Hello TOD on a Sunday Afternoon 😉
Just finished watching SNL.
Hilarious!
Kudos to Ms McCarthy, Alex B. & Co!
Thanks, TOD!
❤ ❤ ❤ Always, You All are Rock ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🙂
Miller on judges: "Our opponents [will] see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president…will not be questioned" pic.twitter.com/WnY0eafLJx
Jared Kushner is former owner of The Observer (gave up ownership in order to rule the world as DJT’s de facto Secretary of State).
Article was written by @20committee — conservative with ODS, so the faint of heart shouldn’t read his Twitter timeline. But because he’s an actual conservative he is appalled at Putin’s Puppet sitting in the Oval Office with #MoscowMike (Flynn) whispering in his ear…
anyone can’t blame the IC if you are paying attention to the
– homegrown demagogue’s obsession with putin, and
– all the collaborators that surround the homegrown demagogue who are compromised,
not that they would read it but I sent a tweet to the homegrown demagogue, before he was sworn in, to remind him that the intelligence community, whether domestic or abroad, would not share they sensitive material if they knew that team trump was leaking as a sieve to the russians.
the IC does not want their work undermined or their colleagues exposed to death as they conduct clandestine activities
IMHO it’s their job AND their responsibility to withhold critical information from a lunatic who sits at the Resolute Desk illegitimately and with no capacity to process or make decisions on behalf of the people. We are the people. So the IC has to safeguard against worldwide disaster until the house and senate recognize what they have done here, and then DO THEIR JOB! It seems about checks and balances they are truly (or willfully) ignorant.
I am so glad to see so many people taking a daily stand against the policies that are inhumane.
These policies are very harmful to the goal of everyone living their best lives among a community with people from diverse backgrounds.
I am heartened by what I see in so many protest actions …. big or small … it is the intention and message beneath it that causes me to have some hope and definitely huge pride in what the people of good conscience.
history can record that when core values were threatened, millions rose up to say: “HELL NO! … We can’t let this become normal … Not on my watch”
thanks everyone who is doing ALL they can to contribute to this effort to protect common decency and human rights;
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Thanks to all who take daily actions to ensure that history records that when core values were threatened millions said: "Not On My Watch"
How smart is our Forever POTUS…smart enough to make this thing shit his pants once he starts working on voter suppression issues…so sick of these lying weasels. Karma will come for all of you.
This is the start of a massive Republican Party effort to suppress the vote across the country. https://t.co/mocktFiDfe
People really have some nerve. I keep seeing folks asking where Hillary Clinton is as everything goes to hell and it floors me. People are really wondering where the woman who won the popular votes by 3 million but still lost the highest office of the land is hanging. Folks fixing their faces to ask where the person who could almost taste history is as her opponent wins, and tries to bring on World War III. OH OK.
So last night, I went on a rant on Twitter because I’m sick of people on her behalf.
Update 2/12, 1:30 pm ET: After this story was published, Andrew Puzder spokesman George Thompson got back in touch with IBT to assert that, after the sale of his house, the Labor Secretary nominee currently has “a little more than $900,000” in debt to UBS, despite the financial disclosure forms that Puzder recently filed.
Original story: President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Labor personally owes millions of dollars to a convicted bank that is relying on the same department to waive sanctions for its crimes, according to federal records. The ties between Trump’s embattled appointee Andrew Puzder and the multinational bank UBS were listed in federal documents reviewed by International Business Times — but they were not explicitly acknowledged in Puzder’s ethics agreement with federal regulators.
I know where it comes from. Still worth the read. True for so many of us…we fight this and persist, for our daughters and nieces, and the females we will never know.
I think a lot of us stopped going to the orange place, and the huffypuffy, and other similar sites, when they took on the ‘noble’ mantle of PBO antagonists. Nice to see so many have become fierce reporters of 45’s abuses and outrages. I’ve gingerly begun reading Politico again, just a bit 🙂
Hillary Clinton doesn’t owe you a goddamned thing.
Hillary Clinton ran for president. She ran despite a hideous game
of cajoling her to run, only to shame her for running. She ran despite the fact that the media has treated her like garbage for decades; despite knowing they would treat her like garbage again—which they did.
She ran despite knowing, as keenly as any other woman in the country and more than most, the hellscape of vicious misogyny that would be unleashed against her. She ran despite the fact that she knew, should she win, she would face Republican obstructionism and vitriol so vast and relentless that it would take a tenacious beast to govern. She ran knowing she would have to be that tenacious beast, and could be.
She ran for president on the most progressive Democratic platform ever, and her campaign was remarkably devoid of the typical unforced errors in most presidential campaigns (including her previous one). She showed herself to be a candidate capable of learning and willing to learn—when she changed positions, it was because she came to the more progressive one.
Which is not to suggest that she was a perfect candidate, but she was a damn good one. Yet her insufficient perfection was somehow considered a fatal flaw by people who now demand she dance at their command.
She wanted to lead this nation—and, more importantly, she wanted to govern it. And she had the knowledge and capability to do it, and do it well.
She put out an enormous number of policy papers and factsheets, so we could see exactly what she wanted to do and how she would do it. She gave detailed policy addresses, and she answered voters’ questions with both compassion and seriousness and details.
She conveyed, in every conceivable way, that she had the experience to be our president, and an abundance of talent, and she was offering both to us.
And we passed.
More of us voted for her, of course, but there is a reason she is not our president. And it’s not just because of Russian interference and James Comey being a colossal wanker. It’s also because enough votes for Jill Stein threw key states to Donald Trump, and because millions and millions of people voted for Trump despite his reprehensible platform.
I am hardly the first person to observe that I would much rather be
spending my days encouraging Hillary Clinton to be more progressive than documenting the fall of the republic under the presidency of Donald Trump.
But here we are.
And now there are people—many of whom are self-identified Bernie Sanders supporters who voted for Stein in those aforementioned key states, or who voted for Trump, or who didn’t vote at all—who are demanding to know why Hillary Clinton isn’t “doing something” to stop Donald Trump and his authoritarian onslaught.
She did do something, you ungrateful wrecks. She campaigned for
18 months, the last of them against Trump himself, day after exhausting day, keeping up a ruthless schedule that would drive most people half her age to collapse after three weeks, no less a year and a half. She gave up time with her family, her grandchildren; gave up anything resembling free time; gave up her privacy. She made countless sacrifices on behalf of this country in order to prevent this exact outcome.
You took a hard pass, and now you have the unmitigated temerity to want more from her? Fuck you.
I note with all the mirthless laughter in the universe that one of the
incessant criticisms of Hillary Clinton was that she was entitled.
She gave it everything she had already. You don’t get to ask for even more.
And what, pray tell, do you expect her to do, anyway? Crash the
confirmation hearings? She’s not a sitting Senator anymore. That’s not the way it works. Show up at a protest, dragging the Secret Service with her, constantly on the lookout for people who sent her death threats; chanted that she should be locked up or killed? That’s not the way it works, either.
Even if you could name some meaningful action that you’d like her to be taking in this moment, this darkest of moments in our nation’s history, she doesn’t owe it to you.
It hurts my heart when I think about how not only did we reject her in
favor of the shitlord who currently occupies the Oval Office, but we
sought to humiliate her, over and over, for even trying to defeat him.
And now, to add breathtaking insult to that grievous injury, people are mad at her for not showing up?! She tried to show up. And a bunch of progressive purists told her to GTFO and spit in her face for good measure.
I hope the purists and Democrats who voted for Putin’s Puppet, those who didn’t vote, 3rd party voters and Trump voters are enjoying PP … their elected Emperor. They fully deserve PP.
I remember the Obama presidency almost like a dream these days… But it wasn’t. It was real. I have to remember that there were days – eight years of days, in fact – when I did not open up my web browser in the morning and find nothing but hate, victimhood, anger, and lies. “Alternate facts.” “Misstatements.” “Honest mistakes.” Days where I didn’t wonder how many hours I needed to spend resisting. Days when I actually felt that my brothers and sisters in far different situations than my own were actually being respected… Days when I had a life, where I understood the country in which I was living, when not everything seemed “tweeted” directly from Lewis Carroll’s “Land of the Red Queen.”
I have to remember that RESISTANCE has a goal, and pray that the need for it is not permanent. There were days of kindness, compassion, the hugging of children, the welcoming of strangers, the sharing of bounty, respect… Days when there was far less “ripping” and “blasting,” and a lot more listening and caring…
Maybe these gray, snowy, New England winter days are exacerbating my wistfulness, but I know they’re not the cause of it.
I’m from Missouri or Misery as I call it. The St. Louis NBC affiliate had the voice of his son saying his father was not a violet person and a picture with him with his son on his shoulders. My sister called the station saying she doesn’t remember such a sympathetic portrait when Mike Brown was shot down and left in the street.
He should also receive the Profiles in Courage Award, another Noble Prize, a building at Columbia and Harvard named after him, and much, much more. Countries other than Ireland will also be lining up to honor him. Much of the world knew what they and we had when he served and more are realizing just how awesome and rare he was when they see that the one who on paper was designed to be their wet dream president is screwing and shaming them.
He was tweeting about his crowd of supporters; too bad he kept the press from shooting any part his weekend vacation. No proof of this claim or any others. So childish to basically be tweeting, “see they like me, they really like me.” He even told Bill O’Reilly that PBO really likes him. ” I can always tell when someone likes me, but I cannot tell you what he said.” Such a child; wants to be popular so bad.
Best New artist: Chance, the Rapper!
James Cordon’s opening was not worthy of the occasion,.
Paris Jackson, shout out to Beyoncé just before introducing The Weekend.
But of incompetent dweebs. And the GOP, power hungry wraps its arms around this fool and his incompetent men/women. I have never seen anything like this ever. Wow. It takes your breath away.
He and the rest of the crew think it is just enough to say “we don’t like it” sign some gibberish, and presto-changeo! they get what they want. Thank God we have separation of powers enshrined I the constitution. We had a constitutional scholar, with a JD behind his name in the big chair for 8 years who knew what he was doing and made things as bullet proof as possible.
Isaac Stork, a big fan of bow tie-wearing Bill Nye
the Science Guy, will set up a bow tie stand at the upcoming March for Science. All proceeds will benefit The Planetary Society.
I spot Isaac Stork through the glass door at Hartford
Coffee and recognize him immediately. He wears a blue button-up shirt, neatly adorned with a black bow tie and comes into the coffee shop beaming.
I quickly stand up and introduce myself to his parents, Sam and Mark Stork, and then to Isaac.
“Hi, I’m Isaac,” he says nonchalantly, as he continues his way to the
back section of Hartford Coffee where the toys are located.
His parents and I follow him to the back where we find an empty bench near the train table.
Sam and I sip our coffee, while Isaac investigates the toys. She
tells me that Isaac’s love of science began when he was one. He was mesmerized by the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
“He couldn’t fall asleep unless it was on,” Sam says.
Isaac still admires Tyson, but Bill Nye the Science Guy
is his favorite scientist. “I like him because he knows science and
does a lot of science,” Isaac tells me as he pulls a stretched-out
orange slinky out of the toy box.
…………………………………………………………..
The idea for raising money for science came to Isaac one day in the
car. He was disappointed that he didn’t get to participate in the
Women’s March on St. Louis in January, so his parents told him that he could participate in the March for Science, which is scheduled in St. Louis for April 22 (other details are TBD).
As soon as he knew about the march, Isaac wanted to raise money for science. He plans to collect bow ties and sell them at the march.
Instead of a lemonade stand, he plans to have a bow tie stand.
Know that most are tuned into the Grammys tonight (and since I don’t have a television, can’t watch — rarely watched even when I had a TV 😦 ), but this is remarkable…
I know we’re all aghast at this administration, and the horrible things they’re doing on the domestic front are unbelievable, but… heard @gordongchang on @cbsradionews tonight say that the hard questions posed by North Korea’s missile launch involve possible conflict escalation between the United States vs. China, North Korea and Iran…
Gulp.
#NorthKorea tested a Musudan today, #Iran tested a Musudan on Jan.29. What's going on here?
goodnight TOD …. not sure how many more mornings we are going to have …. stay close to those you love and don’t wast a second on worrying about the trivial …. for real.
Scary shit from Eric Garland but – truth be told – I feel (most of the people I know feel) exactly the same way. Until tomorrow … and thanks for the photo.
For assholes tweeting liberals will be washed away by #OrovilleDam — here evac area over CA red counties that voted Trump. Don't be jerks. pic.twitter.com/VTyZIbRgj8
Bannon & Flynn used phone flashlights for Trump read most secure N Korea docs w/waiters serving. Maybe Rs can scream more about HRC emails https://t.co/e7Dj8CaH8M
Beyoncé persists in her independence, her advocacy through her music, and in being herself, an unapologetic Black woman and the Grammy voters continue to show their envy and disrespect by voting for albums every year that come no where near what she has done, especially in the tour de force Lemonade. But here is the thing, in a few months very few people outside of the industry will remember who won song and album of the year, but they will remember and continue to celebrate Beyoncé’s artistry. These people do what those in charge always do, they use the artistry of POC to bring light, life, and innovation to their gatherings for the ratings and for the money, but the artists are not rewarded with honors. The only standouts this entire long night were the Black artist and Bruno Mars. It is so hideous that Adele could not even get through her 2nd song is awarded the highest honors of the night by the academy, while Beyoncé, who brought such an original and artistic performance received only the Contemporary Urban award (i. e. Black award). Lemonade had songs from at least 4 different genres and anyone could have been an award winner. So tired of Black excellence from the White House on down not receiving its due recognition. A-A have to always be twice as good to get half as much.
These awards do not always reward those who deserve them at the time, unfortunately. Prince Never on Album of the year. IMO, No one can compare to Price for he wrote, arranged & produced his work. The industry like MJ better so they showered him greatly until MJ got too big for them. My Prince was looked as talented, but sort of like an outlaw.
Adele had a great Album too.
Unfortunately, the GRAMMY didn’t see it Fitting to give out Two Awards for Beyonce & Adele respectively…. or split Album of the Year & Song of the Year or something else.
Even Adele felt that Beyonce should have won for Lemonade and gave her great credit after, asking “what does she have to do to win?” I wonder that too myself.
I have always felt that POC should just be themselves and stop trying to conform, irrespective of what others might think or whether they are rewarded or not. You are happier when you are yourself anyway.
It will be a tragedy if Beyonce were to revert because she wants to win an “award”, she should continue being true to herself not play the game. She has enough world recognition to afford to do this. So I am looking forward to seeing more original work from her.
I do not care if POC get recognized by these academys, the important thing here is the quality of the artists’ work. Sooner or later they will be recognized by academys that really count not those that think they count because they have very good “PR”
So no need to get upset, enjoy the performance and move on by.
I’ll tell you why I think he did this. Because its all about him. Making him look like he’s in charge and important in front of guests at his PRIVATE CLUB. Head of a country sitting outside with him, eating dinner among the rich and connected, he just couldn’t do the right thing and excuse himself to have this issue of top security where no one else could see that he was having an important conversation. You know what? This asshole has mental health issues and daddy issues that I don’t feel like dying over. Fucking take care of your own business and leave me to mine. You, aren’t worth getting jack all for…never the less getting blown to smitherens! All this was, was another preening session and ego stroking for the moron…PP. I will now call him PP… doubles for Putin’s Puppet…and PP for the golden showers that the freak seems to enjoy…you do you, asshole…just nowhere near where the reset of us have to deal with the fallout!
I hadn’t even read to the end of the story. OMFG. They saved the “best” for last!
When the candle-lit national security meeting eventually adjourned, Trump and Abe gave brief statements in front of a black curtain. Abe called the missile launch “absolutely intolerable” and demanded Pyongyang adhere to United Nations Security Council resolutions, while Trump ignored a joint communiqué seen sitting on his lectern and did not mention the missile test at all, instead assuring Japan and the world that the U.S. “stands behind Japan” 100 percent. Leaving the stage, Trump dropped in at a wedding reception at the Mar-a-Lago ballroom, CNN reports, and picked up a mic to address the guests. “I saw them out on the lawn today,” Trump said of nearby newlyweds. “I said to the prime minister of Japan, I said, ‘C’mon Shinzo, let’s go over and say hello.’… They’ve been members of this club for a long time,” he added, referring to the bride and groom. “They’ve paid me a fortune.” Read more at CNN. Peter Weber
This is a perfect photo. So of course the original is on the iPhone of a random Mar-a-Lago person with access to the president. pic.twitter.com/bA1miZvyN4
I can’t get over this. However, bone-headed it is for any of them to discuss sensitive matters over dinner, watch everyone else engrossed in the discussion, and the guy with zero interest/involvement. Wow.
While the world is paying attention to theatrical battles over President Trump’s executive orders and cabinet nominees, a largely unnoticed and potentially landmark case sits before the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. A petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to nullify the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election sits on the SCOTUS docket.
A petition for a writ of mandamus is a filing imploring a Court to take mandatory action in the nature of public duty. The writ – filed Jan 18, 2017 by Diane Blumstein, Donna Soodalter-Toman, and Nancy Goodman – has been assigned docket number 16-907.
The main argument for the writ is that, per Article IV § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, it is the job of the federal government to keep U.S. territory safe from foreign invasion. The Constitution stipulates, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” The petition cites evidence of such an invasion, namely the Russian hacking, and asks that the entire 2016 election be nullified, all the way back to the primaries, on the grounds that cyber-territory in the U.S. was invaded with the intention of altering the results of our Presidential election. The petitioners seek an entirely new election.
Per Title 28 of the U.S. Code § 1251, SCOTUS has “original jurisdiction” over cases like this due to the involvement of a foreign state. There is no remedy for the foreign cyber-invasion, they argue, other than complete nullification.
Should call for another election. I believe Congressman Lewis said that even he doesnt believe PP is a legit president … or something to that effect.
My theory is that the Russians are holding PP ‘hostage’ with ‘stuff’about him… so when he says ‘voter fraud’ etc, he is really crying for help. Hoping someone will investigate and find that the election results were rigged and declare it null and void. As a result, PP will be freed from presidential duties and go back to being a private citizen.
Alright alright …. I should stop entertaining all thoughts of ever becoming a writer. LOL.
If there is ANYONE left on planet Earth that needs more info about how corrupt and devoid of morals Republicans are….In other words,we know PP is mentally ill and nightmare, but if we just keep him focused on all the things we want to take away from Americans and give to Wall St…an we can have our agenda done (FINALLY!) we can overlook the batshit, dangerous crazy stuff.
You have to reinforce the institutions, steadily and legally, and work through them. If you go too far, and react violently, it will only play into the hands of the Trump administration, which is already portraying all opposition as paid agitators and other ridiculousness straight from Putin’s playbook. When I talk about these things on Twitter or Facebook, I immediately receive a bunch of “Here too!” responses from people living in other authoritarian regimes, from Venezuela to Vietnam.
Riots will only frighten the “moderate middle” you will need as allies sooner or later. If Trump convinces them with lies that the opposition is controlled by dangerous thugs, you’re going to have eight years of Trump and another of his kind to follow. Stick to the facts, repeat them boldly and frequently, so his supporters see the would-be emperor has no bathrobe!
The courts are important, but things won’t really change unless enough Republicans start to see Trump as a liability to their fundraising and reelection chances. That could be quite soon if he can’t fulfill his many campaign promises. Making him look like a loser is crucial. Either the GOP will turn on him or he will be chastened and more likely to compromise. If a demagogue succeeds in claiming credit for wins and scapegoating his enemies for losses, he’s very hard to stop.
Trump will continue to push the limits, to find the cracks in the system that constrains him. America is finding out the hard way that much of its government is based on tradition and the honor system, and not explicit laws. There will be a crisis every day.
Everyone must do what they can themselves and not wait for others to act. If you want change, you have to initiate action, even at a personal level that might seem insignificant. As the motto of Soviet dissidents went: “Do what you must, and so be it.”
Did I mention what a welcome diversion that watching the Grammy’s was last night? 🙂 Agree with Marilyn re: Lady Gaga…wtf was that? Agent Orange…got that! 🙂 Adele?? What happened there at the beginning? Weird. Beyonce…glorious as always. Bruno!! Wow:) Ended up not watching the whole thing..past my bedtime:)
I haven’t watched the Grammy’s in years, I think the last time I watched it was when Michael Jackson has there. I’m more into the old music, not that I have anything against the new stuff, I just find the old stuff more meaning and pleasing to the ears. And no, I don’t have a problem with you being on my lawn.
When on the road, a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) is used to discuss security issues; Trump did not (WH File Photo) pic.twitter.com/6Q5za6Ue6p
Bottom line. His ego was more of a concern than America’s safety. He is incompetent and incapable of properly carrying out the job that he is in. His team is nothing more than corrupt, self serving enablers and they all need to go. We are not safe. It is not enough to simply dismiss Flynn and say the crisis has been taken care of. The mindset permeates the entire administration. They are all dangerous and toxic. They must go and the people MUST DEMAND a new election!
What’s wrong with this picture? Everyone else huddled behind the idiot. He is not participating in anything they are discussion. Look at everyone else. Aaaah Yah Yah.
Well, California should refuse to pay its federal taxes. the state has an economy that is larger than many countries and we need them more than they need us. F**k 45 and his blackmail and f**k those who are applauding his heinous actions. This is even more galling because this incompetent, lying, lazy mofo has not paid taxes in decades.
Wow. So many reasons to love President Obama. He is a once in a life timer. I can’t wait to see and hear from him on the things he wants us to do to help move this country forward — both he and Mrs. O.
I’m sorry but Bill Murray isn’t funny to me, the guy has never been funny. And I’m sick and tired of everyone pretending that he’s funny. The next time he makes me laugh will be the first time he makes me laugh. And Steve Harvey is even less funny than Bill Murray.
“How can we advance the sense of our common humanity?—through education. We must share responsibility for meeting the problems like climate change, depletion of natural resources and expanding population that affect us all. To limit our concern to our own nation alone is out of date. Technology has already contributed to creating a global community.”
~ HH Dalai Lama 13th February 2017
The Obama Diary 
Hello TOD on a Sunday Afternoon 😉
Just finished watching SNL.
Hilarious!
Kudos to Ms McCarthy, Alex B. & Co!
Thanks, TOD!
❤ ❤ ❤ Always, You All are Rock ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🙂
This is not the America I came to decades ago! We have to continue to fight this!!
heavens! this is totally wrong on all levels!
CAN YOU SAY, TOTALITARIANISM!!!
I don’t know how Trump can hold office if he is being cut off by IC. He must go NOW.
Isn’t this the paper that Jared Kushner owns? Don’t know what to think about this..
That’s what I thought when I first saw this story. Is he still the owner?
Me, neither. Is he still the owner?
GE DF.
Jared Kushner is former owner of The Observer (gave up ownership in order to rule the world as DJT’s de facto Secretary of State).
Article was written by @20committee — conservative with ODS, so the faint of heart shouldn’t read his Twitter timeline. But because he’s an actual conservative he is appalled at Putin’s Puppet sitting in the Oval Office with #MoscowMike (Flynn) whispering in his ear…
anyone can’t blame the IC if you are paying attention to the
– homegrown demagogue’s obsession with putin, and
– all the collaborators that surround the homegrown demagogue who are compromised,
not that they would read it but I sent a tweet to the homegrown demagogue, before he was sworn in, to remind him that the intelligence community, whether domestic or abroad, would not share they sensitive material if they knew that team trump was leaking as a sieve to the russians.
the IC does not want their work undermined or their colleagues exposed to death as they conduct clandestine activities
IMHO it’s their job AND their responsibility to withhold critical information from a lunatic who sits at the Resolute Desk illegitimately and with no capacity to process or make decisions on behalf of the people. We are the people. So the IC has to safeguard against worldwide disaster until the house and senate recognize what they have done here, and then DO THEIR JOB! It seems about checks and balances they are truly (or willfully) ignorant.
I am so glad to see so many people taking a daily stand against the policies that are inhumane.
These policies are very harmful to the goal of everyone living their best lives among a community with people from diverse backgrounds.
I am heartened by what I see in so many protest actions …. big or small … it is the intention and message beneath it that causes me to have some hope and definitely huge pride in what the people of good conscience.
history can record that when core values were threatened, millions rose up to say: “HELL NO! … We can’t let this become normal … Not on my watch”
thanks everyone who is doing ALL they can to contribute to this effort to protect common decency and human rights;
;
we are rising up indeed
This was fun. And good afternoon, TOD!
🙂 might as well get some laughs where we can 🙂
How smart is our Forever POTUS…smart enough to make this thing shit his pants once he starts working on voter suppression issues…so sick of these lying weasels. Karma will come for all of you.
Luvvie is at it again…
This twitter rant is EPIC….and long overdue, cause I’m tired of these folks too.
…………….
Where is Hillary Clinton? Hopefully Taking ALL the Naps She Deserves!
Awesomely Luvvie — February 11, 2017
People really have some nerve. I keep seeing folks asking where Hillary Clinton is as everything goes to hell and it floors me. People are really wondering where the woman who won the popular votes by 3 million but still lost the highest office of the land is hanging. Folks fixing their faces to ask where the person who could almost taste history is as her opponent wins, and tries to bring on World War III. OH OK.
So last night, I went on a rant on Twitter because I’m sick of people on her behalf.
All of this!
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/12/elijah-cummings-asks-question-bring-trump-white-house-crisis-grows.html
Video at the link
Cummings always goes straight to the heart of a matter. People should start truly paying attention to him!
Is it a prerequisite to be a shithead to mankind to be on DT’s circle? That’s a rhetorical question. I know the answer already
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/donald-trumps-labor-secretary-pick-andrew-puzder-owes-millions-ubs-bank-seeks
Update 2/12, 1:30 pm ET: After this story was published, Andrew Puzder spokesman George Thompson got back in touch with IBT to assert that, after the sale of his house, the Labor Secretary nominee currently has “a little more than $900,000” in debt to UBS, despite the financial disclosure forms that Puzder recently filed.
Original story: President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Labor personally owes millions of dollars to a convicted bank that is relying on the same department to waive sanctions for its crimes, according to federal records. The ties between Trump’s embattled appointee Andrew Puzder and the multinational bank UBS were listed in federal documents reviewed by International Business Times — but they were not explicitly acknowledged in Puzder’s ethics agreement with federal regulators.
Senator Franken says some Senate Republicans have concerns about 45’s mental health. http://nydn.us/2kzzJrh
just some?
I know where it comes from. Still worth the read. True for so many of us…we fight this and persist, for our daughters and nieces, and the females we will never know.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/12/1631731/-Nevertheless-she-persisted
Wow. This is truly stunning. Thanks for posting.
I think a lot of us stopped going to the orange place, and the huffypuffy, and other similar sites, when they took on the ‘noble’ mantle of PBO antagonists. Nice to see so many have become fierce reporters of 45’s abuses and outrages. I’ve gingerly begun reading Politico again, just a bit 🙂
They had no idea as to what they had – until they lost it.
Yes…
Dear People Demanding to Know Why Hillary Clinton Isn’t Doing Whatever It Is You Think She Needs to Be Doing in This Moment:
Rest at link above.
Well said.
I hope the purists and Democrats who voted for Putin’s Puppet, those who didn’t vote, 3rd party voters and Trump voters are enjoying PP … their elected Emperor. They fully deserve PP.
I remember the Obama presidency almost like a dream these days… But it wasn’t. It was real. I have to remember that there were days – eight years of days, in fact – when I did not open up my web browser in the morning and find nothing but hate, victimhood, anger, and lies. “Alternate facts.” “Misstatements.” “Honest mistakes.” Days where I didn’t wonder how many hours I needed to spend resisting. Days when I actually felt that my brothers and sisters in far different situations than my own were actually being respected… Days when I had a life, where I understood the country in which I was living, when not everything seemed “tweeted” directly from Lewis Carroll’s “Land of the Red Queen.”
I have to remember that RESISTANCE has a goal, and pray that the need for it is not permanent. There were days of kindness, compassion, the hugging of children, the welcoming of strangers, the sharing of bounty, respect… Days when there was far less “ripping” and “blasting,” and a lot more listening and caring…
Maybe these gray, snowy, New England winter days are exacerbating my wistfulness, but I know they’re not the cause of it.
Beautiful.
This is the NAACP Image Awards at which Barack Obama received the image awards
I know that this enraged 45 more than anything else; the burn is exquisite.
I haven’t watched SNL in years but I watch it now because it is one of our most powerful venues of resistance.
I’m in that same category! Alec Baldwin (as host last night, especially) is great on it and, of course, a few others.
When You don’t have anything nice to say about the DEAD, MUTE is the best Friend.
AMEN. But I will say PAPA POPE ain’t not joke and in all things stay woke.
I’m from Missouri or Misery as I call it. The St. Louis NBC affiliate had the voice of his son saying his father was not a violet person and a picture with him with his son on his shoulders. My sister called the station saying she doesn’t remember such a sympathetic portrait when Mike Brown was shot down and left in the street.
More angst for Birther. LOL.
There was another with the spelling of; IMPEACH!
He should also receive the Profiles in Courage Award, another Noble Prize, a building at Columbia and Harvard named after him, and much, much more. Countries other than Ireland will also be lining up to honor him. Much of the world knew what they and we had when he served and more are realizing just how awesome and rare he was when they see that the one who on paper was designed to be their wet dream president is screwing and shaming them.
NW! ❤️😂❤️ NW! LOL!
There it is!
He was tweeting about his crowd of supporters; too bad he kept the press from shooting any part his weekend vacation. No proof of this claim or any others. So childish to basically be tweeting, “see they like me, they really like me.” He even told Bill O’Reilly that PBO really likes him. ” I can always tell when someone likes me, but I cannot tell you what he said.” Such a child; wants to be popular so bad.
Best New artist: Chance, the Rapper!
James Cordon’s opening was not worthy of the occasion,.
Paris Jackson, shout out to Beyoncé just before introducing The Weekend.
The White House is completely CUCKOO
But of incompetent dweebs. And the GOP, power hungry wraps its arms around this fool and his incompetent men/women. I have never seen anything like this ever. Wow. It takes your breath away.
The Washington Post has gone all watergate on 45’s admin
EEEK!!
In addition to his incoherent babbling, 45 seems to think he has a right to DICTATE business strategy for private industries.
The Intel community is holding back on 45 because he’s not trusted.
http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/
LMAO at the look on his face in this one!!!! He’s so adorable.
Now what was the topic? 🙂
HOLY WOW!!!!!!!
The choreography was phenomenal! Probably the best ever.
A-MAZING
Another FU to Trump?
I’m good.
He and the rest of the crew think it is just enough to say “we don’t like it” sign some gibberish, and presto-changeo! they get what they want. Thank God we have separation of powers enshrined I the constitution. We had a constitutional scholar, with a JD behind his name in the big chair for 8 years who knew what he was doing and made things as bullet proof as possible.
Amen!!!!
Pete Souza, Citizen, Unleashed!
Beyoncé even coordinated the color of the notecard from which she read her acceptance speech with her outfit.
I spotted that! The whole thing was glorious.
Just enjoying the Grammy’s..they let us escape for awhile:) Loving them
Me too, very enjoyable.. lovely escape.
QUEEN B
hysterical
Good grief. The stupid hurts.
Oh, my!
This is the best tweet ever.
Anyone who prefaces a statement, with ” I am not a racist but…” or “I know this sounds racist but…” IS a racist.
Exactly
Awe.
This St. Louis 6-year-old is collecting bow ties for science
Isaac Stork, a big fan of bow tie-wearing Bill Nye
the Science Guy, will set up a bow tie stand at the upcoming March for Science. All proceeds will benefit The Planetary Society.
I spot Isaac Stork through the glass door at Hartford
Coffee and recognize him immediately. He wears a blue button-up shirt, neatly adorned with a black bow tie and comes into the coffee shop beaming.
I quickly stand up and introduce myself to his parents, Sam and Mark Stork, and then to Isaac.
“Hi, I’m Isaac,” he says nonchalantly, as he continues his way to the
back section of Hartford Coffee where the toys are located.
His parents and I follow him to the back where we find an empty bench near the train table.
Sam and I sip our coffee, while Isaac investigates the toys. She
tells me that Isaac’s love of science began when he was one. He was mesmerized by the documentary series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
“He couldn’t fall asleep unless it was on,” Sam says.
Isaac still admires Tyson, but Bill Nye the Science Guy
is his favorite scientist. “I like him because he knows science and
does a lot of science,” Isaac tells me as he pulls a stretched-out
orange slinky out of the toy box.
…………………………………………………………..
The idea for raising money for science came to Isaac one day in the
car. He was disappointed that he didn’t get to participate in the
Women’s March on St. Louis in January, so his parents told him that he could participate in the March for Science, which is scheduled in St. Louis for April 22 (other details are TBD).
As soon as he knew about the march, Isaac wanted to raise money for science. He plans to collect bow ties and sell them at the march.
Instead of a lemonade stand, he plans to have a bow tie stand.
How adorable!
Hello – really? Sorry Adele, but you don’t hold a candle to Beyonce.
It’s just as bad as we all knew, a long time ago ….
Yes folk, it’s MorningJoke authoring this tweet …..
Hell froze today …
I think Birther and Pence all knew and they are lying.
Yes yes yes. And this is how we know Pence is also lying. Remember this? http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/donald-trump-mike-pence-running-mate-domestic-foreign-policy
This was one of my favorites.
Mine too. I have enjoyed the whole program. The only performance that was odd was Lady Gaga with Metalica.
GE TODville.
Know that most are tuned into the Grammys tonight (and since I don’t have a television, can’t watch — rarely watched even when I had a TV 😦 ), but this is remarkable…
I know we’re all aghast at this administration, and the horrible things they’re doing on the domestic front are unbelievable, but… heard @gordongchang on @cbsradionews tonight say that the hard questions posed by North Korea’s missile launch involve possible conflict escalation between the United States vs. China, North Korea and Iran…
Gulp.
goodnight TOD …. not sure how many more mornings we are going to have …. stay close to those you love and don’t wast a second on worrying about the trivial …. for real.
Hang in there, Bob. I’m expecting a miracle. (I’m Irish and I “know things.”) (At least I like to pretend I do!)
Have a good rest!
Thank you Jacqueline. You are very kind.
Unfortunately, folk like Eric Garland are tweeting stuff like this ….
… and they are not the least bit ‘over the top’ alarmists.
Please give Steve a big hug for me and ask him to do the same for you.
Until tomorrow ….
And hugs from us to you and yours, Bob!
Scary shit from Eric Garland but – truth be told – I feel (most of the people I know feel) exactly the same way. Until tomorrow … and thanks for the photo.
P.S. And goodnight.
I never knew that Bruno Mars can play the Guitar. He was Fantastic.
It was an amazing tribute. I was also impressed with Bruno.
Beyoncé persists in her independence, her advocacy through her music, and in being herself, an unapologetic Black woman and the Grammy voters continue to show their envy and disrespect by voting for albums every year that come no where near what she has done, especially in the tour de force Lemonade. But here is the thing, in a few months very few people outside of the industry will remember who won song and album of the year, but they will remember and continue to celebrate Beyoncé’s artistry. These people do what those in charge always do, they use the artistry of POC to bring light, life, and innovation to their gatherings for the ratings and for the money, but the artists are not rewarded with honors. The only standouts this entire long night were the Black artist and Bruno Mars. It is so hideous that Adele could not even get through her 2nd song is awarded the highest honors of the night by the academy, while Beyoncé, who brought such an original and artistic performance received only the Contemporary Urban award (i. e. Black award). Lemonade had songs from at least 4 different genres and anyone could have been an award winner. So tired of Black excellence from the White House on down not receiving its due recognition. A-A have to always be twice as good to get half as much.
These awards do not always reward those who deserve them at the time, unfortunately. Prince Never on Album of the year. IMO, No one can compare to Price for he wrote, arranged & produced his work. The industry like MJ better so they showered him greatly until MJ got too big for them. My Prince was looked as talented, but sort of like an outlaw.
Adele had a great Album too.
Unfortunately, the GRAMMY didn’t see it Fitting to give out Two Awards for Beyonce & Adele respectively…. or split Album of the Year & Song of the Year or something else.
Even Adele felt that Beyonce should have won for Lemonade and gave her great credit after, asking “what does she have to do to win?” I wonder that too myself.
AMENNNNNN to the 3rrrrrrd power
I grow so tired of the racism that permeates every damn thing in American life. This is what gets Normalized.
I have always felt that POC should just be themselves and stop trying to conform, irrespective of what others might think or whether they are rewarded or not. You are happier when you are yourself anyway.
It will be a tragedy if Beyonce were to revert because she wants to win an “award”, she should continue being true to herself not play the game. She has enough world recognition to afford to do this. So I am looking forward to seeing more original work from her.
I do not care if POC get recognized by these academys, the important thing here is the quality of the artists’ work. Sooner or later they will be recognized by academys that really count not those that think they count because they have very good “PR”
So no need to get upset, enjoy the performance and move on by.
good morning everyone!
have a great day
WTF IS THIS??!! AMATEUR HOUR!
http://theweek.com/speedreads/679763/trump-japans-abe-plotted-north-korea-missile-response-crowded-dining-terrace
I’ll tell you why I think he did this. Because its all about him. Making him look like he’s in charge and important in front of guests at his PRIVATE CLUB. Head of a country sitting outside with him, eating dinner among the rich and connected, he just couldn’t do the right thing and excuse himself to have this issue of top security where no one else could see that he was having an important conversation. You know what? This asshole has mental health issues and daddy issues that I don’t feel like dying over. Fucking take care of your own business and leave me to mine. You, aren’t worth getting jack all for…never the less getting blown to smitherens! All this was, was another preening session and ego stroking for the moron…PP. I will now call him PP… doubles for Putin’s Puppet…and PP for the golden showers that the freak seems to enjoy…you do you, asshole…just nowhere near where the reset of us have to deal with the fallout!
I hadn’t even read to the end of the story. OMFG. They saved the “best” for last!
When the candle-lit national security meeting eventually adjourned, Trump and Abe gave brief statements in front of a black curtain. Abe called the missile launch “absolutely intolerable” and demanded Pyongyang adhere to United Nations Security Council resolutions, while Trump ignored a joint communiqué seen sitting on his lectern and did not mention the missile test at all, instead assuring Japan and the world that the U.S. “stands behind Japan” 100 percent. Leaving the stage, Trump dropped in at a wedding reception at the Mar-a-Lago ballroom, CNN reports, and picked up a mic to address the guests. “I saw them out on the lawn today,” Trump said of nearby newlyweds. “I said to the prime minister of Japan, I said, ‘C’mon Shinzo, let’s go over and say hello.’… They’ve been members of this club for a long time,” he added, referring to the bride and groom. “They’ve paid me a fortune.” Read more at CNN. Peter Weber
I can’t get over this. However, bone-headed it is for any of them to discuss sensitive matters over dinner, watch everyone else engrossed in the discussion, and the guy with zero interest/involvement. Wow.
***Just saw this and need to investigate more**** Anyone?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028639119
While the world is paying attention to theatrical battles over President Trump’s executive orders and cabinet nominees, a largely unnoticed and potentially landmark case sits before the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. A petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to nullify the results of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election sits on the SCOTUS docket.
A petition for a writ of mandamus is a filing imploring a Court to take mandatory action in the nature of public duty. The writ – filed Jan 18, 2017 by Diane Blumstein, Donna Soodalter-Toman, and Nancy Goodman – has been assigned docket number 16-907.
The main argument for the writ is that, per Article IV § 4 of the U.S. Constitution, it is the job of the federal government to keep U.S. territory safe from foreign invasion. The Constitution stipulates, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” The petition cites evidence of such an invasion, namely the Russian hacking, and asks that the entire 2016 election be nullified, all the way back to the primaries, on the grounds that cyber-territory in the U.S. was invaded with the intention of altering the results of our Presidential election. The petitioners seek an entirely new election.
Per Title 28 of the U.S. Code § 1251, SCOTUS has “original jurisdiction” over cases like this due to the involvement of a foreign state. There is no remedy for the foreign cyber-invasion, they argue, other than complete nullification.
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Docket Number 16-907
Our lawyers awake yet? FF?
Should call for another election. I believe Congressman Lewis said that even he doesnt believe PP is a legit president … or something to that effect.
My theory is that the Russians are holding PP ‘hostage’ with ‘stuff’about him… so when he says ‘voter fraud’ etc, he is really crying for help. Hoping someone will investigate and find that the election results were rigged and declare it null and void. As a result, PP will be freed from presidential duties and go back to being a private citizen.
Alright alright …. I should stop entertaining all thoughts of ever becoming a writer. LOL.
If there is ANYONE left on planet Earth that needs more info about how corrupt and devoid of morals Republicans are….In other words,we know PP is mentally ill and nightmare, but if we just keep him focused on all the things we want to take away from Americans and give to Wall St…an we can have our agenda done (FINALLY!) we can overlook the batshit, dangerous crazy stuff.
http://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/2/11/14577834/garry-kasparov-putin-trump
You have to reinforce the institutions, steadily and legally, and work through them. If you go too far, and react violently, it will only play into the hands of the Trump administration, which is already portraying all opposition as paid agitators and other ridiculousness straight from Putin’s playbook. When I talk about these things on Twitter or Facebook, I immediately receive a bunch of “Here too!” responses from people living in other authoritarian regimes, from Venezuela to Vietnam.
Riots will only frighten the “moderate middle” you will need as allies sooner or later. If Trump convinces them with lies that the opposition is controlled by dangerous thugs, you’re going to have eight years of Trump and another of his kind to follow. Stick to the facts, repeat them boldly and frequently, so his supporters see the would-be emperor has no bathrobe!
The courts are important, but things won’t really change unless enough Republicans start to see Trump as a liability to their fundraising and reelection chances. That could be quite soon if he can’t fulfill his many campaign promises. Making him look like a loser is crucial. Either the GOP will turn on him or he will be chastened and more likely to compromise. If a demagogue succeeds in claiming credit for wins and scapegoating his enemies for losses, he’s very hard to stop.
Trump will continue to push the limits, to find the cracks in the system that constrains him. America is finding out the hard way that much of its government is based on tradition and the honor system, and not explicit laws. There will be a crisis every day.
Everyone must do what they can themselves and not wait for others to act. If you want change, you have to initiate action, even at a personal level that might seem insignificant. As the motto of Soviet dissidents went: “Do what you must, and so be it.”
Let’s just remember this
Did I mention what a welcome diversion that watching the Grammy’s was last night? 🙂 Agree with Marilyn re: Lady Gaga…wtf was that? Agent Orange…got that! 🙂 Adele?? What happened there at the beginning? Weird. Beyonce…glorious as always. Bruno!! Wow:) Ended up not watching the whole thing..past my bedtime:)
I haven’t watched the Grammy’s in years, I think the last time I watched it was when Michael Jackson has there. I’m more into the old music, not that I have anything against the new stuff, I just find the old stuff more meaning and pleasing to the ears. And no, I don’t have a problem with you being on my lawn.
🙂 Morning, Don!
Not sure what to think about this to be honest
Beyoncé seemed moved by it.
I agree
Good Morning Everybody.
Bottom line. His ego was more of a concern than America’s safety. He is incompetent and incapable of properly carrying out the job that he is in. His team is nothing more than corrupt, self serving enablers and they all need to go. We are not safe. It is not enough to simply dismiss Flynn and say the crisis has been taken care of. The mindset permeates the entire administration. They are all dangerous and toxic. They must go and the people MUST DEMAND a new election!
Just putting this here.
What’s wrong with this picture? Everyone else huddled behind the idiot. He is not participating in anything they are discussion. Look at everyone else. Aaaah Yah Yah.
WTF! They went to France to see the OTHER PP, on taxpayer’s dime??
For Trump, it’s always going to be about vengeance.
And there you have it, the sitting President of the United States of America is going to let a city drown.
Again!
What a petulant child. This many is unstable. Period. No sane person behaves like this.
Well, California should refuse to pay its federal taxes. the state has an economy that is larger than many countries and we need them more than they need us. F**k 45 and his blackmail and f**k those who are applauding his heinous actions. This is even more galling because this incompetent, lying, lazy mofo has not paid taxes in decades.
We ALL miss PBO
Wow. So many reasons to love President Obama. He is a once in a life timer. I can’t wait to see and hear from him on the things he wants us to do to help move this country forward — both he and Mrs. O.
I’m sorry but Bill Murray isn’t funny to me, the guy has never been funny. And I’m sick and tired of everyone pretending that he’s funny. The next time he makes me laugh will be the first time he makes me laugh. And Steve Harvey is even less funny than Bill Murray.
I liked Bill Murray years ago in Stripes.. other than that I agree w/ you Don.. as to Steve Harvey- I have always found him icky.
WORD
LOL @ “The next time he makes me laugh will be the first time he makes me laugh”
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/02/13/harvard-never-looked-so-good/
“How can we advance the sense of our common humanity?—through education. We must share responsibility for meeting the problems like climate change, depletion of natural resources and expanding population that affect us all. To limit our concern to our own nation alone is out of date. Technology has already contributed to creating a global community.”
~ HH Dalai Lama 13th February 2017