A #TrumpRecession hasn't even begun, but we know it's inevitable. He has done more damage to this economy while riding the benefits Obama created and calling them his own.
Russia’s interference in our elections will continue to threaten our democracy until Republicans join Democrats to stop it. @MichaelBennet’s new book shines a spotlight on this critical issue.
Every Election Day In Alabama, I deal with folks who think they’re set to vote but can’t b/c of long lines at polls, ID issues, voter roll purges, etc. So grateful @staceyabrams is raising the profile of this issue & developing solutions. We need this. https://t.co/5VyiMI5AQM
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris reacts to Ken Cuccinelli’s comments about the Statue of Liberty and Steve King’s statements about rape and incest. “These guys are just out of their minds…They do not understand the importance and responsibility of their jobs.” pic.twitter.com/AlNOuuVamZ
Prince Andrew announced his retirement today from public life after a long period of severe personal stress. In a statement, his Royal Highness added he is ‘following advice’ from his doctor. There was no comment from #buckinghampalace@BBCScotlandNews BBC-NEWS pic.twitter.com/gtxurRvPQb
I just saw that, and our own LL confirms it, too! Sorry I posted it!
OK everyone, Prince Andrew is NOT retiring. That was a fake BBC account which put out the story. Although I'm quite sure his ass is gonna lay low for a while.
I have news! Excited to share that I’ll be an exclusive @CNN#PoliticalCommentator for the 2020 cycle. Ya’ll it took me 7 years to land this, my first TV deal! Proud and poised to keep speaking truth to power. More to come!✊🏽👊🏽 @CNNPRpic.twitter.com/Cg3GdWnbgB
Congratulations to her! I always like her when she’s on MSNBC and also like when she hosts the early morning show on Progressive Talk, Channel 127 on Sirius.
‘Many people know that I was working in a restaurant when I got elected, but they don’t know why.’ — Rep. @AOC opened up about her family’s struggle and her father's battle with lung cancer in a hearing on affordable health care pic.twitter.com/Ca2B5LfjJK
Even more important for these next two rounds of tariffs is the MASSIVE increase in scope of PRODUCT COVERAGE.
Share of US imports from China covered by special tariffs: • Jan 1, 2018: 8.1% • Sept 23, 2018: 50.6% • Sept 1, 2019: 68.5% • Dec 15, 2019: 96.8% pic.twitter.com/1qxJXdfqbZ
This is TV series is a masterpiece. It is so beautifully done. Oprah was right. It’s like poetry in motion. And the actor playing David so beautiful. He’s like art.
Rachel Maddow:
“The short story here about Mitch McConnell is that he, more than anybody else in Washington, has blocked U.S. efforts to constrain or respond to Russia’s recent attacks. That’s why they’re calling him Moscow Mitch now.
But in this particular instance, his state, an economically disadvantaged part of his state, got a $200 million investment from a kremlin-connected oligarch immediately after McConnell personally stepped in to make sure sanctions on that oligarch were dropped, despite his role in what happened to our election in 2016 and despite bipartisan support even from his own party for those sanctions. But don’t just look back at this. Look forward. Right? I mean, the FBI says Russia’s going to do to our election in 2020 what they did to it in 2016. No reason to expect 2020 is going to be any different.”
Maddow: “If Oleg Deripaska is one of the two or three oligarchs Putin looks to get his work done around the world, given what we know he did in 2016, should we expect Deripaska is going to be involved in Russia’s 2020 operations as well? You have to say the odds of that are better now than they were before Mitch Mcconnell sold off this corner of his state…..(see link)….But now, Oleg Deripaska’s business activities, the health of his business empire, that’s part and parcel of the hard-scrabble economy in one of Kentucky’s neediest economies.”
Maddow: “This is a plant that’s over a billion dollars. 40% owned by the company of this kremlin-connected oligarch. You’re not going to be able to sanction him no matter what he does to our 2020 election or whatever else he does at all. It would strangle Kentucky in the process. There would be hundreds, if not thousands of American jobs riding on anything you did to that Russian guy’s company or, frankly, anything you did to bother him. He now holds all of those American jobs in his hand. The U.S. Government does anything to bother him, he can take them away at will. You can’t do anything to his company, not without him exerting that leverage over Kentucky in response. And that damage has already been done.”
Jason Easley: “McConnell did this to cement the relationship between Russia and the Republican Party. Republicans can now claim that Russian business interests, like the one in Kentucky, can’t be sanctioned, because if they are, it will hurt American jobs. If a future Democratic Congress and president would sanction a Russian oligarch with a business interest in the US, Republicans can use that to claim that Democrats are killing jobs. Moscow Mitch has gone beyond leaving the backdoor unlocked for Russia to interfere in US elections. He has rolled out the red carpet and given Putin a seat at the political table by inviting Russia in through the front door of the US economy.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/14/rachel-maddow-mitch-mcconnell-russia.html)
“McConnell’s actions are nothing less than economic treason.”
FACT:
Moscow Mitch McConnell blocked ALL jobs bills, including veterans bills, while PBO was saving working overtime to save the U.S. and world economy from a 2nd Depression.
WRONG! Israel is a democracy. Weak, fearful countries don't allow critics in. But then as someone weak and fearful and not pro-democracy you don't get that, I know. And btw how DARE the US president advocate for excluding an American from anywhere in the world. #AmericaLast
“We’re ducking and dodging bullets everyday…We can’t even take our kids out to play. Now we’ve got to worry about water? Water is a necessity for life. How can we survive without clean water?” https://t.co/3iIbcfayyJ
Pete Buttigieg on gun control: "When one of your friends … says, 'Look, you can't do anything because that's unconstitutional 'cause that would be infringing.' And the word 'infringe' is in there … remind them that the word 'well-regulated' is in there too." @MTPFirstRead
More than 250,000 people sign petition to rename the Fifth Avenue block in front of Trump Tower in New York City to "President Barack H. Obama Avenue" https://t.co/8TW1XVJ0rQpic.twitter.com/Rb9xKr3zRB
Omar and Tlaib — the first two Muslim women in Congress — were slated to arrive in Israel weekend, but President Trump had lobbied Israeli leaders to bar them from entering the country https://t.co/lhrKpoIKIO
📌BREAKING: We Won just in # Georgia! We were in court fighting for the integrity of our elections. The federal court judge bars the use of hackable DRE voting machines after 2019.
We can't let up now now. We won't stop fighting to advance and defend your right to vote. pic.twitter.com/PAT4V7jzTg
— Lawyers' Committee ☎️866-OUR-VOTE (@LawyersComm) August 15, 2019
Chairman Nadler on Israel denying entry to Reps Omar and Tlaib:
““It is utterly egregious for the Israeli government to deny entry to two sitting members of the United States Congress. The close relationship enjoyed by the United States and Israel should extend to all its government representatives, regardless of their views on specific issues or policies. This decision undermines the ability for our two allied countries to have the frank, open and, at times, difficult discussions that we must have in order to ensure Israel remains a secure and democratic nation.
“I strongly condemn this decision and urge the Israeli government to allow entry to these Congresswomen and welcome them in the respectful, dignified manner to which they are entitled as official representatives of the United States.”
(https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394038)
Israel blocked the two Congresswomen after the Snake-In-Chief Trump Benito tweeted for them to be denied entry. He mega-lied by saying: “They hate Israel and all Jewish people, and there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds.”
Unfit.For.Office.
Robert Reich:
“This trade war with China – not only is there no strategy, but it also is extremely dangerous,” Reich stressed to Melber. “(These are) the largest and second-largest economies in the entire world, and to have them going at each other is dangerous for the whole world economy.”
“When it comes to economic policy, Reich warned, Trump is erratic and unfocused.”
“This is a president who not only doesn’t know detail, but he lies about the details he does know,” Reich told Melber. “So no, there’s not going to be any focus. There’s no economic strategy.”
(https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/economist-robert-reich-warns-that-the-sugar-high-of-trumponomics-wont-last-the-economy-is-very-very-fragile/)
—-Reich predicts 50% chance of recession come Election Day.
This morning, I’m announcing that I’m no longer running for President. While this campaign didn’t have the outcome we were hoping for, every moment has been worthwhile & I’m thankful to everyone who supported this campaign and our entire team.https://t.co/1ijSjkbzzd
I have only two requirements from the Democratic nominee. First, he or she must not be obviously mentally unstable. Second, the nominee must not be in any way sympathetic — or worse, potentially beholden — to a hostile foreign power.”
Economic Policy Institute:
“CEO pay has risen 940% since 1978. The typical worker’s pay has risen 11.9%:
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute reports that CEO compensation continues to be very high compared with typical worker compensation (by a ratio of 278-to-1 or 221-to-1). That ratio has soared over the past half-century. The CEO-to-typical-worker compensation ratio with stock options realized was 20-to-1 in 1965
and 58-to-1 in 1989.” (Daily Kos)
“Why it matters:
Exorbitant CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality that we could safely do away with.
CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills. This escalation of CEO compensation, and of executive compensation more generally, has fueled the growth of top 1.0% and top 0.1% incomes, leaving less of the fruits of economic growth for ordinary workers and widening the gap between very high earners and the bottom 90%. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more).”
(https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/)
New Fox News poll has Warren jumping Bernie into 2nd place, Biden 11 pts. ahead. And a near even divide (48-47) on what is a central question of the primary: is it more important for someone to build on Obama's legacy or take a new approach. https://t.co/ARa1td4Iglpic.twitter.com/rJsCK1ksGm
I can't stress this enough: This Fox News poll is yet another poll where Donald Trump is pulling a lower level of support against the potential Democrats than his job approval.
Trump's approval in the poll is 43%, yet he can't crack 39% against anyone.
This question implies that it must be one or the other. In my opinion, building on President Obama’s legacy does not exclude taking a new approach on some issues…especially given this climate where Republicans have thrown away core vales of our democracy and are kowtowing to the current occupant of the WH who has added more toxicity to the swamp he pledged to drain.
Any approach with the goal of improving the lives of the poor and working class (health care, education, jobs, etc.), improves our environment, and raises our standing in the world represents HOPE and CHANGE and is a continuation of the Obama legacy. Don’t let the media frame a different approach as an attack on/denouncement of the Obama administration.
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
The #1619Project is a powerful and necessary reckoning of our history. We cannot understand and address the problems of today without speaking truth about how we got here. https://t.co/W6gFOJ1zj6
I hope everyone has a good evening.
I was reading about Antonio Basco whose wife of 22 years, Margie, was killed in El Paso … made me sad and cry. I hope he meets and makes good friends who will help him through this extremely sad time and support him in the future.
Why can’t all humans love one another and live peacefully 💞. Here’s hoping for a more loving future.
For all the TODers birthdays that I’ve missed, sending happy-happy birthday wishes to you, please forgive my belated wishes or upcoming ones, & go shake a leg (give it your best shake 💃)! Love from the DMV (DC, MD, VA)! 💞
Broken record here. Hope his outspokenness rubs off on the rest of them. Every one of them. No holes barred. Hold nothing back when talking about Trump. Repeat: policy can wait. If ALL of them take it to Trump all the time, he will totally and completely lose it. He can’t handle all of them going after him day after day.
Brian Williams’ last segment mentioned some of the history of America we’re commemorating this month … how we opened the Panama Canal … VJ Day, helping to “save the world” …
… and he compared some of that with the fact that today – in 2019 – the elected officials in the city of Newark, New Jersey, cannot get clean drinking water delivered through the pipes of the homes of the people who live there because there is lead in the pipes, so the residents must stand in the summer heat in long lines to pick up heavy bottled water packs to take home because the city leaders can’t deliver the bottled water to them, either …
… well done, Brian, on pushing that perspective and those non-priorities, which is freaking unbelievable.
My 8-y/o great grandson has done a perfect singing-along version of Old Town Road on video for me, which is the only reason I know who this guy is! Ha.
Better to end the evening on a high note. Goodnight, TODville!
Atlanta Public Schools has expanded the number of schools that offer free breakfast and lunch to every student, regardless of family income. https://t.co/DWdoNvRDEL
Two days after identifying himself as “a white nationalist,” Boleno said he was persuaded by state and Fulton County GOP officials to exit the contest. https://t.co/81W7kMhgSN
President and CEO, USGBC.
“President Obama is a global leader and a longtime friend of the green building community. While in office, his administration negotiated the landmark Paris Climate Accords, expanded the impact of our field and helped open the door for energy efficiency investments in both the public and private sectors. I know that when he joins us on the keynote stage in November, he will impart his ideas, passion and vision to our growing global green building family.”
“Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. He took office at a moment of crisis unlike any America had seen in decades – a nation at war, a planet in peril, the American Dream itself threatened by the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression.
And yet, despite all manner of political obstruction,
Obama’s leadership helped rescue the economy, revitalize the American auto industry, reform the health care system to cover another 20 million Americans, and put the country on a firm course to a clean energy future –all while overseeing the longest stretch of job creation in American history. “
Had not realized that Simone was also a victim of the sexual predator ‘medical doctor’.
Imagine 1) dealing with it when no one knew and 2) recovering from that while motivating yourself to compete..
Morning everyone. I heard her say it last night. This is where we are and Republicans are silent and enabling this to happen here. Vote them all out before it’s too late
"Since Putin came to power in 2000, Russia has used economic leverage to “force a change in policy” or undermine governments in at least 19 European countries…"https://t.co/aLvWpig7Fk
.@ChanceTheRapper on why he's committed donating more than million dollars to Chicago mental health services: "Mental health & mental wellness are extremely important to me & everybody because we all know people that are affected by it & we can all be affected by it" #ChanceOnGMApic.twitter.com/fIdRivwbD8
… Stephen Colbert began Thursday’s Late Show monologue with “a fun story” for his audience. “There is a petition currently circulating here in New York City to rename the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets ‘President Barack Obama Avenue,'” he said. “To make the honor complete, whenever a car tries to turn left it will be blocked by Mitch McConnell.” … https://theweek.com/speedreads/859371/stephen-colbert-endorses-placing-trump-tower-obama-avenue-explains-how-liberals-troll
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Simone Biles and Michelle Obama – two supernovas who know how to soar!
Do not let him rearrange history
President Obama has released his summer reading list!!
I want to read HIS book. Any speculation about when it will be released? I’d love to go to a book talk in fall of 2020!
The only thing I’ve heard is Fall 2020!
Yippee!!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was just coming here (late) to see if that was posted yet! Love!
Waiting for Trump’s summer reading list? Can’t wait.
I can wait 😏
Thanks, Lady NW❣
Congrats, Judith on your Au ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Good Afternoon, TODbots.
Dow down 800.46 points😮😶
If it takes a recession to get rid of tRump, that’s okay by me.
“which he” summerizes the “rape & Incest” nonsense that some ine the GOP use as an argument about abortion. Truly despicable & offensive.
Telepathy, I guess that’s what happened here.
🙏😍🙏
🙄👀😮😶🤷♀️🤦♀️🤔
No connection to Epstein is it?
Sure sounds like it may be.
Saw on Twitter this is not true. A fake account. However, guessing the Prince will be ‘laying low” for awhile.
I just saw that, and our own LL confirms it, too! Sorry I posted it!
And some others as well!!
HA!!
I’ll give in exchange Moscow Mitch, Orange and their own f**** families.
Congratulations to her! I always like her when she’s on MSNBC and also like when she hosts the early morning show on Progressive Talk, Channel 127 on Sirius.
Goodnight TOD ….
AOC on pharma!
imo AOC is a treasure.
Announcement expected today.
Buckle up.
That is for sure. Putin is winning.
Morning everyone
Good morning, df!
This series sounds fascinating! Hooked already, before it’s airing! 😂😇
The New York Times: ‘David Makes Man’ Is a Complex Portrait of Black Boyhood.
This is TV series is a masterpiece. It is so beautifully done. Oprah was right. It’s like poetry in motion. And the actor playing David so beautiful. He’s like art.
Rachel Maddow:
“The short story here about Mitch McConnell is that he, more than anybody else in Washington, has blocked U.S. efforts to constrain or respond to Russia’s recent attacks. That’s why they’re calling him Moscow Mitch now.
But in this particular instance, his state, an economically disadvantaged part of his state, got a $200 million investment from a kremlin-connected oligarch immediately after McConnell personally stepped in to make sure sanctions on that oligarch were dropped, despite his role in what happened to our election in 2016 and despite bipartisan support even from his own party for those sanctions. But don’t just look back at this. Look forward. Right? I mean, the FBI says Russia’s going to do to our election in 2020 what they did to it in 2016. No reason to expect 2020 is going to be any different.”
Maddow: “If Oleg Deripaska is one of the two or three oligarchs Putin looks to get his work done around the world, given what we know he did in 2016, should we expect Deripaska is going to be involved in Russia’s 2020 operations as well? You have to say the odds of that are better now than they were before Mitch Mcconnell sold off this corner of his state…..(see link)….But now, Oleg Deripaska’s business activities, the health of his business empire, that’s part and parcel of the hard-scrabble economy in one of Kentucky’s neediest economies.”
Maddow: “This is a plant that’s over a billion dollars. 40% owned by the company of this kremlin-connected oligarch. You’re not going to be able to sanction him no matter what he does to our 2020 election or whatever else he does at all. It would strangle Kentucky in the process. There would be hundreds, if not thousands of American jobs riding on anything you did to that Russian guy’s company or, frankly, anything you did to bother him. He now holds all of those American jobs in his hand. The U.S. Government does anything to bother him, he can take them away at will. You can’t do anything to his company, not without him exerting that leverage over Kentucky in response. And that damage has already been done.”
Jason Easley: “McConnell did this to cement the relationship between Russia and the Republican Party. Republicans can now claim that Russian business interests, like the one in Kentucky, can’t be sanctioned, because if they are, it will hurt American jobs. If a future Democratic Congress and president would sanction a Russian oligarch with a business interest in the US, Republicans can use that to claim that Democrats are killing jobs. Moscow Mitch has gone beyond leaving the backdoor unlocked for Russia to interfere in US elections. He has rolled out the red carpet and given Putin a seat at the political table by inviting Russia in through the front door of the US economy.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/14/rachel-maddow-mitch-mcconnell-russia.html)
“McConnell’s actions are nothing less than economic treason.”
FACT:
Moscow Mitch McConnell blocked ALL jobs bills, including veterans bills, while PBO was saving working overtime to save the U.S. and world economy from a 2nd Depression.
Nero’s fiddling while Rome burns, again.
hate to break it to Ms Rubin…but Israel is an Apartheid State
Damn well this!!!
Let it be so! Pretty please! That would make my every day sparkle! 😂
Word is Guislaine Maxwell is “lying low” in France.
“The Global Hunt for Epstein’s Madam is On”:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ghislaine-maxwell-where-in-the-world-is-jeffrey-epsteins-girlfriend
—Maxell must answer for her evil deeds with Epstein.
MAXWELL
Good Morning, Good Day, Good Afternoon from MN, land of over 10K lakes🙇♀️🎩👒💁♀️❣
Thank you, NW.
#FORWARD.
What are #WeThePeople Gonna DO….
Landmark Decision
Chairman Nadler on Israel denying entry to Reps Omar and Tlaib:
““It is utterly egregious for the Israeli government to deny entry to two sitting members of the United States Congress. The close relationship enjoyed by the United States and Israel should extend to all its government representatives, regardless of their views on specific issues or policies. This decision undermines the ability for our two allied countries to have the frank, open and, at times, difficult discussions that we must have in order to ensure Israel remains a secure and democratic nation.
“I strongly condemn this decision and urge the Israeli government to allow entry to these Congresswomen and welcome them in the respectful, dignified manner to which they are entitled as official representatives of the United States.”
(https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394038)
Israel blocked the two Congresswomen after the Snake-In-Chief Trump Benito tweeted for them to be denied entry. He mega-lied by saying: “They hate Israel and all Jewish people, and there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds.”
Unfit.For.Office.
Robert Reich:
“This trade war with China – not only is there no strategy, but it also is extremely dangerous,” Reich stressed to Melber. “(These are) the largest and second-largest economies in the entire world, and to have them going at each other is dangerous for the whole world economy.”
“When it comes to economic policy, Reich warned, Trump is erratic and unfocused.”
“This is a president who not only doesn’t know detail, but he lies about the details he does know,” Reich told Melber. “So no, there’s not going to be any focus. There’s no economic strategy.”
(https://www.alternet.org/2019/08/economist-robert-reich-warns-that-the-sugar-high-of-trumponomics-wont-last-the-economy-is-very-very-fragile/)
—-Reich predicts 50% chance of recession come Election Day.
Bravo to former Governor Hickenlooper!! So happy that he is now running for Senate. He is very much needed there and imo will do a fabulous job.
Warren has been in the race forever and got a huge head start.
I have only two requirements from the Democratic nominee. First, he or she must not be obviously mentally unstable. Second, the nominee must not be in any way sympathetic — or worse, potentially beholden — to a hostile foreign power.”
Economic Policy Institute:
“CEO pay has risen 940% since 1978. The typical worker’s pay has risen 11.9%:
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute reports that CEO compensation continues to be very high compared with typical worker compensation (by a ratio of 278-to-1 or 221-to-1). That ratio has soared over the past half-century. The CEO-to-typical-worker compensation ratio with stock options realized was 20-to-1 in 1965
and 58-to-1 in 1989.” (Daily Kos)
“Why it matters:
Exorbitant CEO pay is a major contributor to rising inequality that we could safely do away with.
CEOs are getting more because of their power to set pay, not because they are increasing productivity or possess specific, high-demand skills. This escalation of CEO compensation, and of executive compensation more generally, has fueled the growth of top 1.0% and top 0.1% incomes, leaving less of the fruits of economic growth for ordinary workers and widening the gap between very high earners and the bottom 90%. The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more).”
(https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/)
thanks Nena for the graphic.
Sweetest story ever!
Awww! Much love to teachers! So underpaid. Respect! 💞
😭😭😭
I’m Only posting these Bcz if Fox Polls are this bad for tRump, then I’m a tad happier.
This question implies that it must be one or the other. In my opinion, building on President Obama’s legacy does not exclude taking a new approach on some issues…especially given this climate where Republicans have thrown away core vales of our democracy and are kowtowing to the current occupant of the WH who has added more toxicity to the swamp he pledged to drain.
Any approach with the goal of improving the lives of the poor and working class (health care, education, jobs, etc.), improves our environment, and raises our standing in the world represents HOPE and CHANGE and is a continuation of the Obama legacy. Don’t let the media frame a different approach as an attack on/denouncement of the Obama administration.
I’m still with Biden.
Ridin’ with Biden!
A feature not a bug
The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are.
Good evening Todville.
I hope everyone has a good evening.
I was reading about Antonio Basco whose wife of 22 years, Margie, was killed in El Paso … made me sad and cry. I hope he meets and makes good friends who will help him through this extremely sad time and support him in the future.
Why can’t all humans love one another and live peacefully 💞. Here’s hoping for a more loving future.
For all the TODers birthdays that I’ve missed, sending happy-happy birthday wishes to you, please forgive my belated wishes or upcoming ones, & go shake a leg (give it your best shake 💃)! Love from the DMV (DC, MD, VA)! 💞
Not my birthday yet, so I’m dancing to celebrate family! 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Dudette, you gave me best cackle of the day! Shake your joy, girl! Am gonna own every day as my birthday! 💃
Hollaaaaaa! Love this jam, Gazelle! Thanks for sharing it! 🙌🏾😘
She’s really great:)
O’Rourke’s passionate rhetoric is impressive. He is on LOD now. He is not afraid to speak his mind. Thank you Beto.
Looks like Beto has ruled out running for the Senate.
Broken record here. Hope his outspokenness rubs off on the rest of them. Every one of them. No holes barred. Hold nothing back when talking about Trump. Repeat: policy can wait. If ALL of them take it to Trump all the time, he will totally and completely lose it. He can’t handle all of them going after him day after day.
Brian Williams’ last segment mentioned some of the history of America we’re commemorating this month … how we opened the Panama Canal … VJ Day, helping to “save the world” …
… and he compared some of that with the fact that today – in 2019 – the elected officials in the city of Newark, New Jersey, cannot get clean drinking water delivered through the pipes of the homes of the people who live there because there is lead in the pipes, so the residents must stand in the summer heat in long lines to pick up heavy bottled water packs to take home because the city leaders can’t deliver the bottled water to them, either …
… well done, Brian, on pushing that perspective and those non-priorities, which is freaking unbelievable.
My 8-y/o great grandson has done a perfect singing-along version of Old Town Road on video for me, which is the only reason I know who this guy is! Ha.
Better to end the evening on a high note. Goodnight, TODville!
SMH 🙄
Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!President Obama is coming to Atlanta!
My President is coming to Atlanta, y’all!!!
One-day tickets are $500 ($550 early bird price, because of course Wednesday is gonna sell out) 😭
Arrgh! Sorry I left off the link.
https://www.greenbuildexpo.com/en/education/keynotes/wednesday-keynote.html
President and CEO, USGBC.
“President Obama is a global leader and a longtime friend of the green building community. While in office, his administration negotiated the landmark Paris Climate Accords, expanded the impact of our field and helped open the door for energy efficiency investments in both the public and private sectors. I know that when he joins us on the keynote stage in November, he will impart his ideas, passion and vision to our growing global green building family.”
“Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States. He took office at a moment of crisis unlike any America had seen in decades – a nation at war, a planet in peril, the American Dream itself threatened by the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression.
And yet, despite all manner of political obstruction,
Obama’s leadership helped rescue the economy, revitalize the American auto industry, reform the health care system to cover another 20 million Americans, and put the country on a firm course to a clean energy future –all while overseeing the longest stretch of job creation in American history. “
Goodnight TOD …
Simone Biles is amazing👏👏
Had not realized that Simone was also a victim of the sexual predator ‘medical doctor’.
Imagine 1) dealing with it when no one knew and 2) recovering from that while motivating yourself to compete..
Morning everyone. I heard her say it last night. This is where we are and Republicans are silent and enabling this to happen here. Vote them all out before it’s too late
LIVE NOW: Chance The Rapper – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-1
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/equality-cant-wait/
… Stephen Colbert began Thursday’s Late Show monologue with “a fun story” for his audience. “There is a petition currently circulating here in New York City to rename the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets ‘President Barack Obama Avenue,'” he said. “To make the honor complete, whenever a car tries to turn left it will be blocked by Mitch McConnell.” …
https://theweek.com/speedreads/859371/stephen-colbert-endorses-placing-trump-tower-obama-avenue-explains-how-liberals-troll