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Visiting Denmark


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  1. 2 jer44
    August 21, 2019 at 11:00 am

  2. August 21, 2019 at 11:21 am

    Hannah Arendt: “The Origins of Totalitarianism”.
    “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist,
    but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience)
    and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
    In this malignant reality,”
    (deVega): “people who are in thrall to Donald Trump
    (or the other ignominious fascist and authoritarian leaders whom he adores and imitates)
    do not know what right and wrong are anymore.
    When these distinctions are pointed out, Trump’s supporters double down on their investment in the Great Leader and “the Movement,” focusing their rage and violence against the political truth-teller.”
    (https://www.salon.com/2019/08/20/when-trump-talks-about-our-movement-be-afraid-it-will-outlast-his-presidency/)
    —Little russian despot seeking lifetime presidency and dominion over all…would like to redefine “love”.

  3. August 21, 2019 at 11:45 am

    Just cos it’s Wednesday & a little silly is a good thing! 😂

  4. August 21, 2019 at 12:07 pm

    Dr. Rachel Bitecofer who predicted a 42-seat blue wave, was ignored by the pundits in 2018.
    Update: “Does anyone understand the 2020 race? This scholar nailed the blue wave — here’s her forecast.”
    (https://www.salon.com/2019/08/17/this-political-scientist-completely-nailed-the-2018-blue-wave-heres-her-2020-forecast/)
    –O’Donnell interviewed her for the 2nd time last night and am stoked to hear more.

  5. August 21, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    SO SO SO wonderful to see them again.

  6. August 21, 2019 at 12:11 pm

  7. 14 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 12:57 pm

    Good Morning.
    Good Afternoon.
    Thank You, NW.
    Thank You, TODbots.
    #FORWARD!
    😍😍😍😍😍, Always.

  8. 15 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 1:12 pm

  9. 16 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 1:27 pm

  10. 18 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 1:39 pm

  11. 23 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 1:58 pm

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  13. 26 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 2:23 pm

  14. 29 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 2:27 pm
  15. 31 jer44
    August 21, 2019 at 3:59 pm


    SOON – Joe Biden hosts rally in Newton, Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-2

  16. 32 jer44
    August 21, 2019 at 4:17 pm


    NOW: Beto O’Rourke addresses Iowa Federation of Labor – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video /special-live-10

  17. 33 jer44
    August 21, 2019 at 4:26 pm

    View this post on Instagram

    😎

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  18. August 21, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    Warning! Put your coffee away for a sec.

    Sean Spicer is going on Dancing w/ The Stars! 😂

    Is that part of character rehab now? 😂😇

  19. August 21, 2019 at 5:02 pm

    Danish P.M. Mette Frederiksen:
    “Thankfully the time where you buy and sell countries and populations is over.”
    Richard Wolfe: “Greenland doesn’t just bubble into Trump’s mind randomly, unless Fox News is airing obscure weekend segments on arctic politics. But it is very much on Russia’s radar. Earlier this year, Russia revamped its arctic circle military base on the tiny Kotelny Island, which sits close to the shipping routes that are opening up as the polar region warms catastrophically.”
    (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/21/trump-wanting-to-buy-greenland-is-yet-another-sign-of-putins-puppetry)

    • August 21, 2019 at 5:04 pm

      Wolfe:
      “There are unknown quantities of oil, gas and rare earth metals in the arctic, and the region’s powers – Denmark among them – can either green light a global free-for-all or restrain the usual human plunder of one of the last pristine frontiers on the planet.”
      “It is one of the sickest Trump jokes that his half-baked idea of buying Greenland should be seen as American machismo when it is yet another sign of Putin’s puppet American presidency at work.”
      “Denmark is a loyal ally within the organization that Russia loathes: Nato.”
      “Trump himself seems to be easily bought by his Russian and Saudi friends. He’s so cheap you only have to dangle the idea of a Trump Tower in Moscow to win his undying support for lifting sanctions imposed after Russia invaded and annexed part of Ukraine.”

    • August 21, 2019 at 5:42 pm

      P.S.
      1) Been saying (for years) that the melting of the Arctic is a strategic decision by EXXON, (Koch) + friends.
      2) EXXON’s scientists demonstrated how burning fossil fuels was heating the planet = 40+ years ago.
      3) Their catastrophic projections of the fallout have been and continue to be devastatingly accurate.

  20. 44 marleysperson
    August 21, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    Excellent

  21. 45 nena20409
    August 21, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    • 46 nena20409
      August 21, 2019 at 6:00 pm

      So far, 10 candidates have qualified for the third round of debates, according to an ABC News analysis of publicly released information and pending verification by the DNC after the qualifying deadline, including:

      Former Vice President Joe Biden
      New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker
      South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg
      Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro
      California Sen. Kamala Harris
      Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar
      Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke
      Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders
      Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren
      Entrepreneur Andrew Yang

  22. August 21, 2019 at 6:35 pm

    okkkk…have i said how done i am with the debates,,,,

  23. 48 marleysperson
    August 21, 2019 at 6:56 pm

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  25. August 21, 2019 at 7:29 pm

    This Should NOT Be…

  26. 52 marleysperson
    August 21, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    In case you know anyone else that needs to see the collusion and corruption

    • 53 carla4obama
      August 21, 2019 at 8:24 pm

      This is wonderful..but Americans have moved on (sad to say). Unless a secret “pee” tape surfaces, I’m afraid most americans have lost interest.

      • 54 Don
        August 22, 2019 at 9:38 am

        “Unless a secret “pee” tape surfaces, I’m afraid most americans have lost interest.”

        LOLOLOLOL!!!!!!! this is soooooo American

  27. August 21, 2019 at 8:51 pm

  28. 56 ggail44
    August 21, 2019 at 9:05 pm

    I bet trump isn’t happy about this news. 😂😂

  29. 57 ggail44
    August 21, 2019 at 9:05 pm

    I bet trump isn’t happy about this news. 😂😂

  30. 58 marleysperson
    August 21, 2019 at 9:15 pm

    Inslee is out

  31. 61 purpleshoesla
    August 21, 2019 at 9:35 pm

    THIS is the long lasting impact of Elections have Consequences.

    Parts of our federal judicial system–packed with Moscow Mitch and Orange Satan Blotus picks of “judges” with LIFETIME appointments– further compromising our election process for a fair election and legitimate outcome. So even states that have laws or may be in the processing of passing laws that say the state’s electoral votes MUST go to the the winner of that state’s popular vote, shit rulings like this overrule the state’s laws. So much for STATE’s RIGHTS!!! the Repugs are always shouting about unless and until the federal courts come out with a ruling that work out in their favor. I gotta question whether this particular “Democratic Elector” was truly a Democrat. I’m so effing mad right now I could spit.

    A court ruling just changed how we pick our president

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/faithless-elector-court-ruling-just-changed-how-we-pick-our-n1044961

    “A federal appeals court ruled late Tuesday that presidential electors who cast the actual ballots for president and vice president are free to vote as they wish and cannot be required to follow the results of the popular vote in their states.

    The decision could give a single elector the power to decide the outcome of a presidential election — if the popular vote results in an apparent Electoral College tie. It hasn’t been much of an issue in American political history because when an elector refuses to follow the results of a state’s popular vote, the state simply throws the ballot away. But Tuesday’s ruling says states cannot do that.

    The decision, from a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, is a victory for Micheal Baca, a Colorado Democratic elector in 2016. Under state law, he was required to cast his ballot for Hillary Clinton, who won the state’s popular vote. Instead, he crossed out her name and wrote in John Kasich, a Republican and then the governor of Ohio.

    The secretary of state removed Baca as an elector, discarded his vote and brought in another elector who voted for Clinton. In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court said the nullification of Baca’s vote was unconstitutional.

    “This court decision takes power from Colorado voters and sets a dangerous precedent,” said Jena Griswold, Colorado’s secretary of state. “Our nation stands on the principle of one person, one vote. We are reviewing this decision with our attorneys, and will vigorously protect Colorado voters.”

    The federal court ruling conflicts with a decision from Washington state’s Supreme Court in May, which said electors must follow the results of the popular vote. “The power of electors to vote comes from the state, and the elector has no personal right to that role,” the court said.”

  32. 62 marleysperson
    August 21, 2019 at 9:59 pm

    Beware and share

  33. August 22, 2019 at 1:03 am

    The General is recovering nicely since his stroke …

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  35. August 22, 2019 at 1:11 am

    Goodnight TOD …

  36. 67 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 6:17 am

    Lawrence delivered another must see last night.

  37. 68 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 6:26 am

    Good Morning, beloved TODville Community.
    Late July, I said to my Family that I felt deep down that there was a Change in the air & the dam has finally leaked and on the verge of bursting open. This was b/4 the El Paso & Dayton Mass Shootings. There’s light at the end of our Nightmare.
    #FORWARD.
    😍😍😍😍😍😍

  38. 72 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 7:48 am

  39. 74 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 8:09 am

  40. 76 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 8:30 am

  41. 78 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 8:43 am

    • 79 Don
      August 22, 2019 at 9:33 am

      Lets say you’re a republican and a blue collar worker. At what in trump’s campaign to become president did he win you over from an economic standpoint? Because I’ve got to tell you something, I’m not the brightest guy in the world. But I’ve never let someone blow smoke up my ass to such an extent that I voted for them.

  42. 80 marleysperson
    August 22, 2019 at 9:04 am

    Morning everyone. Tom Cotton. Why am I not surprised!

  43. 85 jer44
    August 22, 2019 at 10:59 am


    NOW: Beto O’Rourke hosts gun violence roundtable in Des Moines, Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-8

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  45. August 22, 2019 at 11:13 am

    • 88 jer44
      August 22, 2019 at 12:26 pm

      On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.

  46. 89 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 1:16 pm

  47. 90 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 2:02 pm

  48. 91 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 2:14 pm

  49. 92 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 3:46 pm

  50. 97 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 3:52 pm

  51. 99 marleysperson
    August 22, 2019 at 4:48 pm

    Any questions? Dangerous and unfit

  52. 101 nena20409
    August 22, 2019 at 7:55 pm

  53. 104 jer44
    August 22, 2019 at 8:52 pm

  54. 105 jer44
    August 22, 2019 at 9:15 pm

  55. 109 pkayden
    August 22, 2019 at 9:43 pm

  56. 110 No Child Left Behind
    August 22, 2019 at 9:57 pm

    George Takei @GeorgeTakei·14h
    Overheard: Trump offered to buy Greenland from Denmark. In response, Denmark offered to buy America from Russia.

  57. 112 jacquelineoboomer
    August 22, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    I think I’ve found a new hashtag for future use:

  58. 113 jer44
    August 22, 2019 at 10:26 pm

    SOON: Democratic candidates speak at ‘I Will Vote’ fundraiser –
    https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-4

  59. 114 jacquelineoboomer
    August 22, 2019 at 10:51 pm

    • 115 jacquelineoboomer
      August 22, 2019 at 10:53 pm

      Well, that double thingie didn’t quite work out. Oops. But at least it’s about President Obama!!!!

  60. August 23, 2019 at 2:12 am

    Goodnight TOD …

  61. August 23, 2019 at 6:35 am

    TGIF NW & TODers! Bless! 😘

  62. 119 jacquelineoboomer
    August 23, 2019 at 7:47 am

    Good old Andy – and good morning, TODville!

    ***

    Andy Borowitz

    Denmark Agrees To Sell Greenland To US If Obama Returns As President

  63. 120 marleysperson
    August 23, 2019 at 8:06 am

    Morning everyone

  64. August 23, 2019 at 8:10 am

    Good morning, TODville.

  65. August 23, 2019 at 8:26 am

  66. 131 jacquelineoboomer
    August 23, 2019 at 8:40 am

    • August 23, 2019 at 9:16 am

      Everything is so straight up crazy with these Trump zombies. How any human being can look at those cages and their suffering and call it humane is pure EVIL.

  67. 133 marleysperson
    August 23, 2019 at 8:40 am

    Seems promising.

  68. 134 marleysperson
    August 23, 2019 at 8:47 am

    Damn! Anyone else miss this??

  69. 135 Don
    August 23, 2019 at 8:58 am

    I see one of the Koch brothers died this morning or last night.

  70. 139 todjey
    August 23, 2019 at 10:21 am

    All judicial appointees under administrations of presidents who may or may not be legal , not collusion free, should be reversed.
    Bad behaviour should not be rewarded.
    If they are allowed to get away with this ….it will only continue to go on. The lesson is, to teach folks what is right and what isn’t. And actions often speak louder than words.
    It is not right to win dishonestly.

    Just my opinion … then again I certainly ain’t the sharpest tool in the box 😂.

    • 140 nena20409
      August 23, 2019 at 1:21 pm

      Co-signed!!!!
      Ill gotten Title, is still illegitimate & must Never be rewarded.
      I’ve always believed that as We were OK w/the SCOTUS 09Dec00 stoppage of FL Recount (GOP never would have been OK with it, had it been in Gore’s Favor), that led to McConnell’s stealing a SCOTUS Seat. It led to Citizen United, Gutting the Voting Rights, OK for the Gun Law interpretation ruling by Scalia, it led to OK on gutting the Campaign Finance Reform laws, OK to the dastard ruling of Gerrymandering this year. Dems as a Party Need to start saying, Nope, Not in Our Constitution, Not Democratic, these Ideological Rulings are against a democratic Republic as was originally crafted.
      Timidity, Tacitly standing by, working out through the Courts when the SCOTUS is packed Illegally is NOT Justice for all.


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