The RNC that already happened so far…
The Ring talking about Doom being;
“the bodyguard of civilization…defender of civilization…putting his “own life of luxury on the line”.
In reality locking up children, police shooting unarmed innocent black and brown people because it is Sunday.
(Filed Under Law & Order)
So am thinking “Tom didn’t realise what a nasty wee shite Jason has become.”
(Ros na Rún)
I think it's important for objective journalists to note how wildly imbalanced the dishonesty is between the current parties. This one half-night of Republican programming so far has been exponentially more dishonest than the entire four nights of the Democratic convention.
No better time than tonight to read this brilliant essay. #TaNehisiCoates brings us the truth,unvarnished & just when we need it to understand the power, limits, & possibilities of this moment & the "ancestral, generational" battle in which we are engaged. https://t.co/l9rJH3ahRm
This is Kerith. She’s a fire department therapy dog. With more than two dozen major fires burning in California, she’s unfortunately been very busy. She meets her firefighters at the staging area and gives each of them a hug before they head out. 14/10 for everybody pic.twitter.com/iaPgDE0Evc
This is Kerith. She’s a fire department therapy dog. With more than two dozen major fires burning in California, she’s unfortunately been very busy. She meets her firefighters at the staging area and gives each of them a hug before they head out. 14/10 for everybody pic.twitter.com/iaPgDE0Evc
Researchers said genetic tests revealed that a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he'd previously been infected with in March. https://t.co/jXCBliADEP
Why is a Brazilian ANYTHING advising anything here!??
The Brazilian meat conglomerate that presided over an alleged "work while sick" culture at a Colorado plant and deadly COVID cluster at a Nebraska facility during the early months of the pandemic will now advise the federal government on health policies. https://t.co/gmF4uOctHv
Congresswoman Katie Porter asked DeJoy who put in place those plans.
DeJoy said he “did not order major overhaul plans” and that they were in effect before he arrived.
“If you did not order these actions to be taken, please tell the committee the name of who did.”
DeJoy: “I DO NOT KNOW.”
He is the Postmaster General?
1) Um why didn’t Pinocchio stop the mystery actions, if not the mystery person?
2) The mystery person if not himself is someone he keeps meeting with: Donald Trump.
DeJoy said he wouldn’t commit to reversing the changes dismantling the Postal Service.
This won’t be the last sabotage by the Phantom Postal Services KIller (Trump).
STOP DEJOY-TRUMP ANY POSSIBLE WAY.
NOW.
Mike Pompeo's decision to speak at the RNC is a break from all sorts of norms and precedents designed to keep America's chief diplomat out of partisan fray.
It may also be violating State Department policy he himself approved. https://t.co/ZRHUjhigAl
Jacob Blake's father said there are now “eight holes” in his son’s body, and he’s paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors don’t yet know if the injury is permanent. https://t.co/WaKCBmW88T
Somebody be ready to cough up $millions to this family + the employment histories of the officers involved. For his children, may the kind and generous Jacob live.
And then what say we take down this gross excuse for a police system.
(Saying “yebbut there are good police” will not stop the serial police murders.)
The man in the Oval Office has time to get on Twitter to urge a boycott of an American company, Goodyear tires, but can’t find the time to take action against Putin for reportedly putting bounties on our troops.
Let that sink in. Day 60. What does Putin have on Trump?
Guessing videos, audios, $deals, $laundering, future promises, oil shares, daddy substitute, for starters.
The little WH russian is not smart enough to create a mafia state without foreign and domestic help,
is how it is happening under our noses. More quickly now.
If it were only a 'street fight' @robreiner, if only!
America is at WAR and NO ONE has had the guts to step before the American People & explain to them in simple language that PUTIN IS KICKING OUR BUTTS – masterfully.
‘It’s All Propaganda”
Dr. Vin Gupta On The RNC’s Claims About COVID-19.
‘Pulmonologist Dr. Vin Gupta debunks claims made about COVID-19 and the national response to the pandemic during the Republican National Convention.’
Benen:
“Our side is working on policy,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) declared last night. I wish that were true. It’s not.”
“…it was a day earlier when his party,
which has been producing platforms every four years since 1856,
decided it wouldn’t bother to debate, write, or release a GOP platform in 2020.
Republicans instead announced it would simply
“reassert the party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his administration,
in lieu of crafting an actual governing vision.
As the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell put it yesterday,
“No promises, no policy stances, nothing. Just a bootlicking, blank-check pledge to support anything Trump decides to do, no matter how erratic or lawless, and a (re)confirmation that the party is nothing more than a cult of personality.”
ReidOut:
“The police officer had his gun already drawn and pointed at the back of Jacob Blake as he walked to his car … with no visible weapon in his hands. That, in itself, is a red flag.”
— brittany packnett cunningham does not do remixes. (@MsPackyetti) August 25, 2020
I get it’s a hot take to say Trump isn’t trying to win over Black voters & just wants to make white folks feel not racist.
But he’s actually doing BOTH & ignoring the first is DANGEROUS. He gets math: Depressing & suppressing Black turnout helps him win.https://t.co/BiLTFTd7JT
— brittany packnett cunningham does not do remixes. (@MsPackyetti) August 25, 2020
Former Rep JimGreenwood from PA–endorses JoeBiden
“Donald Trump has proven himself to be a small-minded, uncaring, self-aggrandizing, compulsive liar—a POTUS
who divides our nation by inflaming fear, suspicion, and contempt.”
Speaker Pelosi speaks with Ayman Mohyeldin (excerpts):
“They’re doing everything they can: vsuppress the vote with your actions, scare people, intimidate by saying law enforcement will be there, diminish the role of the postal system in all of this. It’s really, actually shameful. Enemies of the state.”
Speaker Pelosi:
“So what they’re doing is really immoral. It’s immoral.
The President said if we passed a freestanding postal bill he would sign it. We did. Now, he says no. And this is a health issue as well in terms of nearly a hundred percent of the medicine that comes from the VA to our veterans goes through the mail. The list goes on and on.”
“We passed [Heroes] 101 days ago. Mitch McConnell called for a ‘pause.’”
Full transcript: (https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/82420)
A group of athletes led by LeBron James will roll out a multimillion-dollar program in the next few weeks to recruit poll workers in heavily Black electoral districts for November’s election, a person familiar with the plans says. https://t.co/KOsCSRWnCr
“Alexei Navalny:
Putin critic ‘probably poisoned’ – doctors”
He “is in intensive care and is still in an artificial coma.
Mr Navalny is being given an antidote, atropine, the same drug used in the case of ex-KGB agent Sergei Skripal by UK doctors after his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury in 2018.”
“Cholinesterase inhibitors block a crucial enzyme which regulates messages from nerves to muscles….
The enzyme is called acetylcholinesterase. Inhibition of the enzyme interferes with nerve to muscle messaging and muscles are no longer able to contract and relax. They go into a sort of spasm.
All muscles are affected with the most crucial being those which affect breathing. As breathing is inhibited individuals may become unconscious.”
–German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for those behind any poisoning to be identified and held accountable.
–The UK called on Saturday for a “full and transparent” investigation.
–And US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed over the weekend that, if elected, he would “stand up to autocrats like Putin”.
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53892900)
–eh look fwd to a kleptocracy that also bumps of “the enemy” as well as protestors if Doom cheats a win.
Perhaps a country in which over 170,000 people have died from a containable disease, 30 million are out of work, and American passports don't gain admittance to most of the world? Oh, wait. https://t.co/FmWaxdm0QM
Data show Trump didn't 'build' a great economy. He inherited it.
Key economic indicators from Obama's second term to Trump's first three years (before the pandemic hit), show a continuation of trends — not a dramatic shift. https://t.co/sMiSUQxdC0
Mr. Jacob Blake was shot in the back 7 times by police after helping to de-escalate a domestic incident.
He was unarmed and getting back into his car with his 3 children.
Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden:
“This calls for an immediate, full and transparent investigation and the officers must be held accountable.
These shots pierce the soul of our nation. Jill and I pray for Jacob’s recovery and for his children. Equal justice has not been real for black Americans and so many others. We are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism. It is the urgent task before us.”
Maya Wiley speaks with Joy Reid.
(She is currently senior vice president for Social Justice at The New School and the Henry Cohen Professor of Urban Policy and Management at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment.)
Reid: “In this case the police officers at this point know that they’re being taped. In this case, at least …according to his fiancé, they knew that their children were in the car. If they won’t not shoot someone in the back seven times on-camera, with all the witnesses…I don’t know what the answer is to police reform at this point.”
(Donald Trump Jr shared an unrelated story about Mr. Blake’s family, apparently to justify the shooting.)
Wiley:
“The idea that he (Don Jr) would suggest with that video that there’s any justification is of itself shocking. But let’s just make one thing clear. This is a family that in addition to being apparently quite corrupt and certainly hiding their finances and not being transparent. And whose entire campaign management team has been going down for fraud for stealing from the American public, maybe should think twice before they decide the strategy to win office is to tell all of the rest of us to engage essentially in the politics of racial division. This is one country. We need to be one people. And all of us should be devastated by any kind of violence…that takes an unarmed person…and should someone get shot in the back by a blue uniform. Doesn’t matter who you are. Doesn’t matter what color of your skin. And that’s what we need to hear right now…”
(Reid shows the lovely Vanity Fair cover:
“Breonna Taylor, A Beautiful Life” painted by Amy Sherald.)
Reid: (As an attorney) “Is there any chance that the officers who shot Breonna Taylor and killed her, who busted into her apartment after midnight and shot this woman, are they ever going to be arrested in your view?
Wiley:
“You know I can’t answer that Joy, but I’ll tell you the one thing that we desperately need: No more no-knock warrants. That’s why this woman has lost her life. And certainly no more of this unqualified/qualified immunity. Meaning police officers can get away with murder if it just fits what ‘qualified immunity’ allows which is far too much. Social things we can change right now.”
NEW: Night 1 of the Republican National Convention drew 15.8 million viewers across six networks, falling short of the 18.7 million who tuned in to the debut of the Democratic National Convention.
"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are." St. Augustine https://t.co/qivPte36lt
BREAKING: In response to our class-action lawsuit, a federal court has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny thousands of US military service members the right to citizenship that Congress has long promised them.
The @MTGOP ran a scheme to get Green Party candidates on the ballot to siphon votes. It was exposed and after litigation, the candidates were removed from the ballot. Supreme Court will not overturn that ruling!
Precisely. It’s not just that Postmaster General DeJoy doesn’t know the cost to mail a postcard. It’s that he’s managing a sweeping overhaul of USPS without even a basic understanding of the agency. This should alarm every American. https://t.co/ijEpykdtFu
I wonder if there will be protesters making a lot of noise outside of the White House at 10:30 tonight when Melania gives her speech from the Rose Garden.
. @AttorneyCrump “it is going to take a miracle for #JacobBlake to ever walk again” he is in surgery at this hour. Blake had a bullet go through some or all of his spinal cord. Holes in his stomach. Nearly entire colon & small intestine removed. damage to kidney & liver & arm. pic.twitter.com/clzdeyp51Y
"They shot my son 7 times. 7 times. Like he didn't matter. But my son matters. He's a human being, and he matters," Jacob Blake Sr. says in Kenosha, Wisconsin. pic.twitter.com/Q2qVxYG3nJ
NEW: Night 1 of the Republican National Convention drew 15.8 million viewers across six networks, falling short of the 18.7 million who tuned in to the debut of the Democratic National Convention.
When Jerry Falwell Jr. stood w/ the immorality of Trump & his extremism, which has hurt the poor & vulnerable, the @LibertyU board praised him. But now that he’s caught up in a sex scandal, they’re concerned about ethics?
— Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) August 25, 2020
“There’s no question the future of the Supreme Court is on the line right now,” said Christopher Kang. “We could be on the verge of a Trump supermajority on the court that would last for decades."https://t.co/x9dVAOPzQ0
A group of onetime Republican presidential appointees who served as senior ethics or Justice Department aides are endorsing Joe Biden, warning that Trump has 'weaponized' the executive branch and is putting in peril the legitimacy of the DOJ.https://t.co/7FiUwajsR6
So the Republican ratings for night one of the convention appear to be significantly lower than the Democrats. But word is that Donald Trump is holding out for the overnight numbers from Moscow.
The ACLU is declaring victory on behalf of men and women in uniform who want to call the U.S. home, permanently.
A court ruled the Trump administration can't deny citizenship to military personnel who’d been promised that right by Congress, a tweet said.https://t.co/K1pV2MdqyU
Julia Jackson, mother of Jacob Blake, was initially "turned away" from visiting her son in the hospital, Ben Crump, the family's attorney, says. pic.twitter.com/X8EPhNq82I
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good evening TODville.
Thank you NW ☺
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex gives a great speech!
We need a warning system so you know when it’s safe to turn the news on again . . . . . .
heh the fb meme:
“Remember, you don’t get invited unless you’ve been indicted.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Putin getting comfy like.
The RNC that already happened so far…
The Ring talking about Doom being;
“the bodyguard of civilization…defender of civilization…putting his “own life of luxury on the line”.
In reality locking up children, police shooting unarmed innocent black and brown people because it is Sunday.
(Filed Under Law & Order)
So am thinking “Tom didn’t realise what a nasty wee shite Jason has become.”
(Ros na Rún)
Haley spewed up whoppers and a few rotting frogs.
“Trump brought the economy back before and he will do it again.”
LOL. Wow, whoppers and frogs.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hayley always talk out of both sides of her mouth. She is another con.
We call that A CULT
I like animals better than people. Just saying
I love this one-liner! (So glad I’m not watching the damn convention since she was a part of it – UGH!)
WHOA, she is so horrid crazy. WOW.
She looks like Melania, but Melania has yet to scream.
Didn’t she used to be married to your governor? Looks like he escaped just in time!
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Yup!
Morning everyone
Why is a Brazilian ANYTHING advising anything here!??
So, he lied under oath to Katie Porter under questioning the other day
Congresswoman Katie Porter asked DeJoy who put in place those plans.
DeJoy said he “did not order major overhaul plans” and that they were in effect before he arrived.
“If you did not order these actions to be taken, please tell the committee the name of who did.”
DeJoy: “I DO NOT KNOW.”
He is the Postmaster General?
1) Um why didn’t Pinocchio stop the mystery actions, if not the mystery person?
2) The mystery person if not himself is someone he keeps meeting with: Donald Trump.
“I DO NOT KNOW” is the wrong fcuking answer. IF he isn’t lying (which I doubt), the correct answer would be “I don’t know, BUT, I WILL FIND OUT”
That’s one of the first things we learned in USMC recruit training…
DeJoy said he wouldn’t commit to reversing the changes dismantling the Postal Service.
This won’t be the last sabotage by the Phantom Postal Services KIller (Trump).
STOP DEJOY-TRUMP ANY POSSIBLE WAY.
NOW.
The ignore everything that’s inconvenient
I don’t know about you but I could sure use some of this energy.
Haven’t seen Dudette in a couple of days. Does anyone know if she’s alright?
Hope she’s alright!!
I want to feel THIS way!!
👍🏿⭐⭐⭐⭐😎💃🏿
Heartbreak, fury, resolve. NO MORE IMMUNITY.
NO MORE IMMUNITY
Somebody be ready to cough up $millions to this family + the employment histories of the officers involved. For his children, may the kind and generous Jacob live.
And then what say we take down this gross excuse for a police system.
(Saying “yebbut there are good police” will not stop the serial police murders.)
Guessing videos, audios, $deals, $laundering, future promises, oil shares, daddy substitute, for starters.
The little WH russian is not smart enough to create a mafia state without foreign and domestic help,
is how it is happening under our noses. More quickly now.
“The Platform the GOP Is Too Scared to Publish”
“What the Republican Party actually stands for, in 13 points.”
(https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/new-gop-platform-authoritarianism/615640/)
–with eyes open.
‘It’s All Propaganda”
Dr. Vin Gupta On The RNC’s Claims About COVID-19.
‘Pulmonologist Dr. Vin Gupta debunks claims made about COVID-19 and the national response to the pandemic during the Republican National Convention.’
Good Afternoon, TODville Community…🙏💪🙌💪🙏
Benen:
“Our side is working on policy,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) declared last night. I wish that were true. It’s not.”
“…it was a day earlier when his party,
which has been producing platforms every four years since 1856,
decided it wouldn’t bother to debate, write, or release a GOP platform in 2020.
Republicans instead announced it would simply
“reassert the party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his administration,
in lieu of crafting an actual governing vision.
As the Washington Post’s Catherine Rampell put it yesterday,
“No promises, no policy stances, nothing. Just a bootlicking, blank-check pledge to support anything Trump decides to do, no matter how erratic or lawless, and a (re)confirmation that the party is nothing more than a cult of personality.”
“It coincided with the president’s re-election campaign releasing a purported “agenda” for the president’s second term, which was really just a series of hollow catch phrases and slogans masquerading as substantive goals.
So much for “our side is working on policy.””
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/while-tim-scott-says-gop-working-policy-reality-disagrees-n1238041)
FACT CHECKING THE FACT-FREE TRUMP PARTY:
“Republicans made numerous false and misleading claims on tax cuts, the economy, immigration and COVID-19, among other topics.”
Here: (https://www.factcheck.org/2020/08/republican-convention-opening-night/)
ReidOut:
“The police officer had his gun already drawn and pointed at the back of Jacob Blake as he walked to his car … with no visible weapon in his hands. That, in itself, is a red flag.”
NY AG Letitia James has filed suit to block Postal Service changes by the Trump administration.
need fast track
Trump would think up ways to “maim” and “pierce the flesh” of migrants:
“Former DHS Employee Miles Taylor Says Trump Wanted to “Maim” and “Pierce the Flesh” of Migrants”
“The president also suggested tearing families apart
and gassing migrants altogether.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/25/former-dhs-employee-miles-taylor-says-trump-wanted-to-maim-and-pierce-the-flesh-of-migrants.html)
END him.
Former Rep JimGreenwood from PA–endorses JoeBiden
“Donald Trump has proven himself to be a small-minded, uncaring, self-aggrandizing, compulsive liar—a POTUS
who divides our nation by inflaming fear, suspicion, and contempt.”
Speaker Pelosi speaks with Ayman Mohyeldin (excerpts):
“They’re doing everything they can: vsuppress the vote with your actions, scare people, intimidate by saying law enforcement will be there, diminish the role of the postal system in all of this. It’s really, actually shameful. Enemies of the state.”
Speaker Pelosi:
“So what they’re doing is really immoral. It’s immoral.
The President said if we passed a freestanding postal bill he would sign it. We did. Now, he says no. And this is a health issue as well in terms of nearly a hundred percent of the medicine that comes from the VA to our veterans goes through the mail. The list goes on and on.”
“We passed [Heroes] 101 days ago. Mitch McConnell called for a ‘pause.’”
Full transcript: (https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/82420)
“Alexei Navalny:
Putin critic ‘probably poisoned’ – doctors”
He “is in intensive care and is still in an artificial coma.
Mr Navalny is being given an antidote, atropine, the same drug used in the case of ex-KGB agent Sergei Skripal by UK doctors after his poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury in 2018.”
“Cholinesterase inhibitors block a crucial enzyme which regulates messages from nerves to muscles….
The enzyme is called acetylcholinesterase. Inhibition of the enzyme interferes with nerve to muscle messaging and muscles are no longer able to contract and relax. They go into a sort of spasm.
All muscles are affected with the most crucial being those which affect breathing. As breathing is inhibited individuals may become unconscious.”
–German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for those behind any poisoning to be identified and held accountable.
–The UK called on Saturday for a “full and transparent” investigation.
–And US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden vowed over the weekend that, if elected, he would “stand up to autocrats like Putin”.
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53892900)
–eh look fwd to a kleptocracy that also bumps of “the enemy” as well as protestors if Doom cheats a win.
Shock to no one here
Mr. Jacob Blake was shot in the back 7 times by police after helping to de-escalate a domestic incident.
He was unarmed and getting back into his car with his 3 children.
Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden:
“This calls for an immediate, full and transparent investigation and the officers must be held accountable.
These shots pierce the soul of our nation. Jill and I pray for Jacob’s recovery and for his children. Equal justice has not been real for black Americans and so many others. We are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism. It is the urgent task before us.”
Maya Wiley speaks with Joy Reid.
(She is currently senior vice president for Social Justice at The New School and the Henry Cohen Professor of Urban Policy and Management at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment.)
Reid: “In this case the police officers at this point know that they’re being taped. In this case, at least …according to his fiancé, they knew that their children were in the car. If they won’t not shoot someone in the back seven times on-camera, with all the witnesses…I don’t know what the answer is to police reform at this point.”
(Donald Trump Jr shared an unrelated story about Mr. Blake’s family, apparently to justify the shooting.)
Wiley:
“The idea that he (Don Jr) would suggest with that video that there’s any justification is of itself shocking. But let’s just make one thing clear. This is a family that in addition to being apparently quite corrupt and certainly hiding their finances and not being transparent. And whose entire campaign management team has been going down for fraud for stealing from the American public, maybe should think twice before they decide the strategy to win office is to tell all of the rest of us to engage essentially in the politics of racial division. This is one country. We need to be one people. And all of us should be devastated by any kind of violence…that takes an unarmed person…and should someone get shot in the back by a blue uniform. Doesn’t matter who you are. Doesn’t matter what color of your skin. And that’s what we need to hear right now…”
(Reid shows the lovely Vanity Fair cover:
“Breonna Taylor, A Beautiful Life” painted by Amy Sherald.)
Reid: (As an attorney) “Is there any chance that the officers who shot Breonna Taylor and killed her, who busted into her apartment after midnight and shot this woman, are they ever going to be arrested in your view?
Wiley:
“You know I can’t answer that Joy, but I’ll tell you the one thing that we desperately need: No more no-knock warrants. That’s why this woman has lost her life. And certainly no more of this unqualified/qualified immunity. Meaning police officers can get away with murder if it just fits what ‘qualified immunity’ allows which is far too much. Social things we can change right now.”
West Wing & Michelle!
CNN: ‘The West Wing’ cast will reunite to benefit Michelle Obama’s When We All Vote.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/entertainment/the-west-wing-reunion/index.html
SOON…
https://youtu.be/bROuh0EJc2YBen Crump
Also here: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-2
I’m beginning to get HOPE this month that the (excuse the expression) sh*t is finally hitting the fan on trump and his wicked ways.
Things to enjoy when avoiding the never-ending shit show.
Deadline: ‘The Color Purple’ Feature Musical: ‘Black Is King’s Blitz Bazawule Set To Direct.
https://deadline.com/2020/08/the-color-purple-movie-musical-blitz-bazawule-directing-black-is-king-beyonce-oprah-winfrey-1203022077/
One other Systemic racism example. So much cleaning yet to be done. 😖
Just flipping vote. VOTE!!!
For some reason I think there are infiltrators & BLM needs to take action now. It’s gonna get worse.
I don’t want your Pity…I want Change…✊🏽✊🏽
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/we-are-scared-as-black-people-in-america/