Congrats, Gail! worried about all the fires in CA. Feeling so happy and relieved the Democrats pulled off a fine virtual convention for Joe and Kamala that honored so many voices.
Thanks Judith. I’m sad, especially for the animals, but we’ll recover. We had 10,800 lightening strikes that started over 300 fires in one night.
Climate change
President Obama:
“That’s how a democracy withers, until it’s no democracy at all. We can’t let that happen.
Do not let them take away your power.
Don’t let them take away your democracy.
Make a plan right now for how you’re going to get involved and vote.”
“This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/obama-speech.html)
No, the President cannot send law enforcement to the polls on Election Day. There are federal and state laws–and constitutional limitations–that would make it illegal. We’ve explained them here: https://t.co/oDWIVj0dD7
Heartfelt thanks to Nerdy! Pedal to the metal until after Election Day! Prepare your plan and help others vote early. We may not know who won for some time unless we pull off a massive landslide.
Beau Biden:
“The great thing about my father is he doesn’t have to contort himself into different people.”
—Telling the truth makes life easier and sweeter.
The Susan B. Anthony Museum has rejected President Trump’s pardon of Anthony. The museum’s director said the best way to honor Anthony would be to take a clear stance against voter suppression — and to advocate for human rights for all.
Secretary Hillary Clinton: “This is going to be a very important existential struggle, Rachel, to make sure that everything is in place to protect the vote. And also to be ready for whatever scenario may come about
on Election Day.”
Only now, really? What about white nationalism, racism, birtherism, and compliments to QAnon candidates?
McCarthy: “There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party”
California billionaire Gianforte is an anti-scientist who espouses Youth Earth Creationism.
“He has donated at least $290,000 to the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum,
a Montana creationist museum which teaches visitors that the theory of evolution is false,
that the Earth is about 6,000–6,400 years old,
and that humans and dinosaurs coexisted during the same period of history.”
= Major catastrophe on all fronts for Montana if he is Governor.
Bloomberg was neither my first nor my 20th choice. But I was glad he was there to support VP Biden and bring it to The Donald. And he seemed to have found his voice (lost during the debate). LOL.
The Fab Four:
“We did it everyone! We’ve made it to the final night of DNC Week and it’s our biggest night yet!
Before the official show starts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, and Dan Pfeiffer are coming at you with a live edition of Pod Save America to talk about how the week has been thus far and unveil the world premiere of the documentary short, DRESS REHEARSAL, about the progressive organizers who pulled off a stunning upset in Wisconsin during a pandemic and are preparing to do it again on November 3. ”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epowJSwreu4)
—Yep! PSA on the DNC list of contributors.
"It is time to confront more directly Trump's fake apocalypticism and the frequent conclusion that his followers represent Christianity as a whole," writes Samuel L. Adams, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, for @CNNOpinionhttps://t.co/onnxOP05HP
Congresswoman Deb Haaland’s speech at the Democratic Convention | Joe Biden For President 2020
Member of the Laguna Pueblo people, she is one of two Native American women ever to be elected to Congress.
Congresswoman Sharice Davids (Kansas) is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
On MSNBC they are talking about Biden debating Trump, and how Trump will try to rattle Biden. But I think VPB is being underestimated.
He should start by asking ‘ … how many Americans died under your watch?” … etc.
This is so deadly serious and not one word of help from the Feds.
Californians, if you are in an area affected by wildfires please be sure to heed evacuation orders and listen to local officials. Stay safe. pic.twitter.com/nqxuVtn6hC
Vengeance is not governance. Retribution is not justice. Destruction of the United States of America, in theory and in practice, is not patriotic. We need a POTUS who believes in the equal promise of all 50 states, in times of trouble and in times of prosperity. #BidenHarris2020
I will not stop until the reality of the most sophisticated war in all of history is acknowledged – one way or another.
Because I can assure that even with severely impaired mental capacity every person will know on 4 Nov 2020 if someone doesn’t do something before of reality. And, then mobilizes a response vastly more focused and unrelenting than what America had to muster to defeat Hitler & Japan’s Emperor.
At the moment, the tide of the battle is entirely flowing in Putin’s intended direction – a silent, essentially effortless devastation of the Institutions of American Democracy.
Anyone paying attention – by 1937 let alone a couple months before Hitler annexed Austria – that the dude was going to rule the world unless folk got their act together and stopped him.
Dr. Fauci is at "home and resting" after having surgery to remove a polyp from his vocal cord — a condition that stems from overusing one's voice. https://t.co/BMsgJtmJOZ
"Mr Navalny’s personal doctor, Anastasia Vasilyeva, said in an interview Friday that she believed the Russian authorities had tried to delay his departure long enough for the poison in his system to diminish and become difficult or impossible to identify."https://t.co/URgsNzvJdV
EXCLUSIVE: Asked about Pres. Trump's charge that he wants to "defund the police," Joe Biden tells @RobinRoberts, "No I don't"—and counters that the Trump administration has proposed cutting a federal program that helps hire more local law enforcement. https://t.co/xTtXqxLdRBpic.twitter.com/svmSqsP5JS
A friend of mine loves Bernie. When it was clear it was going to be Biden, I thought she would be upset (fucken Twitter, man). Instead she told me a story about the time she met Joe when he was the Senator from Delaware. He came into the restaurant she works at…
She's a server in a hotel restaurant. She said he was very kind, would joke around, lovely man. At some point he looks around and asked her if it was a union hotel. She said yes. He asked her about it, her experiences, thoughts, etc. At the end of the conversation…
He gave her his card. We live in California. Again, he was the Senator from Delaware. He told her, "You ever have any problems, you let me know." It's a small story, but it seems to echo so many shared the last few nights…
And it just made me think about how, yeah, some people had more progressive visions for our platform and nominee, and that is valid. But…a man with that big of a heart, who listens-not just to "important" people but the people who often have no voice, who is open to learning…
and changing and listening to people who disagree w/him, but also to lifting up marginalized communities & taking time with people others would often ignore…well, yes, of course I can get excited about electing that man. After everything we've seen? Are you kidding me? Stoked.
A plane carrying Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is on its way to Germany after he fell gravely ill in a suspected poisoning https://t.co/rOV8y3nTB8
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) August 21, 2020
As a religious studies professor, Jeff cannot stay silent as Trump betrays Christian teachings. He calls on his fellow Christians to vote Trump out in November.
"[Trump] is quite willing to let us go on thinking he's a Christian, so long as we don't expect him to act like one." pic.twitter.com/zUQu0Owaoc
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) August 21, 2020
"Children, we are skipping dinner and sending the money for our beans and rice to Martha McSally so she can make sure billionaires get tax cuts." https://t.co/2i7paT9x4r
Ted Cruz knew. Rand Paul knew. Nikki Haley knew. Marco Rubio knew. Kellyanne Conway knew. Mike Pompeo knew. Glenn Beck knew. Rick Perry knew. Susan Collins knew.
I emailed my scanned application to my county election office and got a response acknowledging receipt and informing that ballots will start to be sent out on 9/19.
Dearest Kamala: here’s to us, our family, friends and our beautiful life together. Wouldn’t change a thing. Happy Anniversary! Love, D. pic.twitter.com/7SDRA9Efuk
This entire event with the fabulous Valerie Garrettt and so many inspiring young women, with a tech teaching moment towards the end is great. Meghan inspires real confidence, so lovely.
Today the least religious politician in US history lied saying Democrats intentionally left God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. It’s such a desperate and pathetic lie, coming from the weakest and laziest politician ever. All to distract from him golfing while people are dying.
Trump is lying when he says that the DNC removed 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Snopes: "On the national stage, the phrase 'under God' was used during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each night of the 2020 DNC."
He has nothing to say about the poisoning of Russia’s Navalny. He refused to blame MBS for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. He has nothing to say about 170k+ dead Americans.
He’s a blight on our country. He’s a stain against human decency. His exit will be a day for celebration.
"I've lost people, including a best friend … I know he's had a lot of loss … one thing about him and I is we smile, we laugh, and we enjoy people." pic.twitter.com/nVVbLeJXeS
wow does he ever pay for anything?
This latest scam of having one part of the Republican Convention in the Andrew Mellon Autditorium
(federal property) close by the Trump Hotel….in preparation…Trump has already jacked up the prices at his hotel by 60% = $795 to $2,000 per night. (ReidOut)
—-can his base understand any of this?
A postal workers' union leader in San Antonio said that local Postal Service operations are experiencing major delays in mail delivery and that the agency sought to hide evidence of the problems from Rep. Joaquin Castro when he visited its facility.https://t.co/J6dbqIGrA7
Actually this is the great American imbalance, in which we are able to instantly protect investors yet fail to protect workers. Repeat after me: “The stock market is NOT the economy.” https://t.co/SuytUJQnqY
Heads up. Speaker Pelosi called the House in on a Saturday to vote on this bill to protect the #USPS. Send an email or a tweet to your representative. https://t.co/zejuPN921i
I think this IMPORTANT: I texted VOTE to 30330 just to check my registration status. I KNOW I’m registered. Turns out my mailing address for a ballot was an old, no longer valid address. I WOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN MY BALLOT. Took minutes to fix. Text VOTE to 30330. Be sure.
“Bending that arc requires all of us. It requires We the People. And it requires a president of the United States with empathy, grace, a big heart, and an open mind. Joe Biden will be such a president. With our voices and our votes, let us now write the next chapter of the American story, one of hope, of love, of justice. If we do so, we might just save our country and our souls.” (Jon Meacham)
For THREE years, I warned the American people & my colleagues that this president was a threat to our democracy. Yet here we are today, voting on a measure to save the Postal Service, because it is being sabotaged by a desperate president in order to cheat in the 2020 elections. pic.twitter.com/cLZw0KZ7UJ
The Obama Diary 
Good West Coast Friday morning Nerdy and TOD family.
Yes, President Barack Obama will Always be a Rock Star ⭐️
Congrats, Gail! worried about all the fires in CA. Feeling so happy and relieved the Democrats pulled off a fine virtual convention for Joe and Kamala that honored so many voices.
Thanks Judith. I’m sad, especially for the animals, but we’ll recover. We had 10,800 lightening strikes that started over 300 fires in one night.
Climate change
Beautiful convention! 2020 is a new way forward. Thank you Stephanie Cutter!
I want to use a separate comment to say Thank you Nerdy for the coverage of the DNC Convention. ⭐️💐🌹🌷
Thank you!
Thank you, Nerdy darlin’! Can you feel the love?
Thanks NW. Still processing the night of PBO and Kamala’s speeches…was struck dumb thereafter.
This moment is one for the ages.
Transcript of President Obama’s speech: https://time.com/4426150/dnc-barack-obama-transcript/
Transcript of Senator Harris’ speech: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-20/kamala-harris-dnc-speech
heh, the speech I referenced was from 2016. Good though.
Dropping this again, big hugs all around
🕊🌏🕯🙏🏼♥️💞🕊
View at Medium.com
bye donald
Love that!
🕊💞🕊
Biden is old, but he is a decent human being. Can that he said about Donald Trump.? No!!!!!!!!!!!!!
President Obama:
“That’s how a democracy withers, until it’s no democracy at all. We can’t let that happen.
Do not let them take away your power.
Don’t let them take away your democracy.
Make a plan right now for how you’re going to get involved and vote.”
“This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/obama-speech.html)
But he’s a fascist so he thinks he can send law enforcement to intimidate voters.
Ayanna Pressley: Trump has created a “tsunami of hurt, and an abundance of cruelty”.
ReidOut.
Heartfelt thanks to Nerdy! Pedal to the metal until after Election Day! Prepare your plan and help others vote early. We may not know who won for some time unless we pull off a massive landslide.
Beau Biden:
“The great thing about my father is he doesn’t have to contort himself into different people.”
—Telling the truth makes life easier and sweeter.
Joy Reid about Joe: “His superpower is who he is.”
Colbert: “Not once did he whine about shower pressure.”
😂
Chris Wallace says Biden blew ‘a big hole’ in Trump’s ‘mentally shot’ claim with DNC acceptance speech
‘After tonight, Donald Trump will have to run against a candidate, not a caricature,’ says ‘Fox News Sunday’ host
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chris-wallace-reaction-joe-biden-dnc-speech
Good Afternoon, Beloved TODville Community🤗😍🤗
Thank you, NW🙏💪😍🤗😍💪🙏
Congrats, GGail👒💁♀️⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Furst
Thanks nena 🙂
The Susan B. Anthony Museum has rejected President Trump’s pardon of Anthony. The museum’s director said the best way to honor Anthony would be to take a clear stance against voter suppression — and to advocate for human rights for all.
Secretary Hillary Clinton: “This is going to be a very important existential struggle, Rachel, to make sure that everything is in place to protect the vote. And also to be ready for whatever scenario may come about
on Election Day.”
Only now, really? What about white nationalism, racism, birtherism, and compliments to QAnon candidates?
McCarthy: “There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party”
He’s lying. He himself congratulated the QANON idiot who won in Georgia.
Montana:
“The Green Party qualified for the ballot in March…
But it was revealed later that the Montana Republican Party had financed the petition effort.”
(https://www.krtv.com/news/election-2020/fed-state-supreme-court-reject-green-party-appeals)
–GOP does this repeatedly in MT to try and siphon off young votes.
–Green Party = Republican Party.
Just like they’re backing Kanye.
California billionaire Gianforte is an anti-scientist who espouses Youth Earth Creationism.
“He has donated at least $290,000 to the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum,
a Montana creationist museum which teaches visitors that the theory of evolution is false,
that the Earth is about 6,000–6,400 years old,
and that humans and dinosaurs coexisted during the same period of history.”
= Major catastrophe on all fronts for Montana if he is Governor.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chris-wallace-reaction-joe-biden-dnc-speech
Bloomberg was neither my first nor my 20th choice. But I was glad he was there to support VP Biden and bring it to The Donald. And he seemed to have found his voice (lost during the debate). LOL.
Follow her
Thanks for making me cry again DF 😢.
He really is a good man.
When the Biden / Harris administration takes over in January, the entire US needs to hold a gigantic block party !!!
We need him as President!
Joe knows. And just look at how much this young boy has matured!
Excellent
The Fab Four:
“We did it everyone! We’ve made it to the final night of DNC Week and it’s our biggest night yet!
Before the official show starts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, and Dan Pfeiffer are coming at you with a live edition of Pod Save America to talk about how the week has been thus far and unveil the world premiere of the documentary short, DRESS REHEARSAL, about the progressive organizers who pulled off a stunning upset in Wisconsin during a pandemic and are preparing to do it again on November 3. ”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epowJSwreu4)
—Yep! PSA on the DNC list of contributors.
..talk about experienced, informed, (cute obviously) and helluva funny.
eh and that’s not just Joe Biden…
..talk about experienced, informed, (cute obviously) and helluva funny.
Congresswoman Deb Haaland’s speech at the Democratic Convention | Joe Biden For President 2020
Member of the Laguna Pueblo people, she is one of two Native American women ever to be elected to Congress.
Congresswoman Sharice Davids (Kansas) is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
tgifffff everyone!
-love
On MSNBC they are talking about Biden debating Trump, and how Trump will try to rattle Biden. But I think VPB is being underestimated.
He should start by asking ‘ … how many Americans died under your watch?” … etc.
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You ALWAYS have the best graphics!!
Thanks!
This is so deadly serious and not one word of help from the Feds.
Has the RNC invited Putin, David Duke or Ghislaine Maxwell to speak at their Hate Convention yet? Asking for a twitter friend.
Hahahaaaaa!!
Love this!!
Love it!!!!
I love this child.
More photos…
Consolidation in progress.
Good. What the hell is he hiding?
I will not stop until the reality of the most sophisticated war in all of history is acknowledged – one way or another.
Because I can assure that even with severely impaired mental capacity every person will know on 4 Nov 2020 if someone doesn’t do something before of reality. And, then mobilizes a response vastly more focused and unrelenting than what America had to muster to defeat Hitler & Japan’s Emperor.
At the moment, the tide of the battle is entirely flowing in Putin’s intended direction – a silent, essentially effortless devastation of the Institutions of American Democracy.
Anyone paying attention – by 1937 let alone a couple months before Hitler annexed Austria – that the dude was going to rule the world unless folk got their act together and stopped him.
No one did.
The price of denial can be infinite ….
🐶🐶🐶
Thread, continued:
Each hour that passes …..
And, as each minute passes …..
Hey y’all check this out!
WOWWWWWW####### #Right ON!
Another great story about Joe!
Love!
Your Moment of Cuteness!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Squeeeeeeee!
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She’s so disgusting. Tick tick, Mc Sally. We didn’t want you before and we sure as hell don’t want you now.
so much beauty and grace
Goodnight TOD.
Goodnight, Bob – and TOD!
Sorry for the dupe. I can’t find where I posted this originally and he is just too adorable to let get lost. 😍
Look at our team! ❤️
That woman is horrible!
This should be a tv ad aired during the REC convention. Come on Tom Steyer, Bloomberg, other billionaires . Put some of the Trump tax cut to good use.
IKR
While billionaires getting tax cuts and she is trying to take away your health care.
They all knew.
Good info here
I emailed my scanned application to my county election office and got a response acknowledging receipt and informing that ballots will start to be sent out on 9/19.
Yep, me too.
Awww! ❤️
So sweet. Can’t wait to see them together at the Naval Observatory.
Happy Anniversary to the Harris ensemble!!
wishing you a gorgeous day.
congrats!
I can’t tell you how terrible, heartbreaking this is. A beautiful park full of stunning redwoods. Just devastating.
Darn, those are some huge cones. 🙂
Morning everyone. Good toons
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213950678
More companies need to follow
Yesssss … and thank you. Agreed DF.
So that more can vote, and can volunteer to help in any way possible.
This entire event with the fabulous Valerie Garrettt and so many inspiring young women, with a tech teaching moment towards the end is great. Meghan inspires real confidence, so lovely.
VALERIE JARRETT
So wonderful that she was invited for such a large role in the convention.
Unfreakinbelievable.
UGH
Well, good thing Sean Spicer is no longer employed at the WH. There is nowhere for him to hide (from reporters) anymore.
https:/https://www.instagram.com/p/CEMRVU4DqYn/?igshid=1tt3o5fa59w0v/www.instagram.com/p/CEMRVU4DqYn/?igshid=1tt3o5fa59w0v
Disregard. It posted the link twice and now it won’t work. Will try again
wow does he ever pay for anything?
This latest scam of having one part of the Republican Convention in the Andrew Mellon Autditorium
(federal property) close by the Trump Hotel….in preparation…Trump has already jacked up the prices at his hotel by 60% = $795 to $2,000 per night. (ReidOut)
—-can his base understand any of this?
Trump held his brother’s funeral in the White House yesterday….
Why not have the RNC in the White House as well?
go for it.
Blow the whistle harder
Love the Biden/Harris tee!
https://maddogpac.com/collections/all-items
Historian Jon Meacham’s remarkable 2020 Democratic National Convention speech
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/mic-check-mic-check/
“Bending that arc requires all of us. It requires We the People. And it requires a president of the United States with empathy, grace, a big heart, and an open mind. Joe Biden will be such a president. With our voices and our votes, let us now write the next chapter of the American story, one of hope, of love, of justice. If we do so, we might just save our country and our souls.” (Jon Meacham)