134 Responses to “POTUS And Pete”


  1. August 31, 2019 at 6:31 pm

    Pete Souza recorded the Obama Presidency with artistry and affection. The fact that he can now pull a photo from the vast archive to throw shade at #45 is giving me something to hang on to.

  2. 4 Obama Grandmama
    August 31, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    Me too! Another book to get to add to my Obama collection.

  3. 5 Hillary Darton
    August 31, 2019 at 8:49 pm

    Another mass shooting. Suspect white male in mid thirties.

  4. 6 marleysperson
    August 31, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    I watched this:) It was the BEST !!❤️

    • 7 jacquelineoboomer
      August 31, 2019 at 10:55 pm

      I saw it, too, and agree. Pete acts more like a brother and friend to President Obama, which is a credit to his former boss, of course. Not to mention Pete, too!

  5. 8 marleysperson
    August 31, 2019 at 9:47 pm

    I really cannot stand this narcissistic SOB

  6. 9 jacquelineoboomer
    August 31, 2019 at 10:58 pm

    Sweet stuff.

  7. 15 jacquelineoboomer
    August 31, 2019 at 11:04 pm

  8. 16 jacquelineoboomer
    August 31, 2019 at 11:07 pm

  9. 17 marleysperson
    August 31, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    Wow. Really, Texas?

  10. 18 jacquelineoboomer
    September 1, 2019 at 12:28 am

  11. September 1, 2019 at 12:38 am

    Goodnight TOD …

    • 20 Obama Grandmama
      September 1, 2019 at 11:45 am

      Motive? They kill because they can. Great sport. Fun times. No known consequences or changes on the horizon. Words are powerful but actions are necessary. No changes creates the danger of making this acceptable and saying boys will be boys. Firm gun regulations. Just say NO to the gun lobby NRA.

  12. 21 whenpamelawandered
    September 1, 2019 at 6:01 am

    All over the world, people are speaking, listen to us all wanting the same things for each other. Listen to Hope being borne anew, in our Hearts, given freely with a wish to live in peace, on a planet thriving under our care.

    Keep You The Heart ♥️
    Light WILL Prevail

    Big hugs all around WPW/MP

  13. September 1, 2019 at 8:50 am

    This is so loving and kind:

  14. 27 Don
    September 1, 2019 at 8:52 am

    About two weeks ago my son and I were at the gym in our subdivision. I was on the treadmill and he was somewhere else lifting weights. The treadmills are located right at the front door as soon as you walk in. Anyway I was on the treadmill and this young guy in his early twenties walks in and sits in a chair right by the front door. He wasn’t doing anything but just looking around. For some reason it freaked me out, he was white and dressed in all black. I couldn’t even concentrate on my workout. In the past I wouldn’t have paid any attention to some young white guy going about his business. About ten minutes later the lady that runs the gym came up and shook his hand, apparently he came in to join the gym. All the time as he was sitting there I’m thinking about what to do if he had pulled out a gun or something, was it to run towards him or run away from him? After we left the gym I’m thinking to myself, did I just profile this guy?

    • September 1, 2019 at 9:42 am

      Honestly, this is what is happening to us as the veil of trust is getting thinner and thinner and thinner. We’re hyper-alert to danger because it’s happening all around us and it’s destroying our sense of trust in just being able to be pursue normal daily activity. The white supremacists have been given the signal and they are building an army of nutcases with guns, assault weapons. It’s a really crazy way to live. But I think we really have to rely on our intuition right now. It’s all we have.

    • 29 jacquelineoboomer
      September 1, 2019 at 11:15 am

      Heartbreaking.

  15. 30 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 9:25 am

    Morning everyone

  16. September 1, 2019 at 9:50 am

  17. 44 Don
    September 1, 2019 at 10:06 am

    I will never understand the obsession with owning as many guns as you can.

    • September 1, 2019 at 11:24 am

      MassacreMitch has some bills waiting for him when he gets back on the 9th:
      Background checks (90% national approval), a bill to close the Charleston loophole, Klobuchar’s bill to to close the boyfriend loophole and women from domestic abusers.
      If police officers can face white men willing to shoot a baby in the face, people with military-style weapons and high capacity magazines that wipe out a crowd in seconds, weeny gop-ers in Congress who have children and grandchildren can confront compromised MassacreMitch and the failing NRA.

    • September 1, 2019 at 11:27 am

      Now that David Koch is dead, maybe the GOP noose is looser.
      McConnell is that guy who has blocked jobs bills for 10 years, is in league with Putin and Deripaska and
      who has blccked election protection measures 8 times. We don’t owe him a thing except consequences.

      • 47 Don
        September 1, 2019 at 11:35 am

        Their are a line of billionaires and millionaires just waiting to take David Koch’s place. And their agendas are carbon copies of Koch’s.

        • September 1, 2019 at 11:49 am

          Yes there was a (timely) announcement recently that they want to be known as the “Koch network” and not the Koch brothers. Yes the Koch network is all over Alaska right now working on its destruction.
          So I agree. But imo when the figurehead is gone, there’s a chink in the filthy armor.

    • 49 Hillary Darton
      September 1, 2019 at 4:13 pm

      Don, I don’t get it either. It must be a white man thing, because I know that if black men were buying those AR-15 like white men do, if black men were committing these mass shootings, something would be done about those weapons. Something would have been done to ban black men from buying them.

  18. 50 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 10:47 am

    Class is taught. Feel good.

  19. 51 jer44
    September 1, 2019 at 10:51 am


    “Why the trade war will hurt Trump” (@TheHillOpinion) http://hill.cm/kvDIe7N

  20. 52 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 10:56 am

  21. 53 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 11:27 am

    Way to go, jackass!!

    • 54 Don
      September 1, 2019 at 11:40 am

      For struggling households a thousand dollars is a lot of money. Make no mistake, this was no trade war, you don’t engage in a trade war with China. You don’t go to war with the very country that you borrow money from.

    • September 1, 2019 at 11:43 am

      Keeping Trump in clover at the WH will cost your family $1,000 a year.
      –Pls put up in lights on every bill board in America.

  22. 56 Don
    September 1, 2019 at 11:44 am

    Today in Texas because of a law that was passed, you can now carry guns in schools and in churches. The madness never ends, it only intensifies.

    • 57 marleysperson
      September 1, 2019 at 12:10 pm

      All while the squatter says background checks wouldn’t have prevented this slaughter. I hate this ignorant sob.

  23. 58 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    He’s always so spot on

  24. 59 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 12:34 pm

    Unfit fraud

  25. 62 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 1:28 pm

    Because science, intellectual curiosity and reading aren’t his forte

    • 63 marleysperson
      September 1, 2019 at 1:30 pm

      America and indeed, the world, can not afford his ignorance and hatred any longer. The cost is too great and the repercussions too grave

    • 64 Don
      September 1, 2019 at 2:43 pm

      But he lives part time in Florida and he didn’t know that Hurricanes can get like really big.

  26. 65 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    This looks like one of those really cheap doll heads where you can see all the hair plugs.

  27. 66 pkayden
    September 1, 2019 at 1:40 pm

  28. 68 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 2:15 pm

    Greg Abbott says he’s tired of the dying. Which is why he loosened guns laws in Texas. Watch what they DO, not what they SAY

  29. 71 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 2:20 pm

    Pesky facts

  30. 73 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 3:51 pm

  31. September 1, 2019 at 4:01 pm

  32. 75 Hillary Darton
    September 1, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    Serena Williams moves forward defeating P. Martic 6-3, 6-4. She had some problem with her ankle.

  33. September 1, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    This is rather fascinating…a reckoning is coming…

    #TruthAndReconcilation

  34. 77 jacquelineoboomer
    September 1, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    Plus, if he saw any of the “difficult” stuff at the museum, he would have had to acknowledge they happened.

  35. September 1, 2019 at 5:19 pm

    • September 1, 2019 at 5:21 pm

  36. 80 jer44
    September 1, 2019 at 5:27 pm

  37. 81 nena20409
    September 1, 2019 at 5:54 pm

    Hello and Good Evening TODbots.

    • September 1, 2019 at 8:46 pm

      Was this before she accused Pres Obama of being dishonest for supporting TPP….have not heard any of them say that should have supported TPP

      • September 1, 2019 at 9:46 pm

        Great question. Evening Sheila.

      • September 2, 2019 at 7:40 am

        It’s from 2016. She dogged him pretty much all the time when he was President.

        • September 2, 2019 at 7:47 am

          This pretty much sticks with me. She did not just disagree with Pres Obama on TPP, which I could accept, she inferred that he was dishonest, trying to pull something on the American people. I have a hard time getting past that. Interesting for all her plans, does she have a plan on trade or does she agree with Trump’s approach

          • September 2, 2019 at 8:14 am

            I think I posted a ton on TPP when it was in progress because it was such a massive and detailed plan that PBO and his esteemed crew worked on for 6 years and when it was finally finished, it was a really great plan. And YES, you’re absolutely right, Warren all but called PBO a liar over it and it was infuriating at the time and still bothers me immensely because she questioned his integrity. She often criticized him in public and her undermining of him and TPP is the one of the main reasons it was killed in the Senate. UGH UGH UGH

            • September 2, 2019 at 9:38 am

              It might have died anyway but her questioning of his integrity was uncalled for. And look at us. What a mess we are in now
              None of the candidates talk about trade.

  38. September 1, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    About David Koch:
    “I will not mourn an evil man”:
    (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/1/1881491/-I-will-not-mourn-an-evil-man)
    “He was worth, at the time of his death, $51 billion. While he did donate some of his fortune to worthy causes, it was only to project an image of public service. His brother Charles’ own press release about his death is nothing more than a whitewashing of a lifetime of doing everything possible to acquire ever more profits.
    At every turn of his life he did everything possible to change American society and American politics into his own twisted vision.”

    • September 1, 2019 at 6:27 pm

      “Years from now, when he is nothing more than a memory, and his name is on a few buildings,
      sea levels will continue to rise.
      Polar bears, among other species, will be gone,
      the result of a combination of deforestation, climate change, and loss of habitat.
      We will lose what we once took for granted. David Koch could have made a positive difference for change. Instead, he chose to fund conservative think tanks such as the CATO Institute and Americans For Prosperity spreading lies about climate change, undermining the media, and subverting scientific research. All so he could continue to make billions in the fossil fuel industry.” (Andersen)

  39. September 1, 2019 at 7:13 pm

    Nazgûl:
    KOCH brothers (McConnelll) are like Nazgûl.
    Wraiths who only live(d) for the power of the planet-killing fossil fuel industry = the Ring.
    Tolkein described the Nazgûl: The horses can see but their riders cannot,
    So the riders use horses and people as spies. Greed and power for riches has overcome their ability to live. Close encounters with the Nazgûl causes unconsdiousness. imo this is like politicians who can no longer see life, or living beings and have entirely lost all heart. Ringwraiths are without love and have only blind greed.
    While desiring life, they hate it…hate you.

  40. 92 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    Not a surprise. I hope the other one’s head explodes.

  41. 95 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 8:00 pm

    I’d get it

  42. 96 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 8:16 pm

  43. 97 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 8:19 pm

  44. September 1, 2019 at 8:31 pm

  45. 99 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 8:33 pm

  46. 100 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    She’s got a plan. A good plan

    • September 2, 2019 at 7:16 am

      It’s pretty much the plan Kamala Harris put out last April but whatever.

    • September 2, 2019 at 12:07 pm

      Sometimes i think the candidates miss the boat…

      Hillary Clinton had a great economic package…she had a plan for health care of coal miners…she had foreign policy plans…it did not matter…because folks wanted the white man who would stem the tide of equal rights for disenfranchised folks and implement a white nationalist agenda…

      even now with their farms and businesses going down the tube …folks will still vote for Trump and the Republicans..these folks will still vote for the folks who allow guns to put all of us at risk…

      it is because …they identify with whiteness and white privilege…

      i want the candidates to address this…to see that to these folks they can lose their health care…etc…but they believe they will still be superior because of their whiteness…and for the record …it is not just the white working class who believes this…that is why some members of the press have a hard time reporting Trump…

      sometimes i feel so discouraged…..

      #TruthAndReconciliation

      • 103 tnmtngirl1
        September 2, 2019 at 12:40 pm

        That is expressed perfectly! Thank you.

        Happy Labor Day to all. May we never forget all the millions who fought for our rights.

  47. 104 marleysperson
    September 1, 2019 at 8:48 pm

    Yet he swears he’s never heard of a Cat 5 hurricane.

  48. September 1, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    We have all the BEST Hurricanes! People are saying we have the biggest and best ones!

  49. September 2, 2019 at 1:28 am

    Goodnight TOD …..

  50. September 2, 2019 at 8:17 am

    So sick of this endless violence.

  51. September 2, 2019 at 9:03 am

  52. 110 Don
    September 2, 2019 at 9:19 am

    I’ll tell you what, this #90dayfiance is like watching a slow motion train wreck, and I can’t get enough of it.

  53. 115 marleysperson
    September 2, 2019 at 10:47 am

    Morning everyone

  54. 116 marleysperson
    September 2, 2019 at 11:51 am

    This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we’re in trouble… we’ll, one of the reasons anyway. WTF!

    • 117 carla4obama
      September 2, 2019 at 3:37 pm

      I’m afraid for the United States. Our education system has failed us. This man is a product of the United States….how does one even begin to address this type of ignorance? Yes just have the Navy dump ice in the Atlantic ocean to cool the water temperature.

  55. 118 marleysperson
    September 2, 2019 at 12:00 pm

  56. 119 marleysperson
    September 2, 2019 at 12:14 pm

    Messed up. Doing nothing to solve the gun problem.

  57. September 2, 2019 at 12:16 pm

    Reports are in that Abaco in the Bahamas has been completely devastated by level 5 Hurricane Dorian.
    PUT CHARLES KOCH ON THE STAND.
    PUT CHARLES KOCH ON THE STAND.

  58. 122 marleysperson
    September 2, 2019 at 12:16 pm

  59. September 2, 2019 at 12:33 pm

    Part of a 40-year EXXON cover-up and disinformation operation:
    The KOCH brothers spread lies about global warming “undermining the media, and subverting scientific research. All so he (they) could continue to make billions in the fossil fuel industry.” (Andersen).
    While brother David was the face of the evil enterprise
    Charles was behind the scenes pulling the strings.
    And he still is.

  60. September 2, 2019 at 12:38 pm

    i am tired of the back and forth that the press has to present every issue…be it gun violence or protecting the elections…i read a statement that said that the press it to tell the truth…not engage in bothsiderism…i agree with that…but the some of the so called media is more about entertainment than truth telling

  61. 127 marleysperson
    September 2, 2019 at 1:59 pm

  62. 129 jer44
    September 2, 2019 at 2:03 pm


    London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Saturday denounced Trump as the “global poster-boy for white nationalism” in an essay that warns against forgetting the lessons of World War II. … http://hill.cm/PQluib3

  63. 130 nena20409
    September 2, 2019 at 2:14 pm

    Good Afternoon, beloved TODbots 🙇‍♀️😍😍💙💪
    THank you, NW👒💁‍♀️

  64. 131 jer44
    September 2, 2019 at 2:42 pm


    NOW: Elizabeth Warren attends house party in Hampton Falls, NH – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-4

  65. September 2, 2019 at 2:54 pm

    Questions of the Day….

  66. 133 jer44
    September 2, 2019 at 2:59 pm


    NOW: Pete Buttigieg attends Hawkeye Labor council picnic in Iowa – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-4


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