Good morning TOD family. Alm of you helping to keep me sane and somewhat restrained. Grandkids visiting now so that helps too. Sitting in a wonderful children’s museum watching our future. Hope.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats df, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and for the sacrifices you’re making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope that in-spite of all the challenges and issues you face, you do not let it weigh you down, do not let it stop you from pursuing your visions, and do not let it stop you from seeking happiness and joy today. ❤ ❤ ❤
I am thankful to God that I lived to witness one of the greatest President of The United States of America in President Barack Hussein Obama ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Dudette, I really feel blessed that you selected this wonderful encouraging, optimistic, and positive song for me this morning. This song will be in my head for quite sometime now. 👌👊👍🙏
.@POTUS anti-trans pronouncement is ugly and wrong. Discrimination isn't patriotic — allowing all who love this country to serve, is. pic.twitter.com/OVERwxEu61
Donald Trump is an Illegitimate president. Litigation that happens while he is in the WH is NOT valid.
Banning transgender military personnel is more ignorant attention-seeking provocation – all he is capable of doing.
Get.This.LIttle.Fascist.Pig.Out.Now.
There are some 11,000 transgender soldiers serving in America. There are zero Trumps. Resistance is patriotism. #LetsDoSomething— Brian Santa Maria (@briansantamaria) July 26, 2017
“While McCain cast blame far and wide for the Senate’s shrunken status, he left no hint of subtlety in singling out the GOP leader’s secretive, zigzagging effort to draft the health-care bill.
“All we’ve managed to do is make more popular a policy that wasn’t very popular when we started trying to get rid of it,” McCain said, noting rising support for the 2010 Affordable Care Act. “I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered. I will not vote for this bill as it is today. It’s a shell of a bill right now.”
Despite this warning, McCain’s vote on Tuesday helped enable the broken process on health care that he came to the floor to decry. It allows McConnell to continue to circumvent the committee work and bipartisan negotiations McCain said represent the best of the Senate. A no vote would have forced leaders back to the drawing board, possibly into a bipartisan negotiation, but now, they will barrel ahead, possibly for weeks or months, on the Republican-only effort.”
He’s not a hero but a bully. He’s a celebrity seeking missile that cannot be trusted. Ask his first wife how much he honors his commitments. Can’t even remember how many houses he has so I am sure he very sensitive to the plight of those needing affordable anything such as health care. He’s got a terrible record on Veterans issues but is always wanting to bomb something. I can’t stand the man brain tumor and all.
LAST JUNE 2016: U.S. military to allow transgender men and women to serve openly:
“The Pentagon lifted a long-standing ban against transgender men and women serving openly in the military, removing one of its last discriminator hurdles and placing gender identity par with race, religion, color, sex and sexual orientation. The announcement by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is part of a fundamental shift in the straight-laced, male-dominated U.S. military, which in 2011 ended discrimination against gays and lesbians. More recently, it opened all combat positions to women and appointed the first openly gay Secretary of the Army, Eric K. Fanning.” http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pentagon-transgender-ban-20160630-snap-story.html
Asked if he feels partly responsible for their current predicament, Cantor is unequivocal. “Oh,” he says, “100 percent.”
He goes further: “To give the impression that if Republicans were in control of the House and Senate, that we could do that when Obama was still in office….” His voice trails off and he shakes his head. “I never believed it.”
He says he wasn’t the only one aware of the charade: “We sort of all got what was going on, that there was this disconnect in terms of communication, because no one wanted to take the time out in the general public to even think about ‘Wait a minute – that can’t happen.’ ” But, he adds, “if you’ve got that anger working for you, you’re gonna let it be.”
I don’t see Cantor having any regrets about the harm he was a part of. Just wanting the credit for the wool they pulled over other people’s eyes. As a Jewish person how can he be so casual about playing to hate. He is guilty of terrible deceit and corruption and perhaps will some day realize, maybe after he’s passed how cynical and harmful he actually was. Not President Obama. He will be lifted up for the sacrifices and compassion he has shown. He never has nor do I think he ever will be guilty of manipulation. Just too honorable and straight shooter, President Obama. God bless him for everything he is and has done.
To the thousands of #trans men+women bravely serving our nation in uniform: Thank you. We do not take your patriotism for granted. https://t.co/bguuL4tx0f
— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) July 26, 2017
Senate Republicans are floating a “skinny repeal” plan that would leave major parts of the Affordable Care Act intact while knocking out its mandates, but also allow the Senate to move a repeal bill to conference with the House if they can’t agree on a more comprehensive measure.
Four sources told POLITICO that the “skinny repeal” would involve rolling back the ACA’s individual and employer mandates. It also would repeal the ACA’s medical device tax, a revenue raiser that has been a major target of the device industry.
Republican leadership is broaching the skinny repeal as an option for senators who are wary of voting on Tuesday’s planned motion to proceed on an Obamacare repeal bill. If the motion to proceed is successful but the Senate’s replacement bill and a “straight repeal” of Obamacare — basically the Senate’s 2015 reconciliation bill — both fail as expected, the skinny repeal would be brought up as another option.
Yes, I saw that. Goes back to them just wanting to pass *something*. I think Republican Senators who have been left out of the loop should be resentful and should feel that their “intelligence” is being insulted…being told to just vote without being told what they are voting on or being given the opportunity to know and understand what they will be voting on.
McConnell’s TERM IS UP IN 2020. Hell’s Angels are mending their wings and blackening their eyes.
“Thou art a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of not one good quality.”
–All’s Well that Ends Well–
FYI there are 2,500-7,000 transgender service members in the active duty military, another 1,500-4,000 in the reserves, per RAND. https://t.co/HdHT2qLFhi
.@ACLU: "The thousands of transgender service members…deserve better than a commander-in-chief who rejects their basic humanity." pic.twitter.com/4Smog9E01i
Ex-DefSec Carter: "To choose service members on other grounds than military qualifications is social policy & has no place in our military." pic.twitter.com/Y1SjfYK7Ug
Ben Cardin, Ranking Member on the Foreign Relations Cmte.: "Our nation is not safer when we sanction discrimination." (via @MSNBC) pic.twitter.com/J24Dcv5r7B
Tammy Duckworth: "If you are willing to risk your life for our country and you can do the job, you should be able to serve." pic.twitter.com/Sj8fciXOKL
McCain: "No reason to force service members who are able to fight, train & deploy to leave the military—regardless of their gender identity. pic.twitter.com/C2roV5VtS9
Skinny: Trump starving your family and taking your job while taking your health care coverage in order to KILL you.
Skinny: What we’ve got on the Dicktraitor and Putin.
HEY EVERYONE — I’VE GOT IT!!
Trumputin has Multiple Personality Disorder among other things.
So in 2016 when he said the above: That was personality #8 that said that.
Hiya Dudette! You know, I remember days yonder when “freedom” was written in the singular. Then, I noticed a few years ago, politicians & media started using “freedoms”! My take on this was, “Freedom is freedom. There are no Mama & Papa Freedom with their little Baby Freedoms running around.” Why is freedom being spoken & written in the plural? My suspicion is that there’s a need to define then separate each aspect of freedom, then use those divided aspects for divide & conquer tactics. I’ve refused to utter the word “Freedoms”.
Cornyn noted that new Senate ideas — such as Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment to let insurers sell plans outside of ObamaCare’s regulations and Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-Ohio) amendment to add $100 billion to help people losing Medicaid afford private coverage — could be included and could help pave the way for a deal in the conference committee.
“We use the template of the House bill that addresses all of these issues and come up with the best of the ideas we’ve developed, like the Cruz freedom amendment and the Portman negotiation on Medicaid and the wraparound, and all those would be live and could be used as part of a deal in the conference committee,” Cornyn said.
“So I think all we’re looking at is a way to get to that conference quick,” he added.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) likewise said Wednesday that passing the skinny bill would be a way to get to the conference committee, and would also buy time for the Congressional Budget Office to score the new proposals, including the Cruz and Portman amendments.
* In keeping with a recent string of state legislative special-election wins, Democrat Kevin Cavanaugh won a state Senate seat in New Hampshire yesterday, flipping a district that had been held by a Republican. This is, I believe, the fifth time this year a Dem has flipped a “red” seat in a state legislative special election.
DJT is so disgusting and impossible to work for his SOS has to take a “time-out” to get away from him and his chaotic behavior. It is FUBARS plan to do something outrages EVERYDAY to get his name in the news thinking it will take peoples minds off Russia and ALL the other crap he is doing to them and this country.
So wait, right now Tillerson is taking time off, Mattis is on vacation, & McMaster isn’t chairing NSC mtg? Who’s in charge, Cohen-Watnick? https://t.co/YCwLA9dDVS
Corker says “content” of skinny bill not the point, rather it is “forcing mechanism” for conference with House— Peter Sullivan (@PeterSullivan4) July 26, 2017
Ah! Didn’t see you’d already posted this! Wonderful thread. After seeing the little boy asking his step-dad to adopt him, then seeing this thread, I just lost it. 😭
The "findings" section of Sen. Kaine's amendment no. 276 to the health care bill features quotes from President Trump's campaign: pic.twitter.com/T8ud9QZruv
Tyler, 11, surprised his stepfather, Don, 47, on Father's Day w/ a special adoption request. If this doesn't move you to tears nothing will. pic.twitter.com/e06fNm4Qp8
Wanna see something beautiful to lift your heart? Read this thread…
the encouragement, support & actual resources this man provides complete strangers is one of the best thing i get to witness on here 😭 https://t.co/wBu2NlR61F
"Skinny repeal" should be called "gut it and run." Voting to destroy insurance markets and kick millions off health care remains immoral. pic.twitter.com/D8N1Jlk6tD
I’ve got so much venom in me right now for these motherfuckers, all of them. From John McCain to Caitlin Jenner (this motherfucker) to Trump, always Trump. It is people like this that sometimes fuck up the progress that this country should be making. Yes, I’ve called my Senator and voiced my displeasure with the current events surrounding health care. How can we allow for a man that ducked out of serving his country to ban trans-people that want to serve their country, or that are already serving their country? Having never read “Dante’s Inferno” completely, I wonder which level of hell are we in now?
It is a sad day for our country that we have to call our elected officials and “beg” them not to fuck over the little guy. We have to prostrate ourselves before them like they are gods or something. I’m almost looking forward to the day of judgement.
And then what really pisses me off is that Michelle Obama has to go on stage and relive the utter bullshit that she and her family had to endure all in the name of trying to give these ungrateful motherfuckers something. And every goddamn time Barack tried to throw theses motherfuckers a life preserve they showed him their asses. Yes, I can stop saying “motherfucker” but I’m not.
Incredible: House Republicans wanted Trump's help on funding for gender reassignment; instead, to their shock, he just banned trans troops: pic.twitter.com/E7w2b6V3qa
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Thank you, Nerdy. I would vote for this man to be President Kennedy to a new generation.
Congrats, DF! I am going off the grid to Cuba for a couple of weeks with an alumni service corps group. Keep fighting the good fight!
Judith, I hope you really enjoy your trip to Cuba.
❤️👏🏼🖖🏼👋🏼🌏
Bon voyage, JF! Looking forward to hearing all about your trip when you get back. Good luck with the good works. 😘
Good morning TOD family. Alm of you helping to keep me sane and somewhat restrained. Grandkids visiting now so that helps too. Sitting in a wonderful children’s museum watching our future. Hope.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats df, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and for the sacrifices you’re making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope that in-spite of all the challenges and issues you face, you do not let it weigh you down, do not let it stop you from pursuing your visions, and do not let it stop you from seeking happiness and joy today. ❤ ❤ ❤
I am thankful to God that I lived to witness one of the greatest President of The United States of America in President Barack Hussein Obama ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Good Morning RanMan! This for you!
Dudette, I really feel blessed that you selected this wonderful encouraging, optimistic, and positive song for me this morning. This song will be in my head for quite sometime now. 👌👊👍🙏
((( RanMan )))
THANKS SO MUCH…for all that you do here at TOD, NW.
I second that!
Donald Trump is an Illegitimate president. Litigation that happens while he is in the WH is NOT valid.
Banning transgender military personnel is more ignorant attention-seeking provocation – all he is capable of doing.
Get.This.LIttle.Fascist.Pig.Out.Now.
ON MY FB..KICK IT FLOTUS!…I ABSOLUTELY HATE RACISM!
DT said ,”In consultation with my generals”… Who WERE those generals, exactly? Russian generals?
Woke up with pet peeve #126 on his mind. He is not the president of the United States.
Get.This.Little.Fascist.Pig.Out.Now.
Agreed. And each day that passes reaffirms this fact.
🙃
LOVE YOU, Nerdy Wonka.
Me, too!
FOREVA!!
Me three!
Right back atcha, Meta!
Good Morning TOD.
If you sorta squint…
Maybe.
There are some 11,000 transgender soldiers serving in America. There are zero Trumps. Resistance is patriotism. #LetsDoSomething— Brian Santa Maria (@briansantamaria) July 26, 2017
My favorite photo.
THIS is what white people were/are so afraid of: Educated, brilliant, successful Black men who cannot be bamboozled.
Legend. Presence: Also the good part of the Eliot Ness-ness comes to mind.
Is this why the Ass was allowed to spew his hateful mess to Boy Scouts?
https://qz.com/1038359/boy-scouts-president-randall-stephenson-has-been-lobbying-donald-trump-to-approve-the-att-time-warner-merger/
FROM ARTICLE:
“While McCain cast blame far and wide for the Senate’s shrunken status, he left no hint of subtlety in singling out the GOP leader’s secretive, zigzagging effort to draft the health-care bill.
“All we’ve managed to do is make more popular a policy that wasn’t very popular when we started trying to get rid of it,” McCain said, noting rising support for the 2010 Affordable Care Act. “I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered. I will not vote for this bill as it is today. It’s a shell of a bill right now.”
Despite this warning, McCain’s vote on Tuesday helped enable the broken process on health care that he came to the floor to decry. It allows McConnell to continue to circumvent the committee work and bipartisan negotiations McCain said represent the best of the Senate. A no vote would have forced leaders back to the drawing board, possibly into a bipartisan negotiation, but now, they will barrel ahead, possibly for weeks or months, on the Republican-only effort.”
McCain’s hypocrisy on blast; glad many are calling him out on it.
He’s not a hero but a bully. He’s a celebrity seeking missile that cannot be trusted. Ask his first wife how much he honors his commitments. Can’t even remember how many houses he has so I am sure he very sensitive to the plight of those needing affordable anything such as health care. He’s got a terrible record on Veterans issues but is always wanting to bomb something. I can’t stand the man brain tumor and all.
catrst, I second everything you said about that disgusting senile Bull💩ter.
LAST JUNE 2016: U.S. military to allow transgender men and women to serve openly:
“The Pentagon lifted a long-standing ban against transgender men and women serving openly in the military, removing one of its last discriminator hurdles and placing gender identity par with race, religion, color, sex and sexual orientation. The announcement by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is part of a fundamental shift in the straight-laced, male-dominated U.S. military, which in 2011 ended discrimination against gays and lesbians. More recently, it opened all combat positions to women and appointed the first openly gay Secretary of the Army, Eric K. Fanning.”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pentagon-transgender-ban-20160630-snap-story.html
There is no safe place for LGBTQ human beings in Russia. Is this another Putin instruction to the Dicktraitor?
Cantor comes clean, admits he didn’t believe his own ACA rhetoric
07/26/17 11:26 AM—UPDATED 07/26/17 11:37 AM
By Steve Benen
…………………………………….
Damn; Too little too late. GOP sees governing as a blood sport with the rest of us they prey that is hunted to its death as we scurry for cover.
I don’t see Cantor having any regrets about the harm he was a part of. Just wanting the credit for the wool they pulled over other people’s eyes. As a Jewish person how can he be so casual about playing to hate. He is guilty of terrible deceit and corruption and perhaps will some day realize, maybe after he’s passed how cynical and harmful he actually was. Not President Obama. He will be lifted up for the sacrifices and compassion he has shown. He never has nor do I think he ever will be guilty of manipulation. Just too honorable and straight shooter, President Obama. God bless him for everything he is and has done.
Handy Dandy apps to keep track of Congress….and votes…and bills….
https://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/keep-an-eye-on-your-states-congressional-delegation
https://projects.propublica.org/represent/
Fantastic, thanks df.
Hey df, this is great! Thanks!
Welcome:)
LOL..”research savant”
😘
Senate Republicans are floating a “skinny repeal” plan that would leave major parts of the Affordable Care Act intact while knocking out its mandates, but also allow the Senate to move a repeal bill to conference with the House if they can’t agree on a more comprehensive measure.
Four sources told POLITICO that the “skinny repeal” would involve rolling back the ACA’s individual and employer mandates. It also would repeal the ACA’s medical device tax, a revenue raiser that has been a major target of the device industry.
Republican leadership is broaching the skinny repeal as an option for senators who are wary of voting on Tuesday’s planned motion to proceed on an Obamacare repeal bill. If the motion to proceed is successful but the Senate’s replacement bill and a “straight repeal” of Obamacare — basically the Senate’s 2015 reconciliation bill — both fail as expected, the skinny repeal would be brought up as another option.
Someone should inform him of what happened when that was tried….(link on last thread)
Yes, I saw that. Goes back to them just wanting to pass *something*. I think Republican Senators who have been left out of the loop should be resentful and should feel that their “intelligence” is being insulted…being told to just vote without being told what they are voting on or being given the opportunity to know and understand what they will be voting on.
This whole process has been outrageous.
McConnell’s TERM IS UP IN 2020. Hell’s Angels are mending their wings and blackening their eyes.
“Thou art a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of not one good quality.”
–All’s Well that Ends Well–
see this is the issue…they need some kind of bill in the mix so that they can reconcile it with the house bill….
In Denver speech, Michelle Obama urges women to seize their power while not hiding their scars. http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/25/michelle-obama-speech-womens-foundation-of-colorado-30th-anniversary-denver/
fyi—ads completely block this one way or another so unable to watch.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Skinny: Trump starving your family and taking your job while taking your health care coverage in order to KILL you.
Skinny: What we’ve got on the Dicktraitor and Putin.
HEY EVERYONE — I’VE GOT IT!!
Trumputin has Multiple Personality Disorder among other things.
So in 2016 when he said the above: That was personality #8 that said that.
🤔🤓
Hiya Dudette! You know, I remember days yonder when “freedom” was written in the singular. Then, I noticed a few years ago, politicians & media started using “freedoms”! My take on this was, “Freedom is freedom. There are no Mama & Papa Freedom with their little Baby Freedoms running around.” Why is freedom being spoken & written in the plural? My suspicion is that there’s a need to define then separate each aspect of freedom, then use those divided aspects for divide & conquer tactics. I’ve refused to utter the word “Freedoms”.
Hi Gazelle! However people wanna use the term, I’m with Bobby McF…
Not just a lie; once again, it’s straight-up PROJECTION.
Only Trumpsters and bots would approve that BS tweet. People with brain cells know what’s up with Pence.
Cornyn noted that new Senate ideas — such as Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment to let insurers sell plans outside of ObamaCare’s regulations and Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-Ohio) amendment to add $100 billion to help people losing Medicaid afford private coverage — could be included and could help pave the way for a deal in the conference committee.
“We use the template of the House bill that addresses all of these issues and come up with the best of the ideas we’ve developed, like the Cruz freedom amendment and the Portman negotiation on Medicaid and the wraparound, and all those would be live and could be used as part of a deal in the conference committee,” Cornyn said.
“So I think all we’re looking at is a way to get to that conference quick,” he added.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) likewise said Wednesday that passing the skinny bill would be a way to get to the conference committee, and would also buy time for the Congressional Budget Office to score the new proposals, including the Cruz and Portman amendments.
From MaddowBlog:
* In keeping with a recent string of state legislative special-election wins, Democrat Kevin Cavanaugh won a state Senate seat in New Hampshire yesterday, flipping a district that had been held by a Republican. This is, I believe, the fifth time this year a Dem has flipped a “red” seat in a state legislative special election.
See above: Multiple Personality Disorder.
Among others.
sicko
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Can someone please send this to Heller? He needs to study reality.
Love this; thanks for posting it.
DJT is so disgusting and impossible to work for his SOS has to take a “time-out” to get away from him and his chaotic behavior. It is FUBARS plan to do something outrages EVERYDAY to get his name in the news thinking it will take peoples minds off Russia and ALL the other crap he is doing to them and this country.
LOL! 🤣
I like “its not like transgender soldiers have bone spurs…..” LOL. Draft dodger wants to boss who can serve in the military… sheeeessHHHH.!!!!!
Corker says “content” of skinny bill not the point, rather it is “forcing mechanism” for conference with House— Peter Sullivan (@PeterSullivan4) July 26, 2017
Atul Gawande Verified account @Atul_Gawande
“Skinny repeal” is a known disaster.
1995: WA state repealed mandate; kept guaranteed issue
1999: no insurers left
6:15 AM – 26 Jul 2017
https://www.happiest.net/2017/07/25/40-ton-whale-just-filmed-jumping-completely-water-incredible-video-going-viral/
@flippable is a good follow if you don’t already
Here’s another one that needs some pushback. They don’t know what they’re talking about!
Follow this story (in Matthew Cherry’s timeline) and it will warm your heart and put a smile on your face:
Ah! Didn’t see you’d already posted this! Wonderful thread. After seeing the little boy asking his step-dad to adopt him, then seeing this thread, I just lost it. 😭
It’s ALL GOOD!! It’s a really great full faith story, so uplifting as we traverse these very dark hours.
Every Senator should see this.
Hanky advisory right here: https://youtu.be/hst9siQelVw
Beauty break
Wanna see something beautiful to lift your heart? Read this thread…
Let me just put this here, while I catch my breath!
Awesome!
This is HOW the DEMS NEED TO TALK IN FRONT OF THE CAMERAS!
LOL! Today’s winner of the internet!
And with this I bid you a “See Y’all Later”
I’ve got so much venom in me right now for these motherfuckers, all of them. From John McCain to Caitlin Jenner (this motherfucker) to Trump, always Trump. It is people like this that sometimes fuck up the progress that this country should be making. Yes, I’ve called my Senator and voiced my displeasure with the current events surrounding health care. How can we allow for a man that ducked out of serving his country to ban trans-people that want to serve their country, or that are already serving their country? Having never read “Dante’s Inferno” completely, I wonder which level of hell are we in now?
i feel you Don. You tell no lies.
Rikyrah, I want to say so much more, I’m actually debating should I do it.
Write it all out. Put it in a word documernt. Sleep on it for 24 hours and then decide to click Post comment.
It is a sad day for our country that we have to call our elected officials and “beg” them not to fuck over the little guy. We have to prostrate ourselves before them like they are gods or something. I’m almost looking forward to the day of judgement.
And then what really pisses me off is that Michelle Obama has to go on stage and relive the utter bullshit that she and her family had to endure all in the name of trying to give these ungrateful motherfuckers something. And every goddamn time Barack tried to throw theses motherfuckers a life preserve they showed him their asses. Yes, I can stop saying “motherfucker” but I’m not.
Every single day is a complete horror show. Every single day.
My god.
Can you imagine being transgender and waking up this morning to this madness? A true madman is in charge of our country and our military.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/07/26/all-who-want-to-serve-are-welcome/