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Thank you for this, Nerdy darlin’ !!!
Yes, yes!!!
I was “afraid for him” a couple of times when he got that look in his eyes – Ha!
He’s got a crazy face ! Yikes! Kinda goofy!
For sure! But I must add that Bernie’s eyes also get a little scary after he’s done yelling, sometimes. 🙂
Don’t get me started on Bernie:)
Oh don’t worry, I won’t! Just catching more of Elizabeth Warren on with Anderson Cooper on CNN. She never slows down – whoa – I’m exhausted just listening to more from her! 🙂
That dude is a creep ….
Thanks Nerdy, that’s sweeeeeet !!
I like Bullock.
I wouldn’t mind Elizabeth having a place in the new Administration, just not as President
In a private company, she’d be head of “Planning.” She’s great at it!
I think she’s smart and courageous… I do agree that she needs a role to play. I like her
Sadly, it sounds like Bernie is a choice for those people in the Detroit area.
Maybe they were just the loudest. Hope they’re not a Bernie crowd!
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t be into mocking women, but having just come from the debate, I must say I’m enjoying some of these:
Seems like 4 hours ago, but I forgot this was the strongest part of her debate performance. She went there.
Still climbing
Still think this slow walk is being orchestrated by Nancy Smash. Like keep the idea out there every single day, a few votes at a time, but not too quickly – so the committees can catch up first.
I agree
Did anybody just catch Elizabeth Warren on the after show on CNN? Ohmigod. Exhausting.
Truth be told, even though what she says makes sense, it’s reminding me that – I think I’m recalling correctly – “back in the day” newspapers in this country were written at around the fifth-grade reading skill level, so everybody could understand what was being passed along. Her many-levels-deep knowledge about everything she’s pitching is way too intense for the average voter.
Only sharing that because if she’s the nominee against the dumbass trump who will mock her every idea, we’re screwed.
Nighty night.
Sleep well, Jacqueline.
Senator Warren as Secretary of the Treasury in the Harris Administration would be spectacular!
Goodnight TOD …
Oh, I like that, Bob! How about (jk) Secretary of Planning and the Treasury? Ha!
Good morning!
When there were 10 fine Democrats on the debate stage last night, but “Chris Matthews” and “Claire McCaskill” are trending on twitter this morning, that’s not gonna work.
Oh, well, today’s another day/another debate!
Morning everyone. He’d fit in this awful administration just perfectly.
In case you missed this good news story the other day:)
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/professors-install-seesaws-across-us-mexico-border/
Ive seen this all over Facebook and Twitter, over and over and over. Cannot LOVE it enough.
Simple and powerful.
The video
Moscow Mitch has heartburn!
SOON – Pete Buttigieg rallies for union workers in Detroit, Michigan – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-1
Of course
For the neigh sayers out there….I saw them all over the place yesterday!
Ominous
Why were the no questions about impeachment last night?
Anyone else notice that?
CNN
I REALLY like him
I realy, really like him. A lot! 🙂 🙂
I do, as well! One of my top three, since day one.
Me too. Wouldn’t mind calling him Mr. President at all.
SWEETNESS BREAK. Valerie Jarrett with her new grandchild.
So sweet ❤️
I was correct when I told a relative that Her daughter, a CNN Legal Correspondent, looked like she was pregnant. My guess then was 3-4 months. This was in May or June. Now, she’s had the baby. Wow! Boy or girl?
😍😍😍
It’s a boy!
Sweet.
Thanks, Meta.
Congrats to Ms. Jarrett and parents of new babeling!!
-the sweet softness of a sacred little head on my shoulder is/was everything, everything.
love.
Awww! ❤️
Am in process of closing out on Twitter ~ someone here posted a protocol for protecting ones handle from being taken over and used by the wicked ones who love to steal identities! Does anyone remember the process, and can you please post it here for me? Thank you.. big hugs all around. MP
******Bingo!!!!!*****
We have to keep pounding this message. TODville, please help spread to your networks far and wide.
I think she’s loopy.
Explains a lot
Thread
Really a great interview if you haven’t seen it:)
All done in our names😥
Good story
thinking about.
The difference between racism and prejudice has been my question for a long time and here’s a take on it:
“Malott and Schaefle (2015) define racism as “a system of oppression, whereby persons of a dominant racial group (whites in the United States) exercise power or privilege over those in nondominant groups”…
According to this argument, only whites can be racist in a white-dominated system (whether that dominance is by numbers or in political and social power).
(https://oxfordre.com/communication/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-164)
—My understanding has been that someone in the non-white group might be described as “prejudiced”, but
not “racist.” Perhaps these terms will be swapped when people of color become the dominant group….
Benito.Must.Go.
Vladdo must be splitting his sides over some of Trump’s obvious and ridiculous claims
–congratulating hisself over what a gross chump he has in the palm of his hand.
NOW: Beto O’Rourke speaks at a round table in Macomb, MI – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-4
The mythical whiteness of Europeans:
“The idea that there were once ‘pure” populations of ancestral Europeans,
there since the days of woolly mammoths, has inspired ideologues since well before the Nazis. It has long nourished white racism and in recents years it has stoked fears about the impact of immigrants….”
Now scientific findings suggest. :
“that the continent has been a melting pot since the Ice Age.
Europeans living today, in whatever country, are a varying mix of ancient bloodlines hailing
from Africa,
the Middle East,
and the Russian steppe.”
“During the past decade it has abeam possible to sequence the entire genome of humans who lived tens of millennia ago….The result has been an explosion of new information that is transformng archaeology. In 2018 alone, the genomes of more than a thousand prehistoric humans were determined, and preserved in museums and archaeological labs. In the process any notion of
European genetic purity
has been swept away
on a tide of powdered bone.”
Incredible chart showing the prehistoric melting pot:
“Hunter-Gatherer, modern humans whose ancestors evolved in Africa, reached Europe some 45,000 years ago. By 6,000 BC Neolotihic farmers from present-day Turkey had joined them in southern Europe before pushing deeper into the continent. The Yamnaya then swept in from Russia.
Most Europeans today have DNA from all three.”
Stunning article that explains how the horseback Yamnaya hitherto unknown, spread across the west behind the Black Death to which they were immune, and spread the indo-Euro languages.
Europeans are part Yanmnaya, part Anatolian farmer and African hunter-gatherer.
–If you like early birthday presents please buy August 2019 National Geographic.
–On so many topics, you will not regret it.
National Geo Article referenced above:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/07/first-europeans-immigrants-genetic-testing-feature/
Sick sexual predator still being served with papers while in prison because of his sexual assaults and rapes of little girls
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/30/us/jeffrey-epstein-lawsuit-papers/index.html
Good Wednesday Afternoon, TODville Community.
💜💙💚💗❣
YES to teachers.
A Must Read statement from the National Cathedral .
About Chairman Cummings:
“”Chairwoman Karen Bass (D-Calif.) said Trump’s words would simply bounce off the 68-year-old Cummings,
the son of sharecroppers who has spent decades fighting for civil rights.
“Congressman Cummings had bottles and rocks thrown at him when he was among the first to integrate his local pool. Your words can’t touch him. He’s not scared of you. He will continue his work,” said Bass, who is traveling with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Black Caucus members this week in Ghana to mark the 400th anniversary of enslaved Africans being brought to America…I’m proud to call him a mentor and a friend.””
(https://thehill.com/homenews/house/455435-democrats-warn-of-trump-trap)
“I have no strategy.” Benito.Must.Go.
LOVE this. The children are watching.
Still with Joe Biden.
Me too. She didn’t pass my 3Ctest for presidential candidates – Character, Competence and Capacity.
Party of Lincoln. Sure.
Moscow Mitch
ANY fucking body is a ‘socialist ‘… if you’re not a Republican!!!😂😂😂😂
This made me laugh till I cried.
Nine hundred and eleven:
1) Last year court order blocked Trump from separating families.
2) Since the court order: Trump has illegally separated at least 911 migrant families.
ACLU: “The government is systematically separating large numbers of families based on minor criminal history, highly dubious allegations of unfitness, and errors in identifying bona fide parent-child relationships,”
(https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/455383-aclu-says-trump-admin-has-separated-over-900-migrant-children-in-past)
“According to the ACLU, approximately 20% of the new separations affected children under 5 years old, compared with just 4% last year.” (Thinkprogress)
Acting HS Security Secretary McAleenan confirmed that BEFORE TRUMP:
Separating families was “incredibly rare”.
News of the above broke just before the debate last night…
Only one question was asked about immigration.
Request: Would moderators TONIGHT please address and shed light on this issue of Trump continuing to separate families and break the law?
–thank you.
Hmmm. Wonder if the net worth of all voters in Kentucky rose similarly over this period.
Don’t think so. #MoscowMitch
Prolly not. Moscow Mitch has gotten rich off his govt position!!
Double ugh!
Sure would be a good idea if Claude Taylor put this info on some strategically placed billboards. The people of KY deserve to know!
Great idea!
You know what would be refreshing? If Democrats controlled all levels of govt and we wouldn’t have to worry and sweat and call over every since GD thing! YEARS of this mess is really draining. Just my opinion
That sounds low to me.
Really??? How arrogant do you have to be to think this is ok?
Frozen penis. Unattached ok??
Ice pick, anyone? 😏 Good gawd, what a …. (Give a word here, DF! 😇)
Moron
You’re so polite! 😇 In honor of yr politeness, I’ll add “degenerate deplorable”! Still trying hard to not toss my tattered Webster’s! 😂
This is a DAM joke isn’t it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sound like Trump.
Why is that? Oh yeah. White pilgrims.
Lahren wants you to stay in Guatemala and let ALL your children die of starvation and dehydration.
She thinks that would be just fine
This should be huge
Investigate Trump’s tool McConnell.
–McConnell is NOT above the law.
MORE VILE RACIST trash talk from white supremacist president:
-TRUMP tweeted:
“CNN’s Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television, insinuated last night while asking a debate ‘question’ that I was a racist, when in fact I am ‘the least racist person in the world.”
Mr. Lemon please repeat Trump’s gross attack and lie at the debate tonight !!
MR. LEMON…
Please say tonight:
“Despite being called….by Trump, I am going to repeat the same question tonight”.
❤️
Awww! 💞
This is so darn lovely !!!
I know, right? 😍
❤️🎹🎤🎼🎵🎶❤️
This is just really really sickening.
Taking bets on how many of them will continue to support him and vote for him. 🥺😨🤨😣😫
Oh they’ll still vote for him.
Every single one of them will vote for him again. It is surprising how strong racism trumps food on the table. Those folks interviewed in coal country will do the same. They have been voting against their interest for years,
Exactly!
Anyone watching the debate? I started to … but am not in the mood to see folks being combative.
Can’t stand Dana Bash either. They are more interested in getting the panelists to be at each other’s throats.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/restoring-our-democracy/
Go Joe GO!