You realize they aren’t that smart. Understatement of the year.
It is me. I am the one who blew the whistle to let everyone know that instead of genitals you have a sack of dead goldfish rotting in your pants region and you wake up every morning in an absolute lake of your own shit. https://t.co/0LSFFzHLoL
“If a foreign power reaches out to your campaign offering assistance/dirt on a political opponent, the appropriate response is not to say ‘thank you.’ The appropriate response is to call the FBI.”
Apparently Gowdy once told Izza he couldn’t enter a SCIF since he wasn’t on one of the committees inside. And now he’s on trump’s private team. What goes around, etc.
“Trump Demands 16 More Years In Office During Speech In Pittsburgh.”
“Trump was supposed to be giving an official presidential speech to an energy conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Instead, he ranted about impeachment, Democrats, and got the crowd to chant 16 more years.”
(video: https://www.politicususa.com/2019/10/23/trump-16-more-years.html)
–Be nice to avoid indictment. But how about 16 more minutes?
Narrators voice: "It was a ruse. Actually it was a lie. A bald faced horrible lie. Made more horrible with every act that showed it to be a gigantic lie. Because in the end it corrupted everything. Everything."
Hey SoCal peeps, come see our resident bard, Tally. Get your tickets thru the link below. You will enjoy it – we’ve been going for many years at the Huntington Library and now the performance has a new home. I’ll be looking for you 😎
Valid Points.
I was thinking that they are desperate, earlier. Now, not so much.
30 R members of Congress broke into & disrupted a hearing today of Defense Department officer; reminds me of R staff that bum rushed the recount sites in Florida 2000 presidential election. Are Rs sending directives to DT supporters nationally to begin disruptive actions locally?
See this article/tweet. Might be a good time for us to also call/reach out to our representatives with a show of support.
Trump rallygoers waiting in line are now given phone numbers for offices of Democratic congressmen along with scripts that urge lawmakers to “end this witch hunt,” support the president and demand Schiff's resignationhttps://t.co/KxGgnfpUjr
"Look at them. Like a men's warehouse sale, where everything has to go." — @ChrisCuomo describes the video of House RWNJs' storming the SCIF (Bravo, Chris!)
Well now, iQ45’s lawyers threw SixPence under the proverbial bus. iQ45 is taking iQ45-VP down w/ him, y’all! 😂 And Rudster is ISO a criminal lawyer. SixPence might do well to follow suit, & all cohorts. 😏 Just catching up on today’s hearing via Rachel. 😂😂😇👀
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton will both speak Friday at Rep. Elijah Cummings’ funeral in Baltimore, @albamonica reports.
Deposition update: Timothy Morrison, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe and Russia, National Security Council, is expected to appear in closed session on Thursday.
“Giant steps are what you take Walking on the moon…”
40 years ago #today, the Police filmed their music video for “Walking On The Moon” at @NASAKennedy. The video features astronauts, mission control, and Stewart Copeland drumming on a Saturn V rocket! pic.twitter.com/rBUncjuofL
Farmington, NM police officer Zachary Christensen has resigned after video showed him roughing up a sixth grader. The officer denied he was using excessive force on the 11-year-old girl even after a school administrator told him she is not a threat to anyone. pic.twitter.com/Rhz6p4rS9Z
Classic. Facebook pretends they care about and will protect user privacy. Meanwhile, an army of their attorneys is marching into federal court to argue it's not their job. Which one is it? pic.twitter.com/xniAlH03sZ
President Obama will attend the funeral service for Rep. Elijah Cummings on Friday, where, at the request of Mrs. Cummings, he will deliver remarks, Obama spokesperson says.
Yesterday in .@JudiciaryDems I asked why no federal agency conducted an audit of voting machines used in the past 2 elections. How can we have faith in 2020 if we don’t provide oversight of our voting process & ensure voting machines are secure? https://t.co/iskL88wEF3
President Obama will speak at the funeral service in Baltimore on Friday of Elijah Cummings. An Obama spokeswoman says "he will deliver remarks about the remarkable life and legacy of one of this country’s finest public servants."https://t.co/uScapefvrb
Some 10,000 astrophysicists, engineers, and chemists have worked on the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. When it finally launches, it will see further back than any telescope has ever seen before https://t.co/rwYyhCKOmK
House Democrats are looking to take the impeachment probe public as soon as mid-November, according to WaPo. Multiple Democratic officials said they hope to use the two-week work period just before Thanksgiving to have public hearings.https://t.co/pkRYwqJtnU
Well this is awkward …Colorado doesn’t border Mexico. Good thing Colorado now offers free full day kindergarten so our kids can learn basic geography pic.twitter.com/bEXLDJYUku
ICYMI, CNN buried the lead in their story on Parnas & Fruman yesterday. Turns out Rudy's grifters were headed to Vienna to help Hannity interview the corrupt Ukr prosecutor everyone in Europe wanted to fire. Makes Bill Barr's meeting w/Rupert that night far more interesting. https://t.co/8C3MZG3AI5
His astute take on the Republicans stunt yesterday
If a witness is testifying about a criminal boss to a grand jury, and a bunch of thugs burst in to try and disrupt the proceedings, you would conclude they are trying to intimidate the witness and the jury and prevent the truth from coming out. Just saying.
“But of particular interest was Trump’s rhetoric about escaped members of ISIS.
The terrorist network was already delighted by the Republican’s policy, since it effectively ended the U.S.-backed offensive against ISIS. Indeed, by any fair measure, ISIS was one of the biggest winners of Trump’s decision.
But with the Kurds confronting a brutal military offensive from the Turks – effectively at Trump’s invitation – some ISIS militants contained by the Kurds were able to escape…” (Benen)
—The number of escapees is not known (not Benito’s “few”). One hundred has been questionably floated by Esper who said “We do not know where they are”.
–Sincerely curious…now that Trump has killed off our allies while forcing them + our military out, who is he bragging has ISIS “under lock and key”? The Russians?
“Anti-ISIS efforts have ended, militant prisoners have been freed, and the terrorist group is poised for new gains. Trump’s inexplicable plan to guard Syrian oilfields with approximately 200 remaining soldiers so that they can be exploited in a “joint venture” with betrayed Kurds is opposed, of course, both by the Syrian government and by the supportive Russia. And Trump himself seems to be drifting farther and farther from both coherence and reality in each of his new “decisions.” (Daily Kos)
“The First Solar Plant In Kenya That Turns Ocean Water Into Drinkable Water And Is Seen As A Potential Reaction to Global Water Crisis.”
“As paradoxical as it sounds and looks, even though the earth is 3/4 covered with water, and yet 2.2 billion people around the world (almost 1/4 of the world population) lack access to drinkable water. Besides this, the world fears another future crisis due to climate changes: turning seawater into drinkable one, because the current and future predicted floods will pollute the drinkable water sources.
…According to W.H.O and a report published by UNICEF, one in every three people lack access to clean drinkable water, and the situation is even worse in Africa. This is the reason the GivePower NGO chose the small village of Kenya, Kiunga, to turn Indian Ocean’s salty water into drinkable ‘sweet’ water.
This project has been operating since last year and it looks promising.”
(https://www.creativitybay.com/nature/the-first-solar-plant-in-kenya-that-turns-ocean-water-into-drinkable-water-and-is-seen-as-a-potential-reaction-to-global-water-crisis/)
Pretty much wore myself out, crying during the ceremony for Elijah Cummings. Beautiful man, already missed. But I’m already looking forward to hearing President Obama speak tomorrow at his service. Who isn’t!
Same same same. Just so overwhelmingly sad, the tears flow now just thinking about. His wife looked majestic and regal and when she walked up to his flag-draped casket, she held it together, although it seemed just barely. Just barely.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "Elijah Cummings, son of sharecroppers, master of the House. It is my official and personal and sad honor to welcome Chairman Elijah Cummings and all who loved him to this celebration of his life" https://t.co/fH0IJHLfkopic.twitter.com/6tCLpsXAE2
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (Oversight and Intelligence Commitees) spoke to Rachel Maddow about
GOP crashing Pentagon official Cooper’s hearing yesterday. Laura Cooper is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia.
(have transcribed)
Congresswoman Speier:
“I think she provided us with all the information we needed. So while it was delayed by the antics of our Republican colleagues who frankly acted like a mob as they entered into the secure facility in which the Intelligence Committee always meets, they also violated ethics rules that prevent us from bringing in cellphones. They created an environment in which the SCIF became inappropriate for carrying on any kind of classified information because, you know, one of the high value targets for the Russians and the Chinese are members of Congress. If they can get into our phones even when they are turned off, it becomes a very valuable resource for them. So they acted very recklessly and I think their shenanigans proved once again that if you can’t beat us on the merits, then let’s move somewhere else and try something dramatic, which I think they did frankly because the president yesterday whined that they weren’t fighting for him hard enough. And so they showed him today that they were fighting for him.”
Maddow:
“Bloomberg news was reporting today that the president had advanced notice that they were going to do this specific thing and that he essentially signed off on it and told them they should do it. Those were strong words you just used in talking about what they did and the seriousness of it. Do you think those members of Congress should face some sort of consequences for what they did, either in the Ethics Committee or some other way?”
Speier:
“I mean they violated one of their Oaths of Office to protect the Constitution and to comply with the House rules. So it was a very reckless act by them. It was clearly being done for one person, the president of the United States, and I think that once again it shows that they are not recognizing their responsibilities as members of Congress to protect the Constitution and comply with the rules of the House. So I think there should be some action taken to admonish them.”
Congresswoman Speier tweeted:
“Putin and Erdogan carving up Kurdish land is proof positive that @ POTUS has abandoned America’s national security and our allies, the Kurdish people. Reprehensible. I guess this is what Trump means when he says he wants to do deals with Putin.”
A rarely-seen natural phenomenon has been captured on camera. Atmospheric gravity waves can be seen in satellite images taken by Australian weather forecast service Weatherzone. The images show the waves spreading out from the coast of Western Australia. https://t.co/ObZbzgWztBpic.twitter.com/8Pg0gKj9JT
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has finally abandoned his promise of an October Brexit and pinned his hopes on a December election. https://t.co/FoVnTHjPul
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus gather around the flag-draped casket of late Rep. Elijah Cummings, whose example CBC Chair Karen Bass pledged to follow. https://t.co/Ufsn6M5vPppic.twitter.com/mNkDEiOIV7
The gangs all here. Tonight, we’re thrilled to honor @MichelleObama with the Tom Hanks #HiddenHeroes Champion award, in recognition of her commitment to supporting America’s military caregivers. pic.twitter.com/zAaBRTSjr3
BREAKING: Maria Butina, a Russian spy who pleaded guilty last December to conspiring with a senior Russian official to access the @NRA and other groups from 2015 until she was arrested last July, is being sent back to Russia. https://t.co/VXmXYNSUFh
I'm so taken by this image. Rarely can we see into the House chamber floor through this door, and cameras are not allowed to face this way, so to have this view of Rep. Cummings at the open door of the chamber he served is just lovely. pic.twitter.com/HssT7Z0Bpx
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
You realize they aren’t that smart. Understatement of the year.
Zacklee
Nah we ain’t gotta be crooks like them to be them, we just need to freaking vote… everybody!!
Agree. Vote!
truth Ms Dudette
Good Evening, TODbots.
Thank you for a new post, NW.
Matthew Chapman 14m
House Homeland Security chairman directs sergeant at arms to ‘take action’ against Republicans who raided SCIF
Trumpsky set his goons on the Impeachment Committee…now trying to normalize his lawlessness and chaos in the hallowed halls of Congress.
Apparently Gowdy once told Izza he couldn’t enter a SCIF since he wasn’t on one of the committees inside. And now he’s on trump’s private team. What goes around, etc.
OMG. Again.
Good!!
Can’t fix stupid
“Trump Demands 16 More Years In Office During Speech In Pittsburgh.”
“Trump was supposed to be giving an official presidential speech to an energy conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Instead, he ranted about impeachment, Democrats, and got the crowd to chant 16 more years.”
(video: https://www.politicususa.com/2019/10/23/trump-16-more-years.html)
–Be nice to avoid indictment. But how about 16 more minutes?
LIVE…
Tribute service held in honor of Rep. Elijah Cummings who passed away on Oct. 17.
Thank you so much JER 💔
Hey SoCal peeps, come see our resident bard, Tally. Get your tickets thru the link below. You will enjoy it – we’ve been going for many years at the Huntington Library and now the performance has a new home. I’ll be looking for you 😎
https://dramaafterdark2019.brownpapertickets.com/
Oh how I wish I could come! I’ll be there in spirit. Have a great time. Tell Tally to break a leg!
I wish! All the best to Tally, and I hope y’all have a great time!
I hope you all have a great time. Enjoy the show, and good luck to Tally.
Valid Points.
I was thinking that they are desperate, earlier. Now, not so much.
See this article/tweet. Might be a good time for us to also call/reach out to our representatives with a show of support.
Well now, iQ45’s lawyers threw SixPence under the proverbial bus. iQ45 is taking iQ45-VP down w/ him, y’all! 😂 And Rudster is ISO a criminal lawyer. SixPence might do well to follow suit, & all cohorts. 😏 Just catching up on today’s hearing via Rachel. 😂😂😇👀
Just like we hoped he would
YES!!!!
So blatant. https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1187172095828078592
This young woman is living her best life! 👑
Love their comebacks. Love Nancy.
Damned anti-vaxxers!
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Hi from Japan! Trying to ignore Mango Mussolini as much as possible while on vacation. Keep watch on the GOP traitors for me, please!
You sure do get around!! Have fun on vacation…. relax. The stupid will still be here when you get home!
Hope your having a wonder time. Can’t wait to see pictures.
Damn she’s GOOD! Love her!
All day. Ev-er-y day!
👏🏾💃🏾👏🏾
Morning everyone
Wayne State!
Wonderful!!!
Share and donate if you can…. because Matt Gaetz needs to be in jail, not Congress.
I hadn’t known this. Might be ‘ the mole’ reporting back to the criminal, no?
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIT!
GURRRLLLLL!!!!
You can’t make this stuff up
Every freakin’ one of them is a crook.
Eight years of a scandal-free administration is what we got with President Obama. I’ll choose to remember those years, after trump is gone.
Good Morning, Beloved TODville Community
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Thank you, NW👒💁♀️🙌🙇♀️🙏🙏
His astute take on the Republicans stunt yesterday
“But of particular interest was Trump’s rhetoric about escaped members of ISIS.
The terrorist network was already delighted by the Republican’s policy, since it effectively ended the U.S.-backed offensive against ISIS. Indeed, by any fair measure, ISIS was one of the biggest winners of Trump’s decision.
But with the Kurds confronting a brutal military offensive from the Turks – effectively at Trump’s invitation – some ISIS militants contained by the Kurds were able to escape…” (Benen)
—The number of escapees is not known (not Benito’s “few”). One hundred has been questionably floated by Esper who said “We do not know where they are”.
–Sincerely curious…now that Trump has killed off our allies while forcing them + our military out, who is he bragging has ISIS “under lock and key”? The Russians?
“Anti-ISIS efforts have ended, militant prisoners have been freed, and the terrorist group is poised for new gains. Trump’s inexplicable plan to guard Syrian oilfields with approximately 200 remaining soldiers so that they can be exploited in a “joint venture” with betrayed Kurds is opposed, of course, both by the Syrian government and by the supportive Russia. And Trump himself seems to be drifting farther and farther from both coherence and reality in each of his new “decisions.” (Daily Kos)
Remarkable background on Turkey, Syria and the Kurds:
“9 questions about Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds you were too embarrassed to ask.”
(https://www.vox.com/world/2019/10/16/20908262/turkey-syria-kurds-trump-invasion-questions)
“The First Solar Plant In Kenya That Turns Ocean Water Into Drinkable Water And Is Seen As A Potential Reaction to Global Water Crisis.”
“As paradoxical as it sounds and looks, even though the earth is 3/4 covered with water, and yet 2.2 billion people around the world (almost 1/4 of the world population) lack access to drinkable water. Besides this, the world fears another future crisis due to climate changes: turning seawater into drinkable one, because the current and future predicted floods will pollute the drinkable water sources.
…According to W.H.O and a report published by UNICEF, one in every three people lack access to clean drinkable water, and the situation is even worse in Africa. This is the reason the GivePower NGO chose the small village of Kenya, Kiunga, to turn Indian Ocean’s salty water into drinkable ‘sweet’ water.
This project has been operating since last year and it looks promising.”
(https://www.creativitybay.com/nature/the-first-solar-plant-in-kenya-that-turns-ocean-water-into-drinkable-water-and-is-seen-as-a-potential-reaction-to-global-water-crisis/)
Pretty much wore myself out, crying during the ceremony for Elijah Cummings. Beautiful man, already missed. But I’m already looking forward to hearing President Obama speak tomorrow at his service. Who isn’t!
Seems as though at the end of the ceremony at the Capitol, it was his staff who wished him goodbye last.
Such an honor that he’s the first African-American lawmaker to lie in state at the Capitol – and that his casket rests on the Lincoln catafalque!
Same same same. Just so overwhelmingly sad, the tears flow now just thinking about. His wife looked majestic and regal and when she walked up to his flag-draped casket, she held it together, although it seemed just barely. Just barely.
how lucky we were to have this lovely man with us. not long enough. my love to his dear wife.
Exact and beautiful description of what I saw, too. Tomorrow will be another occasion to bring on our tears.
I saw Moscow Mitch spoke…how was his speech
Decent. Luckily, or I would have thrown my shoe at the TV.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (Oversight and Intelligence Commitees) spoke to Rachel Maddow about
GOP crashing Pentagon official Cooper’s hearing yesterday. Laura Cooper is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia.
(have transcribed)
Congresswoman Speier:
“I think she provided us with all the information we needed. So while it was delayed by the antics of our Republican colleagues who frankly acted like a mob as they entered into the secure facility in which the Intelligence Committee always meets, they also violated ethics rules that prevent us from bringing in cellphones. They created an environment in which the SCIF became inappropriate for carrying on any kind of classified information because, you know, one of the high value targets for the Russians and the Chinese are members of Congress. If they can get into our phones even when they are turned off, it becomes a very valuable resource for them. So they acted very recklessly and I think their shenanigans proved once again that if you can’t beat us on the merits, then let’s move somewhere else and try something dramatic, which I think they did frankly because the president yesterday whined that they weren’t fighting for him hard enough. And so they showed him today that they were fighting for him.”
Maddow:
“Bloomberg news was reporting today that the president had advanced notice that they were going to do this specific thing and that he essentially signed off on it and told them they should do it. Those were strong words you just used in talking about what they did and the seriousness of it. Do you think those members of Congress should face some sort of consequences for what they did, either in the Ethics Committee or some other way?”
Speier:
“I mean they violated one of their Oaths of Office to protect the Constitution and to comply with the House rules. So it was a very reckless act by them. It was clearly being done for one person, the president of the United States, and I think that once again it shows that they are not recognizing their responsibilities as members of Congress to protect the Constitution and comply with the rules of the House. So I think there should be some action taken to admonish them.”
Congresswoman Speier tweeted:
“Putin and Erdogan carving up Kurdish land is proof positive that @ POTUS has abandoned America’s national security and our allies, the Kurdish people. Reprehensible. I guess this is what Trump means when he says he wants to do deals with Putin.”
“Putin and Erdogan Announce Plan for the Northeast Syria, Bolstering Russian Alliance”
apologies, forgot about NYT links + the offenders’ dials.
Maybe he can drum Trump, Putin and their Goons out of the U.S.A.
Interesting Discusion about Delegates…
and what if there are 2 or more candidates going into the convention…
I believe if that happens we are F****ed
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/mr-president-2/
NEW LOCATION THIS YEAR!!!
Please share – getting this location was very last minute… need an assist in selling tickets.
Here’s the story behind the location move….. not sure we’ll be back at the Huntington.
Oh and FUCK the #FSBGOP. We’re going to need a bigger prison!!! 🤬🤬🤬
http://new.hollywoodgothique.com/rival-after-dark-productions/?fbclid=IwAR2dQ3OAwbN3zdFjQ1G8BQi5pbw40QI-1whn6aKDGjplNPbDHSIRxM26KDk
Tally, good luck with your show. I’ll send this to my family and hope they go.