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BigmanPigman

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June 3, 2018

If you are working to GOTV focus on healthcare.

The Dems are winning when they push affordable healthcare. I have said that this should be the most discussed issue when planning for the primaries and midterms since last Winter. The town halls, protests, phone calls from voters in both parties are evidence of what matters most in their lives. Polls are showing that this is the issue that the GOP screwed up and they own it. The states that have had their primaries have flipped due to the healthcare problems and the costs are going higher. The tax scam is also an issue that constituents are not happy about and it (once again, both parties).

June 2, 2018

Resisters ARE resisting, large protests continue

while his cult/base buys more tiki torches (so sad these fine people can't get more to stand by them ).

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/6/2/1768472/-Four-protests-have-each-brought-out-1-million-Americans-during-Trump-s-term-all-of-them-liberal

"There have been at least four national protests during the Trump presidency to bring out over one million Americans each."
Since President Trump’s inauguration, the United States has seen four enormous protests — each with well over 1 million participants — objecting to the administration and its policies: the 2017 Women’s March, the 2018 Women’s March, the national student walkout on March 14 and the March for Our Lives on March 24.

When you look at the issues that are bringing Americans into the parks and streets, they continue to be civil rights issues. From Black Lives Matter to March for Our Lives, demands for civil progress against state-sponsored or state-coddled violence are active and angry; demands for civil retrenchment, despite all the bleatings of Republican leaders and the feverish attempt by the New York Times to find any connecting thread among Trump voters other than gullibility and racism, are not. The tiki torch-wielding mobs of Charlottesville were small and petty; gun-rights protests intended to counter marching students have been minuscule affairs.
America is not going quietly into that good night. Whatever's being said on the television sets, the momentum continues to be on the side of those that would reform the country, rather than those that would sell it off for parts. So that's something.
RESIST! REMOVE! Peace.

http://indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/view/21653?t=22&akid=21653%2E232934%2EjkftHv

June 2, 2018

She could be a double agent and Putin can slip her a polonium cocktail.

Too much drama and intrigue for Roseanne's audience?

June 1, 2018

Where are the children?????

"Families Belong Together" rallyies across the US tomorrow June 1st. Go to a protest, write or call your reps, sign the petition, donate.
Fri June, 1st cities are supporting immigrant families who are being separated by ICE under the trump admin. Find a local protest and make your voice heard! RESIST! Peace.
http://www.webelongtogetherkids.org/
In response to the growing number of children and youth separated from their immigrant families at the border or their homes, and the thousands of children who have been harmed or abused by Trump's immigration agencies, we are holding a non-violent National Day of Action for Children on Friday, June 1st. We demand that the Trump administration stop separating immigrant children and youth from their families and account for what is happening to all children in immigration custody.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#WhereAreTheChildren

Add your name to the petition now and find an event near you.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/where-are-the-children
http://www.webelongtogetherkids.org/

June 1, 2018

Can a president pardon himself?

I was listening to Michael Steele on Brian Williams (as I was making my sign for tomorrow's protest) and he said that this pardon BS is leading up to the fucking moron's pardoning himself and Brian didn't ask him if that is a possibility. Is it? Are there any legal eagle DUers out there?

*Oops...I just saw that someone else just asked the same thing.

RESIST! REMOVE! Peace.

June 1, 2018

FIGHT ICE, "Families Belong Together" protests

Tomorrow Fri June, 1st cities are supporting immigrant families who are being separated by ICE under the trump admin. Find a local protest and make your voice heard! RESIST! Peace.
http://www.webelongtogetherkids.org/
In response to the growing number of children and youth separated from their immigrant families at the border or their homes, and the thousands of children who have been harmed or abused by Trump's immigration agencies, we are holding a non-violent National Day of Action for Children on Friday, June 1st. We demand that the Trump administration stop separating immigrant children and youth from their families and account for what is happening to all children in immigration custody.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
#WhereAreTheChildren

Add your name to the petition now and find an event near you on June 1st.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/where-are-the-children

May 30, 2018

Cosby and Roseanne

have had to reap what they have sown, when will The Apprentice star follow suit?

May 29, 2018

Bill Maher speaks to Roseanne during his show.


He thanks her for helping him when he was struggling, etc but draws the line at her "new" show and its content.
May 29, 2018

INDIVISIBLE just announced their plan to flip

The House and state elections. GOTV RESIST!
http://indivisible.actionkit.com/mailings/view/21006?t=9&akid=21006%2E232934%2ET-XPuK

There’s a massive, movement-wide effort underway to take back the House and Senate, governor’s mansions, and statehouses, and Indivisible groups will work collaboratively in their communities to win in November. Every district’s different, and Indivisible groups make strategic choices about how to best get involved in races, and we’ll be there to support them at every step of the way. That’s the promise of our political program: Indivisible435.

And over the last few months, we’ve had hundreds of conversations with group leaders and movement allies to identify gaps and needs for our movement, and the larger progressive movement. Based on those conversations, we’re investing our resources into programs that will support the long-term powerbuilding of our movement: building scalable electoral tools for all Indivisible groups and providing deep support on targeted races.
Here’s a deep-dive into Indivisible435:

Beginning today, Indivisible groups not coordinating with political campaigns can sign up for their members to use scalable voter contact tools (they’re literally signing up right now!). We've tested the tools and trainings during the primaries to inform our general election and get out the vote efforts. As we get closer to the midterm, our organizing team will:

Provide access to canvassing and phonebanking tools to members of every Indivisible group.
Train and guide Indivisible groups on using these resources to grow their membership, build their power, and, yes, win elections.
Build a national volunteer peer-to-peer text-banking and phonebanking program that could reach millions of voters.

We’ve also already doubled our organizing staff capacity to heavily support races in 13 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. Our work in these 13 states will touch:

11 governor’s races (7 GOP-held seats, 4 Democrat-held seats);
12 Senate races (6 GOP-held seats, 6 Democrat-held seats); and,
50 competitive House races (40 GOP-held districts and 10 Democrat-held districts).

May 29, 2018

Melania/Melanie is not missing or hiding in NYC...

CNN just reported that she is still recovering from kidney surgery and that is why no one has seen her since released from the hospital last week. Nothing nefarious or mysterious as many were suggesting.

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About BigmanPigman

I am 57, retired teacher and illustrator, life-long dem., activist, union member. Also I do not use social media and I'm technologically retarded. I love dogs, rock music and swearing (a lot). My 17 year old "puppy" died on June 2, 2020. She grew up listening to Animals (Pink Floyd). She has kept me sane through the tRump years, not easy, and has given me endless love, companionship, kisses and tail wags.
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