Barack Obama is calling on TV stations to stop airing an ad from a pro-Trump super PAC that deceptively uses audio of Obama to make it sound like he's denouncing @JoeBiden for selling out black people.
Trump is ugly and mean. I am sure Barack Obama hated every minute of that White house meeting. Trump was dishonest from the outset. Every word he said was a lie. I hope Trump does enough things between now and November to make people really wake up to every awful thing he stands for.
They are a cancer. They must cheat to win… the ones that stay silent in the face of all this, are just as guilty. Vote them all out!
Obama's office is denouncing a misleading pro-Trump super PAC ad, calling on TV stations in South Carolina to stop airing a spot that attacks Biden and denouncing it as an effort to "sow division and confusion" and "suppress turnout among minority voters." https://t.co/0EHnDtXBzd
A 10-year-old boy was accidentally shot by his babysitter when she was taking selfies while holding a gun, a Texas sheriff's office said https://t.co/TbeblXJ8bf
My dad (a doctor) had signs in every bathroom in our house that said, “Handwashing prevents infection!” with a teddy bear and a heart. I wouldn’t mind seeing those signs everywhere now. More effective than Pence.
Good Evening TODville Community.
Another day, another mass shooting in the USA.
Dear Lord, Please give We The People some sense to do right by our Nation.
You know what I get really tired of? White progressives with performative "wokeness" telling me that MLK would vote for Bernie, was a Democratic Socialist, or otherwise colonizing his life's work for their own ends.
I don't know who MLK would endorse. He would be 101
— I want a multiverse where Trump sells Herb-a-Life (@Cajsa) February 26, 2020
There is a big ballot flaw in LA County ballots. Half the voters in my district won’t see my name or other candidates unless they hit “more” button because only 4 names are shown. Voters could skip to next race without knowing there were more candidates.https://t.co/bUBvejUUDF
The “More” button issue is unfortunately common with these new touchscreen voting machines (BMDs). I address it on my election-security tip sheet for voters. (Graphics by @_Jo_di.) pic.twitter.com/qOwlpJ8Ndj
I saw some of it. It was a master class. I’m so proud and happy for him. I also saw snippets of Warren’s town hall. Looked like she was clearly in element too.
@JoeBiden#CNNTownHall SCIENCE IS BACK! It's glorious to hear you speak so effectively on science, ACTUAL healthcare and research. You've done it. More than talk.#ReadyDayOne
Mike Pence created an epidemic of Hepatitis C when he stopped the needle exchange programs in Indiana. He had to go home and pray to find a solution. Great guy in a health emergency. https://t.co/pGIuuW6ZlE
ABC News might have mentioned in this tweet that, in fact, Pence does NOT have ‘a talent for this’. They could mention the HIV outbreak that spread to epidemic proportions because Pence—as Governor—slow walked approval for needle exchanges. https://t.co/wxogD878Yw
After Trump—who just tapped Pence to lead the effort—turns his back, Sec. Azar seizes the room's attention to insist that HE remains the "chairman" but is glad to have the Veep "helping," while Pence stands motionless with a vacant middle-distance stare. So that happened. (yikes)
These are the kinds of things that fuel the anger many of us feel about the for profit healthcare system. But it should also anger every American that this administration is telegraphing that a life saving vaccine might only accessible to the rich. Appalling. https://t.co/bylhPEXbYV
‼️ Azar refuses to promise a coronavirus vaccine will be affordable for anyone:
"We would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, but we can't control that price, because we need the private sector to invest.. Price controls won't get us there."
In case anyone's forgotten, Azar was the president of Eli Lilly, a member of the board of directors of a pharmaceutical lobby group, and ran a strategist/consultant firm to the biotech and healthcare industries. https://t.co/jgfHeDXlWu
There are layers to leadership. A lot of anti-Asian racism is already percolating from the #coronavirus scare and how badly Trump is handling it. @SpeakerPelosi is working to allay fears and show solidarity. We need leadership like this. Not fearmongering like Trump's. https://t.co/hNB9S9wZCQ
“We have genuine experts who know how to confront these things, but we need to invest immediately,” says Joe Biden about the Trump administration’s handling of coronavirus. “I just hope the President gets on the same page as the scientists.” #CNNTownHallhttps://t.co/z3kR65xmzcpic.twitter.com/aVau98GCOo
Democrats will make their own choices in this year’s primary, but this right here is as genuine of a moment as I’ve seen in my political life. Watch the entire thing. https://t.co/zZ5XbirEk7
This is not true. The trump order did not ban all travel by non-US nationals: every day, boats and planes arrive from China crewed by foreign nationals. EVERY DAY. https://t.co/NpX9QAj6f1
I have been begging for a candidate to own the issue of gun violence and to WIN with it. Thank you @JoeBiden for listening and leading. https://t.co/TWCzKfJ7a2
Breaking: First U.S coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Northern California, a sign the virus may be spreading in a local area https://t.co/vKUxAjdwP4
The article is about states that changed voting rules, most to suppress votes, but it also lists states that are making (or are attempting to make) changes to make voting easier.
The same people who cringed when Hillary dabbed on Ellen & came for Kamala when she was jamming to Cardi B are the same people who think this shit is “cute”. No, he’s a moron. #NeverBerniehttps://t.co/t7ni9WA398
I’m not ready to let Bernie help Trump finish off destroying the Obama era in exchange for a crushing loss of House, Senate, Supreme Court & American Democracy in Nov. Like @ClyburnSC06 my cash is on .@JoeBiden. Trump fears him & got impeached to smear him. #VoteJoe#SuperTuesdayhttps://t.co/dKUC6fVHSh
There’s been a whole stack of tweets sent out all day (no doubt many because of Rep. Clyburn’s endorsement and remarks) with the hashtag #WeKnowJoe. Such a relief to see such sweet things being said about a politician. We have missed that part so much for the last 3+ years. Here’s one:
As a young White House intern, I once got tasked with moving a stack of files.
Trying to impress, I took too much, and—of course—the files went flying. As I picked them up, I turned around and a man handed me a stack.
Thrilled to join @joebiden in South Carolina 2morrow to help with Get Out The Vote before the primary on Saturday! #WEKNOWJOE and believe he's the best candidate to restore the soul of the nation 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/YRDYZ31RI1
A California coronavirus patient was not tested for the deadly disease for four days, despite the hospital asking federal health authorities for a test https://t.co/UprNs5kFWh
It’s incredibly sad that in our country, where George Washington stepped down after two terms to establish the tradition of a smooth transition of power, this was asked as a serious question. https://t.co/SjGqmenXje
Whether you support Warren or not, this nuking of a Bernern is a blizzard of chef's kisses. I want to have this moment's babies. pic.twitter.com/7N23jwoZn2
The best part, imo, was seen when the smug BernieBro DIDN’T know that Bernie made this rule in 2016…and wants to change it now to suit him.. delicious/)
Trump's attempt to return to the pre-1883 patronage system endangers your health. Nobody wants to be the official who is subjected to an illegal, politically motivated personnel action. And Feds haven't received any reassurance from the agency charged with protecting them, OSC./2
Are you seeing this? Denaturalization. A nightmare. And do not think they will stop just with naturalized citizens. The paranoia abt dissent, the denigration of the humanity of "others" – they will try to find ways to challenge the status of "disfavored" citizens. https://t.co/c8UjI2hZnF
A note on @JoeBiden and his compassion, forgive me for a long thread here.
In late July 2019, my aunt was diagnosed with Stage 4 Adenocarcinoma of the Lung. By the time she knew something was wrong and sought medical care, it had spread, and was terminal.
When I met VP Biden in October, he offered to put us in touch with his cancer initiative experts. He meant it. He followed up. Unfortunately, cancer had other plans for the future. Still, @JoeBiden reminded me, “There’s always hope”.
He asked if we were okay, if we needed anything. I told him he had already offered something far greater. That we were going to be okay, because although cancer had taken her from us, he had given me back my hope. Thank you, Mr. Vice President ❤️#TeamJoe
As we close out #BlackHistoryMonth, let’s make sure our voices are heard loud and clear by going to https://t.co/cBTTn9yuTH and helping our friends and family get registered and ready to vote.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
who has served 6 presidents: “In order to get a [coronavirus] vaccine that’s practically deployable for people to use, it’s going to be at least a year to a year and a half at best.”
12 to 18 months.
Yet Doom at the same press conference mega-lied:
“The vaccine is coming along well and I’m speaking with doctors, this is something we can develop fairly rapidly, a vaccine.” He lives in a world of dangerous denial, make-believe, and utter pretense. Will he be permitted to somehow cause millions of deaths if he feels like it = if the mood takes him?
‘The Expertariat’.
Trump Party’s abuse of scientists and facts has backfired big time here. Today we need Dr. Fauci and other disease experts to save us. imo Pence has a track record of denial + dumbing himself down and cannot be trusted to lead anything. Presumably the plan is to put Trump’s words in his mouth.
Good Morning, Good MidDay, Good Afternoon, TODbots.
Great to see that Joe Biden is doing a tad better.
Now, if he wins big in SC & everyone else hits below 15%, he gets all the delegates. I hope that will make Mike Bloomberg to consider 🤞🤞droop off & back Joe Biden…Bloomberg takes votes from Biden. This will help VP Biden on Tuesday.
Hard to see what role Bloomberg is playing other than ironically helping Bernie win the nomination. https://t.co/i4U4WFpFFn
Biden is the ultimate contrast with Trump. Biden never plays the victim despite suffering immense tragedy. Trump always plays the victim at every opportunity. Biden moves forward with strength for the common good. Trump whines & only acts if it benefits himself.
PBO’s remarkable Ebola response co-ordinator Ron Klain with O’Donnell:
RON KLAIN:
“Well you saw the president, as you mention Lawrence, contradict the nation’s leading experts,
Dr Fauci, Dr Schuchat, who also from the Center for Disease Control was there:
Contradict them on the likelihood of this disease spreading in the United States;
contradict them on the pace of vaccine development;
contradict them on – you know Donald Trump used the past tense to describe the virus, I think our threat really is in the future tense.;
Contradicted himself on the travel restrictions he put in place, misled the American people about the travel restrictions he put in place.
So you know I think putting vice-president Pence in charge doesn’t move the needle one way or other.
If the president is going to continue to reject scientific advice, to contradict scientific advice, and really focus
– I think singularly – not on the safety and the health of the American people…by trying to talk the stock market
back up. I think his strategy has been happy tweets to talk up the market, and not really preparing our country to deal with this problem that we are going to face.”
1) 2,814 points off the Dow since Friday. 2) Eight of the top 10 biggest one day point losses off the Dow — since 1896 — have been under Donald Trump. 3) This is what's called "reality," #MAGA2020#KAG2020.
A trio of must-see updates:
“Christopher Mores, public health professor at George Washington University, talks with Rachel Maddow about the lethality rate and the transmission rate of coronavirus, and what that means about how the virus is understood separate from the spin of people interested in characterizing the response needs.’
Video: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rates-of-lethality-transmission-shape-coronavirus-concerns-79511621827)
btw heh.
credit where it is due….
SHOUT OUT to Monsieur Colbert for a delightfully hilarious show, imo very uplifting. Who knew Jason Segel was so sweet and that Charlotte Alter had such (must agree about Harry Potter) insights?
–thanks for the late night laughs.
Erika James was named as the new dean at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. She'll be the first woman and person of color to head the top business school in its 139-year history. https://t.co/eGoY8ik5xQ
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE PRESIDENT during this emergency.
Listen to the CDC. Listen to career federal health officials. Listen to international experts and scholars. Listen to doctors. Listen to major-media health journalists.
He is hiding information from the public to try to insulate himself from the aftermath of his inaction…. he will let people DIE because he wants to stay on the WH. That’s fucked up
Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama trusted Tony Fauci to be their top adviser on infectious disease, and the nation's most trusted communicator to the public. If Trump is changing that, it is a threat to public health and safety. https://t.co/0zvs7FRPix
NEW: Elise Stefanik, who became Trumpworld star during impeachment, stands accused of improper fundraising practices.
And among her donors is Steven Alembik of Fla., who in 2018 was found making racist/offensive statements about Obama & Justice Ginsburg. https://t.co/qXvCNQZnYu
“Covid-19 & The End of Affluence Politics”:
“[T]he coronavirus is going to introduce economic conditions with which few people in modern America are familiar: the prospect of shortages.
After 25 years of offshoring and consolidation, we now rely on overseas production for just about everything.
Now in the wake of the coronavirus, China has shut down much of its production; South Korea and Italy will shut down as well. Once the final imports from these countries have worked their way through the supply chains and hit our shores, it could be a while before we get more. This coronavirus will reveal, in other words, a crisis of production—and one that’s coming just in time for a presidential election.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/27/1922450/-Covid-19-The-End-of-Affluence-Politics)
–this is not the time for trump lies & coverup… or for us to keep secrets from each other.
–agreed?
YouTube put this wonderful video on my homepage today. I don’t know anyone in the video, but it made me smile so hard my cheeks hurt. Christal and Aaron Prier got married last summer. I hope they are still as joyful in love today as on their wedding day.
“America
is about to get a godawful lesson
in why healthcare should never be a for-profit business”.
“For four decades, American corporations have been caught up in a whole series of refinements that are intended to improve efficiency and productivity. Our processes are lean. Our efficiency is six-sigma. Our productivity has mysteriously run far ahead of employee compensation in a way that has made CEOs billionaires while leaving workers on food stamps. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/27/1922487/-America-is-about-to-get-a-godawful-lesson-in-why-health-care-should-never-be-a-for-profit-business
Delusional, empty, transparent, despicable:
“Donald Trump defended the cuts he had made to the CDC and the experts on pandemics he had dropped from the National Security Council and the epidemiologists he had flushed from his planning team.”
He didn’t want those people sitting around when they weren’t needed, said Trump.
Besides, he claimed, you could always go and get them when they were needed.
Because somewhere, somehow, there is a system that keeps vital specialists waiting in hermetically sealed containers, fresh, ready, and informed to meet the nation’s needs.”
“That is, it goes without saying, bullshit. But let me say it again. Bullshit.
The value of an expert brought in to repair a system after disaster strikes is so much less than the value of having that person on hand to plan that the old ounce of prevention being greater than pound of cure formula doesn’t begin to cover it. You cannot decide to hire some pilots after the plane has crashed.
The thing about extraordinary events is that they’re extraordinary.
Planning for them will never improve profits. It will only save lives.”
…something…called…savinglives…does…not…compute…pls..explain.
“By treating health care like a business,
Americans have already seen one of the first people who dared ask to be tested for COVID-19 get handed a bill for thousands of dollars, the primary result of which will be to dissuade other Americans from asking to be tested. Which is, right there, exactly the result that is best for insurance companies—and worst for the nation.”
The Obama Diary 
Trump is ugly and mean. I am sure Barack Obama hated every minute of that White house meeting. Trump was dishonest from the outset. Every word he said was a lie. I hope Trump does enough things between now and November to make people really wake up to every awful thing he stands for.
Thank goodness for Michelle Obama!
They are a cancer. They must cheat to win… the ones that stay silent in the face of all this, are just as guilty. Vote them all out!
Where are my manners?
Good evening, TOD! Hope all of you have had a wonderful day.
Nerdy, thank you for all you do! 💖
You’re so sweet!
And I’ll add my own thank you to Nerdy, if I may!
Thread…
I’m not watching another poll..I will wait for the vote and i advise all voters to do the same…
Some credible advice
Sigh.
What strategies are folks using to protect themselves and their families from the coornavirus? Here’s what we’re doing.
Excellent!
hmmmmmm…Could this be real? 🤔🤔
Good Evening TODville Community.
Another day, another mass shooting in the USA.
Dear Lord, Please give We The People some sense to do right by our Nation.
Thread👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Heads up California voters!
Anyone watching the CNN Town Hall? Biden is nailing it.
My nephew told me the same. That’s good
I saw some of it. It was a master class. I’m so proud and happy for him. I also saw snippets of Warren’s town hall. Looked like she was clearly in element too.
BIDEN as excellent. He sounds and carries himself just like a president.
😳
Someone should ask these a-holes why they are pro-life when if they won’t ensure every life is saved.
That’s My Speaker of the House
So authentic!!!!!
Hate is not constructive. I’m not religious, but I know hate is considered to not be Christian. I don’t want to have hate in my heart or my life.
EXCEPTION:
I HATE this disgusting, evil, criminal, predatory, lying THIEF—SCUMBAG.
What common sense looks like
Can you believe this ish?
Evil cheating bastards!
There is no more undercover with voter suppression…
This is part of the reason i give to the DNC…we have to fight…
There’s been a whole stack of tweets sent out all day (no doubt many because of Rep. Clyburn’s endorsement and remarks) with the hashtag #WeKnowJoe. Such a relief to see such sweet things being said about a politician. We have missed that part so much for the last 3+ years. Here’s one:
Thanks for sharing Jacqueline. Rep. Clyburn’s endorsement was really moving also.
I definitely cried during his remarks!
Goodnight TOD ….
Morning everyone
Put a smile on my face
She’s spot on. She shut that shit RIGHT down!
The best part, imo, was seen when the smug BernieBro DIDN’T know that Bernie made this rule in 2016…and wants to change it now to suit him.. delicious/)
beautiful
Tears…
SOON: House Speaker Pelosi holds weekly news briefing …
Also here:
SOON: Biden visits local businesses in McClellanville SC – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-4
Good day everyone!
I hope that you have a great day.
You, too!!!!
Dr. Anthony Fauci, for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
who has served 6 presidents: “In order to get a [coronavirus] vaccine that’s practically deployable for people to use, it’s going to be at least a year to a year and a half at best.”
12 to 18 months.
Yet Doom at the same press conference mega-lied:
“The vaccine is coming along well and I’m speaking with doctors, this is something we can develop fairly rapidly, a vaccine.” He lives in a world of dangerous denial, make-believe, and utter pretense. Will he be permitted to somehow cause millions of deaths if he feels like it = if the mood takes him?
‘The Expertariat’.
Trump Party’s abuse of scientists and facts has backfired big time here. Today we need Dr. Fauci and other disease experts to save us. imo Pence has a track record of denial + dumbing himself down and cannot be trusted to lead anything. Presumably the plan is to put Trump’s words in his mouth.
Thank heavens PBO brought the world’s expertise together on Ebola. Pls let’s do it again.
Good Morning, Good MidDay, Good Afternoon, TODbots.
Great to see that Joe Biden is doing a tad better.
Now, if he wins big in SC & everyone else hits below 15%, he gets all the delegates. I hope that will make Mike Bloomberg to consider 🤞🤞droop off & back Joe Biden…Bloomberg takes votes from Biden. This will help VP Biden on Tuesday.
☺😍🙌🤗💪🙏🙏🙏
Agree
Wonder how long it will take for trump to reverse this…
PBO’s remarkable Ebola response co-ordinator Ron Klain with O’Donnell:
RON KLAIN:
“Well you saw the president, as you mention Lawrence, contradict the nation’s leading experts,
Dr Fauci, Dr Schuchat, who also from the Center for Disease Control was there:
Contradict them on the likelihood of this disease spreading in the United States;
contradict them on the pace of vaccine development;
contradict them on – you know Donald Trump used the past tense to describe the virus, I think our threat really is in the future tense.;
Contradicted himself on the travel restrictions he put in place, misled the American people about the travel restrictions he put in place.
So you know I think putting vice-president Pence in charge doesn’t move the needle one way or other.
If the president is going to continue to reject scientific advice, to contradict scientific advice, and really focus
– I think singularly – not on the safety and the health of the American people…by trying to talk the stock market
back up. I think his strategy has been happy tweets to talk up the market, and not really preparing our country to deal with this problem that we are going to face.”
A trio of must-see updates:
“Christopher Mores, public health professor at George Washington University, talks with Rachel Maddow about the lethality rate and the transmission rate of coronavirus, and what that means about how the virus is understood separate from the spin of people interested in characterizing the response needs.’
Video: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/rates-of-lethality-transmission-shape-coronavirus-concerns-79511621827)
“Christopher Mores, public health professor at George Washington University, talks with Rachel Maddow about the importance of reliable testing of coronavirus to understand and control its spread.”
Video: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/virologist-good-testing-key-to-coronavirus-containment-79513157587)
“Christopher Mores, virologist and public health professor at George Washington University, talks with Rachel Maddow about why improving our understanding of the transmission of coronavirus is a better strategy than trying to wall off the country.”
Video: (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/walls-and-bans-not-a-good-strategy-for-addressing-coronavirus-79511621882)
When our lives politically were calmer & lovelier.
😆
btw heh.
credit where it is due….
SHOUT OUT to Monsieur Colbert for a delightfully hilarious show, imo very uplifting. Who knew Jason Segel was so sweet and that Charlotte Alter had such (must agree about Harry Potter) insights?
–thanks for the late night laughs.
👀👀👀👀
I saw that 30mins ago. I was scared. I didn’t want to post it here.
I did RT it.
Good Heavens.
But he said about 15 and we were all good. Yeah, right. The lies are getting more serious
Did you look at the video response comparing the containment level over time compared to SARS and Ebola? Now that’s scary.
Still dropping
This seems like a no brainer
He is hiding information from the public to try to insulate himself from the aftermath of his inaction…. he will let people DIE because he wants to stay on the WH. That’s fucked up
If he is missing, that is OK. We will look for him once we elect a Democratic president.
Oh my goodness.
Yup
Duh!
As Rick Wilson would say: #ettd
(Everything Trump Touches Dies)
Good!
Yes, I agree!
“Covid-19 & The End of Affluence Politics”:
“[T]he coronavirus is going to introduce economic conditions with which few people in modern America are familiar: the prospect of shortages.
After 25 years of offshoring and consolidation, we now rely on overseas production for just about everything.
Now in the wake of the coronavirus, China has shut down much of its production; South Korea and Italy will shut down as well. Once the final imports from these countries have worked their way through the supply chains and hit our shores, it could be a while before we get more. This coronavirus will reveal, in other words, a crisis of production—and one that’s coming just in time for a presidential election.”
(https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/27/1922450/-Covid-19-The-End-of-Affluence-Politics)
–this is not the time for trump lies & coverup… or for us to keep secrets from each other.
–agreed?
YouTube put this wonderful video on my homepage today. I don’t know anyone in the video, but it made me smile so hard my cheeks hurt. Christal and Aaron Prier got married last summer. I hope they are still as joyful in love today as on their wedding day.
thx for this Dudette, just incredible.
“America
is about to get a godawful lesson
in why healthcare should never be a for-profit business”.
“For four decades, American corporations have been caught up in a whole series of refinements that are intended to improve efficiency and productivity. Our processes are lean. Our efficiency is six-sigma. Our productivity has mysteriously run far ahead of employee compensation in a way that has made CEOs billionaires while leaving workers on food stamps.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/27/1922487/-America-is-about-to-get-a-godawful-lesson-in-why-health-care-should-never-be-a-for-profit-business
Delusional, empty, transparent, despicable:
“Donald Trump defended the cuts he had made to the CDC and the experts on pandemics he had dropped from the National Security Council and the epidemiologists he had flushed from his planning team.”
He didn’t want those people sitting around when they weren’t needed, said Trump.
Besides, he claimed, you could always go and get them when they were needed.
Because somewhere, somehow, there is a system that keeps vital specialists waiting in hermetically sealed containers, fresh, ready, and informed to meet the nation’s needs.”
“That is, it goes without saying, bullshit. But let me say it again. Bullshit.
The value of an expert brought in to repair a system after disaster strikes is so much less than the value of having that person on hand to plan that the old ounce of prevention being greater than pound of cure formula doesn’t begin to cover it. You cannot decide to hire some pilots after the plane has crashed.
The thing about extraordinary events is that they’re extraordinary.
Planning for them will never improve profits. It will only save lives.”
…something…called…savinglives…does…not…compute…pls..explain.
“By treating health care like a business,
Americans have already seen one of the first people who dared ask to be tested for COVID-19 get handed a bill for thousands of dollars, the primary result of which will be to dissuade other Americans from asking to be tested. Which is, right there, exactly the result that is best for insurance companies—and worst for the nation.”
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/the-harmonies-of-liberty/