For certain, President Obama is the last LEGITIMATE occupant of the Presidency. ZERO doubt about it, as has been the case for those paying attention since 8 Nov 2016.
Here’s what an actual threat of violence looks like, from a guy who protested an immigration event by parroting Corey Lewandowski and pointing a gun at people: https://t.co/u5mE6v9SeX
I heard the argument about abolish ICE. I even think that starting over in that area is not a bad idea, but I think it is a losing argument. People associate needing ICE to protect them from the invasion of the terrible immigrants. Fear is powerful whereas facts and decency do not rate as high in vote getting. It is imperative we win these midterms. Let’s not blow it by going too extreme. It falls right into DT’s description of the Dems wanting open borders.
Jumping in here before reading previous posts. But, Chuck Schumer: WTF. OK, plane delay & you missed your own town hall, phoned in? M’kay. Cardboard Chuck showed up, tho! 😂😇
Please know am not downing Dems, we need every single one, but I believe we need to shake all out of their complacency, built thru years of thinking if they follow so-called rules, which have morphed into self-preservation, they can bargain away certain bills w/out undue fight for constituents. Platitudes w/ wax filled ears. These are different times, the heart & soul of America is at stake. 😯
Listen, Trumpholes: I know it's complicated, so focus. Opposing hatefulness is not "spreading hate." Those who spoke out against Jim Crow did not spread hate. Those who spoke out against the Nazis did not spread hate. When something is hateful, opposing it is JUST.
Abp. Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, celebrated Mass with about 250 children in a detention center, including some who remain separated from family, on what once was the loading dock of a Walmart. "It was, as you can imagine, very challenging to see the children by themselves." https://t.co/gHQiHFBM75
OK, pardon me for my laughter & angst. Ahem! So, iQ45 is promising “the very best people … I promise you … ” for supreme court. Hello! MoFo, I demand your long form birth certificate, your univ transcripts, your high school transcripts, your transcripts going all the way back to preschool. Methinks your only degree is your half degree separation from fascists, Nazis, racists, & all the disgusts. Yes, produce your “papers” just so the last of the gullibles have more proof that you’re deep in the latrine w/ these so-called “very best people”.
Go ahead w/ your bad form & lip sync God-Bless-America Milli Vanilli-style, while you & “your best people” dismantle-law while yodeling patriotism. Yes, we still demand your long form birth certificate and your transcripts and your taxes. UnSister Sarah, where are the above mentioned documents? Uh-huh. Taxes, transcripts, long form BC, & illegal immigration documents for “I Don’t Care Do You” wife # whatever? And all the whatevers. Yup, US is never going to be annexed Crimea-style just cos you, iQ45, is compromised. That’s your shit to sort out w/ a long needed psychiatric facility, not the country’s arena.
OK, am going to step away & breathe, deep breaths. G’night & Kick major ass tomorrow, y’all! Bless!
GOP will NOT hold up their end on ANY deal.
All that wishing and a-hoping, planning and a-dreaming is over Democrats!!
DEMS MUST EXPECT AND GET THE SAME TREATMENT = whatever McConnell dished out was obviously deemed fair by GOP in 2016.
Good morning, TOD! Seems like it has been forever since I’ve posted here. Still wrapped up in “Life 101” — health issues and home reconstruction… Hope to move back into my home next month. Health waxes and wains; best medicine I’ve had all year is meeting Judith in mid-June and a mini TOD meet up last Friday.
From left to right: Judith, Nancie, Prettyfoot, me, Terrie
Details of the Baltimore opening of Soul Harmony TBD. I feel very refreshed by my time with TOD friends. Thanks for posting, Alycee! Hope you get back in your finished home in the not-too-distant future!
Make sure you post the dates I would love to see if I could make it. I miss seeing everyone.
jazziz2, so glad to hear from you. Have been thinking of you and your home. Glad to hear you’ll be getting back into it soon. It has been quite the journey for you.
Thank you so much Alycee for posting the photo. It was really great seeing all of you. Can’t wait for the next meet-up. It would be great to spend the weekend in Baltimore in February. I saw Soul Harmony on Saturday and it was fantastic. Highly recommend it.
child labor laws. the 40 hour work week. OSHA. a minimum wage. unemployment insurance. worker's comp. affirmative action. Also Liberal policies that have helped protect and help millions.
44 years ago today, Alberta King (center; with her daughter, Dr. Christine King Farris, and Coretta Scott King, at #MLK’s funeral) was shot and killed while sitting at the organ in Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta. Many don’t know that MLK’s mother died from #GunViolence, too. pic.twitter.com/YhOftKbz9X
Joe Jackson, the late patriarch of the Jackson family, was buried Monday at the same Southern California cemetery as his son Michael. https://t.co/mPefsV0Yrv
Many were shackled property on July 4, 1776. Fireworks and flags won’t erase that. And calls to “move on” won’t heal the trauma or alleviate the evil of the subsequent Jim Crowism and vile racism. There’s no reconciliation without truth.
“My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.” #CorettaScottKing
Sorry I should have posted the link earlier https://t.co/syLBP22DAE Here is the section where it mentions items exempt from the rule (page 2). It took me a while to find it too. pic.twitter.com/umvzZn5mrQ
Someone went "what did disabled people do before straws?"
The answer is actually pretty grim.
Ask that about ANY current accessibility resource (elevators, ramps, etc) we have today and the answer is either "We died", "We didn't participate" or "Life was A LOT more difficult"
Great question. Thanks for raising awareness. People sometimes forget that problems that don’t impact them personally do exist for others. Solutions aren’t always simple.
In which basketball legend Darryl Dawkins and his "interplanetary funksmanship" provide clarifying examples of 'affect' vs 'effect.'https://t.co/Xnp8fTAsdZ
On episode 10 of @RantsRandomness, I rant about Cheeto Satan separating families at the border of the US, spotlight the awesome @nmaahc and I interview my sis and all around BAWSE @BadAssBoz! Listen wherever or here! 🎧🎧🎧 https://t.co/9CxVdUq4m8
Pruitt has literally committed every improper act that a Cabinet official can commit – and somehow still keeps his job. That’s why we need a Democratic Congress to conduct real oversight of this administration. https://t.co/lPQaSSkPrn
Rachel Maddow is joined by immigration lawyer Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch who says ICE has stopped allowing some of her clients to pay a bond so they can reunite with their children.
Judge Rules DHS Must Give Asylum Seekers Individualized Parole Hearings:
“Trump administration must consider on an individual basis whether immigrants who come to the U.S. seeking asylum represent a flight risk
or a danger to their community before they can be detained if they’ve proven a credible fear of persecution.”
thehill.com/regulation/395254-judge-rules-dhs-must-give-asylum-seekers-individualiz.
-Trump cannot use indefinite detention to deter asylum seekers.
thanks..I will be looking forward to this…Listening to President Obama will be like drinking a cold glass of Ice Tea on a hot summer afternoon…I will be surprised if the media even covers it
Tomorrow in Moscow Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will meet with delegation of US Congressmen to “resume relations”. heh.
Also announced: Putin and Trump child of Putin will meet alone without their aides on July 16th before the official meeting. Remembering last May when Lavrov + Kislyak met with Trump in the Oval and he bragged about getting rid of Mr. Comey and about the intelligence and highly classified information he receives from Russia. That was just the (probably not) beginning.
"recent events illuminate an overarching picture: an abdication of American leadership and betrayal of democratic values that has been accelerating since January 2017" https://t.co/llZFFcxQGY
U.S. CONSTITUTION THREATENED as Article V Convention Movement Nears Success:
“With special interest groups gaining more momentum, conservative advocates are just SIX STATES SHORT of reaching the constitutionally-required 34-state goal. They are targeting Republican-controlled legislatures in 2018 and are within striking distance.” https://www.commoncause.org/…/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-.
– making changes to the Constitution is a bit high on the Trump/Koch list –
I guess I'll be the guy who points out that turning a blind eye to sexual abuse is literally a prerequisite for being a current GOP Leader. https://t.co/RjXKZa2BYW
Just a thought that runs through my warped mind from time to time…..remember the assurances that Susan Collins got from her Republican party on healthcare? Didn’t she end up getting pansed on that? You know, LIED TO about what they would do?? SHe voted with them and they reneged on the deal….that’s my memory. Am I wrong?
She’s now back with the same shit on this time it’s Roe. WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN??? #Timetogo
👩⚕️MEDICAL UPDATE👩⚕️#HPV test detects precancerous changes of the cervix *earlier and more accurately* than the Pap smear, according to a large clinical study.
👉🏼Most experts recommend that women get BOTH a Pap smear and an HPV test.https://t.co/nfjQSYWyJb
They have no legit business in RUSSIA on Independence Day!!!
GOP lawmakers requested that their meetings with members of the Russian government proceed in a closed format (no press allowed). Here is @SenShelby chitchatting with Molotov's grandson, Vyacheslav Nikonov. Happy #IndependenceDay. pic.twitter.com/s8RNm3GqH1
As you celebrate our Independence Day think about those GOP reps in Moscow. Staying in luxury hotel, downing caviar and vodka shots. All while children are in prison camps in sweltering heat. Ask yourself who they represent, those GOP It’s not our country. It’s Trump pic.twitter.com/EYb9edgCNM
Today @SenBobCasey and I are requesting answers from @HHSGov about migrant children separated from their families at the southern border who are now in PA. Our main priority is ensuring the safety and well-being of all PA'ians, including those residing here even for a short time. https://t.co/mv3ElXp0LR
— Governor Tom Wolf (@GovernorTomWolf) July 3, 2018
Similar Situation that Joe Paterno was in at Penn State….will be interesting to see what happens to both Jordan and Ohio State….#WatchThisSpacehttps://t.co/VIHhYa1nyd
Job loses and $6,000 more for a new car!! Such winning!
GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra is warning that Trump's tariffs could force the company to scale back production and cut U.S. jobs. https://t.co/G18Yrxc5iE
So we know many things can happen (whether we’re cynical or not) if we allow Trump to install a Justice before January 2019:
He wants to be a life term President. He could change the 8 year rule, gut the VRA, stop himself from being indicted/investigated. Myself am just facing the truth that GOP extremism (we’ve only tasted it) means we’re short of time. And at a supremely critical moment when Dems must hold McConnell to his own TOTAL OBSTRUCTION of an Supreme Court nominee. To do otherwise, for me would reflect a state of congressional democratic deep sleepwalking and willful blindness to GOP’s present/past/future obsession with money, abuse, obstruction, power and disregard for the Constitution. I’d apologize for saying that congressional dems have no choice and must HOLD to the McConnell’s own 2016 timeline…
but I ain’t sorry.
I’ll tell you what…pissed off women and enlightened men are going to save this country. This has to move the bar in a tectonic shift…not half-assed. It has to be undeniable and strong….I’m sick of these losers and grifters. They all need to find a rock to crawl under.
Indianapolis church "detains" Jesus, Mary and Joseph in a cage in protest over Trump admin.'s zero-tolerance immigration policy. https://t.co/3RHJipffbX
Dear @Jim_Jordan Turns out the skeletons in your closet are super gross. You KNEW what Strauss was doing & you did nothing
“I considered Jim Jordan a friend,” DiSabato said. “But at the end of the day, he is absolutely lying if he says he doesn’t know what was going on.”… pic.twitter.com/vMo6BcVfbY
I hope this brings this guy down in FLAMES! He is the most disgusting piece of “S” with lots of company on the GOP house. His display last week is a real comeupence on the way he acted towards FBI Rosenstein and Wray.
I do too. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy..oh, wait…there are PLENTY of these kinds of guys in the GOP who deserve the same fate! That said, the woman running against him had her biggest fundraising day ever after his disgusting display last week with Whay and Rosenstein. 🙂 🙂
* Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) looked pretty foolish during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week, and soon after, his Democratic challenger, retired school teacher Janet Garrett, reportedly received “more donations in 24 hours than she did in the previous four months.”
Happy 4th of July my TOD family, friends, and lurkers. May we live to see a more perfect union this time next year and pray that the Blue Wave will halt the encroaching fascism. Keep our heads up, fight, talk, march, and VOTE like your life depends on it because it does.
ICE is training its deportation officers in the use of M4 assault rifles, “chemical agents”, stun grenades, and flash bangs, according to federal procurement records I found.
“Sounds like they’re getting ready for war,” a retired ICE agent told me.https://t.co/nVt6qSsikf
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 3, 2018
Meanwhile, real terrorists will fly in and attack somewhere away from the border, while trump's gang goes after little children, to wrap ankle bracelets around them. Yeah, what could go wrong with bigots leading the charge to purge our nation of these "gangs of little children"?
Let’s be clear: The fact that McConnell denied Obama the right to nominate a SCOTUS before an election but will allow Trump to do so even closer to an election means that he will allow a white name to reshape the court while denying a black man that same right.
Right at the beginning its says this is adapted from real court transcripts. The reason we don't have video footage of this is because Trump's DOJ won't allow cameras in immigration courts, FFS.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
President Obama is my forever POTUS!
Mines too. Forever POTUS44 and FLOTUS44.
For certain, President Obama is the last LEGITIMATE occupant of the Presidency. ZERO doubt about it, as has been the case for those paying attention since 8 Nov 2016.
Also ….
… this is what you get when you don’t vote and your mortal enemy is gleefully partying on your Election night.
Priorities ….
I heard the argument about abolish ICE. I even think that starting over in that area is not a bad idea, but I think it is a losing argument. People associate needing ICE to protect them from the invasion of the terrible immigrants. Fear is powerful whereas facts and decency do not rate as high in vote getting. It is imperative we win these midterms. Let’s not blow it by going too extreme. It falls right into DT’s description of the Dems wanting open borders.
So, Cohen’s hit song this week: 🎵 1,310,365+ ways you must love me again, iQ45, pseudo daddy-oh! Oh-oh-oh! 1,310,365+🎵 😂😷
Jumping in here before reading previous posts. But, Chuck Schumer: WTF. OK, plane delay & you missed your own town hall, phoned in? M’kay. Cardboard Chuck showed up, tho! 😂😇
Please know am not downing Dems, we need every single one, but I believe we need to shake all out of their complacency, built thru years of thinking if they follow so-called rules, which have morphed into self-preservation, they can bargain away certain bills w/out undue fight for constituents. Platitudes w/ wax filled ears. These are different times, the heart & soul of America is at stake. 😯
‘Trumpholes’ – I like it.
Ted Lieu is, in many ways, the master of twitter.
EVERY Democrat needs the attitude of Ted Lieu, Maxine Waters, and Senator Maizie from Hawaii.
Totally agree!
OK, pardon me for my laughter & angst. Ahem! So, iQ45 is promising “the very best people … I promise you … ” for supreme court. Hello! MoFo, I demand your long form birth certificate, your univ transcripts, your high school transcripts, your transcripts going all the way back to preschool. Methinks your only degree is your half degree separation from fascists, Nazis, racists, & all the disgusts. Yes, produce your “papers” just so the last of the gullibles have more proof that you’re deep in the latrine w/ these so-called “very best people”.
Go ahead w/ your bad form & lip sync God-Bless-America Milli Vanilli-style, while you & “your best people” dismantle-law while yodeling patriotism. Yes, we still demand your long form birth certificate and your transcripts and your taxes. UnSister Sarah, where are the above mentioned documents? Uh-huh. Taxes, transcripts, long form BC, & illegal immigration documents for “I Don’t Care Do You” wife # whatever? And all the whatevers. Yup, US is never going to be annexed Crimea-style just cos you, iQ45, is compromised. That’s your shit to sort out w/ a long needed psychiatric facility, not the country’s arena.
OK, am going to step away & breathe, deep breaths. G’night & Kick major ass tomorrow, y’all! Bless!
Ha!!!!!!!!!! Well, I, for one, enjoyed that!
Goodnight to you!
Dear God, take a breath and continue. Got me fired up!
On the Illegitimate trump pick: NO Hearings. NO Quorum.
BACK ATCHA McCONNELL: See you in January!
-Whatever You said and did McConnell!!
GOP will NOT hold up their end on ANY deal.
All that wishing and a-hoping, planning and a-dreaming is over Democrats!!
DEMS MUST EXPECT AND GET THE SAME TREATMENT = whatever McConnell dished out was obviously deemed fair by GOP in 2016.
Karma report:
Good morning, TOD! Seems like it has been forever since I’ve posted here. Still wrapped up in “Life 101” — health issues and home reconstruction… Hope to move back into my home next month. Health waxes and wains; best medicine I’ve had all year is meeting Judith in mid-June and a mini TOD meet up last Friday.
From left to right: Judith, Nancie, Prettyfoot, me, Terrie
[IMG]http://i64.tinypic.com/24o6ofq.jpg[/IMG]
BTW, Judith plans to be in Baltimore in February; we’re planning a weekend meet-up if any of you would like to join us.
Details of the Baltimore opening of Soul Harmony TBD. I feel very refreshed by my time with TOD friends. Thanks for posting, Alycee! Hope you get back in your finished home in the not-too-distant future!
Make sure you post the dates I would love to see if I could make it. I miss seeing everyone.
jazziz2, so glad to hear from you. Have been thinking of you and your home. Glad to hear you’ll be getting back into it soon. It has been quite the journey for you.
So love the picuture!!!!!
Thank you so much Alycee for posting the photo. It was really great seeing all of you. Can’t wait for the next meet-up. It would be great to spend the weekend in Baltimore in February. I saw Soul Harmony on Saturday and it was fantastic. Highly recommend it.
It was a good time…..a real good time…it was good to be with like minded people.
Such a special time! Thanks to you and Nancie and Terri for making the effort to come to Alycee’s hood.
😍😍😍
You ladies look so lovely! It’s good to see you all ❤️
There is something really special about the TOD Village….you can feel it when we are together…..i really look forward to our next time together
wow fabulous!
You just put a big smile on my face!
Still the best TV show EVER!
This is an awesome photo
Deep sigh!…
Thread
Interesting discussion that came out of this question.
There are bendable paper straws. Establishments should all switch to them to accommodate those that need flexible straws
Michael Cohen’s new legal strategy
Rachel Maddow explains Michael Cohen’s recent shift in legal strategy as he drops his joint defense agreement with President Trump.
I’m guessing he had friends eating with, but yeh…
… and this! 😄
Cohen runs out of options
Rachel Maddow speaks with Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox about Michael Cohen’s strategy to change his legal team and participate in media interviews.
“Drain the Swamp” was one of the Trump team’s original gaslighting efforts.
He just planned to fill the swamp with his own scumbags and have Congress look the other way while they robbed America blind.
THE.ENTIRE.PHUCK!!!!
Immigration lawyer: ICE not offering bond to some separated families
Rachel Maddow is joined by immigration lawyer Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch who says ICE has stopped allowing some of her clients to pay a bond so they can reunite with their children.
Judge Rules DHS Must Give Asylum Seekers Individualized Parole Hearings:
“Trump administration must consider on an individual basis whether immigrants who come to the U.S. seeking asylum represent a flight risk
or a danger to their community before they can be detained if they’ve proven a credible fear of persecution.”
thehill.com/regulation/395254-judge-rules-dhs-must-give-asylum-seekers-individualiz.
-Trump cannot use indefinite detention to deter asylum seekers.
GOOD.
Have you seen the pictures of them having groups of people at the immigration courts. Just not right. Travesty of justice.
– competition tie-down roping of cattle, sorry, detainees is fair.
where will this be,,,
thanks..I will be looking forward to this…Listening to President Obama will be like drinking a cold glass of Ice Tea on a hot summer afternoon…I will be surprised if the media even covers it
Tomorrow in Moscow Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov will meet with delegation of US Congressmen to “resume relations”. heh.
Also announced: Putin and Trump child of Putin will meet alone without their aides on July 16th before the official meeting. Remembering last May when Lavrov + Kislyak met with Trump in the Oval and he bragged about getting rid of Mr. Comey and about the intelligence and highly classified information he receives from Russia. That was just the (probably not) beginning.
U.S. CONSTITUTION THREATENED as Article V Convention Movement Nears Success:
“With special interest groups gaining more momentum, conservative advocates are just SIX STATES SHORT of reaching the constitutionally-required 34-state goal. They are targeting Republican-controlled legislatures in 2018 and are within striking distance.”
https://www.commoncause.org/…/u-s-constitution-threatened-as-article-v-convention-.
– making changes to the Constitution is a bit high on the Trump/Koch list –
Morning, family:) Our Forever POTUS speaks truth. Again.
Little POS that he is.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/powerful-gop-rep-jim-jordan-accused-turning-blind-eye-sexual-n888386
There’s that.
Just a thought that runs through my warped mind from time to time…..remember the assurances that Susan Collins got from her Republican party on healthcare? Didn’t she end up getting pansed on that? You know, LIED TO about what they would do?? SHe voted with them and they reneged on the deal….that’s my memory. Am I wrong?
She’s now back with the same shit on this time it’s Roe. WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN??? #Timetogo
only. I can’t type and think at the same time.
yep she kept watering the ACA down in the pedantic way of hers — and then voted No.
Same with the ARRA.
They have no legit business in RUSSIA on Independence Day!!!
Maybe they are asking Russia for help with the midterm elections. They should be here meeting with their constituents.
Funny how that happens
yup…
Job loses and $6,000 more for a new car!! Such winning!
Yeah but the GM CEO is a woman, so this news wouldn’t have bothered trump anyway.
So we know many things can happen (whether we’re cynical or not) if we allow Trump to install a Justice before January 2019:
He wants to be a life term President. He could change the 8 year rule, gut the VRA, stop himself from being indicted/investigated. Myself am just facing the truth that GOP extremism (we’ve only tasted it) means we’re short of time. And at a supremely critical moment when Dems must hold McConnell to his own TOTAL OBSTRUCTION of an Supreme Court nominee. To do otherwise, for me would reflect a state of congressional democratic deep sleepwalking and willful blindness to GOP’s present/past/future obsession with money, abuse, obstruction, power and disregard for the Constitution. I’d apologize for saying that congressional dems have no choice and must HOLD to the McConnell’s own 2016 timeline…
but I ain’t sorry.
PSA rules!
– this one ain’t tired – all the best for July 4 to all here – with love to every precious being on our little blue planet.
Happy 4th and lots of love right back to you!
Man up Dershowitz! You were on O.J.’s dream team, act accordingly.
I’ll tell you what…pissed off women and enlightened men are going to save this country. This has to move the bar in a tectonic shift…not half-assed. It has to be undeniable and strong….I’m sick of these losers and grifters. They all need to find a rock to crawl under.
Jim, Jim, Jim….
LOL:)
I hope this brings this guy down in FLAMES! He is the most disgusting piece of “S” with lots of company on the GOP house. His display last week is a real comeupence on the way he acted towards FBI Rosenstein and Wray.
I do too. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy..oh, wait…there are PLENTY of these kinds of guys in the GOP who deserve the same fate! That said, the woman running against him had her biggest fundraising day ever after his disgusting display last week with Whay and Rosenstein. 🙂 🙂
* Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) looked pretty foolish during a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week, and soon after, his Democratic challenger, retired school teacher Janet Garrett, reportedly received “more donations in 24 hours than she did in the previous four months.”
Per MaddowBlog
Happy 4th of July my TOD family, friends, and lurkers. May we live to see a more perfect union this time next year and pray that the Blue Wave will halt the encroaching fascism. Keep our heads up, fight, talk, march, and VOTE like your life depends on it because it does.
Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) Tweeted:
The Trump administration is engaged in an across-the-board (and, until the Midterm year) relatively stealthy campaign to demolish Obama era race, civil rights and fair housing protections for African Americans. https://t.co/eCgJDHs1en https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/1014187097882877953?s=17
It’s Stealthy???
Let’s be clear: The fact that McConnell denied Obama the right to nominate a SCOTUS before an election but will allow Trump to do so even closer to an election means that he will allow a white name to reshape the court while denying a black man that same right.
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 3, 2018
Trump’s America
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/07/03/what-he-said-2/