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
what a horrible libel by Hillary Clinton to suggest that Tulsi Gabbard might do that thing Tulsi Gabbard is obviously planning to do https://t.co/VgZ5XYx74i
About Chairman Schiff:
“That’s right. Fox News judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that not only was Schiff carefully crossing each T and dotting each I of the process, but the whole way in which the hearings are being conducted now is entirely in accordance with House rules that were passed by Republicans back in 2015. At the time, Republicans were deeply embedded in round eight of the Benghazi hearings, and had no appetite for revisiting worn-out topics in public. So the very rules that they claim are creating an “unfair” and “secret” process … are their rules. They are rules that some of those invading the House chamber on Wednesday, such as Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows, had a direct role in creating.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/24/1894807/-Adam-Schiff-is-a-Democratic-and-democratic-hero)
PS: Don’t look now, but Bannon is back to help Benito & the Ring decimate democracy, the Constitution, rule of law, and U.S. National Security.
I’ll tell you ~ if this new Barr criminal investigation into Russian interference in 2016 in the anybody-but-trump ballpark comes anywhere close to mentioning President Obama’s name, there should be tens of millions of us in the streets fighting back. That’s the ultimate of what trump’s looking for – to blame President Obama for trump’s own crimes. Hitting the streets.
Oh’ I am betting that is where this is headed. They will get low hanging fruit first, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strozk, etc. but rest assured, Barr and Trump are determined to sully President Obama.
I think Barr is using the investigation as a tactic to try and smear the Obama administration; a means to influence the public discussions; an attempt to divert attention from the Trump impeachment process; and to punish the investigators by investigating them. Getting indictments or going to trial is not the objective. Remember Barr could not secure an indictment against McCabe, and I doubt he will be able to secure any in his current so-called investigations.
When powerful white men use words like lynching and witch hunt to describe their perceived persecutions, it's because there are no historical analogues to white male persecution. There's no term for it because historically, there's no such thing.
Ha! My other favorite was when Chris Cuomo (whom I don’t always enjoy) said on CNN that they all looked like they were coming out of a “men’s warehouse sale” !!!
I don’t know what their wives or mistresses tell them at night. Don’t they see how ridiculous they look sometimes? I know they pulled that stunt just to please Master MAGA, but come on!
Morning everyone. Thread. PS… my Forever President is looking fine as ever:) A little TOO fine!!!
#THREAD: In honor of our forever Chairman @RepCummings, we are sharing some of his most powerful moments of the 116th Congress that embody: Pain. Passion. Purpose.
Do you realize how many people @GOP has claimed are lying about Trump? Michael Cohen, Mueller, the Mueller investigators, the scores of women who accused him of sexual assault, Don McGahn, Bill Taylor, et. al.
They ignore all these people. To them, only Trump tells the truth.
NEWS: I’m launching an investigation into the Halkbank scandal including whether Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and President Erdogan worked to help the state-owned Turkish bank avoid criminal prosecution for exploiting U.S. financial institutions and engaging in money-laundering. https://t.co/qffleyJfQG
Awesome thread by @gregolear about Trump & his mobbed up Russian lifeline. Especially timely today w/ Ukraine impeachment info & SDNY's Rudy & Assoc investigation. Trump, Barr & Rudy's connections to bankroller conduit Dmitry Firtash, sitting on ice in Austria are coming to light https://t.co/a8csrxUT03
Baltimore City Firefighters display an American flag as we approach New Psalmist Baptist Church for Rep. Cummings’ funeral. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/EBfy0yjeJs
The color guard was seen marching toward New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore this morning to honor the life and legacy of Congressman Elijah Cummings https://t.co/HLpJdUMKXfpic.twitter.com/KtbmXPVsX4
New Psalmist Baptist Church now at capacity. Hundreds of mourners being turned away at the door. Packed house for the funeral of Congressman Elijah Cummings. @RepCummingspic.twitter.com/BLSgjb4PSU
How the @GOP rigs the system to maintain tyranny of the minority and why Hillary Clinton is wise to keep reminding us what happened the last time our adversaries chose a 3rd party favorite in our election via @RickSmithShow@docrocktex26https://t.co/tWkA47cjVG
The choir’s joyful singing reverberates through New Psalmist Baptist Church in Baltimore for Rep. Elijah Cummings’ visitation and funeral. @CNSmdpic.twitter.com/rCsQJQsAsd
Our most beloved Honorable Elijah E. Cummings. May he forever Rest in Peace. And may his family find healing in his many gifts. pic.twitter.com/nBEQfOuneQ
The Nationals have announced that humanitarian and Trump critic José Andrés will throw out the first pitch ahead of World Series Game 5 on Sunday, should the series extend that long. On Thursday, Trump announced that he planned to attend Game 5. https://t.co/eAT7Kx93Ur
Barr is a crook spending tax payer money trying to coerce foreign leaders to cover up Trump’s crimes.
And banking on the media to give it credibility.
What we know:
1) RUSSIA DID IT. (Bipartisan Senate committee including Burr has once again confirmed it.)
2) TRUMP DID IT. (This is an open and shut case on Ukraine. Trump is guilty and will be impeached.)
3) PUTIN. (Wants Trump to lift sanctions on Russia.)
Barr wants to make investigating Trump for any reason into a criminal act.
Trump going after his enemies and politicizing the DOJ cannot be underestimated.
The idea is to create a mafia-state like Russia:
If we are scared to investigate and Trump is beyond the reach of the law, Trump/Barr can commit all the mafia crimes they want, and open the door to future crimes that cannot be investigated.
(Imagine Putin-style murders.)
The idea is to create a Russian style system of “No honest justices”.
The justice system would serve oligarchs and the mafia, requiring 100% corruption of the DOJ.
This is why Barr is pretending the IC is our real enemy and that career officials should be punished for being patriots and doing their jobs, for keeping their oaths. Not being able to investigate or convict is a stepping stone to an authoritarian mafia state to serve Trump’s every whim.
–Thus we must look into Barr pronto and not be shy about counter-punching.
Our government is under assault by an internal and external alliance, forces aiming to dismantle our government. This group is a subset of the Republican Party led by Trump and (minimally) the Russians: An out of control entity (including Barr & Bannon) taking down the government department by department. Ukraine blew their cover big time. And so their foot soldiers came out and run amok in the SCIF, even though many of those GOP have total access to all hearings and even have reserved seating. Pence’s brother is on that list.
Such glorious tributes to Chairman Cummings. Peace to him, his gorgeous family, and friends.
-PBO’s every word…may he be with us forever….love him so much.
In addition to being enthralled by his words, just watching him speak, the way he halts certain phrases, the timbre of his voice, the pause for clarity and emphasis – just a stunning speaker in every way.
.@BarackObama on the word 'honorable': "This is a title that we confer on all kinds of people who get elected to public office, we're supposed to introduce them as honorable, but Elijah Cummings was honorable before he was elected to office. There's a difference." pic.twitter.com/oLlpls8puJ
Cummings funeral made me so sad. So many eloquent and decent people extolling kindness, virtue, selflessness. And we have a president totally incapable of even faking it.
Cummings funeral made me so sad. So many eloquent and decent people extolling kindness, virtue, selflessness. And we have a president totally incapable of even faking it.
As I listened to President Barack Obama deliver his eulogy for Elijah Cummings, I thought back to his steadfast self-awareness of what it meant to be president. He always knew that his every word mattered, and we knew he understood this to be the privilege of a lifetime. https://t.co/pTAonQgJTF
I think we’re zeroing in on the final chapter of Rudy’s dollar-store-bin non-best seller …
Rudy Giuliani butt-dialed an NBC News reporter — twice — leaving long voicemail messages in which he's heard discussing Joe Biden, business in Bahrain and his need for cash. By @richschapirohttps://t.co/52GCnjhoJC
Chief Judge for WA DCCC confirmed that a formal impeachment inquiry is indeed underway.
= WH cannot block witnesses or testimony. And the Barr DOJ claim that “existing law bars disclosure to the Congress of grand jury information” cannot stand. Howell wrote “DOJ is wrong.” (c/o politicus.usa)
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, popular with some Trump supporters, wants to focus on her 2020 White House bid instead representing a Hawaii districthttps://t.co/T7owcqqysM
The McCain funeral, the Bush funeral, the Cummings funeral–they have all become national events, elevated by their focus on decency and values that our current leadership violates and ignore. By pausing to think of goodness, we somehow send a message of protest and solidarity.
The Obama Diary 
The more (evidence) the merrier.
I LOVE the precision ballet they carry out as they protect their very precious cargo, President Barack Obama.
You are writing poetry today. It’s all so grand and so touching after what we are forced to look at, other days.
We’ve been wallowing in the smut for over three years, surely there must be better days ahead. GAWD.
We will surely miss him.
I keep playing video’s just to hear his voice again
Sweet.
Ah the old Don’t-Believe-Your-Eyes strategy!
About Chairman Schiff:
“That’s right. Fox News judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that not only was Schiff carefully crossing each T and dotting each I of the process, but the whole way in which the hearings are being conducted now is entirely in accordance with House rules that were passed by Republicans back in 2015. At the time, Republicans were deeply embedded in round eight of the Benghazi hearings, and had no appetite for revisiting worn-out topics in public. So the very rules that they claim are creating an “unfair” and “secret” process … are their rules. They are rules that some of those invading the House chamber on Wednesday, such as Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows, had a direct role in creating.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/24/1894807/-Adam-Schiff-is-a-Democratic-and-democratic-hero)
PS: Don’t look now, but Bannon is back to help Benito & the Ring decimate democracy, the Constitution, rule of law, and U.S. National Security.
Exactly. Republicans made the rules that they’re now yapping about. Who are they fooling?
Ha as it happens, Tally posted after Nerdy put up a new Post, so I’m bringing her comment over
NEW LOCATION THIS YEAR!!!
Please share – getting this location was very last minute… need an assist in selling tickets.
https://t.co/HxH98TE15w
— Drama After Dark (@DramaAfterDark_) October 24, 2019
I’ll tell you ~ if this new Barr criminal investigation into Russian interference in 2016 in the anybody-but-trump ballpark comes anywhere close to mentioning President Obama’s name, there should be tens of millions of us in the streets fighting back. That’s the ultimate of what trump’s looking for – to blame President Obama for trump’s own crimes. Hitting the streets.
Oh’ I am betting that is where this is headed. They will get low hanging fruit first, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strozk, etc. but rest assured, Barr and Trump are determined to sully President Obama.
Ain’t gonna happen! And goodnight to you!
OH, HELL NO.
Hell, no!
We should be in the streets now. We have a fascist regime running the White House.
You are so right.
I think Barr is using the investigation as a tactic to try and smear the Obama administration; a means to influence the public discussions; an attempt to divert attention from the Trump impeachment process; and to punish the investigators by investigating them. Getting indictments or going to trial is not the objective. Remember Barr could not secure an indictment against McCabe, and I doubt he will be able to secure any in his current so-called investigations.
Good points. And he’s doing all this on our tax dollars, working only for trump, not being AG of the United States.
Jacqui, I am just reading your post. It makes my day!
Ha! My other favorite was when Chris Cuomo (whom I don’t always enjoy) said on CNN that they all looked like they were coming out of a “men’s warehouse sale” !!!
I don’t know what their wives or mistresses tell them at night. Don’t they see how ridiculous they look sometimes? I know they pulled that stunt just to please Master MAGA, but come on!
If I were their wives or mistresses, I think I wouldn’t be home at night to find out. Eek.
Morning everyone. Thread. PS… my Forever President is looking fine as ever:) A little TOO fine!!!
Correct
Love that. Love Bruce!
Bottom line
👀👀👀👀 😂😂😂 He deserves every bit of that! Fucker
I watched that clip many times because I wasn’t sure if I saw what I saw.
I thought I saw it at the time, but this confirms it. Maybe I’ll have a nice glass of wine for lunch. Ha!!!!
Yes! They should! Cut the money off, cut the nonsense!
C-Span livestream starts at 10am. This is the link but you have to refresh at 10am
https://www.c-span.org/video/?465670-1/representative-elijah-cummings-funeral-baltimore
The church’s livestream is open now:
https://npbc.thechurchonline.com
Yes, meta… all of this.
Beautiful
😎😎😎
Yes, I noticed some of that going on. Fine with me!
Barr is a crook spending tax payer money trying to coerce foreign leaders to cover up Trump’s crimes.
And banking on the media to give it credibility.
What we know:
1) RUSSIA DID IT. (Bipartisan Senate committee including Burr has once again confirmed it.)
2) TRUMP DID IT. (This is an open and shut case on Ukraine. Trump is guilty and will be impeached.)
3) PUTIN. (Wants Trump to lift sanctions on Russia.)
Barr wants to make investigating Trump for any reason into a criminal act.
Trump going after his enemies and politicizing the DOJ cannot be underestimated.
The idea is to create a mafia-state like Russia:
If we are scared to investigate and Trump is beyond the reach of the law, Trump/Barr can commit all the mafia crimes they want, and open the door to future crimes that cannot be investigated.
(Imagine Putin-style murders.)
The idea is to create a Russian style system of “No honest justices”.
The justice system would serve oligarchs and the mafia, requiring 100% corruption of the DOJ.
This is why Barr is pretending the IC is our real enemy and that career officials should be punished for being patriots and doing their jobs, for keeping their oaths. Not being able to investigate or convict is a stepping stone to an authoritarian mafia state to serve Trump’s every whim.
–Thus we must look into Barr pronto and not be shy about counter-punching.
Our government is under assault by an internal and external alliance, forces aiming to dismantle our government. This group is a subset of the Republican Party led by Trump and (minimally) the Russians: An out of control entity (including Barr & Bannon) taking down the government department by department. Ukraine blew their cover big time. And so their foot soldiers came out and run amok in the SCIF, even though many of those GOP have total access to all hearings and even have reserved seating. Pence’s brother is on that list.
ICYMI, President Obama
Such glorious tributes to Chairman Cummings. Peace to him, his gorgeous family, and friends.
-PBO’s every word…may he be with us forever….love him so much.
In addition to being enthralled by his words, just watching him speak, the way he halts certain phrases, the timbre of his voice, the pause for clarity and emphasis – just a stunning speaker in every way.
It was so soul healing to hear him speak.
There is my President.
Thank you for this, Meta! Was at work & so wanted to tune in. Uggh!
That was my favorite part of President Obama’s remarks.
TGIF
Hello and Good Afternoon, Beloved TODbots Community.
Mrs. Maya R. Cummings is Fantastic!👒💁♀️🙏🙏
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Mrs. Maya R. Cummings.
Wow! Maya Cummings is a force! What a speaker, powerful!
Perhaps they could only find 10 students who were willing to attend
I’m pretty sure that is the case.
You just can’t make this up.
Oh dear, there are probably a team of investigators en route to Bahrain to track down whatever it was that Rudy was babbling about.
WELP
They should arrest them all!
Regardless of who is elected President in the future, President Obama will always be asked to be there when it matters. Truly a forever President
99ts, missed you! How are you? 💞
Hi Gazelle, miss you all too
Hi, sweetness! Have missed you here:)
I’ve missed you folks too – especially the fun of having a real President
I think we’re zeroing in on the final chapter of Rudy’s dollar-store-bin non-best seller …
This is my take.
Well said!
Chief Judge for WA DCCC confirmed that a formal impeachment inquiry is indeed underway.
= WH cannot block witnesses or testimony. And the Barr DOJ claim that “existing law bars disclosure to the Congress of grand jury information” cannot stand. Howell wrote “DOJ is wrong.” (c/o politicus.usa)
Was thee a letter from Trump and Melania read at the funeral?
Evening TOD family. Important thread
One thing we can have no doubt about, Elijah Cummings is dancing with the Angels.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/the-honorable-elijah-e-cummings/