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Good morning TODville!. I paid more taxes than Trump!!!! We knew he was a con and a crook now we have proof.
THIS. THIS. THIS.
George Conway is not your friend and he is not on your side. Project Lincoln is not on your side. The way white liberals get tingly because Project Lincoln and their cohorts put out a “spicy take” on Trump is so gross.
The enemy of your enemy ain’t your friend. The enemy of your enemy will fuck you over and Black women know that.
Unfortunately, I think she’s right.
Thank you for this wake up call.
Black women have always had skin in the game. white liberals need to wake the fuck up because at the end of the day they are not the ones who will suffer when these grifting assholes drop their current grift, turn around and loudly resume supporting the BS that is the Republican Party. George Conway is out there hyping up Amy Coney Barrett but because he tweets some nonsense about Trump, I’m supposed to jump on his bandwagon? They are not interested in Black peoples liberation and progress so I don’t fuck around with them. None of these “oh but we can use them as temporary allies.” If you’re not an ally for the long term then you can GTFO.
It’s always been #TrumpRussia and #TaxReturns.
Always.
At the debate tomorrow….here’s what i want to see.
Every time Trump lies:
Joe will hold up a large cardboard lollipop that has written on it in giant letters:
“LIE”
Doom keeps steamrolling on no matter who else is talking until he gets his lie out.
Various options: the lollipop approach, yelling “LIE!”, flashing lights, turn his microphone off.
Moderator deducts points, right half of tv screen informs the viewer, someone throws a tomato.
–Whatever but his krapola must be finally outed in real time.
I am feeling especially sad today. My son came home after finishing grad school (Masters) this past June and has just left to drive back to PA where he is starting fresh. He came home exhausted after a very long road of hell (best friend dying at 32yrs in 2017, had married in 2016, she came out gay in 2018, now divorced all while going through grad school) and needed rest. He stayed 4 months and has just left, driving across the country to return. He is refreshed, has a new purpose and has shed a LOT of the angst and grief that he came with. We gave him shelter, food and most importantly unconditional love and left him “alone” to heal and rest. I am so proud of him that he took this time for himself. It was so nice to get to know him as an adult because he’s been away since 2005. But just for today, I am sad. If you pray, please pray for a safe journey. He plans to arrive at his new apartment this coming Saturday. Thanks.
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Hi {{{Betsy}}} Will keep your family in my thoughts today, with emphasis on journeying mercies.
Praying for a safe journey! How great that you had the opportunity to get to know him as an adult; in days to come, you’ll reflect on what a great job you did teaching life’s lessons, and be amazed at the great things that he learned that you forgot to impart…
If he’s in eastern PA let me know; happy to be an emergency contact and I’m always good for a home cooked meal…
He’ll be living in West Philly but I will certainly let him know. One of his goals is to be more active politically and in causes like BLM, social injustice, etc. He’s already signed up to be a poll worker and waiting to hear about that. Thank you jazziz2.
So, he’ll be less than a half hour away; means he’ll have three TOD Aunties close by. Sheila and Terri, see me volunteering you!
If you could send me your email addresses, ill pass them along. My email is: bbkenn92@gmail.com.
Check your email.
Ok!! Thanks so much.
Absolutely in my thoughts. I dare say that the drive back will be cathartic as well. Please let us know how he’s doing once he settles in. I’m proud of him, too.
Betsy, traveling grace and good luck to your son in future endeavors.
hi Betsy thanks for telling. We so miss spending time with our children and COVID makes it more uncertain.
-right here with you, love.
Bertsy I will keep you and your son in my prayers. I so understand. My son moved home going through a horrid divorce loosing his job and not being able to find another, etc. It hurts so much when your children are hurting and you can’t make it all go away. At least you can give them love and a place to refresh. Blessings and all of you.
Sending you all love Betsy. Prayers for traveling grace and safe arrival.
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
It’s been quite a weekend.
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Wonder why???
Just vote people. Don’t listen to the constant noise. Just vote. Do it early.
Pelosi Just Suggested Trump Tax Returns Could Invalidate His Supreme Court Justices
“A president who wants parades of the military paying homage to him in front of the White House
like he’s some kind of a dictator, yet is he paying for any of that? The protection of our country? $750? Yeah.
It’s a disdain for America’s working families. It’s a — it’s not right, but our responsibility is to protect and defend and we have to make sure we know what exposure the President Of The United States has to, and what an impact it has on national security decisions for our country.
You’re right. The issue of morality is a larger one. As you began, you said, let me be frank and went through some of the other immoralities that the president has been involved it. It really raises the question. He almost has a conflict in interest how he’s appointed jumps who are all waiting for his cases to rise to the level of district appeals, the supreme court of the United States.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/09/28/trump-tax-returns-supreme-court-justices.html)
“Speaker Pelosi made the argument that Trump’s tax returns show that all of his judicial nominations could be invalidated due to conflicts of interest.” (Sarah Reese Jones)
Agreed
Once again Trump is stressing for financial help and he has sought foreign help in the past.
Putin may prefer to deal with a fellow kleptocrat.
But the trump architects may prioritize a longer future with Barrett.
–Use trump’s strategy against him and delay…delay….delay.
Thread…
Gotta take a moment to say: I love what you post here. Always illuminating. Excellence. Always appreciated. 👌🏾
You are too kind!
Not only will I return the compliment; I must also thank you for rekindling my interest in science. I was a science nerd grades 1 – 10 then gradually lost interest when I couldn’t fit it into my junior year. Frankly, I got tired of being the only Black in the AP science courses and since sometimes you can’t be what you can’t see… Ironic thing is, a lady from my Church, a friend of my Mom was a pharmacist. I had NO IDEA until after I retired from the Marine Corps and joined our scholarship committee… Other ironic thing is it didn’t bother me at all being the only Black in all of the other AP courses. My only non-APs were math and French…
((((( ❤️🤓Jazziz🤓❤️ )))))
You are too kind!
Not only will I return the compliment; I must also thank you for rekindling my interest in science. I was a science nerd grades 1 – 10 then gradually lost interest when I couldn’t fit it into my junior year. Frankly, I got tired of being the only Black in the AP science courses and since sometimes you can’t be what you can’t see… Ironic thing is, a lady from my Church, a friend of my Mom was a pharmacist. I had NO IDEA until after I retired from the Marine Corps and joined our scholarship committee… Other ironic thing is it didn’t bother me at all being the only Black in all of the other AP courses. My only non-APs were math and French…
Superb here from VP Joe’s team.
–the little russian knows only how to piss America away.
Oh boy. This one deserves the Nobel Response Prize!
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“Pelosi Tells Democrats To Prepare For Congress To Decide The Election”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/09/28/congress-decides-election.html)
–Transcript of Speaker Pelosi interview with Andrea Mitchell:
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/92820)
–Pelosi Statement on New York Times Report on President Trump’s Taxes:
(https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/92720-0)
Thank you so much, NW, for our Forever First Lady & Conan vid! Brought back all my hopey-ness! 😂😂
That he “donates” his salary means NOTHING when he is robbing the American people to enrich himself.
We all know what the Eff is wrong w/ Virus45! No more excuses for that genocidal, cruel, Grifter, narcissistic inhuman. 😖
Love Asha!!
Took me a few seconds … ROFL now. 😂
Just #vote
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Goodnight TOD.
Bob, thank you for posting. I normally drop whatever I’m doing to watch this segment. Today, I was on a call with my Dr and by time we were finished, it was past the rewind…
Morning everyone
Mueller Caved To Trump On Financial Investigation; Failed To Follow The Money: Weissmann
“Andrew Weissmann, one of the lead prosecutors for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, talks with Rachel Maddow about his frustration that the Mueller team did not pursue a financial investigation of Donald Trump that would have answered some of the questions raised by NYT reporting on Trump’s taxes.”
…..How much the Trump White House did not want an investigation.
“Where The Law Ends: Inside the Mueller investigation” by Andrew Weissman:
“Andrew Weissmann, a senior member of the special counsel’s team,
has written an alarming and necessary book”
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/27/where-law-ends-review-robert-mueller-donald-trump-andrew-weissmann)
Why I leave a little gift card and a thank you note for my mail carrier from time to time. He always writes me a thank you note back:)
“Stacey Abrams:
“Trump Taxes Show He ‘Doesn’t Care About Everyday Americans’”
“Stacey Abrams on Pres. Trump paying just $750 in federal income taxes: “That’s not a way to win an election. It’s worse—it’s not a way to govern a country, or to be an American.”
Who does trump owe the $400+ million in debt to?
Last time he made his sick father sign over the estate to fix the mess. How will he fix it this time?
How far will he go to cover it up?
“Donald Trump, facing financial ruin, sought control of his elderly father’s estate. The family fight was epic.”
“It was basically taking the whole estate and giving it to Donald,”
Trump’s sister said in secretly recorded audio.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/donald-trump-father-will/)
Hey trumpies…
HIS TYCOON IMAGE IS A SCAM.
–HE IS BROKE.
Hold Fox News responsible for hundreds of thousands of American COVID-19 deaths.
–Fox’s cunning willful relentless misinformation aimed at their systematically dumbed down population.
–Their victims are infecting the rest of us who are trying to contain the virus.
“”The Senate should ignore Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination”
“No matter whom President Trump had picked to fill the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat,
it would be the wrong choice — because it is the wrong time.
Mr. Trump is asking Senate Republicans to perpetrate a damaging injustice
by ramming through a nominee
on the eve of a presidential election.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-senate-should-ignore-amy-coney-barretts-nomination/2020/09/25/daf9e8c8-ff42-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html)
NEWS: Ahead of tonight’s debate, JoeBiden, DrBiden, KamalaHarris and DouglasEmhoff will be releasing their 2019 tax returns, the Biden campaign says.
IQ45 for his part will go to his hairdresser.
Fine idea:) When you have nothing to hide, you hide nothing.
Susan Rice, former Ambassador to the United Nations:
“Trump’s massive debt is ‘very much a nation security concern’”
“It is very much a national security concern, from a security clearance point of view,” says Susan Rice of Trump’s $421M debt. “But also … for the reason that we don’t know who has leverage over him.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/susan-rice-trump-s-massive-debt-is-very-much-a-nation-security-concern-92751429927)
“Biden Campaign Criticizes Facebook For Not Removing False or Misleading Trump Posts”
“The president has used his social media channels to spread conspiracy theories about the presidential race, particularly about mail-in voting, which he insists would “rig” the general election.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/09/29/biden-campaign-criticizes-facebook-for-not-removing-false-or-misleading-trump-posts.html)
—So with you Joe!!
NEW: Joe Biden launching new local paid media and voter engagement push , including new paid media buys targeting Florida’s Hispanic, English-speaking Caribbean, and Haitian communities, as well as the launch of our Victory Centers.
Way to go! Fight for every single vote.
Yes tell them Doom wants to wipe out their Obamacare/ACA in the middle of a pandemic.
By cutting payroll taxes: Trump is for permanently depleting Social Security benefits by 2023.
= 3 years from now.
Inbox: Biden for President announced Joe Biden’s guests for the first presidential debate.
One guest is Kristin Urquiza, who lost her father to COVID-19 in Arizona, declaring his “only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump — and for that he paid with his life.”
Heartbreaking news out of App State. An asymptomatic 19-y/o basketball player has died of #COVID19 complications. This was entirely avoidable & admin must be held fully accountable for the impact their decisions are having on the campus & our community
WTAF
Van Jones was on CNN talking about how Donald Trump has helped the black community. Are freaking kidding me?
Van Jones has moved off the reservation.
Agreed about Van Jones, been a bit of a disappointment for a long time.
How exactly has PP helped the black community?
Just like his old man young Lieberman is just in the race to fuck it up for Warnock.
Good afternoon,, TODville! Lazy day. I feel silly…
Excellent idea!!
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/09/29/highlight-trumps-malfeasance-at-barrett-confirmation-hearings/
That doesn’t stop Biden from mentioning it. In fact, he should throw in that bit of information as often as he can.
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I hope nobody got whiplash following this one…
Retired Judge John Gleeson, appointed by Judge Sullivan to (essentially) represent We The People (because Barr won’t do it)…
“Sen. Harris On Trump’s Tax Avoidance: It’s Just Completely, Patently Unfair”
“Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, in a Last Word exclusive interview, says after reports of Donald Trump’s tax avoidance, the voters deserve full disclosure of his financial interests and indebtedness. She tells Lawrence O’Donnell the reports show Donald Trump is “prepared to put his personal interest ahead of the American people.”
CDC Director Robert Redfield was overheard saying that Dr. Scott Atlas (Coronavirus Adviser) is misleading Trump on data regarding masks, young people, and “herd immunity”:
About Atlas: “Everything he says is false”.
Dr. Richard Besser, former Acting Director of the CDC, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, speaking to Joy Reid:
Reid: “I used to live there (in Florida) and I see these videos of people herding into bars since the Governor of that state re-opened bars. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Florida surpassed 700,000 cases as the state enters its Phase 3 re-opening. DeSantis has removed ALL the restrictions (shows video). If Donald Trump is getting bad information, saying that herd immunity will solve the virus. And governors like DeSantis are acting on what seems like the same idea: Just let people go wild, go in the bars, be wherever they want. And suddenly that will solve it. How do we ever get out of this nightmare?
How do we ever end this pandemic?”
Dr. Besser:
Yes. I mean this is a really dangerous situation.
You know Joy, do you remember over the summer? We saw cases going up dramatically in Florida, in Texas, in Arizona, in California. And so much of that has been related to what young people have been doing – gathering together, really downplaying the impact of this. And so if that’s what’s taking place in Florida. If they’re moving away from the measures that actually have worked in bringing down cases in those states: Wearing masks, social distancing, keeping bars and restaurants closed for indoor activity. If they move away from that, it’s logical what’s going to happen. The cases are going to go up. And the thing about disease in young people. While most young people will do relatively well with this. Not all will. There’ve been a lot of deaths in young people as well. But young people don’t give the infection to young people. They spread it to older people. The CDC has published good data on this. A week or so after you see the rise in young people, you see the rise in older people. Older people are at greater risk of bad disease and dying. So if the president is getting advice from someone who is not an infectious disease expert and he is leading with that advice, the whole nation suffers.”
Asked about the re-opening of Florida’s bars and restaurants, Dr. Fauci said:
“That is very concerning to me. We have always said, myself and Dr. Birx…that is something we really need to be careful about. Because when you’re dealing with community spread. And you have the kind of congregate setting where people get together, particularly without masks, you are really asking for trouble.”
Reid:
“The other kind of congregate setting that is concerning to a lot of parents right now are schools.
Whether it is Colleges or whether it’s Elementary, or High Schools. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has noted that the state of Georgia has been not telling parents. They’ve been withholding COVID-19 counts from the public. Georgia health officials have decided to withhold information about Coronavirus infections at each school, saying ‘the public has no legal right to information about outbreaks that the state is investigating.’ So when you add to the congregate setting, even in the places the Governor finally let up and allowed localities to put in mask orders if they want to. But in some of these schools, parents are sending their kids in, or teachers are going in, and they don’t have any idea that anybody has Coronavirus.
How dangerous is that?”
Dr. Besser:
“There needs to be transparency on this.
And one of the things that we’ve been calling for as a foundation in a big way is data has to be collected and broken down by race, ethnicity, by zip code. So you can see how this is playing out across different schools, in different school districts. We know that a lot of schools in America are funded off of property taxes. So wealthier schools are going to be able to do more to protect the students and staff and teachers, than schools in lower income communities. And we know that many of those communities have a higher proportion of Black and Brown children. What does it say about us as a country if we’re not ensuring that all children are safe, and staff and teachers are safe? And we’re not getting this information across the board. It is something that has to happen.”
Reid: “The midwest is seeing a surge in COVID cases. Do you worry now that any state that is very very trumpy, are you going to be having people getting very sick?
Dr. Besser:
“I worry a lot that when you have any state, and you have a significant number of people, whether it’s 30% or more who aren’t wearing masks, and social distancing, washing their hands, for whatever reasons. Whether it is political and they just don’t believe it. Everyone suffers from that. And not every community suffers equally. So we have to come together as a nation. What we’re seeing in the midwest is going to happen anywhere where people back off of these controls.”
Since tRump is in the habit of (Confession by) Projection, maybe HIS ears should be checked. He probably expects the accusation to be considered ludicrous and Biden won’t be checked…and by extension…he won’t be checked either (IMO).
Only thing the Mob Dicktraitor understands is Wrestling Pre-Show entertainment.
Let’s hope he turns up in shiny satin wrestling shorts and a frikn gold plated bandanna.
Hayes yesterday:
Trump is “the Mount Olympus of terrible businessmen”.
Damn! What an article, it should be required reading for the learned and the layperson.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFsR7llh2tM/?igshid= https://www.instagram.com/p/CFsR7llh2tM/?igshid=161mw31zsli7z 161mw31zsli7z
GO WITH JOE.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the debate was called off for some reason because of Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-24/biden-trump-election-black-voters. I would love to hear the response from y’all. Any and all. Please read this, It is short. Give me your feedback. It was discussed for two hours this morning on the Joe Madison Black Eagle Show. I heard callers from all over. Let me know yours. Thanks.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/broke-broke/