#saveourdemocracy

[konohidoisekai]

I’m so sorry it’s disorganised but this is the best I can do before they take away our WiFi

Edit: Alright so slight connection and update. The military’s gonna be in power for one year now? And I don’t know that’s just disgusting honestly. Also by the way the pictures I have posted in this post are from Twitter written by someone not me. By disorganised I meant I didn’t have the time to arrange the pictures in order because my WiFi got taken away. Unfortunately, I do not know the name of the account who wrote this as I was in a hurry to post this so yes 😔

[davidwfloydart]

‘DEMOCRACY’ #freedom #saveourdemocracy #freedommovement #dictatorship #propagandamachine #propagandaemarketing #ignoranceisachoice #ignoranceisnotbliss (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVarTJ2pxosjmyUQG6rWyufH7HT9-gIwjQKgRE0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[abitofthis-that]

[saint-hildegard-of-bingen]

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President Trump’s numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing…

“A clear and present danger to our constitution...” Please read this letter signed by over 700 historians, and commit to actions to save our democracy! Source 

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We are American historians devoted to studying our nation’s past who have concluded that Donald J. Trump has violated his oath to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States” and to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” His “attempts to subvert the Constitution,” as George Mason described impeachable offenses at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, urgently and justly require his impeachment.

President Trump’s numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president. Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce the country of Ukraine, under attack from Russia, an adversary power to the United States, by withholding essential military assistance in exchange for the fabrication and legitimization of false information in order to advance his own re-election.

President Trump’s lawless obstruction of the House of Representatives, which is rightly seeking documents and witness testimony in pursuit of its constitutionally-mandated oversight role, has demonstrated brazen contempt for representative government. So have his attempts to justify that obstruction on the grounds that the executive enjoys absolute immunity, a fictitious doctrine that, if tolerated, would turn the president into an elected monarch above the law.

As Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist, impeachment was designed to deal with “the misconduct of public men” which involves “the abuse or violation of some public trust.” Collectively, the President’s offenses, including his dereliction in protecting the integrity of the 2020 election from Russian disinformation and renewed interference, arouse once again the Framers’ most profound fears that powerful members of government would become, in Hamilton’s words, “the mercenary instruments of foreign corruption.”

It is our considered judgment that if President Trump’s misconduct does not rise to the level of impeachment, then virtually nothing does.

Hamilton understood, as he wrote in 1792, that the republic remained vulnerable to the rise of an unscrupulous demagogue, “unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents…despotic in his ordinary demeanour.” That demagogue, Hamilton said, could easily enough manage “to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day.” Such a figure, Hamilton wrote, would “throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’”

President Trump’s actions committed both before and during the House investigations fit Hamilton’s description and manifest utter and deliberate scorn for the rule of law and “repeated injuries” to constitutional democracy. That disregard continues and it constitutes a clear and present danger to the Constitution. We therefore strongly urge the House of Representatives to impeach the President.

[therestisbest]

Why I’m an Unapologetic Democrat

[from the response to the #SOTU by Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, Democrat of Massachusetts]

Many have spent the past year anxious, angry, afraid. We all feel the fault lines of a fractured country. We hear the voices of Americans who feel forgotten and forsaken.

We see an economy that makes stocks soar, investor portfolios bulge and corporate profits climb but fails to give workers their fair share of the reward.

A government that struggles to keep itself open.

Russia knee-deep in our democracy.

An all-out war on environmental protection.

A Justice Department rolling back civil rights by the day.

Hatred and supremacy proudly marching in our streets.

Bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts, and congregations. Targeting our safest, sacred places.

And that nagging, sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs: this is not right. This is not who we are.

It would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos. Partisanship. Politics.

But it’s far bigger than that. This administration isn’t just targeting the laws that protect us — they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection.

For them, dignity isn’t something you’re born with but something you measure.

By your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size.

Not to mention, the gender of your spouse. The country of your birth. The color of your skin. The God of your prayers.

Their record is a rebuke of our highest American ideal: the belief that we are all worthy, we are all equal and we all count. In the eyes of our law and our leaders, our God and our government.

That is the American promise.

But today that promise is being broken. By an administration that callously appraises our worthiness and decides who makes the cut and who can be bargained away.

[konohidoisekai]

Hi hello yes today I have come to state something important. As you can see in the thread above, currently in Myanmar where I’m living there has been a successful coup attempt from our military. Our leaders have been detained, the military has cut our mobile lines and mobile data lines and soon is going to cut our electricity and WiFi. So please spread the word as much as you can. Like I’m not even kidding they have tanks parked in the streets and soldiers lined up with guns ready to shoot anyone who protests against them. Myanmar has a history of military dictatorship you see, and right now we are watching history repeat itself. Search up 8888 uprising if you want to know about the horrors of the Burmese military and not only that there are so much more like the Saffron Revolution and stuff. But yes um I’ll try to be as active as I can under these circumstances but chances are low so yes.

[konohidoisekai]

Karasu with the Civil Disobedience movement ✊

[konohidoisekai]

This is for all those people who think that this coup is well deserved.