young a woman, just be proud in the fact that you are everything that Jackass Drumpf isn’t
- Do everything you can to have the fucking Electoral College get rid of (it’s fucked us over too many times and is un-democratic)
- Get your ass out to vote in the 2020 Democratic primaries and election, get his ass out of office with someone who actually represents America
- Make fun of him and mock him to no end
You can probably get away with calling him “Trump” in certain parts of England, as there it is, in fact, slang for “fart”.
zkac:
nothing about tonight is funny. can we for once not make fucking memes. 11k people voted for harambe which is a clear indicator that people took the lives of marginalized groups as an opportunity to make a joke.
Those numbers are made up, no one really counts unregistered write-in votes.
Deinitely a couple of jackasses did it, though.
