Families should not lose their homes because of COVID-19. Very pleased that Wells Fargo, Citi, JPMorgan, and US Bank have agreed to a 90 day grace period for mortgage payments for those impacted by #COVID19.
The option I like: We don't sacrifice America's grandparents. We prepare the economy for a big pause and then a big restart. We act like the world's richest nation on the tech frontier and get our act together to contain and kill COVID-19. Anything less to our everlasting shame.
Governor @GavinNewsom says that @BankofAmerica is the only bank that refused to join over 200 other financial institutions (including the biggest banks in the country) in giving a 90 day moratorium on mortgage payments to Californians while also protecting their credit ratings
They suck. They have always sucked. Why anyone banks with them is beyond me. We used to until we found that they held our paychecks for a week and we couldn’t have the $$. Ok, bye!
I did not predict 2020 being the year that human sacrifice made a comeback. I mean, having lived through the past 3 years nothing is surprising anymore, but it's quite a thing to behold when you see them calling for it.
As a consumer protection attorney who fought big banks, I know to read the fine print—so that’s what I did when the President said he was invoking the Defense Production Act. Turns out the Administration never finalized the rules for ordering emergency medical supplies. (1/2)
Tonight, we leave you with the beautiful voice of Dr. Elvis Francois, an orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic, who is spreading hope with his music as much as his medicine. pic.twitter.com/cALxe512cK
Trump refused to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously, now he won’t take responsibility as his administration has been totally unprepared for this crisis. pic.twitter.com/Jdh1GY9HHS
Reps. Grijalva and Gallego have argued in a letter to Dr. Fauci that Trump's comments are endangering public health.
"What the President doesn't understand or care about is how his words quite literally mean the difference between life and death." https://t.co/WzbxWDJKgk
Here’s a useful overview of the likely scenarios that the world will be facing in the coming months while managing this pandemic. So much depends on our ability to make good decisions going forward along with our ability to remain resilient. https://t.co/uYpP1KfOUs
Our service workers have been some of the hardest hit in this crisis, many already living paycheck to paycheck. If you can, please consider supporting @UniteHere during this time. It will make a huge difference in the lives of tens of thousands of workers: https://t.co/Pi0ltBIj55pic.twitter.com/k81Tcm4EOY
Will, our beloved Iowa leader of #TeamKamala, we’re sending you best wishes for a speedy recovery. We love you and I need you in the fights ahead. The entire team is sending you strength and love to beat this.
"The pain and hardship that the United States is only beginning to experience stem from a crisis that the president is utterly unsuited to deal with, either intellectually or temperamentally," @Peter_Wehner writes: https://t.co/hHSErf7MyQ
Under the Trump admin, "it just sat as a document that people worked on that was thrown onto a shelf," said one former U.S. official, who served in both the Obama and Trump administrations. "It's hard to tell how much senior leaders at agencies were even aware that this existed." https://t.co/ijtI6TmrfW
This virus is not “contained” Mr. President. Your lies, incompetence & refusal to give NY what it needs are costing countless lives https://t.co/Ru14WzVjrT
This wins Twitter today, hell everyday. I let husband listen without looking at phone, his jaw dropped thinking it was T. Brilliant #TrumpMadnesshttps://t.co/k3h9FJGLNX
Just found out that someone who works at the day care center just outside my subdivision, next door to the CVS my housemate went to yesterday tested positive. 😯
So today I didn’t realize I was off mute and told the Democratic Caucus (including a couple recent presidential candidates) that “…mommy is working honey, please go potty and wash your hands then mommy will come downstairs.” How’s your working from home going? 🤦🏻♀️
Donald Trump is so desperate to keep you from seeing this ad that his campaign sent a cease and desist letter to television stations insisting that they not air it, so whatever you do DO NOT share it. pic.twitter.com/HZxMImpHu8
Teachers, I wanted to take a moment to say thank you. You’ve had to adapt to an entirely new system of teaching practically overnight. But day after day you are there for your kids. You show up for them and we need to show up for you.pic.twitter.com/6iB4ZslxSf
I don't know who will see this.I worked 12hrs in the ER today.We intubated 5patients.4 people died.Seasoned nurses were found hiding&crying in storage rooms.I'm literally in a war zone & the battle has only just begun.The front line is failing, you guys are on your own now
The Four Seasons Hotel on 57th Street will provide FREE lodging to doctors, nurses & medical personnel currently working to respond to the #COVID19 pandemic.
Well, Family, DJ D-Nice is still going strong over on Instagram, but I’m definitely ready to pack it in for the night.
Before I go, I wanted to share this amazing video of 500 high schoolers from Cobb County (near Atlanta) making beautiful music together. Enjoy! Be safe! ❤ ❤ ❤
This is wonderful: "Shimmering Joy," played by 500 high school students from 17 schools as a part of the "Cobb County Schools Virtual Band." https://t.co/ZbVd98wUIF
Congressional Democrats have turned the Senate Republicans’ bill upside down, transforming it from trickle down proposal into a relief plan that puts #FamiliesFirst. #SitRoompic.twitter.com/42EEjFBC8H
In times of crisis, American presidents have always stepped up to meet the moment. But all we've gotten from Donald Trump are lies, excuses, and scapegoats.
Every Attorneys General in the US should either have already charged or be prepared to charge you for NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER for any citizen of their respective State who has already died or dies from #COVID19.
And this article provides a great example of the kind of community spirit that we need to get through this—a spirit that we can hopefully learn to instill more of into our lives, workplaces, civic institutions, and government once the crisis has passed. https://t.co/xYZvspW4Ug
I wonder how many world leaders are calling PBO to speak to someone with an actual heart and a high functioning brain, to get his point of view and advice, comfort and encouragement.
Her second act has been, by some measures, even more impressive than her first. Pelosi’s discipline and maturity, her refusal to be intimidated by Trump’s bluster, have energized the Democratic base and kept a volatile and impulsive president off balance. https://t.co/bJzEqfhOAd
An armed white supremacist – who was under FBI scrutiny for threatening Black students, a mosque and a synagogue – died at a Missouri hospital after a shootout with police. The man was seeking revenge against the Mayor for a coronavirus stay-at-home order. https://t.co/kAQCm5z0yB
” … the governor of Mississippi today did something brand new. He issued his own executive order that overrides and overturns any actions that have been taken by cities and towns in his state, even as he is refusing to act statewide…
…The governor of your state today has pioneered a whole new kind of response to the coronavirus pandemic, in which he is legally blocking towns and cities in your state from doing a better job than he is at keeping you alive. He is undoing public health measures and insisting that the state will not have them.”
Probably but since that darn media is already reporting the unemployment claims, whatever fudging is done will be seen as part of the parallel universe he live in.
BREAKING: US unemployment claims soar to 3.3 million — quadrupling record from 1982 — as layoffs from coronavirus engulf economy. Go to https://t.co/lF9DOUvxEY for more.
My observations:
1. Unless he’s just some stranger who offered to help, she could’ve just sent her friend to shop for her and avoided getting the germs on her bubble. She’s likely to take back a lot home with her after squeezing through doors and down aisles.
2. The guy filming and following her seems unnecessarily angry at her for protecting herself. It’s one thing to film something unusual to share it with people, but why follow her and talk to/about her like she needs to be stopped, even touching her bubble? Whether she’s crazy or just scared, she’s not hurting anyone. Mind ya damn business.
3. Is this even real? Is it one of those social experiments to see how people would react?
"all my friends are saying you know, this is not a priority, people are dying and i realize that, but they can't get their nails done" pic.twitter.com/UnkqFdvvmp
The State of CA & @GavinNewsom launched a site w/answers to many questions—& w/links to much-needed resourced.
It has the latest health updates, & info on how to apply for unemployment, disability benefits, paid family leave, small biz assistance, & more👇🏻https://t.co/AQ4MXmXHbe
This is what happens when you are guided by $ and not any form of a moral compass. Yet 60% of Americans believe he is managing this coronavirus crisis well. What the hell is wrong with America ;(
This tells me that people are craving real accurate information and are willing to pay for it. They don’t trust the liar
Local news outlets lowered their paywall for COVID-19 stories, but they've seen digital subscriptions surge anyway. "We’re experiencing the lowest churn rate this month that we’ve seen since we introduced the pay meter about a year ago." https://t.co/18z5fV9cme
— Medill Local News Initiative (@LocalNewsIni) March 26, 2020
When the US economy collapsed in 2008, President Obama inherited a country losing 800,000 jobs a month.
But not a single Republican in the House and only 3 in the Senate voted for the 2009 stimulus, which was about 1/3 the size of the current stimulus.https://t.co/CQ8R5TaEeg
We saw them for what they were back then. They have proven themselves to be the scum we knew them to be. Just say no to the black man…fuck the country…the black man must go.
It’s important to me that I hear from you directly during this public health crisis. So reply to this post with your coronavirus-related question and where you’re from. I’ll respond to as many as I can in the coming days. pic.twitter.com/dGHBVwRseb
PELOSI SEEKS UNANIMOUS CONSENT ON RELIEF BILL: Speaker Pelosi is holding her weekly press conference where she is expected to discuss the Senate’s $2 trillion relief package. https://t.co/zs61UuEJng
Pelosi: "49 Republicans last night voted in the Senate to deprive those on unemployment insurance of the additional $600 a week. How could it be that in this time of stress and strain and uncertainty … that they would vote that way? … [It's] not about workers first."
– 3.3 million people unemployed – Death toll rising – Nurses wearing trash bags – Trump tweeted “Congratulations AMERICA!” at one in the morning and hasn’t said anything since – We have no President – Trump is going to hell – It’s still only 11:30am
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Can you please activate the Defense Production Act to help our hospitals, medical personnel & first responders? We need protective equipment & ventilators.
Dr Justin Frank explains the bizarre, dangerous reasons Trump lacks the ability to cope with reality:
“Trump’s lies, delusions, greed, corruption and malignant narcissism
have thrown the United States and the world into peril as this unstable president has confronted the coronavirus pandemic in increasingly erratic fashion.
It’s a crisis of science and empirical reality that he cannot simply wish away or ignore, much as he has tried.
How does a mind like this convince itself?
Because he really believes he’s the first person to have said it’s a pandemic. He really believes it.
Trump also believes he’s the first person to realize that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
Trump is like a child who discovers something and says, “Did you know this?” It is all new to Trump, so therefore he thinks he discovered it before anyone else.
When a person such as Donald Trump has a long history of lying to himself,
he has eradicated or attacked reality.
This means for Trump the coronavirus is a “hoax.” It’s “fake news.”
Such claims are how Donald Trump protects himself from reality, especially if that reality is something negative about himself that he wants to reject.
But then reality must seep in.
In this case, the coronavirus is penetrating Trump’s delusional reality.
Now Trump goes from calling the coronavirus a hoax to imagining himself as some type of savior who was the first person to realize the dangers posed by the virus.
Now Trump tells people he will make everything all better. This is very dangerous.
Trump believes he can control reality, like some type of god. In clinical terms this what is called a “manic triumph.” Trump believes he is going to triumph over the danger that he created.
This also explains why Trump said that he is not responsible for the coronavirus pandemic because then he is free to say it is a threat that he alone can stop.”
(more….)
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/psychoanalyst-explains-the-bizarre-and-dangerous-reason-trump-lacks-the-ability-to-cope-with-reality/)
Stardate March 25 2020.
Global pandemic about to kill millions. Captain Avarice does not accept. Completely incapable of speaking truth. Refuses to help the crew, press-ganged, starved, flogged and deprived, now infected and dying. He blames us and sides with his patrons, is useless, vicious. We must move him aside…must…think quickly how to mutiny.
Tony Schwartz who authored”Art of the Deal’ for Trump, tweeted in August 2019:
“in light of The New York Times report that the president lost more than $1.2 billion between 1985 and 1994….
I’d be fine if Random House simply took the book out of print. Or recategorized it as fiction.”
–hoax.
The Obama Diary 
Get Ready !🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🕺🏽💃🏽
Congrats Ggail on first.
Gail,
Congrats on your landing!👏
Finally!!!!
It’s about time. Thankful they listened to Rachel Maddow.
Why do the reporters let Trump get away with his insults of them?
Good question. I wouldn’t stand for any of that shit. You teach people how to treat you
Damn! That’s interesting tidbit. Shit’s going down. 👀
How about that
If you lose your re election, you won’t have to be such a taker anymore!
If he truly does not want govt handout … quit Lindsey! Haven’t you collected enough?
They suck. They have always sucked. Why anyone banks with them is beyond me. We used to until we found that they held our paychecks for a week and we couldn’t have the $$. Ok, bye!
So sad.
Forever FLOTUS is in DJ D-Nice’s Instagram Live party – RIGHT NOW!!! ❤
Its not the main stream media…its the medical doctors and scientists you ass! They could careless about you and your ego. Fuck you !
THIS!
Truth hurts. That was stats and HIM TALKING!! Brutal ad
Please keep RT’ing it ….
Proud of these Dem. AZ reps:)
Yes!
Finally
Just Fine
Stomp
Greed kills more people than any virus ever could. You are so right Bobfr!
I think I’ll keep my thoughts to myself.
🙂
😆😆😆
Shining
Before I Let Go
You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
She Used To Be My Girl
You Stepped Into My Life
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Encore
Willful and purposeful.
Don’t Make Me Over
No! OMG! LOL!
Yep, I heard that. How cool is that? ❤
😀
Don’t Stop the Music
Who Do You Love
A Little Bit of Love
Savage!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Ko0PVDUpq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Whoa!
Was this shared already?
Just found out that someone who works at the day care center just outside my subdivision, next door to the CVS my housemate went to yesterday tested positive. 😯
Mercy!!!!!!!!
Yep 😳
So sorry to hear that. Hope he or she gets better.
I do too
Ha. One of my Senators!
Share the hell out of this
Brian Williams aired that on his show tonight. Yes!
I retweet every time I see it.
What Have You Done For Me Lately
True
Thought I posted this already, but I don’t see it.
Rock Steady
Galaxy
As they should. These are national heroes
Senate’s voting on the $2 trillion bill now. The Sasse amendment failed (yes!).
Good!
So glad we saw it pass tonight!
It passed the Senate, 96-0. Over to the House now.
That’s right, go to momma.
Yes! 🙂
I’d stand in line for hours to vote for that!
OMG … that is just funny.
In other words, if you’re not an actual medical professional, STFU
Shut up, Trump!
Well, Family, DJ D-Nice is still going strong over on Instagram, but I’m definitely ready to pack it in for the night.
Before I go, I wanted to share this amazing video of 500 high schoolers from Cobb County (near Atlanta) making beautiful music together. Enjoy! Be safe! ❤ ❤ ❤
Sweet dreams, Dudette. Thanks for sharing all the beauty!
😘
Rest well dear friend and thank you for all your sustaining love to the TOD community.
😘
The bill passed, great news, though the Debbie-downers will say that the bill is no good. I’m just glad people will get money in their pockets.
Racist piece of excrement. Why did he single out Howard?
Cuz he’s a racist piece of excrement.
Exactly.
This sounds simple, but it really says it all. 🙂
Truth served hard and molten hot …
Goodnight TOD
Because he’s not a real President.
I wonder how many world leaders are calling PBO to speak to someone with an actual heart and a high functioning brain, to get his point of view and advice, comfort and encouragement.
Sheltering in place at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in my town.
((((( meta )))))
How are you doing, D?
Hey Hon! I’m okay. Feeling a little sad and scared, like everyone else, but okay. Grateful my family is okay and grateful for TOD. How you doing?
AOC are you taking notes? Learn from this tough Lady.
Morning everyone. Speaking of superheroes…..
Just unbelievable!!!
” … the governor of Mississippi today did something brand new. He issued his own executive order that overrides and overturns any actions that have been taken by cities and towns in his state, even as he is refusing to act statewide…
…The governor of your state today has pioneered a whole new kind of response to the coronavirus pandemic, in which he is legally blocking towns and cities in your state from doing a better job than he is at keeping you alive. He is undoing public health measures and insisting that the state will not have them.”
Is he going to go back to claiming that the numbers are false?
Nah, he’s just gonna bully the states into not reporting true numbers and have the Sec of Labor falsify reports.
Probably but since that darn media is already reporting the unemployment claims, whatever fudging is done will be seen as part of the parallel universe he live in.
My observations:
1. Unless he’s just some stranger who offered to help, she could’ve just sent her friend to shop for her and avoided getting the germs on her bubble. She’s likely to take back a lot home with her after squeezing through doors and down aisles.
2. The guy filming and following her seems unnecessarily angry at her for protecting herself. It’s one thing to film something unusual to share it with people, but why follow her and talk to/about her like she needs to be stopped, even touching her bubble? Whether she’s crazy or just scared, she’s not hurting anyone. Mind ya damn business.
3. Is this even real? Is it one of those social experiments to see how people would react?
The only benefit I can see is the exercise she’s probably getting rolling that thing around.
Yeh
Revolting. These are the priorities?
Info for our CA friends
❤️❤️❤️❤️ NSFW. If you have one
He didn’t need my follow but he got it!
😂
This PSA is pretty awesome too! 😃
Oh gee!!!! Ya think!!!
Ya think?
Corporate CEO’s told him NOT to help America . Got that??
This is what happens when you are guided by $ and not any form of a moral compass. Yet 60% of Americans believe he is managing this coronavirus crisis well. What the hell is wrong with America ;(
No critical thinking skills. No intellectual curiosity
I don’t trust that poll anymore than I trust him.
I don’t believe it either.
I sure hope you are right Dudette!
This tells me that people are craving real accurate information and are willing to pay for it. They don’t trust the liar
I remember
We saw them for what they were back then. They have proven themselves to be the scum we knew them to be. Just say no to the black man…fuck the country…the black man must go.
Some very good questions in the responses.
Nancy Pelosi Speaks After Senate Passes Coronavirus Stimulus Package
Also here: Speaker Pelosi holds news conference on COVID-19 stimulus bill –
https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-4
Nancy Smash speaking now:
SOON: NY Gov. Cuomo gives update on COVID-19 – https://abcnews.go.com/Live/video/speciaL-live-5
BBall star, Steph Curry will be speaking with Dr. Fauci today
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LQCm8F33m/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
Your really felt it, that PBO would move heaven and earth to protect everyone, to consider every possibility.
And he still doesn’t act.
Dr Justin Frank explains the bizarre, dangerous reasons Trump lacks the ability to cope with reality:
“Trump’s lies, delusions, greed, corruption and malignant narcissism
have thrown the United States and the world into peril as this unstable president has confronted the coronavirus pandemic in increasingly erratic fashion.
It’s a crisis of science and empirical reality that he cannot simply wish away or ignore, much as he has tried.
How does a mind like this convince itself?
Because he really believes he’s the first person to have said it’s a pandemic. He really believes it.
Trump also believes he’s the first person to realize that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
Trump is like a child who discovers something and says, “Did you know this?” It is all new to Trump, so therefore he thinks he discovered it before anyone else.
When a person such as Donald Trump has a long history of lying to himself,
he has eradicated or attacked reality.
This means for Trump the coronavirus is a “hoax.” It’s “fake news.”
Such claims are how Donald Trump protects himself from reality, especially if that reality is something negative about himself that he wants to reject.
But then reality must seep in.
In this case, the coronavirus is penetrating Trump’s delusional reality.
Now Trump goes from calling the coronavirus a hoax to imagining himself as some type of savior who was the first person to realize the dangers posed by the virus.
Now Trump tells people he will make everything all better. This is very dangerous.
Trump believes he can control reality, like some type of god. In clinical terms this what is called a “manic triumph.” Trump believes he is going to triumph over the danger that he created.
This also explains why Trump said that he is not responsible for the coronavirus pandemic because then he is free to say it is a threat that he alone can stop.”
(more….)
(https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/psychoanalyst-explains-the-bizarre-and-dangerous-reason-trump-lacks-the-ability-to-cope-with-reality/)
A diversion:)
Thinking how his actions, responses are driven by revenge and destruction, how his perceived world is the enemy.
Stardate March 25 2020.
Global pandemic about to kill millions. Captain Avarice does not accept. Completely incapable of speaking truth. Refuses to help the crew, press-ganged, starved, flogged and deprived, now infected and dying. He blames us and sides with his patrons, is useless, vicious. We must move him aside…must…think quickly how to mutiny.
Kick his ass, Amy
😭
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/03/26/do-it-for-them/
Tony Schwartz who authored”Art of the Deal’ for Trump, tweeted in August 2019:
“in light of The New York Times report that the president lost more than $1.2 billion between 1985 and 1994….
I’d be fine if Random House simply took the book out of print. Or recategorized it as fiction.”
–hoax.
Charles Leerhsen – ghostwriter for “Surviving at the Top” said the same thing.