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ButSeeYa

(273 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 10:41 AM Jan 2017

A Log Of The Fascist Takeover of our Country In Real Time:

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* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.
* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.
* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.
* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.
* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”
* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.
* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.
* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.
* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.
* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is of the 2009 inauguration of 44th President Barack Obama, and is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.
* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.
* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.
* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterized federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd.”
* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.
* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.

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A Log Of The Fascist Takeover of our Country In Real Time: (Original Post) ButSeeYa Jan 2017 OP
Welcome to DU, ButSeeYa. femmocrat Jan 2017 #1
Thanks, femmocrat! ButSeeYa Jan 2017 #4
This should be pinned someplace--and added to. Thanks riversedge Jan 2017 #2
Yes it should... absolutely. For now, I've bookmarked it. lamp_shade Jan 2017 #11
Sobering stuff - it's moving like a runaway freight train. nt GliderGuider Jan 2017 #3
Depressing af - Bookmarking. Lucinda Jan 2017 #5
Thank You! ButSeeYa Jan 2017 #9
Predator tRump. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2017 #6
thank you bdamomma Jan 2017 #7
Absolutely! ButSeeYa Jan 2017 #10
Excellent post lillypaddle Jan 2017 #8
K&R..bookmarked to keep as a contining document. 2naSalit Jan 2017 #12
On October 28, 2016, less than two weeks before the presidential election, Comey announced... workinclasszero Jan 2017 #13
January 20th arrests for rioting is correct ffr Jan 2017 #14
Is there a website with this?? SHRED Jan 2017 #15
Wow! Impressive work. rurallib Jan 2017 #16
This is very important. Thank You so very much for doing this. Welcome to DU. KittyWampus Jan 2017 #17
Much needed! herding cats Jan 2017 #18
Thank you for putting this together Womyns Rights Jan 2017 #19
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2017 #20
K&R and Bookmarked! smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #21
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
13. On October 28, 2016, less than two weeks before the presidential election, Comey announced...
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 12:36 PM
Jan 2017

...in a letter to Congress that the FBI learned of the existence of emails that appeared to be pertinent to the investigation of Secretary Clinton's email server and that the FBI would take steps to allow investigators to review these emails "to determine whether they contain classified information as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Comey#Letters_to_Congress

ffr

(22,669 posts)
14. January 20th arrests for rioting is correct
Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:00 PM
Jan 2017

Whoa! Ironically, so too where our founding fathers' actions treasonous in their treachery towards England's king.

Journalists, Legal Observers Among Those With 'Unprecedented' Felony Charges For Inauguration Day Protests
http://dcist.com/2017/01/mass_felony_charges_for_inauguratio.php

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