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The People’s View
- Follow me at my new venture: Reclaim the Fight
- Ignore the bait: Why it’s the right strategy for Democrats to focus SCOTUS fight on health care
- BIG: Judge halts Trump administration attempt to shortcut the census
- Trump doesn't want peaceful transition of power. Legally, it doesn’t matter.
- Fauci goes off on Rand Paul
- Rule 44: Why Obamacare is not lost even in a deadlocked Supreme Court, but only if Biden wins
- Time to suit up. This is war.
- BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed
- Bothsidesism comes to fact-checking: CNN's “fact-check” calling Biden ad 'misleading' proves the opposite
- Pardon me: How Donald Trump's stooges conspired with Julian Assange to exonerate Russia and undermine US Intlligence
Smartypants
- Durham to Right Wingers: "Blame Hillary"
- That Time When Refusing to Negotiate With Hostage-Takers Worked
- The Other Christian Nationalists: Leonard Leo and Opus Dei
- Hawley Demonstrates That He's an Ignorant Liar
- DeSantis Board Votes to Counter-Sue Disney Over Something...Anything
- Hunter Biden's Laptop Is a Total Nothingburger
- What DeSantis Couldn't Say in Response to Disney's Lawsuit
- Disney Skewers DeSantis With His Own Words
- Populism Without Civil Rights Is Fascism
- Glenn Greenwald gets triggered by smart competent women like Rep. Stacey Plaskett
Steve Benen
- Joe: Republicans screaming about debt ceiling now went along with Trump three times
- 'Some of us are going to vote no on principle': House Democrat on debt deal
- How abortion impacted Wisconsin's Supreme Court election
- DeSantis rails against 'elites' in Iowa, seems to ignore his 'elite' education
- Chris Christie set to enter the 2024 presidential race
- Rep. Clyburn: We are at the limit in large measure because of what happened under Trump
- Senator stresses need for spiritual discussion in political dialogue
- Sen. Murphy: Somehow, paying the country's bills has become a partisan issue
- Are the anti-Trump Republican forces starting to implode?
- Ben Platt returns to Broadway in Tony-nominated 'Parade'
The Obama Diary 
Good day everyone just dropping by to say hi, best wishes to those celebrating, get well greetings to those who are not feeling well, journeying mercies to those going on or are on vacation and God’s protection for those in the path of Hurricane Matthew. Best wishes and prayers for the successful conclusion for Democrats and Hillary Clinton and a big fat zero for the Republican orange fuzz ball, hi AMK and VC, back to lurking and catching up
Making sure my cousins (all millennials) vote, its like pulling teeth but i am making progress, just one more to get in line, i am doing my bit as a Canadian to ensure the border remains safe
Thank you for keeping up the good fight. You are a good neighbor!!!!
Congratulations, Anjo, and thanks for talking to the young Americans you may be able to influence to vote with wisdom.
Hi back at you Anjo; hope you’ve had yourself a good Monday! I had to be responsible and go to work so I’m only now signing in to check out the day’s action in the TOD village.
Trump may have started the process of his own destruction by running for President. None of his activities can survive in the light. (BTW, Twitter has locked me out on suspicion of being a bot, which I am not)
WHAT? That’s weird! I hope by now you’ve been reinstated, surely.
No. It’s almost 4 hours now. I can’t follow the reinstatement procedure because it requires a texting phone, so I emailed Twitter Support. On the positive side, I baked a batch of excellent gingerbread cookies!
Mmmmmmm, LOLz. Well, I hope you’re reinstated soon. I need your TL!!
🙂
Gee, wonder how this went over in a room full of veterans…from a draft dodger. This week is starting off just like the last one….
https://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/trump-ptsd?utm_term=.sebq1Lj27#.obbyqrxzR
Donald Trump on Monday suggested to a room full of veterans that soldiers who return from war suffering from PTSD are not “strong” and “can’t handle it.”
The GOP presidential candidate’s statement came during a Q&A at the Retired American Warriors Pac. Some of the questions were about the suicide epidemic in the military and criticism of the Veterans Administration (VA) for falling short on providing veterans with the mental health treatment they need.
After saying there are around 22 veteran suicides a day, Trump explained to the room of veterans what PTSD was.
“When people come back from war and combat and they see maybe what the people in this room have seen many times over, and you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it,” Trump said.
There was a silence in the room after his statement, and people on social media were quick to express anger toward his comments.
And yet more than half of the serving military clowns (nope, not apologizing for it) will vote for the racist pos and other rethugs.
You’d think that no one in or with connections to the military could stomach him after his treatment of the Khans.
This guy can’t even pretend to have empathy, I mean really, who says that to a room full of veterans.
That millions of Americans have been duped by Trump – most of whom would be gravely harmed should he become President – is the severest indictment a FAILED US Education System, ever witnessed.
#ALL50
We need way more than ‘free college tuition’ to remedy this National Security Disaster, btw ….
#ALL50
back to work …
Had to add this ….
Registered since 1972. Never missed an election. Straight Dem tickets always. Too many heroes like Congressman Lewis have sacrificed too much to take this responsibility of citizenship lightly. And too much is at stake now.
GREED DOES STRANGE THINGS TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY THINK LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY ARE THE ANSWERS TO ALL PROBLEMS..UNNFORTUNATELY..THE TRUMP VOTER IS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY AND IT WILL NOT GO WELL FOR GREED MONGERS IN THIS COUNTRY OR ANYWHERE ELSE!
OMG this ad is devastating to the Trump campaign. Wow!
ON MY FB……………………
WOW WOW WOW
That’s how a commander-in chief responds to mental health issues. Thank you President Obama
PBO wanted to be president to do something, not to be something and it shows in everything that he does. We have been so blessed and history will treat him kindly.
God bless POTUS. We can’t soil the office and his legacy by allowing Trump to follow him. I want a crushing, overwhelming victory for HRC with every possible vote so the world sees America rejecting the vile Trump and everything he stands for,
egg.sack.lee
Cannot imagine this fool as Commander-in-Chief!
Pfft..
Add these issues to DT’s idiocy on vets issues. From MaddowBlog/Steve Benen
his history of campaign missteps when it comes to veterans.
The most obvious example was Trump boasting last year that prisoners of war aren’t heroes because, as he put it, “I like people who weren’t captured.”
But as regular readers may recall, this is really just the start. The Republican nominee, for example, has drawn criticism for supporting a privatization plan for veterans’ care. His associations with the sketchy Veterans for a Strong America exacerbated the problem.
And it certainly didn’t help matters when Trump, who avoided military service during the Vietnam War, said he “felt” like he’d served in the military because his parents sent him to a military-themed boarding school as a teenager. The Republican went so far as to boast that his expensive prep school gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”
What’s more, Trump, who got caught lying about his financial support for veterans’ charities, has claimed more than once that he understands counter-terrorism better than American generals.
I don’t blame Trump for not getting the proper certification, I mean that would be like a bank robber alerting the police that he’s about to rob a bank.
Good point.
And it would have stopped him using the “charity begins at home” options.
And why has it taken so long for the NY AG to discover this rather important fact?
Sweet!
INDEED……………………..I LOVE IT!…<3
I’ve emailed my Senators and Rep (all Dems) to express my condemnation of the vote to override POTUS’ veto of JASTA. They should repeal that nonsense.
CNN needs all the help it can get
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/andrew-kaczynski-buzzfeed-to-cnn
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Suburban Cook County voters:
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Early voting has begun!!
Early Voting at Multiple Sites begins October 24th.
But, for now, you CAN VOTE EARLY at 69 W. Washington.
Newsweek has done some incredible investigating and reporting recently!
HOW DONALD TRUMP DITCHED U.S. STEEL WORKERS IN FAVOR OF CHINA
http://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717
This article demonstrates TRUMP has NO moral compass or sense of social responsibility
Congrats, Anjo for your Gold ⭐
Every moment of every day, the plot thickens.
Deep seated racism and misogyny do not ever yield to reason, facts, irony, or plain-old human decency. Stop anguishing over these people, even those in your families, and go out to get new voters who can be educated and willing to register if they have not, and to vote to keep the barbarians at the gate out. Only about a week left in most areas for first time voters to register in time for the election.
It has taken almost 50 years because the god of the USA is money, but more people are finding out that the would be emperor, indeed, has no clothes. The next thing that is needed is an open mick situation in which he reveals how he really feels about the rubes who show up at his rallies.
Ok folks, I’m on my lunch time and I need something light and airy so here’s my contribution…
I’m glad that Kim was not physically harmed, but, how did she get free?
E! News learned that five men wearing ski masks and police jackets were involved in the robbery around 3 a.m. local time. Two men entered her room at No Address Hotel, bound her hands and feet with tape, gagged her and put her in the bathtub before stealing all her jewelry.
She’s amazing:) Like a real life superhero… Glad she’s ok, but for goodness sakes.
http://www.eonline.com/news/799237/kim-kardashian-bound-gagged-and-held-at-gunpoint-exclusive-new-details-on-the-robbery-in-paris
After the men left with “all her jewelry,” Kardashian “broke out of her bindings and got out,” the source tells E! News. Later, after speaking with Parisian police, the reality star boarded a plane.
Did her hair give her strength to break free?
“One of Kardashian’s rings, worth an estimated $4.49 million, as well as a jewelry box, worth an estimated $5.6 million, were stolen”.
How does a jewelry box costs more than a diamond ring?
Maybe this will be in the end of The K shows? I can’t stand those people. If they were the nobodies that they are no one would want to job them. I am glad she and the children are not hurt but she and all her family need to drop out of sight!
LOL, jojo 🙂
And why does one travel with that sort of wealth on display? I just see greed when I hear such figures bandied around. I am grateful to (touch wood) have enough for my retirement but will never understand the need to have wealth for its own sake.
I hope the jewelry were insured. LOL
Given the circumstances it could be very difficult to claim. I have one friend with much valuable jewellery – it spends 90% of it’s time in a bank vault & there are many rules about when/where it is worn.
Seconded!!!
Good tweet Judith 🙂
Bill Clinton Holds Campaign Rally in Flint, MI – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=1
SOON: VP Joe Biden Campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Akron, Ohio – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=4
Hi everybody — this is to let you know that Twitter has locked me out of my account because they think I’m “automated” and not a real person. So @kat4obama might not be back for some time. 😦
GA K4O.
Sorry to hear that Twitter did that — don’t they provide a form that you send back to them — hope it doesn’t take too long to be re-instated.
If they need users to vouch for you, I’m in. 🙂
Thank you! A415 🙂 The reinstatement procedure requires a texting phone, which I don’t have, so I emailed Twitter to explain and hope they’ll help me. It’s been about 4 hours now!
How annoying!
I’m not in the habit of providing phone numbers to internet apps — don’t have one on file with Twitter or my e-mail service providers, so I’d be in the same boat as you. 😦
I’ve gotten a similar “suspicious activity” message from Twitter (with the last couple of months), but crossing my fingers that I don’t get on their bot list.
This makes no sense at all, since their are clearly bots out there… and not all are bad (thinking of @_everybird_, which posts photos of birds).
Four hours seems like a long time for response – hope you get resolution SOON.
miss pat here send me your twitter and I will twitt them for you, give you credit at the end. Will that help?
Hey Kat! How the heck does this happen????
Hi Donna! Darned if I know. They locked me out over the weekend saying they saw “suspicious activity” on my account, but I was able to get back in with a new password. Then this morning they decided my account was a bot, even after I proved my human beingness by passing a Captcha test. Maybe Twitter is allergic to cats?
Yay, total flop!
GOOD! I love Joseph Gordon-Levitt as an actor but would never go see that movie.
Good. People don’t like traitors.
LOL! Good news.
too bad so sad. not. :-p
Worldwide FLOP.
PRICELESS!!!
Cool, some idiots lost good money.
SOON: Hillary Clinton Campaigns in Akron, Ohio – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=3
I know this guy is calling out Trump, but did I misread that he took a swipe at PBO here? Unless I am reading what he said there incorrectly, but I hate it when folks do these kinds of stories and can’t resist the urge to drag PBO in.
GA/GE TODville.
#HurricaneMatthew looks *extremely* large, strong and scary.
Since I’ve lived in SoCal all my life, know little about hurricanes, but seems like a slow-moving storm.
PBO is scheduled to be in South Florida on Wednesday. (!)
For all our friends and family in Cuba/Jamaica, east Florida and southern Atlantic states, hope Matthew makes a turn and goes off to sea:
Good evening, TOD! Doing a “drive-by” for now; will BBL. Just wanted to leave this tibbet — MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
THE 71ST ANNUAL ALFRED E. SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION DINNER
The Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation
Thursday, October 20, 2016
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featuring
The Secretaryof Shade vs The Thin Skinned Bully…
Sgt White is a Medal of Honor Winner.
He was diagnosed with PTSD and has been a vocal champion of those suffering from PTSD who thought it dishonorable, weak, whatever to seek help (many of whom commit suicide).
http://www.stripes.com/medal-of-honor-recipient-offers-advice-to-troops-about-ptsd-and-surviving-war-1.279508
#ALL50
Trump exhausts the thesaurus of synonyms for despicable.
you got that right Nerdy!
What a day for Donald — and the day’s not over.
1. Did business with an Iranian bank linked to terror
2. Dissed veterans who seek mental health care
3. Used Chinese steel and hurt US industry
4. New York AG stops Trump Foundation from soliciting $$$
5. GOP accounts getting heat for celebrating Willie Horton-style attack ad against Tim Kaine
6. W’s Homeland Security Secretary, who was also lead GOP counsel in Whitewater investigation, endorses Hillary
But emails!! – If Hillary had done any of these the media would declare her history.
Anyone in the Southern California area…there are 36 days before November 8
http://us13.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c6d9b5cda38fd900f7795cc63&id=e316a957d9&e=fdbc80228a
Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley for Hillary
Campaign Update for Volunteers
36 days! With early voting already started in several states and about to start in even more, our phone calls to battleground states matter right now! We have expanded our Saturday hours at United Democratic Headquarters to Noon to 6 pm AND we have added Sunday at the same location 1 pm to 7 pm.
Note that our new Pasadena phone bank on Wednesdays will NOT start until October 12.
At the bottom of the email you’ll find all of the options for going to Las Vegas to canvass on Saturday and Sunday.
And don’t miss the VP Debate Tuesday night at 6 pm! Plus we have two options for coming out to watch the 2nd Presidential Debate on Sunday Oct 9 also at 6 pm!
POTUS and Leonardo di Caprio coming up soon:
thank you meta, have been away today and so missed all the other sxsl goings on 😦 .
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/10/03/sxsl-president-obama-participates-in-a-discussion-with-leonardo-dicaprio-and-dr-katharine-hayhoe/