Another retirement! Is Stacy Adams interested? Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) says he will resign at the end of the year, citing health problems.The 74-year-old Republican, who is serving his third term, said Wednesday that he has informed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp of his decision, effective Dec. 31.
“I am leaving a job I love because my health challenges are taking their toll on me, my family and my staff. My Parkinson’s has been progressing, and I am continuing physical therapy to recover from a fall in July. In addition, this week I had surgery to remove a growth on my kidney,” the senator said.
“Can you imagine the cock-slinging that's about to happen in Atlanta? There are so many dark suits and red ties being sent to the dry cleaners this afternoon.” A conservative high school classmate of mine in Georgia on the Isakson retirement announcement.
Dem Party of Georgia: "With now two Senate seats up for election in 2020, it has never been clearer that the path for Democratic victory runs through Georgia. We are the battleground state, and Georgia Democrats are ready to fight and deliver both the Senate and the presidency."
Joe Biden leads Trump by 16% (54/38) Bernie Sanders leads Trump by 14% (53/39) Elizabeth Warren leads Trump by 12% (52/40) Kamala Harris leads Trump by 11% (51/40) pic.twitter.com/Ld71XFuq91
Today USCIS issued guidance that DHS "no longer considers children of U.S. government employees and U.S. armed forces members residing outside the United States as 'residing in the United States' for purposes of acquiring citizenship” —https://t.co/IRNR21Qm4P
We have updated this story assessing the policy failures of the Tea Party movement 10 years after its rise to include context about attacks on President Barack Obama and racist displays at some Tea Party rallies. https://t.co/r4k0qZCQlH
This is a very important article to read. Please take a few minutes to understand WHY Trump's entanglements are as deeply problematic as many of us claim. 👇 https://t.co/sGQr567NdK
Without Parliament there may not be a mechanism to have a Second Referendum, a 2nd vote.
The British want to Remain imo, and so Boris and the far right have finagled this latest obstacle.
Lawrence O’Donnell last night:
“We begin tonight with the breaking news from Deutsche Bank today that Deutsche Bank has
Donald Trump’s tax returns….source close to Deutsche Bank says the Trump tax returns reveal that the President paid little to no income tax in some years, and the source says that Deutsche Bank is in possession of loan documents that show Donald Trump has obtained loans with co-signers. And that he would not have been able to obtain those loans without co-signers.
The source close to Deutsche Bank says that the co-signers of Donald Trump’s Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.
If true that would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin. If true, that would be a signifiernt factor in Vladimir Putin’s publicly stated preference for presidential candidate Donald Trump over presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.”
(Have transcribed.)
Johnson (former pullitzer prize tax reporter for NYT):
“The bank gets your tax returns or a transcript of your information…if you apply for a mortgage you sign a document allowing your bank to check with the IRS to see if the income you have reported to them is the income that you are reporting to the bank. Now of course Donald has a long history that I have documented, showing 2 different sets of documents to different people that don’t match up…..how he has inflated his wealth.
O’Donnell: “You have studied DT’s wealth, DT’s earning over time, you are one of the first to puncture the myth of Donald Trump as billionaire….we heard in court the lawyers for the House who are seeking this information and they say they are seeking it in a Russian money-laundering investigation…but they’ve also said that they need the loan documents and everything else that the bank might have.”
O’Donnell:
” If those loan documents show co-signers…your understanding of DT’s finances at a time he is trying to get loans from DB at a time when every other bank has turned him down —-would it make sense that he needs co-signers at that point?
Johnson:
“Oh absolutely and I’ve…argued for several years now that Deutsche Bank in making these loans had to have someone in the background who is guaranteeing the loans. It would be surprising if there were actually co-signers – that would be absolutely astonishing
and I would think mandate his removal from office.”
Johnson: “But Donald has done this throughout his life. He persuaded Chase Bank to not file the mortgage on Mar-a-Lago which is a violation of NY state law. Chase bank made huge loans to Donald that were unsecured because they knew his father would pay the loans off…and they wanted to curry favor with him. And Deutsche Bank has been a major Russian money laundering bank. They’ve paid over 600 million dollars in fines for laundering Russian money in New York, in German and in Cyprus. And relevant to this also, Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was the vice chairman of the bank of Cyprus, a huge money laundering operation whose CEO is the former Head of Deutsche Bank,
and whose other vice Chairman is an appointee of Vladimir Putin.
O’Donnell: “If (Trump) had to look around for backers for co-signers of his loans, is Russia where he would end up looking?
Johnson; It would be the best place for him to go and it fits with he family’s own public statements they’ve tried to walk back since, about getting lots of assets from Russia…
Donald may well have other backers the next places to look would be the Saudis, the Emiratis, and perhaps some people in Turkey given Michael Flynn his national security adviser having been on the payroll illegally of Turkish interests when he was in the WH. And what’s really surprising…
if the (Russian) names are on the loan papers this wasn’t done with a wink and a nod.”
WOW. Trump loans co-signed by Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.
–I will never forget Trump audibly whispering. “thank you” to Putin as he got on the podium in Helsinki.
Fox says Buttigieg admits that Obama economy wasn’t working for most of us was partly to blame for Trump rise. Well dear Pete Buttigieg Barack Obama took over this economy when it was in a dam mess and he got the economy back on the right track without any help from the Republicans. Just imagine how things would be if Trump took over an economy in the shape Obama took over.
The global economy was close to collapse when PBO took over and that was decades in the making. President Obama built a solid foundation despite 100% GOP obstruction, which has carried us through even under the dumbest most corrupt GOP president in our history. It is dumb for Buttigieg to say otherwise and (am annoyed) btw have read that gay women want a woman, cis or otherwise, to be president.
This morning, they were discussing polls and how we need VP Biden’s experience. I don’t dispute this at all. Mika said that PBO did not have the Biden type of experience. She basically said that he did not come up through the ranks, among other things. It really rubbed me the wrong way when she included in her statement that all PBO did was write a bunch of executive orders. Those executive orders were written due to obstruction from the GOP.
Love VP Biden but he cannot play middle of the road to or even DREAM he can triangulate with GOP.
The Putin Koch Party would use their own mothers and they will use Joe.
He has to take strong progressive positions.
At critical points in U.S. history, we had the right presidents at the right time. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, to name a few. Today, we face dire challenges: a climate crisis, income inequality, racial division, etc. But the president exacerbates problems instead of solving them.
Last night I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process. I shouldn’t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air. I will address the issue on my show tonight.
The if’s in this story last night were worrisome. Lawrence knows better. A single source is never enough unless there are facts/documents to back it up.
I’m confused. So if you’re an American citizen and a member of the US military and you have a newborn overseas—your baby isn’t American? https://t.co/sWNkukD8TX
Tell John McCain’s US descendants.
= 7 children, 5 grandchildre.
– He was born into a military (family (father and grandfather were U.S. Navy Admirals).
– GOP Senator McCain and presidential candidate was born in Panama.
NW thanks for all you do.
Every now and then I petition you to Make the TOD Comment Box Grey Again.
Don’t know about anyone else, but this here cursor literally disappears as i’m trying to write a comment.
Making all kinds of errors. NW please help! argh.
One of my daughters has been living and working in Germany the last five years. She married a German and has two children born in Germany. She has kept her American citizenship and they are all going to come to the US for three years and she will be working here for her company during that time. Her children were automatically US citizens. If they quit letting the military children automatically being citizens they most likely won’t allow expat children born out of the Country citizenship. Are any of these old rules grandfathered in? I hope the Courts throw out all these changes especially with the undetermined detainment.
I am also concerned for Lawrence O’Donnell after his revealing info with only one source.
Democrats have discussed a larger role for Nikema Williams, GA Democratic Party chair, and she’s out with a statement:
“We are the battleground state, and GA Democrats are ready to fight and deliver both the Senate and the presidency for Democrats across the country in 2020." pic.twitter.com/lfRLpOS50Z
Since iQ45 is a qualified psychopath, could hurricane/storm Dorian head straight to his shithole place in FL, show all it’s many faces as in Oscar Wilde’s novel: The Picture of Dorian Grey? Lawd forgive my lack of kindness, but there’s no one who more deserves paper towels thrown at him as he watches his shithole go under. OK, going back to my chair in corner! 😂😇
Great minds think alike. As soon as I heard the hurricane missed Puerto Rico and was headed to FL I thought please let it demolish Maralago or however it is spelled.
Don’t usually watch Hayes, but had MSNBC on, & he said PBO never wore that tan suit again. Didn’t he wear it at Valerie’s daughter’s wedding? Both he & our FLOTUS looked so lovely! 💞
Rachel has a great segment on this. So, minus-45, iQ45, is trying to deport sick kids from their hospital beds, death sentence. I’ve actually run out of curse words. Forget looking for polite language via Webster’s. Uggh! 😖
I heard that segment. Rachel livid. I have no words because there are no words to describe this bunch, Nothing shocks or surprises me any longer, It may sadden or anger,
The mayor was just interviewed by Don Lemon on CNN and referred to trump's "tweet incontinence." Hope that doesn't go viral – it'll really annoy him. We wish the best for everyone in the eye of the storm!#TrumpsTweetIncontinence
We have to call this what it is: a death sentence from the Trump administration to immigrants with serious medical conditions. The inhumanity of this White House towards immigrants is immoral and degrading our American values. It’s not who we are. https://t.co/mgUSGv2gVB
In other words, #Trump & @GOP are merely emblematic of the deep, centuries-long tradition of hatred & racism. #Putin's brilliance is leveraging that tradition to come closer than any other foreign enemy, EVER, to destroying the American ideal so many have died trying to achieve
That #Trump has not already been IMPEACHED by the Democratic-Controlled House of Representatives is a dire warning that #Putin may well win again in 2020.
Barack Obama's younger daughter, Sasha, is poised to begin her college career at the University of Michigan next week, according to the Detroit News. https://t.co/x4hoEIRaYc
I raise my hand enthusiastically!🖐️I miss our President for his dignity, wit, empathy, intelligence, compassion, kindness, maturity, depth, humanity, class, reliability, relatability, charm, humility, stature & tan suit-Look! Up in the WH-It's a bird-It's a plane-It's #SuperPrez! https://t.co/Re6ENmEX5f
Barack Obama's younger daughter, Sasha, is poised to begin her college career at the University of Michigan next week, according to the Detroit News. https://t.co/x4hoEIRaYc
This is my conundrum too. My two Brothers were Trump voters, one of my nieces and her husband is anti everything very religious and Trump supporters. I either have to demand no politics talk or leave when they start in as I tried to argue facts with them to no avail. We all just get angry with each other. I face this in my once a week Art Guild meetings too as I live in a rural area in a Blue state. We were split about half and half Dem/GOP when Obama was elected. Unfortunately, most of the Dems either died or moved away leaving a couple of us against a sea of Rush Limbaugh/Fox listeners. Earlier generations had a no politics, religion or sex topics in polite conversation rule. We tried that too, but many do not realize the breath and scope of politics. That rule seems to be out the window these days. I feel isolated at times.
On the positive side I still have all of you, one like-minded good friend, a Sister-in-law, and all four of my grown children and their spouses, and two In-law families that are strong Democratic supporters.
Trump is withholding vital military aid to Ukraine, while his personal lawyer seeks help from the Ukraine government to investigate his political opponent.
It doesn’t take a stable genius to see the magnitude of this conflict.
This crap from this POS administration has got to stop.
Here is another totally stupid and ridiculous policy change by @realDonaldTrump. This change punishes US service members who deploy overseas to fight for our country. And it will make it even more difficult to recruit people to join our all volunteer military. https://t.co/eOxBI3M99v
The 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who just reached New York after sailing across the Atlantic, has no tolerance for adults who refuse to face the reality of climate change. https://t.co/Df3F9ZKaUH
As the Trump Administration continues to abandon programs and rules that serve the more than 60 million Americans living with disabilities, I’m prepared to strengthen and expand economic opportunity. https://t.co/dxXdQ83mc2
I don’t understand how an illegitimate squatter that was installed with Putin’s help, gets to behave as if he was duly elected and has the right to do any of the things he does. He is not legit. He is a fraud. Why are we pretending otherwise?
This thread should be exploding all over Twitter. There's a lesson here about human kindness and its power that should be picked up and retweeted by those with the reach to touch millions. https://t.co/7tMQX0BBEe
Maddow: “The Trump administration has no idea what it is doing.
Or how to handle the inevitable reaction to this from the American people. They have no idea what they are doing here except for the fact that they have decided to tell parents that they must withhold life-saving ongoing medical treatment from their seriously ill kids on orders from the U.S. Government so they can get out of this country because president trump wants them out. Imagine being a U.S. Official who has been doing that kind of work. Now imagine being the parent of a sick kid who is holding on to a letter sent to you by those U.S. Officials and realizing this is what you are up against and this is the exact way your child’s life is being put at in the very short term over the next 30 days by this president. By this president. By this administration and the people who work for him and their priorities. Imagine.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/28/maddow-trump-deport-sick-kids.html
= DOOM and his Death Party doing the only thing they know how.
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I just witnessed the most extraordinary moment. Judge David Carpenter in Bessemer, AL has resentenced Alvin Kennard to time served after he got life without parole for robbing a bakery of $50 in 1983. He is now 58 & was 22 when he committed the robbery. pic.twitter.com/CYeWsnHmVG
“David Koch, who was worth some $42 billion, and his brother Charles Koch poured massive amounts of money into right-wing and libertarian causes over the past four decades, including funding climate change denial through conservative think tanks and politicians. The Koch brothers founded the political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity in 2004, which is credited with turning the “tea party” into a full-fledged political movement.
But “David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier.”
LEONARD: “The brothers…they hold a very vehement anti-government view. They truly believe that society needs to be organized as a marketplace, with only privately run roads, hospitals, insurance. They don’t believe in Social Security. They don’t believe in Medicare. So they’ve been steadily pushing back government regulations and programs like that.”
“And decades ago, this company realized that if the government regulates greenhouse gas emissions or even puts a price on emitting carbon into the sky, it could really hurt Koch’s profits for decades to come. So the company has been, I think, unique and vitally important in derailing any action on climate change, going back to the early 1990s.
…carbon: This is what motivated the company.”
LEONARD: “Fossil fuels put gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions into the sky every year for free, essentially. And the cost of that pollution will be borne by society for decades. It’s what we call in the business community an “externality.” You get to externalize the cost of that pollution. So, if a price is put on that pollution, it changes the entire economics of fossil fuels production. And the big threat to companies like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Chevron is that this could hurt demand for fossil fuels in future decades. ”
…for years Koch was systematically taking oil without paying for it.
LEONARD:
“Koch went after any moderate Republicans who acknowledged that climate change was real,
who supported any effort to put a price on carbon. And Koch helped to drive those people out of office. So it played a vitally important role in making it clear to Republicans that they could not support any effort on climate change.” https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/27/christopher_leonard_kochland_koch_brothers
Kochtopus: A “360-degree machine that affects the public debate.”
The city of Milwaukee has issued a stern warning to residents: Stop vaping immediately.
The advisory came after 16 people were hospitalized with chemical pneumonia, a severe illness that causes lung inflammation, the Milwaukee health department said.https://t.co/11GgST82jM
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning, everyone! Sending you all wishes for a blessed Wednesday.
It’s so good to get a glimpse of Sunny and Bo. 🙂
Congrats VC!
Congrats, VC! Bo and Sunny are an adorable pair of rascals!
Another retirement! Is Stacy Adams interested? Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) says he will resign at the end of the year, citing health problems.The 74-year-old Republican, who is serving his third term, said Wednesday that he has informed Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp of his decision, effective Dec. 31.
“I am leaving a job I love because my health challenges are taking their toll on me, my family and my staff. My Parkinson’s has been progressing, and I am continuing physical therapy to recover from a fall in July. In addition, this week I had surgery to remove a growth on my kidney,” the senator said.
That’s too bad. Taking the Senate is a must. Stacey Abrams could do it…but its her call.
So good! But then, HE makes the clothes look good:)
NOW: Joe Biden attends town hall in Rock Hill, SC – https://abcnews.go.com/Live
/video/speciaL-live-4
Happy Wednesday, TODville Community.
Congrats, VC on your Au ⭐⭐⭐⭐🥂🎉
Thank you, NW😍🙇♀️😍
https://twitter.com/search?q=the%20king%20center&src=typed_query
Meant to post this:
About the wall: “…Trump isn’t about to let things like stealing private property or violating any other law get in his way. Instead, he told his officials, “Don’t worry, I’ll pardon you.”
Which would make an excellent slogan for any lawless regime. And a very nice article of impeachment.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/28/1881930/-Trump-tells-aides-to-just-take-the-land-for-wall-promises-to-pardon-any-crimes)
🗣🎙🎶🍾🥂🎉
Now, this?
Without Parliament there may not be a mechanism to have a Second Referendum, a 2nd vote.
The British want to Remain imo, and so Boris and the far right have finagled this latest obstacle.
Lawrence O’Donnell last night:
“We begin tonight with the breaking news from Deutsche Bank today that Deutsche Bank has
Donald Trump’s tax returns….source close to Deutsche Bank says the Trump tax returns reveal that the President paid little to no income tax in some years, and the source says that Deutsche Bank is in possession of loan documents that show Donald Trump has obtained loans with co-signers. And that he would not have been able to obtain those loans without co-signers.
The source close to Deutsche Bank says that the co-signers of Donald Trump’s Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.
If true that would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin. If true, that would be a signifiernt factor in Vladimir Putin’s publicly stated preference for presidential candidate Donald Trump over presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.”
(Have transcribed.)
Johnson (former pullitzer prize tax reporter for NYT):
“The bank gets your tax returns or a transcript of your information…if you apply for a mortgage you sign a document allowing your bank to check with the IRS to see if the income you have reported to them is the income that you are reporting to the bank. Now of course Donald has a long history that I have documented, showing 2 different sets of documents to different people that don’t match up…..how he has inflated his wealth.
O’Donnell: “You have studied DT’s wealth, DT’s earning over time, you are one of the first to puncture the myth of Donald Trump as billionaire….we heard in court the lawyers for the House who are seeking this information and they say they are seeking it in a Russian money-laundering investigation…but they’ve also said that they need the loan documents and everything else that the bank might have.”
O’Donnell:
” If those loan documents show co-signers…your understanding of DT’s finances at a time he is trying to get loans from DB at a time when every other bank has turned him down —-would it make sense that he needs co-signers at that point?
Johnson:
“Oh absolutely and I’ve…argued for several years now that Deutsche Bank in making these loans had to have someone in the background who is guaranteeing the loans. It would be surprising if there were actually co-signers – that would be absolutely astonishing
and I would think mandate his removal from office.”
Johnson: “But Donald has done this throughout his life. He persuaded Chase Bank to not file the mortgage on Mar-a-Lago which is a violation of NY state law. Chase bank made huge loans to Donald that were unsecured because they knew his father would pay the loans off…and they wanted to curry favor with him. And Deutsche Bank has been a major Russian money laundering bank. They’ve paid over 600 million dollars in fines for laundering Russian money in New York, in German and in Cyprus. And relevant to this also, Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was the vice chairman of the bank of Cyprus, a huge money laundering operation whose CEO is the former Head of Deutsche Bank,
and whose other vice Chairman is an appointee of Vladimir Putin.
O’Donnell: “If (Trump) had to look around for backers for co-signers of his loans, is Russia where he would end up looking?
Johnson; It would be the best place for him to go and it fits with he family’s own public statements they’ve tried to walk back since, about getting lots of assets from Russia…
Donald may well have other backers the next places to look would be the Saudis, the Emiratis, and perhaps some people in Turkey given Michael Flynn his national security adviser having been on the payroll illegally of Turkish interests when he was in the WH. And what’s really surprising…
if the (Russian) names are on the loan papers this wasn’t done with a wink and a nod.”
-As far as I can see…this is Game Shot for the little russian.
WOW. Trump loans co-signed by Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.
–I will never forget Trump audibly whispering. “thank you” to Putin as he got on the podium in Helsinki.
Fox says Buttigieg admits that Obama economy wasn’t working for most of us was partly to blame for Trump rise. Well dear Pete Buttigieg Barack Obama took over this economy when it was in a dam mess and he got the economy back on the right track without any help from the Republicans. Just imagine how things would be if Trump took over an economy in the shape Obama took over.
The global economy was close to collapse when PBO took over and that was decades in the making. President Obama built a solid foundation despite 100% GOP obstruction, which has carried us through even under the dumbest most corrupt GOP president in our history. It is dumb for Buttigieg to say otherwise and (am annoyed) btw have read that gay women want a woman, cis or otherwise, to be president.
correction: A woman, straight or otherwise.
This morning, they were discussing polls and how we need VP Biden’s experience. I don’t dispute this at all. Mika said that PBO did not have the Biden type of experience. She basically said that he did not come up through the ranks, among other things. It really rubbed me the wrong way when she included in her statement that all PBO did was write a bunch of executive orders. Those executive orders were written due to obstruction from the GOP.
Love VP Biden but he cannot play middle of the road to or even DREAM he can triangulate with GOP.
The Putin Koch Party would use their own mothers and they will use Joe.
He has to take strong progressive positions.
That “economic anxiety” BS has been DEBUNKED. It’s was overwhelmingly racial/cultural anxiety.
I notice how these folks never mention Pres Obama. If he had been white, his name would be first on the list
Didn’t realize that Greta has a form of autism. wow she is an incredible thinker and speaker.
“GIVEN…”!!!!!!!!!!
They are not her’s to give, sell, profit from, or otherwise. Stop this trafficking of children abducted by Trump.
Q: Is the idea to somehow affect the future vote by placing non-whites in right wing conservative christian homes?
Kidnapping children. To be used how?
27Aug19
Lawrence O’Donnell
MSNBC have forced Lawrence to pull back on his One source story.
Hoping it will be verified and I don’t see why it wouldn’t be.
Trump is at the behest of Putin and we’re finding out why.
Trump is at fault – not us.
The if’s in this story last night were worrisome. Lawrence knows better. A single source is never enough unless there are facts/documents to back it up.
Thread
Nothing like having the endorsement of President Barack Obama – OMG!
Tell John McCain’s US descendants.
= 7 children, 5 grandchildre.
– He was born into a military (family (father and grandfather were U.S. Navy Admirals).
– GOP Senator McCain and presidential candidate was born in Panama.
NW thanks for all you do.
Every now and then I petition you to Make the TOD Comment Box Grey Again.
Don’t know about anyone else, but this here cursor literally disappears as i’m trying to write a comment.
Making all kinds of errors. NW please help! argh.
NOW: Beto O’Rourke attends town hall in Charlotte, NC – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-06
INCREDIBLE!!
One of my daughters has been living and working in Germany the last five years. She married a German and has two children born in Germany. She has kept her American citizenship and they are all going to come to the US for three years and she will be working here for her company during that time. Her children were automatically US citizens. If they quit letting the military children automatically being citizens they most likely won’t allow expat children born out of the Country citizenship. Are any of these old rules grandfathered in? I hope the Courts throw out all these changes especially with the undetermined detainment.
I am also concerned for Lawrence O’Donnell after his revealing info with only one source.
GLAD Lawrence got the news out first.
As you know Trump’s people eg Barr like to get the message out first so they can drill it into us via
the media.
interesting
Since iQ45 is a qualified psychopath, could hurricane/storm Dorian head straight to his shithole place in FL, show all it’s many faces as in Oscar Wilde’s novel: The Picture of Dorian Grey? Lawd forgive my lack of kindness, but there’s no one who more deserves paper towels thrown at him as he watches his shithole go under. OK, going back to my chair in corner! 😂😇
Great minds think alike. As soon as I heard the hurricane missed Puerto Rico and was headed to FL I thought please let it demolish Maralago or however it is spelled.
Don’t usually watch Hayes, but had MSNBC on, & he said PBO never wore that tan suit again. Didn’t he wear it at Valerie’s daughter’s wedding? Both he & our FLOTUS looked so lovely! 💞
President Obama sports his beige suit on Easter Sunday, 2014
Rachel has a great segment on this. So, minus-45, iQ45, is trying to deport sick kids from their hospital beds, death sentence. I’ve actually run out of curse words. Forget looking for polite language via Webster’s. Uggh! 😖
I heard that segment. Rachel livid. I have no words because there are no words to describe this bunch, Nothing shocks or surprises me any longer, It may sadden or anger,
Almost ready to “give up on humanity,” after watching that segment. Or, at the very least, storm the castle – by myself, if necessary.
I was going to throw in a curse word for you, but if I start, I won’t be able to stop either!
The Suit Lives! Long Live The Suit!
I wonder if this Tan Suit might find a place in President Obama’s Presidential library. 🙂
Mayor Cruz told whatshisface to “Get out of the way.” Reminiscent of the people of El Paso.
She’s a fighter! And, yes, reminiscent of the people of El Paso and most of us!
Oh my
This has got to be the worst story of the day.
Absolutely Jacqueline!!!!! I am so happy that Rachel is giving it the attention that it deserves.
I am, too, COS!
BARBARIC!
Totally!
Goodnight TOD …
They grow up so fast! 😫
Josh Earnest was flawless imo, hope he and his family are doing well.
Morning everyone
Dudette posted this already:) Twice is nice💕 Hard to believe the once little girl is already grown up. From a Buckeye, we need to talk!!
Right there. I might add, friends and FAMILY
This is my conundrum too. My two Brothers were Trump voters, one of my nieces and her husband is anti everything very religious and Trump supporters. I either have to demand no politics talk or leave when they start in as I tried to argue facts with them to no avail. We all just get angry with each other. I face this in my once a week Art Guild meetings too as I live in a rural area in a Blue state. We were split about half and half Dem/GOP when Obama was elected. Unfortunately, most of the Dems either died or moved away leaving a couple of us against a sea of Rush Limbaugh/Fox listeners. Earlier generations had a no politics, religion or sex topics in polite conversation rule. We tried that too, but many do not realize the breath and scope of politics. That rule seems to be out the window these days. I feel isolated at times.
On the positive side I still have all of you, one like-minded good friend, a Sister-in-law, and all four of my grown children and their spouses, and two In-law families that are strong Democratic supporters.
Seems important
This crap from this POS administration has got to stop.
A very young John Lewis.
Very thorough plan.
This is fine. Nothing to worry about, right?
I don’t understand how an illegitimate squatter that was installed with Putin’s help, gets to behave as if he was duly elected and has the right to do any of the things he does. He is not legit. He is a fraud. Why are we pretending otherwise?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1vtDdBo6N9/
Love this!
Maddow: “The Trump administration has no idea what it is doing.
Or how to handle the inevitable reaction to this from the American people. They have no idea what they are doing here except for the fact that they have decided to tell parents that they must withhold life-saving ongoing medical treatment from their seriously ill kids on orders from the U.S. Government so they can get out of this country because president trump wants them out. Imagine being a U.S. Official who has been doing that kind of work. Now imagine being the parent of a sick kid who is holding on to a letter sent to you by those U.S. Officials and realizing this is what you are up against and this is the exact way your child’s life is being put at in the very short term over the next 30 days by this president. By this president. By this administration and the people who work for him and their priorities. Imagine.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/28/maddow-trump-deport-sick-kids.html
= DOOM and his Death Party doing the only thing they know how.
OMG
Good Morning TODbots.
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“David Koch, who was worth some $42 billion, and his brother Charles Koch poured massive amounts of money into right-wing and libertarian causes over the past four decades, including funding climate change denial through conservative think tanks and politicians. The Koch brothers founded the political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity in 2004, which is credited with turning the “tea party” into a full-fledged political movement.
But “David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier.”
LEONARD: “The brothers…they hold a very vehement anti-government view. They truly believe that society needs to be organized as a marketplace, with only privately run roads, hospitals, insurance. They don’t believe in Social Security. They don’t believe in Medicare. So they’ve been steadily pushing back government regulations and programs like that.”
“And decades ago, this company realized that if the government regulates greenhouse gas emissions or even puts a price on emitting carbon into the sky, it could really hurt Koch’s profits for decades to come. So the company has been, I think, unique and vitally important in derailing any action on climate change, going back to the early 1990s.
…carbon: This is what motivated the company.”
LEONARD: “Fossil fuels put gigatons of greenhouse gas emissions into the sky every year for free, essentially. And the cost of that pollution will be borne by society for decades. It’s what we call in the business community an “externality.” You get to externalize the cost of that pollution. So, if a price is put on that pollution, it changes the entire economics of fossil fuels production. And the big threat to companies like Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, Chevron is that this could hurt demand for fossil fuels in future decades. ”
…for years Koch was systematically taking oil without paying for it.
LEONARD:
“Koch went after any moderate Republicans who acknowledged that climate change was real,
who supported any effort to put a price on carbon. And Koch helped to drive those people out of office. So it played a vitally important role in making it clear to Republicans that they could not support any effort on climate change.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/27/christopher_leonard_kochland_koch_brothers
Kochtopus: A “360-degree machine that affects the public debate.”
SOON: Joe Biden speaks at town hall in Rock Hill, SC – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-08
SOON: Beto O’Rourke tours International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC –
https://abcnews.go.com/Live /video/speciaL-live-4
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/08/29/period-facts-period/