Deal with facts, not speculation. GOP will try to mind-fuck people into giving up by implying that they will vote “no.” Do not fall for the con. It is not over until it is verifiably over.
If you are like me and you do better with written communication, this is the last day to email your opinions about G/C. GCHcomments@finance.senate.gov
25 players from the Jaguars and Ravens knelt during the national anthem – and the Steelers will not leave the locker room for it. pic.twitter.com/7Qa12uinO3
American flag represents liberty & justice for ALL. Trump represents liberty & justice for SOME. These men are TRUE PATRIOTS. #TakeTheKneepic.twitter.com/EqAq8AD47M
Trump and the GOP congress are just symbols of what has always been true of US; a divided nation, founded on genocide, slavery, and white male supremacy. The only thing that #45’s ascension has done is to bring the results of these truths into the blinding light; no more dog whistles, systemic racism, and Southern Strategy, no more saying one thing and legislating another way. Anyone who was asleep, willfully blind and unconcerned are now having to face the truth of what their actions, silence, and white privilege have wrought. This is our time on the precipice, who will have the courage to stand in and for truth and give real life and meaning to the words in our documents for the first time for all?
President Trump, Sec. Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now. These are American citizens. https://t.co/J2FVg4II0n
Team owners are rushing to protect their investments to ward off a boycott of the sport. Colin was all alone and unsupported for months and they said nothing, many of whom gave #45 millions in campaign donations. This country’s only morality is money; people only speak out when the bottom line is threatened.
The @ACLU tweeted part of Jackie Robinson’s writing on the national anthem from his memoir, I Never Had It Made. Here’s the full paragraph: pic.twitter.com/HkDPPjsLCd
Dan Rather 4 hours ago:
It’s football Sunday, and I have a pit in my stomach, and a sickening sense of deja vu. Who knows what the day will bring?
I do know the source of my disquiet. It is the stench of bigotry as a demagogue stirs the potent cauldron of racial division. I want to say, this is so unnecessary. We have so many other things we should be worrying about. But of course now this is real, and it must be called out. This is an age when no one can be neutral. To remain silent in the face of race-baiting is to be complicit. And I have seen the cost of complicity. It is ugly.
On Friday night, and then in a chain of tweets (what else) President Trump targeted African American athletes for provocation and ridicule. He has called into question their Americanness, as he called into question the Americanness of his predecessor President Obama. Perhaps what is saddest about this moral cowardice is that Mr. Trump may derive some political gain from these attacks amongst his supporters, but he fails in the test of leadership. Big time. For a President to be doing this – pouring gasoline on the embers of racial resentment – is really unspeakable. Instead of trying to reduce the potentially explosive emotions about race, he is trying to exacerbate them for his own gain.
(much more..)
We’re excited to announce that former Vice President Joe Biden is coming to SuperSoul Sunday! On November 12, Delaware’s longest-serving senator joins Oprah on SuperSoul Sunday to discuss his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, and to kick off his American Promise Tour.
Phony balony Mnuchin supports Dotard’s attacks on NFL and said players athletes “can do free speech on their own time.”
Free speech isn’t just some of the time. (Here we’ve a president freely calling people sobs). And isn’t there a federal statute preventing
Federal employees e.g. U.S. President from calling for the hiring or firing of employees of private companies? He’s breaking fed law isn’t he?
This is remarkable. In unprecedented joint letter, the entire American health care system – 1/6 of the economy – rejects Graham-Cassidy. pic.twitter.com/yxYfIPvzJh
No. We had the real thing; dignified, successful, still influential led by a man of whom we are most proud. A comedy will try a lying, low-brow approach (they already tried this with that show that featured Gladys Knight) that will try to satisfy the desperate dreams of the racists who want to see Black people in leadership shown as hapless, shucking and jiving, grinning fools.
Obama, one year ago today: “This is the place to understand how protest and love of country don’t merely coexist — but inform each other.” pic.twitter.com/LejdS4dEDJ
She has such courage! She will be able to look her children in their eyes in later years when they ask her what she did to protest and resist police brutality, racism, and hatred. She knelled alone among her squad mates in front of thousands in the stadium and more watching on tv; a small, humble act that speaks volumes. I hope her parents are proud.
Surreal scene here in Nashville as entire #Seahawks, Titans teams including coaches, staff, all players skip national anthem pic.twitter.com/UCdANOKdAV
Do people think that black people wake up in the morning and say to themselves, “I think I’ll go protest today.” We don’t protest because we don’t have anything else to do, do you know how mentally draining it is to protest? Do you think that these football players want to engage in protesting? This is how they feed their families. Think of it like this, you go to your place of employment and protest the conditions that effect you. The same place you protest is the same place where you draw a paycheck, this is some heavy shit. So no, black people don’t protest because they want to, black people protest be because they have to. It is a matter of life and death.
I’m shocked that some of these NFL team owners are shocked at Trump’s language, motherfucker please, you’ve set with him in those quiet rooms that Mitt Romney talked about and sipped wild turkey. You, more than anyone else is very familiar with Trump’s language.
President Trump, Sec. Mattis, and DOD should send the Navy, including the USNS Comfort, to Puerto Rico now. These are American citizens. https://t.co/J2FVg4II0n
People didn't approve of the way my father protested injustice either; said he was causing trouble, called him an "outside agitator." #MLKpic.twitter.com/l5cAkiGR6K
As I said last night on twitter, Trump is going to force America to have a conversation about race that she has deftly avoid for the last one hundred year plus. President Obama in so many ways tried to move the conversation forward but he was rebuffed, but Trump is going to make America have that conversation in the worst possible way.
RUSSIA WARNS OF “VERY UNPREDICTABLE NOSEDIVE” IF US DOES NOT EASE UP ONITS FIERY WAR OF WORDS WITH NORTH KOREA
Spiking nuclear tensions between the United States and North Korea showed little sign of abating Sunday as Russia warned of a “very unpredictable nosedive” if Washington does not ease up on its fiery war of words with Pyongyang.
It was FRIDAY night, 2 days ago, that DT was still agitating for Sessions to go after Hillary for her use of private email. And now we get the news that Kushner and others in the West Wing are using private emails. The hypocrisy is just too much. Then we have 3 MILLION Americans in Puerto Rico with no electricity, no water and no food while DT spends the day at his golf course. Awwwww….but they are mostly brown and black people. I despise this entire administration. Where is the press?
@nytimes I have every expectation that u will spend as much time & space on Kushner's use of private email as you did Hillary's. No excuses.
Watch how fast coaches & owners bend the knee because now dotard traitor tRump is screwing with their Benjamin's 💰 💰 #TakeTheKneepic.twitter.com/I2F9dn5Prk
This weekend is the prime example of Hillary’s statement that it is so much worse under DT than even she expected. There simply is so much happening that deserves attention, and no way that it all can be covered in a systematic manner. You’ve got:
1. The dangerous G-C bill to strip healthcare from 31 million Americans
2. 3 million Americans in Puerto Rico in absolutely dire conditions
3. The Russia investigation
4. DT stoking racial controversy at every turn
5. a hundred other things that this is Administration is doing on a daily basis to hurt Americans from pulling the regs for investigating sexual assault on campuses to the corruption that is running rampant throughout the government.
In short, what is being done to this country is a nightmare. And it is heartbreaking.
Oh, and the new travel ban which is what brought me back here! It makes no sense whatsoever in terms of what is dangerous for our country or a security risk, it is simply a list of DT’s enemies.
Thank you for sharing that. We must continue to “come to terms” with everything that is happening, so we can eventually put all the blocks together again and get back to a pre-45 world, then START OVER on fixing all of the problems that we knew we had but hadn’t successfully addressed. I’m still HOPEFUL that we will be stronger after all this, and stay strong enough to move us forward.
I don’t expect perfect. But we “can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” as wise people say. #HOPE
Jennifer, a lifelong republican who didn’t vote for candidate Trump, says she was “persecuted” for it by her family. #60Minutespic.twitter.com/AdMTY0qpQG
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Thanks, NW for a new post.
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THIS
Deal with facts, not speculation. GOP will try to mind-fuck people into giving up by implying that they will vote “no.” Do not fall for the con. It is not over until it is verifiably over.
If you are like me and you do better with written communication, this is the last day to email your opinions about G/C. GCHcomments@finance.senate.gov
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LOL. That’s fine. They can continue to support him as he goes down the tubes. Mueller is coming.
Our FLOTUS is the cutest thing that ever lived. HUGE heart and good will. She’s just so beautiful in every way.
Yes she is……our Forever FLOTUS !!!
WOW, these guys aren’t even showing up!!
All this righteous anger need to unite and transform into votes.
Even the rivals are joining hands.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/41376070
Exactly !!
Ummm…K. He is not sane.
Merkel wins 4th term but the german racists also enter their parliament for the first time.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41376577
Trump and the GOP congress are just symbols of what has always been true of US; a divided nation, founded on genocide, slavery, and white male supremacy. The only thing that #45’s ascension has done is to bring the results of these truths into the blinding light; no more dog whistles, systemic racism, and Southern Strategy, no more saying one thing and legislating another way. Anyone who was asleep, willfully blind and unconcerned are now having to face the truth of what their actions, silence, and white privilege have wrought. This is our time on the precipice, who will have the courage to stand in and for truth and give real life and meaning to the words in our documents for the first time for all?
Agree with your assessment, CEB.
Appears quite a few Million Americans have the ‘ … courage to stand in …. ‘.
Teaching truthful American History is an essential step that all of us have the opportunity, every day, to participate.
Forward toward a more perfect Union. For ALL.
df trying to kill me. Aretha I love u.
Exactly.
Team owners are rushing to protect their investments to ward off a boycott of the sport. Colin was all alone and unsupported for months and they said nothing, many of whom gave #45 millions in campaign donations. This country’s only morality is money; people only speak out when the bottom line is threatened.
Prolly not evil enough for him. Wretched creatures, all.
Pittsburgh Steelers stayed in the locker room during National Anthem before their 1pm kick off.
Said they wanted to “show unity without being demonstrative”.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20801902/pittsburgh-steelers-remain-locker-room-national-anthem
Now we just need a wave effect of fans kneeling in the stadium. Just takes a few to start!
Unfortunately they were booed when they came onto the field. Some people just don’t.get.it. So sad 😦
Dan Rather 4 hours ago:
It’s football Sunday, and I have a pit in my stomach, and a sickening sense of deja vu. Who knows what the day will bring?
I do know the source of my disquiet. It is the stench of bigotry as a demagogue stirs the potent cauldron of racial division. I want to say, this is so unnecessary. We have so many other things we should be worrying about. But of course now this is real, and it must be called out. This is an age when no one can be neutral. To remain silent in the face of race-baiting is to be complicit. And I have seen the cost of complicity. It is ugly.
On Friday night, and then in a chain of tweets (what else) President Trump targeted African American athletes for provocation and ridicule. He has called into question their Americanness, as he called into question the Americanness of his predecessor President Obama. Perhaps what is saddest about this moral cowardice is that Mr. Trump may derive some political gain from these attacks amongst his supporters, but he fails in the test of leadership. Big time. For a President to be doing this – pouring gasoline on the embers of racial resentment – is really unspeakable. Instead of trying to reduce the potentially explosive emotions about race, he is trying to exacerbate them for his own gain.
(much more..)
I would love to have this in a tweet format so that I can share it
I hope that the TOD members in Knoxville Tennessee are okay and have survived the latest shooting in a church;
I hope that the people who are hurt are able to recover;
Unity without Justice is empty
A regular day in NRA America, Sunday version.
Please read “I am a NO for decency”.
We’re excited to announce that former Vice President Joe Biden is coming to SuperSoul Sunday! On November 12, Delaware’s longest-serving senator joins Oprah on SuperSoul Sunday to discuss his new memoir, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, and to kick off his American Promise Tour.
Phony balony Mnuchin supports Dotard’s attacks on NFL and said players athletes “can do free speech on their own time.”
Free speech isn’t just some of the time. (Here we’ve a president freely calling people sobs). And isn’t there a federal statute preventing
Federal employees e.g. U.S. President from calling for the hiring or firing of employees of private companies? He’s breaking fed law isn’t he?
Dotard says games are “boring” – wants more KKK-style campaign violence?
The leader of the free world; may she and cooler heads manage to keep the racists that were elected to their parliament (?) under control.
Hear, hear!
congratulations Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel!
UH HUH
UH HUH
i am worried when I notice that evil mcconnell has remained so quiet …. because I suspect that he is scheming
Um ~ nom
This bill would destroy Medicaid.
20% – one out of every FIVE Americans gets their healthcare through Medicaid.
76 MILLION AMERICANS get their healthcare through Medicaid. Unless you’re a part of the 1%, YOU KNOW someone on Medicaid.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/D7.html
No. We had the real thing; dignified, successful, still influential led by a man of whom we are most proud. A comedy will try a lying, low-brow approach (they already tried this with that show that featured Gladys Knight) that will try to satisfy the desperate dreams of the racists who want to see Black people in leadership shown as hapless, shucking and jiving, grinning fools.
Yep, nothing but shucking and jiving kinda like “The Jeffersons” but set in the White House.
No
My President
WOW!
She has such courage! She will be able to look her children in their eyes in later years when they ask her what she did to protest and resist police brutality, racism, and hatred. She knelled alone among her squad mates in front of thousands in the stadium and more watching on tv; a small, humble act that speaks volumes. I hope her parents are proud.
Comment for photo posted by Bob of the cheerleader kneeling at the game during the anthem.
This from a Republican.
Do people think that black people wake up in the morning and say to themselves, “I think I’ll go protest today.” We don’t protest because we don’t have anything else to do, do you know how mentally draining it is to protest? Do you think that these football players want to engage in protesting? This is how they feed their families. Think of it like this, you go to your place of employment and protest the conditions that effect you. The same place you protest is the same place where you draw a paycheck, this is some heavy shit. So no, black people don’t protest because they want to, black people protest be because they have to. It is a matter of life and death.
Thank you, Don
Literally there is no way to protest racial injustice without the protester being thought of as a piece of shit, history has proven it.
I’m shocked that some of these NFL team owners are shocked at Trump’s language, motherfucker please, you’ve set with him in those quiet rooms that Mitt Romney talked about and sipped wild turkey. You, more than anyone else is very familiar with Trump’s language.
I mean come on the EFF ON:
Not my First Lady.
She is a birther. Not my First lady
Not My First Lady.
Can’t read it……Those who can, plz post some paragraphs here.
Thanks.
As I said last night on twitter, Trump is going to force America to have a conversation about race that she has deftly avoid for the last one hundred year plus. President Obama in so many ways tried to move the conversation forward but he was rebuffed, but Trump is going to make America have that conversation in the worst possible way.
RUSSIA WARNS OF “VERY UNPREDICTABLE NOSEDIVE” IF US DOES NOT EASE UP ONITS FIERY WAR OF WORDS WITH NORTH KOREA
Spiking nuclear tensions between the United States and North Korea showed little sign of abating Sunday as Russia warned of a “very unpredictable nosedive” if Washington does not ease up on its fiery war of words with Pyongyang.
US bombers and fighter escorts flew off the coast of North Korea on Saturday and US President Donald Trump took to Twitter with verbal threats as the brinkmanship with Pyongyang intensified. … More here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-n-korea-brinksmanship-brings-warning-unpredictable-nosedive-165137665.html
It was FRIDAY night, 2 days ago, that DT was still agitating for Sessions to go after Hillary for her use of private email. And now we get the news that Kushner and others in the West Wing are using private emails. The hypocrisy is just too much. Then we have 3 MILLION Americans in Puerto Rico with no electricity, no water and no food while DT spends the day at his golf course. Awwwww….but they are mostly brown and black people. I despise this entire administration. Where is the press?
This weekend is the prime example of Hillary’s statement that it is so much worse under DT than even she expected. There simply is so much happening that deserves attention, and no way that it all can be covered in a systematic manner. You’ve got:
1. The dangerous G-C bill to strip healthcare from 31 million Americans
2. 3 million Americans in Puerto Rico in absolutely dire conditions
3. The Russia investigation
4. DT stoking racial controversy at every turn
5. a hundred other things that this is Administration is doing on a daily basis to hurt Americans from pulling the regs for investigating sexual assault on campuses to the corruption that is running rampant throughout the government.
In short, what is being done to this country is a nightmare. And it is heartbreaking.
Oh, and the new travel ban which is what brought me back here! It makes no sense whatsoever in terms of what is dangerous for our country or a security risk, it is simply a list of DT’s enemies.
Thank you for sharing that. We must continue to “come to terms” with everything that is happening, so we can eventually put all the blocks together again and get back to a pre-45 world, then START OVER on fixing all of the problems that we knew we had but hadn’t successfully addressed. I’m still HOPEFUL that we will be stronger after all this, and stay strong enough to move us forward.
I don’t expect perfect. But we “can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” as wise people say. #HOPE
Maybe some insight as to why he won’t do this to others that have less means than he does.
I like it that nw didn’t use wishy washy ‘one of the most corrupt’ bs and straight away called it as the most corrupt.
If the voters don’t wake up in 2018, then they deserve what’s coming.
aka…the Muslim ban…
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/24/black-women-leading-the-charge/