Morning. We need to pick ourselves up, dust off all of our GOTV skills and get to work. Trump showed us the horrific alternative to inaction. Time for us to start waking up our fellow Americans.
Yesterday I heard more concerns from people about sore loser Bernie people deciding not to vote. I swear I want to throttle these people. We have a monumental threat to our democracy in this election and people still want to nurse grudges and then use that as an excuse for inaction. They are as ME focused as Trump.
Good morning Jackie, IMO a good portion of Bernie’s supporters (about 30-37%) were pissed off Repubs labeling themselves as Indy’s as well as about 10-12% Teabaggers. Just Saying IMO.
It seemed from Bernie’s tweets last night he’ll be asking his folks to vote for Hillary next week. Whether they will or not – another story – but most probably will come around.
G’morning Nerdy & TOD!! 🙂 Congrats RanMan on #1, and Happy Friday everyone!
I’m so glad that this RNC spectacle of hate is over (as least for now), and next week we get to watch the DNC which will be much better for the country’s blood pressure and overall health!
What it all came down to is that Donald Trump told America and the world that we are in a hell of a mess and he is the only one who can fix it.
That has been the message of every dictator — from the left or the right — for time out of mind. Every one of them has cited facts they claim to be true yet are easily refuted. Every one of them has found a scapegoat to blame for the problems their citizens faced and accused them of treachery or worse. Every one of them has claimed to be the voice of the people, and every one of them, whether they’re standing on the stage at Nuremberg, the balcony in Rome, the wall of the Kremlin, the plaza in Havana, or the gates of the Forbidden City, has risen to power or seized it with that messianic claim, and every one of them has done it at the expense of lives, fortunes, and freedom. Fortunately no one has ever stood on the steps of the Capitol in Washington and delivered a speech like that, and if we are to live and grow and survive as a country, we never will hear it.
Mr. Trump’s speech was all about him, how “I” will do this, “I” will stop that, “I” will make some other thing happen. It was rarely “we,” and when it was, it was about what his administration — his government — will do to others.
But this is a nation of “We.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,” “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” The echos of Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt were lost in the bombast and narcissism of this belligerent bully who knows nothing of true compassion for anyone other than himself or what would feed his ego.
Whoever is the Democratic VP nominee, I will cheer, I will be merry, I will work my heart out in support of the Democratic ticket, the only vehicle to preserve progress made under my POTUS.
I will talk to skeptics and convince friends as well as colleagues that there is only one choice in November: Hillary Clinton.
Cory Booker is not it either Sue. He just isn’t. Besides, this won’t be an issue as thankfully he still has to hold his seat for at least another year or two anyway.
Co-sign. I don’t work on Fridays. The next couple of weeks, months before election day, I will be using most of my three-day weekend to work for this ticket. The alternative is most horrifying. 🙂
In addition to a call or a prayer for God to step in, we have to be active in achieving the outcome we want.
In other words…because we have health, strength and a frame of mind to understand as given to us by our heavenly Father, he requires us to get some skin in the game and become actively engaged and become participants in that outcome. So we the people have the responsibility to organize, mobilize and get folks out to vote.
We’re on the same wave length today nospin – I keep thinking of all the gop prayers for those killed by gun violence – this does nothing to reduce gun violence.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE ALL HAD SKIN IN THE GAME SINCE 2008….HOWEVER WE ARE IN JUDGMENT FOR THE VIOLENCE AND GREED AND LACK OF HUMANITY THAT HAS DARKENED THIS NATION AND THE ENTIRE WORLD AS WELL….THE REST OF THE RIDE WILL BE UP TO OUR SOVEREIGN GOD AND NOONE ELSE WILL STAND ABOVE HIM.
Good West Coast morning TOD family. Thanks NW for holding it down while the GOP went crazy this week 😘
I’m thinking about and missing my Chipsticks {{{hugs}}}💕
One person the media seems to report on is Elizabeth Warren. This will continue to happen regardless as to her position within the party – I am not entirely sure as to why but whatever gets the dems in front of the people is good.
I watched a good press conference that someone? linked with Cory Booker Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Al Franken. All their presentations were good – the only question the media wanted to ask was “Will Cory be the VP” – and it got virtually no publicity. It seems near impossible for the US media to give ANY air time to democrats.
One of the worst things Bill Clinton ever did was to sign a bill allowing the consolidation of media under corporate ownership. Very few very rich Republicans own almost everything. This is one of the big reasons why Democrats are choked out and RWNJs are everywhere. It’s not news, it’s propaganda and it’s a moneymaker.
Same thing happened in Oz – we followed the US down that path & Murdoch owns a massive proportion of our press. Fortunately we still have the ABC (although RW governments try to defund it), our equivalent of the BBC.
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, will stand trial over a state payout to the French tycoon Bernard Tapie, an appeals court has ruled.
She is charged with negligence over the award to Mr Tapie of €404m ($445m; £339m) in 2008 when she was France’s economy minister.
Ms Lagarde had appealed against a lower court ruling from December.
She is now expected to appear before a special court for government ministers.
The case stems from Mr Tapie’s sale of his majority stake in the sports equipment company, Adidas, which was handled by the state-owned bank, Credit Lyonnais.
The businessman sued for compensation after claiming he was defrauded by the bank and received too little from the sale in 1993.
That is so true! They gave us Sarah Palin and watched the Tea Party destroy everything this country stands for just because they could not stand a black man being President.
Recently I’ve noticed that I have developed two lines of defense against the kind of panic I would feel about an actual Trump presidency. First and foremost is the fact that the odds against him being elected are enormous. The Upshot recently calculated that Clinton has a 76% chance of winning.
Running a distance second to that defense is the fact that, as Stephen Colbert put it, “If he doesn’t ever have to mean what he says, that means he can say anything.” As soon as Trump says something truly outrageous, he and his campaign get busy walking it back. Just to demonstrate the level of outrageousness expressed by Trump, I actually fear his unpredictability less than I do what he says.
I must admit that the second line of defense tends to crumble with stories like the one Kevin Drum reports with this headline: “Donald Trump Just Invited Russia to Attack Eastern Europe.” Or how about this one from Jeffrey Goldberg? “It’s Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin.” Neither one of these men are the type who are prone to hyperbole. Here’s more from Goldberg:
I am arguing that Trump’s understanding of America’s role in the world aligns with Russia’s geostrategic interests; that his critique of American democracy is in accord with the Kremlin’s critique of American democracy; and that he shares numerous ideological and dispositional proclivities with Putin—for one thing, an obsession with the sort of “strength” often associated with dictators. Trump is making it clear that, as president, he would allow Russia to advance its hegemonic interests across Europe and the Middle East. His election would immediately trigger a wave of global instability—much worse than anything we are seeing today—because America’s allies understand that Trump would likely dismantle the post-World War II U.S.-created international order. Many of these countries, feeling abandoned, would likely pursue nuclear weapons programs on their own, leading to a nightmare of proliferation
THAT’S CALLED ‘WHITE HERTAGE’..THEY CAN’T WAIT FOR THE BLACK GUY TO LEAVE OFFICE!….TRUMP COULD NEVER EVER HOPE TO BE ABLE TO COMPARE HIMSELF TO THE ENERGIZER..THERE IS ONLY ONE OF THOSE………..DON’T REMIND ME!
Give us a break now! Once we are done putting this moron (Donald Trump) into his place in November, we can talk about Citizens United and money into politics. Not before!!!
Billions of dollars are being funneled into our elections in a form of legalized bribery.
So according to the police union it is just fine to shot a mentally handicapped man with a toy truck. I don’t know how people like that live with themselves.
I mean if the Police union wants to go with that the Policeman was aiming for an autistic boy with a toy truck in his hand who wasn’t armed and who was sitting on the ground then by all means, go with it. And lets not forget that the Policeman discharged his weapon three times striking Mr. Kinsey once in the leg.
Again, why did the officer shot in his direction at two unarmed people one with his hands up and the other clearly sitting down and not doing anything threatening, why did the police handcuff the social worker while breeding if they were trying to save his life? Since the social worker was the only one shot in the leg and no more shots were fired, why was it ok to walk over and handcuff and subdue BOTH people? The police union really believe that people are stupid, they KNOW the media with repeat and try to convince the viewers that this make perfect sense. This is what’s wrong with police unions, if State governments can cripple teacher and state worker’s unions they need to cripple these unions that cost the states and cities millions of $’s due to police carelessness. I think the money paid out to victims should come out of police unions pockets not taxpayers.
I watched the end and I think VJ did fine and as usual placated his interviewers that “both” sides are the blame for no infrastructure bills passing and not taking care of veterans when it has been the Republicans that have not done a damn thing given PBO’s jobs bill back in 2011 that sits collecting dust. These dude bros in the end did not learn a thing in my opinion except now they like VJ but they need to replay and listen over and over until they get it…..they still are going to vote GOP because they in my opinion hate women, hate Hillary.
Do we think Mike Pence is standing behind Trump regretting his choice to be the VP nominee? Doubt it. Guys like this will do anything to be in the limelight.
Also, Elizabeth Warren said last night she hasn’t heard from HRC.
Now, this could either be a head fake on HRC’s part but this person has to get to Florida for today’s event………OR, it’s down to Vilsack and Perez…….OR someone completely off the radar!!
Donald Trump’s speech last night had the fact-checkers geared up to overdrive. He threw out a lot of numbers and made a lot of claims. In summary, most of them turned out to be distortions and/or lies. You can check out the results at Politifact, Vox and the Washington Post. Overall, he proved Stephen Colbert to be a modern-day prophet by coining the word “Trumpism,” meaning, “If he doesn’t ever have to mean what he says, that means he can say anything.”
The other thing you might have noticed about Trump’s speech is that he didn’t offer any real solutions. Here are just a couple of examples from Peter Suderman:
In addition to terrorism and criminality, Trump stoked anxiety about jobs and the economy, lamenting bad trade deals and the loss of manufacturing jobs. As president, he said, he would take our bad trade deals—especially NAFTA—and turn them into good ones. He did not say one word about how, or even what a “good” trade would look like, only that he would fix the problem. Trump promised to bring outsourced jobs back to America, and, as he has in the past, threatened unspecified “consequences” to companies that move operations overseas.
So what it boils down to is that Trump provided a collection of lies to define a set of problems to which he offered no solutions. That would be the kind of analysis that comes from people who are reality-based. But Frank Rich identified what that misses about what was going on last night.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Friday morning. TGIF>>
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD”ders. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you look with great anticipation, expectation, and excitement how God is going to work in your life today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Listening to this song makes me cry. We can’t allow Trump to win.
Morning. We need to pick ourselves up, dust off all of our GOTV skills and get to work. Trump showed us the horrific alternative to inaction. Time for us to start waking up our fellow Americans.
Yesterday I heard more concerns from people about sore loser Bernie people deciding not to vote. I swear I want to throttle these people. We have a monumental threat to our democracy in this election and people still want to nurse grudges and then use that as an excuse for inaction. They are as ME focused as Trump.
Good morning Jackie, IMO a good portion of Bernie’s supporters (about 30-37%) were pissed off Repubs labeling themselves as Indy’s as well as about 10-12% Teabaggers. Just Saying IMO.
I think the bs deadenders are minuscule as it is now and I am sure that pool will dry out as soon as the real campaigning by our veterans start.
It seemed from Bernie’s tweets last night he’ll be asking his folks to vote for Hillary next week. Whether they will or not – another story – but most probably will come around.
💞☮❤🕉❤☮💞
Happy Friday TODers.
GM Nerdy and thank you.
((((((((((Chips))))))))))))))
gm TOD. Congrats on 1st RanMan
G’morning Nerdy & TOD!! 🙂 Congrats RanMan on #1, and Happy Friday everyone!
I’m so glad that this RNC spectacle of hate is over (as least for now), and next week we get to watch the DNC which will be much better for the country’s blood pressure and overall health!
Good Morning.
I echo those words.
Good Friday morning, NW and TODville.
Will watch…have not watched in quite a while
the most retweeted tweet yesterday.
I am positive many bs bots are on board now.
Hmmmm
Two days notice? What a pathetic campaign. He couldn’t plan a Sunday picnic.
All hype, flair. The GOP as a whole pride themselves on fakery and façade.
and yet this nepotistic hire will vote for it and the thug.
Good Morning, Everyone 🙂
A Speech only a Dictator Would Deliver
THE GOP CONVENTION’S TRUMP SPEECH=HITLER’S EGO TRIP!
Whoever is the Democratic VP nominee, I will cheer, I will be merry, I will work my heart out in support of the Democratic ticket, the only vehicle to preserve progress made under my POTUS.
I will talk to skeptics and convince friends as well as colleagues that there is only one choice in November: Hillary Clinton.
This!!!!
SHE NEEDS TO PICK CORY BOOKER FOR VP…HE WILL ALSO BRING IN THE YOUTH……………………..TIM KAINE IS N-O-T IT………………..!
Cory Booker is not it either Sue. He just isn’t. Besides, this won’t be an issue as thankfully he still has to hold his seat for at least another year or two anyway.
And who would want Chris Christie appointing his replacement
and there you go.
I am confident that Hillary has it all under control. Not only does she want to win, she absolutely wants to bring the Senate with her.
Well said NCLB!
she is very smart and has been politically savvy for years. we need to respect her judgement instead of judging her.
Absolutey, AMK. Couldn’t agree more.
Exactly Amk!
Co-sign. I don’t work on Fridays. The next couple of weeks, months before election day, I will be using most of my three-day weekend to work for this ticket. The alternative is most horrifying. 🙂
GOD IS GOING TO STEP ON THIS ELECTION..I GUARANTEE YOU! OUR LAST PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA!
In addition to a call or a prayer for God to step in, we have to be active in achieving the outcome we want.
In other words…because we have health, strength and a frame of mind to understand as given to us by our heavenly Father, he requires us to get some skin in the game and become actively engaged and become participants in that outcome. So we the people have the responsibility to organize, mobilize and get folks out to vote.
We’re on the same wave length today nospin – I keep thinking of all the gop prayers for those killed by gun violence – this does nothing to reduce gun violence.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE ALL HAD SKIN IN THE GAME SINCE 2008….HOWEVER WE ARE IN JUDGMENT FOR THE VIOLENCE AND GREED AND LACK OF HUMANITY THAT HAS DARKENED THIS NATION AND THE ENTIRE WORLD AS WELL….THE REST OF THE RIDE WILL BE UP TO OUR SOVEREIGN GOD AND NOONE ELSE WILL STAND ABOVE HIM.
Good West Coast morning TOD family. Thanks NW for holding it down while the GOP went crazy this week 😘
I’m thinking about and missing my Chipsticks {{{hugs}}}💕
One person the media seems to report on is Elizabeth Warren. This will continue to happen regardless as to her position within the party – I am not entirely sure as to why but whatever gets the dems in front of the people is good.
I watched a good press conference that someone? linked with Cory Booker Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Al Franken. All their presentations were good – the only question the media wanted to ask was “Will Cory be the VP” – and it got virtually no publicity. It seems near impossible for the US media to give ANY air time to democrats.
One of the worst things Bill Clinton ever did was to sign a bill allowing the consolidation of media under corporate ownership. Very few very rich Republicans own almost everything. This is one of the big reasons why Democrats are choked out and RWNJs are everywhere. It’s not news, it’s propaganda and it’s a moneymaker.
Same thing happened in Oz – we followed the US down that path & Murdoch owns a massive proportion of our press. Fortunately we still have the ABC (although RW governments try to defund it), our equivalent of the BBC.
Oh, no! So the whole world is falling prey to these megalomaniacs. BOO.
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, will stand trial over a state payout to the French tycoon Bernard Tapie, an appeals court has ruled.
She is charged with negligence over the award to Mr Tapie of €404m ($445m; £339m) in 2008 when she was France’s economy minister.
Ms Lagarde had appealed against a lower court ruling from December.
She is now expected to appear before a special court for government ministers.
The case stems from Mr Tapie’s sale of his majority stake in the sports equipment company, Adidas, which was handled by the state-owned bank, Credit Lyonnais.
The businessman sued for compensation after claiming he was defrauded by the bank and received too little from the sale in 1993.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36868195
Say it out loud – Listening to Schmidt and Wallace on MSNBC is beyond nauseating.
That is so true! They gave us Sarah Palin and watched the Tea Party destroy everything this country stands for just because they could not stand a black man being President.
Trump’s Outrageous Foreign Policy Views
by Nancy LeTourneau
July 21, 2016 3:32 PM
Recently I’ve noticed that I have developed two lines of defense against the kind of panic I would feel about an actual Trump presidency. First and foremost is the fact that the odds against him being elected are enormous. The Upshot recently calculated that Clinton has a 76% chance of winning.
Running a distance second to that defense is the fact that, as Stephen Colbert put it, “If he doesn’t ever have to mean what he says, that means he can say anything.” As soon as Trump says something truly outrageous, he and his campaign get busy walking it back. Just to demonstrate the level of outrageousness expressed by Trump, I actually fear his unpredictability less than I do what he says.
I must admit that the second line of defense tends to crumble with stories like the one Kevin Drum reports with this headline: “Donald Trump Just Invited Russia to Attack Eastern Europe.” Or how about this one from Jeffrey Goldberg? “It’s Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin.” Neither one of these men are the type who are prone to hyperbole. Here’s more from Goldberg:
Eeek
meh! I don’t begrudge them dancing to a song they like. Some of the elderly had some pretty cute moves.
Now their political views…eeek.
Yep, I thought that older woman was actually quite good.
THAT’S CALLED ‘WHITE HERTAGE’..THEY CAN’T WAIT FOR THE BLACK GUY TO LEAVE OFFICE!….TRUMP COULD NEVER EVER HOPE TO BE ABLE TO COMPARE HIMSELF TO THE ENERGIZER..THERE IS ONLY ONE OF THOSE………..DON’T REMIND ME!
Give us a break now! Once we are done putting this moron (Donald Trump) into his place in November, we can talk about Citizens United and money into politics. Not before!!!
Hi Everyone! Hope you’re having a great day!
Let’s GO!!
Good morning TOD folks! One word to end the previous day Ugh! Starting today with Hope again.
So according to the police union it is just fine to shot a mentally handicapped man with a toy truck. I don’t know how people like that live with themselves.
I mean if the Police union wants to go with that the Policeman was aiming for an autistic boy with a toy truck in his hand who wasn’t armed and who was sitting on the ground then by all means, go with it. And lets not forget that the Policeman discharged his weapon three times striking Mr. Kinsey once in the leg.
Again, why did the officer shot in his direction at two unarmed people one with his hands up and the other clearly sitting down and not doing anything threatening, why did the police handcuff the social worker while breeding if they were trying to save his life? Since the social worker was the only one shot in the leg and no more shots were fired, why was it ok to walk over and handcuff and subdue BOTH people? The police union really believe that people are stupid, they KNOW the media with repeat and try to convince the viewers that this make perfect sense. This is what’s wrong with police unions, if State governments can cripple teacher and state worker’s unions they need to cripple these unions that cost the states and cities millions of $’s due to police carelessness. I think the money paid out to victims should come out of police unions pockets not taxpayers.
It’s long (31 mins) but worth a watch
I watched the end and I think VJ did fine and as usual placated his interviewers that “both” sides are the blame for no infrastructure bills passing and not taking care of veterans when it has been the Republicans that have not done a damn thing given PBO’s jobs bill back in 2011 that sits collecting dust. These dude bros in the end did not learn a thing in my opinion except now they like VJ but they need to replay and listen over and over until they get it…..they still are going to vote GOP because they in my opinion hate women, hate Hillary.
Is that 0 the liberty bell? tacky.
I kind of like it. Why you don’t like it?
Yep. It’s a rather clever way to recognize Philly 🙂
You gotta remember it’s in Philadelphia.
yes, I know. that’s why it’s tacky. I like simple logos.
wut
i love it….it is all over town…there has been such a flurry of activity around the city….
Hilarious: 🙂 🙂 🙂
Someone built a wall around Trump’s star on the walk of fame.
POTUS alert
And this is the thing. Hitler’s rise wasn’t just about hate. It was about craven fucks who thought he was their best bet for power.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 22, 2016
If anybody wants to R/T – this message is clear:
VP Joe 😄
OMG!!!!
Awwwww.
Sweeeeeeeet
Do we think Mike Pence is standing behind Trump regretting his choice to be the VP nominee? Doubt it. Guys like this will do anything to be in the limelight.
Just now got the great news. Daughter Unit topped her final year MD exams.
Let me be the first of a long list to congratulate you on your daughter’s achievement.
Thank you, nclb. She worked very hard for the past three years and got the deserved result. She topped both theory and practicals.
Wow! Now I know where you get your smart.
LOL.
WOW, BRAVA!! Cheers to daughter and the family!!
Thanks, meta.
Congratulations to you and your daughter, AMK. She’s an amazing woman!
Thank you, jg.
Congrats, amk!! 🙂 🙂
Thank you, africa.
Hip! Hip!! Hip!!!
HooRay!
Congrats, Daughter Unit!
Congrats, Proud Papa & Mama Unit!
LOL. Thanks, Nena.
Congratulations to Daughter unit! I’m sure you are all so proud of her.
Excuse me, I am not trying to be mean, but where is Ivanka’s a$$? Okay behind is what I should have said.
Hmmmmmmm…….
Also, Elizabeth Warren said last night she hasn’t heard from HRC.
Now, this could either be a head fake on HRC’s part but this person has to get to Florida for today’s event………OR, it’s down to Vilsack and Perez…….OR someone completely off the radar!!
who ever the VP pic is…they already know….
One would think since they will be together today. Unless the press have been punked into believing it’s today. Did that come from her campaign?
Trump’s Speech: An Appeal to His Supporters’ Id
by Nancy LeTourneau
July 22, 2016 9:36 AM
Donald Trump’s speech last night had the fact-checkers geared up to overdrive. He threw out a lot of numbers and made a lot of claims. In summary, most of them turned out to be distortions and/or lies. You can check out the results at Politifact, Vox and the Washington Post. Overall, he proved Stephen Colbert to be a modern-day prophet by coining the word “Trumpism,” meaning, “If he doesn’t ever have to mean what he says, that means he can say anything.”
The other thing you might have noticed about Trump’s speech is that he didn’t offer any real solutions. Here are just a couple of examples from Peter Suderman:
So what it boils down to is that Trump provided a collection of lies to define a set of problems to which he offered no solutions. That would be the kind of analysis that comes from people who are reality-based. But Frank Rich identified what that misses about what was going on last night.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/07/22/president-obama-and-president-pena-nieto-hold-a-joint-press-conference/