Counting the Days until Impeachment

The impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1999

During most of 2017 I was enraged by the dt presidency.  It shouldn't be happening.

I was angry that the 2016 election had been stolen by: 

• James Comey playing up the Clinton emails
• voter intimidation and disenrollment in certain states
• Russian bots posing as Americans and posting lies about Hillary Rodham Clinton on Facebook and Twitter
• Other lies targeting right-wing voters
• Bill Clinton's mistake of talking to Attorney General Loretta Lynch

All of the above is still true, but now there are other deceptive measures to add to the list:

• Facebook selling data to Cambridge Analytica
• Facebook sending employees to CA to help this Steve-Bannon-based group target voters 
• Michael Cohen paying Stormy Daniels in October 2016 to keep her from telling her story on "Good Morning America."

The president and his campaign have broken so many laws and told so many lies that it's just a matter of time until the House impeaches him.

Here are some others who agree with me:
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeachment-just-matter-time-after-more-4-million-sign-petition-tom-807814

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-midterms-could-set-trump-on-a-path-toward-impeachment/


I'm not worried any more.  The need to attend a demonstration calling for his impeachment is over. Yes, this administration continues to damage the nation in many ways every day, but the end is in sight. 

Mid-term elections are coming up in seven months, and all indications are that afterward there will be enough votes in the House to impeach dt.

The investigation into Russian collusion in the election continues apace, and eventually Mueller will calmly state, "Checkmate."

A falling stock market will trigger Trump's fall even if the Congress doesn't act.

Trump and his White House have shrunk in my eyes to a source of entertainment.  Shocking new words or actions emerge every day. It's almost fun to see the latest ludicrous developments.

"Honey, I shrank the president," someone tweeted after Karen McDougal told her story to 60 Minutes about her ten-month affair with dt.

He's shrinking more every day.  

I'm no longer angry at him or obsessed by him--just saddened by the whole sordid mess.

Facebook Flunks Ethics 101

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-cambridge-analytica-used-your-facebook-data-to-help-elect-trump/
ZDNET is "for professionals seeking to research technology-related issues, and solve business technology problems."

I'm disgusted with Facebook.

After much thought, I decided not to delete or deactivate my FB account.  Instead, I will stop using FB but leave a final post and cover photo to explain why I am leaving.

Deleting or deactivating would mean losing a big part of my online voice--in order to punish Facebook.  

By leaving up my final post, I am using the FB platform to speak out against FB.

My plan is to return after Donald Trump is impeached.

Facebook has committed two major crimes, both of which contributed to the defeat of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the election of Donald Trump.

1) Facebook provided a few of its own employees to the Trump campaign during 2016.  They worked out of Brad Parscale’s office multiple days a week. Parscale says he "used only Republican employees and wanted them to be partisan if they were going to work for the campaign," according to a Wall Street Journal article last October.

https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-embeds-trump-campaign-7…/ 


https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-and-google-face-emboldened-antagonists-big-advertisers-1521998394

2) Facebook sold the data of 50 million users to Steve Bannon's and Robert Mercer's shady "Cambridge Analytica."  That data was then used to find and target vulnerable voters by sending sheer lies about Hillary Clinton to their FB pages.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambridge-analytica-explained.html


Contributing to the election of the worst American president in history is an unforgivable act.

I regret not being able to keep up with my friends via FB and not being able to post flower photos, dog photos, and political comments.

But I have to turn my back on this medium that has contributed to harming so many people and endangering the entire world.

Email me at AnneLinstatter@gmail.com.

My political and feminist posts will be on my blog www.marthaymaria.blogspot.com 

Flowers and the beauty of God's creation will be on https://hallelujahdays.blogspot.com/ 

I will  read your tweets and fight the White House on Twitter @AnneLinstatter 

If you post on Instagram, I'll see you there, and I will post photos of dogs, flowers, etc.: annelinstatter. 

Hasta la vista...