Two years ago, the political landscape in the U.S. looked bleak. Yet, the world got through that time without too much major damage, thanks to individual campaigners with the Indivisible Project, officials such as the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, organizations like the ACLU, and many others who exposed and resisted Trump. That extended to media giants like The Washington Post – which rolled out a special “Democracy Dies in Darkness” slogan – and CNN, which more aggressively covered Tricky Don Trump, who had virtually no government checks and balances.
Sure, there were more tax cuts for the super wealthy and renewed nuclear/coal programs. Green energy initiatives and social programs took hits, among others. Medicare and Social Security survive, though Republicans still target them for cuts. Even Obamacare remained for the most part.
The Blue Wave in the 2018 mid-term elections − in which Democrats took back the U.S. House of Representatives, picking up 41 additional seats − lend a better outlook for the next couple years. Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s illegal dealings with Russia and probable conspiracy to influence the 2016 elections continues to dig up new details and make important indictments and convictions.
The 2018 election displayed “a remarkable wave of grassroots activism that swept across the country − with women and people of color leading the way,” noted Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO. Not Our President: The Movement against the Agenda of Tricky Don & Wingman Mike updates this story through early 2019. The roughly 60,000-word book written by progressive journalist Jackson Thoreau is being offered for just $2.99 by Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing here. It will also be only 99 cents between Feb. 25 and March 4.
The book details what people such as former congressional staffer Ezra Levin and librarian Rebecca McCorkindale are doing to oppose the harmful policies of TrumPence, and make a difference to restore confidence and integrity to the U.S. political system. It spins the story forward with recommendations on how readers can aid in this movement, including a list of about 300 resources to check.
“The development of a grassroots movement to oppose the Trump administration is a very important story,” said Thoreau, a journalist, photographer, and activist for more than three decades. “Many people who were not really involved in politics before have become involved, largely through social media. I know I stepped up my involvement again after the Republicans stole another election.”
Sure, there were more tax cuts for the super wealthy and renewed nuclear/coal programs. Green energy initiatives and social programs took hits, among others. Medicare and Social Security survive, though Republicans still target them for cuts. Even Obamacare remained for the most part.
The Blue Wave in the 2018 mid-term elections − in which Democrats took back the U.S. House of Representatives, picking up 41 additional seats − lend a better outlook for the next couple years. Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s illegal dealings with Russia and probable conspiracy to influence the 2016 elections continues to dig up new details and make important indictments and convictions.
 |
| Purchase the updated 2019 book here. |
The 2018 election displayed “a remarkable wave of grassroots activism that swept across the country − with women and people of color leading the way,” noted Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO. Not Our President: The Movement against the Agenda of Tricky Don & Wingman Mike updates this story through early 2019. The roughly 60,000-word book written by progressive journalist Jackson Thoreau is being offered for just $2.99 by Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing here. It will also be only 99 cents between Feb. 25 and March 4.
The book details what people such as former congressional staffer Ezra Levin and librarian Rebecca McCorkindale are doing to oppose the harmful policies of TrumPence, and make a difference to restore confidence and integrity to the U.S. political system. It spins the story forward with recommendations on how readers can aid in this movement, including a list of about 300 resources to check.
Backed up with hundreds of footnotes and sources that are linked to Internet pages, Not Our President outlines how Trump and the Republicans employed questionable actions to win key swing states and how the ACLU, activists, and others worked to oppose them through protests, lawsuits, boycotts, media campaigns, products, and more.
The book includes key recent writings and recommendations for further action from the last real president and vice president, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as presidential contenders like Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren and grassroots leaders with Indivisible and other organizations. While the subject matter is serious, Thoreau injects humor throughout the book, such as his suggestion that Saturday Night Live portray Trump as Tinker Bell.
As Obama said in a late 2018 speech, our problems didn't start with Trump. He is a symptom of larger issues, one who takes advantage of people's fears for his own gain. So while we have to rid ourselves of Tricky Don − as we did Tricky Dick in the early 1970s − there is always going to be another Tricky Don or Dick to take their place unless we really figure out how to deal with the root causes of these Tricky Don/Dick symptoms.
“So this is my updated attempt at addressing some of the deeper causes of our problems,” Thoreau said. “I also include updated links to about 300 organizations and other resources working to make a better world. A lot of issues tie together.”
Conservative talk show host Rush “Fat Bastard” Limbaugh once called him a “liar” on his show, probably in reference to Thor calling Limbaugh “the biggest lying, Dominican Republic-underaged-girl-screwing sack of shit that ever got on the air.” Trump energy flunky Rick Perry once said he should suffer and initiated an investigation of him after he wrote about his alleged homosexual activity. Thor once debated G. Gordon Liddy about the First Amendment and other issues on the Watergate crook’s radio show while driving his car 80 miles an hour through rural Tennessee.
He was the last writer to interview Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a sexual assault lawsuit against George W. Bush and died via a gunshot wound that was ruled a suicide a few months later. His reports on Arnold Schwarznegger – who he has come to actually admire in an odd way − and others were so revealing that the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and others called to follow up.
His name is a pseudonym taken from a combination of a late dog and one of his favorite writers.
“In this way, my dog still lives to do some noble, important deeds,” Thoreau said. “Henry David Thoreau was a writer who did a lot more than just write about problems in society in the 1800s; he worked for solutions. He was active in the anti-slavery, transcendental, environmental, non-corporal punishment, and other movements of his day. If Thoreau was alive today, I think he would have written books and columns like I have. I think he would be on the side of the oppressed, not the oppressors.”
The author's twitter feed is here, and Facebook page is here.
No comments:
Post a Comment