I avoid violent and/or war films like the plague, so no surprise I’m clueless about “Red Dawn.”
I looked it up on Wikipedia, which says:
“At the time it was released, Red Dawn was considered the most violent film by the Guinness Book of Records and The National Coalition on Television Violence, with a rate of 134 acts of violence per hour, or 2.23 per minute.[7] The DVD Special Edition (2007) includes an on-screen ‘Carnage Counter’ in a nod to this.”
And here’s what one reviewer said of the film:
“Adam Arseneau at the website DVD Verdict opined that the film ‘often feels like a Republican wet dream manifested into a surrealistic Orwellian nightmare.'”
Good afternoon Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Saturday afternoon. Congrats Don, on being first this afternoon.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you steal-a-moment to let your mind meditate, ponder, and reflect on all the things to be thankful for today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Notwithstanding the nightmare of BuffoonTrump in the Whitehouse, I am more than ever, Thankful to God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Good Hawaii Morning Obama Diary friends! What a great way to start my day– my beloved POTUS and FLOTUS talking with kids! Thank you so much Nerdy for all you do to make this a continuing place of beauty and communion. Hope everyone is having a very good day ❤
Hey, I just got a good phone call from my friend in ‘gay Pa – ree’, encouraging me to come for an extended visit! I cannot believe how next summer is shaping up so far. 😀 😀 At the rate the ideas are popping out I may have to rent out my home for a couple of months! You want to rent on the east coast for a month or two? There won’t be any snow in July, August ……. I don’t think.
This election result is illegitimate. Full stop. I don't know what we do once we've admitted that to ourselves. But it's real. ILLEGITIMATE. https://t.co/l6RilXpwR6
Our side really needs to stop subscribing to/reading NYT. They played a huge role in ginning up the “scandals” which were used by Republicans against Secretary Clinton — and were responsible for initiating the email server “scandal”.
Flip the script and let’s pretend that President-Elect Clinton nominated a Secretary of State who had received an award from one of America’s foreign enemies. Can you imagine the uproar from Republicans/MSM? It’s astonishing what Trump is getting away with.
Yea. To me she has been one of the most visible department heads in the Obama Admin, and she hasn’t been reluctant to show she actually really enjoys her job. She has been a great choice, I think.
And countless Black voters were prevented from voting due to Republican voter suppression tactics. Good to see that Trump is now boasting about this. So classy.
/s
From my vantage point, the investigation must begin at once. Remember, Watergate was about bugging DNC headquarters. This is far, far worse. Here’s what we need:
A thorough forensic investigation of all voting machines in Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania, at a minimum
A full accounting for the breaches of any and all voter databases, whether data was taken, and what was done with that data. Was it sent to Cambridge Analytica? Were the actual databases tampered with to remove voters?
A full investigation into any and all hacks of the RNC, including the information Russians were able to obtain and an explanation as to why they didn’t release it while simultaneously leaking information stolen from the DNC.
A full investigation in Paul Manafort’s role behind the scenes.
Testimony from Roger Stone explaining his claim that he was in touch with Russians behind the scenes as Wikileaks emails were being rolled out.
Testimony from FBI Director James Comey about why he chose not to push forward on the Russian hacks but instead released a letter to elected officials about duplicate emails discovered on Anthony Weiner’s server. Was he pressured to do so? By whom? And if so, we also need testimony from those who pressured him.
Testimony under oath from Mitch McConnell about why he chose to disregard the recommendations of a consensus of 17 separate national security agencies that Russia was interfering.
Pay attention. None of those bullet points involve war with Russia. They do involve actually draining the existing swamp in Washington, DC and cleaning it out. And if the Senate and House Oversight committees fail to do their duty in this after holding at least seven separate Benghazi investigations, we should begin impeachment proceedings.
MOSCOW — The Russian government maintained contacts with members of Donald J. Trump’s “immediate entourage” during the American presidential campaign, one of Russia’s top diplomats said Thursday.
“There were contacts,” Sergei A. Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. “We continue to do this and have been doing this work during the election campaign,” he said.
Mr. Ryabkov said officials in the Russian Foreign Ministry were familiar with many of the people he described as Mr. Trump’s entourage. “I cannot say that all, but a number of them maintained contacts with Russian representatives,” Mr. Ryabkov said.
Later, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said Mr. Ryabkov had been referring to American politicians and supporters of Mr. Trump, not members of his campaign staff. The contacts were carried out through the Russian ambassador in Washington, who reached out to the senators and other political allies to get a better sense of Mr. Trump’s positions on various issues involving Russia.
.@briankoppelman: If Trump governs as an authoritarian like he has promised, it will be critical that Americans do the following 10 things: https://t.co/ib56XSPTSe
I think we need to change our voting systems back to paper ballots, not the chad kind. Too many potential hacking concerns with computers. I like our vote by mail system and automatic registration we have in Oregon. Purging voters from the list and making Voting harder by requiring hard to obtain IDs, cutting voter hours and limiting voter locations should not be allowed. Next we need to include a voter authentication system where no one is ever able to steal lose, not count or destroy ballots. The party position in charge of voting needs to be checked by all parties involved. Strong deterrents need to be in place for tampering with the voting process including losing the office won illegally.
Talk about bags under the eyes! Did someone use white makeup on the puffy bags to hide them or were Trump’s eyes protected during tanning or spray tanning leaving that area standing out from the color of the rest of his face?
I think it has for a long time, DF. But he will never be close to matching PBO. And he knows it. President Obama is the first President in decades who is leaving office after 8 years with incredibly high ratings, and it is due to his performance: not sympathy as in the case of Clinton, not partisanship as in the case of Reagan, etc, etc. He would easily win a third term, and everyone knows it.
the photo in the Business Insider with three people in it is labeled Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka, and Donald Trump, but it is a photo of Jarod (Ivanka’s husband) and Ivanka with Donald J Trump. There is a correctly labeled photo of Donald Jr above that. Guess they have not recognized whom is whom yet. The fact that Donald Jr was at an International political meeting representing his father in October prior to the election seems wrong to me.
Evening, Bobfr:) I am beside myself with this mess. I keep hoping that the Adult in the Room has a plan to rescue us from this mess….before its too late
He knows how he handles the #PutinTrumpCoup is a way bigger challenge than rescuing the economy, saving the US auto industry & bringing Osama to a just end.
I don’t think most people realize just how major VP Biden’s “I hope not” response was regarding whether Americans (and the world) would know of the US response to Russia’s cyber attack(s).
They don’t have to block but they sure could condemn it ….
8. Should we need to be reminded, Trump regularly tweets hate speech like this w/out any socially responsible statement from @Twitter. pic.twitter.com/f7hPh61aak
President Obama is cursed at and obstructed for trying to give everybody in the country health care insurance, and succeeding as it relates to tens of millions of people. Trump’s in the middle of allowing Russia to meddle in our election and that’s just another day to the GOP. WTF.
df, I am also beside myself with this mess. And, what I am dealing with makes it much worse. My husband sees no problem with Tillerson as SoS. Because he “knows more about the world and the players than Hillary did when she became SoS”!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you FREAKING kidding me?!?!?!?!?!?!?! He sees no problem with any of this. Of course, mostly he doesn’t know what’s going on because HE DOESN’T WANT TO KNOW. He might have to take responsibility for his vote. Besides knowing that this has to be dealt with for our country to survive as a democracy and a republic, I want ALL of them, ALL OF THEM to pay just so my husband will be forced to see what ‘his’ Republican Party has become. pkayden’s comment earlier about if the script were flipped: I can just imagine what he would be saying. In fact, anything I do say, he makes a comment like the one about Tillerson vs. Hillary. Or even, PO. He blamed him for the two candidates we ended up with. God, this is killing me.
Sorry for unloading friends, but this is bad. Bad for our country and bad for my home. I sure hope and pray there’s at least a few decent R’s who will speak up and I’m not holding my breath. Afraid they are all like my husband. Party over everything else. Power and authority. Lord, Lord, where will this end?!?!?!?!?
Good night. I’m going to go to bed and try to sleep, but doubtful that will happen. Love to all……….
JackieG worries me a bit because she has always been so consistently here, and there have been occasions in the past when she was ill. My biggest unrest is always the ‘not knowing’! Despite the huge disappointment of our loss in November, I don’t see JackieG as staying away without a word, and for so long.
Watch Rachel Maddow’s initial reaction upon hearing the breaking news that the CIA concluded Russia interfered in our elections to help Trump win – and that GOP…
The MSM seems to be whispering this information if they are broadcasting it at all.
Given all of this…some of which was talked about prior to the election..there should be no question that this election should be declared invalid. But what is in place to override the decisions of the majority party where their ethics come into question as well as evidence of corruption?
I feel like I’m on a roller coaster…I read or hear news that makes me say *surely* this is enough to make the powers that be investigate; at a minimum, cause Democrats and ethical Republicans to make noise about it. But then, *it seems* nothing happens; no response. However, I do not discount that things may be happening under the radar…but as the days tick by, it would be a little more comforting that *something* is going on.
Please keep posting pictures and videos of President Obama. I have been so miserable and I just came here and he made me smile. I just decided I am just going to live in the past for the next four years.
I don’t think that you need to be in a hospital to need some cheering up nowadays….made me smile
My mom works at a hospital & they have this service dog go around to cheer up patients. Here he is earlier today with the Christmas spirit😂😊 pic.twitter.com/5J6f9tlOp4
It is my thought that ALL the people elected to REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, that sat on this info and SIDED WITH RUSSIA OVER THE INTEGRITY OF OUR US ELECTIONS, should all be removed from office and tried for treason. ALL OF THEM!
I’m stunned by the silence of many of those elected officials that constantly claim to be for the working folk who have now suddenly lost their ability to talk.
In what could mark an escalation of tensions with the West, commercial satellite images suggest that Russia is moving a new generation of nuclear-capable missiles into Eastern Europe.
Russia appears to be preparing to permanently base its Iskander missile system in Kaliningrad, a sliver of territory it controls along the Baltic coast between Lithuania and Poland. Arms control experts shared fresh satellite imagery with NPR, which they say provides evidence that the Iskander will soon be housed in the Russian-controlled enclave.
The images show ground being cleared for tentlike shelters used at other Iskander bases, says Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. “The pattern, and the size, and the location strongly suggest to us that this is the beginning phase of construction of the shelters for Iskander,” Lewis says.
Lewis and other experts believe Russia may be also developing a longer-range cruise missile that would allow the Iskander system to reach targets in Western Europe as well. That missile, if it does exist, would violate the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibits medium-range cruise missiles from being deployed on the ground.
Makes perfect sense to weaken NATO if Russian is planning to move on Europe, and not just Eastern Europe, I’m talking all of Europe as crazy as it sounds.
Of course. That’s the plan…and DT is both desperate to be allowed to get business done in certain places…and ignorant enough to let the bribes work on him….Clinton would never have let this happen. Never.
In essence, Moscow’s security organs could now be in possession of what the KGB used to call kompromat — compromising personal material — on Trump and his staff, which could then be used to blackmail them into doing Russia’s bidding.
The mere possibility that Putin now knows the secrets of the RNC and the inner workings of the victorious party of the 2016 election is bound to color U.S.-Russian relations for the next four years, regardless or whether or not those secrets are in any way scandalous. Any perceived tilt by Washington toward Russia, or any accommodation struck with the Kremlin on the ongoing wars in Syria or Ukraine can now be interpreted as quid pro quo for Putin’s keeping silent on what’s he got on the sitting commander-in-chief or the latter’s inner circle.
Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, told The Daily Beast, representing his personal views and not those of the War College:“The worst possibility is that the Russians are holding back what they’ve stolen from the RNC because it’s valuable enough to keep in reserve until the president-elect is sworn in. This is a frankly terrifying possibility.”
My only problem with the “compromising personal material” theory is that it doesn’t work with Trump, we already know he’s pig and that he owes foreign bank millions if not billions of dollars. Trump doesn’t seem like a person that would care one way or the other about his personal information becoming public. And besides that, even if some other salacious information came out about Trump, his sycophants would ‘t believe it anyway.
It is my great hope that all the electors are presented with ALL this information and told that they have a responsibility to vote their conscience…country before party. Is it possible that there can be a tie in the EC and that would force a redo of the election because of extreme circumstances of national security? Can PBO stay on until this all gets straightened out? The Founders never planned for this…or envisioned the technology that we have today…flying blind now.
Interesting that Simon Rosenberg published this before the election.
There are many other thoughtful thinkers (scholars) who share his view.
During my dystopian funk (which hasn’t gone away tbh) after the election I started a tweetstorm (but have since become distracted by the onslaught of DJT horror upon horror):
Morning, arapaho….I saw that it was written before the election and also saw how spot on his thoughts were….as were yours. We are in uncharted territory and I hope that we have the strength and the will to correct this as a nation. People are complacent, polarized and ignorant of the facts. I add all that to the anxiety I feel.
Our tireless, dedicated, Nerdy has opened a new thread, but wanted to respond to this.
Here’s Zeke’s tweet that @LOLGOP responded to.
There is one week before Electoral College votes.
The EC is, as Princess Leia pleaded to Obi Wan Kenobi, “our only hope,” the last remaining thread of the checks and balances painstakingly threaded together by our founding fathers to protect American democracy.
The Obama Diary 
Think I’m going to go see if Netflix has “Red Dawn”, you know, just in case.
Don – winning again! Nothing more heartwarming than the Obamas and kids.
GM Don.
I avoid violent and/or war films like the plague, so no surprise I’m clueless about “Red Dawn.”
I looked it up on Wikipedia, which says:
“At the time it was released, Red Dawn was considered the most violent film by the Guinness Book of Records and The National Coalition on Television Violence, with a rate of 134 acts of violence per hour, or 2.23 per minute.[7] The DVD Special Edition (2007) includes an on-screen ‘Carnage Counter’ in a nod to this.”
And here’s what one reviewer said of the film:
“Adam Arseneau at the website DVD Verdict opined that the film ‘often feels like a Republican wet dream manifested into a surrealistic Orwellian nightmare.'”
Appropriately, it was released in 1984.
Good afternoon Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Saturday afternoon. Congrats Don, on being first this afternoon.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you steal-a-moment to let your mind meditate, ponder, and reflect on all the things to be thankful for today. ❤ ❤ ❤
Notwithstanding the nightmare of BuffoonTrump in the Whitehouse, I am more than ever, Thankful to God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Amen! ❤
Good Hawaii Morning Obama Diary friends! What a great way to start my day– my beloved POTUS and FLOTUS talking with kids! Thank you so much Nerdy for all you do to make this a continuing place of beauty and communion. Hope everyone is having a very good day ❤
❤️👏🏼🙏🏼🖖🏼❤️
Happy birthday dear Pamela 🌹
VC, thanks for the reminder 😊
It was my pleasure, G², and a good Saturday afternoon to you! 🙂
Hey, I just got a good phone call from my friend in ‘gay Pa – ree’, encouraging me to come for an extended visit! I cannot believe how next summer is shaping up so far. 😀 😀 At the rate the ideas are popping out I may have to rent out my home for a couple of months! You want to rent on the east coast for a month or two? There won’t be any snow in July, August ……. I don’t think.
Sounds like a workable plan! Let’s discuss further 🙂
😀 😀 (I’m baaaack.)
Happy, Happy Birthday, Mighty Pamela! ❤
HaPpY BiRthDaY! Pamela!
Can’t believe I missed your birthday, MP. Hope you and kitty celebrated in style.
Thank you for the spirit lift, NW. As always you are precious and everyone in this village is too.
Our side really needs to stop subscribing to/reading NYT. They played a huge role in ginning up the “scandals” which were used by Republicans against Secretary Clinton — and were responsible for initiating the email server “scandal”.
Houston, we have a problem.
Flip the script and let’s pretend that President-Elect Clinton nominated a Secretary of State who had received an award from one of America’s foreign enemies. Can you imagine the uproar from Republicans/MSM? It’s astonishing what Trump is getting away with.
I just love Secretary Jewell!
Yea. To me she has been one of the most visible department heads in the Obama Admin, and she hasn’t been reluctant to show she actually really enjoys her job. She has been a great choice, I think.
Among all of “his” great choices! Love her and several others!
‘Among all of “his” great choices!’
Yep! 🙂 We “was” blessed with this leader.
Me, too! She’s the complete package of brains, heart, and experience for the job.
Maybe something to this observation. You think?
Karma will find him
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-black-voters-didnt-vote-92316ddd0400#.bchhqolla
And countless Black voters were prevented from voting due to Republican voter suppression tactics. Good to see that Trump is now boasting about this. So classy.
/s
GA TODville.
Just got back, opened the Internet and more stomach-churning news. Absolutely impossible to keep up, try as I might.
Hmmm mmm. Yep. This is the state of our “democracy”. We now allow foreign governments to interfere with our vote. Sigh.
Read this. Votes were changed because of the the FBI mess. The lies, lies and more lies. Even lies of omission.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougschoen/2016/10/31/president-hillary-clinton-and-a-constitutional-crisis/#3d2466f6517c
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/war-russia-isnt-issue-treason
From my vantage point, the investigation must begin at once. Remember, Watergate was about bugging DNC headquarters. This is far, far worse. Here’s what we need:
A thorough forensic investigation of all voting machines in Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania, at a minimum
A full accounting for the breaches of any and all voter databases, whether data was taken, and what was done with that data. Was it sent to Cambridge Analytica? Were the actual databases tampered with to remove voters?
A full investigation into any and all hacks of the RNC, including the information Russians were able to obtain and an explanation as to why they didn’t release it while simultaneously leaking information stolen from the DNC.
A full investigation in Paul Manafort’s role behind the scenes.
Testimony from Roger Stone explaining his claim that he was in touch with Russians behind the scenes as Wikileaks emails were being rolled out.
Testimony from FBI Director James Comey about why he chose not to push forward on the Russian hacks but instead released a letter to elected officials about duplicate emails discovered on Anthony Weiner’s server. Was he pressured to do so? By whom? And if so, we also need testimony from those who pressured him.
Testimony under oath from Mitch McConnell about why he chose to disregard the recommendations of a consensus of 17 separate national security agencies that Russia was interfering.
Pay attention. None of those bullet points involve war with Russia. They do involve actually draining the existing swamp in Washington, DC and cleaning it out. And if the Senate and House Oversight committees fail to do their duty in this after holding at least seven separate Benghazi investigations, we should begin impeachment proceedings.
ALL.OF.THIS.
MOSCOW — The Russian government maintained contacts with members of Donald J. Trump’s “immediate entourage” during the American presidential campaign, one of Russia’s top diplomats said Thursday.
“There were contacts,” Sergei A. Ryabkov, the deputy foreign minister, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. “We continue to do this and have been doing this work during the election campaign,” he said.
Mr. Ryabkov said officials in the Russian Foreign Ministry were familiar with many of the people he described as Mr. Trump’s entourage. “I cannot say that all, but a number of them maintained contacts with Russian representatives,” Mr. Ryabkov said.
Later, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said Mr. Ryabkov had been referring to American politicians and supporters of Mr. Trump, not members of his campaign staff. The contacts were carried out through the Russian ambassador in Washington, who reached out to the senators and other political allies to get a better sense of Mr. Trump’s positions on various issues involving Russia.
Read them and memorize them.
I think we need to change our voting systems back to paper ballots, not the chad kind. Too many potential hacking concerns with computers. I like our vote by mail system and automatic registration we have in Oregon. Purging voters from the list and making Voting harder by requiring hard to obtain IDs, cutting voter hours and limiting voter locations should not be allowed. Next we need to include a voter authentication system where no one is ever able to steal lose, not count or destroy ballots. The party position in charge of voting needs to be checked by all parties involved. Strong deterrents need to be in place for tampering with the voting process including losing the office won illegally.
Damn…
On why he chose the Exxon guy… there’s that word again. Russia.
Talk about bags under the eyes! Did someone use white makeup on the puffy bags to hide them or were Trump’s eyes protected during tanning or spray tanning leaving that area standing out from the color of the rest of his face?
All that $$ can’t buy some decent plastic surgery. He’s a mess
Trump thinks we’re not noticing he’s in full makeup. Like any narcissist, he sees his image and thinks it’s “just right.”
We know better. Ugh.
Wonder if jealousy and vindictiveness play into this with DT/Putin
I think it has for a long time, DF. But he will never be close to matching PBO. And he knows it. President Obama is the first President in decades who is leaving office after 8 years with incredibly high ratings, and it is due to his performance: not sympathy as in the case of Clinton, not partisanship as in the case of Reagan, etc, etc. He would easily win a third term, and everyone knows it.
Huh…
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-syria-russia-2016-11
More….
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-advisor-meetings-russian-officials-investigated-article-1.2803727
the photo in the Business Insider with three people in it is labeled Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka, and Donald Trump, but it is a photo of Jarod (Ivanka’s husband) and Ivanka with Donald J Trump. There is a correctly labeled photo of Donald Jr above that. Guess they have not recognized whom is whom yet. The fact that Donald Jr was at an International political meeting representing his father in October prior to the election seems wrong to me.
Quite wrong, but then, the rules never apply to them.
Dated. August 27, 2016.
Click to access Reid-Letter-to-Comey.pdf
Remember it well, df … quite well ….
Evening, Bobfr:) I am beside myself with this mess. I keep hoping that the Adult in the Room has a plan to rescue us from this mess….before its too late
I’m confident in our President, df.
He knows how he handles the #PutinTrumpCoup is a way bigger challenge than rescuing the economy, saving the US auto industry & bringing Osama to a just end.
I don’t think most people realize just how major VP Biden’s “I hope not” response was regarding whether Americans (and the world) would know of the US response to Russia’s cyber attack(s).
#TrustBarack
yup ….
ABSA FUCKING LUTLY!
Let me see if this video comes up..
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/12/10/robert-baer-new-election-russia-hacking-nr.cnn
MUST SEE VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!
I fully agree with EVERYTHING this man said!
GM Dr. Bob.
More on Elaine Welteroth:
And about Millennials:
They don’t have to block but they sure could condemn it ….
President Obama is cursed at and obstructed for trying to give everybody in the country health care insurance, and succeeding as it relates to tens of millions of people. Trump’s in the middle of allowing Russia to meddle in our election and that’s just another day to the GOP. WTF.
Read the whole TL
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum
df, I am also beside myself with this mess. And, what I am dealing with makes it much worse. My husband sees no problem with Tillerson as SoS. Because he “knows more about the world and the players than Hillary did when she became SoS”!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you FREAKING kidding me?!?!?!?!?!?!?! He sees no problem with any of this. Of course, mostly he doesn’t know what’s going on because HE DOESN’T WANT TO KNOW. He might have to take responsibility for his vote. Besides knowing that this has to be dealt with for our country to survive as a democracy and a republic, I want ALL of them, ALL OF THEM to pay just so my husband will be forced to see what ‘his’ Republican Party has become. pkayden’s comment earlier about if the script were flipped: I can just imagine what he would be saying. In fact, anything I do say, he makes a comment like the one about Tillerson vs. Hillary. Or even, PO. He blamed him for the two candidates we ended up with. God, this is killing me.
Sorry for unloading friends, but this is bad. Bad for our country and bad for my home. I sure hope and pray there’s at least a few decent R’s who will speak up and I’m not holding my breath. Afraid they are all like my husband. Party over everything else. Power and authority. Lord, Lord, where will this end?!?!?!?!?
Good night. I’m going to go to bed and try to sleep, but doubtful that will happen. Love to all……….
Night sweetness…it’s worse than bad.
((((Hugs))))). Thanks.
Bless you tnmtngirl. I feel for you, I’m so thankful I don’t have anything like that to deal with.
Just because I’m thinking of them …and missing them
❤ ❤ > Jackie G
>> Dudette
>> Chips Chica
…………………….”
❤️❤️💕💕😍😍. Agree, vc.
Lovely, VC. Have we heard from JackieG?
I haven’t, JO’B, but then I’ve been a ‘flighty’ TOD-er in the last month or so.
JackieG worries me a bit because she has always been so consistently here, and there have been occasions in the past when she was ill. My biggest unrest is always the ‘not knowing’! Despite the huge disappointment of our loss in November, I don’t see JackieG as staying away without a word, and for so long.
Watch Rachel Maddow’s initial reaction upon hearing the breaking news that the CIA concluded Russia interfered in our elections to help Trump win – and that GOP…
The MSM seems to be whispering this information if they are broadcasting it at all.
Given all of this…some of which was talked about prior to the election..there should be no question that this election should be declared invalid. But what is in place to override the decisions of the majority party where their ethics come into question as well as evidence of corruption?
I feel like I’m on a roller coaster…I read or hear news that makes me say *surely* this is enough to make the powers that be investigate; at a minimum, cause Democrats and ethical Republicans to make noise about it. But then, *it seems* nothing happens; no response. However, I do not discount that things may be happening under the radar…but as the days tick by, it would be a little more comforting that *something* is going on.
Please keep posting pictures and videos of President Obama. I have been so miserable and I just came here and he made me smile. I just decided I am just going to live in the past for the next four years.
Me too. But i doubt Trump will last 100 days.
Goodnight TOD …
One additional goodnight message ….
#TrustBarack
Slightly edited ….
Good morning TOD ….
#TrustBarack
Good morning. I’m trying. I’m trying. 😦 😦 😦
H/t BJ:)
I don’t think that you need to be in a hospital to need some cheering up nowadays….made me smile
But emails. Where NOTHING HAPPENED!!
It is my thought that ALL the people elected to REPRESENT THE PEOPLE, that sat on this info and SIDED WITH RUSSIA OVER THE INTEGRITY OF OUR US ELECTIONS, should all be removed from office and tried for treason. ALL OF THEM!
I’m stunned by the silence of many of those elected officials that constantly claim to be for the working folk who have now suddenly lost their ability to talk.
“funny” that.
In the mean time…his puppet in the US will weaken NATO….
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/08/504737811/russia-seen-moving-new-missiles-to-eastern-europe
In what could mark an escalation of tensions with the West, commercial satellite images suggest that Russia is moving a new generation of nuclear-capable missiles into Eastern Europe.
Russia appears to be preparing to permanently base its Iskander missile system in Kaliningrad, a sliver of territory it controls along the Baltic coast between Lithuania and Poland. Arms control experts shared fresh satellite imagery with NPR, which they say provides evidence that the Iskander will soon be housed in the Russian-controlled enclave.
The images show ground being cleared for tentlike shelters used at other Iskander bases, says Jeffrey Lewis, a nonproliferation expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. “The pattern, and the size, and the location strongly suggest to us that this is the beginning phase of construction of the shelters for Iskander,” Lewis says.
Lewis and other experts believe Russia may be also developing a longer-range cruise missile that would allow the Iskander system to reach targets in Western Europe as well. That missile, if it does exist, would violate the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which prohibits medium-range cruise missiles from being deployed on the ground.
Makes perfect sense to weaken NATO if Russian is planning to move on Europe, and not just Eastern Europe, I’m talking all of Europe as crazy as it sounds.
Of course. That’s the plan…and DT is both desperate to be allowed to get business done in certain places…and ignorant enough to let the bribes work on him….Clinton would never have let this happen. Never.
NOw that we know all this…DT HAS TO GO, because he is a great liability to the safety and security of the US and the world!!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/10/how-russian-hackers-can-blackmail-donald-trump-and-the-gop.html
In essence, Moscow’s security organs could now be in possession of what the KGB used to call kompromat — compromising personal material — on Trump and his staff, which could then be used to blackmail them into doing Russia’s bidding.
The mere possibility that Putin now knows the secrets of the RNC and the inner workings of the victorious party of the 2016 election is bound to color U.S.-Russian relations for the next four years, regardless or whether or not those secrets are in any way scandalous. Any perceived tilt by Washington toward Russia, or any accommodation struck with the Kremlin on the ongoing wars in Syria or Ukraine can now be interpreted as quid pro quo for Putin’s keeping silent on what’s he got on the sitting commander-in-chief or the latter’s inner circle.
Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, told The Daily Beast, representing his personal views and not those of the War College:“The worst possibility is that the Russians are holding back what they’ve stolen from the RNC because it’s valuable enough to keep in reserve until the president-elect is sworn in. This is a frankly terrifying possibility.”
My only problem with the “compromising personal material” theory is that it doesn’t work with Trump, we already know he’s pig and that he owes foreign bank millions if not billions of dollars. Trump doesn’t seem like a person that would care one way or the other about his personal information becoming public. And besides that, even if some other salacious information came out about Trump, his sycophants would ‘t believe it anyway.
It is my great hope that all the electors are presented with ALL this information and told that they have a responsibility to vote their conscience…country before party. Is it possible that there can be a tie in the EC and that would force a redo of the election because of extreme circumstances of national security? Can PBO stay on until this all gets straightened out? The Founders never planned for this…or envisioned the technology that we have today…flying blind now.
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Interesting that Simon Rosenberg published this before the election.
There are many other thoughtful thinkers (scholars) who share his view.
During my dystopian funk (which hasn’t gone away tbh) after the election I started a tweetstorm (but have since become distracted by the onslaught of DJT horror upon horror):
Morning, arapaho….I saw that it was written before the election and also saw how spot on his thoughts were….as were yours. We are in uncharted territory and I hope that we have the strength and the will to correct this as a nation. People are complacent, polarized and ignorant of the facts. I add all that to the anxiety I feel.
Fucking useless imbecile
Our tireless, dedicated, Nerdy has opened a new thread, but wanted to respond to this.
Here’s Zeke’s tweet that @LOLGOP responded to.
There is one week before Electoral College votes.
The EC is, as Princess Leia pleaded to Obi Wan Kenobi, “our only hope,” the last remaining thread of the checks and balances painstakingly threaded together by our founding fathers to protect American democracy.
Someone please light a fire under the electors!
From Meta’s (invaluable) Twitter timeline:
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2016/12/11/time-to-get-covered/