Pete Souza: President Barack Obama shows the Resolute Desk to a group of DREAMers, following their Oval Office meeting in which they talked about how they have benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Feb. 4, 2015.
He's not waffling because he cares one iota. He's confused because he lacks the cognitive competence to read & understand simple constructs. pic.twitter.com/h80kTV6Y0H
I don’t get why the media persists in writing about the Idiot President like he’s normal. It may sound good to state he was ‘conflicted until the end’, but they ought to know by now that the idiot blunders through without any thought at all so there’s no conflict involved. Grrr.
Trump, the Idiot President, NEVER fully grasps details, or ramifications, of any "presidential" decision he makes, nor IMO is he conflicted.
Share this very brief, rational assessment of what Idiot President is (not) doing. Please. There are many Americans seemingly still unaware https://t.co/Qk157dA3LC
Yes it is, Carolyn, when you consider that all his decisions to date have been so lacking in ….. everything rational! In truth I didn’t backtrack to the source of the article because I can’t believe any credible writer/journalist would describe the IP thus at this point in time.
ps: sharing quietly that you and your grandson and family are in my thoughts
😳 Sorry Carolyn, I responded to you from notifications and didn’t realize you were not referring to Trump being ‘conflicted to the end’ tweet. That one I listened to all the way through.
Life’s good, GDD! I’m slated to return to work soon but I can’t complain after my looong vacation. 😀
Give the little princesses a special hug for me as they settle in to this new school year.
If i see ONE more post about DT being “conflicted” about this decision–as if he is an empathetic human being–i will start screaming. The man does not care one iota about these kids. The ONLY thing that matters to him are polls and ratings, and undoing every single thing that President Obama did in taking this country forward. He is a hateful, spiteful man filled with rage.
Good Afternoon Beloved TODbots on a pleasant Tuesday partly cloudy cooler day.
Congrats, Meta…..Au ⭐ becomes you! Furst 🙂
Thanks, NW 🙂
❤ TOD community.
Karma loathes ugliness…..Trump, GOP & Sessions are inoperable Cancer to our political system. Until they are removed, May God Help Us All.
#DREAMers, We The People who care for this Nation have got your backs. ❤ ❤ ❤ #FORWARD & Togetherness.
As people are zip-tied by police, more sit in the intersection at 57th & 5th to take their place, protesting to #DefendDACA by Trump Tower pic.twitter.com/SjsD1iEjJY
Describes him to a T – he could not even read the statement – so got someone else to do it – so much b. shit about how and why – he is racist to the core as are most of his appointees. The fear and horror he is making people suffer is unbelievable – then again him getting elected is still unbelievable to sane people.
When you've been arguing with fed-ex all week that you really are Madonna and they still won't release your package. 🙄!#bitchpleasepic.twitter.com/UQdms69w49
I can relate in one Tiny way.
Last Xmas, We ordered Pride & Prejudice off from Amazon. Until Today, we have never gotten it. We are still fighting for the credit. In Jan of this yr, we ordered another copy. It came w/o a hitch. Same address. Same name. Same Credit card. Strange.
What have we become? America is gone. We're fighting for a memory. This country's the world's enemy. The dream we dreamed is done. pic.twitter.com/ZodYbzxwnH
“Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.” If more Americans had believed this and acted upon it in the past 5 decades, we would not be where we are now. Black pain, suffering, oppression, murders, disenfranchisement, systemic racism, and so much more did not matter. Millions turned away their eyes and their hearts. Many believed that we are somehow less than human and not worthy of the lives that they wanted for themselves. That somehow we could/should wait for some later day. It is so ironic that now we have protests led by white people who sing Black spirituals and freedom songs and quote Black writers because they and theirs have been so privileged that they do not have their own oeuvre of such to draw from. For the first time in our history, the pain of terrorism, oppression, disenfranchisement and powerlessness is felt by people who have been the recipients of white privilege. There were those who thought that they were covered by this privilege (Asians, people who emigrated from India, some of Arab extractions and the more white-looking Hispanics) who joined whites in their disdain of Black people and certain classes of Brown people and are now realizing that in Trump’s America that they now have targets on their backs. No matter how this terrible time in our country’s life ends, Black people will still by and large be a despised minority who will reap few if any benefits of the new order that replaces it.
Thinking the Dicktraitor wants to find a way to drag PBO into his giant messes. Let’s assume PBO will tread with caution.
-Just heard Melania via a video that speculates she is being abused. Melania’s English is poor.
-Can understand why Trump doesn’t want his base to hear her speak.
-Considering how Trump (whose Mother, grandfather and wives were immigrants) is cruelly punishing young people born here – who are actually immersed into the cultural nuance and subtleties of the American language.
More bad news: We now have Tropical Storm #Jose in the Atlantic behind #Irma. Expected to become a hurricane in 36-48 hours. pic.twitter.com/pGP3gHLEcI
"Adult illegal aliens." Just a disgusting display of prejudice, ignorance and heartlessness. But exactly what's expected of these cowards. https://t.co/zfYrS7uizb
❤️ Leaving off for a bit, Full Moon tomorrow, 6th September 2017, my Daddy’s 101st, he’s gazing on from Heaven!! Anyway, Moon 13♓️53, 3:03am EDT, 0:03am PDT. With a fantastic Moon occultation of Neptune 2 hours earlier, which will be visible from most of Antarctica, se South America and South Georgia. As for the PNW, we shan’t see much, since the smoke from wildfires is so heavy, I had ash blowing into my car, and settling all over my lap! For sure I’m staying in, and wearing a heavy duty mask if I have to go out. Be strong, TOD, be vigilant. Don’t be afraid. 💖🙏🏻🎶🗝🌕
It should never have come to this, but I continue to SMH at how short-sighted people were to piss and moan at Democrats when the REAL enemy should have been so obvious.
And unfortunately, this is what it finally takes to open some eyes.
This is remarkable that people who live in this country, work in this country, pay state, local, and FEDERAL taxes, pay social security taxes, property taxes if they own property contribute more to THIS country than the very rich so-called Americans or the red state people who live on disability most of their life thanks to the Blue states and the “illegals” who pay in more taxes than we get back.
What SHOULD BE ILLEGAL is that someone who pays taxes is NOT represented….Taxation without Representation!
The news today has been devastating, nothing but bad news since last Friday.
Carlos, in New Mexico, is the type of person every parent hopes to raise — and he has done it without a father (sound familiar?).
Since I don’t have a TV, don’t know how they’re framing Jeff Sessions deplorable announcement this morning, but have a feeling that they’re presenting an us vs. them POV, and not informing Americans that DACA recipients are *ineligible* for applying to become American citizens — they are caught in a Kafkaesque horror story, which I didn’t know, and think most people don’t.
Update: a spokesperson said 'still looking into this.' So State Dept is still looking into where the Secretary of State was this weekend https://t.co/3RAaFsFwSB
Irma and Jose heading toward Fla. I do not live in the predicted area for a direct hit, but even a tropical storm can cause damage like Matthew did last summer.
Immigrant youth blocking traffic in front of White House bc this is no ordinary day. 800K #DACA youth we're betrayed by their President pic.twitter.com/dx495zcOtJ
But as the Trump administration prepares to phase out DACA—which protects at least 800,000 undocumented immigrants from deportation—please know that the people who support this terrible and evil act know that removing immigrants like those protected by DACA from America won’t resurrect those dead fucking jobs in those dead fucking cities. They know that the American manufacturing ship been sailed, and that Trump’s bitch ass is lying. Do not allow yourself to infantilize them or believe that there’s any nobility in their beliefs. Perhaps they’re ignorant about certain facts, but they understand the psychology of their president’s platform. They don’t give a damn about bettering their own
fucking lives. They just want ours to suck, too.
it is very hard for me to moderate what I can say about the homegrown demagogue and those who enabled him to get this power through their participation or deliberate lack of participation in the election
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
We will not be silent!! STRONGER TOGETHER.
UGH. Trump + MSM = GARBAGE.
I don’t get why the media persists in writing about the Idiot President like he’s normal. It may sound good to state he was ‘conflicted until the end’, but they ought to know by now that the idiot blunders through without any thought at all so there’s no conflict involved. Grrr.
EXACTLY.
He doesn’t give a rat’s ass!
Huge turnout for 3 rallies to defend DACA in Portland, despite raining ash from the horrible wildfires in the Columbia Gorge.
GA, NerdyW! And, thank you. 🙂
GM, Meta!
Howdy, everybody! Despite all the turmoil in our world, may your Tuesday be blessed.
GM, vc. Thank you.
That analysis is positively frightening.
Yes it is, Carolyn, when you consider that all his decisions to date have been so lacking in ….. everything rational! In truth I didn’t backtrack to the source of the article because I can’t believe any credible writer/journalist would describe the IP thus at this point in time.
ps: sharing quietly that you and your grandson and family are in my thoughts
😳 Sorry Carolyn, I responded to you from notifications and didn’t realize you were not referring to Trump being ‘conflicted to the end’ tweet. That one I listened to all the way through.
{{{VC}}} How ya doing young lady??
Life’s good, GDD! I’m slated to return to work soon but I can’t complain after my looong vacation. 😀
Give the little princesses a special hug for me as they settle in to this new school year.
OMG, what courage. I can’t imagine how they will be treated going forward.
What else can they do? I so admire these young people. That barbarian in the White House will rue the day he did this.
I’m worried because if they’re DACA, getting arrested undermines/invalidates their DACA status. They’ll likely get deported immediately.
Yup. Not a good way to go about this.
If i see ONE more post about DT being “conflicted” about this decision–as if he is an empathetic human being–i will start screaming. The man does not care one iota about these kids. The ONLY thing that matters to him are polls and ratings, and undoing every single thing that President Obama did in taking this country forward. He is a hateful, spiteful man filled with rage.
Boy did they rip Sarandon a new one after posting this tweet. The comments are “whew” fearce.
Good. She is partly to blame for the election of this sexual predator in the White House.
She voted for this ass wipe, claiming “what’s the worst can he do”? Now we know……so far anyway.
a day late and a penny short is this one
Hi TOD, my online sanctuary. Pete Souza is doing an “AMA” (ask me anything) on Reddit if you’re interested in following along.
Thanks very much!
You’re very welcome! 🙂
Sue him personally for malfeasance. On top of every damn thing you can throw at his sorry arse.
Good Afternoon Beloved TODbots on a pleasant Tuesday partly cloudy cooler day.
Congrats, Meta…..Au ⭐ becomes you! Furst 🙂
Thanks, NW 🙂
❤ TOD community.
Karma loathes ugliness…..Trump, GOP & Sessions are inoperable Cancer to our political system. Until they are removed, May God Help Us All.
#DREAMers, We The People who care for this Nation have got your backs. ❤ ❤ ❤ #FORWARD & Togetherness.
Thanks, Nena!
BASTARD TRUMP AND HIS USELESS GLUTTONOUS FAMILY NEED TO GO!
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS IS DISGUSTING…ALL SHE NEEDS IS HER BROOM!
Describes him to a T – he could not even read the statement – so got someone else to do it – so much b. shit about how and why – he is racist to the core as are most of his appointees. The fear and horror he is making people suffer is unbelievable – then again him getting elected is still unbelievable to sane people.
I can relate in one Tiny way.
Last Xmas, We ordered Pride & Prejudice off from Amazon. Until Today, we have never gotten it. We are still fighting for the credit. In Jan of this yr, we ordered another copy. It came w/o a hitch. Same address. Same name. Same Credit card. Strange.
I choose to refuse that meme, it’s defeatist. I stand with those who will resist and refuse to be defeated. I stand. We stand. Tall.
Sanders – another one who helped this to happen
That’s my President.
“Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.” If more Americans had believed this and acted upon it in the past 5 decades, we would not be where we are now. Black pain, suffering, oppression, murders, disenfranchisement, systemic racism, and so much more did not matter. Millions turned away their eyes and their hearts. Many believed that we are somehow less than human and not worthy of the lives that they wanted for themselves. That somehow we could/should wait for some later day. It is so ironic that now we have protests led by white people who sing Black spirituals and freedom songs and quote Black writers because they and theirs have been so privileged that they do not have their own oeuvre of such to draw from. For the first time in our history, the pain of terrorism, oppression, disenfranchisement and powerlessness is felt by people who have been the recipients of white privilege. There were those who thought that they were covered by this privilege (Asians, people who emigrated from India, some of Arab extractions and the more white-looking Hispanics) who joined whites in their disdain of Black people and certain classes of Brown people and are now realizing that in Trump’s America that they now have targets on their backs. No matter how this terrible time in our country’s life ends, Black people will still by and large be a despised minority who will reap few if any benefits of the new order that replaces it.
Thinking the Dicktraitor wants to find a way to drag PBO into his giant messes. Let’s assume PBO will tread with caution.
-Just heard Melania via a video that speculates she is being abused. Melania’s English is poor.
-Can understand why Trump doesn’t want his base to hear her speak.
-Considering how Trump (whose Mother, grandfather and wives were immigrants) is cruelly punishing young people born here – who are actually immersed into the cultural nuance and subtleties of the American language.
correction: young people not born here.
I thought the same. Everyone who isn’t indigenous has to haul his or her rear end back on the boat back to wherever!
Harvey.
Irma
Jose?
H, I, J …..
Male, Female, Male ….
🙂
GA Nena.
A bit of humor on this bleak day.
Yup, Arapaho 😉 I saw this tweet earlier.
Hence the “?” after Jose by moi…..up thread.
Africa’s revenge for all that’s been done betwist that ocean.
HOW DO WE STOP HIM??
Exactly right. POC, the disabled, the poor. I have zero doubts that it will continue until we find a way to stop it.
oops sorry for the duplicate 😳
You know, Bob, Charles Blow is right. When Trump campaigned on the slogan: Make America Great Again, it was all about restoring white male supremacy.
❤️ Leaving off for a bit, Full Moon tomorrow, 6th September 2017, my Daddy’s 101st, he’s gazing on from Heaven!! Anyway, Moon 13♓️53, 3:03am EDT, 0:03am PDT. With a fantastic Moon occultation of Neptune 2 hours earlier, which will be visible from most of Antarctica, se South America and South Georgia. As for the PNW, we shan’t see much, since the smoke from wildfires is so heavy, I had ash blowing into my car, and settling all over my lap! For sure I’m staying in, and wearing a heavy duty mask if I have to go out. Be strong, TOD, be vigilant. Don’t be afraid. 💖🙏🏻🎶🗝🌕
http://www.khq.com/weather
http://www.khq.com/story/36285551/where-is-the-smoke-coming-from-map-shows-74-wildfires-burning-in-western-states
Happy 101st to your Dad, MP! Mine would have been 100, this November.
PLEASE watch this and share broadly with your networks. This young man is AMAZING.
Such a sweetheart, just said a serious prayer for him. I want him to succeed !!
We don’t Know what we’ve got, until it’s gone.
All of these epiphanies when it is too damn late.
Exactly. They were furious because he put healthcare reform before immigration when he had the Congress. But healthcare impacted far more people.
And still the dems have to bicker within instead of putting the blame squarely where it lies – the GOP and trump voters
You treated him the way you did because you thought that you knew more than the black guy.
It should never have come to this, but I continue to SMH at how short-sighted people were to piss and moan at Democrats when the REAL enemy should have been so obvious.
And unfortunately, this is what it finally takes to open some eyes.
This is remarkable that people who live in this country, work in this country, pay state, local, and FEDERAL taxes, pay social security taxes, property taxes if they own property contribute more to THIS country than the very rich so-called Americans or the red state people who live on disability most of their life thanks to the Blue states and the “illegals” who pay in more taxes than we get back.
What SHOULD BE ILLEGAL is that someone who pays taxes is NOT represented….Taxation without Representation!
How immigrants like Melania Trump became white:
Eastern Europeans were considered Inferior Whites when they came to America in the late 1800s and some of that lingers.
https://splinternews.com/how-immigrants-like-melania-trump-became-white-1793860919
GA TODville.
The news today has been devastating, nothing but bad news since last Friday.
Carlos, in New Mexico, is the type of person every parent hopes to raise — and he has done it without a father (sound familiar?).
Since I don’t have a TV, don’t know how they’re framing Jeff Sessions deplorable announcement this morning, but have a feeling that they’re presenting an us vs. them POV, and not informing Americans that DACA recipients are *ineligible* for applying to become American citizens — they are caught in a Kafkaesque horror story, which I didn’t know, and think most people don’t.
more…
And this, from the international front, from our so-called State Department:
(My editorial comment is pure snark:)
Maybe he was somewhere giving grand jury testimony.
Or, maybe he was abducted by aliens. Those kinds of ideas are popular with certain groups.
GE Carolyn.
Or maybe he was hiking the Appalachia Trail. 😉
He may have been in China with his buddy, Vladmir Putin.
Irma and Jose heading toward Fla. I do not live in the predicted area for a direct hit, but even a tropical storm can cause damage like Matthew did last summer.
Putin and his bots have totally freaked over this one ….
And yes, Ukraine is still at war with Russia ….
Amazing that anyone would need to be told ….
ALL mostly under Rethug Presidents….huh, that tells you something doesn’t it.
Honestly, I hope this hurricane flattens Mar a Lago to a pile of matchsticks.
🙂 My thoughts exactly!
I’m not even trying to be a good person anymore when it comes to this monster. He deserves a visit from karma NOW.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/05/dreamers-are-americans/
uh huh
They Know They Can’t Win; They Just Want Black and Brown People to Lose Too
Damon YoungToday 2:41pm
it is very hard for me to moderate what I can say about the homegrown demagogue and those who enabled him to get this power through their participation or deliberate lack of participation in the election