There Are Three Things To Remember Tonight

lizdexia:

When Obama won, the right threatened violence and uprisings. They spewed vitriol and simmered in their own hatred and this is what we got.

Today, I’ve had so many conversations with people who are considering and embarking on new paths of public service. People who are talking about law school, public policy, teaching, international engagement, volunteering, even just giving radical amounts of kindness to the people around us who need it. I’m not seeing violent rhetoric or talk of violent uprisings. I’m just seeing a lot of good people saying “It’s going to be hard work, and we’ll do that hard work because we need each other.”

We can take our country back. When they go low, we go high.

small reminder that if trump ever abuses his power we have the legitimate constitutional right to overthrow the government

To those of you despairing because of Trump's success in your area

What you are seeing is not being surrounded by a majority who hate you.

It’s not a room full of 10 people where 6 enthusiastically support Trump.

It’s a room where 1 enthusiastically supports Trump, 2 always vote Republican regardless because they’re party loyalists or single-issue voters, 1 who is refusing to vote because Bernie didn’t get nominated, 1 who hates Trump as a person but believes conspiracy theories about Hillary and thinks the Republicans can hold him in check or he’ll be impeached anyway, 1 who is voting third party, 1 who refuses to vote because they hate the whole system, 2 who are enthusiastically supporting Hillary, and 1 who is voting Hillary because fuck Trump.

And yes, that means 3 for her, 4 for him, and 3 cowardly fuckers who could have tipped it easily. But it also means only 1 person in that room who actually wishes you harm and 9 who, votes aside, will have your back. 9 who are the reason we have marriage equality and have come so, so, so far in the last 15 years that it’s unbelievable. Not to mention that even people who hate and fear in the abstract or about groups very very often feel differently about those they know as humans. “I hate Muslims and gays! Well, except Mohammed at work and Craig and Harry next door, but they’re just good people, even if I don’t agree with them.”

Do not despair. This country is a lot less fucked than this election makes it look, and people as a whole are always kinder than you fear.

i’m not giving up on america, even though america gave up on me. i’m here to fight.

You are going to run this country, and this world, very soon. So you will not listen to this man, or the 75-year-old, doughy-faced, gray-haired nightmare men like him, when they try to tell you where to stand or how to behave or what you can and cannot do with your own bodies, or what you should or should not think with your own minds. You will not be cowed or discouraged by his stream of retrogressive babble. You won’t have time to be cowed, because you will be too busy working and learning and communing with other girls and women like you, and when the time comes you will effortlessly flick away his miserable, petty misogynistic worldview like a fly on your picnic potato salad. He is the present, sadly, but he is not the future. You are the future. Your strength is a million times his. Your power is a billion times his. We will acknowledge this result, but we will not accept it. We will overcome it, and we will defeat it. Now find your team, and get to work.

‘Parks and Recreation’: Leslie Knope Writes Letter to America Following Donald Trump’s Victory (via Yahoo)

wait what about mike pence and conversion camps?

here, from politifact

Newsom, a prominent LGBTQ rights supporter, said Republican Indiana Gov. Mike Pence “advocated for diverting taxpayer dollars to so-called conversion therapy.”

Conversion therapy is a controversial practice that seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation from gay to straight. It’s banned in five states including California, Oregon, Illinois, Vermont and New Jersey.

When asked about the claim, Newsom’s spokesman pointed to Pence’s own words. During his first successful run for Congress in 2000, Pence wrote on his campaign website, under a section called Strengthening the American Family:

“Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.”

Also on the website, Pence wrote: “Congress should oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage.” And “Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s [sic] as a ‘discreet [sic] and insular minority’ entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities.”

Our research found no evidence Pence has walked back his stance on public funding for conversion therapy. His spokesman did not respond with information about Pence’s current position.

and in case you didnt know, conversion therapy is horrible for LGBT youth

White house staff watching Obama welcome Donald Trump as president. 

Please spread the word on tumblr, twitter, via text message, facebook, and your communities! On Dec 18th we will be having a country wide walkout from work and school to peacefully protest our way to the state capital building in your area to change the minds of the college electoral voters to vote for Hillary. If we succeed, Hillary will win by electoral votes along with popular votes and officially become president. Join the petition (2.2 million already) on our blog to accomplish this also!

thanks for that post but I'm so scared right now mostly over nuclear weapons. i can't stop crying but my mum is so unhelpful.

trump cannot just launch nuclear weapons whenever he feels like it. he doesn’t have a button that he just presses. he has the codes, which – if he gives the order to launch the weapons – go through many people, including the heads of each branch of the military, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, and others. each of these people could just refuse to relay the order. and to actually launch the weapons, launch crews need to actually launch the missile, and two launch crews are needed to actually turn their launch keys. so there are a looooot of steps that are involved with launching a nuclear weapon that could stop trump. you can read more about it here.