I have received several copies of this statement about Trump’s accomplishments.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it looks like Trump is actually making America great again. Just look at the progress made since the election:
1. Unprecedented levels of ongoing civic engagement.
2. Millions of Americans now know who their state and federal representatives are without having to google.
3. Millions of Americans are exercising more. They’re holding signs and marching every week.
4. Alec Baldwin is great again. Everyone’s forgotten he’s kind of a jerk.
5. The Postal Service is enjoying the influx cash due to stamps purchased by millions of people for letter and postcard campaigns.
6. Likewise, the pharmaceutical industry is enjoying record growth in sales of anti-depressants.
7. Millions of Americans now know how to call their elected officials and know exactly what to say to be effective.
8. Footage of town hall meetings is now entertaining.
9. Tens of millions of people are now correctly spelling words like emoluments, narcissist, fascist, misogynist, holocaust and cognitive dissonance.
10. Everyone knows more about the rise of Hitler than they did last year.
11. Everyone knows more about legislation, branches of power and how checks and balances work.
12. Marginalized groups are experiencing a surge in white allies.
13. White people in record numbers have just learned that racism is not dead. (See #6)
14. White people in record numbers also finally understand that Obamacare IS the Affordable Care Act.
15. Stephen Colbert’s “Late Night” finally gained the elusive #1 spot in late night talk shows, and Seth Meyers is finding his footing as today’s Jon Stewart.
16. “Mike Pence” has donated millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood since Nov. 9th.
17. Melissa FREAKING McCarthy.
18. Travel ban protesters put $24 million into ACLU coffers in just 48 hours, enabling them to hire 200 more attorneys. Lawyers are now heroes.
19. As people seek veracity in their news sources, respected news outlets are happily reporting a substantial increase in subscriptions, a boon to a struggling industry vital to our democracy.
20. Live streaming court cases and congressional sessions are now as popular as the Kardashians.
21. Massive cleanup of facebook friend lists.
22. People are reading classic literature again. Sales of George Orwell’s “1984” increased by 10,000% after the inauguration. (Yes, that is true. 10,000%. 9th grade Lit teachers all over the country are now rock stars.)
23. More than ever before, Americans are aware that education is important. Like, super important.
24. Now, more than anytime in history, everyone believes that anyone can be President. Seriously, anyone.
– Susan Keller
Please add to this list that Betsy DeVos helped persuade the public that their public schools may be privatized and taken over by corporate entities. And, membership in the Network for the Public Education has surged from from 25,000 to 350,000.
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May I repeat “membership in the Network for the Public Education has surged from from 25,000 to 350,000”!
What you wrote!
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Membership in the Network for the Public Education has surged from from 25,000 to 350,000.
That is amazing, wonderful, congrats to you and all who are making that happen.
Many also know what a malignant narcissist is. I knew what a narcissist was before Trump, but I’d never heard of a malignant one. Now we see and hear one every day spouting off his alternative facts and sending out insane tweets.
Ivy League psych professors are dancing with joy. They finally have the perfect example of a well known malignant narcissist in action to teach their students.
Before Trump all they had were these movie characters to demonstrate what a malignant narcissist was like. Now they have a real, live president of the U.S. and psych students can watch as he destroys civilization and maybe the human species.
http://thenarcissisticlife.com/famous-narcissistic-movie-characters/
It’s also well known by these professors that there is no way to treat a malignant narcissist. The best they can do is teach people how to survive and/or escape from one.
Actually, many of us are honoring Not-My-President Day, since our so-called president is just too deranged to celebrate.
Let me add this: The accolades don’t go to Trump. They go to the historical process and to those who are willing to “persist.” to recognize a horrible problem, and to push back with all the gusto we can. **
Giving Trump credit for any of this is like giving the thief credit for stealing where the victim decided to make their lives better IN SPITE of having been robbed.
CBK,
It is like giving credit to thieves when the home alarm business sees an increase in revenues.
Diane: Yes–I just see it as evil personified giving us a wake-up call–from our political slumbers.
Number 13 has been the most shocking to me in the past few weeks…ahhhh the rise of racism’s ugly head is so discouraging. I’ve lost respect for so many of my colleagues.
I just received this email from the White House telling me how successful Trump’s first month has been. Thought you’d like to know how great it has been. (Huh?) It’s hard to imagine more successful months like this First Month.
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The First Month
The White House info@mail.whitehouse.gov via 2s6.memberemail.com
2:29 PM (11 minutes ago)
The White House
We are officially one month into President Donald J. Trump’s Administration, and it has been a very successful start.
President Trump has focused on jumpstarting job creation and saving taxpayers money, by withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and clearing roadblocks delaying the Keystone Pipeline’s construction. Along with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, President Trump created the United States-Canada Council for Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders, to ensure that all Americans have ample opportunities in the workforce.
In a first step to unraveling the Obama-era regulations, President Trump signed two bills to roll back regulations and issued an executive order requiring that for every new regulation created, two must be eliminated.
President Trump has successfully coordinated with several companies to bring thousands of jobs back to America, and saved Americans over $700 million by negotiating lower costs for the F-35 fighters.
President Trump has also taken great strides in domestic security by signing executive orders that focus on reducing crime, restoring public safety, dismantling transnational criminal organizations and protecting our brave law enforcement officials.
Looking to national security, President Trump has directed his Secretary of Defense to devise a strategy to defeat ISIS, overseen the imposition of sanctions on more than 25 individuals and entities that threaten America’s national security, and strategized with more than 30 foreign leaders about our shared security concerns.
Lastly, following on the impeccable legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, President Trump nominated the brilliant Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
President Donald J. Trump has spent the last month fulfilling promises and helping the American people. He’s looking forward to the many more successful months and years of action to come.
Although truth and trump begin with the same three letters, that is the only three things those two have in common.
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I celebrated early by watching CSPAN’s “Washington Journal: Historians Discuss CSPAN’s Survey on Presidential Leadership.” Great to get away from daily WH hubris w/a dive into history.
Then hubby & I celebrated today by watching CSPAN’s coverage of British House of Common’s debate on Trump’s state visit. What a breath of fresh air to watch the erudite spot-on skewering of tweeter-in-chief delivered w/devastating wit. Labour party leader particularly adroit. Many hilarious moments all via Robert’s Rules of Order & courtly “Hear, Hear”‘s or “Nay, Nay”‘s.
Here is Susan Keller’s facebook page. The circulation of the list is one big bright spot. I think George Lakoff would be amazed and amused.
Laura,
Where is the link?
I also put your blog on my Facebook Page titled:
Presidents Day: What Trump Has Done for the Country
by dianeravitch
on my Facebook Page.
https://www.facebook.com/dee.ploma.7
Donald Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do, when he was campaigning. Why is everyone so “shocked”?
Charles, no one realized how reckless he is. Or ignorant.
Not shocked, revolted. Shocked implies surprise .We knew what he was . That he effectively stole an election with the help of a hostile foreign power and is pursuing a right wing agenda even though the majority of Americans did not vote for him or his agenda is revolting.
It makes a mockery of our democratic process . Michael Moore is correct calling for a redo . Just a shame there is no mechanism for a recall. Impeachment and a firing squad would be a half measure.
Thom Hartmann’s blog
How The EPA Will Change Under Pruitt
With the help of Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Republicans in the Senate on Friday confirmed Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency – an agency that Pruitt sued no less than 13 times during his tenure as Oklahoma Attorney General.
Immediately after the vote, the Sierra Club tweeted “Scott Pruitt, the most dangerous, anti-science EPA head in history has been confirmed. The GOP suddenly doesnt care about hidden emails”.
The confirmation comes just one day after an Oklahoma judge ruled that Pruitt’s attorney general’s office has until Tuesday to turn over more than 2,500 missing emails and other documents.
According to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Media and Democracy – since 2015, Pruitt has refused 9 open-records requests about communications between his office and members of the fossil fuel industry – like Koch Industries – Peabody Energy – and the National Coal Council.
-Thom
I also believe Trump is actually making America great again by teaching us vocabulary expansion.
Here are some beauties that I found around the internet:
Xenophobia, bombastic, narcissistic and grandiloquent, brassy, fatuous,
egomaniac (al), Self-aggrandizing, megalomaniacal, Histrionic, Bloviating….among many others!
Love it.
Crossposted it https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Presidents-Day-What-Trump-in-Best_Web_OpEds-America_Diane-Ravitch_Publishing_Trump-Idiot-in-chief-170221-179.html
Ask not what the president plans to do to the country, ask what the country plans to do to him.
Issue a ban on Trump. Exile him to his golf course. Let him sleep in the sand trap.
Carl Bernstein. “Trump is out there on his own, leading a demagogic attack on the institutions of free democracy. We are into terrible authoritarian tendencies.”
Today’s Worldview
by Ishaan Tharoor…Washington Post
…President Trump’s speech over the weekend along Florida’s Space Coast — effectively a campaign rally staged just one month into his term — served, more than anything else, as an illustration of the extent of the political polarization now gripping the United States.
Trump had already declared open war on his country’s media, describing the mainstream press as the “enemy” of the American people. The 9,000-strong crowd of supporters seemed to agree…
As a result, Carl Bernstein, the veteran Washington Post reporter who helped break the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration, sees the nation facing an unprecedented crisis.
“Trump’s attacks on the American press as ‘enemies of the American people’ are more treacherous than Richard Nixon’s attacks on the press,” he told CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday. That’s because the polarization of the present finds no real equivalent in Nixon’s America.
“There is no civic consensus in this country like there was at the time of Watergate about acceptable presidential conduct,” said Bernstein. “Trump is out there on his own, leading a demagogic attack on the institutions of free democracy. We are into terrible authoritarian tendencies.”
Bernstein is hardly alone. On Monday, Ned Price, a former CIA officer who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations, explained why he had recently quit his post: He sees Trump operating in a dangerous ideological bubble.
Trump’s administration “has little need for intelligence professionals who, in speaking truth to power, might challenge the so-called ‘America First’ orthodoxy that sees Russia as an ally and Australia as a punching bag,” Price wrote in The Washington Post. “That’s why the president’s trusted White House advisers, not career professionals, reportedly have final say over what intelligence reaches his desk.”
Timothy Snyder, the acclaimed scholar of 20th century history at Yale University, offered a gloomy analysis last week of Trump’s political style.
Trump “doesn’t seem to care about the institutions and the laws except insofar as they appear as barriers to the goal of permanent kleptocratic authoritarianism and immediate personal gratification,” said Snyder in an interview with German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. “It is all about him all of time, it is not about the citizens and our political traditions.”
He ended with a stark warning: “We have at most a year to defend the Republic, perhaps less.”
Bernstein: “We have at most a year to defend the Republic, perhaps less.” It’s up to our other leadership–and that means, if not Trump’s own cabinet, Congress.