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Good evening TODVille
Love the tweet. Thanks, Tireless NW.
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/908150871107805191
I think Democrats need to be very careful trusting Trump. He’s a snake, and sooner or later a snake will bite your ass off.
and that is an insult to snakes.
Save DACA and no deal on the stupid wall.
https://twitter.com/davisym00/status/908310927484878848
Good. Need to flip a couple dozen more and we’re set. Yes we can!!
Every one has no idea why the turd is there in the first place.
Exactly!
The whole world is wondering what she’s doing in there except holding her Daddy’s hands. No Democratic President could surround himself with so many useless, unqualified family members and get away with it. This is not normal.
JUST WAIT UNTIL HE BRINGS HIS MARTIAL LAW FAMILY IN FOR THE STARVING WHO WILL NEVER BE HELPED THROUGH THE HURRICANE CHAOS…IT’S ALL DISTRACTION WHILE CLARK GETS THE MILITARY GEAR READY FOR PUBLIC INTRODUCTION!
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/908334558520672257
Dems should not trust tRump any further than they can throw him but a deal on DACA without the stupid border wall would be great.
Exactly. Get it in writing, passed as law, and then we can celebrate. Without him, of course.
SKIP THE INK..TELL THE PRICK TO PRICK HIS FINGER AND SIGN!
Dems are being desperately gullible here. Jeez, look at his track record, dems.
THIS!!!! Dems should realize that Trump is only trying to get some positive headlines, give himself some credibility and look presidential.
This is Pelosi and Schumer they have no illusions. They are on a mission.
DISTRACTION IS A BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL…SADDLE UP!
I like Andy’s take on it (Ha!):
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Andy Borowitz
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “It is offensive and unfair to call Donald Trump a white supremacist. No one has done more than he has to prove that white people are not superior.”
LOL.
Ha! Truth.
Still trying it fit in da kenyan’s shoes. not.gonna.happen
Guess ‘dealing’ dems are happy with this stupid lie.
I DOUBT IF TRUMP CAN COUNT TO SEVEN UNLESS HE REMOVES HIS SOX.. ON SECOND THOUGHT..KEEP THEM ON..THE WORLD DOESN’T HAVE ENOUGH FRESH AIR!
wwc folks swallow this lie along with the entire shit sandwich he keeps serving them.
Two top US Democrats say they have reached a deal with President Donald Trump to protect thousands of young undocumented migrants from deportation.
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer said they also agreed to work on a border security package that would exclude Mr Trump’s proposed wall with Mexico.
However, the White House denied the wall had been excluded from proposals.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41262809
There you go. The hands were not even dry after that ‘dinner’ before the scum lied.
Idiots all.
WORSE THAN..THE LOREAL COMMUNE!
Other shoe dropping. ‘No deal was made’: Trump shoots down reports that DACA deal done over dinner with Dems
good morning everyone!
have a great day
FILLED WITH SMILES..LOOKING TO THE HIGH MOUNTAINS OF ARIZONA..VERY HIGH!
THE DISTRACTING—STALL PRESIDENT WITH THE ELASTIC FORKED TONGUE AND PITCHFORK TO MATCH.HE’S PROBABLY PROUD OF THAT TAIL.SURELY LONGER THAN THE OTHER ONE!
given the record of the homegrown demagogue during the previous months and years, why do people fall over themselves think that he will remember not to backstab anyone who agrees with him?
unless, there is something to benefit him personally, I will wait to see actual results of his “promises” to or “agreements” with …. whomever (put a name here)
why is the punditry class so eager to push the “pivot” narrative and even praise him for just sneezing or breathing as “a breakthrough”
The pundits are paid by their corporate masters, at the end of the day, to be Trump enablers.
If we had a truly ‘liberal’ media, Trump’s shortcomings would have been as talked-about as Hillary’s e-mails.
So they fall all over themselves for an excuse to label him “presidential”, and they look like fools when he turns around in his very next action and does something un-presidential. But they ignore it and pretend this is like any other presidency.
I suspect that Schumer and Pelosi are aware what an unstable liar they are dealing with, so I wonder if they aren’t playing some divide-and-conquer since they can only do so much without a majority in either the House or the Senate.
THREAD
WAIT UNTIL HE BRINGS OUT THE TANKS TO FIRE IT UP!
AND HE THINKS PRESIDENT OBAMA IS A STUPID BLACK GUY..PARDON ME WHILE I MAKE SOME ROOM ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING!
Morning everyone.
You’re shocked. I know.
That’s why the so called pee tape is not a BFD.
The deadbeat scum must be charged for financial crimes, tax fraud and money laundering. The IRS was pathetic all these years.
Treasury Secretary: Steve Moocher
Remember, the ones that scream the loudest or accuse others of doing what THEY would do…..are the biggest offenders.
HA! LOL….It WILL catch up to him, one way or the other!
For so many reasons, I needed this
Not until it is inked, signed, and still standing after lawsuits, will I have any faith in this. As soon as Fox pundits and MAGA Twitter speak out against this, #45 will be saying and doing something different.
GM DF.
Makes me sick to think of that smirking white supremacy Gorsuch on SCOTUS, when this country needs (the adorable) Merrick Garland. 😦
Did you see this (behind as usual, missed a lot here yesterday)?
The Obama Foundation is headed to Phoenix (after it cools off a bit, 😉 ):
Background:
Link to article:
OMG! I hadn’t seen that they were coming here:) So good! Thanks, arapaho!
This is simply awesome that he is not waiting till the Pres Library is built..
wish i was younger…smilin
This made me cry because I miss him so much:
My president community organizing the world before the building is even built. The Obama Foundation, like its founders, is about working with and for the people, wherever they are. He and Michelle have never been interested about edifices built for self-aggrandizement. We are so blessed to have them.
Indeed we are!!
Yes, we are!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZBoz6NFeZY/
Thank God his mother saw to it that he can swim. Too many A-A’s do not know how, not sure of why this is and I am A-A. I have had a few lessons over the years, but other than being able to float and never having had a fear of putting my head under water, this is as far as I have gone. Almost all of the adults in my extended family do not know how to swim. We did, however, make sure that my nephew learned how. Completing my swim lessons is on my bucket list.
I don’t know how to swim either.
I hope you find someone to teach you. This is literally a life skill that everyone should know… if my daughter was near you, she would teach you:) start with the YMCA. Do it. You will not regret it
Local memberships are rather high, especially at the one closest to me, but I won’t let this stop me. Thanks for the encouragement.
GA CEB.
Thanks for letting us know that you fared well through Hurricane Irma — was very glad to hear the good news. 🙂
My only experience with a natural disaster was with the 1994 Northridge earthquake — I lived about approximately 15 miles from the epicenter, as the crow flies. It was truly terrifying — felt like it was getting stronger and stronger, and you have no idea if when the shaking (i.e., the whole house violently shaking from side-to-side) is going to end. But I was grateful that the quake struck at 4:30 am, which meant that daylight was in the foreseeable future — and the electricity and phones came back on before nightfall that evening.
I learned how to swim at the downtown San Diego YMCA when I was about 5 years old. My instructor was a young African American man — think he might have been a sailor or an ex-sailor — so it didn’t occur to me until much later that he might have been an exception (I’m the same age as you).
I wonder if historically there’s been a lack of community facilities (like the YMCA) available to young A-A’s to learn this important skill? If so, hopefully that lack has changed in the past 50 years.
When I was very young, they drained the public pools rather than let A-A children swim in them. I was raises across the street from the A-A branch of the YMCA, but my family could not afford to send three kids to the camp where the swimming lessons were given and this skill was not a priority. One brother learned through friends and trial and error, then had his skills honed when he joined the Navy. The funny thing is that I have always been around water and no qualms about going in, usually with trusted friends (all of whom were white): canoeing, sailing, even scuba lessons. The majority of Black women do not swim because they are concerned about their hair ( it would take too long and too much space to explain about all of this). I was very impressed with the story that Simone Manuel ( individual gold and silver medals in swimming from Rio Summer Olympics) told about when she expressed concerns about her hair and swimming, her mother said in essence, don’t worry about it or let it get in the way of what you love. Few A-A women wear their hair in wash and go styles that allow for a very active outdoor life. Every decision, from sending little girls to go-away camp, to sports, to sex, to dating men of other ethnicities is framed by the question of what “to do” with our hair. Getting the so-called big chop and wearing one’s hair naturally (I did this 21 years ago) is not a simple decision for many women.
Thanks for the explanation, CEB, especially about the hair concerns. Can understand how traumatic it would be to make the decision to “go natural” (I had long, waist-length hair well into my 20s, but now I love having short hair (the shorter the better — dries fast, don’t have to worry about getting hair in my face or caught on something, etc.). It’s too bad though, I think A-A women look spectacular with natural hairstyles, and when they wear turbans and scarves look even more fabulous.
Good point about YMCA membership fees — have no idea how much they cost, but back in the day, seemed like *everything* was more affordable, LOL.
I’m AA, and my father never learned how to swim. He wasn’t allowed to use the pool when his high-school class went on a field trip to NYC in the mid-40’s.
I taught myself.
I remember the photos from that earthquake and they were terrifying. I would much rather go through a hurricane than an earthquake.
I’ll say it – RACISM.
WHY do Blacks not know how to swim?
The SYSTEMATIC opposition to Blacks being allowed the opportunity to swim.
Slaves, of course, didn’t know how to swim.
Post slavery, most Blacks lived in the Jim Crow South, where facilities for swimming were WHITES ONLY. Where did Black folks get the opportunity to learn how to swim, except for public lakes that allowed COLORED folks around it.
In the North, it has been outlined, by several folks, the pattern of Negros not allowed in Park District facilities. Or, if Park District facilities existed in Negro neighborhoods, they were substandard. The reason for the Negro YMCA and YWCA because they were not allowed in the ‘ regular’ YMCA/YWCA.
Who was going to teach Black students? Not enough Black teachers for swimming either.
Black people just didn’t show up not knowing how to swim out of the blue.
True. While this is changing some, it all depends upon where you live. The high school that I attended added a pool not too long after I graduated and is open for the neighborhood, especially during the summer. The high school where I taught for most of my teaching career has a pool and as its population became more Black over the years, more and more kids have had the opportunity to learn to swim. However, there are still many middle class A-A families in which the kids may know how to swim, but the parents do not.
YEP, I beat NO ONE in the WH (Sarah Hucklebee) will complain about this nor in the white-male controlled media can dispute it because we saw it with our own eyes with Jackie Robinson for playing in the major league with whites and Hank Aaron when he had the audacity to break the home-run record of a white player held up as a GOD. We see it in EVERY facet of life in Amerikkka, be it sports, films, business, or government where a woman or a minority is the “first” this or that in a area where it was exclusively white males.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/13/17
Sen Warner slams Facebook for slow response on Russia cyber op
Senator Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticizes Facebook for its slow response to being used as a platform for Russian propaganda against the U.S. and using insufficient resources to root out Russia’s full operation.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/13/17
Are congressional Trump Russia probes getting in Mueller’s way?
Senator Mark Warner, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller is having trouble getting cooperation from the myriad congressional investigations into Trump camp collusion with Russia.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/13/17
New revelations deepen Flynn legal jeopardy
Rachel Maddow rounds up a collection of new reporting in the Trump Russia investigation, including new revelations about former Trump NSA Mike Flynn and Special Counsel Robert Mueller looking into Flynn’s son.
Yup.This is the real reason. Scum doesn’t give a shite about daca.
What difference would this make to Mueller? Mueller surely doesn’t care about Trump cozying up to the Democrats on a few occasions when he has so much overwhelming evidence of Trump’s wrongdoing vis-a-vis Russia.
This.
Because Trump is classless. This is who he is.
Good riddance.
Anything that is give/granted can be taken away (see DACA as the latest example). We fight to make things law and we fight to make sure that the laws are carried out in their full intents and defended. Knowledge, vigilance and civic action are daily requirements in the fight for freedom, justice, and equality.
her thread brings Truth to Power!!
This is why I support BLM, Kapaernick and Jamielle Hill. We need more people speaking the truth even if the racists, White Supremacists and the general public doesn’t want to hear it. It’s the least we can do as Trump is championing bigotry and the MSM is normalizing him.
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Congrats, NCLD on your Au ⭐ Furst 😉
Thanks NW.
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Build the wall around of Joe Walsh and DJT!
Keeping my Fingers crossed 😉
A pipe dream?
Is Ann Coulter asking for votes? I am ALL IN.
There are two worlds: the one President Obama left, and the one I wake up to every morning.
Fuck you, Mitch. Karma can’t come soon enough for you.
I will believe it when I see it in a DJT tweet at 3:45am.
Probably more BS……he’ll change his mind…I bet you one gazillion dollars!
How he/she is treated by the military and the public will depend upon his/her ethnicity. Any takers?
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/908371298245476357
Yes it is crazy & what’s more as far as I’m concerned anyone that serves in our military ought to automatically become a US citizen.
https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/908325841360138240
No, they can’t obstruct the wall, but they can built ONE around you!
Was the dog buying the coffee/tea?
I hope there exist an expedite process in any of these countries to allow him to get full permanent residency!
We will probably wound up in a war and/or f**ked up trade deals and more people hating us for allowing such an ignorant, empty-souled, disgrace to lead our country on the world stage.
Why would you want to impose him on them? They have their own problems already.
https://twitter.com/TheBaxterBean/status/908408513675894786
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/908416854565285890
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/14/obama-foundation-summit/
I am starting a fun/serious thread: White and other non-Black people who are I invited to the barbeque and Black people who are did-invited to the it.
1. All participating TODers of non-Black (as far as you know, LOL!) ancestry are invited.
2. Stephen Colbert (whose DNA showed he was whiter than white)
3. Chrissy Tegan: model, game show host
4. Ron Perlman: actor and Twitter warrior
5. Hillary (she won’t be able to do the electric slide, but the women of a certain age will enjoy talking to her)
6. Morris Dees: lawyer/activist founder of the SPLC
Disinvited
1. Omorosa (but to tell the truth, she was never invited)
2. Ben Carson
3. Senator Tim Scott
Who is on your list?
Sorry to be redundant, but the humiliation Trump doles out to any of these racist obstructionists is never enough.
And I hope Mueller and A.G. Schneiderman have Trump’s reward in short time.
While it won’t happen in this Republican-controlled Congress, Democrats should push this as a reason to vote for them next November. Fix and protect the ACA in the meantime until they flip Congress. #Goals.
I am waiting for Sanders to admit that because of the ACA Americans got a chance to experience a level of healthcare security that they had not previously and because of that going for universal healthcare was made easier. I agree they should fix the ACA because that it is in trouble under Trump. I am tired of Sanders claiming to be the conscious and the wings beneath the democratic party when he could not get anything done all these years. The ACA took us halfway down the track. If it was up to Sanders we would waving signs about universal healthcare while still standing at the starting gate.