Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills criticized his boss, Stephen Ross, who owns the team, for hosting a re-election fund-raiser for President Trump https://t.co/itNfHhGrAM
So @BetoORourke on @MSNBC@DeadlineWH interview with @jacobsoboroff just straight up called Donald Trump a white supremacist. Not just a white nationalist or a racist, but a white supremacist. Dude is as blunt as it gets.
Further to comments made near end of last thread…
Does anyone else suspect that what Trump has done – especially of a treacherous nature – is being hidden?
Imagine it is so…
I hope such a decision would not be “for our own good”.
YES Russia interfered (did they in fact change votes?) and the outcome = the U.S. elected disastrously.
YES the Trump experiment is a dangerous international embarrassment = we look bad.
But imo worse yet would be to try and save face by waiting 50 years to tell the whole story.
By then we may be burned up, underwater, with H20 and global fascist wars raging, democracy in ashes.
In the name of the future of the planet, the species:
Congress, IC, everyone with the inside story:
Please don’t hold back…the truth is always best…don’t cover up the facts.
And give our future a fighting chance.
‘Ain’t nobody protecting sh*t in this country. Our citizens are dying. They’re dying everywhere.’ — Retired Army Major @VoteOjeda2020 is making a desperate plea for gun reform pic.twitter.com/wU2tnN0VJ2
WSB-TV is reporting that Carolyn Meadows, the president of the NRA who lives in east Cobb, has sought and received law enforcement protection in the wake of this weekend’s massacres in El Paso and Dayton.
Thank you @jonward11 for the painstaking investigation into a proof point of voter suppression’s continued existence AND hyper-local effects. Beyond any single politician, suppression strangles the voice of citizens to engage and act. #Quitman10+2 is prime example. #gapolhttps://t.co/tBYMCw6gPs
The #ATL canopy was bathed in purple light August 7 to commemorate #PurpleHeartDay. The Purple Heart is presented to service members wounded or killed as a result of enemy action while serving in the U.S. military. pic.twitter.com/LcigVOE5Ql
Of course not, the republicans twisted the hashtag #Massacre Mitch to make it to seem like it was a threat, when It really was about how many victims that have died because he won’t do anything on gun reform. I saw that on twitter people were using that hash tag along with #Moscow Mitch.
imo, O’Rourke was a knockout on Rachel Maddow tonight. Incredibly articulate. Wants to rejoin the prez trail.
Great to see how much he glows when in El Paso @ home in TX. (…just sayin Senate also comes to mind.)
Bravo Beto!
Farmers’ discontent over Trump's trade war with China erupted as his Agriculture Secretary was confronted at a rural fair by the president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, who hit the trade dispute’s "devastating damage" in front of Secretary Sonny Perdue.https://t.co/CV04z8BSK7
News via @BobMooreNews –> None of the eight victims still being treated at El Paso's University Medical Center agreed to meet with President Trump today when he visited the hospital https://t.co/gMzjIc3nil
9/ How much more effective would every national Democratic politician be if every time s/he was asked to respond to a Trumpian rant or some far-right BS from stooges like Jim Jordan or Doug Collins, "I don't have any reaction. I don't care. Here's what I'm here to talk about…"
NEW: Harry Reid endorses term limits for the Supreme Court: "When the Constitution was written, no one ever expected judges to live to be 80 years old. … I think that’s something we need.”https://t.co/0bXa9FV3IJ
One huge irony: While Trump demonizes and endangers non-white immigrants by calling them “invaders” and an “infestation,” he invites REAL foreign invaders — from Russia and other alien powers who mean us harm — to attack our election systems and hack our voting machines.
“Are Christians discriminated against in the United States?
[Here’s an editorial from today’s Orlando Sentinel (via AP) which I found thoughtful and thought-provoking].
Over the past few years, I’ve increasingly heard fellow Christians complaining that our faith is under assault. I’ve even heard it claimed that Christians are the most mistreated faith group in the United States.
When delivering a couple of graduation commencement addresses this past spring, Vice President Mike Pence warned the graduates at the Christian universities where he was speaking that it has become “acceptable, even fashionable, to malign traditional Christian beliefs” and “to ridicule and even discriminate against people of faith.”
I must admit that respect for the Christian brand has indeed taken a hit over the past few years. As a Christian, I find that disturbing. But I also have to admit that it hasn’t happened in a vacuum. The sad fact is, various wearers of the Christian label have, in varying degrees, damaged our entire brand by their actions and attitudes.
Onlookers don’t need much exposure to Westboro Baptist Church before concluding that if such vitriolic epithets and antics represent true Christianity, then Christianity is a religion to be avoided if not actively opposed.
While the Westboro Baptists clearly are extremists, some other groups wearing the Christian label have a similar but more subtle modus operandi. Their rhetoric and the laws and policies they promote give the impression that their prime goal is making life difficult for those they consider vile sinners.
So is there any insight that would be equally helpful to Christians and non-Christians, believers and non-believers?
In Deuteronomy 25:14, Moses issued a highly practical and truly insightful prohibition: “Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. You must have accurate and honest weights and measures.”
In other words, don’t have two purportedly 16-ounce scoops — one that holds only 14 ounces (which you use when selling “16 ounces” of grain), and one that holds 18 ounces (which you use when buying “16 ounces” of grain).
The principle is clear: Avoid double standards. Ensure evenhandedness, fairness and equity for all.
We read in the Torah: “Do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.” Conversely, “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits” (Deuteronomy 23: 3, 6). In short, have a fixed standard that applies equally to those who share your family lineage, your race, your religion, your political affiliation, your nationality — as well as to those with whom you have nothing in common.
That was Jesus’ point when he propounded what we call the Golden Rule: “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you” (i.e. the measure we use in dishing it out should be the measure we’d hope would be used when others are dishing it back — no double standards).
Every form of ill will in our pantheon of human prejudice and bigotry, when carefully analyzed, has at its root either an outright refusal or unwitting failure to employ a consistent standard. Racism — double standard. White supremacy — double standard. Sexism — double standard. Xenophobia — double standard. Christian nationalism — double standard. Hypocrisy in all its forms — double standard. Damning sin in one person while excusing the same behavior in someone else — double standard.
And speaking of sinners, Jesus seems to take pride in the fact that God “causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45)—which is the epitome of evenhandedness. No double standard there.
Moses mandated consistent measurement standards. Jesus added a threat: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Matthew 7:1, 2).
If we Christians are feeling mistreated and discriminated against, perhaps our very first response should be to seriously ask ourselves: Is it at all possible that we’re simply having thrown back at us what too many of us have been guilty of dishing out to others?
Robert J. Ray, a risk-management consultant, is a member of the executive committee of the Interfaith Council of Central Florida.”
Thank you for sharing this, Pamela. I converted to eastern Orthodoxy from Judaism when I married my husband in 1986, he’s Greek. I had to take classes from the priest to learn what was in the bible. This is so true.
I, also, think people turned away from church, when the church did nothing about the priests that were accused of Pedophilia, they just moved them to another church.
The last few weeks of the Trump Show have been more awful than usual but also inadvertently revelatory @ Trump's coalition.If you've paid attention, you've suspected this stuff for a long time,but bc T says the quiet parts out loud,a lot of GOP masks have definitively dropped: /1
Wow! That’s a LOT of hate-filled men with easy access to guns massacring innocent people because those in government would rather cling to their bags of NRA/Moscow blood money than pass background checks or red flag laws and save lives!
New from Rep. Gerry Connolly: "After careful thought and consideration, I believe the time has come for the House of Representatives to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Donald J. Trump." https://t.co/lUTZHKI15U
Bill Clinton: Reinstate the Assault Weapons Ban Now
"As the 1994 assault-weapons ban shows, deaths from mass shootings fell while the number of hunting licenses actually increased. No one has to give up their culture to save the lives of innocent people."https://t.co/aGXIs16NIX
The Trump administration sent this former refugee — whom our country embraced and raised as an American after shattering his homeland for oil — to his death in a land completely foreign to him, just to reduce the brown population by one. The cruelty just never ends. https://t.co/PHCqLjuzW1
In 2011, Buttigieg was elected mayor of South Bend. The military didn't care much that their reservist was a mayor, and in 2014 Buttigieg got a call he'd been expecting since enlisting: He was told to pack for Afghanistan.
Today we issue a travel warning calling for travelers & visitors to the United States to exercise extreme caution & have a contingency plan when travelling throughout the country. This is due to ongoin rampant gun violence in the United States. pic.twitter.com/eVVeMnAOOP
ICYMI: Yesterday, Amnesty International issued a travel advisory for the United States of America, cautioning those visiting and traveling to the country to exercise extreme caution in light of rampant gun violence.
IOWA DEM CAUCUS POLL: Iowa Dems preference for health insurance coverage:
21% Medicare for All type system, no private 56% Allow opt into Medicare or keep private coverage 13% Tighter cost regulation on current system 4% Keep current system as ishttps://t.co/156jZczKvV
“Trump’s Economy Is Creating 30,000 Fewer Jobs Per Month Than Obama’s.”
“First, any economic successes he touts – a strong stock market and low unemployment, in particular – began long before he took office.
Like everything else in his life, he is just slapping his name on it and hoping people think it’s his creation.
Second, the actions he has taken so far that directly impact the economy – trade wars hurting farmers and consumers, and a tax cut that benefits only the biggest corporations and wealthiest individuals – are unpopular and poor economic policy. If given another four years, these policies are likely to do severe damage that will undo the strong economy Trump inherited.” (politicus.usa, Colarossi)
Trump neither understand tariffs, nor the relationship between Russia and China….
“China dominates every aspect of the two countries’ partnership. Its economy is six times larger
(at purchasing-power parity) and its power is growing,
EVEN AS RUSSIA FADES….
What seemed a brilliant way for Mr Putin to turn his back on the West and magnify Russia’s influence
is looking like a trap that his country will find hard to escape.
Far from being an equal partner, Russia is evolving into a Chinese tributary…the real news is
how rapidly Russia is becoming dependent on its giant neighbour.”
(Economist)
Rahm Emmanuel, inciteful article concludes:
“Right now, we actually have the benefit of hindsight. No matter how passionately Democrats of different stripes disagree on issues of tactics, or even on issues of policy, our problems aren’t with one another—they’re with Trump and his minions. The progressives who went to war with one another in the late 1960s didn’t understand that they were rolling out a red carpet for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush—but we do.
Our job is to maintain the strategic discipline required to keep the party focused on what really matters. To prevent this coming election from becoming a redux of 1968 and 1972, we need to hold fast to our policy accomplishments, understand how we achieved them and make that progressive approach our strategy for pushing the country further ahead.”
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/08/emanuel-obama-2020-democrats-227511)
I'm told by two House staffers that this was a big reason that we saw an influx of members calling for impeachment. One name definitely involved here: Dmitry Rybolovlev https://t.co/zRtsonO7eL
“Gary Wertish, president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, drew applause as he leveled criticism of the administration’s trade policy at a forum with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in front of thousands of farmers gathered in a metal barn for a panel discussion.
American farmers took a fresh financial hit from Trump’s trade war over the weekend as China announced a halt to all U.S. agricultural imports after the president threatened Beijing with another tariff increase.
Wertish criticized Trump’s “go-it-alone approach” and the trade dispute’s “devastating damage not only to rural communities.” He expressed fears Trump’s $28 billion in trade aid will undermine public support for federal farm subsidies, saying the assistance is already being pilloried “as a welfare program, as bailouts.”
(Benen)
These motherfuckers are up shit creek and they are complaining that the bailouts they are receiving might get called “welfare?” Well it is welfare, and if they don’t like it, then don’t take it. That’s what they get for voting for trump.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good afternoon, TOD! Nerdy, as always, I’m grateful for this calm port you provide. It is a safe harbor from the storms of life. Thank you.
Hey Alycee ❤
Thank You, lady NW for all You do for Us.
VP Biden Gave a Wonderful Speech. I was able to hear about 10 Mins of it. I’m now listening to the full speech.
I meant to type above that I listened to 2mins of VP Biden’s speech initially, not 10 mins.
Rather have sleepy Joe in White House then lying white supremacist Trump
Yes it was a wonderful speech by Joe Biden. I am proud to have listen to every word.
Most if not all of the owners are Trump supporters. What does that say about them?
There is a god
Further to comments made near end of last thread…
Does anyone else suspect that what Trump has done – especially of a treacherous nature – is being hidden?
Imagine it is so…
I hope such a decision would not be “for our own good”.
YES Russia interfered (did they in fact change votes?) and the outcome = the U.S. elected disastrously.
YES the Trump experiment is a dangerous international embarrassment = we look bad.
But imo worse yet would be to try and save face by waiting 50 years to tell the whole story.
By then we may be burned up, underwater, with H20 and global fascist wars raging, democracy in ashes.
In the name of the future of the planet, the species:
Congress, IC, everyone with the inside story:
Please don’t hold back…the truth is always best…don’t cover up the facts.
And give our future a fighting chance.
I hope he runs for the Senate.
Me too
Sweet.
Woof Woof! 🐶
❤
YAY!
Fingers crossed! Let’s go, Democrats!
President Obama and Michelle Obama arrived on Martha’s Vineyard Sunday. Obama is seen playing golf with Steph Curry, Ray Allen
Joe Biden looked and sounded like a US President today.
Totally agree. For those of us looking for even an hour of comfort amid the carnage, we got what we came for.
Over at DU someone posted a Tweet with pictures of children whose parents were rounded up by ICE today.
I don’t know who has the heart to do this?
Why does the GOP hate children?
MassacreMitch is NOT a victim here!
What was this in response to DF? Is it the chanting of Moscow Mitch?
Some people were chanting Moscow Mitch and I believe others were chanting Massacre Mitch.
I think it was the shouting him down at Fancy Farm.
Guess Team Mitch hasn’t met Team Trump, yet.
Of course not, the republicans twisted the hashtag #Massacre Mitch to make it to seem like it was a threat, when It really was about how many victims that have died because he won’t do anything on gun reform. I saw that on twitter people were using that hash tag along with #Moscow Mitch.
🙏🏾❤️
imo, O’Rourke was a knockout on Rachel Maddow tonight. Incredibly articulate. Wants to rejoin the prez trail.
Great to see how much he glows when in El Paso @ home in TX. (…just sayin Senate also comes to mind.)
Bravo Beto!
Morning everyone. All this chaos is unsustainable
Good! I guess their kool-aide went sour
So he spread propaganda instead
The Mayor and ol’ Sherrod totally impressed me, with how they handled the awful visit.
They stayed “high” even tho uko went low
This is bullshit. Truly all you need to know. They’re willing to look the other way as long as they never have to pay their fair share. Got it
I WISH THEY ALL DID THIS!
That would be very effective
Just dropping this here
All the more remarkable when you realize these are culturally biased tests.
❤️❤️❤️
wow. 100%.
From an old high school friend living in Florida:
“Are Christians discriminated against in the United States?
[Here’s an editorial from today’s Orlando Sentinel (via AP) which I found thoughtful and thought-provoking].
Over the past few years, I’ve increasingly heard fellow Christians complaining that our faith is under assault. I’ve even heard it claimed that Christians are the most mistreated faith group in the United States.
When delivering a couple of graduation commencement addresses this past spring, Vice President Mike Pence warned the graduates at the Christian universities where he was speaking that it has become “acceptable, even fashionable, to malign traditional Christian beliefs” and “to ridicule and even discriminate against people of faith.”
I must admit that respect for the Christian brand has indeed taken a hit over the past few years. As a Christian, I find that disturbing. But I also have to admit that it hasn’t happened in a vacuum. The sad fact is, various wearers of the Christian label have, in varying degrees, damaged our entire brand by their actions and attitudes.
Onlookers don’t need much exposure to Westboro Baptist Church before concluding that if such vitriolic epithets and antics represent true Christianity, then Christianity is a religion to be avoided if not actively opposed.
While the Westboro Baptists clearly are extremists, some other groups wearing the Christian label have a similar but more subtle modus operandi. Their rhetoric and the laws and policies they promote give the impression that their prime goal is making life difficult for those they consider vile sinners.
So is there any insight that would be equally helpful to Christians and non-Christians, believers and non-believers?
In Deuteronomy 25:14, Moses issued a highly practical and truly insightful prohibition: “Do not have two differing measures in your house—one large, one small. You must have accurate and honest weights and measures.”
In other words, don’t have two purportedly 16-ounce scoops — one that holds only 14 ounces (which you use when selling “16 ounces” of grain), and one that holds 18 ounces (which you use when buying “16 ounces” of grain).
The principle is clear: Avoid double standards. Ensure evenhandedness, fairness and equity for all.
We read in the Torah: “Do not show favoritism to a poor person in a lawsuit.” Conversely, “Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits” (Deuteronomy 23: 3, 6). In short, have a fixed standard that applies equally to those who share your family lineage, your race, your religion, your political affiliation, your nationality — as well as to those with whom you have nothing in common.
That was Jesus’ point when he propounded what we call the Golden Rule: “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you” (i.e. the measure we use in dishing it out should be the measure we’d hope would be used when others are dishing it back — no double standards).
Every form of ill will in our pantheon of human prejudice and bigotry, when carefully analyzed, has at its root either an outright refusal or unwitting failure to employ a consistent standard. Racism — double standard. White supremacy — double standard. Sexism — double standard. Xenophobia — double standard. Christian nationalism — double standard. Hypocrisy in all its forms — double standard. Damning sin in one person while excusing the same behavior in someone else — double standard.
And speaking of sinners, Jesus seems to take pride in the fact that God “causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45)—which is the epitome of evenhandedness. No double standard there.
Moses mandated consistent measurement standards. Jesus added a threat: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Matthew 7:1, 2).
If we Christians are feeling mistreated and discriminated against, perhaps our very first response should be to seriously ask ourselves: Is it at all possible that we’re simply having thrown back at us what too many of us have been guilty of dishing out to others?
Robert J. Ray, a risk-management consultant, is a member of the executive committee of the Interfaith Council of Central Florida.”
Thank you for sharing this, Pamela. I converted to eastern Orthodoxy from Judaism when I married my husband in 1986, he’s Greek. I had to take classes from the priest to learn what was in the bible. This is so true.
I, also, think people turned away from church, when the church did nothing about the priests that were accused of Pedophilia, they just moved them to another church.
Thread
Another
Sincere thanks for your voice President Clinton.
This or roving bands of Trump nutters with military-style weapons.
Rage.
Send.Trump.
Send.Pence.
And they care nothing of the death and destruction they cause. Fight on, Lucy!
NOW: Elizabeth Warren visits farm in Harlan, Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-7
What were they thinking when they decided to vote for an incompetent, unwilling to learn, stubborn, and con artist?
YAY, thanks JER for posting this ❤
Castro 😩
“Trump’s Economy Is Creating 30,000 Fewer Jobs Per Month Than Obama’s.”
“First, any economic successes he touts – a strong stock market and low unemployment, in particular – began long before he took office.
Like everything else in his life, he is just slapping his name on it and hoping people think it’s his creation.
Second, the actions he has taken so far that directly impact the economy – trade wars hurting farmers and consumers, and a tax cut that benefits only the biggest corporations and wealthiest individuals – are unpopular and poor economic policy. If given another four years, these policies are likely to do severe damage that will undo the strong economy Trump inherited.” (politicus.usa, Colarossi)
Trump neither understand tariffs, nor the relationship between Russia and China….
“China dominates every aspect of the two countries’ partnership. Its economy is six times larger
(at purchasing-power parity) and its power is growing,
EVEN AS RUSSIA FADES….
What seemed a brilliant way for Mr Putin to turn his back on the West and magnify Russia’s influence
is looking like a trap that his country will find hard to escape.
Far from being an equal partner, Russia is evolving into a Chinese tributary…the real news is
how rapidly Russia is becoming dependent on its giant neighbour.”
(Economist)
“Although Russia and China do indeed undermine the West’s notion of universal values,
with President Donald Trump in the White House that doctrine is, alas, hardly being applied universally
in any case.”
(https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/07/27/partnership-is-much-better-for-china-than-it-is-for-russia)
President Clinton noted that:
“other nations have comparable rates of mental illness to the U.S. but vastly smaller rates of gun violence.”
(https://thehill.com/homenews/media/456696-clinton-expands-on-call-to-reinstate-assault-weapons-ban-its-a-different-world)
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
Blessed are the TODbots for they help calm many of Us down.
🙏💙🙏💪😍😍😍
Rahm Emmanuel, inciteful article concludes:
“Right now, we actually have the benefit of hindsight. No matter how passionately Democrats of different stripes disagree on issues of tactics, or even on issues of policy, our problems aren’t with one another—they’re with Trump and his minions. The progressives who went to war with one another in the late 1960s didn’t understand that they were rolling out a red carpet for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush—but we do.
Our job is to maintain the strategic discipline required to keep the party focused on what really matters. To prevent this coming election from becoming a redux of 1968 and 1972, we need to hold fast to our policy accomplishments, understand how we achieved them and make that progressive approach our strategy for pushing the country further ahead.”
(https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/08/emanuel-obama-2020-democrats-227511)
“Gary Wertish, president of the Minnesota Farmers Union, drew applause as he leveled criticism of the administration’s trade policy at a forum with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in front of thousands of farmers gathered in a metal barn for a panel discussion.
American farmers took a fresh financial hit from Trump’s trade war over the weekend as China announced a halt to all U.S. agricultural imports after the president threatened Beijing with another tariff increase.
Wertish criticized Trump’s “go-it-alone approach” and the trade dispute’s “devastating damage not only to rural communities.” He expressed fears Trump’s $28 billion in trade aid will undermine public support for federal farm subsidies, saying the assistance is already being pilloried “as a welfare program, as bailouts.”
(Benen)
“We are not starting to do great again,”
Thalmann (President of Minnesota Com Growers Association) told the Agriculture secretary.
“We are starting to go down very quickly.””
(http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/farmers-frustrations-trump-erupted-the-open-minnesota#break)
= How’s the FICTION going today Benito?
These motherfuckers are up shit creek and they are complaining that the bailouts they are receiving might get called “welfare?” Well it is welfare, and if they don’t like it, then don’t take it. That’s what they get for voting for trump.
The fucking gall, the balls, “oh I don’t want you guys to call it welfare because you know, welfare is for those other people.”
Please share this important information with anyone in your network who may be the target of Trump’s gestapo.
NOW: Elizabeth Warren hosts town hall in Jefferson, Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-7
NOW: More… Joe Biden attends Iowa State Fair – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-3
The dance is indeed underway.
INDEED!!!
Armed and stalking immigrants. HEADS UP.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/08/08/we-dont-fear-the-future/