Whether Joe pulls away from the current situation or not, I’m glad to see some are standing up for him. He’s a decent guy with old ways, who just needs to bring himself forward. It’s up to him, but I like the fact not everybody’s forgetting their relationships with him as “kind and empathetic,” because some people never get to that stature in life.
And this is what I’ve feared most about whether or not he’d announce.
I have know Sen Joe Biden from years of association dealing with drug policy issues. Enormously experienced and principled political leader. One of the kindest most empathetic public officials imaginable. Complete integrity. Not a DIME TO HIS NAME. Gone.
Since I replied to it with “I’m ridin’ with Biden” (which was a “test” from me – it’s how I roll 🙂 ) and McCaffrey “liked” my reply, I think my original take on that word “Gone” (which he added and which was the questionable part to me) was correct that he feels Joe wasn’t cut one break by anybody on attacking his reputation because people came forward.
I am not in agreement with Joe’s invading other people’s personal space whatsoever and he should have known that all on his own, and yet it KILLS me that everyone’s pointing at Biden AND NOT AT TRUMP EVERY DAMN DAY FOR HIS ACTIONS TOWARD WOMEN. It doesn’t absolve Joe, but it kills me that it’s fuel for trumpette fire.
Believe me, I also totally understand that many men (maybe McCaffrey) might be doing that old song and dance routine I used to hear in the workplace (worked for the Navy and we also had Navy Training in the Prevention of Sexual Harassment starting in the early ’90s after Tailhook and heard it there and elsewhere from the civilian employees): “You can’t even hug a woman anymore.”
THIS Jacqueline!!!!!!! The pundits who are commenting on VP Joe are making up stuff simply because they are on these pundit panels. Kudos to Mika on Morning Joe for defending VP Biden and telling it like it is. Biden has acknowledged his behavior and said that he will do better. It is time to move on, unless they want to start discussing the sexual behavior of the sexual predator in the WH 24/7 and do some opposition research on BS since he is actually running for President and VP Biden has not declared yet.
Only thing surprising about this is that it took this long. what kind of country can’t keep any of its top leaders for even 2 years? Devastating to GOV agencies & we still don’t have a SECDEF – DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to Resign Immediately: Report https://t.co/OYDXOWPEVx
Really? Two questions. What is he hiding? And on exactly what basis is the Trump Administration going to LAWFULLY not disclose the tax returns in response to a legitimate Congressional request? This is a direct affront to the rule of law. Serious. https://t.co/3H1OprIklR
A group of states and Washington D.C. are suing the Trump admin for reversing healthier school lunch nutrition standards introduced in one of Michelle Obama's signature programs. https://t.co/QT4GiY8EQk
How could the president let his Homeland Security Secretary resign during a national emergency at the southern border? The president hasn't even named a Secretary of Defense yet.
Homeland Security Chair Bennie Thompson: "Kirstjen Nielsen's tenure … was a disaster from the start. It is clearer now than ever that the Trump Administration's border security and immigration policies — that she enacted and helped craft — have been an abysmal failure."
When we think about the word failure we need to, in my opinion, call it a reversal of policies that worked. PBO’s policies succeeded in zero net illegal immigration. If Trump’s we are full idea was even legitimate which it’s not, zero net illegal immigration means numbers are static.
Thing is from the mind of an evil person like Stephen Miller that is not good because brown and black people are becoming a larger demographic in the country so out come the ethnic cleansing policies violating civil and human rights.
The xenophobic Trumpist is thinking it’s a failure because we haven’t deported every black or brown person and we haven’t ended birthright citizenship so we can strip our citizens of their status and deport them too if they don’t meet the racist purity test.
To have this battle with fascism going on in this day and age is horrible given the climate change, health care, and economic work that needs to be done.
Nielsen was not planning to resign when she walked into her meeting with Trump today, but she was prepared for the possibility. Here is her resignation letter, per a source close to Nielsen: pic.twitter.com/ElyTiwbYuR
If you want to witness children being further tortured & worse; if you want to now become accomplices in horrors our troops encountered in Hitler's camps then give @realDonaldTrump & #StephenMiller even another single molecule of oxygen.
Since “The Hague” is trending, thought I’d revise to leverage the # ….
Dear America,
If you want to witness children being further tortured & worse; if you want to now become accomplices in horrors our troops encountered in Hitler's camps then fail to extradite @realDonaldTrump & #StephenMiller to #TheHague.
The kidnapping, caging and trafficking of children is and always will be the sum total of her story in the sordid history of this sadistic administration. https://t.co/UINnVbGC8a
Breaking: @SecNielsen resigns. Under her watch, two children died. Families were separated – roughly 40 still not reunited, 3200 minors are being held in an internment camp in Homestead, Fl. Tested our asylum laws. So much that isn’t public. #FamiliesBelongTogether@votolatino
The way I remember it there at least 4 deaths were made public. And some children were released shortly BEFORE they died.
It came out that older children were drugged with hallucagenics and abused. It is not hard to realize that the little ones were drugged/sedated. Had to be. We heard the recordings of them crying incessantly and wailing for their mommies, especially at night. And much more. Get Trump and his private prison co-conspirators to The Hague.
This needs to be said. I think Buttigieg is the right messenger at the right time. People of faith that hate all that is Trumpism, who hate right wing fascism, and cruelty, poverty and hate have to speak out and it’s hard to be heard.
NEW: Speaker Pelosi issues statement on resignation of Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen: "It is deeply alarming that the Trump Administration official who put children in cages is reportedly resigning because she is not extreme enough for the White House’s liking.” https://t.co/wrec4Jlgb8pic.twitter.com/gLpEZucD5V
I saw this show in San Francisco and it is PHENOMENAL. "This practice of remembering reminds us of the Americans whose ancestors never crossed the border with Mexico. It crossed them."
1 Trump’s mental decline is widely accepted as fact now. Saturation TV coverage of Trump’s meltdowns has laid out the factual evidence for all to see. As the dementia buzz grows, the public is increasingly demanding an answer- “what is being done & are we going to do about this”?
Nielsen has resigned. Now TRUMP must resign. We know he has committed Crimes Against Humanity.
Isn’t illegally separating, jailing, losing track of thousands (47,000 now reported) children of all ages, shipping them across the country to wherever, disappearance, adoption without consent, abuse, neglect, sickness and Death enough to put him away?
“The 15 forms of crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute include offences such as murder, rape, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, enslavement – particularly of women and children, sexual slavery, torture, apartheid and deportation.”
“The Court may exercise jurisdiction in a situation where genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes were committed on or after 1 July 2002 and:the crimes were committed by a State Party national, or in the territory of a State Party, or in a State that has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court;
OR the crimes were referred to the ICC Prosecutor by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) pursuant to a resolution adopted under chapter VII of the UN charter. The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace, national criminal systems; it prosecutes cases only when States do not are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely. As a judicial institution, the ICC does not have its own police force or enforcement body; thus, it relies on cooperation with countries worldwide for support, particularly for making arrests, transferring arrested persons to the ICC detention centre in The Hague, freezing suspects’ assets, and enforcing sentences.
While not a United Nations organization, the Court has a cooperation agreement with the United Nations. When a situation is not within the Court’s jurisdiction, the United Nations Security Council can refer the situation to the ICC granting it jurisdiction. This has been done in the situations in Darfur (Sudan) and Libya. The Court works in particularly close cooperation with its host state, the Netherlands, regarding practical matters such as constructing the Court’s new permanent buildings, transferring suspects to the ICC Detention Centre, facilitating their appearances before the Court, and many other matters.” https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works
-No-one is above the law. No human on the planet should get away with what Trump has done openly and covertly without remorse.
How is this even possible?? If I gave Marley a balloon to play with like that, he’d bite it, and the balloon piece would choke him. I would love to let him do this… but, no. Fat chance
This old quote that I borrowed here came to mind, and it made me re-live a good laugh. When my son was about 10 years old, he and I “forced” my mother to play one of those “fill in the word” games on quotes, late one night when we were all together. The question was “A man all wrapped up in himself makes a ______.” My mother, who made us laugh all the time – even unintentionally – filled in the blank with ” … mummy.” #Goodtimes
Of course, there’s NOTHING funny about trump, so you gotta look for ways to laugh.
He's afraid of the comedian du jour. He should be!
Not sure who said it, but "A man all wrapped up in himself makes a small package."
the rule of law is not determined by either current public opinion or the state of mind of voters in an election three years ago https://t.co/PQqgJYsfep
Until @SecNielsen is tried and convicted of CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN & HUMANITY America will remain in the category of heinous State torturers & murderers.
Please mandate that any Dem candidate for #POTUS must release the past 10 yr of their IRS tax returns in order to be permitted to participate in debates & run as a #Democrat.
‘Stop lying, Trump!’ — Former Mexican President Vicente Fox explains how we could solve the ‘border crisis’ with more compassion and less money (link: pic.twitter.com/jV8UplfWNn) https://t.co/jV8UplfWNn
Good Morning! Check out today’s spacewalk now live!
LIVE: Two astronauts are going on a spacewalk! @AstroAnnimal and @Astro_DavidS will work for about 6.5 hours outside @Space_Station today, setting up a redundant power source for the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm. Watch live coverage: https://t.co/EdSGBlqSzu
In Chuck Todd’s case it’s willful ignorance. He said it’s not his job to correct guests. He just let’s them say whatever they want. Informing the public isn’t really his thing.
Pete Buttigieg: "The struggle is not over when transgender troops, ready to put their lives on the line for this country, have their careers threatened with ruin one tweet at a time by a Commander-in-Chief who himself pretended to be disabled in order to get out of serving." pic.twitter.com/MgDN0fueHN
Trust me, we are on it! Many people calling and there was a big protest rally Saturday afternoon here in town. (Knoxville). The governor was in town for some dinner. Over 200 people with signs. I had planned on going, but had a stomach issue.
Forgot. They are trying very hard to get two teachers from every Knox County school to go to Nashville Wednesday. Guessing/Hoping other counties are doing something like this. We’ve been battling this for last few years with success. Now, this new R governor is pushing as much ,if not more, than the legislature, for them.
On Wednesday, astronomers across the globe will hold "six major press conferences" simultaneously to announce the first results of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which was designed precisely for that purpose https://t.co/rgSlXWlCwApic.twitter.com/nKZHG2MAUM
Democrats, if they were smart, would require candidates for president to release taxes by a date certain & take a pledge to comply with ethics rules, including as regards personal assets. Run as the party with a commitment to putting guardrails against kleptocracy back in place. https://t.co/hufUQvuVq3
Where is @TheDemocrats@TomPerez leadership on this? REQUIRE transparency from presidential candidates on all financials: taxes, business investments and holdings, fundraising and donor base. And do so FIERCELY and PUBLICLY. We will not be hoodwinked again and again.
NYS Sen. Brad Hoylman, who's sponsoring the legislation to get Trump's state tax returns: "His representatives say they will block all congressional efforts … it turns out that New York state has those returns and can do its part to assist the Congress." https://t.co/G1c5181tG1
Tim O’Brien is a financial journalist has seen (a portion) of Trump’s tax returns as part of a lawsuit and is under court order not to disclose details. He said: “This is something he is going to fight tooth and nail. It opens a vein. He’s the most financially conflicted president of the modern era. The tax returns are both emblematic of that and a potential road map of what his conflicts might look like.”
(from ‘The Last Word’ on Friday)
1924 law cited by Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,Neal, states that the treasury secretary “shall furnish … any return or return information specified” in a request from the head of the House or Senate tax-writing committees.
= Toast no matter what guff Trump’s lawyers try on.
Kamala Harris: "As a member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, let's be absolutely clear: I will not support a nominee who does not forcefully and unequivocally denounce this administration's policy of separating families at the border."
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Thank you, Nerdy!
Whether Joe pulls away from the current situation or not, I’m glad to see some are standing up for him. He’s a decent guy with old ways, who just needs to bring himself forward. It’s up to him, but I like the fact not everybody’s forgetting their relationships with him as “kind and empathetic,” because some people never get to that stature in life.
And this is what I’ve feared most about whether or not he’d announce.
If Joe Biden decided to run, he will have my support
Mine, too.
I don’t understand this tweet
Since I replied to it with “I’m ridin’ with Biden” (which was a “test” from me – it’s how I roll 🙂 ) and McCaffrey “liked” my reply, I think my original take on that word “Gone” (which he added and which was the questionable part to me) was correct that he feels Joe wasn’t cut one break by anybody on attacking his reputation because people came forward.
I am not in agreement with Joe’s invading other people’s personal space whatsoever and he should have known that all on his own, and yet it KILLS me that everyone’s pointing at Biden AND NOT AT TRUMP EVERY DAMN DAY FOR HIS ACTIONS TOWARD WOMEN. It doesn’t absolve Joe, but it kills me that it’s fuel for trumpette fire.
Believe me, I also totally understand that many men (maybe McCaffrey) might be doing that old song and dance routine I used to hear in the workplace (worked for the Navy and we also had Navy Training in the Prevention of Sexual Harassment starting in the early ’90s after Tailhook and heard it there and elsewhere from the civilian employees): “You can’t even hug a woman anymore.”
Ugh
THIS Jacqueline!!!!!!! The pundits who are commenting on VP Joe are making up stuff simply because they are on these pundit panels. Kudos to Mika on Morning Joe for defending VP Biden and telling it like it is. Biden has acknowledged his behavior and said that he will do better. It is time to move on, unless they want to start discussing the sexual behavior of the sexual predator in the WH 24/7 and do some opposition research on BS since he is actually running for President and VP Biden has not declared yet.
Michelle Obama will be heading for the Europe part of her book tour, Tuesday 4-9-19 she will be in Denmark.
She’ll be free to transport to the Hague.
First of many, I hope.
Hallelujah!!! One down and dozens more to go!
CNN just made it official through breaking news.
Devastating.
I wish I had wine in the house.
This is so scaryy…and i am so mad i could spit….
UGH, I despise this idiot. To think we could go from Trump to Sanders is just too much to bear.
Just the fraud we knew he was
HUH? He let it out by mistake? Is he running as a Democrat again. If so how?
Meta, agree with you. BS is despicable.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103
These Trump jokers have no idea how imperiled they are ….
The rule of law means nothing to them, Bobfr. They don’t give a damn
Duh
When we think about the word failure we need to, in my opinion, call it a reversal of policies that worked. PBO’s policies succeeded in zero net illegal immigration. If Trump’s we are full idea was even legitimate which it’s not, zero net illegal immigration means numbers are static.
Thing is from the mind of an evil person like Stephen Miller that is not good because brown and black people are becoming a larger demographic in the country so out come the ethnic cleansing policies violating civil and human rights.
The xenophobic Trumpist is thinking it’s a failure because we haven’t deported every black or brown person and we haven’t ended birthright citizenship so we can strip our citizens of their status and deport them too if they don’t meet the racist purity test.
To have this battle with fascism going on in this day and age is horrible given the climate change, health care, and economic work that needs to be done.
Hummm
Since “The Hague” is trending, thought I’d revise to leverage the # ….
– thoughts of the children wailing in unison for their mommies and daddies and families per the recordings, wake me up a lot.
I’m a great-grandmother of two boys, ages 8 and 5, and I can’t help think, “What if it were them?”
The way I remember it there at least 4 deaths were made public. And some children were released shortly BEFORE they died.
It came out that older children were drugged with hallucagenics and abused. It is not hard to realize that the little ones were drugged/sedated. Had to be. We heard the recordings of them crying incessantly and wailing for their mommies, especially at night. And much more. Get Trump and his private prison co-conspirators to The Hague.
So let it be written, so let it be done!
Totally agree with Buttigieg on this. Mike Pence is a prime example; he is the biggest hypocrite and lies as much as Trump.
This needs to be said. I think Buttigieg is the right messenger at the right time. People of faith that hate all that is Trumpism, who hate right wing fascism, and cruelty, poverty and hate have to speak out and it’s hard to be heard.
Suck any harder?
This might get me a few negative responses from people I’ll block.
Astonishing photographs. Have a look.
Will check that out. Thanks.
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Nielsen has resigned. Now TRUMP must resign. We know he has committed Crimes Against Humanity.
Isn’t illegally separating, jailing, losing track of thousands (47,000 now reported) children of all ages, shipping them across the country to wherever, disappearance, adoption without consent, abuse, neglect, sickness and Death enough to put him away?
“The 15 forms of crimes against humanity listed in the Rome Statute include offences such as murder, rape, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, enslavement – particularly of women and children, sexual slavery, torture, apartheid and deportation.”
“The Court may exercise jurisdiction in a situation where genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes were committed on or after 1 July 2002 and:the crimes were committed by a State Party national, or in the territory of a State Party, or in a State that has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court;
OR the crimes were referred to the ICC Prosecutor by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) pursuant to a resolution adopted under chapter VII of the UN charter. The ICC is intended to complement, not to replace, national criminal systems; it prosecutes cases only when States do not are unwilling or unable to do so genuinely. As a judicial institution, the ICC does not have its own police force or enforcement body; thus, it relies on cooperation with countries worldwide for support, particularly for making arrests, transferring arrested persons to the ICC detention centre in The Hague, freezing suspects’ assets, and enforcing sentences.
While not a United Nations organization, the Court has a cooperation agreement with the United Nations. When a situation is not within the Court’s jurisdiction, the United Nations Security Council can refer the situation to the ICC granting it jurisdiction. This has been done in the situations in Darfur (Sudan) and Libya. The Court works in particularly close cooperation with its host state, the Netherlands, regarding practical matters such as constructing the Court’s new permanent buildings, transferring suspects to the ICC Detention Centre, facilitating their appearances before the Court, and many other matters.”
https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/how-the-court-works
-No-one is above the law. No human on the planet should get away with what Trump has done openly and covertly without remorse.
How is this even possible?? If I gave Marley a balloon to play with like that, he’d bite it, and the balloon piece would choke him. I would love to let him do this… but, no. Fat chance
This old quote that I borrowed here came to mind, and it made me re-live a good laugh. When my son was about 10 years old, he and I “forced” my mother to play one of those “fill in the word” games on quotes, late one night when we were all together. The question was “A man all wrapped up in himself makes a ______.” My mother, who made us laugh all the time – even unintentionally – filled in the blank with ” … mummy.” #Goodtimes
Of course, there’s NOTHING funny about trump, so you gotta look for ways to laugh.
This is wonderful! We need more of this!
LOL!
Good Morning! Check out today’s spacewalk now live!
🚀🛰👨🏼🚀👩🏼🚀Spacewalkers!
Whoa!
Heads up Tennessee TODers!
Trust me, we are on it! Many people calling and there was a big protest rally Saturday afternoon here in town. (Knoxville). The governor was in town for some dinner. Over 200 people with signs. I had planned on going, but had a stomach issue.
Forgot. They are trying very hard to get two teachers from every Knox County school to go to Nashville Wednesday. Guessing/Hoping other counties are doing something like this. We’ve been battling this for last few years with success. Now, this new R governor is pushing as much ,if not more, than the legislature, for them.
Glad to hear folks are on it! Hope you’re feeling better soon!
Morning everyone
Yet she’ll stay until Wednesday. Clearly she has no self esteem
I would like to know
Why, oh why, is anyone still on FB?
Agreed
THIS!!!!!!!!!!! Tweeted him earlier this morning. We need to flood him.
YES. Thank you.
The fraud will be found out
Tim O’Brien is a financial journalist has seen (a portion) of Trump’s tax returns as part of a lawsuit and is under court order not to disclose details. He said: “This is something he is going to fight tooth and nail. It opens a vein. He’s the most financially conflicted president of the modern era. The tax returns are both emblematic of that and a potential road map of what his conflicts might look like.”
(from ‘The Last Word’ on Friday)
1924 law cited by Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,Neal, states that the treasury secretary “shall furnish … any return or return information specified” in a request from the head of the House or Senate tax-writing committees.
= Toast no matter what guff Trump’s lawyers try on.
Truth
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2019/04/08/people-doing-good/