The Complicit Oregon Feckless Forty And Friends

Oregon’s elected Republican Trump sycophants, Oregon’s Feckless Forty, show no signs of diminished zeal and submission to their would be king/dictator Donald.

• Trump’s Republican Party including Oregon’s Feckless Forty are complicit in allowing Donald Trump to always put his needs first before our country and Americans.
• We are governed by a President with no moral center.
• Russian meddling in American elections is of no concern to Trump and Trump supporters, including Oregon’s Feckless Forty.
• Trump’s continuing attempts to destroy Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will adversely affect the constituents of Oregon’s Feckless Forty.
• Trump’s tariff provoking trade war will negatively affect the constituents of Oregon’s Feckless Forty with diminished jobs, purchasing power, bank accounts, pensions and IRAs. It will especially hit farmers and high tech but will ultimately affect all Oregonians.
• Child snatching/kidnapping and imprisoning children is now Republican policy.
• Oregon farmers are already having trouble finding workers and getting crops to market.
• Trump’s self-incited chaotic immigration policy has and will continue to negatively affect Oregon.

We know who the Oregon Feckless Forty are: 25 state House Rs, 13 state Senate Rs, Rep. Greg Walden (R) and Sec. of State Dennis Richardson (R). To date these Trump enablers have supported Trump’s behavior deeming him fit to be the President of the United States of America.

The Oregon Feckless Forty are now part of the GOP cult of Republican voters who have decided that they will follow their leader no matter what he says or does. They believe in manipulating elections to maintain and increase their individual political power and that of the Republican Party.

Donald Trump would rule by fiat if he could get away with it. He certainly keeps trying. Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to Oregonians and all Americans.

Here are some things you can do to stop the malignant Trumpocracy and support a healthy American Democracy, Decency and the Rule of Law:

• Stop buying products easily identified as connected to rich Republicans that profit from your purchases and then use your money to contribute heavily to Oregon Republicans. Start with Nike, whose cofounder, Phil Knight, gave Republican gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler $500,000 and a chart of the biggest donors.*1
• Contact these and other Trump Party financial enablers and challenge them to speak publicly in defense Trump’s fitness to be President. Ask them to defend Trump/Republican arguments to eliminate Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, Trump’s Tariff Trade War Tactics, kidnapping children as a humane immigration policy and Trump’s blatantly narcissistic, self-aggrandizing ME FIRST behavior.*1
• Respond to the Press.
  • Oregon’s Feckless Forty and friends fortify Fox News as a Trump Party Propaganda machine. If you have been watching it, even occasionally, STOP. If you have relatives, friends or co-workers who watch Fox News, do them a favor, tell them to STOP because it’s poisoning their minds. Fox News denies reality and abhors the truth.
• If you read Google News demand that they stop forcing you to accept stories from Fox News. Google News will allow its readers to hide all other news sources expect Fox News.
• It is worth noting which Oregon media outlets are endorsing any of Oregon’s Feckless Forty for public office. To do so is tantamount to an endorsement for Donald Trump, his policies, his behavior, his morals, his ethics and his fitness to be President and a role model for the children of Oregon.
• Contact our Oregon Senators Wyden and Merkley and tell them to vigorously oppose all of Donald Trump’s federal court nominations, especially those for the Supreme Court.

“Vote against the GOP this November” writes long-time, nationally respected, conservative columnist George Will. That is good advice.

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*1 - Here’s a short list of Republican donors (Click on Finance Activity for details) who, along with Oregon’s Feckless Forty, should be shamed and shunned in public places and in their businesses because they support the following:

• Lying as a mainstay of political and government communication with Oregonians.
• Destroying Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, especially bringing back pre-existing conditions as a reason for insurers to cancel or raise rates of Oregonians’ health insurance.
• Donald Trump as fit to be President and an exemplar of ethical and moral leadership to the children of Oregon and America.

Phil Knight, Nike cofounder, $500,000

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