Happens all the time…and is reciprocated. The difference now is that there is an incompetent in the Oval, with questionable ties to Russia, that can be blackmailed by Russia, that has zero national security apparatus.
We once had a science geek as a president. That community proudly referred to him as the Commander-in-Science. I miss him and the time when being smart, talented and innovated were celebrated. Evil people prefer the masses to be ignorant so that they can be controlled. It is not an accident that teachers’ unions are always under attack. The more that people can reason and think for themselves, the less likely they are to put up with an authoritarian government.
Last September I took a trip to Canada. Went to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. So beautiful! When at lunch on PEI toward the end of the trip, the server told us that people had been coming there from the U.S. during the summer buying property in case DT was elected. That seemed so unlikely at the time……but now. Of course, as always, it is the wealthy who can escape and hide.
AG has opted not to prosecute Flynn for lying to the FBI. Outrageous!
McChrystal, Petraeus, Flynn… Generals who are being given little more than a slap on the wrist when an enlisted person, NCO, or lower ranking officer would be sitting in Leavenworth right now for a lessor crime. Their years of service shouldn’t have given them leniency as their rank should have held them to a higher standard.
Sessions’ refusal to investigate Flynn is another indication that he should recuse himself from anything associated with 45-Russia. Him being named AG is part of the cover up.
This is well worth your time to read, then pick up the phone and call your senators and representative and demand action.
“Our intelligence analysts cannot appeal to the public. They cannot reveal their sources. They have a job to do, but they have reason to believe they cannot trust their leaders. Intelligence officials have only one path forward now, and that path is through Congressional action.
If our leaders will not listen to those who give them indications and warnings of threats to our nation, then who will protect our country?
I trust our intelligence analysts. I trust the people who are putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
Congress, do your job. Investigate. Examine the evidence. The American people need to know how this story ends.”
This is a great piece. You cannot disentangle this from Trump's use of presidency to promote Mar-a-Lago, which he profits from: https://t.co/T8ZdVHCVRQ
That’s the party of fiscal responsibility. 45 claimed he would not take a salary (or a dollar or something like that). No need for a salary with all the frills he’s getting at tax payer expense. BTW…has there ever been a first lady who has not moved into the WH with her spouse? If it is because of uprooting child(ren) in the middle of the school year, shouldn’t that have been a consideration when he decided to run?
But GOP wants to cut out safety nets for those who *need* it.
AMEN!AMEN! AMEN! Thank you, Steve Schmidt! An honest Republican. Dying breed.
Steve Schmidt is 2d person today to say Team Trump collusion with Russia could call into question legitimacy of the election. pic.twitter.com/TzUpolx3HB
we’ve seen this same movie with him and other “reasonable republicans” over and over. same schtick every time. they did all this toward end of shrub’s reign when his poll numbers got so low. it’s designed to separate republicans from the nutty leaders of their party. “the news” lets them get away with every single time, while literally making up scandals about democrats and talking about said make-believe incessantly so that the public repeats the real “fake news” as nauseum.
shep and the others like rick wilson are just making way for supposedly “reasonable repubs” to win in the midterms. evan mcmullin is one, but does anyone take the time to look at his history and his stances on issues?!? guy is standard issue nutty repub for years, yet all i see now online is how he’s going to usher some new bi-partisan future. as long as “the news” is owned by the current billionaire libertarians, we’ll barely see the people who are consistently correct all the time – basically democrats.
Do not miss this opportunity! You never know when it'll come around again with McConnell. https://t.co/hvg2xgmXsY— Southern Democrats (@SouthernDems_) February 13, 2017
Whatever it is Tillerson is hoping to gain from this cabinet position, I bet he hopes he gets it sooner rather than later. It may have been for naught when he decides he’s had enough and resigns.
Sr State officials are so out of the WH loop they are asking foreign diplos w contacts to Trump what's going on https://t.co/aWBLgYAl6U
Yep, spot on, I don’t sense that Tillerson is a fool. You don’t get to run exxon if you’re a fool, Tillerson might come to the conclusion that whatever he can get inside of government he can just as well get outside of government.
45 and legal council have indicated that they will be re-writing and re-issuing the Immigration Ban EO. But even with the changes they make –even with more specificity in the wording — even with 45’s claims of making the country safe(r), can they avoid the Muslim Ban/Religious discrimination intent?
This is something I will never forgive Trump, Stein, other 3rd-party or non-voters for. You had ONE THING TO DO to stop this. ONE. https://t.co/1PXBSazhiE
How proud the GOP must be to know that their guy is in a “bad head space,” whatever the eff that means. And yet they allow him to sit in the Oval Office, trying to figure out what the eff to do next. Sometimes I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns, although I fight that off so as not to get burned myself. You nailed it, meta, with the “severe collective anxiety” phrase.
They’ve been politely asking for a town hall meeting for weeks and the pressure is getting to the cowardly congressman.
WES WILLIAMS
One of the big stories that followed the election of Barack Obama was the outrage of the newly formed Tea Party and the appearance of angry citizens at town hall meetings held by Democratic (and some Republican) members of Congress. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it’s GOP congressmen and women who are the targets of voter anger. Some of them are not taking it well.
Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican who represents California’s 48th Congressional District, which stretches along the southern California coastline from Seal Beach to Dana Point. Rohrabacher won re-election to his seat in the November election despite the fact that his district voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Now his constituents want to talk to him at a town hall, and he is refusing to meet with them.
On Valentine’s Day, a group of constituents went to Rohrabacher’s district office to delivery Valentines to him, asking that he please meet with them and other residents of his district. Think Progress says the group, representing “Indivisible Orange County” has been coming to the office every Tuesday to request a town hall meeting. This past Tuesday, however, things got a little ugly.
According to a statement issued by Indivisible Orange County, a 2-year-old girl named Lola was hit in the head as she attempted to slide a Valentine under the locked door of Rohrabacher’s office, when a staffer opened the door into her from the other side.
he staffer, Kathleen Staunton, also took a tumble in the incident when protesters grabbed the door to make sure it didn’t hit the child again. That left Rohrabacher angry, accusing the protesters of “political thuggery.”
“Deliberate or not, the incident came as part of a mob action that not only intimidates but coerces. Though the protesters think of themselves as idealists, they engaged in political thuggery, pure and simple,” Rohrabacher said.
“These people do not want, as they’ve claimed, to hold a town hall meeting with me. These are unruly activists on whom the lessons of civility and democratic participation have been lost. These holier-than-thou obstructionists will be held responsible for this outrageous assault. They are exposing themselves for what they are — enemies of American self-government and democracy.”
The members of Indivisible OC had a different take.
We are hardworking, taxpaying Americans who want to engage in our democracy and to simply be heard by our Congressional representative. It is a shame that Rep. Rohrabacher has refused repeated requests to hold a town hall meeting for his district and holds a particular contempt for engaged citizens by characterizing civic duty as “political thuggery.” For all we know, the only political thuggery we see is his Twitter behavior.
I would love to see HRC appear in some SNL skits where she is advising Putin’s Puppet, secretly on how to govern or something along those lines.
It could cause GOP heads to explode … :). Pure joy. Lol
The thought..there mere thought…that the State Department calls up anyplace in the world, and is told..’we’re booked’….
BWA HA HA HA HAHA H AH AH AH HA HA HA
You know people from the Kerry State Department ‘unbooked’ those rooms before they left…yeah, I’d be petty like that too…going from Kerry to the Secretary of Exxon….
Over here howling! Really needed that. I have several traits from Aunties 1 and 2; my mother is almost all of #17 “Great Grand Auntie.” However, I think these aunties (with the exception of the great potato salad and potato pies) would fit with any race/ethnic/cultural group.
From what I read the act does not apply to the National Guard which is under state control. While 45 cannot directly order any state’s national guard to do anything, you can bet that there are some red state governors who would be more than ready to send the national guard to do Bannon’s dirty work.
oh hell no. These people are sick and cruel- this person and his regime. I knew he’d get around to the National Guard sooner rather than later.. that’s going to be his whole “inner city” crime prevention prescription. But first he’ll go after the “unauthorized” .. making it acceptable/ normalizing it with his supporters.
Also reading about his son-in-law involved w/ the Netanyahu talks and I cannot for the life of me understand how that person is allowed in any way shape or form to sit in on govt policy meetings; etc. The nepotism here reminds me of tyrants.
No need to question at all – plain to see extremes of mental illness- bolstered by malignant narcissism. What else could possibly sink your planet in a month?
Last night my wife and I and my son went out to dinner, I was asking my son about school and he told me that some of his friends didn’t come to school yesterday because they are afraid of these ICE raids that have been taking place recently. I felt so bad for those kids that they and their families have to live like this. They have to live in the shadows, its so sad.
Press conference shows something is deeply wrong with our President and the country is in danger. …All this would be comical if it were not so alarming. Something is deeply wrong with our president and the country is in danger. … http://nydn.us/2kQlChw
I bit the bullet and tried to watch Bill O’Reilly last night, knowing that Trump was his good buddy. I was hoping that he would at least say that Trump was less than presidential in his press conference. I lasted less than ten minutes — maybe even less than 5 minutes! What the hell is wrong with people!!!
Hard to believe that we have been locked in this horror show for less than a month. Most of us are already suffering from PTSD. A pox upon the Houses of all who are responsible for bringing us to this point in our nation’s history.
When your allies no longer place their trust in you.
I’ve said this before but senior German officials raised this over & over in intvus w me. See US as potential threat, ready to respond. https://t.co/qUUzgeCWrI
This is the real world. Our allies see what's happening and are making judgments. They don't care if part of Trump's base doesn't like media https://t.co/srwT9VH0SD
I said it before; the US will soon be a pariah state and all of the international laws and mores that were created, mostly with the US in the lead, to handle such states will be used against us and I do not have a problem with this. A large bully nation cannot be allowed to wreck havoc. The one good thing about this from an international standpoint is that other countries are looking to themselves and bordering nations to hold out against the monster that we have become. It is fortunate that the hate, the crazy, and the incompetence came out early enough that counter-measures here and abroad can be taken. When this is all over, we will need to make law the things that were custom in regard to the presidency and have consequences spelled out for those who do not follow them; we need to add to the requirements of the qualifications to be a president (having had to have held some public office at some point and to demonstrate and understanding of the Constitution), and the rules for when and how to remove a corrupt government and what should happen afterwards. While we are at it, there should be term limitations for members of congress and we need to get these huge sums of money out of politics, as well as modifying the entire election process. All stakeholders, approved by the people, must have a seat at the table in making these changes. Finally, we must face the injustices of the past and the present that have been visited upon citizens who are not white: recognition, reconciliation, and reparation (not the financial type necessarily).
CEB I hope you’ll send this along to some of the powers that be out there- such as Tom Perez, Schumer, Pelosi, Cummings, Waters, the Black & Hispanic Caucus.. also even President Obama & AG’s Holder & Lynch. please.
I was just reading about PP’s weekend getaways and the family’s. How much it will cost taxpayers etc etc etc. I wonder what his idiot supporters feel about this.
Indeed it is. Some shared it here a few days ago. Since then, i have made it a point to share it each time i come across it. People need to see the real life consequences of their hate vote
The vote to elect a new DNC party chair starts next Thursday and runs through Sunday. It’s absolutely urgent that we move forward with a strong leader to counter this horror show we face now. HOPING for PROGRESS.
i have not felt good about all this since the election…first there was all this talk about wooing white workers and bashing Identity politics… this term is always seen as negative when it applies to black voters..white folks always vote for white folks…no new thing….i have seen articles about how the DEMS are in disarray and that we need a savior to pull us out of the pit…i am offended by this…because as usual the DEM party always seem willing to throw blk voters under the bus…to disregard us…it was only the President that seem to elevate us to our rightful place…and now there seems to be a move to blame him for the racism that caused so called DEM voters to vote for 45….no mention of the 3rd party voters…the demonization of hillary by the press…putin…and all…
i will say this…i am not always sure if it really matters who is at the top of the DEM party..DNC…if there is no organizing going on at the grass roots level..
as you have said…it will be interesting to see who come out as chair when the dust clears
TGIF
Hello TOD.
Vive La Resistance……Poor French 😉 Pardon 🙂
Thanks TOD for being Here.
Happy Anniversary to The Obama Stimulus.
8 years ago today, @BarackObama signed Recovery Act that took US out of worst economic crisis since '30s Most impactful 1st month since FDR pic.twitter.com/WzGIDQ7tEU
WHAT?
https://adamsmith.house.gov/about/events/congressman-smith-to-host-town-hall-in-seattle
Well, our people are hearing our voices voices!
So Vlad will know right when to take over occupancy of the Oval Office
Yup.
Congrats on first Tally!!!
Thanks girl!
YAY Tally! Congrats on first girl.
Thanks!!! 😀 😀 😀
Malcolm Nance said on MSNCC tonight, this is normal training exercise for this ship…… okay.
Still. It creeps me the fuck out.
Happens all the time…and is reciprocated. The difference now is that there is an incompetent in the Oval, with questionable ties to Russia, that can be blackmailed by Russia, that has zero national security apparatus.
…..aaaaaaand mic drop.
Super hero landing. Nailed it.
Slowly making its way south, passing at least one big naval base. I feel so much safer now.
And Congrats on first, Tally!
Thanks!
POTUS 44 in a Chevy Volt. Apparently the oil in this machine can last up to two years. — petesouza
Want. 😀
Mr. Pete Souza, once again trolling 45 & his “well-oiled machine” comment;
Mr. Souza have is on the loose … has gone wild since he regained his title of “citizen Souza”
Here is another palate cleanser – not as good as above but….
We once had a science geek as a president. That community proudly referred to him as the Commander-in-Science. I miss him and the time when being smart, talented and innovated were celebrated. Evil people prefer the masses to be ignorant so that they can be controlled. It is not an accident that teachers’ unions are always under attack. The more that people can reason and think for themselves, the less likely they are to put up with an authoritarian government.
Right On!
Perfect assessment, CEB. A plus:)
Last September I took a trip to Canada. Went to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. So beautiful! When at lunch on PEI toward the end of the trip, the server told us that people had been coming there from the U.S. during the summer buying property in case DT was elected. That seemed so unlikely at the time……but now. Of course, as always, it is the wealthy who can escape and hide.
Bringing this over, gotta get offline:
http://www.heritagedaily.com/2017/02/ancient-jars-found-in-judea-reveal-earths-magnetic-field-is-fluctuating-not-diminishing/114198
AWESOME.
AMEN!
AG has opted not to prosecute Flynn for lying to the FBI. Outrageous!
McChrystal, Petraeus, Flynn… Generals who are being given little more than a slap on the wrist when an enlisted person, NCO, or lower ranking officer would be sitting in Leavenworth right now for a lessor crime. Their years of service shouldn’t have given them leniency as their rank should have held them to a higher standard.
Sessions’ refusal to investigate Flynn is another indication that he should recuse himself from anything associated with 45-Russia. Him being named AG is part of the cover up.
We have to force them. This needs to be the next march…. on steroids.
I guess no one saw the need to look into this before now…
This is well worth your time to read, then pick up the phone and call your senators and representative and demand action.
“Our intelligence analysts cannot appeal to the public. They cannot reveal their sources. They have a job to do, but they have reason to believe they cannot trust their leaders. Intelligence officials have only one path forward now, and that path is through Congressional action.
If our leaders will not listen to those who give them indications and warnings of threats to our nation, then who will protect our country?
I trust our intelligence analysts. I trust the people who are putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
Congress, do your job. Investigate. Examine the evidence. The American people need to know how this story ends.”
http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/congress-act-on-russian-hostility/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article_title_1.1
Good Friday, Nerdy…TOD Family!!!
How much of that is going directly to his business revenue/profit?
Oh no, but the Obamas vacations cost taxpayer a billion dollars according to the right wing racists liars.
That’s the party of fiscal responsibility. 45 claimed he would not take a salary (or a dollar or something like that). No need for a salary with all the frills he’s getting at tax payer expense. BTW…has there ever been a first lady who has not moved into the WH with her spouse? If it is because of uprooting child(ren) in the middle of the school year, shouldn’t that have been a consideration when he decided to run?
But GOP wants to cut out safety nets for those who *need* it.
Morning everyone. He only picks the “best” people.
WTF!
Link to press release from DOJ
https://t.co/07NHSY1dJC
AMEN!AMEN! AMEN! Thank you, Steve Schmidt! An honest Republican. Dying breed.
I like Steve Schmidt as well. One of the few Republicans that will call out the alt-facts and give reasonable commentary.
Schmidt has a lot to atone for. Palin was his idea. At least he’s shown some moderate GOP backbone.
Louder and more frequently be the voice of these types who have sat by and let this mess foment into domestics terrorism
I guess 45’s businesses are exempt from the Buy American Hire American promise that got him elected.
Good Morning Everybody.
Crisis leadership is #15? Sorry. No. Economic mgt? Who did this survey?
as the younger becomes the older….our forever President will move up the list…
SHEP! Dude is spot on! What’s going on?? ( He’s the ONLY one over there with brain cells and a heart)
we’ve seen this same movie with him and other “reasonable republicans” over and over. same schtick every time. they did all this toward end of shrub’s reign when his poll numbers got so low. it’s designed to separate republicans from the nutty leaders of their party. “the news” lets them get away with every single time, while literally making up scandals about democrats and talking about said make-believe incessantly so that the public repeats the real “fake news” as nauseum.
shep and the others like rick wilson are just making way for supposedly “reasonable repubs” to win in the midterms. evan mcmullin is one, but does anyone take the time to look at his history and his stances on issues?!? guy is standard issue nutty repub for years, yet all i see now online is how he’s going to usher some new bi-partisan future. as long as “the news” is owned by the current billionaire libertarians, we’ll barely see the people who are consistently correct all the time – basically democrats.
It surprises me that Smith is still there. Glad he’s not afraid to buck the program.
Fuck fox – they get to own this crapshoot
I didn’t see that presser…but this is a taste? UNHINGED. Like straight jacket unhinged.
Seven fucking Hells.
Whatever it is Tillerson is hoping to gain from this cabinet position, I bet he hopes he gets it sooner rather than later. It may have been for naught when he decides he’s had enough and resigns.
Yep, spot on, I don’t sense that Tillerson is a fool. You don’t get to run exxon if you’re a fool, Tillerson might come to the conclusion that whatever he can get inside of government he can just as well get outside of government.
You don’t say….ALL these people need to go! They are not being accountable to their constituents!
http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/rep_john_katko_explains_why_he_wont_hold_public_town_hall_meeting.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-dept-layoffs-under-rex-tillerson-being-carried-out/
45 and legal council have indicated that they will be re-writing and re-issuing the Immigration Ban EO. But even with the changes they make –even with more specificity in the wording — even with 45’s claims of making the country safe(r), can they avoid the Muslim Ban/Religious discrimination intent?
This. I wake up in the night. every night. I NEVER feel safe and secure anymore. PTSD. I miss my Forever President.
Me too!
Trump’s self-absorption is so off the charts, I cannot even fathom what that’s like.
How proud the GOP must be to know that their guy is in a “bad head space,” whatever the eff that means. And yet they allow him to sit in the Oval Office, trying to figure out what the eff to do next. Sometimes I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns, although I fight that off so as not to get burned myself. You nailed it, meta, with the “severe collective anxiety” phrase.
Californian Republican Delivers A Giant “F*ck You” To Indivisible, Calls Them “Enemies Of Democracy”
They’ve been politely asking for a town hall meeting for weeks and the pressure is getting to the cowardly congressman.
WES WILLIAMS
One of the big stories that followed the election of Barack Obama was the outrage of the newly formed Tea Party and the appearance of angry citizens at town hall meetings held by Democratic (and some Republican) members of Congress. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it’s GOP congressmen and women who are the targets of voter anger. Some of them are not taking it well.
Dana Rohrabacher is a Republican who represents California’s 48th Congressional District, which stretches along the southern California coastline from Seal Beach to Dana Point. Rohrabacher won re-election to his seat in the November election despite the fact that his district voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Now his constituents want to talk to him at a town hall, and he is refusing to meet with them.
On Valentine’s Day, a group of constituents went to Rohrabacher’s district office to delivery Valentines to him, asking that he please meet with them and other residents of his district. Think Progress says the group, representing “Indivisible Orange County” has been coming to the office every Tuesday to request a town hall meeting. This past Tuesday, however, things got a little ugly.
According to a statement issued by Indivisible Orange County, a 2-year-old girl named Lola was hit in the head as she attempted to slide a Valentine under the locked door of Rohrabacher’s office, when a staffer opened the door into her from the other side.
he staffer, Kathleen Staunton, also took a tumble in the incident when protesters grabbed the door to make sure it didn’t hit the child again. That left Rohrabacher angry, accusing the protesters of “political thuggery.”
The members of Indivisible OC had a different take.
they can all insert those tiny fingers and spin. Off to work
That is one of the creepiest photos ever emanating from the WH. WOW. UGH.
MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN
I would love to see HRC appear in some SNL skits where she is advising Putin’s Puppet, secretly on how to govern or something along those lines.
It could cause GOP heads to explode … :). Pure joy. Lol
Let’s hope we’ve got some great candidates in the next batch.
The thought..there mere thought…that the State Department calls up anyplace in the world, and is told..’we’re booked’….
BWA HA HA HA HAHA H AH AH AH HA HA HA
You know people from the Kerry State Department ‘unbooked’ those rooms before they left…yeah, I’d be petty like that too…going from Kerry to the Secretary of Exxon….
LOL
17 types of Aunts in Black families
Over here howling! Really needed that. I have several traits from Aunties 1 and 2; my mother is almost all of #17 “Great Grand Auntie.” However, I think these aunties (with the exception of the great potato salad and potato pies) would fit with any race/ethnic/cultural group.
OMG
DA PHUQ????
From what I read the act does not apply to the National Guard which is under state control. While 45 cannot directly order any state’s national guard to do anything, you can bet that there are some red state governors who would be more than ready to send the national guard to do Bannon’s dirty work.
the National Guard is under the control of the governors…
oh hell no. These people are sick and cruel- this person and his regime. I knew he’d get around to the National Guard sooner rather than later.. that’s going to be his whole “inner city” crime prevention prescription. But first he’ll go after the “unauthorized” .. making it acceptable/ normalizing it with his supporters.
Also reading about his son-in-law involved w/ the Netanyahu talks and I cannot for the life of me understand how that person is allowed in any way shape or form to sit in on govt policy meetings; etc. The nepotism here reminds me of tyrants.
Is this going to happen before or after the National Guard finishes up securing Chicago?
The white house is denying this report.
No need to question at all – plain to see extremes of mental illness- bolstered by malignant narcissism. What else could possibly sink your planet in a month?
SOON: Senate Democrats hold news conference calling for delay in EPA administrator’s nomination – http://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4?cid=share_twitter_widget
❤
Last night my wife and I and my son went out to dinner, I was asking my son about school and he told me that some of his friends didn’t come to school yesterday because they are afraid of these ICE raids that have been taking place recently. I felt so bad for those kids that they and their families have to live like this. They have to live in the shadows, its so sad.
Press conference shows something is deeply wrong with our President and the country is in danger. …All this would be comical if it were not so alarming. Something is deeply wrong with our president and the country is in danger. … http://nydn.us/2kQlChw
Trump, not ISIS, is America’s greatest existential threat. http://nydn.us/2kRfJRa
I bit the bullet and tried to watch Bill O’Reilly last night, knowing that Trump was his good buddy. I was hoping that he would at least say that Trump was less than presidential in his press conference. I lasted less than ten minutes — maybe even less than 5 minutes! What the hell is wrong with people!!!
Hard to believe that we have been locked in this horror show for less than a month. Most of us are already suffering from PTSD. A pox upon the Houses of all who are responsible for bringing us to this point in our nation’s history.
I am sorry, but if you voted for the homegrown demagogue, voted for third party or chose not to vote at all, i really despise you. You own this crap
So that jackass Trump is in South Carolina holding a rally and fooling the idiots that he is saving their jobs.
When your allies no longer place their trust in you.
I said it before; the US will soon be a pariah state and all of the international laws and mores that were created, mostly with the US in the lead, to handle such states will be used against us and I do not have a problem with this. A large bully nation cannot be allowed to wreck havoc. The one good thing about this from an international standpoint is that other countries are looking to themselves and bordering nations to hold out against the monster that we have become. It is fortunate that the hate, the crazy, and the incompetence came out early enough that counter-measures here and abroad can be taken. When this is all over, we will need to make law the things that were custom in regard to the presidency and have consequences spelled out for those who do not follow them; we need to add to the requirements of the qualifications to be a president (having had to have held some public office at some point and to demonstrate and understanding of the Constitution), and the rules for when and how to remove a corrupt government and what should happen afterwards. While we are at it, there should be term limitations for members of congress and we need to get these huge sums of money out of politics, as well as modifying the entire election process. All stakeholders, approved by the people, must have a seat at the table in making these changes. Finally, we must face the injustices of the past and the present that have been visited upon citizens who are not white: recognition, reconciliation, and reparation (not the financial type necessarily).
CEB I hope you’ll send this along to some of the powers that be out there- such as Tom Perez, Schumer, Pelosi, Cummings, Waters, the Black & Hispanic Caucus.. also even President Obama & AG’s Holder & Lynch. please.
I was just reading about PP’s weekend getaways and the family’s. How much it will cost taxpayers etc etc etc. I wonder what his idiot supporters feel about this.
Nom
WOW, Its coming down now like angry sharknadoes! 🙂 🙂
heartbreakin…
Indeed it is. Some shared it here a few days ago. Since then, i have made it a point to share it each time i come across it. People need to see the real life consequences of their hate vote
FYI –
The vote to elect a new DNC party chair starts next Thursday and runs through Sunday. It’s absolutely urgent that we move forward with a strong leader to counter this horror show we face now. HOPING for PROGRESS.
i have not felt good about all this since the election…first there was all this talk about wooing white workers and bashing Identity politics… this term is always seen as negative when it applies to black voters..white folks always vote for white folks…no new thing….i have seen articles about how the DEMS are in disarray and that we need a savior to pull us out of the pit…i am offended by this…because as usual the DEM party always seem willing to throw blk voters under the bus…to disregard us…it was only the President that seem to elevate us to our rightful place…and now there seems to be a move to blame him for the racism that caused so called DEM voters to vote for 45….no mention of the 3rd party voters…the demonization of hillary by the press…putin…and all…
i will say this…i am not always sure if it really matters who is at the top of the DEM party..DNC…if there is no organizing going on at the grass roots level..
as you have said…it will be interesting to see who come out as chair when the dust clears
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/02/17/capturing-the-presidency/
TGIF
Hello TOD.
Vive La Resistance……Poor French 😉 Pardon 🙂
Thanks TOD for being Here.
Happy Anniversary to The Obama Stimulus.
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