Baghdad Bob reincarnate.
People ask me how they can deal with the hatefulness Trump has unleashed. One way: Draw on the decency of most other Americans.
Last Wednesday, for example, when Deianeira Ford stopped by a Dairy Queen in Zion, Illinois, to buy a $5 box for her children, and discovered the order was wrong and another part was missing, she asked the owner to fix it. The owner did so, but then called her and her small children n---s, and said she could go back to where she came from (the local police substantiated Ford’s story).
When Ford objected to the owner’s language, he told her and any complaints she made would fall on deaf ears. Ford then wrote a Facebook post describing what had happened, including the phone number and address of the Dairy Queen. Within a few hours the post had been shared thousands of people.
On Thursday, the company released a statement saying the owner’s actions “are inexcusable, reprehensible and unacceptable. We do not in any way condone his behavior or language.” Last Friday, Dairy Queen announced it was closing the location and terminating the owner’s franchise rights.
Most Americans are outraged at the hate Trump has legitimized. This is not the country we know and love. Trump may take over the executive branch, but we will not allow hate to take over America.
What do you think?
“This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing,” she said in her remarks. “Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all lose.”
Donald Trump Says He’s Not Surprised by Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes Speech
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/movies/trump-meryl-streep-golden-globes-speech.html?_r=1
Chuck Schumer trolls Mitch McConnell on nominations by literally repeating his words
Schumer wants McConnell to apply the same standards to Trump that he applied to Obama.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has a simple request for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees must meet the same traditional standards that were demanded of President Barack Obama’s nominees eight years ago.
In fact, the request is so similar that Schumer sent the exact same letter McConnell sent to Harry Reid, then the Democratic majority leader of the Senate, and simply swapped out some of the names:
Since Republicans have 52 of 100 seats in the Senate and only need 50 votes (the vice president, soon to be a Republican, can break a tie) to clear a nominee, they don’t have to worry about appeasing Democrats. And that leaves the minority party with no real political leverage for nominees, giving McConnell’s letter much less weight than it had eight years ago.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/9/14217638/obama-trump-senate-letter-ethics
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