What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

thewitchway:

livebloggingmydescentintomadness:
livebloggingmydescentintomadness:
I don’t care if Hillary Clinton is corrupt. I don’t care if she lies, if she cheats, if she eats bowls of newborn chipmunks for breakfast.
She is literally the only thing standing in the way of a fascist dictator becoming President of the United States with a Republican majority congress that guarantees he can do anything he wants and nothing will be able to stop him.
I was and still am a Bernie supporter, and I hate a lot of things about Clinton, but none of that matters anymore. If Trump is elected, people are going to die. Women are going to die when Roe v Wade is overturned and Planned Parenthood is defunded. LGBTQ people are going to die when conversion therapy is further legalized and more bathroom bills are passed. POC are going to die as Trump rounds up Mexican immigrants, gives more power to the police, and fuels the fires of Islamaphobia. Poor people are going to die as Obamacare gets overturned and further cuts are made to welfare programs. And that’s just in this country. That’s not even taking account the all-too-likely outcomes of Trump starting new wars in the Middle East and having control of nuclear bombs that he’s said he ‘would not rule out’ using.
This is no longer even about ‘the lesser of two evils’. This is not ‘scare tactics’. This is literally life and death. Don’t fuck around and tell me you’re voting third-party or not voting at all, because you don’t have that luxury.
I am delighted that this post has gotten as many notes as it has, but as Election Day grows closer I would like to flush it out with some additional information and facts, particularly for those people who are still considering voting third party and those who still consider Clinton “just as bad” as Trump.
Why you shouldn’t vote for Jill Stein
Why you shouldn’t vote for Gary Johnson
Why you shouldn’t vote third party AT ALL: x, x, x, x (hint, it’s because the electoral college presently makes it impossible for third party to win)
Worried about Clinton’s scandals? John Oliver breaks it down.
Comparison of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders’ views. They voted the same 93% of the time.
A comprehensive review of Donald Trump’s corruption
Donald Trump is being sued for raping a 13 year old girl in 1994, and there is merit to the case.
Oxford Economics predicts that Trump’s policies would remove $1 trillion from the US economy, while the Peterson Institute projects that a Trump presidency could cost nearly 5 million US jobs.
Donald Trump repeatedly asked why the US couldn’t use nuclear weapons
Donald Trump’s cruel streak
37 of the most offensive things Trump ever said
Donald Trump unveils plan to make abortion illegal again
Feds investigating Trump advisor’s meeting with Russian officials seeking to influence U.S. election (Trump called Putin a better leader than Obama.)
Trump’s campaign paid his businesses $8.2 million
Trump flies in a plane with gold-plated bathroom fixtures and pays for it with tax dollars
Trump’s financial plan would increase the debt by $5.3 trillion above current levels, Clinton’s by $200 billion
Trump wants to eliminate food safety regulations
Trump was sued by the Justice Department for housing discrimination against black people
Trump has reaped at least $885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York
Trump’s slimy, shameless approach to philanthropy
Concerned that Hillary Clinton defended a child rapist? She tried to get out of it, but she had no choice.
The official Republican platform includes banning abortion, overturning marriage equality, no background checks for purchasing guns, declaring coal “clean energy”, religion used as a guide for legislation, a border wall, and pornography declared a “public menace”.
Politifact says that Hillary has made ‘false’ statements 11% of the time and ‘pants on fire’ statements 2%, compared to Trump’s 37% and 17%.
Bernie supporter? Bernie says that now is not the time for a protest vote. Bernie tells you why you should vote for Hillary Clinton. Bernie says that Trump must not become president.
Please do not waste your vote. You can complain about Hillary Clinton as much as you want, but complain about her while you vote for her.
“Poor people are going to die as Obamacare gets overturned and further cuts are made to welfare programs”
Not just poor people - but Normal Regular College-Educated Middle Class White People that worked up until the moment they couldn’t work anymore, and then suddenly found themselves without employment and, thus, without insurance and, thus, found themselves among those in our country that don’t have the right to the medical care they need to live.
What I’m trying to say is this could be you. Four years is a long time.
People are alive today because of Obamacare. People will die when it is gone. Please think.