Saw Trump protesters walking in downtown Bellingham. About 50-75 people with signs like "Not my president" and shouting "Fuck Trump!"
Nic Lake on twitter.com:Oy, all y'all voting 3rd party. We told you. Quit your bitching. https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/796406184232136704
@niclake Nic. The quoted tweet twists what the exit poll asked. Stein voters were not going to vote for Clinton. Votes weren't "taken."
If you are pro-life, stop celebrating. There was no winner for the sanctity of life in this election but Trump was the greater loss by far.
— Miriel Reneau
If you voted Trump because of "life issues," consider the message you have sent to future politicians and to your fellow citizens.
— Miriel Reneau
The message is that you will tolerate absolutely any kind of hatred and violence, as long as someone is willing to say he opposes abortion.
— Miriel Reneau
No one will believe you when you say we can #lovethemboth if you embraced Trump as the hope of the pro-life cause.
— Miriel Reneau
And you have been played for an absolute fool if you actually expect him to deliver on any of the promises you traded your integrity for.
— Miriel Reneau
And you have made the task of articulating a coherent pro-life ethic immeasurably more difficult for those of us who believe in one.
— Miriel Reneau
Because the list of caveats is now encyclopedic. Yes, I'm pro-life, but I don't endorse mass deportation or torture or carpet bombing or or
— Miriel Reneau
And the claim that to be pro-life is to be pro-woman has been pulverized by your "pro-life" Trump votes. I don't even know where to start.
— Miriel Reneau
The election of Donald Trump as the "pro-life" candidate of the "pro-life party" is both comical and absolutely tragic.
— Miriel Reneau
If you believed his claim that Roe would be overturned "automatically" if you voted for him, you betray an inexcusable ignorance of how our
— Miriel Reneau
political system works. But *even if that had been true,* a vote for Trump would still not have been a pro-life vote.
— Miriel Reneau
The message you have sent is that you care more about criminalizing abortion than *actually reducing the number of abortions.*
— Miriel Reneau
I am so disgusted by the mainstream "pro-life movement" that I will never associate with it again. It is so wrong about the path forward.
— Miriel Reneau
The way to build a culture of life is to send a credible message that *every* life is valuable. Trump is so far from that he can't SEE it.
— Miriel Reneau
The unborn will never have more protection, more acknowledgment of their dignity, than the least protected born people in our society.
— Miriel Reneau
Nor should they. They should have exactly the same amount: a full recognition of their inherent dignity and full protection of their lives.
— Miriel Reneau
But the idea that you can somehow protect the dignity of the unborn by trading it for the dignity of refugees, noncombatants, and women?
— Miriel Reneau
That idea is straight from Hell. I have never been more convinced of anything in my life.
— Miriel Reneau
But I do have a right to feel these things. I did not vote for the fascist, so I did not enable this. Be angry at me if you will.
Sad & angry & feeling like in some people's eyes I don't have a right to feel that because I voted 3rd party, even in a safe state, & oof.
A pause in the election coverage for emergency bunnies: https://youtu.be/RdeX4NqvDZw
@Jennifer Stavros on twitter.com:Hey guys guess what I just did? In American Flag sequin short shorts? #electionday #vote2016
@Scandalous Making America Look Rad Again
Please remember, a person's vote is one of the most insignificant contributions to political discourse or direction they can make.
Every single day you take actions, whether intentionally chosen or thoughtlessly routine, that have greater consequence. Stop worrying about the election, believe in each other, not politicians.
Do things that matter, do them with friends and comrades, be organized together, take care of each other, and learn strategies, get better at it over time, and eventually the spectacle and the circus will adjust to the new realities you're creating.
This influences the government more surely and effectively than trying to put a certain person or people into office. All politicians are scavengers, opportunists, crooks. It is only when we refuse to work for them that we can make them work for us.
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It's that time again.
Taco Tuesday!
gRegor Morrill on gregorlove.com:It is finished! Voted.
First time voting in a state with mail/drop-off ballots. Nice to not have to wait in lines at polling stations.
It is finished! Voted.
Go, iguana, go! Warning: ssssnakes.
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Sleepy IndieWebCat
Hahah. Could have been worse. At least I wasn't seeing the band Diarrhea Planet. Yep, real band name.
A friend told me "Snopes is just as reliable as Infowars" and I just can't.