President Barack Obama meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. President Obama’s office said they planned to discuss the global economy, climate change and other issues
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PBO brings nobility even to ‘yeomans work’! ❤️🙏🏼👏🏼🕯👁
He surely does!
I’m guessing he’s making this trip to China and other places, with the full knowledge of all of the other living former Presidents. Love how well respected he is, on foreign shores.
I think so too J’OB
They probably said “Barack, go over and clean up the mess left behind on aisle International”
Nicely done, Pamela! I just got home from hearing VP Joe Biden on his book tour. 2,000 wildly enthusiastic Oregonians gave him multiple standing ovations. Keep working on the Cancer Moon Shot, dear Joe!
{{{{WarriorJudith}}}}}} sending you positive healing energy, strength and life force to envelop and sustain you as you successfully power through this latest challenge life has placed in your path. Beautiful and moving pic of you and the #BestVP ever. What a treat that must have been to hear him speak and get a hug and kiss on top of that! Blessings to you. ❤ ❤
{{{{Judith}}}} I’m so sorry to hear of your diagnosis. May you receive the best of care. We here of course will be sending you highest healing each and every day. You are strong and surround by light. Love you, Judith.
Lovely that our Joe connected with you and you with him. Beautiful photo.
Warrior, Judith:) Look at you with our Joe Biden! Best VP ever!….Those were HEALING/UNDERSTANDING kisses. They were also PROMISE kisses….to keep working on this! Cherish this
Judith, how so very awesome! VP Joe’s hug and kiss came with a blessing for you 😘
Sending positive, healing energy to you,, dear Judith. You are a treasure and you have an army of support and love behind you.
❤️ {{{ JF& VPB }}} ❤️🕯🙏🏻
Full disclosure – this photo is from 2014 after my friend Kathy and I spoke as grassroots organizers at a rally for the re-election of Senator Merkley. Joe was the keynote speaker at that rally. I didn’t get a repeat kiss last night but cherish this memory anyway! Thanks for all the well wishes.
We have to make calls/tweets/etc. RIGHT NOW r.e. the hideous tax scam bill:
Love and Light and Blessings all around your amazing Self!
PBO is a well respected Ambassador for America.
Thanks Obama 😘
Well said, GGail!
Hellooooo Nancie (((hugs)))) ❤️
LOVE you GGail!
LOVE you too Nancie 😘
Thank you NerdyWonka, for this beautiful, uplifting and righteous update on world leaders doing the business of our global community with integrity, smarts, and strength. To better times, past and coming in the future. I love seeing this, and I love your on-point always on-time tweets and curation and reminders to us of the presence of The Forever POTUS and FLOTUS, in the world, everyday, living with strength, purpose, wisdom, brilliance and goodness. Could not make it through this without TOD. Thankful for you and your work every single day.
Goodnight, TODville – and all the ships at sea. It’ll be an early out for me, tonight. Love y’all. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
P.S. This is another good explanation of this photo! And I’m outta here for the night zzzzzzzzzz
trump is such a fool!
O my everything – this is the President – if he was a monarch we would say – long may he reign.
WE ARE THE CHANGE WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! WE MUST RESCUE OURSELVES AND STOP THIS MADNESS THAT IS THE GOP!
Thank you President Obama for continuing to show the world not all in the USA are like the stooge, stupid stooge, stupid stooge lying moron who lives in the White House with his nude model arm candy wife. Barron, God bless you and keep you safe, my heart goes out to you.
… and a charlatan to boot!
Sort of like a villain’s lair, how fitting.
FITS IN WITH THE OCCUPANTS!
I am sure he brought them to the WH. Reminds me of the movie Men In Black when the roach had bugs coming out of him.
Who’s surprised?
Thank GOD she can replace the “STENCH” that is BC.
President Obama is in India.
PBO live now from Obama Foundationhttps://www.obama.org/india/
VOTE on this survey and call his office.
done
So cute and sweet.
Such an antidote against the moron. It is good for brits to see an American who shares their values.
Good morning everyone. Have a great day. Don’t forget to call against the republican tax scam and encouraging others to call. I have my democratic Senator Sherrod Brown and that heartless scumbag robert portman (name is intentionally not capitalized, …., was trained by the British that it conveys disrespect … and yes, this taxscam is making me feel very petty towards these unaplogetic public treasury- robbers)
When you control three branches of government and you still can’t get shit done, it only means that your shit-getting-done process is bogus. I was expecting to wake up to a tax bill being passed, but no, I woke up to total chaos. We have a madman leading our county and a non-functioning government. My only joy comes from Tiger Woods possibly going even lower on his round today.
Fraud’s gonna fraud. Liar’s gonna lie. Does ANYONE out there need a better metaphor for the same thing happening with this TaxScam?? Tell you one thing, DO another!
Betrayed? The guy’s opening statement to the voters of America was “Grab them my the p***y.” Trump has never disappointed me because I know who and what he is.
That’s because YOU were paying attention. These idiots saw the goods, and ignored it and voted for him anyway….because, Republican white guy (shady) businessman. Screw them. They have to learn the hard way. Unfortunately for the rest of the country.
Morning, Don:)
Morning, Sunshine!
HA! I’m grumpy this morning:) Up last night with the puppy….Grrrrrr
DF, you got a puppy?
I missed the post. Tell it again – when? how?
Wonderful 😊
I’ll text you a pic:) My house was so lonely and quiet w/o my Sadie girl….had to!
Oh, dear DF, I’ve been so out of touch with TOD. I’m heartbroken about your beloved Sadie. I know how much she meant to you. She was privileged to have to as a mom. What kind of puppy did you get? Our sweet Maple, who was 9 months old when we adopted her, has brought joy back to our lives that was absent after losing our beloved Pearl a year ago August.
Oh DF, email one to me too. I want to see. So happy for you. I know how quiet the house is without our companions.
Baby Marley is a cutie. Thanks for sharing 😘
Oh – a puppy?! S/he will be worth the sleeplessness soon.
I am GLAD! They probably believe these tax cuts will be like job-fairy-dust and magically Carrier will return….
Look at President Xi’s body language, he is open and accepting.
And the smile is genuine
Called my senators. In the past, I have been kind. Now I’m pissed when I call them. Enough with this bullshit. They need to know we see them.
Oh now HERE”S a fucking surprise! But, Hillary had emails…..
This was the plan all along……
This too. This conman has been running these cons his whole life. This IS his whole life!
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LOL:) That John Oliver is a funny guy!
No kidding!!
FLYNN HAS FLIPPED!!!!
I just heard this news on KTLA, meta!
Thank you Mr. Mueller!
FLYNN is a very big fish. This is PLEA BARGAIN 101. Mueller must have been very pleased!!!!
This made my day. Start the countdown clock!
Yes! Pence also said that “NO ONE in the campaign ever talked to the Russians” when he knew DAMNED well Flynn did.
LOLzzzzzzzz
I meant to tell you how much I like your Twitter page banner, Meta – there are so many great pix of PBO, but the Golden Gate backdrop is really cool.
Thank you very much, Sandy! I also really love all the PBO GG Bridge photos. It’s amazing to think about how he landed there in Marine One on several occasions. And he always stopped to take in the breathtaking view of the bridge and the mountains.
PBO is right now having a morning milkshake.
Love it !
So is Hillary!
I posted this a couple days ago, It is coming true.
🙂 🙂 trump TUESDAY! It’s comin’!!!
POS traitor.
From Twitter: “BREAKING FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL: The court has scheduled a plea hearing for Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn (Ret.), 58, of Alexandria, Va., at 10:30 a.m.”
Sweet. Milkshakes all around!
Putin is smiling
All the people in Cheeto-in-Chief administration have the look of pure EVIL!
Don’t let up, people. Keep up the pressure.
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Flynn is singing like a bird, PBO is respected by world leaders. Trump off the rails in 3…2..1…
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/30/17
Trump obstruction eyed in Sessions avoidance of pressure question
Rep. Jim Himes of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about new Trump obstruction questions after Jeff Sessions refused to tell Rep. Schiff in testimony before the committee whether Donald Trump pushed him to hinder the Russia investigation.
We now know the answer to that questions……YES HE DID!
OMG……
Flynn Indicted…
Just got out of a meeting! What. The. Fuck.
INDEED!
People should be chanting LOCK HIM UP
I am!
Hhhahahaaaa!! Love you, JF.
OH, BURN
LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!
LOLOLOLOL….His little fingers are probably twibbling too much to twitter 🙂 🙂 🙂
Hi toddys
In addition to the good news of the treasonous turdgolytes being indicted today, I am happy to report that the biggest, make or break risk, I ever took as a professional engineer in over 3 decades, was a ‘yooge’ success today. I was on tenterhooks for nearly two weeks having nightmares about my decision (there by essplaining my strange silence here !!!) and today I go to sleep peacefully. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Of course, I balme the effing kenyan’s indian visit for this.
Gunnite all.
Sleep well, my friend.
Congratulations AMK! Sleep and rest well my friend 🙂
Thanks, Don. Yes, I can. 🙂
So THAT’S where you’ve been: sweating nightmares…..
CONGRATS on your impressive victory, buddy!!!! Sleep well. And don’t forget to thank President Obama for your good fortune!!
And to think, I used to sleep like a baby. Thanks, meta.
SUPER happy for ya, mate.
🙂
YEA you!!!! “Fantabulous”! sleep well.
It was. Thanks, tnmtngirl.
Congratulations fellow Obama-conspirator!!!! Very glad (but not surprised) that the highly professional judgement you took yielded positive results. Enjoy the moment and the practical results
Thanks, Linda.
Major kudos, AMK! Hope you get to see PBO while he’s in India.
Thanks, JF. Was busy with other real kenyans for the past two weeks.
Congratsssssssssssss…!!!!
Thanks Sheila.
Congrats on your success Sir Amk! Sleep well and wake up roaring to go!! 🙂
Thanks, hf. Gonna sleep like a bear this month.
Congrats on your success!
Mahalo, Susanne.
Had to come all the way back here, to find your good news, so I could congratulate you! SO HAPPY for you, Big Guy! Well deserved success, I’m sure. 🙂
Thanks j’ob. It was hellish few months but the end result was worth it.
Bravo!
TRUST the process ~ hold Bob Mueller and the dedicated people working with him in a special place, to do as much as they can to restore and retain order. As hard as it is for us to maintain and hold steady in the Light, they need us to… if that is the most and best we can do, we shall do it.
Check Dan Froomkin Twitter
YIKES. This is a new twist to me.
OMG….
I never thought of Kushner as a mastermind of anything…Oooooooooooooo weeeeeeee
Thanks meta
What is so interesting is that Mueller charged Flynn with making false statements to the FBI instead of charging him with money laundering with Turkey. Flynn is singing like a bird.
AND it can only mean he’s hugely implicated either Trump or Pence or BOTH.
Yep, that’s what they are saying on t.v., they are saying Flynn is singing for his supper.
OMG>>>>>
that makes Ryan..next in line for Presidency….can’t wrap my head around that one
Maybe NYC or VA gets to indict Flynn for money laundering. Is the VA A.G a Democrat?
Cornyn declared they had the votes and they just now went into recess, into closed session behind closed doors BECAUSE HE’S BLUFFING.
PLEASE keep calling, this is still in flux!!
Flynn is the fourth member of Trump’s campaign to be charged with a crime. He’s the first who led a “lock her up” chant at the Republican convention.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 1, 2017
Too bad he wasn’t the FIRST to be charged with a crime….but we’ll take it!
I see Hillary and Bill sitting in from of the teevee having coffee and breakfast, chanting “Lock him up”! LOLOLOLOL
THERE IT IS
YoWWWza!
Hide the nuclear football!
The way Morning Joe was talking this morning, there are Generals who are ready to do just that.
LOCK HIM UP LOCK HIM UP LOCK HIM UP! Someone should have been chanting that while he was walking into the court house this morning! I can see Hillary and Bill having coffee this morning watching him PLEADING GUILTY FOR CRIMES AGAINST AMERICA.
WOWWWWWWWW
Someone pointed this out at another blog about Flynn:
Exactly right. It’s ONE CHARGE. He plead down to one charge. Imagine what he must have given Mueller to get that….
Oh, the arias…….
BWA HAHA HA HA H AH HA HAH A
“Oh, he arias” LOLOL, Flynn must have told Mueller where ALL the bodies are buried.
As l read the charge against flynn, my mind flashes back to cotton and how he tried to undermine PBO with that treacherous letter. Shouldn’t that disqualify cotton from becoming head of CIA …. or am I stretching this to thin grounds?
Nope not at all, the balls to write a letter to another country and ask that they not do business with your own president is beyond treasonous.
I thought of that too, Linda. That HAS to come back on Cotton at some point. Maybe it will if he goes into the CIA crosshairs…or “spotlight”.
At least Mueller let Flynn enjoy his Thanksgiving with his family.
BOOM
Cheeto-in-Chief, Sessions, Bannon, and last but not least PENCE!
I remember one time in elementary school I had gotten a bad report card. When I got home my mom was waiting for me, I gave her the report and she looked at it and put it on the table, and said your father will see it when he gets home from work. So I went to my room and waited for the sound of the front door opening, not unlike a prisoner on death row listening out for the sound of footsteps coming closer to his cell. Trump has no earthly idea of what’s coming through the front door.
Which makes all the sweeter because the filthy way he has been systematically trying to destroy PBO’s legacy (which he can’t do) and our institutions that benefit the average person rigging it for just the wealthy.
BoooooooooooM…is right…wow…wow
Oh my oh my. What a Friday. Thank you all for this community. We may get out country back yet.
It’s been a very long, very dark haul but today we are finally seeing vindication of the truth, facts we’ve known since the beginning. So much remains before we can move forward but today is a HUGE milestone.
We still have a long way to go and repairing all the government will take years. I know the average person has no idea what they have done to all the departments. To us who know it’s been a heavy load. I just so worry about all the people who will be the ones who are hurt by all this greed.
Meta, you are one of our great warriors. Thank you.
My thanks to everyone here. We are definitely much stronger together.
So true. A real reminder that we are not alone. We are stronger together.
Yeah! We want our country back! LOL!!!
meant “our” country back.
Will I do any constructive work today? Sorry, but it is one of those days when I am besides myself…………… Don, how are your trump-supporting work colleagues reacting to this news?
I’m about to go to the cafeteria shortly, I’m afraid to leave my computer for fear that someone will get indicted and I’ll miss it.
UGH UGH UGH
I am listening to the wrap up of President Obama addressing British Parliament and the WHOLE place clapping with great love and approval. Thank you for posting this. I miss our last REAL president.
What a Tweet……
Holiday Safety Break!!
Curious about the “covert” part…….
LOL! They’re going to send this motherfucker out there wearing a wire.
I think maybe he already has? In which case I say: HALLELUJAH!!!!
All this time Michael Flynn and his lawyers were STILL communicating with Cheetoos Administration and just ended their communications over Thanksgiving…..lots of good stuffing and stuff were said I hope.
LMAO!!
Oh, so, wait all those painful false accusations are actually true, and I admit I was wrong… but but but… I love my country sooooooo much ~
In other words: I was good until I was bad. Oh Pla-leese!
He had NO PROBLEM inflicting FALSE accusations on HRC and the pain put on HER family by getting crowds to chant “LOCK HER UP”. I have ZERO respect or sympathy for this TRAITOR. He has brought SHAME on this Country and our Military by siding with a foreign government leader who is WHITE as long as it harmed our sitting President who fired you and who happens to be AA. You are a traitor and a racist thug.
OOOoooo aaahhhhhh OUCH
“Wiki Leaks”! Remember how he looooooved Wiki Leaks!
Hello Nerdy & TOD! Happy Friday everyone!!
Ivanka and Jared are preparing for the Sabbath so they are no where near daddy-dearest. I feel sorry for those that didn’t call in “sick”.
I think Jared is preparing for something other than the Sabbath…
There are no more dots between Flynn and Trump, Mueller is in the White House drive way and he’s exiting his vehicle and he’s headed for the front door.
Don, I applaud your way with words. 🙂 You gave me my CA morning laugh.
Carrying a set of teeny tiny handcuffs 😂
the trap closes more and more…soon there will be no place to hide….but what will the Republicans in Congress do…
Pass tax cuts for their donors, screw the American poor and middle class, and ask Faux Noise plus all the RWNJ radio shows to give them cover as Orange-Cheetoo says fake fake fake…….
This is that creepy pajama guy
Did Conyers pay with his own funds?
I thought they had some sort of fund that paid for these sorts of things, I thought I read that somewhere. Last I heard of Conyers, he was in the hospital for stress related issues.
He paid out of his office funding.
Could that be misappropriation of funds?
Jeff Flake supports tax scam
I thought Jeff Flake was retiring, and if so why do this to the people of Arizona on the way out the door?
Well, well.
Kushner, Pence, and Sessions??? C’mon man!
I’d give a million dollars to be a fly on the walls at Sessions intake screening when he’s sent to prison. Can you imagine Sessions walking to his cell with a rolled up blanket and all the other inmates saying the most vile things to him and he’s looking at them over those fucking annoying ass glasses that he wears.
Not that there’s anything wrong with wearing glasses, both my wife and I wear glasses. But his glasses are annoying, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
EWW! White House Has A Problem With Cockroaches, Ants And Mice
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/white-house-bugs-mice_us_5a20d02be4b03c44072c6d8b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Sort of like a villain’s lair, how fitting.
LOL that’s what I said 🙂 🙂
MY POTUS IN PEACE
And poor old Flynn had to meet with Mueller.
See the problem is that nobody in Trump’s junta knows what Mueller knows or don’t know. I’ve been married for twenty-one years and I learned early on that when my wife asks me a question I need to just tell her everything that I know.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/12/01/obamainindia/
Dear Jared,
Do you hear the bus? It’s coming for you.
Bloomberg reporting that Kushner is the the one who ordered Flynn to contact Russia:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-01/kushner-is-said-to-have-ordered-flynn-to-contact-russia
MSNBC just mentioned that, too. Yeehaw. #GITMO