"I'm hoping you think it's wrong to hear people spend years, months, vilifying people, questioning their patriotism, calling them enemies of the people. And then suddenly you're concerned about civility. Please."
The Latest: Thousands of people jam an intersection amid a light rain for a vigil Saturday evening for the victims of a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue earlier in the day. https://t.co/Xoffrn2gvB
Right now we need to connect in strength in the best ways and it’s definitely inspiring to see they are coming together in the midst of shock and horror to share empathy with each other.
AGREED. The election is bringing out the crazies in droves, led by their ringmaster. These are very dark times and we have to push through them in whatever way we can.
We once had an honorable President who understood the deep emotional shock of grieving and did everything he could to engage us in the long hard work of true healing. pic.twitter.com/UnMT7JYeki
I’m dreading Trump’s speech at any Synagogue in response to yesterday’s tragedy. He doesn’t have an ounce of empathy in his entire body. We do not have a President in the White House right now and it hurts.
The WEAPONS PROFITEERS are howling with laughter at your 'thoughts & prayers' as they pour more cash into the pockets of the @NRA, @realdonaldtrump & his @GOP gang of merciless domestic terrorists.
Until they are held accountable, the carnage will NEVER END.
Trump is not a la carte. You don’t get to pick what you like about him – like judges & tax cuts – and pass on the hateful, violent rhetoric. If you support him & help maintain him in office, you’re supporting the whole package: the hate, the division and the stoking of violence.
Hi, JO’B, ty, I couldn’t resist. Her ‘blindness’ to her father’s shoddy character and her self-righteous tweets at moments of crisis irritate me to the max! I read that and thought all of it so describes her father. Pity she can’t see there is nothing ‘good’ about him.
Ivanka Trump really needs to stop with the faux sympathy act. No one is buying it. She has supported her father while he caged children, praised Neo Nazis, called African countries sh*thole, engaged in bullying and racist language, enacted a Muslim ban, etc. She can go sit down somewhere and shut the hell up.
Tyrone Gayle was an invaluable and beloved member of our team and family. He never lost faith in our ability to do good for the people in this country. Sending his family and courageous wife, Beth, my love and condolences. #GayleNationhttps://t.co/jsWNQO88kT
Campaigns & public service involve long, grueling hours. Tyrone Gayle knew it better than most & he worked tirelessly for all the causes he believed in. Florida will miss him, and I know he made so many in Duval County exceedingly proud. #GayleNationhttps://t.co/8J1ZIZDLWI
I read his obituary in the Washington Post yesterday. Tyrone Gayle must have been an amazing young man and he had such a wonderful life ahead of him. How sad to lose someone with such a winning smile and such a reputation for service and so great a potential.
I’m reminded of what Dr. King said after four little girls were murdered in an Alabama church: “we must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderer.”
Words of wisdom, for sure. It would be so great if this were actually a turning point – even if it starts small, and builds over time – because, technically, we all already know what to do. We just have to do it together, as a country. #Hope
He has no family life, no friends. Can't close an umbrella or return a salute. Can't feel empathy for people who were massacred. Can't be a moral leader. What else but a #MAGA rally and critiquing baseball, alone in his quarters? Wonder if his young son is watching with him? Nah.
That is simply amazing! What a zilch of a human being is Donald Trump! That little film should be emblazoned in our brains as how to not behave. He treats his umbrella just as he treats every person he comes in contact with. Even the guy, one of his support people, who finally closed just threw it down as he entered the plane. Good grief.
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” – Elie Wiesel
Joe Biden: "We're facing a battle for the soul of this nation. We will either stand against this hate now and wipe it out. Or we will rue the day we allowed it to grow and fester. Our values, our core beliefs, all that has made this nation a beacon to the world is at risk."
–Or was it when he said "there are some very fine people on both sides" at the white nationalist mob event in Charlottesville? –Or when he tweeted CNN getting body slammed? –Or when he sabotaged healthcare? https://t.co/YCcnBk1N97
Sens. Wyden, Markey and Merkley are demanding answers from the White House about Trump's use of Air Force One for political purposes, saying taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for partisan campaign events. https://t.co/hUXA1VaE55
(1/3) FBIAA President @tfoconnor83 issued the following statement: “Today’s events are a reminder of the national threat posed by domestic terrorism and the vital role that law enforcement plays in thwarting these threats."
(3/3) "It is time to treat domestic terrorism as the national threat that it is, and track, analyze, and punish political violence at the federal level. Winning the fight against domestic terrorism is not about parties or political views; it is about ending political violence.”
Well, I’m sure that Republican candidates across the country will send “prayers and thoughts” and then move on to trash their opponents and entire groups of American citizens because that is what they do best.
These every-day-of-the-week political punditry talk shows are an essential cog in the destruction of truth in our discourse, inviting RWNJ idiots who further Trump's vicious lies and racist bigoted distortions as if they're legitimate voices. https://t.co/vVOuSSWosg
The thing about a bottomless pit is there is no bottom. The country has been terrorized, and our malignant narcissist POTUS is only concerned about his political future. Goes without saying, but we need a President who cares about all of us. Nov.6 let’s start that happening. VOTE
These White racists are going to learn that only Trump can keep his job while being openly racist.
They’re not Trump.
Police respond as video of woman’s harassing rant sparks outrage on social media
Spectrum, the woman’s former employer, provided a statement saying that her employment with the company has been terminated, effective immediately » https://t.co/DTaoaejS0Upic.twitter.com/0PGhHoGb6R
Hopefully she was drunk out of her mind when she pulled out her cellphone and began her very intrusive, very nasty rant. I’m glad there has been a reaction by her employer. No one should employ her again.
None of what we’ve witnessed from Trump, from his early days as a discriminatory landlord to initiating his ‘birther movement’ and, most definitely, since Manafort prevailed in pushing Pence to the front of the line for VP, has been coincidence.
For #Putin & @PaulManafort the irony was delicious & the radicalization intentional.
When hate is physically in your brain, then you think hate and feel hate, and you are moved to act to carry out what you physically – in your neural system – think and feel. https://t.co/ieHMQIP5OW
Thank you @JoyAnnReid for playing that clip of Obama even though it brought the tears again- It’s a reminder of what comforting and compassionate leadership in the face of tragedy looks like. The type of leadership our country hopes to see again. #AMJoy#Reiderspic.twitter.com/yJQ6IjoM40
Thanks, Meta. These are very poignant reminders, recalling a time when we were all comforted whether we were physically close to the tragedies or not. We have been blessed by the Obamas in different ways, a fact that is holding many of us together during the current ‘steps backward’ (as PBO/MRO have stated).
OTH, I cringe at the thought of the WH Idiot hugging ….anyone! I can’t imagine it being in the least bit comforting.
STOCHASTIC TERRORISM: “The use of mass communication to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.” Stochastikos = “skillful in aiming.”
Trump “may be willfully and brazenly ignorant on matters of vital national import, but he is as media savvy as any man alive today. ”
“Trump has blamed the media itself for the current poisonous tone even as he deliberately uses that media to establish that very tone.”
Trump defender un-logic: “The bombs didn’t explode, therefore the whole thing is fake.”
“Trump knows exactly what he is doing, as do his fervent supporters.”
“Sayoc took the cue and put bombs in the mail.” https://truthout.org/articles/broad-daylight-fascism-and-the-bombs-of-october/
Ripe for presidential and person-to-person coercion.
The Pittsburgh shooter used Gab.com: “a popular gathering place for alt-right activists and white nationalists whose views are unwelcome or banned on other social media platforms” to express his unfiltered anti-Semitic views.
Muslims
Children
LGBTQ
Immigrants
Naturalized citizens
Jews were always going to be next.
1. Two years ago, in October 2016, Donald Trump said: "Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks, to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global interest powers, her special interest friends, and her donors."
Trump won Florida by 112,911 votes. Amendment 4 would restore voting rights to 1.5M Floridians, if this holds. Could be an absolute game changer. https://t.co/9hwB4dCwe7
As an aside, the letter specifically mentions that the area was “Mr. Roger’s neighborhood” – apparently where he had lived. The actions of today are not what Mr. Rogers helped some of our kids learn when he taught them kindness and other traits on his show.
LeBron James wearing a Beto for Senate hat before the Lakers game in San Antonio tonight https://t.co/dNsVmETohV— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 27, 2018
Sam Vinograd, Fmr Director National Security Council:
“It is a scary day when investigators are probably looking at the president’s Twitter feed to get leads on who else might be a potential target in this kind of attack, a copy-cat attack or whether the suspect sent multiple bombs out that haven’t been found yet.”
“I think Vladimir Putin’s thinking, ‘boy, I really bet on the right horse in 2016,’”
“Even a terrorist attack against a president’s predecessor, against the office of presidency, is a divisive issue for this president.”
“He is using it to pit Democrats against Republicans.”
“For all of those reasons, the president looks like the divider-in-chief rather than using this as unifying moment, which signals that the Russians were right that … Donald Trump was a candidate that helped their objectives, not the objectives of unifying our country.” (Brigham, Raw Story)
–CNN was attacked and still Trump blamed the media.
DumpTrump
There are no Republicans anymore. There are Trumpists (members of the Trump Party), Democrats, and a few undecideds. If you understand this—if you understand that the Republican Party collapsed in July 2016 and disappeared soon after—you understand the dire straits America is in.
There have been a whole lot of Trump Country stories set in the Rust Belt — which seem to be swinging hard back to Democrats right now. Talked to some Johnstown, Pa. women who voted for Trump, regret it, and are now voting for Bob Casey and other Dems: https://t.co/BJG5YCJwi9
Here's more, from September, on the sort violence Bolsonaro has long advocated against political opponents, LGBTQ people, black Brazilians and women, and the sort of violence he now promises to reign down on those groups. https://t.co/1yp6kPyuus
Be aware. The “blue wave” is going to hit gerrymandered walls. It is not certain that the wave will reach the shores of justice. But Republican gerrymanders CAN be overcome if people turn out and vote in record numbers. That’s what it will take. VOTE!! via @EricHolder
"Voter suppression is alive and well across the country right now, and it's because our votes matter! This is why our right to vote is under attack in such a relentless way." –@KristenClarkeJD
Why is Trump personally interviewing this potential judicial nominee? Has he done that with other nominee?
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear cases arising from disputes with Mueller, including a potential challenge to a subpoena of Trump. https://t.co/pnTo1xLVKz
Reinforcing what Director Comey said: That Trump makes employees swear allegiance to him. What did other presidents do?
Just read up on qualifications and references? the Dicktraitor steps in it every time…
Oh, what a pleasant surprise it is to *see* you, Ison!!! Seeing you certainly brings back pleasant memories (of you, your son, AND Chips Chica). How are you; how is your son? He must be quite the mature adult now!
Criminal-In-Chief’s words, litany of lies, hatred, evil actions and everyday incitement to violence are ON tape = Factual.
(last few brain cells look iffy.)
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Not too long ago we had a wonderful Console-er in Chief. I won’r sully this by describing what we have now.
Thank you so much for this post, Nerdy. Hadn’t seen the tweet earlier. Thank God we still have President Obama in our world!
Heard earlier on CNN that some were chanting “Vote” in Pittsburgh at the vigil. Telling.
Choking back tears on the NYC story. That’s the kind of country we all want.
Right now we need to connect in strength in the best ways and it’s definitely inspiring to see they are coming together in the midst of shock and horror to share empathy with each other.
I was just thinking to myself that usually these national tragedies bring us all together. We can build again from this, if we all just keep trying.
AGREED. The election is bringing out the crazies in droves, led by their ringmaster. These are very dark times and we have to push through them in whatever way we can.
I’m dreading Trump’s speech at any Synagogue in response to yesterday’s tragedy. He doesn’t have an ounce of empathy in his entire body. We do not have a President in the White House right now and it hurts.
I cannot bear the sight of him.
This tweet should be an ad.
So true!
Please don’t forget the shooting up of the Sikh temple in Wisconsin which was also a race-based incident.
Point well taken, pkayden.
I haven’t … see my latest tweet.
Evil is evil, no matter what the wrapper …..
Yes Ivanka I am hoping and praying that America is stronger then that bigot in the White House.
Well done, VC!
Hi, JO’B, ty, I couldn’t resist. Her ‘blindness’ to her father’s shoddy character and her self-righteous tweets at moments of crisis irritate me to the max! I read that and thought all of it so describes her father. Pity she can’t see there is nothing ‘good’ about him.
Hard to believe $he can’t $ee it. But gue$$ we’ll never know, becau$e $he’ll never give it away. I know why: $he’$ an a$$.
Nighty night, VC!
Loud applause for the ‘quiet one’!!!!
Ivanka Trump really needs to stop with the faux sympathy act. No one is buying it. She has supported her father while he caged children, praised Neo Nazis, called African countries sh*thole, engaged in bullying and racist language, enacted a Muslim ban, etc. She can go sit down somewhere and shut the hell up.
Just saw that. Here’s what Mayor Gillum wrote:
Wow. Way too young. May he R.I.P.
I read his obituary in the Washington Post yesterday. Tyrone Gayle must have been an amazing young man and he had such a wonderful life ahead of him. How sad to lose someone with such a winning smile and such a reputation for service and so great a potential.
HOPE sustains …
Life, undaunted …
Goodnight TOD ….
Beautiful messages, Bob. I think our spirits are coming together again, as you and meta have intimated.
Certainly hope so, dear Jacqueline!
Words of wisdom, for sure. It would be so great if this were actually a turning point – even if it starts small, and builds over time – because, technically, we all already know what to do. We just have to do it together, as a country. #Hope
This guy’s a Miami city commissioner. Ha. Hey, whatever floats your boat!
Some of the responses to dumbo’s tweet tonight are classics.
That is simply amazing! What a zilch of a human being is Donald Trump! That little film should be emblazoned in our brains as how to not behave. He treats his umbrella just as he treats every person he comes in contact with. Even the guy, one of his support people, who finally closed just threw it down as he entered the plane. Good grief.
Awful people! I feel like I have to go bleach my mind every time I see or hear trump. Ugh.
Other than him, let’s try to have a good day!
This. Night everyone.
Who I want to run the country
https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1056203096324521985/video/1
Try again
Hey loser non-president,
Babies are dying in jail because of you while you are glued to the screen.
Shellack OFF.
Thank you!!!
The FBI speaks up:
May they Rest in Peace.
Well, I’m sure that Republican candidates across the country will send “prayers and thoughts” and then move on to trash their opponents and entire groups of American citizens because that is what they do best.
This
Whole thing here:)
These White racists are going to learn that only Trump can keep his job while being openly racist.
They’re not Trump.
Hopefully she was drunk out of her mind when she pulled out her cellphone and began her very intrusive, very nasty rant. I’m glad there has been a reaction by her employer. No one should employ her again.
Worth reading, as hard as it may be.
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2018/10/27/taking-stock-after-this-weeks-domestic-terrorism-incidents-where-we-are-and-what-comes-next/
None of what we’ve witnessed from Trump, from his early days as a discriminatory landlord to initiating his ‘birther movement’ and, most definitely, since Manafort prevailed in pushing Pence to the front of the line for VP, has been coincidence.
Vote them out
Like a warm, comforting embrace…
Years ago. She was spot on
Thread
I miss his strength and humility.
Thanks, Meta. These are very poignant reminders, recalling a time when we were all comforted whether we were physically close to the tragedies or not. We have been blessed by the Obamas in different ways, a fact that is holding many of us together during the current ‘steps backward’ (as PBO/MRO have stated).
OTH, I cringe at the thought of the WH Idiot hugging ….anyone! I can’t imagine it being in the least bit comforting.
STOCHASTIC TERRORISM: “The use of mass communication to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.” Stochastikos = “skillful in aiming.”
Trump “may be willfully and brazenly ignorant on matters of vital national import, but he is as media savvy as any man alive today. ”
“Trump has blamed the media itself for the current poisonous tone even as he deliberately uses that media to establish that very tone.”
Trump defender un-logic: “The bombs didn’t explode, therefore the whole thing is fake.”
“Trump knows exactly what he is doing, as do his fervent supporters.”
“Sayoc took the cue and put bombs in the mail.”
https://truthout.org/articles/broad-daylight-fascism-and-the-bombs-of-october/
Ripe for presidential and person-to-person coercion.
The Pittsburgh shooter used Gab.com: “a popular gathering place for alt-right activists and white nationalists whose views are unwelcome or banned on other social media platforms” to express his unfiltered anti-Semitic views.
Muslims
Children
LGBTQ
Immigrants
Naturalized citizens
Jews were always going to be next.
Women.
What SHOULD be said
https://malinowskifornj.com/press/2018/10/27/malinowski-statement-on-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting
Not enough
Interesting thread
my wallpaper:)
Cousin Henry walking on hot coals.. :O
😮
WOW….but the GOP enables HIM as well…are they too not welcome
As an aside, the letter specifically mentions that the area was “Mr. Roger’s neighborhood” – apparently where he had lived. The actions of today are not what Mr. Rogers helped some of our kids learn when he taught them kindness and other traits on his show.
indeed….
Please watch and share with everyone you know …
Sam Vinograd, Fmr Director National Security Council:
“It is a scary day when investigators are probably looking at the president’s Twitter feed to get leads on who else might be a potential target in this kind of attack, a copy-cat attack or whether the suspect sent multiple bombs out that haven’t been found yet.”
“I think Vladimir Putin’s thinking, ‘boy, I really bet on the right horse in 2016,’”
“Even a terrorist attack against a president’s predecessor, against the office of presidency, is a divisive issue for this president.”
“He is using it to pit Democrats against Republicans.”
“For all of those reasons, the president looks like the divider-in-chief rather than using this as unifying moment, which signals that the Russians were right that … Donald Trump was a candidate that helped their objectives, not the objectives of unifying our country.” (Brigham, Raw Story)
–CNN was attacked and still Trump blamed the media.
DumpTrump
They’re still there!
INCREDIBLE!
A little reflection …
From George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, 18 August 1790
From Barack Obama – What I See in Lincoln’s Eyes
Brazil’s new authoritarian President
That’s so fabulous!
Right ON!
?????????
Reinforcing what Director Comey said: That Trump makes employees swear allegiance to him. What did other presidents do?
Just read up on qualifications and references? the Dicktraitor steps in it every time…
We cannot stand to have this crony, mobster-ish, boorish criminal in the White House much longer.
Oh, how I miss my President…
Oh, what a pleasant surprise it is to *see* you, Ison!!! Seeing you certainly brings back pleasant memories (of you, your son, AND Chips Chica). How are you; how is your son? He must be quite the mature adult now!
😘
Good
‘ A political fart in the hurricane of history ‘. I wish I wrote that:)
Ha. You’ve written equal or better lines, my friend. 🙂
Criminal-In-Chief’s words, litany of lies, hatred, evil actions and everyday incitement to violence are ON tape = Factual.
(last few brain cells look iffy.)
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/10/28/an-honorable-president/