Pete Souza: Say what!?
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Thanks, Nerdy:) Hugs for all you do:)
ON THE FLOOR..THE TRUMPETTE BLOWS ANOTHER ONE!..PLEASE SOMEBODY MAKE HIM SOME EX-LAX BROWNIES!
Listening to some Boney James….puts me in a good place:)
WHHHHHHAAAAAAATTT!!! Not whatever this is:) How did THIS get here?? 🙂 I meant to post THIS!
The man for every moment, every mood. Pete’s pretty much on top of it all as well.
Pete’s Instagram page has become one of my favorite go-to sites since PBO left office. 🙂 He never misses a beat!
This is for Sheila, from the last thread…
Bellicose DJT is scaring the beejeebus out of me.
Thanks Arapaho. I wonder who wrote that statement. Does not sound trumplike
From a Republican, for what it’s worth.
TRUMP’S HISTORY OF CLAIMS WITHOUT EVIDENCE:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/trumps-history-of-claims-without-evidence/ar-AAnP98t?li=BBnbcA1&OCID=msnHomepage
Somebody make it stop.
More FALSE TRUMP claims:
http://fortune.com/2017/03/05/trump-achievements-fact-check/
Teen Vogue fact-checked the biggest lies Trump’s Administration told THIS WEEK:
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/we-fact-checked-biggest-lies-trumps-administration-told-this-week
SOTU: Trump told 50 lies in 61 minutes.
(The Center for American Progress)
Video is from the David Packman Show.
Maybe tomorrow! Think I’ll say goodnight – to you and TODville!
Trump’s biggest falsehood: BIRTHERISM
Once again my stomach is in knots, which seems to be my usual routine since Jan 20.
I go to bed seeing unsettling tweets (posted late at night Eastern time), then wake up to whatever the turmoil of the day is in the morning.
Tonight it’s North Korea and ACA.
Gah.
Sorry, this is what Steven Dennis was referring to:
I’m with you Arapaho. Keep wondering how long this is going to continue and how much we can take. I’m finding myself keeping the tv off more and more, and haven’t made it to facebook for days. I’m just skimming twitter and not even reading the newspapers which is a first for me. Decided last week I needed a break (again!) so tackled some crochet projects for my new baby granddaughter who is expected in the next 7-10 days. I don’t find any of this amusing, and can’t take snl anymore either. It is heartbreaking what he is doing to this country. I don’t see where and how this ends, but have little doubt there will be war in our future. The more cornered dt feels, the more dangerous he will become. It is simply terrifying, and I am in much better shape than so many in our country. I weep for all these families and kids.
Encore for PBO and #ForeverFLOTUS out and about today:
Love the words in that second tweet – Ha!
Daily Mail is more lunatic RW than I had thought – such a stupid headline
Since wiretapping claims . What is with this
not dad jeans….. 🙂
This is so perfect, I almost screamed. Ha. Andy Borowitz nails it again:
“If Trump and Pence are both impeached then Paul Ryan will be President, which is a shame, because I always felt his true calling was to be an assistant manager at a small-market branch of Enterprise Rent-a-Car.”
Significant … especially since they are literally risking their lives ….
Good (but scary) sign.
putin forgot that little thing called “unintended consequences”
Goodnight TOD ….
I love yur sign offs
Thanks, Nerdy, for these lovely photos! Wonder if they have any idea how much we miss them????????
Love smart guy Cody.
Having these kind of discussions in an insecure place
Morning everyone….Rust Belt, you paying attention?
The steel that comes from a company that’s owned by Trump and his daughter and Putin by the way.
Wondering, too. There are literally thousands
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@JoyAnnReid
Bannon and Miller have let it slip: it’s about population/demographic reshaping, not counterterrorism.
Which means he’s looking for a new place to build a Trump Hotel.
So he’ll be in a better position to take the oil?
Hmmmmmm, I forgot about the oil.
Hmmm…..Some Mar-a-Lago members aren’t too happy about 45’s frequent visits either, not to mention the West Palm Beach residents…
Members also are bothered. They can’t get into Trump’s club on Saturday nights anymore without booking dinner reservations weeks in advance, and that’s becoming more of a challenge as the commander in chief keeps coming down from Washington and people keep pouring in to see him.
Boo hoo, you wanted a “bidness” man for President and now you got one. If you were stupid enough to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to join his club you get every goddamn thing you deserve. I hope he does bankrupt West Palm Beach.
Unfortunately, as will most 45 supporters, there are also those who are willing to deal with the inconveniences; as if he is a rock star. Ugh
How about Trump spending some time in Russia. Like the rest of this year.
I guess Priebus is next on the list of fall guys.
thought he and Bannon were butting heads….that could explain it. President Bannon can make his head roll…
Sessions would probably have already been asked to resign (i.e., fired) if he were so vital to the cover-up. Given his confirmation testimony, subsequent “explanations”, and potential perjury charges, he may soon be seen more as a liability.
Wish PBO would sue…
I’m sure with 45’s blessing
Can that be done?!?!?!?!?!
“[45] is making me gain weight. I start the day with liquids, but after the morning news, I eat pancakes smothered in maple syrup!” Streisand tweeted Saturday. “… Seriously crazy times. Time for more pancakes.” …
Just.Make.It. Stop.
Only 2/3?? The other 1/3 must be the die hard crazy asses
Yep, 1/3 of our country is made up of dicks.
That’s a lot of dicks.
One way to render those dicks impotent is to stick a condom over them! Sorry for my immaturity but I will never fathom the mentality of that moron’s supporters.
The people 45 listens to…
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His charges had reason to believe that with a pragmatic corporate titan in command, the department would reassert its primacy over American foreign policy—and ease global anxieties about the new president’s nativism, naiveté, and flirtations with noxious strongmen.
It hasn’t happened. Far from curbing Trump’s excesses, Tillerson has been blindsided by them:
• a travel ban that alienated much of the Muslim world and originally barred the entry of Iraqis who’d fought alongside U.S. troops;
• a crackdown on immigrants that’s poisoned relations with America’s third-largest trading partner, Mexico;
• Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. could live with a permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank, so long as everyone else is cool with it.
• Tillerson was absent from White House meetings with the leaders of Canada, Japan, and Israel.
• His pick for deputy secretary, Elliott Abrams, was rejected after Trump learned Abrams had criticized him during the 2016 campaign.
• Of the 44 highest-ranking positions at the State Department, the Trump administration has filled one: Tillerson’s.
• Even as Tillerson and John Kelly, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, arrived in Mexico City on a goodwill mission on Feb. 23, Trump went out of his way to undercut them. “We’re going to have a good relationship with Mexico,” he told reporters in the White House, “and if we don’t, we don’t.”
Huh. Don’t say.
good morning everyone!
have a fantastic day!
Good West Coast morning NW & TOD family.
What will today bring us in trumpville?
GM GGail.
Radio tells me that DJT is behind closed doors (which won’t stop him from tweeting, unfortunately), so unless things change, today will be full scale MSM speculation and gossip (drives me nuts TBH).
But here’s what has happened at LAX — who the HECK is in charge of CBC there?!?!
First the Aussie children’s author (might not have been LAX, but they separated an family from Afghanistan with special visas yesterday…
Dear Heavens!
I heard that TSA is going to increase the pat-downs. Some of them are over-zealous, Power corrupts,
One Facebook user has pretty much shut down the Trumpsters who keep saying stupid things like “We suffered through Obama, so suck it up and suffer through Trump.” There just seems to be this tone from Republicans that things were so terrible the last 8 years under President Obama…now it liberals’ turn to suffer. When you hear someone say something like this, this is how you respond:
A friend posted this — I repost because the list of accomplishments compiled is so thorough:
A Trump supporting Facebook friend told Scott Mednick, “We suffered for eight years. Now it’s your turn.”
Scott wrote a brilliant response asking how exactly his friend had suffered under Obama:
“I am surprised you would wish suffering upon me. That of course is your right, I suppose. I do not wish harm on anyone. Your statement seems to continue the ‘US v THEM’ mentality. The election is over. It is important to get past campaigning and campaign rhetoric and get down to what is uniting, not dividing and what is best for ALL Americans.
http://www.bluedotdaily.com/when-trump-supporters-say-we-suffered-for-8-years-now-its-your-turn-heres-how-you-respond/
My response to anyone who say they suffer through eight years under President Obama, now it’s liberals turn to suffer through Trump. First of all don’t dare compare President Obama to Donald Trump. Trump is a bold face liar, and he seem to have some mental issues, and he don’t know what he is doing and he don’t care to know. Second of all if you suffer it was because you couldn’t stand the fact that a black man was President of these United States.
caution:
anyone with even a little level of understanding on politics can see that the homegrown demagogue’s administration is in trouble and that there is a possibility that its foundation will be fundamentally shaken;
as result, we see hesitancy in some of the people who wanted and plotted to ride 45’s train in order to fulfil their greedy, corrupt racist misogynistic xenophobic agenda.
so some of those people on the 45-inside who see the iceberg approaching are trying to get sympathetic stories written about them or expressed on TV.
the goal of these stories is to make them appear victims if the whole corrupt administration falls ….. but in the mean time they are enjoying the stealing of resources and deregulation.
if these people can get part of their agenda enacted while at the same time claiming to be victims, then they will quietly fade into the background without being criminally charged and then they will use the shadows to wait for the next opportunity to defraud the people;
remember all those republicans who were involved in prior scandals, …..pled innocence, …..were not criminally charged, ….. retreated to the think-tanks and media and waited their next turn …..and are now back again => recycling of corrupt scumbags;
I am keeping a side eye on some of these opportunists and I will not promote stories in which they are made to appear sympathetic … because we all knew what the homegrown demagogue was about from the start …. no pretense that anything he is doing is new or unexpected.
thanks for reading to the end of this rant.
Thanks for ranting, keep it going.
Very valuable reminders and information and well stated!
Unfit. Unhinged. Dangerous.
The graft never ends:
UGH
THIS THIS THIS a MILLION times. Please RT and share broadly.
GM TOD
I wake up everyday hoping the nightmare is over but in the light of day it only gets worse. I give you Mike Hukabee’s daughter:
So this is the new brunette Kelly Anne. She lies just as much.
Good Saturday to you all
HELP DEFEND THE ACA
I wanted to ask for your help. While we all chase the Russia Story, Republicans are planning on repealing the ACA without a budget score, and without showing it to anyone until it is on the floor.
STRATEGY FOR AREAS with a R SENATOR or CONGRESSPERSON
Get on the phone and leave a message with their local office today and EVERDAY until we win this thing.
Tell them – NO SECRET BILL, let us publicly debate what it will cost in $$ and in human suffering.
Show up at their local offices, be brave and be strong.
Then call 10 people you know and ask them to do the same thing
STRATEGY FOR BLUE DISTRICTS
Join a Virtual bank from home (where you use a tablet or computer to access names, phone # and a script) and call into TN, AZ, Maine, NV or AK.
Send me a note if you need links to make these calls. Everyone needs to do this
Here is our latest update on the Republican plan
REPUBLICAN PLAN TO RUSH THRU ACA REPEAL
There will be a bill released on Monday that will then go to markup in both Ways and Means and E&C on Wednesday/Thursday. It will more or less be what we saw in the earlier draft, with a few modifications for the worse. It will not be scored and there will probably not be amendments.
Presuming passage, it will go to the Budget Committee the following week and then to Rules on 3/20 or earlier–with the goal to have it to the Floor of the House on 3/23, which is the 7th anniversary of the passage of the ACA.
McConnell has committed to put the bill on the floor immediately, with no changes, following a Bryd bath, meaning it will be voted on before the Easter recess (4/7).
This is far more accelerated timeline than any of us were thinking, and we were assuming we would have process in the Senate (meaning it would go through Senate Committees however that is not the plan). We need to get as much done in the next 2 1/2 weeks as possible.
Thank you in advance for your help with this issue,
POST HERE if you make a call or ask a friend to make a call.
Khan has been a citizen for THIRTY YEARS. They’d better not touch this man.
Holy sh*t. I can’t even process this kinda stuff any more.
https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/838767306700382209https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/838767306700382209
I have called my congressman LoBiondo (R) from south Jersey, written e-mails and called again today. Saturday a group of us from Indivisible met with him and expressed our concerns, He is on record stating he will not vote to repeal ACA unless they come up with something better. We shall see. BTW he refuses to have town hall meetings, preferring to meet with small groups or make phone calls. He is not a tea party type but I don’t trust him to be independent either.
Can you imagine the outcry from the Fox News watchers if the Obama administration had done this? What a nightmare. Ugh!!
GA, Donna.
I agree with you, 1001%.
The Magical (R) , Pigmentation coupled with the Maleness=The Sky’s the Limit in terms of what 95% of US Media will Always justify for them.
UNBELIEVABLE.
AND they cancelled the FIRST State Dept briefing that was supposed to be held today.
I’ve never seen such incompetence.
Hello TOD.
❤ TOD.
Thank you, TOD.
Adam Schiff: “We must accept possibility POTUS does not know fact from fiction, right from wrong.”
Consider Trump’s comments on nuclear issues, his admiration of Putin.
Chronic abuses against the American people have begun.
Let’s not wait to get Trump out of office.
Most of my Movie watching is on TMC.
Sad.
Mine too. I love watching old movies, some I’ve never seen before and some I had not seen in over 50 years and it’s like seeing them for the first time. I enjoyed his back stories about the movie and the actors involved. RIP he will be missed.
Right ON!…And the Children shall Lead
Maybe Melissa McCarthy made him self conscious…hahahaha
ohhhhhhh noooooooo
Republicans in congress better hurry up and grow a pair and go against this corrupt administration. Their names will be clearly listed as collaborators, enablers and cowards on the pages of history, when we get through this and put in safeguards so that it will never happen again. The wealthy corporate heads, the evangelicals, the racists and the misogynists, made a Faustian bargain to get their narrow, greedy, self-serving and hateful policies in place. These things never work out for such people in the long run.
Literally speaking, this made me laugh.
Figuratively, I would like to chase Spicer and his boss through a rabbit hole.
Good Afternoon TODVille.
He obviously overloaded his brain!
Sorry, but this sounds like his brain is “overloaded”.
This NOT the 1st time this Idiot has said such Wicked Evil things.
We got a bunch of demented senile MF’ers running and ruining this once great country……so sad.
“Worked even longer, even harder for less”. Even harder for less implied that slaves were paid, slaves weren’t paid. Unless he’s talking about those slaves that lived in their master’s house, up in the attic or down in the basement. Even then those slaves weren’t paid, they may have gotten extra food, or were spared a lashing if they messed up or something, but they were not paid. Usually it is someone that isn’t African American that tries to downplay the severity of slavery or try to make it seem less brutal that it actually was. But it is rare that an African American tries to downplay his own brutal history.
WTF! This fucker has lost his mind; he should officially turn in his Black identification and his human decency card if he ever possessed one. This is the type of shit that unreconstructed white folks love to hear, especially from Uncle Toms like him. He and those like him make me more sick than our garden variety racists.
In a Nutshell.
Don’t know if this has already been posted.
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/why-these-two-black-women-the-cockpit-together-just-made-delta-history/AWrKI6VNjyKv807eO2rEdK/
A year ago, President Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque and Al-Rahmah School. — petesouza
I’m thinking that slaves mainly dreamed about escaping the lash of a whip or even worst, hanging from the end of a rope.
Maybe Trump can bail them out and get them jobs.
Here at TOD, We Knew it.
Corruption!
Definitely, NOT Enough.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/03/06/visiting-the-national-art-gallery/
I wonder if the White House Kitchen staff will continue Michelle’s vegetable garden? I think the time is near to start planting.
There’s funding raised for it for 2-3yrs. It’s not to go away. But Neglect could be their Revenge.
Thanks Nina..Neglect, that’s what i’m afraid will happen.
The Parks Service takes care of it.
Another Shooting. Another Death.