One tragicomic element of Trump's presidency is that the more he tries to tear down Obama's legacy, the bigger he makes Obama look.
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Hello, testing… is this thing on?
Dee, Congratulations on being 1st.
Thank you, Nerdy!
Good afternoon, TOD.
Congrats, dee!
Thanks for the new post, Nerdy darlin’!
It is on. Good Evening Dee. Good Evening TODVille!
It’s hard to replace something Great with Nothing.
President Obama is living rent free inside the Dotard’s Head. Hating is NOT a policy.
Karma hates Ugly.
GA, TOD.
Thank you, NW for a new post.
44 belongs on Mount Rushmore.
45 will be an asterisk.
Hopefully, on a prison, died-in-jail, roster list ….
OMG
Honestly, I can’t even parse what is happening anymore. But we had to know Kushner the scumbag is wrapped up in this mess.
So as I hoped, Mueller was connecting dots about the pay-to-play running through Cohen for months.
I wonder how much more he wants or needs to prove before indictments start coming down?
Just the start unless Trump is jailed, soon ….
And, he and Stormy are sure trying their best to make that happen ….
😀 😀
Here’s the above info on ‘Thread reader’:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/994313741817741313.html
My man, Michael Avenatti is on MSNBC with TRMS. He should get a gig on MSNBC titled CORRUPT TRUMP: Interrupted.
I love him, and I hope he doesn’t trip up (no signs of that whatsoever, so far). But I would have rather seen him on Lawrence’s show – they’ve developed a good rapport. Rachel did okay, because she asked “different” questions, but that’s my preference. Unfortunately, their producers didn’t check with me, but, hey … 🙂
So, and a big SO w/ an absolute big SIGH. “Haspel would be a great head of CIA”, if only she didn’t have that pesky torture thingy. I’m so done. Morality down the proverbial drain. I’ve run out of polite words. WTH, right now, is me trying so damn hard as I flip through historical Webster’s. 😷
I never was a big fan of either Nicole Wallace or Steve Schmidt a while back, but they’ve come a long way, baby. And goodnight, TODville.
It’s always gratifying to hear Melania Trump speak so sincerely from Michelle Obama’s heart’ twitter burn for the win. Hi folks dropping in to say hi and leave a bit of burn for thems that deserve it. I will be on vacation in Toronto and will hopefully have more time to drop in.
Toronto is one of the cities that I have on my bucket list to visit, enjoy your vacation.
Really Don? I’m slightly to the north, so if you and your family come this way, you really should get in touch.
THANK YOU, DiFi!!
So far declaring voting NO on Haspel:
Bob Casey
Kamala Harris
Martin Heinrich
Angus King
Ed Markey
Brian Schatz
Jon Tester
Ron Wyden
McCain, although he will not be present to vote
Paul
Of course, Manchin is a YES, which will probably be the deciding vote.
and DENT, retiring PA Representative…voted No
Its very interesting to watch these Senators go about doing their jobs, what they will vote for and vote against. Sometimes they vote against something that you wish they would vote for.
Awe naw, muthaphucka.
You getting an orange jumpsuit too!
Pence says it’s time for Mueller to wrap it up
May 10, 2018
Dubious explanations follow revelation of payments to Cohen
Rachel Maddow reviews the implausible explanations from corporations exposed as having paid Donald Trump confidant Michael Cohen sums totaling millions of dollars, including claims of paying for his expertise in healthcare and accounting.
Avenatti: Cohen selling access to the highest office in the land
Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels, talks with Rachel Maddow about the revelations in a document he published to the web about money paid to Michael Cohen, arguing that the most charitable explanation of what that money was for was selling access to the president.
Avenatti: Michael Cohen only really has one employer
Michael Avenatti, attorney for Stormy Daniels, talks with Rachel Maddow about what conclusions can be drawn from the financial information that has been made public so far about Donald Trump confidant Michael Cohen.
How Gina Haspel destroyed evidence of the CIA’s torture program
Rachel Maddow looks back at when the CIA torture program was exposed and how 92 tapes of interrogations were destroyed on the orders of Gina Haspel.
Troubling questions linger about Haspel’s role in CIA torture
Senator Ron Wyden talks with Rachel Maddow about why he is voting against the nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA.
Grassley tries to nudge Supreme Court justices into early retirement
05/10/2018 09:37 AM EDT
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday encouraged Supreme Court justices flirting with retirement to immediately step down, saying he would like to push through a nominee before the midterm elections.
“I just hope that if there is going to be a nominee, I hope it’s now or within two or three weeks, because we’ve got to get this done before the election,“ he told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “So my message to any one of the nine Supreme Court justices, if you’re thinking about quitting this year, do it yesterday.“
Grassley’s blunt talk came as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is racing to fill a range of judicial vacancies with conservatives as a hedge against the chance that Republicans lose the Senate in November.
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has cut a $30 million check to the House GOP-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund, a massive cash infusion that top Republicans hope will alter the party’s electoral outlook six months before Election Day.
The long-sought donation was sealed last week when, according to two senior Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan flew to Las Vegas to meet with the billionaire at his Venetian Hotel.
From the Orange Satan site, this is all too familiar….45’s Administration Foreign Policy is same as Bush II Foreign Policy when it comes to choosing to tear up the previous administration work once an agreement is made to stop rogue countries from getting nuclear weapons.
Wolfsthal’s Tweets:
In 1994, the United States negotiated a nuclear agreement with North Korea known as the Agreed Framework.
Under the deal, North Korea was to end their nuclear weapons program in exchange for heavy fuel oil, to energy producing nuclear reactors paid for by South Korea, and diplomatic normalization.
The total cost was cheap – a few billion dollars, mostly paid for by the South.
In 2002, The Bush Admin was upset the deal appeased North Korea, a terrorist state with an horrific human rights record, and was convinced North Korea was cheating.
Bush pulled out of the deal. John Bolton was the Chief State Department official and cheerleader for regime change
Link here:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/10/1763193/-How-Did-N-Korea-End-Up-with-Nukes-Obama-Advisor-Jon-B-Wolfsthal-Explains
* Pence was selected by one indictee (Manafort)
* He lied to protect another indictee (Flynn)
* His chief of staff Ayers is hooked up with third indictee Gates, mobster multitasker Cohen, and Greitens, who’s about to go on trial
Wow I wonder why Pence wants the probe stopped
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) May 10, 2018
Mobsters, traitors, and religious fanatics. And that about covers the Republican Party.
New NRA president says gun control activists are ‘civil terrorists’
Small wonder that Dana Loesch is excited about this racist POS.
These gun humpers can’t wait to paint themselves as more oppressed than POC, and have the gall to project a “terrorist” label onto people who want to REDUCE the number of guns in the hands of people unfit to own or carry them.
A BIG “F” U to iQ45……I hope they stick with it but Israel needs sanctions if they continue to provoke Iran.
Dear TODville,
Amb. Mike McFaul “liked” my response to this tweet. I think we can all agree I own twitter now.
Signed,
JO’B
Lol! {{{ ♥️ JO’B ♥️ }}} 👊🏼
Totally, lol.
The next generation of African-American doctors finds success and support at this university
May 8, 2018 6:20 PM EDT
Hari Sreenivasan
Xavier University, a small, historically black college in New Orleans, manages to graduate more African Americans who go on to become medical doctors than any other undergraduate institution in the country — a fact that’s even more striking given a drop in black males applying to medical schools. In our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan reports on what sets the school apart.
GA, TODbots.
TBT, I hear. Still partly cloudy in my neck of the woods.
OMG
Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing.
Last June, a Trump Cabinet meeting featured testimonials offered to Dear Leader by his forelock-tugging colleagues. His chief of staff, Reince Priebus, caught the spirit of the worship service by thanking Trump for the “blessing” of being allowed to serve him. The hosannas poured forth from around the table, unredeemed by even a scintilla of insincerity. Priebus was soon deprived of his blessing, as was Tom Price. Before Price’s ecstasy of public service was truncated because of his incontinent enthusiasm for charter flights, he was the secretary of health and human services who at the Cabinet meeting said, “I can’t thank you enough for the privileges you’ve given me.” The vice president chimed in but saved his best riff for a December Cabinet meeting when, as The Post’s Aaron Blake calculated, Pence praised Trump once every 12 seconds for three minutes: “I’m deeply humbled. . . . ” Judging by the number of times Pence announces himself “humbled,” he might seem proud of his humility, but that is impossible because he is conspicuously devout and pride is a sin.
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A great Read on Mike Pence.
I never thought I’d be laughing along with George Will at the expense of a republican president. His over the top insults are fabulous!
EXACTLY how I feel. This is just a game for Trump, an ego game. And yes…the guard rails are gone, there is no one to stop him has he continues down this path of destruction. This is America 😦
Vicente Fox Quesada, the former President of Mexico, has consistently told the TRUTH about Trump.
As ‘bottom line’ as it gets ….
Just read on huff post (sorry but i couldnt bring the link over) about Repigs filling a judicial post after keeping it blocked from being filled by a PBO pick for 6 years!
Turtle and Johnson – make me want to puke. GOP’ers are truly Devils … their evil truly has no boundaries. They are wasted sperms!
Sorry … end of rant.
Bottom line, not only is Dotard & Co. scared to death of Mueller’s investigation, so are his GOP cohorts/enablers. Enter DotardVP (probably in eye sights of said investigation) w/ his “it’s time to shut it down”. Attempt at self-preserving his damn arse! He can taste being “Ford” vis-a-vis Nixon. And that delusion is step-stepping so far away. The end. 😷😂
YUP.
I’m changing the words “scared to death” to “scared to smithereens”. I haven’t heard or seen anyone returning from smithereens. Not even vampires. But, that’s my humble observation, awaiting CSI Vote 2018 findings, & thereafter. 😷😂
What a beautiful Theater
Pete enjoyed it, too!
I will have to make it my business to see Pete before his book tour is over…i wanted to see him when he was at National Museum of African American History and Culture…but alas i was not able to attend…
The world carries on without us.
good morning everyone! have a nice day
members of TOD have always known that pence has been lying about his involvement in the Russia scandal.
my question: during the reports and criticism of pence over the last few days, I do not seem to hear anyone quoting Flynn (Sr.) who said that “he has a story to tell” or Flynn (Jr) who recently said that his father did not lie to pence. why are most people not emphasizing this?
Good morning all. We are leaving in 5 for Charleston, SC. Wedding of son of good friends from our Fairfax days. So looking forward to this little mini get-away. Since I still can’t walk very much, tomorrow will be a day of relaxing by the pool. Wedding is late afternoon……at the place where we are staying. 🙂
Hope all of you have a good day! Love to all.
Have a great time…
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/05/11/heeeeey/
I look forward to Fridays when it comes to this administration for the simple reason that the weekend offers a reprieve from the corruption that this administration engages in on a daily basis. Kinda like, banks don’t get robbed on the weekend.
smilin