Swim off and sign some petitions! And be nice.

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There are some good petitions out there right now. We the people have some demanding that Trump have to show his full tax returns "Immediately release Donald Trump's full tax returns, with all information needed to verify emoluments clause compliance." basically to be sure he hasn't taken money from say Russia and stuff. That one has so many signatures it's already to the point the white house has to respond, but hey, go sign it anyways! There are some going around about opposing Betsy DeVos for Sec of Education (check the NEA site for that one). She is a horrible choice, we are already falling behind and not the formost country out there in terms of education, she has no experience, and from what I read seems more concerned about potential bear attacks than being sure the special needs get education too. She has never worked as an educator, didn't attend public schools, didn't send her kids to public schools, so why does the Trumpkin want to put her in charge of them? She'd rather send that money to private schools, because you know, so many of us can afford to send our kids there. Oh, and where she has already done this, I have read numerous articles that the schools that got her funding, private of course, ended up with LOWER test scores, so.... yeah. As a person she can support and believe whatever she wants, but the person in THIS role needs to have the best interests of public education at heart, and she does not. I've been watching the Trumpkin's choices, and I swear people had to buy their way in, because he couldn't have picked a list that's (all but maybe 1 or 2) literally the WORST possible choices ever. There are some others to add to this but still.... notes on various Trumpkin nominees.... * Justice: denied the fed. bench because of racism and is known to be anti-LGBT. * EPA: climate-change denier who has sued the EPA, which makes what sense? * Education: public-ed critic who thinks dept should be closed, has no education experience, and where her money went private schools did WORSE not better. * Labor: fast-food tycoon who opposes minimum wage, because why not screw us over more? * Small Business: WWE magnate, irony? * Treasury: Wall St banker who once foreclosed on 90-year old lady over 27-cent error.... yay 'Merica. * HUD: neurosurgeon who knows nothing about housing or urban development, don't even know, maybe smart enough to at least research.... * National Security Advisor: fired conspiracy-theorist general, because again, that makes sense..... * Commerce: billionaire "King of Bankruptcy"..... yeah I got nothing. * CIA: Racist Islamophobe, great idea there Trumpkin! * Health & Human Svcs: Proponent of Medicare privatization, because that's the opp of what this is even FOR * Transportation: wife of Senate majority leader yay for giving out stuff to people to try to win favor! * State: Oil CEO who opposes sanctions and is cozy with Putin, yay more ties to Russia and their really really horrible leader * Energy: Oil state governor who opposes the existence of the department, because again, that makes sense! There have been others... but yeah.... Please if you don't like something find a petition, call your reps, write letters, try. Will it help? Maybe. Maybe not. But sitting back and complaining and not doing anything is a waste of time, and silly. Don't be silly. Don't be rude either to each other, or find your comments deleted.