I’m really puzzled about that. On the face of it, there’s a rogue doing this. It would appear actually to hurt the FBI and even the Trump campaign to do this sort of thing.
A Trump Rally — straight from George Orwell’s ‘1984’
Bill Weld reads from ‘1984’… Welcome to Donald Trump’s America
“…before the hate had proceeded for 30 seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. In its second minute, the hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices. The horrible thing about the two minutes hate [that’s the name of the exercise] was not that one was obliged to act the part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. And yet, the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blow lamp…”
“the hate rose to a frenzy”
Powerful. It’s sad that so many of our fellow Americans are perfectly comfortable electing such a bigoted and hateful person. Thank you, Mr. Weld, for speaking out as someone who was a Republican Governor.
“uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. In its second minute, the hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices. The horrible thing about the two minutes hate [that’s the name of the exercise] was not that one was obliged to act the part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. And yet, the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blow lamp…”
Sometimes when I read comment after comment after comment here on TOD, I feel like that wave has washed over y’all and I have to walk away and read something …like the father giving his daughter Halloween at 30,000 feet. And lately, I get my renewed energy and optimism from working at the phonebanks and only briefly reading TOD comments.
Mama obviously knew in advance but how she was not bawling like her daughter, must be pretty proud and lucky to find such a wonderful man who loves her child as his own.
Our very own VC and Son are at the NMAAHC (African-American Museum) as I type this. They surprised me and are in DC this week. We will be doing GOTV at the DNC tomorrow night. Of course her surprise hit me when I was unable to get off from work so they are touring on their own for now. 😉
Now on Good Luck America: Our interview with President Obama on his push to get Hillary across the finish line. Watch on @Snapchat. pic.twitter.com/WZfB0kGeYr
The KKK just formally endorsed Trump, citing their shared values. Don't forget this when you choose what side of history you want to be on. pic.twitter.com/0aiXIcfeif
I know exactly how you are feeling 57. It amazes me how people can get caught up and perpetrate nonsense.
“It’s possible to perpetrate a good deed, but not likely. That’s because perpetrate means to commit or be responsible for something — usually something mischievous or bad.” ~Webster
While the two parties still have a week to resolve their differences, a closely contested presidential campaign looms on Nov. 8 and the region is expected to be critical for both candidates. SEPTA would seek an injunction from U.S. District Court to force striking workers back to their jobs for Election Day if the strike threatened to overlap with the election.
The possibility of a strike stretching to Election Day has prompted concern from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, said [Congressman] Brady during a visit shortly after 7 p.m. to the Sheraton at 17th and Race streets, where negotiations were held.
“Hillary Clinton’s guy, Corey Dukes (director of the candidate’s Pennsylvania campaign), had a little concern,” Brady said.
The Philadelphia Board of Commissioners, which oversees elections in the city, said in 2009 a TWU strike overlapped with an election and didn’t hurt turnout, but that was not an election where a president was being chosen.
Then the campaign should go to Plan B.
Round up volunteers with Vans, SUVs, and vehicles of all kinds to volunteer to transport voters within a certain square mile radius
Most of the polls are located in the community itself…within walking distance.. some folks will vote before work…some will vote after work…the trouble comes in the with the timeline available to vote because of the strike…you may have had to make other arrangements to get to work…or pick up your children after work…it definitely will have an impact on folks availability to get to the polls…
i believe that either TWU or SEPTA or both hope to your the election as leverage to force the other side to concede
There’s been a relative silence in the media today from Dems on this. Makes me wonder if there isn’t an understanding to leave Comey alone because he intends to do the right thing and wrap this up.
Whenever there is silence like this, I KNOW something is going on, and some announcement is soon to be made. PBO plays his cards close, and his group does not leak. Either he knows Comey is going to do the “right thing,” I don’t see that from his actions, or he is giving Comey enough rope to hang himself. Frankly, I don’t see any good outcome for Comey over this. the President will look to the future of the entire FBI…..that is more important than Comey’s future. He is damaging the credibility and integrity of the FBI.
Thanks to the TOD’ers who posted that Architectural Digest story about the Obama’s residence at the WH. So beautiful. Much too big for my tastes, but they’ve made the bigger spaces look so warm and comfortable with the colours and the comfy-looking couches, etc. Also, I spied a turntable and some LP’s! 🙂
Belated birthday greetings to all those who have celebrated very recently. I myself recently tuned the big 5-0 and feel that this would be an excellent year for me to also be able to celebrate the US electing it’s first female president. 🙂
In light of the barrage of horrid faux ‘news’ we’ve all been facing for too long, every time I see RanMan’s “Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America,” I stop and re-read it, and really let it sink in, and I.AM.SO.GRATEFUL.
Also eternally grateful to Chips for her good sense and taste in creating this online haven, and to Nerdy for maintaining it for everybody in Chips’ absence.
😀 Thanks, purpleshoes, I quite like that idea! I think this is the point at which although I of course hope to continue having and celebrating birthdays, maybe I should at least stop counting them! 🙂
Can’t find the tweet now, but saw one which mentioned that all tweets in question were posted at 4am EDT, clearly auto-posted by a bot (am also confused because those tweets are dated October 30 [Sunday], but it took over 24 hours for twitter freak out)/
The only other tweet this year was posted yesterday at 8am (the one about WJC and Marc Rich).
Yes, I was really pleased with how well he did it. It’s something I’ve been saying, and it needed to be said by someone with gravitas (who also happens to be a male). 🙂
Hard to believe that it’s apparently warmer in Cleveland now than SoCal (think our high temp today was 65F-ish, and radio tells me temp in Cleveland when the World Series game began was 72F.
Know or have any ‘Christian’ friends/relatives who still need to be zapped back to their senses in this final week of campaigning? Maybe Rev Barber at the DNC would be a timely share.
“We need to push for a revival at the heart of our democracy….
I know that [Hillary] is working to embrace our deepest moral values and we should embrace her.”
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good Afternoon, Nerdy…TOD Family!
Love it! Thanks for sharing these, Nerdy!
Thanks,Nerdy! Congratulations swbluega!
SOON: Hillary Clinton Campaigns in Dade City, Fla. – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=4
Truly bizarre.
Truly an attempt to interfere with our election and get Trump into the White House. Scum.
What is going on over there with the FBI? It’s insane what is being reported.
I’m really puzzled about that. On the face of it, there’s a rogue doing this. It would appear actually to hurt the FBI and even the Trump campaign to do this sort of thing.
Alicia Machado is introducing Hillary.
Nice!! Should set Trump off again. LOL.
She did a very good job. And the hug she gave Hillary on stage was very sweet and sincere.
A Trump Rally — straight from George Orwell’s ‘1984’
Bill Weld reads from ‘1984’… Welcome to Donald Trump’s America
“…before the hate had proceeded for 30 seconds, uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. In its second minute, the hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices. The horrible thing about the two minutes hate [that’s the name of the exercise] was not that one was obliged to act the part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. And yet, the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blow lamp…”
“the hate rose to a frenzy”
Powerful. It’s sad that so many of our fellow Americans are perfectly comfortable electing such a bigoted and hateful person. Thank you, Mr. Weld, for speaking out as someone who was a Republican Governor.
I’ll never understand why he aligned himself with Johnson.
“uncontrollable exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. In its second minute, the hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices. The horrible thing about the two minutes hate [that’s the name of the exercise] was not that one was obliged to act the part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. And yet, the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blow lamp…”
Sometimes when I read comment after comment after comment here on TOD, I feel like that wave has washed over y’all and I have to walk away and read something …like the father giving his daughter Halloween at 30,000 feet. And lately, I get my renewed energy and optimism from working at the phonebanks and only briefly reading TOD comments.
How about this to give you a smile, GGail….
So sweet.
Thanks sw 🙂
Mama obviously knew in advance but how she was not bawling like her daughter, must be pretty proud and lucky to find such a wonderful man who loves her child as his own.
Someone(s) in the FBI has gone rogue…some serious house cleaning is needed.
It’s all about the emails. Nothing else matters.
What’s frustrating is that everything HRC is getting battered about are things that others have done…on a higher scale…and no where near as benign.
NOW: Bill Clinton Campaigns for Hillary in Immokalee, Fla. – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=6
Heart……
Our very own VC and Son are at the NMAAHC (African-American Museum) as I type this. They surprised me and are in DC this week. We will be doing GOTV at the DNC tomorrow night. Of course her surprise hit me when I was unable to get off from work so they are touring on their own for now. 😉
Please give them a hug from me!!! ❤ (And ask her to hug you for me, please!)
Oh wow, can’t wait to hear their report. Thought she had been quiet. Hello from all of us.
Lovely! Sat hi from me.
Tell vc hello and to have a good time!
How cool!. Please pass along my greetings as well! We wanna see pix!
Give them my LOVE! Wish I could join you guys! Next time!
SOON: VP Biden Campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Rock Hill, SC – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=7
How sad!
Horrible! The Trump effect.
I saw this on the news! No family here. How sad!
The media is trying to spin the Clinton new ad buys in Michigan , Colorado and Virginia as a ” nervousness ” .
I think they are just reminding voters of their closing argument before election day.
The media needs to go to rehab to address the chronic negativity .
This is just too cute:
That is way cool 🙂
Nothing else going on but the email….
OMG!!
Wonderful news!
NOW: Sen. Tim Kaine Campaigns in Appleton, Wis. – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=5
THIS is what we should be believing and sharing, not the hair-on-fire-speculation innuendo drip, drip,drip drivel
I can’t stomach the freaking out on twitter. Dems are impossible. Turn that outrage away from hiding under the bed, and GOTV.
I know exactly how you are feeling 57. It amazes me how people can get caught up and perpetrate nonsense.
“It’s possible to perpetrate a good deed, but not likely. That’s because perpetrate means to commit or be responsible for something — usually something mischievous or bad.” ~Webster
Excellent comment, Gail.
We are waiting for PBO, who will be here shortly
You are there? ❤ 🙂
I have a question for PA folks. I have read there is a transit strike in Philly which would affect turnout next Tues. What’s up with that?
While the two parties still have a week to resolve their differences, a closely contested presidential campaign looms on Nov. 8 and the region is expected to be critical for both candidates. SEPTA would seek an injunction from U.S. District Court to force striking workers back to their jobs for Election Day if the strike threatened to overlap with the election.
The possibility of a strike stretching to Election Day has prompted concern from Hillary Clinton’s campaign, said [Congressman] Brady during a visit shortly after 7 p.m. to the Sheraton at 17th and Race streets, where negotiations were held.
“Hillary Clinton’s guy, Corey Dukes (director of the candidate’s Pennsylvania campaign), had a little concern,” Brady said.
The Philadelphia Board of Commissioners, which oversees elections in the city, said in 2009 a TWU strike overlapped with an election and didn’t hurt turnout, but that was not an election where a president was being chosen.
“It’s gonna hurt,” Brady said on the possibility of the strike extending to Election Day. “It’ll hurt.” … http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/in-transit/SEPTA-strike-begins.html
Hmmm.. seems like this should get settled. PA is absolutely critical.
Then the campaign should go to Plan B.
Round up volunteers with Vans, SUVs, and vehicles of all kinds to volunteer to transport voters within a certain square mile radius
Most of the polls are located in the community itself…within walking distance.. some folks will vote before work…some will vote after work…the trouble comes in the with the timeline available to vote because of the strike…you may have had to make other arrangements to get to work…or pick up your children after work…it definitely will have an impact on folks availability to get to the polls…
i believe that either TWU or SEPTA or both hope to your the election as leverage to force the other side to concede
I have to wonder what’s going on behind the scenes with PBO and Loretta Lynch and how they are dealing with Comey’s rogue behavior.
There’s been a relative silence in the media today from Dems on this. Makes me wonder if there isn’t an understanding to leave Comey alone because he intends to do the right thing and wrap this up.
Whenever there is silence like this, I KNOW something is going on, and some announcement is soon to be made. PBO plays his cards close, and his group does not leak. Either he knows Comey is going to do the “right thing,” I don’t see that from his actions, or he is giving Comey enough rope to hang himself. Frankly, I don’t see any good outcome for Comey over this. the President will look to the future of the entire FBI…..that is more important than Comey’s future. He is damaging the credibility and integrity of the FBI.
Did not mean to re-post that…
This is what I intended to post…
POTUS up soon:
Does my heart good to see this ❤
Thanks to the TOD’ers who posted that Architectural Digest story about the Obama’s residence at the WH. So beautiful. Much too big for my tastes, but they’ve made the bigger spaces look so warm and comfortable with the colours and the comfy-looking couches, etc. Also, I spied a turntable and some LP’s! 🙂
Belated birthday greetings to all those who have celebrated very recently. I myself recently tuned the big 5-0 and feel that this would be an excellent year for me to also be able to celebrate the US electing it’s first female president. 🙂
In light of the barrage of horrid faux ‘news’ we’ve all been facing for too long, every time I see RanMan’s “Thank God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America,” I stop and re-read it, and really let it sink in, and I.AM.SO.GRATEFUL.
Also eternally grateful to Chips for her good sense and taste in creating this online haven, and to Nerdy for maintaining it for everybody in Chips’ absence.
tuned = turned 😀
❤️👆🏼
Happy Zero Birthday keltuc! Zero Birthdays are meant to be celebrated all year long, doncha know. 😆
😀 Thanks, purpleshoes, I quite like that idea! I think this is the point at which although I of course hope to continue having and celebrating birthdays, maybe I should at least stop counting them! 🙂
Our President is on FIRE!
back to work …. hope all of you are having a good day …
#ALL50
President Barack Obama walks on the South Lawn to board Marine One.
NOW: VP Biden Campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Charlotte, NC – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=5
SOON: Hillary Clinton Campaigns in Sanford, Fla. – http://abcnews.go.com/live?stream=5
Comey needs to get things under control at his agency before this story gets any worse. This is outrageous and is getting worse rather than better.
GE FoxfireTX.
Not really in the loop as to what’s going on with @fbirecordsvault, except for the sprinkling of tweets in my timeline and upthread.
But there’s this…
Can’t find the tweet now, but saw one which mentioned that all tweets in question were posted at 4am EDT, clearly auto-posted by a bot (am also confused because those tweets are dated October 30 [Sunday], but it took over 24 hours for twitter freak out)/
The only other tweet this year was posted yesterday at 8am (the one about WJC and Marc Rich).
I was really happy to hear PBO address the misogyny head on. As usual, he did it with a deft touch.
Yes, I was really pleased with how well he did it. It’s something I’ve been saying, and it needed to be said by someone with gravitas (who also happens to be a male). 🙂
Other notable things in PBO’s speech today too.
Hard to believe that it’s apparently warmer in Cleveland now than SoCal (think our high temp today was 65F-ish, and radio tells me temp in Cleveland when the World Series game began was 72F.
If we are stuck with a GOP Senate that continues to block everything, it will be on Comey.
The President is leaving NO stone unturned…he is leaving it allll on the field…Goooooooooooooo Obama
Tomorrow he will campaign with James Taylor in NC! 🙂
Oooooooooooweeee’
Hola folks, my gallivanting days continue. 😉 😉
Know or have any ‘Christian’ friends/relatives who still need to be zapped back to their senses in this final week of campaigning? Maybe Rev Barber at the DNC would be a timely share.
“We need to push for a revival at the heart of our democracy….
I know that [Hillary] is working to embrace our deepest moral values and we should embrace her.”
OMG, Josh’s son is the sweetest thing EVAH!!!!
That’s POTUS…so funny.
That ending “that’s POTUS” is everything. He called the President POTUS!
Oh my, such sweetness, cuteness …. Josh’s little Boo is adorable! “That’s POTUS!”
So adorable !!! The baby and the prez !
Moody’s Analytics predicts big victory for Clinton. Successfully predicted every winner since 1980.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/11/01/thats-potus/
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