Sixty years ago today, the Greensboro Four stood up to injustice by sitting down at a lunch counter. Our journey is full of such stories; of acts of patriotic protest that challenge this country we love to live up to our highest ideals, however long it takes. #BlackHistoryMonth
“To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening Beneath a tall tree While night comes on gently, Dark like me.”#LangstonHughes Born today in 1902 pic.twitter.com/Xr4kZo0wBk
@RepCindyAxne Brilliant representation from Iowa this morning (on with @jaketapper) of truth, justice, and the American way – and @JoeBiden ! Thank you for speaking up against the RWNJ lies and misrepresentations! You make me proud to be a Democrat! #IowaDemocrats#RidinWithBiden
MOSCOWMASSACREMITCH
Effed us over with a creepy lying kiss-arse SCOTUS appointment after illegitimately and “proudly” denying PBO’s nomination process, and now it’s the first ‘Trial” in American history without witnesses and documents.
Today’s date is a rare eight-digit palindrome (reads the same, forward and backward), 02/02/2020 — the only one of its kind this century: The previous eight-digit palindrome like this was 11/11/1111, 909 years ago. We’ll only have to wait another 101 years for 12/12/2121.
Speaking at a Bloomberg News roundtable, senior adviser to @PeteButtigieg Lis Smith says it's dangerous to compare anyone to Barack Obama or JFK — but it's not "wrong to say that Pete brings that … ineffable 'it' thing that Obama had" https://t.co/b5aDxlh2FHpic.twitter.com/gs5uihtw2d
Thread… a Trojan Horse that will attempt to take us down from within…
BREAKING: The Russian government Gazprombank deposited over half a billion dollars into a Deutsche Bank subsidiary as the subsidiary lent to Trump, according to confidential documents obtained by @forensicnewsnet. https://t.co/Bx2ciWaQE8#TrumpDeutscheBankLoans
Thread. IMO… Cippoloni actions AND the emails they purposely hid.
Many have asked if the House managers can move for a mistrial. Here are my quick thoughts: I wish Schiff WOULD make a motion for a mistrial based on, among other things, the revelation of Cipollone’s grossly unethical conduct/conflicts of interest. I wouldn’t be deterred that… https://t.co/F7UVx7lCUM
Quickening on the climate crisis…Montana…unheard of:
On the open plains of central MT it is 63 degrees F and high winds (not a chinook = now sustained over days). Warnings that high winds could lead to fast-spreading grass fires where there is currently snow.
106 miles per hour winds in Glacier Country, fire and high winds are creating smoke causing zero visibility,
and multiple accidents, highways closing. Low humidity, high winds cause critical fire conditions.
—Warm winters may sound nice but they lead to serial out-of-control summer fires (& trees eaten by beetles).
Fossil Fuel corporation$$ are willing to exterminate us for profit.
Is why greedy GOP and politicians worldwide have played the long game and have long denied
the catastrophic climate fallout.
Hello presidential candidates!
Let your climate positions be openly published.
We need your serious plans to Halt and Reverse our climate catastrophe from Day One.
–imo if the planet dies due to coverup and denial all of the election talk is meaningless.
As a Montana resident, it has been a VERY warm winter. I haven’t had my heavy winter coat out yet. Here in Missoula, it hasn’t gotten even close to zero degrees. I am so worried about this summer. I talk to ranchers all the time. They still don’t believe in climate science. They still say it’s all cyclical.
yes how about the opposite….Mafia Don may well see ‘acquittal’ as a green light, per his call to Zelensky the very day after the Mueller hearing which let him off the hook (after he imo openly conspired with Putin).
Yesterday, we laid my 20 year old little brother to rest. Today, we celebrate his life – thank you to all the friends and family joining us. Tomorrow, we start learning to live and love and laugh again.
Trump went off on a tirade against Mike Bloomberg, accusing the candidate of getting the Democratic National Committee to “rig” the presidential primary against Sen. Bernie Sanders.https://t.co/TIHqoaiqbI
Doomsky dividing + feigning ‘fairness” for Bernie because he thinks Bernie might take Iowa or what?
Honestly though, Doom makes a better window than a door.
1). The latest strategy from Russian Intelligence is to create thousands and thousands of “Resistance” accounts. These phony Twitter scamps then foller legitimate Democrat accounts in hopes of bein’ follered back.
I'm quitting Facebook. Not comfortable with the flood of false information that's allowed in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users' privacy. Follow me (and Molly, aka The Thing of Evil) on Twitter, if you like.
You're fully aware of the mechanisms #Putin is using – State TV (aka @FoxNews), Zuck's propaganda platform, hacked voter registration & voting devices, etc.
So, what are you going to do to PROTECT THE VOTE – including who counts the ballots?
He can start by incessantly reminding folk that Hillary Clinton won the Popular Vote despite all Trump & Putin did to undermine the 2016 Election.
He has not only the cash but he has an amazingly sophisticated information science & technology organization with outstanding network security people in the world working for him.
I've told this HRC story countless times on here, I believe, but my dad didn't graduate any school. He came to the US, got some odd jobs, and through his gift of gab was able to meet some influential folks. I didn't really meet my dad till I was 20 ('05).
Get ready: Iowa Senator Joni Ernst has warned that Republicans would immediately push to impeach Joe Biden over his work in Ukraine as vice president if he win the White House.
1) VP BIden acted legally and openly at the behest of his Government and supported by European allies.
2) Mobster Trump publicly endorsed his own summary of the “do me a favor though” call transcript.
Game shot.
–Remove.
So, who's paying him? Haven't heard him say a mumbling word about #Traitor45 and the #ComplicitCorruptGOP; yet, here he is like clockwork to shit on a Dem. For bonus points, he throws #PBO's name into the mix…
America was founded on the ideals of equality, equity, and fairness—we've never fully lived up to them, but we've never stopped trying. During #BlackHistoryMonth and all year-round, let's celebrate the rich history and culture that's always been vital to the fabric of America. pic.twitter.com/FNYM1O6CMm
It is the first day of #BlackHistoryMonth! I’m celebrating by featuring some extraordinary stories from @blkhistory2min, a series I am honored to be a part of. To kick things off, here is “Reconstruction: The Vote". pic.twitter.com/rpfW5cKdwD
OK yes.
But it used to be about the music: Stones, Springsteen, Prince… just great music
–My sister is dead because of the way men are encouraged to objectify women.
Trump didn’t use his Super Bowl interview to brag about how he’s been exonerated or whatever. He used it to whine about how he’s been impeached. This isn’t a guy who’s focused on finding a winning 2020 strategy. He’s lost in a haze. Work hard this year and finish him in November.
“I’m going to tell George that he made it,” says Calandrian Simpson Kemp. “To know that this was his passion since age 4, and to now be able to have the world see my son, to see George Kemp Jr., in the #SuperBowl. He made it in a different way and his mama sure is proud of him.” pic.twitter.com/3SfQ2ku5J9
Trump has zero capacity, emotionally or intellectually or ethically, to withstand these truths.
Am delighted a Billionaire is writing his own checks to crush the scam artist who likely didn’t spend anything prior to the 2016 Election except laundered money for his sex, drugs & arms trafficking Russian oligarch pals – if even that.
Without doubt, the one skill Trump excels like no other is GRIFTER and he definitely passed that trait to his spawn.
J-lo came out with the U.S flag then turned it around to reveal the Puerto Rican flag while a girl sang “born in the USA”, with millions watching on fox. the POWER. The MESSAGE. Puerto Ricans are U.S citizens. Don’t forget us. Listen to us. #SuperBowl#HalftimeShowpic.twitter.com/e4kEchGkN5
The shithead at the WH tweeted congrats to the state of Kansas vice Missouri and had to use a sharpie to change it. Such an embarrassment to anybody with any intelligence at all.
Maybe Mike Pompeo should ask Trump to point to Missouri on a map?
Just listened to Tom Steyer talking to some Iowa folks earlier today. Talking about trump exactly the way we all feel about him. If I were there, I’d take old Tom to an Iowan bar and buy him a beer, right about now! The people in the crowd were all nodding their heads, in total agreement. Who says our country’s “totally” divided?!!!
.@BarackObama: “Joe Biden could not have been a more devoted or effective partner in the progress that we’ve made.”
In these times, we need someone who can deliver on the promises they make. I’m proud to be voting for Joe in the Democratic primary. pic.twitter.com/7Wxiq8ZsVp
Good Morning Everyone! Today, the first results of the Democratic primary will be released at the end of the caucus.
I do not know how the day will conclude. I just know that this 2020 election is a really life-and-death choice for millions of us who have been targets of Individual 1 and his collaborators.
I hope that as voters cast their ballots or caucus, they remember the millions of people who are so vulnerable.
If anyone here has some words of encouragement, please share them. I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
Based on prior elections, did voters in the Democratic primary learn anything about propaganda meant to manipulate choice of candidate & suppress votes of a targeted demographic?
Are Democratic voters going to reward republican-instigated smear campaign messages? #CaucusDay
His campaign is making payments to his properties, not to mention the millions that are disbursed to his associates. So why not expect payment for the services provided by these cities? Using the excuse that he never pays his bills is not acceptable, especially for someone that constantly brags about how rich he is. No contract (which should include a deposit or down-payment)? No rally. I would love to say no public safety services but that would probably be more detrimental to the communities than it would to his campaign.
#TrumpIsAnIdiot – he doesn't know where Kansas and Missouri are. And he probably thinks South America is those states south of the Mason-Dixon line, something he also has no knowledge of. #mondaythoughts
In reality there is a Kansas City, KS on one side and a much larger Kansas City, MO that the stadium is in on the other side of the river. I choose to reserve my criticism for more important issues to avoid the comparison of our criticism of Trump by them with their picky criticism in our opinion of Obama.
When the kid who ain't said nothing ALL SEMESTER And you have been wondering if he was plotting to kill you suddenly gives a pitch perfect answer on the final exam and you're like oh my hot damn but you're still not exactly sure he isn't going to kill you but hey you did your job https://t.co/G9VgIoThJc
I want to buy this gentleman a beer. 🍺 He doesn’t take any crap from an ignorant, belligerent Trump cultist: “Do you live in a cave, lady?” 😂pic.twitter.com/KaVCFmcSNt
“Trump just lied to nearly 100 million people during the biggest TV women of the year:”
(Tom Perez email)
“Trump is pushing outright lies to voters at an unprecedented frequency and magnitude.”
State Rep Garcia (MT) says It Is OK to Shoot Socialists .
Garcia says it is part of the Constitution.
Garcia says socialists are enemies of the free state and “What do we do with our enemies in war?”
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States (if) they are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot.”
(https://time.com/5776337/montana-rodney-garcia-socialists-shot-jailed/)
Republicans want you to know they’re incapable of understanding what a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST is.
Even though this defines the people of Europe and why they have universal healthcare, maternity leave, etc.
= their government acknowledges the blood in their veins.
“Secondly,
Trump doesn’t want to face Joe Biden
and is trying to use Sanders to divide Democrats and weaken Biden if he is the nominee in the fall.
It is the same playbook that Trump and the Russians ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump is trying to divide the party, which is why all Democratic primary voters will have to unify,
no matter who wins the nomination.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/03/trump-bernie-sanders.html)
Iowa caucus boosts white rural areas just like Senate & Electoral College: "it only takes 43 participants in tiny Fremont County to win a delegate from a caucus, but in Johnson and Story counties, which both host state universities, it takes more than 200" https://t.co/dd1V1lSRJM
Trump says no Democrat can beat him with (on?) African-Americans.
Mafia Don: “There’s a revolution going on in this country. I made a positive — I mean a positive revolution. Hispanic American, Asian-American, we have the best numbers we ever had. African-American — the poverty numbers are now reversed and they’re the best they ever had. I don’t know how anybody could possibly beat me with that vote.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/02/trump-african-american-voters.html)
Reese-Jones: “Trump claims no Democrat can beat him with African-Americans as the interview has slipped into total delusion.”
Today during the Super Bowl, the National Football League and its allies will sanitize and co-opt a black protest movement. I refuse to watch that happen before my eyes as if it’s all good. Some things are worth more than an afternoon of football. https://t.co/jl5N8VfoyA
BTW, even if I had any interest in ‘football’ it would have ended with the NFL’s unambiguous exploitation of POC & complicity in State violence against POC.
Mike is in it to cause Trump and his cultists some real pain ….
Watch this incredibly powerful ad by @MikeBloomberg Whether or not you are a supporter there is no denying his impact is being felt by Trump pic.twitter.com/l5S1Guq9jH
“Kobe Bryant’s helicopter lacked recommended safety features the FAA refuses to require.”
“One of the central premises of Donald Trump’s great reign of error
is that the Federal government over-regulates the private sector,
and in the process strangles innovation, profits and economic expansion. And so, he has fashioned himself as the invincible dragon slayer for private enterprise in his dark suit with red silk satin power tie. By going after agencies like the EPA, the National Weather Service and the USDA on a search and destroy mission he takes aim at what is really basic science in the public interest so as to unshackle free enterprise from any broader societal obligation.”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/02/02/kobe-bryants-helicopter-lacked-recommended-safety-features-the-faa-refuses-to-require/)
@RepJeffries Your closing argument before the U.S. Senate today was overwhelmingly grand, and brought tears to my eyes. Thank you for representing our country in such a thoughtful – and, dare I say, historic – fashion, on behalf of your fellow Americans.
"Doing the right thing and being constant to our principles requires a level of moral courage that is difficult, but by no means impossible. It is a moral courage shown by public servants throughout this country, and throughout the impeachment inquiry." – @RepJeffriespic.twitter.com/0licZUoOa2
Yeah, they don't care if the so-called president is lawless, inviting in adversaries in hurting our democracy, but the rest of us can't peacefully protest, using our rights.
Benen:
“One of the most important moments in Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) political career
came in late-September 2015, as the then-House majority leader appeared poised to become Speaker of the House. The California Republican’s efforts were derailed, however, when he made the mistake of accidentally telling the truth.
McCarthy appeared on Fox News and acknowledged a fact that everyone knew, but which Republicans weren’t supposed to admit out loud:
the GOP’s taxpayer-financed Benghazi committee was all about the Republicans’ “strategy to fight and win” against Hillary Clinton. Or put another way, it was not a sincere effort to investigate an attack that left four Americans dead.”
Luckily, we get to mute every RWNJ voice this week. But in the meantime:
I also hope somebody reminds trump that his impeachment trial isn't over with this sham vote out of Republicans in the Senate. It won't be officially over until November. #QueensManImpeached
Disney presents: Hamilton. With The Original Broadway Cast. Filmed onstage at The Richard Rodgers Theatre. In A Theater Near You. October 15, 2021. #Hamilfilmpic.twitter.com/08YP6CTbF8
Disney presents: Hamilton. With The Original Broadway Cast. Filmed onstage at The Richard Rodgers Theatre. In A Theater Near You. October 15, 2021.#Hamilfilmpic.twitter.com/z4ohfWXzi3
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Do not become bitter or hostile. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way. #goodtrouble" – @repjohnlewis
“We can never be overwhelmed or give up in fighting for our democracy, in fighting for our country, in fighting for ideals…This is not a time to throw up your hands. This is a time to roll up your sleeves.” — @SenKamalaHarris
On the other side of fear, so much is there for you: wonder, awe, appreciation, love. Gifts that can see you through anything. For 2020 and beyond, write, play, paint, speak, make every moment count. You will be amazed at how you transform. #mondaymotivationpic.twitter.com/5yOC2g1mC8
McConnell orchestrating a rigged impeachment hearing (don’t call it a “trial”) with no witness, no documents & no evidence is designed to hide from the American people what the National Security Advisor described as a “drug deal.” This is a stone-cold coverup of Trump’s crimes. pic.twitter.com/1WMXXrOD9N
"The video was included in an Instagram story by a real estate agent for a Russian-American firm who frequents Mar-a-Lago and other Trump properties and events." https://t.co/kOrELbEkVS
In his book Trumpocracy, David Frum identified the cost Republicans are willing to pay when he wrote that, “if conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
That is the challenge we face today. After casting aside policy and ideas in favor of ethnonationalism, the Republican Party is now in the process of rejecting democracy as their only alternative for survival. What that portends, as Appelbaum suggested, are some dark possibilities that will remain, even if Trump is defeated in November.
The Obama Diary 
That is so funny!
Good morning – and thanks for the post, Nerdy, at the start of Black History Month!
Brilliant!
#PunxsyPhil4President2020
probably actually not “good news”.
Morning everyone
MOSCOWMASSACREMITCH
Effed us over with a creepy lying kiss-arse SCOTUS appointment after illegitimately and “proudly” denying PBO’s nomination process, and now it’s the first ‘Trial” in American history without witnesses and documents.
Doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think what that precedent might lead to if left to stand.
Well!
Just adding a bit of clarification for TOD-ers (because people kept raising this issue in the responses to Tribe’s tweet).
https://twitter.com/i/events/1223961836749389826
Wait…
quoi
Thread… a Trojan Horse that will attempt to take us down from within…
Hence the high numbers of ‘suicides’ and shootings connected to banks and Deutsche Bank.
Thread. IMO… Cippoloni actions AND the emails they purposely hid.
Quickening on the climate crisis…Montana…unheard of:
On the open plains of central MT it is 63 degrees F and high winds (not a chinook = now sustained over days). Warnings that high winds could lead to fast-spreading grass fires where there is currently snow.
106 miles per hour winds in Glacier Country, fire and high winds are creating smoke causing zero visibility,
and multiple accidents, highways closing. Low humidity, high winds cause critical fire conditions.
—Warm winters may sound nice but they lead to serial out-of-control summer fires (& trees eaten by beetles).
Fossil Fuel corporation$$ are willing to exterminate us for profit.
Is why greedy GOP and politicians worldwide have played the long game and have long denied
the catastrophic climate fallout.
Hello presidential candidates!
Let your climate positions be openly published.
We need your serious plans to Halt and Reverse our climate catastrophe from Day One.
–imo if the planet dies due to coverup and denial all of the election talk is meaningless.
As a Montana resident, it has been a VERY warm winter. I haven’t had my heavy winter coat out yet. Here in Missoula, it hasn’t gotten even close to zero degrees. I am so worried about this summer. I talk to ranchers all the time. They still don’t believe in climate science. They still say it’s all cyclical.
What a truckload of BS this is!
yes how about the opposite….Mafia Don may well see ‘acquittal’ as a green light, per his call to Zelensky the very day after the Mueller hearing which let him off the hook (after he imo openly conspired with Putin).
Wow. First time I’m hearing of this. Just awful.
trump wants to run against Bernie.
Doomsky dividing + feigning ‘fairness” for Bernie because he thinks Bernie might take Iowa or what?
Honestly though, Doom makes a better window than a door.
…putin and pinocchio…
I had forgotten this from Orwell’s 1984.
Not a Bloomberg fan, but he is not someone to have as an enemy.
Trump is no match.
And, he can write checks all day long to do these ….
Because the cost of those ads is truly pocket change for him.
If he actually wants to protect our Democracy, then he should focus on the actual enemy & mechanisms they are using.
He can start by incessantly reminding folk that Hillary Clinton won the Popular Vote despite all Trump & Putin did to undermine the 2016 Election.
He has not only the cash but he has an amazingly sophisticated information science & technology organization with outstanding network security people in the world working for him.
Thread 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Deflection. Take all 3 and make them mute.
Let’s not follow this nonsense down the rabbit hole where it belongs. Speaker Pelosi would never let this happen.
1) VP BIden acted legally and openly at the behest of his Government and supported by European allies.
2) Mobster Trump publicly endorsed his own summary of the “do me a favor though” call transcript.
Game shot.
–Remove.
Cornell West was always terrible about the first African-American president. WTF.
–Take a hike West!!! Who the eff are you?
When they show you who they are, believe them
Wow!
Well done!
yes it was…love it…as Stacey Abrams says we have to been seen…Folks have to see us
Am ashamed of Shakira and J-Lo. It is not feminism.
So nice for the young people and their parents watching…..end of comment.
I thought they were phenomenal. Just my opinion.
OK yes.
But it used to be about the music: Stones, Springsteen, Prince… just great music
–My sister is dead because of the way men are encouraged to objectify women.
Meanwhile the Senate STILL has not reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act:
“The House’ Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act bill recently failed to pass the Senate blocked by Republican Senator Joni Ernst from Iowa.”
(https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/news/2019/12/02/violence-against-women-act-blocked-in-the-senate)
–FFS.
But let’s give the Trump-Epstein mini mes a free pass.
J-Lo and Shakira have bodyguards.
Required read
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/27/pulitzer-winner-david-cay-johnston-will-trumps-america-ends-in-firing-squads/
Been thinking–
If no witnesses or trials…
How about quickie executions of those who oppose him?
Or poison them…that’s what his pal likes.
Well ….
Trump has zero capacity, emotionally or intellectually or ethically, to withstand these truths.
Am delighted a Billionaire is writing his own checks to crush the scam artist who likely didn’t spend anything prior to the 2016 Election except laundered money for his sex, drugs & arms trafficking Russian oligarch pals – if even that.
Without doubt, the one skill Trump excels like no other is GRIFTER and he definitely passed that trait to his spawn.
They didn’t play ….
Everything Trump hates …. and State TV (aka @FoxNews) was broadcasting it!
Great! And I think the girl was her daughter!
The shithead at the WH tweeted congrats to the state of Kansas vice Missouri and had to use a sharpie to change it. Such an embarrassment to anybody with any intelligence at all.
God. What a damn idiot.
Just listened to Tom Steyer talking to some Iowa folks earlier today. Talking about trump exactly the way we all feel about him. If I were there, I’d take old Tom to an Iowan bar and buy him a beer, right about now! The people in the crowd were all nodding their heads, in total agreement. Who says our country’s “totally” divided?!!!
For a moment, I read that as if PBO was endorsing Joe. 🤔
Me, too.
I screamed so loud when I read this that my neighbor called to see what was wrong. By then I was laughing so hard I had to grab an inhaler…
Morning everyone
Is anyone surprised?
Good Morning Everyone! Today, the first results of the Democratic primary will be released at the end of the caucus.
I do not know how the day will conclude. I just know that this 2020 election is a really life-and-death choice for millions of us who have been targets of Individual 1 and his collaborators.
I hope that as voters cast their ballots or caucus, they remember the millions of people who are so vulnerable.
If anyone here has some words of encouragement, please share them. I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
Here ya go! 😘
Thank you so much for this.
Fraud
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trump-police-cities-bills-maga-rallies/
His campaign is making payments to his properties, not to mention the millions that are disbursed to his associates. So why not expect payment for the services provided by these cities? Using the excuse that he never pays his bills is not acceptable, especially for someone that constantly brags about how rich he is. No contract (which should include a deposit or down-payment)? No rally. I would love to say no public safety services but that would probably be more detrimental to the communities than it would to his campaign.
In reality there is a Kansas City, KS on one side and a much larger Kansas City, MO that the stadium is in on the other side of the river. I choose to reserve my criticism for more important issues to avoid the comparison of our criticism of Trump by them with their picky criticism in our opinion of Obama.
Mmhmm
Go Ed!
“Trump just lied to nearly 100 million people during the biggest TV women of the year:”
(Tom Perez email)
“Trump is pushing outright lies to voters at an unprecedented frequency and magnitude.”
Correction: The biggest TV moment of the year.
–how do we respond?
State Rep Garcia (MT) says It Is OK to Shoot Socialists .
Garcia says it is part of the Constitution.
Garcia says socialists are enemies of the free state and “What do we do with our enemies in war?”
“So actually in the Constitution of the United States (if) they are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot.”
(https://time.com/5776337/montana-rodney-garcia-socialists-shot-jailed/)
Republicans want you to know they’re incapable of understanding what a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST is.
Even though this defines the people of Europe and why they have universal healthcare, maternity leave, etc.
= their government acknowledges the blood in their veins.
“Secondly,
Trump doesn’t want to face Joe Biden
and is trying to use Sanders to divide Democrats and weaken Biden if he is the nominee in the fall.
It is the same playbook that Trump and the Russians ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump is trying to divide the party, which is why all Democratic primary voters will have to unify,
no matter who wins the nomination.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/03/trump-bernie-sanders.html)
the discrepancy is by design
Trump says no Democrat can beat him with (on?) African-Americans.
Mafia Don: “There’s a revolution going on in this country. I made a positive — I mean a positive revolution. Hispanic American, Asian-American, we have the best numbers we ever had. African-American — the poverty numbers are now reversed and they’re the best they ever had. I don’t know how anybody could possibly beat me with that vote.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/02/trump-african-american-voters.html)
Reese-Jones: “Trump claims no Democrat can beat him with African-Americans as the interview has slipped into total delusion.”
BTW, even if I had any interest in ‘football’ it would have ended with the NFL’s unambiguous exploitation of POC & complicity in State violence against POC.
Mike is in it to cause Trump and his cultists some real pain ….
Trump has made 16,241 false statements while in office. (WaPo)
Traitor says he can’t work with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer because “they lie”…………………………………..
Video: (https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/02/trump-pelosi-schumer-lie.html)
“Kobe Bryant’s helicopter lacked recommended safety features the FAA refuses to require.”
“One of the central premises of Donald Trump’s great reign of error
is that the Federal government over-regulates the private sector,
and in the process strangles innovation, profits and economic expansion. And so, he has fashioned himself as the invincible dragon slayer for private enterprise in his dark suit with red silk satin power tie. By going after agencies like the EPA, the National Weather Service and the USDA on a search and destroy mission he takes aim at what is really basic science in the public interest so as to unshackle free enterprise from any broader societal obligation.”
(https://www.salon.com/2020/02/02/kobe-bryants-helicopter-lacked-recommended-safety-features-the-faa-refuses-to-require/)
imo Congressman Jeffries is a knockout.
thx j’o.
Love him!
Darn. Hate I missed it. LIke him so much.
I think this is it:
Benen:
“One of the most important moments in Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) political career
came in late-September 2015, as the then-House majority leader appeared poised to become Speaker of the House. The California Republican’s efforts were derailed, however, when he made the mistake of accidentally telling the truth.
McCarthy appeared on Fox News and acknowledged a fact that everyone knew, but which Republicans weren’t supposed to admit out loud:
the GOP’s taxpayer-financed Benghazi committee was all about the Republicans’ “strategy to fight and win” against Hillary Clinton. Or put another way, it was not a sincere effort to investigate an attack that left four Americans dead.”
Just want to say, say, say that the Hard Rock Stadium is owned by the Seminole Indian tribe of Florida.
And Benen:
“Elizabeth Warren’s campaign raised a few eyebrows yesterday with the unveiling of a plan to combat the spread of election-related disinformation by proposing “criminal and civil penalties for online voter suppression efforts.”
(The plan: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/warren-plan-election-disinformation-2020-108854)
Luckily, we get to mute every RWNJ voice this week. But in the meantime:
They were excellent! Their social justice message was heard by many
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/entertainment/jennifer-lopez-shakira-super-bowl-half-time/index.html
Tennessee!
Yaaaaaay!
And, unless this is a reverse image, Melania is placing her LEFT hand on her right side, not her right hand on her heart………
Was recorded in selfie-mode; reverse image…
In his book Trumpocracy, David Frum identified the cost Republicans are willing to pay when he wrote that, “if conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”
That is the challenge we face today. After casting aside policy and ideas in favor of ethnonationalism, the Republican Party is now in the process of rejecting democracy as their only alternative for survival. What that portends, as Appelbaum suggested, are some dark possibilities that will remain, even if Trump is defeated in November.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/those-that-came-before/
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