Thank you for the new post…
these youtube videos will do wonders for the children and their who do not have guidance counselors in their school…when a the school district cuts the budget…these services are always cut first..as if they are not needed
Spot on, Sheila. The Obamas are quietly mentoring young people here and abroad, cultivating a new generation of confident leaders of every race and nationality.
Today would be a good day to pay it forward. Call a relative, a friend, a neighbor. Someone you haven't spoken to recently. See how they are doing. Ask if they need something. Maybe do something special for them today. If we all do, will make the world a better place.
All those that are aiding and abetting need to be investigated too.
Schiff on Trump's call with the Ukraine president: "This would be, I think, the most profound violation of the presidential oath of office certainly during this presidency, which says a lot, but perhaps during just about any presidency." Via CNN pic.twitter.com/3x4mo6FYl8
Barack Obama shares the leadership lesson he learned from raising his daughters Malia and Sasha: Different people require different approaches https://t.co/FhvpvqRpLM
Heh PBO: “What I found with my staff is, there’s some people where I could be more blunt with, and some people, I have to be a little more, what do the girls call it, ‘compliment sandwiches,’ trying to wrap it around the criticism where you’re like, ‘You’re wonderful. That was a terrible memo. I love you.’
In so doing she had been on the road for months, away from her own family, thrilled to be recording history but distressed about missing too much of her son's childhood.https://t.co/uCrBQpdhqe
Greta Thunberg talking to Naomi Klein:
“But I just — I just think it’s so important, because still many people see to have a diagnosis to be neuro-diverse to be something negative, and it doesn’t have to be. And, of course, it can limit you in many ways. It has limited me a lot. But it can also — you can also convert that in to be something good, something positive. And that is what I have done. And that is what I think we should encourage more people to do.”
-Let’s think of Aspergers as neuro-diversity! Also we can rethink ADHD and get away from drugs.
-We are diverse!!
Finding out that Greta Thunberg is neuro-diverse (Aspergers) was a welcome eye opener for me as one of my wonderful grandchildren has been diagnosed on the Autism spectrum. She is a curious, bright five year old with stemming, hate of loud noises, and other descriptors fitting the diagnosis. As she ages she stands out as different from her peers. They have even made fun of her. My daughter and her husband have become proactive and obtained help for her and themselves in order to maximize her potential. I have learned that what you say and what you expect have been shaped by past experiences and past beliefs and that acceptance of differences is important as well as a more enlightened way of thinking about it.
🚨 Mnuchin doesn't have a response when Chuck Todd asks him if he can explain "how all of the sudden when the [Ukraine] aid got released, more money showed up. Where did [it] come from?…They got an additional $140m they didn't expect"
If it turned out Trump floated a veiled threat to Zelensky to allow Putin to gobble up eastern Ukraine if he didn’t cooperate on Biden, would we really be surprised? https://t.co/JSfl8dcLTu
Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas: "I don’t think it is true that the difficulties in prosecuting a sitting President translate into a sitting President not being bound by ordinary criminal laws." https://t.co/UKza0aIbs1
Not just the Himalayas of lies – he DOES serially observable recorded criminal acts! Not just a malevolent, sadistic ignoramus running a WH pay-to-play protection racket, not just a vile Cohn II at the helm. Man all the great crime solvers on the teevee…yet here we are in broad daylight being taken down by the Republican Party and their handlers trying to end democracy, create a Koch free-for-all, and establish an authoritarian regime at the behest of Putin, bin Salman. Howzabout time to play hardball and quit messing about!
Also, at this time in 2007 the same bullshit was being spewed about a black fella named Barack Hussein Obama and we all know how well that worked for the media and the WHITE DEMS who were terrified of him – one of whom is still trying to get elected POTUS.
Alex Borstein thanks her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Her grandmother was in line to be shot. She asked a guard what would happen if she stepped out of line. The guard said he wouldn't shoot her. She stepped out "and for that, I am here … So step out of line, ladies."
Our Country has much to atone for. We desperately need Truth and Reconciliation…
The bodies of three young Native American girls are returned to the Oneida Reservation. And a community heals. https://t.co/VlECLwt6iu via @phillyinquirer
Thanks for this post.
60 tribes were relocated by force to barren lands west of the Mississippi, and their own ancestral lands taken. An unspeakably shameful and horrific history of genocide.
To which I want to respond, directly, “No shit, Sherlock,” but won’t.
Historians and social scientists deeply worried Trump is showing all the signs of authoritarianism. Not just his rivals are saying it. Big concern there could be a crisis, real or contrived, that could push our old, and generally successful, experiment in democracy over the edge.
Speaker Pelosi said so during a news conference she hosted that she totally supports the work of the judiciary committee and she likes the pace that things are moving along.
I love you, brothers. Thank you for choosing me. I hope this night makes you feel celebrated + seen. And that our brothers, sisters + siblings behind bars because they’re poor + innocent while the rich and guilty walk free feel seen in some small way too. Onward! ✊🏾 #Emmys2019pic.twitter.com/qIf0ccGwM5
“And the really sad thing is while [Trump] is yapping about Paris, we’re seeing China eat our lunch
on cars and on renewable energy and equipment. We’re just losing ground, in terms of our ability to grab the clean energy economy and turn it into jobs and economic growth for us.”
Cory Booker: “basically said he’s going to demand that his entire cabinet looks at their work through a climate lens. That’s exactly what should be done. Why wouldn’t we want to have the military—who totally recognizes climate change as being a huge national and international instability issue—why wouldn’t we want to support it in its interest in having renewable energy instead of fossil fuels? Why wouldn’t we want to become a leader in clean energy, so we’re not fighting about oil fields overseas?
1) Trump's $28 billion taxpayer bailout of farmers is now more than 2x the cost of the Bush-Obama auto industry bailout during the 2007-09 economic collapse 2) Trump said "trade wars are easy to win" 3) Trump said China is paying. No – you are https://t.co/YYFMezb13b via @BW
There it is. The Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee calling on sitting federal judges to take senior status & billing himself and the President as a court-packing team. This is just disgraceful. https://t.co/7yHJsCnx4L
THIS! Liz should say what WE know – they were not bailouts. Yes, Bush and Paulsen wanted them, but Obama converted them to LOANS that were repaid w interest. And he forbade bonuses to execs until they were. SHE SHOULD KNOW THIS.
Standing ovation for this brave young woman. She is ON THE NOSE.
Greta Thunberg at U.N.: "You are still not mature enough to tell it like it is. You are failing us. Young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you." https://t.co/5ZPcsQ1Bbrpic.twitter.com/58gwYMqBQV
VIDEO: "You all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams, and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I'm one of the lucky ones," says a visibly angry #GretaThunberg during #UNClimateSummit in New York pic.twitter.com/i3dcLGq6LR
Ummm… word is you're skipping the #ClimateActionSummit where @GretaThunberg will be speaking. You pull out of the Paris Accord, skip this key meeting…. yet claim we will be "well represented?" You're a piece of shit that is destroying our planet for your own personal gain. https://t.co/2QzDfLi77b
“People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”My speech in UN General Assembly in print https://t.co/8wYyCa4H01
AFTER
UKRAINE:
IMPEACH HIM NOW.
1) Until now because of Mueller’s legal conclusion, congressional investigators basically ignored the 200 pages
of described links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign ‘in favor of the evidence on obstruction of justice.”
2) “But reports over the past few days about Trump’s interactions with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in hopes of digging dirt on Joe Biden, should show them that looking at those behaviors from a strictly legal standpoint is a mistake.”
3) If Trump was ignorant of the laws before he became president, after two years of “Russia, Russia, Russia,”
he most certainly understood that colluding with a foreign government to interfere in the election was not considered to be an ethical practice, whether it was defined as “conspiracy” or “collusion.”
(https://www.salon.com/2019/09/23/after-trump-and-rudys-ukraine-gambit-democrats-must-quit-stalling-and-impeach/)
…ADMIT IT.
…We got the Effer.
At United Nations, Pres. Trump is hosting a session to "protect religious freedom." He said all nations should "end religious persecution." So far, Trump, VP Pence, and others haven't mentioned that Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims" entering the U.S.
Pres Trump hosting this event is a reminder that many white evangelicals have remained in his corner through all sorts of controversies. This part of his base feels rewarded for loyalty by Supreme Court justices, federal judges & changes in policies impacting the LGBTQ community.
Capo and top money launderer in the Russian mob who ran a chump university, scam real estate deals and a self-dealing charity all to benefit him and his crime family who loves thugs over allies has feelings about corruption.
Greta telling the truth down to the bone and sinew. Oh my.
imo she is being gracious when she says the oil overlords are not evil.
The ones we know are evil.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that – at the very least – Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Mnuchin, Mulvaney, Giuliani and countless underlings are involved up to their necks in this highly coordinated Ukraine extortion, bribery and misappropriation of funds scandal.
When all is said and done and auditors come in to have a look at what happened to our tax money in these years of the Con Man Occupancy, we are going to uncover massive misappropriation, fraud, abuse the likes of which we've never seen. Trump Org was the criminal training ground.
Let’s be clear about terms here. Trump didn’t try to extort “opposition research” on Biden from Ukraine. He tried to extort Ukraine into *ginning up disinformation* about Biden, and cloaking it in the seeming legitimacy of a law enforcement investigation.
The FBI has arrested a U.S. soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major American news network and planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with a violent far-right group, ABC News reports. He also allegedly suggested targeting Beto O'Rourke. https://t.co/unBMhnVruO
One summer. 26 mass shootings. Countless lives cut short.
We cannot go on like this. It’s past time we take on the @NRA, pass common-sense gun safety legislation, and end our gun violence epidemic. https://t.co/U1tx4ggyVq
We must hear the voices of both Artemesia and Greta. Teenage girls speaking with clarity & passion demanding action on climate change. Listen to 19 year old indigenous Amazon activist Artemesia Xakriaba at Friday’s Global Climate Strike. https://t.co/yCOBzOjuUH
"These new allegations are a threat to all we have sworn to protect. We must preserve the checks and balances envisioned by the Founders and restore the trust of the American people in our government. And that is what we intend to do." https://t.co/kNf4EEIKHg
And there it is. You knew the way Trump was running his mouth at the UN today that something was about to blow.
Breaking via WaPo: Trump told acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden's son.https://t.co/eEC7BCtk1j
Things are happening. Trump is out of control. Keep an eye on McGuire and Atkinson over the next 48 hours. Trump’s disintegration is accelerating. And guess what . . . #JusticeIsCominghttps://t.co/eGAXj705ZA
I’m nearly certain this happened…. that all that money given to the inauguration committee were bribes. I’d bet my house
And while the Manhattan DA's office comes for Trump – where he has NO PARDON POWER, Federal prosecutors want to know if foreigners bribed Trump through his inauguration. 😁 pic.twitter.com/0ackxmbONQ
I represent more Ukrainian-Americans than any other member of Congress. I’ve introduced more bills and amendments supporting Ukraine than any other member. What Trump has done is sacrifice America’s defense of Europe against Russia. It is deeply unpatriotic. He must be impeached.
Trump’s financials are one of the smoking guns that House Dems are working to get in defense of our country.
Why do I believe this? Apart from already knowing that he's engaged in deals that leave more questions than answers, I’m looking at what they’re DOING.
Watching countless Republican men over 40 bully Greta Thunberg — a 16-year-old girl with Aspergers who is literally brought to tears at the fear of the climate crisis — is one of the most vile things I’ve witnessed in a long time.
House Judiciary members have pressed Chairman Nadler to invoke Congress's long-dormant inherent contempt authority that would allow Congress to jail or fine people for defying subpoenas, an idea he supports, people familiar with his thinking tell WaPo. https://t.co/SPvvHfOSux
Can’t wait for @GretaThunberg to receive the Nobel Prize that jealous Trump begs for. The school yard bully can’t help his Twitter fingers. Mocking this brave activist portrays how very unpresidential the monster is. https://t.co/Okhr2NUiyh
Just in: @ChrisMurphyCT issues long statement calling for impeachment hearings into Trump.
"To use America’s global credibility as a casino token, to be cashed in for personal political gain, is an intolerable abuse of power and totally anathema to the rule of law." pic.twitter.com/Hg121vB7o0
Beyond withholding military aid from Ukraine to help himself politically, Trump was helping Putin in his aggression against Ukraine and thus improving his standing with his benefactor and potential blackmailer. And usurping Congress’s spending and oversight powers. 5-fold abuse!!
The Obama Diary 
GM Nerdy…
Thank you for the new post…
these youtube videos will do wonders for the children and their who do not have guidance counselors in their school…when a the school district cuts the budget…these services are always cut first..as if they are not needed
Spot on, Sheila. The Obamas are quietly mentoring young people here and abroad, cultivating a new generation of confident leaders of every race and nationality.
Morning everyone
All those that are aiding and abetting need to be investigated too.
Heh PBO: “What I found with my staff is, there’s some people where I could be more blunt with, and some people, I have to be a little more, what do the girls call it, ‘compliment sandwiches,’ trying to wrap it around the criticism where you’re like, ‘You’re wonderful. That was a terrible memo. I love you.’
❤️ 😃
Greta Thunberg talking to Naomi Klein:
“But I just — I just think it’s so important, because still many people see to have a diagnosis to be neuro-diverse to be something negative, and it doesn’t have to be. And, of course, it can limit you in many ways. It has limited me a lot. But it can also — you can also convert that in to be something good, something positive. And that is what I have done. And that is what I think we should encourage more people to do.”
-Let’s think of Aspergers as neuro-diversity! Also we can rethink ADHD and get away from drugs.
-We are diverse!!
Finding out that Greta Thunberg is neuro-diverse (Aspergers) was a welcome eye opener for me as one of my wonderful grandchildren has been diagnosed on the Autism spectrum. She is a curious, bright five year old with stemming, hate of loud noises, and other descriptors fitting the diagnosis. As she ages she stands out as different from her peers. They have even made fun of her. My daughter and her husband have become proactive and obtained help for her and themselves in order to maximize her potential. I have learned that what you say and what you expect have been shaped by past experiences and past beliefs and that acceptance of differences is important as well as a more enlightened way of thinking about it.
Some of the most wonderful, caring and inspirational children I know and work with… ❤️
Let me exceptional to that list:)
NOW: Pete Buttigieg holds meet and greet in Boone, IA – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-5
Thread. Lift each other up:)
Our tax money
Brought to heel
Alaska Republican Party cancels 2020 primary in boost for President Trump http://hill.cm/cfSXg5O
I wonder how the republicans in Alaska feel about having their vote taken away
I would hope not!!
Tribe 2018: “Yes the Constitution Allows Indictiment of the President.”
(https://www.lawfareblog.com/yes-constitution-allows-indictment-president)
Not just the Himalayas of lies – he DOES serially observable recorded criminal acts! Not just a malevolent, sadistic ignoramus running a WH pay-to-play protection racket, not just a vile Cohn II at the helm. Man all the great crime solvers on the teevee…yet here we are in broad daylight being taken down by the Republican Party and their handlers trying to end democracy, create a Koch free-for-all, and establish an authoritarian regime at the behest of Putin, bin Salman. Howzabout time to play hardball and quit messing about!
NOW; Joe Biden speaks at UAW strike in Kansas City –
https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-3
Trump admits he discussed Biden in call with Ukrainian president https://cbsn.ws/30hZpS8
I do love this woman:)
WHY is the media ignoring her?!?!? Oh, never mind. I know the answer. 😣😨😡. Prefer her over EW BIG time. Media………🥺
I’m not a fan of EW either
Simple answer: BECAUSE SHE WILL WIN.
Also, at this time in 2007 the same bullshit was being spewed about a black fella named Barack Hussein Obama and we all know how well that worked for the media and the WHITE DEMS who were terrified of him – one of whom is still trying to get elected POTUS.
REALLY love this one, too. Super inspiring.
Wow.
WOW indeed!
Trump doubles down on call to investigate Biden after whistleblower complaint http://hill.cm/XJ9rdjg
Our Country has much to atone for. We desperately need Truth and Reconciliation…
Totally agree. How many tears must we shed?
INdeed we do…
Thanks for this post.
60 tribes were relocated by force to barren lands west of the Mississippi, and their own ancestral lands taken. An unspeakably shameful and horrific history of genocide.
Both posts are remarkable stories. Thanks, Jazz. ❤️💙
^^ THIS
To which I want to respond, directly, “No shit, Sherlock,” but won’t.
Bless them all, bless Ava, very moving to see them honored tonight. thank you.
I was so happy to see them all there!
thank you Pentagon!! Who is Miller after all.
She’s a chess player. People keep forgetting that.
I think she wants the noose so tight that he can’t ever wiggle out. Frustrating as it is.
Yes! Totally agree.
Believe me, I’m in on the frustration.
Speaker Pelosi said so during a news conference she hosted that she totally supports the work of the judiciary committee and she likes the pace that things are moving along.
Goodnight TOD …
Wonderful way to start your day!!
“And the really sad thing is while [Trump] is yapping about Paris, we’re seeing China eat our lunch
on cars and on renewable energy and equipment. We’re just losing ground, in terms of our ability to grab the clean energy economy and turn it into jobs and economic growth for us.”
Cory Booker: “basically said he’s going to demand that his entire cabinet looks at their work through a climate lens. That’s exactly what should be done. Why wouldn’t we want to have the military—who totally recognizes climate change as being a huge national and international instability issue—why wouldn’t we want to support it in its interest in having renewable energy instead of fossil fuels? Why wouldn’t we want to become a leader in clean energy, so we’re not fighting about oil fields overseas?
and what they do not say is that Pres Obama converted those bailouts to loans which were paid back with interest
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2wO7eqIbP1/
It’s indeed a Manic Monday.
Good Morning, TODbots.
Thank you, NW.
😍😍😍
Standing ovation for this brave young woman. She is ON THE NOSE.
THANK YOU.
e.g. West just hurt everyone with his pseudo b.s.
well worth a listen to
Yes. It’s excellent.
AFTER
UKRAINE:
IMPEACH HIM NOW.
1) Until now because of Mueller’s legal conclusion, congressional investigators basically ignored the 200 pages
of described links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign ‘in favor of the evidence on obstruction of justice.”
2) “But reports over the past few days about Trump’s interactions with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in hopes of digging dirt on Joe Biden, should show them that looking at those behaviors from a strictly legal standpoint is a mistake.”
3) If Trump was ignorant of the laws before he became president, after two years of “Russia, Russia, Russia,”
he most certainly understood that colluding with a foreign government to interfere in the election was not considered to be an ethical practice, whether it was defined as “conspiracy” or “collusion.”
(https://www.salon.com/2019/09/23/after-trump-and-rudys-ukraine-gambit-democrats-must-quit-stalling-and-impeach/)
…ADMIT IT.
…We got the Effer.
SHE IS ALL OF US
THE PLANET AND ITS INHABITANTS VERSUS TRUMP AND THE OILIGARCHS.
COME ON, NOW.
“The number two Republican in the Senate, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) refused to believe the whistleblower complaint, even after Trump admitted that he talked to Ukraine about Biden.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2019/09/22/john-cornyn-trump-whistleblower.html)
Hello Democrats!
This is how we do it: Go after Guiliani and Lewandowski, arrest Acting DNI Maguire.
The whistle blower can hand over his report direct to Congress.
Eh we are not fooled.
Saudi oil was hit.
No casualties.
Trump is loyal to hisself,
handlers,
benefactors,
sex files,
Oil.
Greta telling the truth down to the bone and sinew. Oh my.
imo she is being gracious when she says the oil overlords are not evil.
The ones we know are evil.
Did the cowardly little russian run away…before Greta Thunberg’s UN speech?
Yeah, why IS that??!!
That Dictator in the white House says that Obama should not have been given the Nobel Peace Prize.
Love that!
Nancy Pelosi has called for a conference of her caucus tomorrow at 4 p.m. ET. Hope this is it!
Apparently, the “something” part is these freshmen won in swing districts in 2018, so we’re more on our way to braving it out.
STAY TUNED
And there it is. You knew the way Trump was running his mouth at the UN today that something was about to blow.
Yes, he was acting like a lunatic all day. Off to read that.
I’m nearly certain this happened…. that all that money given to the inauguration committee were bribes. I’d bet my house
Hallelujah!
It’s real. Yay!
Oh no.
THREAD (looking good)
MUST READ THREAD
Thank you, Jacqueline. Excellent thread.
Goodnight TOD …
Goodnight, Bob! Hope you’re hanging in there!
Great news, the other liar has been caught:
Morning everyone.
I also watched Bill Weld explain his actions as treason against the US. We need to ITMFA!
About fucking time!! DO IT!!
Would be such sweet karma:)
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/09/24/thoughtfulness-eloquence/