I wonder if other countries genuinely believe Donald Trump represents the thoughts and opinions of America as a whole. Cuz as far as I’m concerned most of us see him as a mistake an an embarrassment. I wonder if they see what he does and think “that’s what all Americans are like, that’s what all of America wants” or if they see us as a captive audience to his bullshit

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I don’t know, hopefully the latter, but he’s pretty much every negative stereotype about Americans. 

jon shieber tweeted this, saying it’s “from an american friend of mine working with the un in iraq”:

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so if we’re worried about american image issues we better keep protesting

this is important for many reasons, but one of them is – i think we need to accept that we are going to lose a lot of these battles, and lose big, and it’s going to be fucking ROUGH. and in those moments we will need to remember that we can make a difference not just by winning, but by showing up to fight.

I was talking to a friend in Greece and he commented on how sad he felt about everything happening here, but how encouraging it was that people are protesting and fighting back.  So yes, the awful stuff is making it overseas, but so are the positives.

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The Romanian government just decriminalised official misconduct.

This essentially makes corruption legal.

what is life

fuckers passed the law in the middle of the night

despite protests being held against this in the last two weeks

there were more than 100k people on the streets a few days ago

i can’t even

I’m shaking with rage. A huge number of politicians will have their criminal records thrown out. People who have cause state prejudice of millions of dollars (they’re estimating a total of almost one billion). People who have tried to rig the votes in the last presidential election. The officials who had done the inspection in the Colectiv club before the fire that claimed 64 lives last year will be off their charges too.

I’m numb.

Is this for real? What the fuck.

Here’s an article in the Washington Post

New York Times

Financial Times

Protests are being organized throughout the country. I’m so worried that violence may break out, despite the fact that all protests so far have been peaceful.

There are 175.000 people out in the streets in the entire country. I’m hoping this changes something.

Over 300.000 at the moment.
It’s the biggest protest in Romania in the last 25 years.

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a few cool things i saw today that didn’t make me wanna scream and bang my head on the wall like everything else:

1) the MOST important – Two G.O.P. Senators to Oppose DeVos as Education Secretary, Imperiling Her Confirmation that means if all dems oppose devos, we have a tie that mike pence will break. we need ONE MORE REPUBLICAN SENATOR to vote no to sink the nomination, keep the pressure up. 

2) trump cancelled a trip to the harley-davidson factory in milwaukee because harley-davidson was worried about protests hurting its brand. lol but also pressuring businesses not to associate themselves with trump could be key

3) there’s gonna be a science march on washington on april 22 (earth day) cuz science is real 

4) a THOUSAND state department officials signed a “dissent cable” opposing the Muslim ban. the dissent channel was started in 1971 and is meant to be a way for diplomats to declare their opposition to particular policies without fear of political retribution. to gauge the level of opposition represented by a thousand signatures, consider that only 51 diplomats signed a dissent memo against president obama’s syria policy in 2016.