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The unemployment rate for transgender people is double that of the general population. A new program aims to change that. It's all because of a trans woman who's employed trans people for years.
‘in the years she’s had restaurants staffed with trans people, customers have been overwhelmingly supportive. And when they aren’t, she says bosses should be prepared to stand up for their employees.
“You know, you always hear the thing, ‘The customer’s always right’,” she sayss. “In my restaurants, the customer’s always right unless they attack you personally.“’
This is the biggest part. Employers need to be prepared to back you up and support you as an employee. That’s a big part of how you create a welcoming atmosphere. There’s always going to be crappy people out there, but if you feel your boss will defend you and have your back, it makes everything more tolerable.
Time for another political essay. If you’re not an American citizen or able to vote in this upcoming election, my apologies.
I make no secret that I fucking despise Donald Trump. I actually like Hillary Clinton, which seems to be a weird rarity considering the amount of good work she’s done and the fact that all of the bad press about her is the result of the Republicans trying (and failing) to tear her and her husband down for thirty years.
Trump is now trailing far behind Clinton, which I consider a cause for celebration. But it is NOT a cause for complacency.
The biggest landslide election in US history was the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920, when Harding won with about 60% of the vote to his opponent’s 34.2%.
Some polls are reporting Trump with as little as 35% of the popular vote right now.
If turnout is large enough and loud enough, we can make Donald Trump the least supported major candidate in US history. Since the recording of him bragging about sexual assault came out, he has turned to dragging the whole election into the mud by striking back at Bill Clinton’s affairs; the usual goal of that kind of tactic is to drive down voter turnout. Trump’s band of Redcaps is pretty much guaranteed to vote, so they figure if they reduce turnout enough, they’ll win.
I want their plan to fail. I want their plan to fail so fucking spectacularly that NO ONE will dare to run for President on a platform of thinly-veiled fascism again.
The Republicans thought the House of Representatives was safe this year. In 2010, they gerrymandered the shit out of district lines to keep the House safe for them for at least ten years. But there’s a problem with gerrymandering: if the demographics shift unexpectedly between censuses, then suddenly a lot of districts wind up flipping against the party that the gerrymandering was meant to support. And Donald Trump is driving away the Republicans’ most secure core of voters, the evangelicals. And as I’ve said before: Congress is MORE important than the presidency.
If turnout is strong enough, and if people vote down ballot, the possibility exists for a massive upset. A Democratic presidency, a Democratic House, a Democratic Senate. They’re within our grasp. All you need to do, voters, is show up.
Motherfuckers don’t want you to vote. Young people, people of color, women, LGBTQ+ folks–they want you to be scared away, or to be convinced that voting doesn’t matter. They want your voice silenced. Don’t give the fuckers the satisfaction of letting it happen.
GO VOTE. VOTE DOWN-BALLOT. MAKE TRUMP THE BIGGEST LOSER IN US HISTORY.
IF YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO VOTE OUT OF CONVICTION, THEN DO IT OUT OF SPITE.
the 2016 Democratic platform is the most progressive political platform ever advanced by a major party in this country. it is important and it is necessary.
it has little chance of going anywhere if the Democrats don’t take back Congress. at the very least they MUST take the Senate; if at all possible, they need to take the House. THEY MUST.
Every single one of President Obama’s legislative achievements? That happened in his first two years, when the Democrats had Congress. The last six years of vicious gridlocked GOP hell were enough; let’s not repeat that.
VOTE DOWNTICKET
Vote for the platform and the causes that matter to you
GET OUT AND VOTE
“IF YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO VOTE OUT OF CONVICTION, THEN DO IT OUT OF SPITE.“
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Anonymous: So if our popular vote doesn't matter and if it's up to the votes of the electoral college whether trump or Hillary is in office then why again are we voting if we truly don't count anyway
The electoral college votes based on the popular vote, and the reason that it’s important for you to vote, and why voting for a third party is essentially useless, is because each state is winner take all. Whoever gets the highest percentage of a state’s popular vote then gets all the electoral votes of that state.
Third party candidates never get the majority of a state’s popular vote, so they don’t get any electoral college votes, so the only thing they really do is take away from one of the two main candidates that the vote could have gone towards to boost their percentage. If Trump gets 47% and Clinton gets 46% because the remaining 7% was split between Johnson and Stein, Trump wins the state and all its electoral college votes.
Is that kind of a shitty system? Maybe so, but that’s the reality of how it works. You don’t have to like Clinton, but we have to band together and vote for her to keep Trump from winning.
