Good afternoon, TOD! Love that book; it and Chasing Light were the 2017 Christmas gift to my adult family members. This year I’m giving Yes We Did by Lawrence Jackson.
Good afternoon, Terri! Merry Christmas! What are your holiday plans? If you and Shelia are available, would love to have you for lunch between Christmas and New Year’s.
CF: “Honestly it depends who the Democrats put up and I won’t go any further than that. For me character matters…conduct matters…. and some of this conduct like publicly berating a decorated war veteran… is not just unbecoming, I think it’s distructive to our republic.”
Dear Carly, if conduct and character, plus the state of our republic, really matter to you, why not an unequivocal “No, Trump won’t get my vote”? Republicans expressing views like yours while conditioning their vote on ‘ ‘it depends’ are IMHO actually revealing *their* true **character**.
MoscowMassacreMitch: “Everything I do I will be co-ordinating with the White House Counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position…hopefully in a fairly short time in total coordination with the WH’s office and the people who are representing the president.”
–On the record. Now what?
Cass Sunstein (most cited legal mind in the country – heck – 40 books!) on Maddow:
“The Senate is supposed to be independent.
And supposed to be impartial.
The whole idea is not to be closely coordinated with the person who is accused of committing an impeachable offense. So that’s built into the leading commentary in the Founding document.”
“Ultimately We The People are in charge, and Senator McConnell is a very important senator but he is not the only senator, and there will be a rebellion, I believe, in the country and in the Senate if he holds to that unconstitutional conception of his role. This is something that is not ambiguous in the Constitution – that the senator is supposed to be an intermediary between the representatives of the people, that is the House of Representatives, and the accused – that is the president…”
(“…the Chief Justice’s role is mostly ceremonial…”)
“there are procedures actually laid out by Republicans in connection with the Clinton and the trial that followed, and that’s actually very fortunate. The Republicans are themselves responsible for the best precedent we have, which means that any grievous departure from that precedent, where thing were done basically above board, and if Senator McConnell deviates dramatically from that procedural regularity…”
(video: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcconnell-spurns-constitution-with-fealty-to-trump-on-impeachment-75068997517)
Michael Moore pithy as hell on Hayes:
(-Still looking for a link.)
Moore also talked about when he went out for a drink with Corbyn in U.K. And even then Cornyn was in two minds over Brexit. My understand is Corbyn is a nice man, but unsurprising that he didn’t take a strong, focused, central position to Remain and push whole heartedly for a 2nd Referendum.
Hence this comment early on by Moore on Friday:
“Democrats need to LEAD not follow.”
Does she want a parade? She’s SUPPOSED to do this.
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!!!! The quote below from Giuliani is a stunning admission.
“I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way,” he said. “She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”https://t.co/LAbzLHFaL2
Duhh in triplicate.
Looks like all the various nodes of The Ring are involved and intertwined.
Includes the so-called Leader of the Trumpsky Senate. Good to hear the fab Congresswoman Karen Bass on Friday say to Ari Melber that McConnell should recuse himself from the trial.
BREAKING: Democrats just broke the ban on gun violence research funding for the first time in 20 years. Although the $50 million asked for wasn’t granted, federal agencies will receive $25 million in a spending deal reached by House and Senate negotiators. https://t.co/RDPa5vEtTA
"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything… living standards and outcomes." @BarackObama Women are better leaders than men https://t.co/qC7CU4Tpc6
Kentucky’s newly elected @GovAndyBeshear today plans to rescind the state's Medicaid work requirement, fulfilling a campaign pledge to toss the program enacted by his GOP predecessor @MattBevin. Multiple sources tell me announcement coming this afternoon. https://t.co/azbKbw5zYn
Breaking News- Utah’s lone congressional Democrat, @RepBenMcAdams says he’s a yes vote on the articles of impeachment. “The evidence to me is clear,” he says. He’s addressing the issue now at Murray City Hall. #utpol@abc4utahpic.twitter.com/BiguXsfSrT
NEW: The House signaled Monday in a court filing that its Mueller-focused "impeachment investigation" will continue on its own merit, irrespective of Senate trial outcome.
– Carly Fiorina supports impeachment – So much for a “United Republican Party” – Rudy claims Biden murdered a guy who’s still alive – Articles of impeachment say Trump committed “multiple federal crimes” – Trump is going to prison – It’s still only 1pm
President Obama Literally Sent HUNDREDS of Financial Criminals to Prison. Why Doesn't the "Woke" Left Know This? — The People's View https://t.co/FFo1IwMOxA
Service is an act of leadership—and an act of love. @BarackObama and @MichelleObama joined #ObamaLeaders for an afternoon of service—constructing chairs, tables and bookshelves for under-resourced schools in Malaysia. See the highlights here: pic.twitter.com/nhTmIGnkRT
This week, I'm the guest editor for @MSNBC's daily newsletter, which you can sign up for here: https://t.co/p1mkJdLTYt I get to share interesting stories along with my thoughts & answers to reader questions & you get the best short cuts to understanding the news. https://t.co/HXb8vEPyTK
Hey, Alycee!! I hadn’t noticed that you posted this before I did it again this morning:) I should look first from now on… my TOD family is the best at digging out nuggets of good information! 💕
this boy got the best surprise when his dog piper, who had been missing for two weeks was there to greet him after school (April Elizabeth Licata FB) pic.twitter.com/C7VXWCINDL
So @realDonaldTrump’s economic performance boils down to this: Anywhere he’s tried anything big—like agri and manufacturing—things have gotten worse. Everywhere he’s left the @BarackObama economy alone is doing great.https://t.co/iYeKC3TUFS
And down here in not Mexico-New Mexico our wonderful freshman congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small also announced she would vote for impeachment. It is almost certainly the end of her seat. Oh, unless people wake the FUCK UP!
Seth Meyers: “This is the Republican Party of Trump. A party that sees any challenge to its power as illegitimate, that’s fine with cheating to win elections, and that rigs trials to avoid consequences for that cheating.” https://t.co/zBat5NcC2D
This made my day!!! Printed for posterity.
Thank you PK.
Good Afternoon TODVille. Hang in there. One day, one day, “this” will be over. We simply don’t know the expiration date.
The thing where people are pretending that Obama had all the power in the world to do anything he wanted and didn’t face THE MOST OBSTRUCTIVIST CONGRESS IN US HISTORY is lazy, ahistorical and offensive.
The GOP is BROKEN, corrupt and racist, or hadn’t they noticed?
I’ve come down with a bad chest cold and terrible cough and lost my voice so I won’t be able to join tonight’s national protest focused on the impeachment vote expected tomorrow in the House. I’m so bummed.
But please consider going and taking all your friends with you to show our support for the strong Democrats who have stood up for the future of our democracy. It’s important that we demonstrate our commitment to ridding ourselves of the most corrupt administration in our history. I will be there in spirit, for sure.
I hope you feel better soon, Meta.
I’m planning on going to the one that’s going to be held in front of Sen. Booker’s Camden, NJ office. I hope it stops raining by then. It’s suppose to rain and it will be cold.
It was raining and cold. There was around 120 people that showed up. I left early, because I ran into someone I knew and she was cold and offered to drive me home. I got there by train and had about a 15 min. walk from the station.
I may be able to go, but my daughter is coming home for Christmas from Boston and is flying into LAX this afternoon and her flight has already been delayed twice, so I may not make it. I hope to go to the one on Hawthorne Blvd, in front of Del Amo Mall in Torrance, CA, 20 min from my house. Hopefully I can do both.
– Hasn’t tweeted anything – Must be hiding under his desk again – Rick Gates sentencing today – Rudy confesses to having Marie Yovanovitch fired – Goodbye, Rudy! – These idiots are falling to pieces – Trump is going to prison – It’s still only 9:30am
No one even made a big deal about it. It was like they didn’t want witnesses. But I mean, it’s the shopping at midnight on a Monday crowd, mostly people who’ve been there.
On 1 Russian network, a segment airs entitled “Puppet Master and ‘Agent’—How to Understand Lavrov’s Meeting With Trump.” On another, hosts & guests giddily game out whether Trump will wind up in exile in Russia like the pro-Kremlin ex-Ukranian PM Paul Manafort also worked for. https://t.co/JVFVKDTgR0
This Sullivan opinion in the Flynn case is basically 92 pages on all the different ways Sidney Powell is a terrible lawyer. Who could've seen this coming? https://t.co/ZlS9fFgMsU
JUST IN: Schiff suggests that a supplemental letter provided by a Pence aide — which the VP's office won't declassify — "raises profound questions" about Pence's knowledge of Trump's effort to get Ukraine to launch investigation. pic.twitter.com/BJL1mu4IIv
"As long as I have air in my lungs, I will always try to cover us all and I will certainly try to center the needs of the most marginalized.” https://t.co/j29juVfrvh
Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been hospitalized for a cardiac event while serving his over seven-year sentence for charges related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. https://t.co/IuSHd4qO0W
NEW: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been hospitalized for a cardiac event.
Manafort has been serving his 7+ year sentence in a federal correction institute in central PA for charges related to special counsel Mueller’s investigation.https://t.co/sOtTjbLc7n
Watch @ABCPolitics's broadcast: LIVE on #Periscope: HAPPENING NOW: Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds a bill enrollment photo opportunity for H.R. 5363, the FUTURE Act.https://t.co/syNw3NeHV2
I really commend the freshmen representative such as Elissa Slotkin and the representative from NM whose name I can’t recall now … for being true patriots. For putting country over personal gains.
Unlike every single Republican lawmakers.
I am with Chris Matthews on this letter. Of course this sample is only one page out of six. Some of the same phrases are the same as what Trump says over and over again, but there are too many three or more syllable words in it to be Trump’s own writing. It probably was Stephen Miller’s work. Supposedly according to the WH it was Trump’s own letter written by himself.
Gee. I thought I was going to read that this fringe of a democrat was abandoning her presidential campaign. That said, Epiphany begins early in Hawaii, I see.
Ta Nahesi Coates stated as much in his piece ..The First White President…he stated why the media could not cover Trump. -"he is made more dangerous still by the fact that those charged with analyzing him cannot name his essential nature, because they too are implicated in it". https://t.co/Hys5ejgPaW
I am proud to announce that another red state Democrat, Kendra Horn, 5th district Oklahoma, my representative, came out today saying she will vote for impeachment. Her statement is well reasoned and sound, based on the Constitution. “Dark money” has been running ads against her, telling her to vote no on impeachment for about two months now. She is careful and knowledgeable. I am so happy. She and the rep from Utah, each the only Democrat in their state delegation. She will take a lot of grief from the right here for this vote. She upset a Republican in 2018 and is doing a bangup job.
Pelosi's first reaction to Trump's letter. "I don't have a reaction. It's ridiculous," she told me. I asked her why no reaction: "I mean, I haven't full read it. We've been working. I've seen the essence of it. It's really sick." pic.twitter.com/pPhvsb0axh
Before his work as an activist brought him to the SF Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk was a Navy LTJG forced to resign because of his sexuality. Deeply meaningful to see construction finally begin on the @USNavy ship bearing his name. cc: @SecNav75https://t.co/JcISfkPTsT
The Obama Diary 
Greetings, TOD!
Thank you, Nerdy!
Greetings, sjterrid!
Thank you, Nerdy!
Hi, Jaqueline! 👋❤️
Good afternoon, TOD! Love that book; it and Chasing Light were the 2017 Christmas gift to my adult family members. This year I’m giving Yes We Did by Lawrence Jackson.
Yes, I love Souza’s book, too! I did get Yes We Did, but I’m saving it to read it over the holidays.
Good afternoon, Terri! Merry Christmas! What are your holiday plans? If you and Shelia are available, would love to have you for lunch between Christmas and New Year’s.
I would love to..Thursday or Friday After Christmas is good.
Outstanding! Friday works best for me; Grandson and his Mom leave sometime on Thursday.
Btw, if any other TOD’rs will be in the area, you’re welcome to join us.
I would love that! Friday after Christmas will be good for me, too.
Great! Plan to arrive anytime after 11; I’ll pick you up at Morton station.
Shelia, if your Mom is visiting, you are welcome to bring her.
Okay. Thank you. I’ll check the train schedule and plan accordingly. I will let you know what time I should get to the Morton Station.
Good Morning, Good Day, Good Afternoon.
Thank You TODville Community for being a place that creates space for folks like me.
NW, you Rock🙌🤗😍😊
Wow! Good for Carly. The united States needs more Republicans to voice these concerns.
‘Will President Trump get your vote in 2020?’
CF: “Honestly it depends who the Democrats put up and I won’t go any further than that. For me character matters…conduct matters…. and some of this conduct like publicly berating a decorated war veteran… is not just unbecoming, I think it’s distructive to our republic.”
Dear Carly, if conduct and character, plus the state of our republic, really matter to you, why not an unequivocal “No, Trump won’t get my vote”? Republicans expressing views like yours while conditioning their vote on ‘ ‘it depends’ are IMHO actually revealing *their* true **character**.
MoscowMassacreMitch: “Everything I do I will be co-ordinating with the White House Counsel. There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position…hopefully in a fairly short time in total coordination with the WH’s office and the people who are representing the president.”
–On the record. Now what?
Cass Sunstein (most cited legal mind in the country – heck – 40 books!) on Maddow:
“The Senate is supposed to be independent.
And supposed to be impartial.
The whole idea is not to be closely coordinated with the person who is accused of committing an impeachable offense. So that’s built into the leading commentary in the Founding document.”
“Ultimately We The People are in charge, and Senator McConnell is a very important senator but he is not the only senator, and there will be a rebellion, I believe, in the country and in the Senate if he holds to that unconstitutional conception of his role. This is something that is not ambiguous in the Constitution – that the senator is supposed to be an intermediary between the representatives of the people, that is the House of Representatives, and the accused – that is the president…”
(“…the Chief Justice’s role is mostly ceremonial…”)
“there are procedures actually laid out by Republicans in connection with the Clinton and the trial that followed, and that’s actually very fortunate. The Republicans are themselves responsible for the best precedent we have, which means that any grievous departure from that precedent, where thing were done basically above board, and if Senator McConnell deviates dramatically from that procedural regularity…”
(video: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mcconnell-spurns-constitution-with-fealty-to-trump-on-impeachment-75068997517)
https://archive.attn.com/stories/15322/foreign-cartoonists-depict-president-trumps-first-month
Found this while cleaning up my phone storage… the entire world saw what was coming…
I love you all, keep the heart, stay strong, take care of yourselves and each other!
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Michael Moore pithy as hell on Hayes:
(-Still looking for a link.)
Moore also talked about when he went out for a drink with Corbyn in U.K. And even then Cornyn was in two minds over Brexit. My understand is Corbyn is a nice man, but unsurprising that he didn’t take a strong, focused, central position to Remain and push whole heartedly for a 2nd Referendum.
Hence this comment early on by Moore on Friday:
“Democrats need to LEAD not follow.”
Does she want a parade? She’s SUPPOSED to do this.
They practically hide the extension (as they intend). Can’t wait until all the RWNJs are replaced. Argghhh.
Arrogant criminals always talk too much
Duhh in triplicate.
Looks like all the various nodes of The Ring are involved and intertwined.
Includes the so-called Leader of the Trumpsky Senate. Good to hear the fab Congresswoman Karen Bass on Friday say to Ari Melber that McConnell should recuse himself from the trial.
Hopefully, Dems will continue to investigate and it won’t reach the Turdle’s jurisdiction.
My fondest wish
Hoping she can SUE him when things settle down. Take it to the courts eventually and get some of the ass’ ill-gotten assets.
Gorgeous!
Thank you, JER.
What a beautiful picture
Could she get any lovelier???
Love Michelle Obama.
Excellent
Palate Cleanser.. ❤ ❤
BEAUTIFUL
I love them.
Agree.
❤
Hey, Alycee!! I hadn’t noticed that you posted this before I did it again this morning:) I should look first from now on… my TOD family is the best at digging out nuggets of good information! 💕
Not a problem. If folks miss it here, they can catch it down stream… Keep on posting!
Yeah Congresswoman Slotkin!!
And down here in not Mexico-New Mexico our wonderful freshman congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small also announced she would vote for impeachment. It is almost certainly the end of her seat. Oh, unless people wake the FUCK UP!
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2019/12/15/rep-torres-small-supports-trump-articles-of-impeachment/2659371001/
Morning everyone
Thread. Worth the read
Good morning, df. It is a good thread. Read it last night. Thanks for posting here.
Have a good day!
Thank you, sweetness:) Alycee did the deed first, but the more the merrier. Have a wonderful day!
Great thread! Thank you, DF.
OMG…love this….
Bigots for Trump.
OMG … this made me laugh so hard
This made my day!!! Printed for posterity.
Thank you PK.
Good Afternoon TODVille. Hang in there. One day, one day, “this” will be over. We simply don’t know the expiration date.
😂😂😂⚽
Imagine that.
So why is George Conway still married to one of Trump’s most ardent enablers?
Why isn’t his ass in jail yet?
Thread with good Toons! I especially like the one about doing a favor, though:)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212789470
My angel, JER:)
Good morning, TODville.
This is such wonderful recognition. It all started with a sweet YouTube video.
❤️
Awesomeeeeeee
Who knew
I’ve come down with a bad chest cold and terrible cough and lost my voice so I won’t be able to join tonight’s national protest focused on the impeachment vote expected tomorrow in the House. I’m so bummed.
But please consider going and taking all your friends with you to show our support for the strong Democrats who have stood up for the future of our democracy. It’s important that we demonstrate our commitment to ridding ourselves of the most corrupt administration in our history. I will be there in spirit, for sure.
You can find your local demonstration here:
http://impeach.org
I hope you feel better soon, Meta.
I’m planning on going to the one that’s going to be held in front of Sen. Booker’s Camden, NJ office. I hope it stops raining by then. It’s suppose to rain and it will be cold.
Thanks so much, T. And thank you for showing up for our democracy! Let us know how it goes. Stay warm!
It was raining and cold. There was around 120 people that showed up. I left early, because I ran into someone I knew and she was cold and offered to drive me home. I got there by train and had about a 15 min. walk from the station.
I have the same thing. Lost my voice a couple weeks ago and now have this RIDICULOUS cough! Feel better, Sister:)
It’s pretty gross, isn’t it? Get well, hermana!
I really is. I suck down lots of Starbucks sick tea… as I call it:) Cozy like a snuggly blanket
I may be able to go, but my daughter is coming home for Christmas from Boston and is flying into LAX this afternoon and her flight has already been delayed twice, so I may not make it. I hope to go to the one on Hawthorne Blvd, in front of Del Amo Mall in Torrance, CA, 20 min from my house. Hopefully I can do both.
It looks like a busy day for you! I hope you can make the rally AND have a wonderful visit with your daughter.
Thanks, just got home so couldn’t go to rally :(. Is the impeachment vote tomorrow or Friday? I read it had been postponed?
Aren’t they wonderful!
How is this not an ad on tv?
Criminal POS just like the other one
They both need to be jailed, so the second one can’t assume the presidency.
YIKES
So glad that Congressmen Frank Pallone is doing this. I was hoping it wouldn’t take too long for Van Drew’s staff to find employment.
I was also hoping another member of Congress would pick up the phone and offer them staff jobs! Yay!
What does TOD think of This!?
I think it’s great
Somebody tell trump to close his mouth – a bug might fly in it. (Ugh.)
LEADERSHIP
https://twitter.com/ObamaFoundation/status/1207006717172748292THANK
This is the link I meant to post:
Long Arm Of Russia??
My 1st thought upon reading 1st sentence – Not another Epstein-like removal.
My 2nd thought – Hmmm, does the Trumph mob have anything to do with this?
DITTO…VC
My first thought too.
Finish the circle.. they also pay Republicans via contributions to PACS….
The RU… only backwards ( as the moron has taken to calling it United Republican Party
I really commend the freshmen representative such as Elissa Slotkin and the representative from NM whose name I can’t recall now … for being true patriots. For putting country over personal gains.
Unlike every single Republican lawmakers.
He’s still a fucking idiot. I hope Speaker Pelosi eats his breakfast, lunch AND dinner. What an embarrassing fool he is.
I am with Chris Matthews on this letter. Of course this sample is only one page out of six. Some of the same phrases are the same as what Trump says over and over again, but there are too many three or more syllable words in it to be Trump’s own writing. It probably was Stephen Miller’s work. Supposedly according to the WH it was Trump’s own letter written by himself.
I am so blessed to have had the chance to vote for that man. Twice. What an honor!
I feel the same way! And I’m so happy my son did, too!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gee. I thought I was going to read that this fringe of a democrat was abandoning her presidential campaign. That said, Epiphany begins early in Hawaii, I see.
I am proud to announce that another red state Democrat, Kendra Horn, 5th district Oklahoma, my representative, came out today saying she will vote for impeachment. Her statement is well reasoned and sound, based on the Constitution. “Dark money” has been running ads against her, telling her to vote no on impeachment for about two months now. She is careful and knowledgeable. I am so happy. She and the rep from Utah, each the only Democrat in their state delegation. She will take a lot of grief from the right here for this vote. She upset a Republican in 2018 and is doing a bangup job.
Great news! Thanks for letting us know!
A real leader
Thanks for sharing all these, meta!
You are very welcome, sister!
I couldn’t even get past parts of page 1, before gagging.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2019/12/17/the-drip-is-phenomenal/