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Congrats on first, Pamela!
Thank you so very, very, very much, MP! Also, too, along with the heart-warming memory of CC’s lovely masterpiece all the hugs in the post are as uplifting as they were the first time around! I do feel so contented being a member of this community. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Happy Birthday Evening, VC!!!!
It has indeed been a happy day, thanks, JO’B. 🙂
BTW, how is my young Florida boyfriend and did he remember to send good wishes? 😉 🙂 🙂
I know if he weren’t sleeping like a baby at this hour (although he’s 8 now, and no baby), he’d be getting in touch and singing the birthday song to you! Sweet, just imagining it! Glad you had a good day, cutie pie.
🙂 🙂 ❤ ❤ ❤
With this message in my ears, off o bed I go too.
Sleep well, birthday girl. ❤
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Thank you for that. Can’t wait.
Da cuteness! 😃
Kamala Harris has a truly beautiful smile! No wonder kids like her!
Sometimes people do the right thing and it’s wonderful
Beautiful.
PP must have gotten his orders
Good. He’s an evil bastard
Cowards
If only he could CANCEL his presidency while at it!
As long as PP LIKES him!!!
The top 4 banks that invest most heavily in fossil fuel projects are all based in the US:
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi, and Bank of America. Royal Bank of Canada, Barclays in Europe, Japan’s MUFG, TD Bank, Scotiabank, Mizuho make up the remainder of the top 10.
= They have shelled out 1.3 Trillion dollars in support of fossil fuels following the Paris Climate Deal.
= Bank financial backing for fossil fuels have grown, though they [and Exxon} try to do cover optics by giving a little cash to fighting the fallout.
= Morgan Stanley predicts climate damage of predicted $54 Trillion in damages worldwide by 2040.
Excellent chart of total Fossil Fuel Financing (in billions of U.S. dollars) by bank and year, 2016-2018: https://www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechange2019/#data-panel
“Coal mining finance is dominated by the four major Chinese banks, led by China Construction Bank and Bank of China, and the most financing to coal power projects as well… JPMorgan Chase also provided the most financing to LNG projects, Arctic oil and gas projects, and ultra-deep-water oil and gas extraction, the report concluded…The Royal Bank of Canada topped the list on tar sands oil financing… Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are the biggest bankers of fracking overall — and, in particular, they support key companies active in the Permian Basin, the epicenter of the climate-threatening global surge of oil and gas production.”
Russia attacked our democracy , but boy howdy, this is funny!!!
Florida, WTF!
This is so sad! One of Parkland kids has committed suicide.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parkland-shooting-survivor-sydney-aiello-takes-her-own-life/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag7e
Way beyond ‘hiding in plain sight’ the dude has been broadcasting his willingness to destroy America since before 2016 and he’s done his level best every day to do just that.
The #MAGA folk didn’t realize that for Trump ‘winning’ is strictly for himself and his fellow oligarchs and not anyone else.
WHOA
Announced at 5:02 pm !!
Barr has the Mueller Report
Also like to know if there are any sealed indictments.
The $64,000 question! Would love to know!
Sigh…. Wouldn’t the legal eagles on TV be able to see if they did exist?
I don’t think so. If they are sealed, then another Fed or State agency has to move on them.
Oh, you mean if anyone can tell if they have been filed? I don’t know!!
Exactly. I’ve heard Rachel and Pete Williams talk about “sealed indictments” regarding all this mess before. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised but I lost faith in this investigation a long time ago when nothing was done to Trump, Jr for lying about that Trump tower meeting and Trumps coverup of that incident.
YES, that’s exactly the thing that has me bugged: the whole Trump Tower meeting. Clearly illegal.
UGH. What a terrible outcome.
Trump and his minions will have field day with this. I’ve always wondered why no conspiracy charges against Manafort (remember the polling data he shared with the Russian) or Flynn for that matter. Well, I cannot say that I’m surprised. So Stone wasn’t conspiring with the Russians (via Wikileaks) to aide Trump in the election?
I think he’ll slap trump on the wrist for attempting to obstruct justice with the firing of Comey and the rest will be as they say history…..
We’ve never seen such blatant disregard for the law and abuse of power and then this. I don’t know what’s next but we need to emphasize that Trump and Putin are in a tight partnership and always have been.
I’m not giving up yet. There’s still a grand jury in SDNY (I think that’s the district), and one of the subjects is still assisting in part(s) of the investigation.
I don’t know enough about how these things are done but if Mueller didn’t indict anyone regarding the Trump Tower meeting, didn’t find wrongdoing pertaining to all the money laundering during the campaign, hasn’t seen fit to connect the dots between Cambridge Analytica and Manafort and Trump, I don’t how that gets passed over to SDNY.
I’m just pacing myself, because I don’t know either.
They won’t touch him until he is out of office and Trump and his conservative entertainment complex will beat the drum for the next two years that it’s just political. There will be no impeachment but plenty of investigations.
Yes he’ll get his comeuppance when he leaves the White House but this long suffering nighmare of a Presidency is no where near over. If there had been conspiracy indictments of people close to him I believe that would have made a difference. Trump will just use this outcome to rally his base to keep him in office so that SDNY can’t touch him.
I can assure you, I get it – just pacing myself!
No more indictments
From Mueller anyway
Think there’s still a grand jury going on, perhaps in SDNY. Also one of the witnesses is still assisting.
Maybe “it ain’t ohvah until it’s ohvah.”
This implies that Jonathan has been “losing his mind” like the rest of us! Ha.
Senator Blumenthal just said there is a high probability of other indictments
Seriously ….
Sorry everyone, this is a great day for us who are political junkies!!!!
I am therefore making this for the blog …. I need to read this out of my heart and head and into a safe place
At 5.02 p.m. March/22/2019 (it is important to note these details for history), it was announced that Special Counsel Mueller turned in his trump-russia report to the Department of Justice (DOJ) after 37 indictments and 22 months of investigating.
Whatever it contains, I do not know …….. and neither do most of those who are speculating.
The people who really know the specific are not talking – that has been the characteristic of Team Mueller.
All I can say is: stay tuned, breathe, and keep an open mind about where we go from here because most punditry will just be speculating based on their legal knowledge and politics.
Some of contents of the report will eventually be known. Because some information is counter- intelligence (meaning clandestine/spying) stuff, it remain sealed for many years.
Ari Melber (an attorney) on MSNBC is very excited after the news – jumpy and talking loudly. Not happy.
I am just going to listen, read, and watch what happens in the time ahead ….. I am not where most people are …. maybe I am naive …. but I will wait …..
LIVE STREAM: Robert Mueller has delivered report on Trump Russia investigation to Attorney General
I have zero doubt that the worst days in Trump’s life, and many around him, are coming ….
Remember, Robert Mueller was hired to Investigate, not to Prosecute.
Even in that role, look how many have been successfully prosecuted under his role as SC.
All those prosecutions have one thing in common besides success, they yielded troves of information on criminal activities of which we have only seen a fraction. What they didn’t reveal, except through the ineptitude of Manafort’s lawyers are any of the criminal activities involving Russia (and other State actors).
YUP!!
I believe in destiny and that the mighty hand will always take charge of the future …. the moral arc … will … eventually … bend towards justice;
today, we may be being tested …. i just don’t know for sure
Chris Matthews is spitting again
He’s really going to hurt himself. He can’t believe this
If you can watch him, you’re stronger than I. It’s been months. Can’t do it.
He makes me nuts, but not as nuts as Chuck Todd makes me. That man grates on my nerves
Good Thread!
This.
Conspiracy and obstruction are both very difficult to prosecute and have very high bars to obtain convictions. Mueller is a seasoned and realistic professional and completely aware of the highly polarized and politicized environment. Clownstick and his gang of criminals and thugs did both. It’s obvious. But that’s not the same as having clear and abundant evidence for these difficult to prosecute crimes. And? Many other investigations continue, including financial fraud, insurance fraud, etc..
I like the way she thinks.
Has anyone else thought about what Speaker Pelosi said some days ago? I wonder how her words may be used by different political figures.
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Thanks, JER!
By the time I started watching the Chris Hayes show, it seems the guests are calmed down a bit and it was very reassuring that It’s Not Over.
If you didn’t catch the show, you may want to watch it – if for no other reason than to keep a little bit more of our sanity tonight!
Anybody know any chants to calm down? I might need a few more! 🙂
Hang in there, J’OB. Ignore the pundit noise. Someone posted a great twitter thread by Seth. Worth a good read. Am now waiting to watch Rachel & see how she breaks it down. But that’s simply the icing on cake after reading Seth’s thread. ❤
And this from our LL, breathe:
https://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/3/22/breaking-robert-mueller-submits-trump-russia-report-to-attorney-general
I’m nicely calmed down, thanks. Rachel and Lawrence both had the night off, but both hurried in to cover their shows!
Happy Birthday VC
Hello Donna Dem. Sure missed you! And happiest of b-days VC! 💞🎁
Thank you.
Haven’t seen you in a while. THANKS! 🙂 🙂
ps: How are your young ladies? They pop into my head from time to time.
Hey VC, sorry to post and run but didn’t want to miss acknowledging your special day before joining the fam to celebrate my sons birthday. They were born the day before yours. Those little girls are a sassy mess.:) They keep us laughing and are a pure joy. I don’t post much these days. I’m just waiting for the opportunity to get that maniac out of office. I hope you and your son are doing well.
❤ ❤ ❤ GDD. Yes, son and I are doing well. /whisper …one of us is getting married this summer/
Oh My…Well congratulations to “one of you” 🙂
Hey lady, Can you post the picture of your fiiiine looking sons 😊😊who had a birthday yesterday. Some pics of the girls would be great too. 😘
This was supposed to be below dd’s comment.
🎉🎈🎂Happy Birthday, vc! 🍾🎊
I love listening to Chuck Rosenberg. He’s speaking on RM tonight. He believes there are too many loose ends…. and clearly more indictments coming
Thank you, TnMG. The time sure is flying by quickly.
Rachel was trout fishing in TN. Guess where? Yep, right here in Knoxville area. She’s at our local NBC station. Sadly, they are quite right wing.
Anyway, cool that she is here in town. 😊😊
Can someone help. I’ve searched and searched on Twitter for the correct Seth Worth, No luck. Help, please. Thanks,
Who’s Seth Worth? I’m pretty sure she meant the one I posted up thread by Seth Abramson. You made me smile:)
😍😍🤣. I finally figured it out and have just begun reading it, then popped back here.
Btw, I’m not staying g logged in tonight. Already see I have to log back in to post this.
Had to log in again and again today… even immediately after I already logged in:) gracious me!
This one:)
Tnmtngirl, I think the name is Seth Abramson. Desert flower had a tweet from him posted earlier.
Never mind! I now see Desertflower replied to you.
It takes a village:) 😘
This union president is dynamite! Spotted her on MSNBC when the Boeing plane incidents were under discussion. She’s still at it, with this ICE matter (in the tweet) relating to a DREAMER. I’m thinking she should run for office – she’s a real leader! #SomebodyToWatch
From her twitter profile:
Sara Nelson – @FlyingWithSara – President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA @afa_cwa, representing 50K at 20 airlines. Proud Flight Attendant & Passionate Union Activist since 1996.
When Democrats come together on our thinking, we come together! How many of us have made this same pledge!
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, COS!
Some interesting reading
See, it’s not really OVER over.
Happy Thoughts. Night all
Sounds good to me.
Sweet dreams, df!
Nice quote on Brian Williams’ show tonight from Neal Katyal, who was former acting Solicitor General of the United States under President Obama (comparing OUR president’s stature and patriotism with the current bozo’s, not that there’s any comparison):
“When President Obama walked in, everyone stood up a little taller and he inspired us to be better … ”
I might cry! #ObamaForever ❤
I confess that Mueller giving his report today did throw me off my stride a bit, but I’m calmer now. I refuse to believe that the WH Idiot and his family won’t be held accountable for, at least, some of their vile actions&/ lies.
My day is coming to its close so G’night all, and thanks for the happy wishes.
A tribute to Gazelle and her ongoing attempts to remove WTF from her vocabulary. Gazelle, I love how your word of the day, yesterday I think it was (I’m running a bit behind at the moment) was Numpty. I liked it so much that I adapted it to a poem we all know.
Numpty Trumpty tried to build a wall
Numpty Trumpty had a great fall
All the Republicans and all Putin’s clan
Tried to get the country to support their money laundering plan.
😂😂 🎶All the grifters, all the arses, couldn’t put Numpty Dumpty together again! 🎶 💃
Jeez, who would want to put Numpty Dumpty together again? Wouldn’t want to get anywhere near the guy.
Maybe just leave it at “All the grifters, all the arses, couldn’t….”
or for the last line “Extricate themselves from Mueller’s plan.”
Hmmmm, we could go on for hours with this. Thanks Gazelle.
😂Perfect!
Very important …
Yup ….
No surprise …
Important …
I skipped out of “WTF” rehab for a wee moment (DF, looking at you 😂). But am struggling uphill to reclaim my propers in vocab! Tonight’s word: “Nigh”! ‘Nuff said, end is near! Breathe deep, y’all! Then 😎💃
Sorry:( I’m a bad influence…. will try to be better. It’s so hard.
I’ve always wanted a sister. And right now I’m wishing Kamala Harris was my sister, for real!!
New post.
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