Good morning all. Out sick with another bad cold; that’s two just this year, well technically one was just before Christmas, but it feels like the same year. It’s day 4 now, so expecting to be all better by Friday.
Rep Ilhan Omar tweets back to president divide and rule:
“You have trafficked in hate your whole life—against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you?”
YOU. WANT. A. KLEPTOCRACY. That is what Russia has… it is what Trump wants. If it is a choice between Socialism (which we ALREADY HAVE – Social Security, Medicare, VA Tricare etc) and a kelptocracy – I will pick socialism every time.
Yeh another GOP/Putin wily trickster gaming the truth. Or does she claim to be too dumb to understand?
-Fakes News conflating ‘Socialism’ (overthrowing capitalism and moving towards communism) with ‘Social Democrat.’
-Social democracy has been highly successful in Canada and across the EU for generations.
One definition: “Social democracy is a political, social, and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.”
If you think Howard Schultz gets too much TV attention, please note @CoryBooker got about 2 million more viewers with Rachel @maddow last night than Schultz got on CNN. And I beat Schultz in the same time slot without a presidential candidate with 1.2 million more viewers. https://t.co/6KFBL6rmlB
Not seeing color is a function of white privilege.
If you are offended by this fact or me saying white people as a description for people who are born into this privilege then I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm literally just saying factual things.
I'm going to throw my computer. WOC being called out for having a bad "attitude" is a dog whistle I won't tolerate from the majority white dude press. https://t.co/h1OcH9Ixfh
Ah, it begins in earnest. The story, you see, isn't what she said, it's never really been about what she said. It's her. It's her "attitude." It's 'who does she think she is.' pic.twitter.com/wHsWvNnchu
“Martin says he’s the only full service, licensed fan shop between Castle Rock and the New Mexico border. Despite having all 32 NFL team’s apparel in his store, he doesn’t have any current players’ jerseys–because of his decision to drop all Nike apparel.”
So that means this guy had the area between Castle Rock and the New Mexico border on lockdown, and he was basically printing money. But his stupidity has finally driven him out of business.
Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has died at 96. He was an eight-time presidential candidate known for his extremist claims.
Often described as an extremist and fringe figure, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. cut a shadowy and alarming path through American politics for a half-century. He built a political organization often likened to a cult and repeatedly ran for president, once while in prison for mail fraud. In recent decades, he operated from a heavily guarded compound near Leesburg, Va.
LaRouche drew headlines for his outrageous claims and built a following based on conspiracy theories, economic doom, anti-Semitism, homophobia and racism.
——–
LaRouche drew headlines for his outrageous claims….. so forth and so on. The very attributes of a member of today’s GOP.
“Martin says he’s the only full service, licensed fan shop between Castle Rock and the New Mexico border. Despite having all 32 NFL team’s apparel in his store, he doesn’t have any current players’ jerseys–because of his decision to drop all Nike apparel.”
In which a person’s stupidity drives them out of business….
The only surprising aspect of the story is that @SecNielsen & @realDonaldTrump didn't scheme a way (as far as we know) to have the children work to clean up the site.
You nailed it, again, Bob. Oh, it may have come up briefly in one of their little “meetings,” but perhaps they were too busy ruining other children’s lives that day, to get it finalized.
= Work Stoppage. Stick it to the Airlines. TSA and Air Controllers come out!
Dicktraitor: No more using the loyalties of those who protect our nation’s security.
GOP Freedom & Everywhere In Chains Caucus: Give up 35 days of your pay NOW.
I just asked @SpeakerPelosi in the hallway about @VP’s recent comments about Ilhan Omar and of this is going to continue to be an issue for Democrats. Her response: pic.twitter.com/YGo63nHd1E
No the Republicans do not have clean hands, And they have no right ( Trump, Pence, or any Republican ) to try to tell anyone anything when it comes to racism. I remember the silence from the Republicans during the Obama eight years when it comes to racism.
I have been watching this clip all day. Cab Calloway and The Nicholas Brothers, who, by the way, did not have any formal dance training. pic.twitter.com/Q7UMimlQq8
Some of these RWNJs should start practicing in front of the mirror in the morning before spewing this stuff – although that might not work, either, since they're so "taken" with the sound of their own voices.
Pelosi just reiterated this now, and said: "No" when asked if Omar would be removed from committees as GOP is demanding. "A newcomer member of Congress has apologized for her remarks. It took them what, 13 years to notice Steve King?" https://t.co/LUG0wsKxhu
This is and always has been a thoroughly ridiculous statement. Ethnicity is not a trivial aspect of one's identity. The urge to homogenize is not a virtue. https://t.co/cArEDLObWj
He claims not to see color but we all see color. There is nothing wrong with seeing color. There’s something wrong with discriminating based on color. Perhaps Schultz needs to learn a few things before he runs for President of a very racially diverse country.
Trump DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling:
“Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized… And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately for election threats in 2020.
“The clear assessment from the intelligence community is that 2020 is going to be the perfect storm,” said a DHS official familiar with the teams. “We know Russia is going to be engaged. Other state actors have seen the success of Russia and realize the value of disinformation operations. So it’s very curious why the task forces were demoted in the bureaucracy and the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election.”” More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dhs-guts-task-forces-protecting-elections-from-foreign-meddling?ref=home
-Like duh no collusion.
J’OB, no picking&choosing, just put them all in those child/human abuse cages & see how fast they crumble from their effed up pseudo privilege. Shame & pox on them.
Man, so weird. Why would the executive branch be so aggressively uninterested in securing elections against foreign interference? It’s a real puzzler. https://t.co/LMAp3EIjwC
Paul Manafort has spent a lifetime being a professional liar.
He was really good at it. It made him rich and powerful. Dictators and wannabe dictators around the world threw money at him to help them lie as good as he lied.
Have always thought this was a primary driver for opening the counterintel probe into POTUS – to make it as hard to kill the investigation as possible, even if Trump kept firing people or Main Justice shut it down. https://t.co/0YU4G1FdUR
Too often in the past few months, my comments are not showing up here. Although I get an “oops, you’ve already posted that” duplicate response, the comment is nowhere to be found. Akismet is something odd and weird. IMO.
Yep, it happened to me last night. I was trying to post my greatest piece of writing and for whatever reason it couldn’t post. Like I said, it was my best piece yet.
WOW, looks like 60 minutes will have a scorcher this Sunday.
The enormous catalog of Trump malfeasance and insanity we'll learn when this long national nightmare is over will be staggering. https://t.co/AGL66Uu1Gn
What did he say about friction in the White House after Comey was fired?
"Well he tells the story of the president repeatedly in meetings and phone calls, trying to convince McCabe that everyone at the FBI wanted Comey fired & everyone was very happy about that." –@ScottPelleypic.twitter.com/ywvG0AQcwB
Hallo you can read it here: Thread by @CBSThisMorning: "NEW: In his first interview since being fired, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is telling @60Minutes why he ope […]" https://t.co/LfRnz3FKAu Talk to you soon. 🤖
With Barr confirmation nearly here & the possibility of his blocking release of the Mueller report, I want to repeat an alternative route I have written about many times. Mueller can follow the Watergate "Road Map" route to get the grand jury evidence to House Judiciary Cmtee.
In the year since their friends were killed, the students of Parkland refused to settle for the way things are and marched, organized, and pushed for the way things should be – helping pass meaningful new gun violence laws in states across the country. I'm proud of all of them.
All of us are impacted by our broken political system. People from across America are telling their stories to Congress right now and demanding a democracy that returns power to voters. #HR1#ForthePeopleAct
Apropos the interesting conversation with author Mr. Ngūgí wa Thiong’o on the Louisiana Channel: when in Denmark I highly recommend a visit to “Louisiana” Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek north of Copenhagen, ( also a hint to You First Lady Michelle Obama – I am so looking forward hearing You in Copenhagen 9th. of April)
Apropos looking forward to, minimum once a day I am looking forward to visit TOD – thanks all of You!!
In Trevor Noah’s Jan 30 interview with shady Chris Christie (longtime Trump friend who is never asked about the gross birther issue):
Christie said that Trump had been thinking about running for president for 20 years. Can remember a journalist saying Dicktraitor had
“Trump-for-president’ paraphernalia ideas on his desk years ago. Certainly ties in with translated text I saw (which disappeared) saying the Kremlin was looking to get him into office in mid-1980s. Question: If Trump knew he was going to run all that time ago, why didn’t he clean up decades of illegal mob activity in preparation?
On Lawrence last night: The “Effects of Shutdown on Federal Workers and Contractors:
62%….Depleted all of most emergency savings.
47%… Fell behind on bills.
27%….Missed mortgage payments.
26%….Borrward from retirement savings.
25%….Used a food bank.
GOP’s exploitative capitalism where a teeny few do well (the Deficit now groans at 22 Trillion due to a tax handout they probably didn’t ask for) must go. Starving the Treasury is mere sport for KOCH McConnellites. Remember Norquist: “Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.”
There’s also a statistic going around – not connected specifically with the shutdown – that a huge percentage of Americans are several months behind on their car payments.
Up With Chris Hayes at 8pm ET tonight:
“Live at the Border” report on El Paso. Looking forward to it as context to what Beto is saying so eloquently vs what Trumpsky is lying about.
And are we going to let this illegitimate regime mess with an incredible Texas BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY?
With 50% of plant and animal species facing local extinction by the turn of the century due to global warming, why kill this beautiful sanctuary? How the hell is it going ahead with trees reportedly already cut down – needed for habitat.
Can GOP do something besides lie, destroy, maim and KILL?
–PLEASE STOP this. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313225505.htm https://www.c2es.org/document/ecosystems-and-global-climate-change/
Voting NO means that they would rather have a government shutdown…IOW cutting off your nose to spite your face…this is an example of being willing to accept NOTHING if you can't get everything you want…There is nothing progressive about this! https://t.co/WEI2GKxhH2
But the billionaires waited too long. California set sail and Texas is probably next. The people want someone to pay for the Great Recession. They want someone to pay for our hollowed out small towns and failing farms. They want someone to pay for the fact that we have a Russian agent in the White House and the Republicans won’t do a damn thing about it. They’re losing interest in the old arguments about why they can’t have nice things.
Today, Trump will sign a budget without your precious wall., because President Shart of the Deal went from $25bn for a wall to $1.3 billion for some fence.
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The Obama Diary 
1st!
Congrats on first Don!!
Good morning all. Out sick with another bad cold; that’s two just this year, well technically one was just before Christmas, but it feels like the same year. It’s day 4 now, so expecting to be all better by Friday.
Hope you feel better soon.
That’s rough. Hope you feel better soon.
Sorry to hear that, Betsy! Be well soon!
Hadn’t heard of ‘imposter syndrome’ before hearing Brian Coleman’s comments:
https://www.themuse.com/advice/5-different-types-of-imposter-syndrome-and-5-ways-to-battle-each-one
Rep Ilhan Omar tweets back to president divide and rule:
“You have trafficked in hate your whole life—against Jews, Muslims, Indigenous, immigrants, black people and more. I learned from people impacted by my words. When will you?”
Yeh another GOP/Putin wily trickster gaming the truth. Or does she claim to be too dumb to understand?
-Fakes News conflating ‘Socialism’ (overthrowing capitalism and moving towards communism) with ‘Social Democrat.’
-Social democracy has been highly successful in Canada and across the EU for generations.
One definition: “Social democracy is a political, social, and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.”
Ha!
I am with you, Girl.
Note a certain ForeverFLOUS…
She’s so great!
“Martin says he’s the only full service, licensed fan shop between Castle Rock and the New Mexico border. Despite having all 32 NFL team’s apparel in his store, he doesn’t have any current players’ jerseys–because of his decision to drop all Nike apparel.”
So that means this guy had the area between Castle Rock and the New Mexico border on lockdown, and he was basically printing money. But his stupidity has finally driven him out of business.
👇🏾
Enjoy bankruptcy, you idiot.
Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. has died at 96. He was an eight-time presidential candidate known for his extremist claims.
Often described as an extremist and fringe figure, Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. cut a shadowy and alarming path through American politics for a half-century. He built a political organization often likened to a cult and repeatedly ran for president, once while in prison for mail fraud. In recent decades, he operated from a heavily guarded compound near Leesburg, Va.
LaRouche drew headlines for his outrageous claims and built a following based on conspiracy theories, economic doom, anti-Semitism, homophobia and racism.
——–
LaRouche drew headlines for his outrageous claims….. so forth and so on. The very attributes of a member of today’s GOP.
“Martin says he’s the only full service, licensed fan shop between Castle Rock and the New Mexico border. Despite having all 32 NFL team’s apparel in his store, he doesn’t have any current players’ jerseys–because of his decision to drop all Nike apparel.”
In which a person’s stupidity drives them out of business….
You nailed it, again, Bob. Oh, it may have come up briefly in one of their little “meetings,” but perhaps they were too busy ruining other children’s lives that day, to get it finalized.
Lovers of the TRUMP SHUTDOWN, here we come.
= Work Stoppage. Stick it to the Airlines. TSA and Air Controllers come out!
Dicktraitor: No more using the loyalties of those who protect our nation’s security.
GOP Freedom & Everywhere In Chains Caucus: Give up 35 days of your pay NOW.
Oh, Speaker Pelosi. You never disappoint me.
I love that woman.
I just love the text between Michelle and her Mom concerning watching the Grammys. There is nothing like a Mom to keep you from getting a big head.
No the Republicans do not have clean hands, And they have no right ( Trump, Pence, or any Republican ) to try to tell anyone anything when it comes to racism. I remember the silence from the Republicans during the Obama eight years when it comes to racism.
That probably didn’t cost $50K. SMH.
Every day Nancy is Speaker is a good day. ❤
Fab author, Ngugi, on the dangers of erasing memories. Another one for you, Dudette, & TOD, of course! ❤
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
UGH, these people. UGH.
meaning, if your skin has color, you’re invisible to me.
He claims not to see color but we all see color. There is nothing wrong with seeing color. There’s something wrong with discriminating based on color. Perhaps Schultz needs to learn a few things before he runs for President of a very racially diverse country.
Trump DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling:
“Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized… And now, those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately for election threats in 2020.
“The clear assessment from the intelligence community is that 2020 is going to be the perfect storm,” said a DHS official familiar with the teams. “We know Russia is going to be engaged. Other state actors have seen the success of Russia and realize the value of disinformation operations. So it’s very curious why the task forces were demoted in the bureaucracy and the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election.”” More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dhs-guts-task-forces-protecting-elections-from-foreign-meddling?ref=home
-Like duh no collusion.
Too bad we couldn’t have hand picked the Republican we wanted to go – maybe because there would have been too many choices.
J’OB, no picking&choosing, just put them all in those child/human abuse cages & see how fast they crumble from their effed up pseudo privilege. Shame & pox on them.
Happy Valentine’s Day, TODville! Love you, Nerdy darlin’!
Bobfr maybe a mob guy has to take his lumps to protect his family. final decisions.
FYI, for the past ~ 24 h I have had to log out of Twitter – my credential for posting at TOD – and log in EVERY time I try to post a comment or reply.
Anyone else facing this nuisance?
Just happened to me. First comment went through normally, but second (and now third) comments required that I log in.
Yup. That’s the problem, Susanne. Hope it can be remedied soon.
Happy Valentine’s Day and Goodnight TOD ….
testing
Morning everyone
El Chapo has a brighter future than Paul Manafort.
Going to be a bestseller
Too often in the past few months, my comments are not showing up here. Although I get an “oops, you’ve already posted that” duplicate response, the comment is nowhere to be found. Akismet is something odd and weird. IMO.
FINALLY.
Here, my darlings, a soothing and healing promise for a future on this planet.
Keep You All The ♥️ Heart
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
This is NOT the video I posted (much as I love it) how did the one I sent up get switched? Too too weird
Here it is:
Sheesh
Groan… no, I’m not nuts, believe me, but I realize it sounds nuts.
Yep, it happened to me last night. I was trying to post my greatest piece of writing and for whatever reason it couldn’t post. Like I said, it was my best piece yet.
I know just how that feels, Don.
don try breaking it up into parts and posting. the rewrite may be different – well OK. hey looking fwd to it!!
WOW, looks like 60 minutes will have a scorcher this Sunday.
I’m thinking that Pence might want to update his Indeed resume.
Kamala is FEARLESS. She can handle the orange one with her smarts, wit, moral center and those looks she throws…my oh my.
Important Thread
This is sooooooooooo Kool….
Apropos the interesting conversation with author Mr. Ngūgí wa Thiong’o on the Louisiana Channel: when in Denmark I highly recommend a visit to “Louisiana” Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek north of Copenhagen, ( also a hint to You First Lady Michelle Obama – I am so looking forward hearing You in Copenhagen 9th. of April)
Apropos looking forward to, minimum once a day I am looking forward to visit TOD – thanks all of You!!
❤
In Trevor Noah’s Jan 30 interview with shady Chris Christie (longtime Trump friend who is never asked about the gross birther issue):
Christie said that Trump had been thinking about running for president for 20 years. Can remember a journalist saying Dicktraitor had
“Trump-for-president’ paraphernalia ideas on his desk years ago. Certainly ties in with translated text I saw (which disappeared) saying the Kremlin was looking to get him into office in mid-1980s. Question: If Trump knew he was going to run all that time ago, why didn’t he clean up decades of illegal mob activity in preparation?
On Lawrence last night: The “Effects of Shutdown on Federal Workers and Contractors:
62%….Depleted all of most emergency savings.
47%… Fell behind on bills.
27%….Missed mortgage payments.
26%….Borrward from retirement savings.
25%….Used a food bank.
GOP’s exploitative capitalism where a teeny few do well (the Deficit now groans at 22 Trillion due to a tax handout they probably didn’t ask for) must go. Starving the Treasury is mere sport for KOCH McConnellites. Remember Norquist: “Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.”
There’s also a statistic going around – not connected specifically with the shutdown – that a huge percentage of Americans are several months behind on their car payments.
Up With Chris Hayes at 8pm ET tonight:
“Live at the Border” report on El Paso. Looking forward to it as context to what Beto is saying so eloquently vs what Trumpsky is lying about.
And are we going to let this illegitimate regime mess with an incredible Texas BUTTERFLY SANCTUARY?
With 50% of plant and animal species facing local extinction by the turn of the century due to global warming, why kill this beautiful sanctuary? How the hell is it going ahead with trees reportedly already cut down – needed for habitat.
Can GOP do something besides lie, destroy, maim and KILL?
–PLEASE STOP this.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180313225505.htm
https://www.c2es.org/document/ecosystems-and-global-climate-change/
Progressive freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib jointly announce plans to vote NO on spending bill.
Wonder what folks think about this article
But the billionaires waited too long. California set sail and Texas is probably next. The people want someone to pay for the Great Recession. They want someone to pay for our hollowed out small towns and failing farms. They want someone to pay for the fact that we have a Russian agent in the White House and the Republicans won’t do a damn thing about it. They’re losing interest in the old arguments about why they can’t have nice things.
aye and whispering in his own earholes.
-oklovethatswalwelll-
$1.3 billion, pfffff, that won’t even get you a 2/2 overlooking central park in nyc.
$1.3 billion, pfffffff, that won’t even get you a 2/2 overlooking central park in nyc.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1096114852941234176i
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/02/14/lucky-valentines/
I love the tweet Michelle Obama sent to her three Valentines….Barack, Malia,and Sasha.