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149 Responses to “Early Bird Chat”


  1. 1 Dudette
    October 3, 2016 at 8:21 am

    Happy Monday! 😘

  2. 13 Don
    October 3, 2016 at 8:42 am

    Good Morning TOD! What a beautiful Monday, may all your dreams come true.

  3. 14 Ladyhawke
    October 3, 2016 at 8:45 am

    • 15 Don
      October 3, 2016 at 9:08 am

      That’s not the question that should be asked, the question that should be asked is why those that live paycheck to paycheck consistently support and vote for people that don’t give two fucks about them?

      • 16 carla4obama
        October 3, 2016 at 10:58 am

        Don..my husband tells me that same thing. Trump will be gone soon, but the millions that support him will still be around after the election. How do we address them as a nation? How does the Republican party address them? What type of autopsy will they do this election? Will the Republican party split?

        • 17 0388jojothecat
          October 3, 2016 at 11:45 am

          I do not think DT will be gone once he loses. He is a sore loser and if it is not close he will manufacture something that the election was stolen. He will sue because that’s his middle name. My hope is he will loose so much money and his brand will be destroyed financially. The lunatics will be around for awhile unfortunately until they realize they have been duped just like they were duped by $P.

  4. 18 Ladyhawke
    October 3, 2016 at 8:47 am

    Taxes are Good

    “Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: ‘I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.'”

    Most conservative criticisms about the ill-effects of taxes are exaggerated or untrue. Taxes are in fact good – they are dues we pay to enjoy the numerous vital benefits that government provides for our society.

    http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=17

  5. 19 Ladyhawke
    October 3, 2016 at 8:50 am

    • October 3, 2016 at 10:25 am

      Thank you, HRC, for going there. The fact that undocumented immigrants have contributed vast sums to our treasury has always been true but never gained any traction against the demonization from the right. Maybe people will finally learn the truth.

  6. 21 amk for obama
    October 3, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been accused by ex-contestants and staff on reality show The Apprentice of sexism, according to an Associated Press investigation.

    More than 20 people interviewed described Mr Trump’s behaviour toward women as crass and inappropriate.

    /

    Another crew member said that Mr Trump often asked male contestants to rate the attractiveness of their female counterparts. The source described a day where cast and crew were all gathered to decide who to blame for a task.

    In the middle of the discussion, Mr Trump allegedly stopped, pointed to a woman and said he would have sex with her.

    “Everyone [was] trying to make him stop talking, and the woman [was] shrinking in her seat,” the source said.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37542294

  7. 22 amk for obama
    October 3, 2016 at 9:09 am

    Women in Poland have gone on strike in protest against proposals for a total ban on abortions.

    They marched through the streets wearing black as a sign of mourning for their reproductive rights.

    Women who oppose the ban are staying away from work and school and refusing to do domestic chores, in a protest inspired by a women’s strike in Iceland in 1975.

    Anti-abortion protests are being held around the country too.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37540139

  8. 23 Ladyhawke
    October 3, 2016 at 9:11 am

  9. 24 SUE DUVALL SMITH
    October 3, 2016 at 9:13 am

    IINDEED..I SHALL BE ON THE HATE LIST TODAY..I POSTED BOTH NYTIMES ARTICLES ON MY FB…THEY’LL GET A RASH..EVEN THE ONES AT MY NEW CHURCH AREN’T TOO HAPPY WITH ME AFTER THEY ENTERED MY FB ACCOUNT AND SAW PBO WAS ON IT..REPUGNANT IGNORANCE EVERYWHERE..I SHALL PADDLE ON!

    • 25 57andfemale
      October 3, 2016 at 9:17 am

      Tell your “friends” that Trump reveals taxes for loans and lawsuits, but not to run for POTUS.

      Remind them that he has revealed ZERO about his business dealings, that have far-reaching national security implications.

      Not that you’ll get through to them, but you’re a fighter, Sue.

      • 26 SUE DUVALL SMITH
        October 3, 2016 at 11:27 am

        I AM A FIGHTER…THEY RESENT ME BECAUSE OF PBO..BUT THAT’S OK…I’M USED TO IT…NOW THEY LOOK AT ME LIKE I’M BENEDICT ARNOLD…IT’S ROLLING OFF MY BACK NOW!..I FEEL SORRY FOR THEM…

  10. 27 jackiegrumbacher
    October 3, 2016 at 9:13 am

    Morning. Though my memories go back to (gulp) the Truman administration, the first presidential election I remember was the one between Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower. Since then there have been unpleasant campaigns and repellent characters who ran for president–George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan–but there was never a time when I was as ashamed of the American people as I am now. I see the Trump signs proliferating in my county and I feel despair for the moral integrity of those who believe that the corrupt, bigoted con man with the orange hair is qualified to be president and worthy of their support. These “neighbors” are embracing bigotry in all its form–racism, misogyny, homophobia and religious prejudice against Muslims and I’m sickened by it. I talk to Democrats who are depressed and sometimes paralyzed with fear that the fascists elements will win and American democracy as we know it will end in 2017. If Hillary wins and we lose the Senate, we will have more years of obstruction and legislative paralysis and the American people will do nothing about it in 2018. I look at our children and granddaughter and wonder what nightmares lie in their future. Everything will depend on the good outnumbering the bad on November 8 in a great existential battle for our common soul. We need not only to work, but to pray that the light will overcome the darkness.

    • 28 FoxfireTX
      October 3, 2016 at 10:04 am

      Jackie, I understand your despair. But remember this. THIS is the country that elected Barack Hussein Obama TWICE by a popular vote majority. I simply do not believe that this same country will actually put the orange buffoon in the Oval Office. Like you, I am ashamed and embarrassed. More than anything, it has made me realize just how decrepit our educational system has become and must be a focus for the coming generation.

      For me personally, the saddest thing is that I just want this election to be over. I hate what DT is doing to our country. It is a stark contrast from the hope I felt in the last two elections.

      A funny note from deep red TX. Yesterday, I saw my first Johnson/Weld yard sign in a house that always has signs for deep red Rs in every election. I suspect that there will be more Rs that vote for that ticket than Ds in the end.

      Five weeks to go.

    • 29 CEB
      October 3, 2016 at 10:13 am

      Good morning, Jackie. As usual you summed up the current situation very well; co-signing on your commentary. One way that helps me to hold it together is the knowledge that with all of this ugliness frothing about those Americans who thought the country was way past the “Mad Men” way of life have had the blinders forcibly removed. Those who have been willfully ignorant, satisfied that they did not have the problems of “those people,” have seen that we really are all in the same boat that will sink to the depths if we allow this man and his creatures who represent all that is dark, ugly, regressive, and sick in our society to win.

    • 30 SUE DUVALL SMITH
      October 3, 2016 at 11:31 am

      I THINK I FIGURED OUT THIS CHRISTIAN FAR RIGHT HOOPLA FOR MR. ORANGE….!!!!..SERIOUSLY!……THEY ARE CONFUSING HIS ACTUAL LOOKS..AND WEALTH STATUS WITH THE WARRIOR IN THE DREAM IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL….

  11. 32 57andfemale
    October 3, 2016 at 9:15 am

    The headline of this story says what every American needs to know about this monstrous man:

  12. 33 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 9:26 am

    Good Morning Everybody.

    WTF! Why is Trump Such a Weirdo About Dogs? | The Closer with Keith Olbermann | GQ

    When it comes to canines, Donald Trump is bizarrely ignorant—and strangely obsessed.

  13. 34 GGAIL
    October 3, 2016 at 9:28 am

    Good West Coast morning TOD family.
    Congrats Dudette for starting out with a beautiful comment 😘

    The White House is going to be on and cracking today 🎉🎉

    And the Boss, Bruce will be here to sign his book today at The Grove🎸🎤

    No time today for Donald drama 😡

    • 35 Dudette
      October 3, 2016 at 10:57 am

      Thanks GGail! Saw you looking good with the phone bank crew. Go Ladies! 👏🏾🙌🏾💪🏾

    • October 3, 2016 at 11:51 am

      hey Gail…is there a TOD road trip in the works to visit the new African American Museum on the National Mall…i think you spoke of it a few weeks ago….i’m in for it

      • 38 GGail
        October 3, 2016 at 12:12 pm

        Hey PF, I’m interested, I just don’t know how or remember who put the email list together for the last trip. Did we send our email addresses to Donna or Alycee or both? Who will be the email point person again? I think it should be someone on that Coast, preferably near the city.

        • October 3, 2016 at 12:50 pm

          i have created an email list…i can send it to you..

          • 40 GGail
            October 3, 2016 at 1:22 pm

            Great PF.

            Now, since you have a twitter account, if you want to volunteer to have people send you their email address via DM, then we can collect them this way. Or we can recruit Alycee to volunteer 🙂

            I don’t know if Donna is available, I haven’t seen a response from her.

            I think we also need to decide on the date. Choices can be: Last weekend in July, Second and/or third weekend in August, 2017.

          • 41 mtmarilyn
            October 3, 2016 at 2:06 pm

            I didn’t scroll down far enough. Just add my name to the list.

        • 43 mtmarilyn
          October 3, 2016 at 2:05 pm

          You can send them to me. I am planning on going and I have the excel list.

  14. October 3, 2016 at 9:29 am

    Good Morning, Everyone 🙂

  15. October 3, 2016 at 9:31 am

    Trump Doesn’t Propose Closing the Loopholes He Exploited
    It’s a major flaw in his ‘only someone who games the system can fix it’ argument.
    by Steven Waldman
    October 2, 2016

    Donald Trump often says that because he’s gamed the system he knows how to fix it. We make fun of that argument but it’s actually a pretty good line. If you want to shore up the security problems in your computer system, you might well hire a former hacker.

    There’s one small problem: Trump never actually says how he would deploy this insider knowledge to fix the problems.

    Let’s start with taxes. Trump’s response to the New York Times revelations that he may not have paid taxes for 18 years was to tweet:

    I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. #failing@nytimes

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2016

    Chris Chritie agreed: “What it shows is what an absolute mess the federal tax code is and that’s why Donald Trump is the best person to fix it.”

    But taxes are one area where Trump has actually put out a detailed plan. Get this: He does not touch the carried losses provision that allowed him to use massive business losses to eliminate his personal tax liability. According to the Times piece, Trump took advantage of a part of the code that allows investment losses to wipe out personal tax liabilities, not just for that year but for future years.

    Hillary Clinton’s plan would appear to eliminate the practice, indirectly, by establishing a larger minimum tax on people with substantial income (a.k.a. the Buffett Rule).

    • 47 0388jojothecat
      October 3, 2016 at 1:56 pm

      Why would anyone fix something that has been a boon to them and their supporters. Plus the GOP would never allow Trump to close these loopholes because they are greedy SOB’s…they want tax cuts & loopholes combined to continue to PAY NOTHING while us working stiffs and folks on SS pay all the taxes.

  16. 48 Judith Fardig
    October 3, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Congratulations, Dudette! Have been on hold trying to get January tickets for the National Museum of African American History since 6 a.m. PDT. Can’t get in online. Hope they are not totally gone already!

  17. 52 57andfemale
    October 3, 2016 at 9:50 am

    Happy New Year to my Jewish friends.

  18. 53 desertflower
    October 3, 2016 at 9:57 am

    Morning everyone! Happy Monday…congrats to Dudette:) Love to see you first thing in the morning….and now, a public service announcement

  19. 57 desertflower
    October 3, 2016 at 10:05 am

    About freaking time they wised up! They need not wait until 2017! DO IT NOW! ( Looking at John McCain…)

  20. 58 Dudette
    October 3, 2016 at 10:12 am

  21. 63 Dudette
    October 3, 2016 at 10:15 am

  22. October 3, 2016 at 10:15 am

    Good Monday, Nerdy. Thank you!!!

    Good morning, TOD Family!

    Everyone enjoy your day.

  23. October 3, 2016 at 10:16 am

    • October 3, 2016 at 10:17 am

      • October 3, 2016 at 10:18 am

        • 68 amk for obama
          October 3, 2016 at 10:45 am

          Bravo Matthew.

          Amazing how the trump truths do not get the traction with the fucking corrupt media even for 24 hours.

  24. October 3, 2016 at 10:23 am

    Every perceived slight is grounds for a lawsuit?!?!?! POTUS is definitely not the job for him.

    • 70 Linda
      October 3, 2016 at 11:00 am

      When the government sued the NYTimes over the Pentagon Papers release, the government lost. It went all the way to the Supreme Court.

  25. 71 desertflower
    October 3, 2016 at 10:28 am

    Need ANOTHER reason to vote?

  26. October 3, 2016 at 10:36 am

  27. 73 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 10:39 am

    • 74 0388jojothecat
      October 3, 2016 at 1:39 pm

      YEP! These independents and Millennials would NEVER consider a 3rd party or DT if this was $P running for President nor would the MSM let her get away with the same crap DT is saying. This is basically Racist Female vs Racist Male, they will support the Racist Male every time.

  28. 75 desertflower
    October 3, 2016 at 10:39 am

    • October 3, 2016 at 12:19 pm

      i think that folks do not understand how DEEP the belief system of racism is….how Trumpism taps into the racist psyche of America….how Trumpism has made it OK and gives legitimacy to be a racist ….blk folks get this…not sure if most white folks do…
      that is why you have white folks contemplating voting for a 3rd party candidate….we already know about Bernie Sanders is tone death in that article posted yesterday in the New Yorker…you still have him taking shots at the President and Hillary….

      Racism trumps Every thing…
      not sure if Any revelations can detract from this key fact…..

      so our job it to register new voters to the Obama Coalition and to bring them to the polls…there is not greater duty at this time…because it is NOT enough to just elect Hillary…We Must Take Back The Senate….We Must decrease the about of GOP headed state legislatures….

      this is our MISSION….

      #YesWECan #StrongerTogether

  29. 79 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 10:41 am

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  31. 82 Dudette
    October 3, 2016 at 10:54 am

  32. 89 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 10:56 am

  33. October 3, 2016 at 11:00 am

    Good Monday morning, TODville. Thank you, Nerdy W for keeping us steady. You are LOVED.

  34. October 3, 2016 at 11:00 am

  35. 96 Dudette
    October 3, 2016 at 11:04 am

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  37. 98 desertflower
    October 3, 2016 at 11:10 am

  38. October 3, 2016 at 11:11 am

    Good morning TOD!

  39. October 3, 2016 at 11:13 am

    Better be more than just ‘nervous’ ….

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  41. October 3, 2016 at 11:18 am

    This doesn’t make any sense for someone who thinks he’s such a great businessman. What a laughing stock.

  42. October 3, 2016 at 11:19 am

    True ….

  43. 105 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 11:21 am

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  45. October 3, 2016 at 11:24 am

    Hope all of you have a beautiful day …

    bbl …

    #ALL50

  46. 114 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 11:26 am

  47. 116 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 11:34 am

  48. October 3, 2016 at 11:39 am

    I can’t stand this insane gun culture in our country. Sickening.

  49. October 3, 2016 at 12:00 pm

    EXCELLENT and important tweet storm. Start here:

  50. 121 amk for obama
    October 3, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    This is what white arrogance and wanton provocation looks like.

    Nine Australian tourists have been arrested after stripping to their underwear during Sunday’s Malaysian Grand Prix.

    The men, who were sporting underpants bearing the Malaysian flag, are being investigated for “intentional insult” and a possible breach of the peace.

    Photographs of the men parading the country’s national colours were widely shared on social media.

    The incident has been criticised in the majority Muslim country.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37539728

    • 122 Don
      October 3, 2016 at 1:24 pm

      Why do people have to take off their clothes to make a statement, you know it is possible to get people to follow and support whatever cause you’re fighting for and keep your clothes on.

  51. 123 jacquelineoboomer
    October 3, 2016 at 12:26 pm

  52. October 3, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    back to work …

  53. 126 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 1:00 pm


    Coming Up: Hillary Clinton Delvers Economic Speech in Toledo, Ohio – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=3

  54. 127 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 1:04 pm


    Coming Up: Bill Clinton Holds Campaign Rally in Saginaw, Mich. – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=4

  55. 128 JER
    October 3, 2016 at 1:07 pm

  56. October 3, 2016 at 1:10 pm

    • 130 Don
      October 3, 2016 at 1:18 pm

      One could appreciate Michael Reagan’s comments, but they do not negate the actions that Ronald Reagan took when he was in office. I just don’t understand why statements like this weren’t made in 2008. I’m trying my best to let shit go when it came to the hell that President Obama faced for eight years, but I just wish Reagan and many other supposedly sane Republicans would have had these come to Jesus moments in 2008.

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  59. 135 Nena20409
    October 3, 2016 at 1:15 pm

    Hello TOD.
    Monday is Rocking with excellent weather in MN.
    Congrats, Dudette on your Au ⭐
    Thanks, NW. You Rock, Lady!
    {{{{ ❤ Chips ❤ }}}}
    Happy 24th anniversary to Pres Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama.

    Josh "The Voice" Earnest is LIVE at the WH Press Room, Now.

  60. October 3, 2016 at 1:18 pm

    OT!!

    The first daughters are set to serve as bridesmaids for the upcoming wedding of two former staffers of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

    http://www.brides.com/blogs/aisle-say/2016/10/malia-sasha-obama-bridesmaids-white-house-wedding.html

  61. 139 Nena20409
    October 3, 2016 at 1:22 pm

  62. 141 Nena20409
    October 3, 2016 at 1:26 pm

  63. 143 Nena20409
    October 3, 2016 at 1:30 pm

  64. 144 Dudette
    October 3, 2016 at 1:35 pm

    Fraud!

  65. October 3, 2016 at 1:40 pm

  66. 147 Nena20409
    October 3, 2016 at 1:43 pm

  67. 148 Nena20409
    October 3, 2016 at 1:58 pm


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