Hello, Florida! It's #VoteEarlyDay and we’re just 10 days away from this election. I want to see you make a plan today for how you’re going to get involved and vote. Let’s get to work. https://t.co/lq3jqYjrOX
Morning, Dudette! Today is likely to be a dark day with the looming confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to SCOTUS over the objections of voters who have not forgotten Merrick Garland. Keep calling your Senators until it’s over. Make the GOP pay a price at the polls for their raw power grab!
Bless you and thank you!! My absentee ballot was accepted one week after I mailed. Thanks, NW! We love you and appreciate you. One of the directors at my daughter’s work has COVID. She wasn’t with him last Wednesday and only one hour Thursday, but still very scary!
Good day to all. Now back to homeschooling our granddaughter.
Thank you Nerdy – Hola TOD. I too Voted – last friday and my son dropped off both our ballots in our nearest drop box. Both of us of course voted all blue/ all dem. His first presidential election :). Everyone I know have either already voted via mail or will be early voting- in line. All of them – in-laws, everyone voting straight democrats.
I hope/ believe we have a strategy in place for when trump & repubs use their newly illegally confirmed “justice” to cheat their way to winning this election. Because I do not doubt that is their whole sole goal here.
Almost a year ago, @MindyKaling invited me to her home to cook masala dosa and talk politics. While we couldn’t catch up in the kitchen this time, I loved having the chance to connect with her on food, family, and—of course—voting in the most important election of our lifetime. pic.twitter.com/xU11hrwbwZ
I remember what it was like when Beau was deployed in Iraq. It was a mix of pride and fear, a longing for that empty seat at the dinner table to be filled again.
President Obama in Miami:
“We literally left this White House a pandemic playbook that showed them how to respond before a virus reached our shores. They must be lost along with the Republican healthcare plan.”
“Joe understands how much it hurts for grandparents to not be able to see their grandkids or hug each other.
They understand that you can’t effectively economy moving again as long as people are afraid of getting a disease. He’s not going to screw up testing. He’s not going to call scientists idiots. He’s not going to host a super spreader event at the White House like the way this current president did. So Joe is going to get this pandemic under control with a plan that makes testing free and widely available, which we should have been doing
months ago.”
“Republicans love to say right before an election that they’ll protect your preexisting conditions.
Now listen, Joe and I actually protected them 10 years ago with the Affordable Care Act, which made sure that anybody with a preexisting condition could get health insurance.It protected everybody. It protected folks who already had health insurance. It protected folks who might have to buy health insurance in the future. Hispanics saw the biggest gains in coverage of anybody, almost 93% of Hispanic kids got covered, an all time high. And yet under this administration, Hispanic kids have lost coverage. And throughout this process, when we were getting folks healthcare, Republicans fought us every step of the way. They’ve tried to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare more than 60 times.”
“We see young people like George, who introduced me, ask us, “Do we not breathe the same air? Do we not bleed the same blood? Do we not deserve safety, belonging, and matter?”
“Joe Biden has got a plan to create 10 million good jobs in the energy sector,
in the clean energy sector right here in America. And it’s part of his plan to protect Florida from climate change and secure environmental justice, and he’ll pay for it by rolling back Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires.
A nation that stands with democracy, not dictators. A nation that can inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats like climate change and terrorism and poverty and disease.”
Full text: (https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/barack-obama-florida-rally-speech-transcript-for-joe-biden-october-24)
The opioid epidemic killed over 450,000 Americans.
Purdue Pharma, makers of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, have been on front page headlines all over the country about the settlement with the Trump Justice Department (days before the election).
Rachel Maddow:
“Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to criminal charges for their role in fraudulently marketing
their super-pain killer that killed so many people.
The settlement is being crowed about by the Justice Department…
Purdue Pharma only has to pay $225 million up front, which is a lot of money to people, but not to Purdue. Because Purdue is in bankruptcy and has scores of creditors, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see anything close to the multibillion dollar kind of payment that they’ve been crowing about. In those bankruptcies, creditors get pennies on the dollar. Members of the Sackler family behind the Purdue company, the states, cities, and individual plaintiffs alleged were instrumental in the company’s crimes.
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma executives themselves aren’t going to face any criminal charges
as humans. Nobody from the Sackler family even had to admit to any wrongdoing as part of this deal. They’ve agreed to pay a multimillion dollar civil fine, but again that’s not much, when you consider that the family has syphoned over $10 Billion out of the company in the years leading up to its convenient bankruptcy filing. However this settlement doesn’t settle or dismiss Purdue’s and the Sacklers’ many state and local lawsuits that are still pending against them, even if the Trump Justice Department decided they were going to end it. The Sacklers aren’t protected against any future state, or even federal, criminal charges. By the looks of it, this federal settlement, as much as the Trump Administration has tried to make this seem like a victory, it seems like it has only energized State Attorneys General even more, and their fight for justice against the opioid epidemic villains.”
AG Maura Healey, MA:
Has pursued her own case against Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers.
She was the first AG to sue individual members of the Sackler family and her office is set to depose them.
Maddow: “I was struck by your immediate statement in reaction to the settlement.
You said “I am not done with Purdue and the Sacklers”. What do you wish the Justice Department had done as part of this settlement? Was a settlement at this point of any kind inappropriate?”
AG Healey:
“Well here’s what’s so devastating about this settlement.
Back in 2006, the Justice Department went after Purdue. And ultimately after hearing testimony from families devastated by this epidemic, they had to deal with Purdue and allowed Purdue to basically, get off the hook. Here we are so many years later, when the Justice Department has a second chance to do it right. But once again they let them off the hook. The way you describe this settlement, this deal, is entirely accurate: There’s no one going to jail. There’s no justice. The Sacklers face no admissions of guilt, let alone wrongdoing, or liability. They’re paying $225 million which is probably 2% of the billions and billions of dollars – I mean estimated to be between $10 billion and $13 billion dollars they took from this company! And Purdue – great you got a guilty plea…against a company that’s already in bankruptcy! So this is not accountability Rachel.”
AG Healey:
“The good news is State AG’s, we’re going to continue to press our state claims in court.
And we owe that to our families. You know I talked tonight with Emily Walden of Kentucky. I sat with a group of Massachusetts families the other day who were outraged by this deal. And I called Emily tonight because she is one of the organizers for a group (KHRC), that just in August begged the Justice Department to be heard on this. As recently as only last week they hand delivered a letter to Bill Barr’s office saying
‘Don’t do this deal’. And you know what? The Justice Department never even responded to them. As a prosecutor, that’s no way to treat a victim. And as you mention, there are more than 450,000 opioid deaths. That number grows every day Rachel. And I just can’t for the life of me understand why the Justice Department cut this deal. And I’ll tell you another thing, my prosecutors are ready to take depositions of the Sackler family, Richard, Mortimer, and Kathe next month. You would think if the Justice Department was truly interested in justice and getting to the bottom of what happened and holding them accountable, they would have sat in for those depositions. We’re going to go forward with those depositions. But you think of the shame Rachel, that our own United States Department of Justice didn’t do its job in this case,
and the shame on behalf of the families.”
Former college professor, constitutional scholar and first Black President, two terms in office. I’m not surprised he’s got a lot to say. Just pace yourself. pic.twitter.com/r0dt9cyuwA
Tonight, the White House is going to rub America’s nose in their successful corruption of the Supreme Court.
Mark my words: The pictures of a corrupt president on the White House lawn politicizing a SCOTUS appointment 8 days before an election will live in infamy.
This is amazing. These are five conservative women in Ohio who are messaging their personal friends who don't vote encouraging them to vote for Joe Biden because their kids influenced their vote. pic.twitter.com/FavxIE8TRw
So the President is threatening to withhold support from Pennsylvanians because Gov. Wolf asked him to not hold super spreader rallies that hurts Pennsylvanians? https://t.co/f7IhXKzDST
It's my birthday. Here's my one wish: that you reach out to one person in your life who may not vote this year and encourage them to turn out for Biden-Harris.
Many happy returns of the day dear Secretary Clinton!! Helping us wi’ crushing the ceilings, keeping going through all the misogyny and smears…thanks a bazillion.
tirelessly working to suppress the Democratic vote..by restricting ballots..they are introducing the case again..because Donald Trump has intalled a SCOTUS Justice of his own
‘Trump and Epstein were pedophiles’.
This is what sprung-ed into my mind from first flush about QAnon – but i didn’t go there.
But I believe this is the impetus and source of Q’s first messages.
Imo the conspiracy was brung into being to defend criminal acts and reverse point the fingers and try to say the evidence is opposed to truth. Imo it creates a crazy idea that turns their crimes back on you,
in order to protect their crime-ridden leaders.
btw: ‘Harvesting children’s fluids for consumption’ is not new. QAnon has modernized anti-semitic propaganda
for 2020.
Is why I so appreciate this new article:
“The ‘Q’ movement is a pro-pedophile, pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic Nazi-adjacent Trumpian cult”
“Well, we seem to be getting closer to the national realization that this thing that calls itself “QAnon” is, at heart, just another partisan iteration of the same far-right conspiracy theories that have plagued conservatives since forever ago.”
“The most plausible explanation for the Q hokum,
in which an anonymous supposed member of the Deep State drools out accusations against anyone deemed to be enemies of Donald Trump in comically performed pseudo-riddles, remains the obvious one: It is the work of chan-style trolls, part of that internet corner’s grand tradition of crafting gaudily improbable hoaxes to distribute for no other purpose than to see who they can draw in. It may turn out to be the first domestic terrorism group founded for funsies—though at this point, those connected to the movement have focused their claims and targets enough to make it clear that stoking incidents of real-world terrorism is, in fact, the current goal.
Pls read: (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1988695/-The-Q-movement-is-a-pro-pedophile-pro-terrorist-anti-Semitic-Nazi-adjacent-Trumpian-cult)
The former congressman was experiencing abdominal pain and was hurried into the emergency room Monday morning for tests. Doctors determined he had a hernia, which could be life-threatening if it’s not treated fast, the campaign said in a statement.
Lewis is challenging DFL incumbent U.S. Sen. Tina Smith. He previously represented Minnesota’s Second Congressional District.
Lewis was optimistic as he headed into surgery, the campaign said in an announcement released around 11 a.m.
“True to form, he was speculating about when he could resume campaigning, eager to continue fighting for his fellow Minnesotans,” Campaign Manager Tom Szymanski said in a statement. He posted on Twitter shortly after the announcement that “Jason Lewis is going to beat @TinaSmithMN from the hospital.”
Ronald Sanders, chairman of the Federal Salary Council (FSC), formally resigned from his position Monday, citing objections to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump last week. The order calls for the removal of firing protections usually afforded to certain federal employees.
In a letter confirming his departure, Sanders described the executive order, purportedly about holding federal employees more accountable, as a “smokescreen,” veiling Trump’s true intentions to expand control over federal workers through altered employment protections. He addressed the letter to John McEntee, director of the White House’s presidential personnel office.
The Boston Police Department said in a statement Monday that a suspect is in custody and set to be charged with setting fire to a ballot dropbox early Sunday morning as city officials have tried to reassure voters that election security is a priority and attempts to undermine the election will be prosecuted.
30%!! He got 30% of ALL lifetime judiciary appointments in less than one, full term of a Presidency! And all of MSM is letting McConnell & Leonard Leo get away w/ hanging the term “Court-packing” on @JoeBiden. Disgraceful journalistic malpractice, carrying their water like that. https://t.co/DYGwyARJa3
Per CNN: The Columbus City Council is slated to vote on a $475,000 settlement with an African American policeman after the officer, a 28-year veteran, says he faced retaliation for reporting racism and other misconduct by a superior.
British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read.
“He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.” https://t.co/fk6BpH5w7Y
— #𝙍𝘼𝙉𝘿𝙔𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎𝙏 Here Right Matters! (@RandyResist) October 26, 2020
“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?’ If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
Sebastian’s mother has become one of the leaders of Britain’s conspiracy community, denying coronavirus exists and blaming the symptoms on 5G radio waves
US stock markets suffered their sharpest drop in weeks as concerns about the economic impact of surging coronavirus cases sent shares tumbling. https://t.co/FPSRUMx52s
Intersex Awareness Day is today!
Intersex Solidarity Day is November 8th.
October 26, 1996 marks the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in the United States.
What is intersex?
See FAQ: https://interactadvocates.org/faq/
—Historically surgeons and doctors have done unnecessary interventions on newborns and children.
Chris Hayes explaining the “faustian bargain” ( Elie Mystal).
Hayes saying every time he sees Barrett’s name he will see how many we lost. Hope we can see this segment on video tomorrow.
Republicans love to say right before an election that they’ll protect preexisting conditions. Well, Joe and I actually did it — and he’ll keep protecting your health care as president. We’ve got eight days left. Vote. pic.twitter.com/ncGJ47lbx8
Sandra Day O’Connor had 3 kids and Ruth Bader Ginsburg had 2 kids. Not only that, they rose in the legal profession at a time when women( with kids or no kids) could barely get jobs as working lawyers. https://t.co/lPDH5YZGLU
Chitown Buckeye replying to sarahcpr
SCOTUS was last expanded in 1869 from 7 to 9 justices to match the # of federal circuits. We now have 13 federal circuits. Sooooo…….
My strong suggestions to all those who have ballots, drop them off at your official ballot drop off boxes. Not your USPS mailboxes. Make sure they’re real official drop off boxes. Also help your family, friends, neighbors, etc. drop off theirs, especially those who don’t have transport to get to said official drop off boxes. 💞😷
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”…MLK
I will echo what others here have said. If you have a ballot in your hands now DO NOT MAIL IT IN!!! Take it to an official ballot drop off box, the elections office in your area , Too late now with a week to go. Must make sure that your voice is heard and ballot counts!
This firefighter dad left for 13 days to battle wildfires in Northern California. Watch him surprise his 10-year-old daughter upon returning home pic.twitter.com/3TgzARB4KC
Army brat here. My Dad is a Vietnam vet who did 4 long tours under VC sniper fire and a bunch of short missions to God knows where. I can assure you, I wouldn’t have felt exploited in the least had a working camera been around at any of our reunions.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning Everyone! 😁
Thank you Nerdy Wonka! 😘
Good Morning Dudette. Congrats on your excellent entrance into TODVille, the place honoring President Obama and the source of worthy information.
Hey NCLB! 👋🏾
Morning, Dudette! Today is likely to be a dark day with the looming confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to SCOTUS over the objections of voters who have not forgotten Merrick Garland. Keep calling your Senators until it’s over. Make the GOP pay a price at the polls for their raw power grab!
Hi Judith! A dark day for sure. It will take a while to overcome, but rest assured we will.
Yes.We.Will.
Good Morning TODVille!
I did my part. I voted early, standing 2h25 min in spite of my lower back pain. I voted from the Biden/Harris spot all the way down ballot!!!
Bless you and thank you!! My absentee ballot was accepted one week after I mailed. Thanks, NW! We love you and appreciate you. One of the directors at my daughter’s work has COVID. She wasn’t with him last Wednesday and only one hour Thursday, but still very scary!
Good day to all. Now back to homeschooling our granddaughter.
Thank you for enduring NCLB! ✊🏾
👐 thank you NCLB
Thank you so much!
Thank you Nerdy – Hola TOD. I too Voted – last friday and my son dropped off both our ballots in our nearest drop box. Both of us of course voted all blue/ all dem. His first presidential election :). Everyone I know have either already voted via mail or will be early voting- in line. All of them – in-laws, everyone voting straight democrats.
I hope/ believe we have a strategy in place for when trump & repubs use their newly illegally confirmed “justice” to cheat their way to winning this election. Because I do not doubt that is their whole sole goal here.
Congrats and thank you to the both of you for voting Sherijr! ✊🏾
Congrats! It does feel good once this important task is done.
When you have a sheriff say that he will not obey an lawful ordinance…what does that tell you…what does that mean…
That means he needs to be FIRED and that anoter Sheriff needs to be elected or hired. Let him hear that news!
Yes! Immediately!
President Obama in Miami:
“We literally left this White House a pandemic playbook that showed them how to respond before a virus reached our shores. They must be lost along with the Republican healthcare plan.”
“Joe understands how much it hurts for grandparents to not be able to see their grandkids or hug each other.
They understand that you can’t effectively economy moving again as long as people are afraid of getting a disease. He’s not going to screw up testing. He’s not going to call scientists idiots. He’s not going to host a super spreader event at the White House like the way this current president did. So Joe is going to get this pandemic under control with a plan that makes testing free and widely available, which we should have been doing
months ago.”
“Republicans love to say right before an election that they’ll protect your preexisting conditions.
Now listen, Joe and I actually protected them 10 years ago with the Affordable Care Act, which made sure that anybody with a preexisting condition could get health insurance.It protected everybody. It protected folks who already had health insurance. It protected folks who might have to buy health insurance in the future. Hispanics saw the biggest gains in coverage of anybody, almost 93% of Hispanic kids got covered, an all time high. And yet under this administration, Hispanic kids have lost coverage. And throughout this process, when we were getting folks healthcare, Republicans fought us every step of the way. They’ve tried to repeal or undermine the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare more than 60 times.”
“We see young people like George, who introduced me, ask us, “Do we not breathe the same air? Do we not bleed the same blood? Do we not deserve safety, belonging, and matter?”
“Joe Biden has got a plan to create 10 million good jobs in the energy sector,
in the clean energy sector right here in America. And it’s part of his plan to protect Florida from climate change and secure environmental justice, and he’ll pay for it by rolling back Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires.
A nation that stands with democracy, not dictators. A nation that can inspire and mobilize others to overcome threats like climate change and terrorism and poverty and disease.”
Full text: (https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/barack-obama-florida-rally-speech-transcript-for-joe-biden-october-24)
The opioid epidemic killed over 450,000 Americans.
Purdue Pharma, makers of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin, have been on front page headlines all over the country about the settlement with the Trump Justice Department (days before the election).
Rachel Maddow:
“Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to criminal charges for their role in fraudulently marketing
their super-pain killer that killed so many people.
The settlement is being crowed about by the Justice Department…
Purdue Pharma only has to pay $225 million up front, which is a lot of money to people, but not to Purdue. Because Purdue is in bankruptcy and has scores of creditors, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll see anything close to the multibillion dollar kind of payment that they’ve been crowing about. In those bankruptcies, creditors get pennies on the dollar. Members of the Sackler family behind the Purdue company, the states, cities, and individual plaintiffs alleged were instrumental in the company’s crimes.
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma executives themselves aren’t going to face any criminal charges
as humans. Nobody from the Sackler family even had to admit to any wrongdoing as part of this deal. They’ve agreed to pay a multimillion dollar civil fine, but again that’s not much, when you consider that the family has syphoned over $10 Billion out of the company in the years leading up to its convenient bankruptcy filing. However this settlement doesn’t settle or dismiss Purdue’s and the Sacklers’ many state and local lawsuits that are still pending against them, even if the Trump Justice Department decided they were going to end it. The Sacklers aren’t protected against any future state, or even federal, criminal charges. By the looks of it, this federal settlement, as much as the Trump Administration has tried to make this seem like a victory, it seems like it has only energized State Attorneys General even more, and their fight for justice against the opioid epidemic villains.”
AG Maura Healey, MA:
Has pursued her own case against Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers.
She was the first AG to sue individual members of the Sackler family and her office is set to depose them.
Maddow: “I was struck by your immediate statement in reaction to the settlement.
You said “I am not done with Purdue and the Sacklers”. What do you wish the Justice Department had done as part of this settlement? Was a settlement at this point of any kind inappropriate?”
AG Healey:
“Well here’s what’s so devastating about this settlement.
Back in 2006, the Justice Department went after Purdue. And ultimately after hearing testimony from families devastated by this epidemic, they had to deal with Purdue and allowed Purdue to basically, get off the hook. Here we are so many years later, when the Justice Department has a second chance to do it right. But once again they let them off the hook. The way you describe this settlement, this deal, is entirely accurate: There’s no one going to jail. There’s no justice. The Sacklers face no admissions of guilt, let alone wrongdoing, or liability. They’re paying $225 million which is probably 2% of the billions and billions of dollars – I mean estimated to be between $10 billion and $13 billion dollars they took from this company! And Purdue – great you got a guilty plea…against a company that’s already in bankruptcy! So this is not accountability Rachel.”
AG Healey:
“The good news is State AG’s, we’re going to continue to press our state claims in court.
And we owe that to our families. You know I talked tonight with Emily Walden of Kentucky. I sat with a group of Massachusetts families the other day who were outraged by this deal. And I called Emily tonight because she is one of the organizers for a group (KHRC), that just in August begged the Justice Department to be heard on this. As recently as only last week they hand delivered a letter to Bill Barr’s office saying
‘Don’t do this deal’. And you know what? The Justice Department never even responded to them. As a prosecutor, that’s no way to treat a victim. And as you mention, there are more than 450,000 opioid deaths. That number grows every day Rachel. And I just can’t for the life of me understand why the Justice Department cut this deal. And I’ll tell you another thing, my prosecutors are ready to take depositions of the Sackler family, Richard, Mortimer, and Kathe next month. You would think if the Justice Department was truly interested in justice and getting to the bottom of what happened and holding them accountable, they would have sat in for those depositions. We’re going to go forward with those depositions. But you think of the shame Rachel, that our own United States Department of Justice didn’t do its job in this case,
and the shame on behalf of the families.”
450,000 souls 🥺😔
PBO’s book is coming soon!
paste it on my forehead for the duration.
—Chrizzy present #1.
Already pre-ordered! I wish it would be over 1500 pages because my smart President has a lot, a lot more to say.
Good Afternoon, TODbots👊👏🔵❣No snow forecast M-F, Yes‼
🎶📯🥁🎺🎹🎸👏👏🥇⭐🏆Dudette❣
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Biden on 60 Mins.
Calling all lawyers that would like to volunteer!! Please share
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2020/10/26/lets-get-to-work-beto-for-inspiration-live-interview/
quid pro quo and extortion crime boss
Be gone, orange jackass.
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Many happy returns of the day dear Secretary Clinton!! Helping us wi’ crushing the ceilings, keeping going through all the misogyny and smears…thanks a bazillion.
tirelessly working to suppress the Democratic vote..by restricting ballots..they are introducing the case again..because Donald Trump has intalled a SCOTUS Justice of his own
‘Trump and Epstein were pedophiles’.
This is what sprung-ed into my mind from first flush about QAnon – but i didn’t go there.
But I believe this is the impetus and source of Q’s first messages.
Imo the conspiracy was brung into being to defend criminal acts and reverse point the fingers and try to say the evidence is opposed to truth. Imo it creates a crazy idea that turns their crimes back on you,
in order to protect their crime-ridden leaders.
btw: ‘Harvesting children’s fluids for consumption’ is not new. QAnon has modernized anti-semitic propaganda
for 2020.
Is why I so appreciate this new article:
“The ‘Q’ movement is a pro-pedophile, pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic Nazi-adjacent Trumpian cult”
“Well, we seem to be getting closer to the national realization that this thing that calls itself “QAnon” is, at heart, just another partisan iteration of the same far-right conspiracy theories that have plagued conservatives since forever ago.”
“The most plausible explanation for the Q hokum,
in which an anonymous supposed member of the Deep State drools out accusations against anyone deemed to be enemies of Donald Trump in comically performed pseudo-riddles, remains the obvious one: It is the work of chan-style trolls, part of that internet corner’s grand tradition of crafting gaudily improbable hoaxes to distribute for no other purpose than to see who they can draw in. It may turn out to be the first domestic terrorism group founded for funsies—though at this point, those connected to the movement have focused their claims and targets enough to make it clear that stoking incidents of real-world terrorism is, in fact, the current goal.
Pls read: (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/10/25/1988695/-The-Q-movement-is-a-pro-pedophile-pro-terrorist-anti-Semitic-Nazi-adjacent-Trumpian-cult)
Our Sasha Tik-Toking
Minnesota’s GOP’s Rightwinger for the Senate race had emergency life-saving operations.
https://www.startribune.com/gop-senate-candidate-jason-lewis-has-emergency-surgery/572872191/
The former congressman was experiencing abdominal pain and was hurried into the emergency room Monday morning for tests. Doctors determined he had a hernia, which could be life-threatening if it’s not treated fast, the campaign said in a statement.
Lewis is challenging DFL incumbent U.S. Sen. Tina Smith. He previously represented Minnesota’s Second Congressional District.
Lewis was optimistic as he headed into surgery, the campaign said in an announcement released around 11 a.m.
“True to form, he was speculating about when he could resume campaigning, eager to continue fighting for his fellow Minnesotans,” Campaign Manager Tom Szymanski said in a statement. He posted on Twitter shortly after the announcement that “Jason Lewis is going to beat @TinaSmithMN from the hospital.”
Woooot!
Ronald Sanders, chairman of the Federal Salary Council (FSC), formally resigned from his position Monday, citing objections to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump last week. The order calls for the removal of firing protections usually afforded to certain federal employees.
In a letter confirming his departure, Sanders described the executive order, purportedly about holding federal employees more accountable, as a “smokescreen,” veiling Trump’s true intentions to expand control over federal workers through altered employment protections. He addressed the letter to John McEntee, director of the White House’s presidential personnel office.
Dudette (anyone, really), if you are here, please post this tweet from vote Latino. It’s beautiful!
Nevada Latinos coming through in style, y’all!
Here ya go! Love it!!!
Thank you Dudette!!!
The Boston Police Department said in a statement Monday that a suspect is in custody and set to be charged with setting fire to a ballot dropbox early Sunday morning as city officials have tried to reassure voters that election security is a priority and attempts to undermine the election will be prosecuted.
Exactly
Hot from the press–
New York Daily News
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99 REASONS TO DUMP TRUMP | It’s a relatively new Trump tic: to exclaim that his beloved hometown is dying.
His presidency has been a series of assaults on “Democrat-run” cities, and especially on the nation’s largest and most economically essential one.
Thought you might like to know: Fox News president, top anchors advised to quarantine after coronavirus exposure: report.
Per CNN: The Columbus City Council is slated to vote on a $475,000 settlement with an African American policeman after the officer, a 28-year veteran, says he faced retaliation for reporting racism and other misconduct by a superior.
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“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?’ If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
VOTE.
Love this jazziz2. Thx for posting!!
I hope that this is an example of a large portion of the “Republican” votes. 🙏🙏🙏
Right On..Right On
As Much as i love seeing Pres Obama out and about..I pray for his safety…
Cool story, to give you smiles for all the good folks out there! 💞
The Washington Post: D.C. woman, 90, watches gym classes from her window all day. When the gym found out, they painted her a mural..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/10/26/balance-gym-mural-washington-dc-pandemic/
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Intersex Awareness Day is today!
Intersex Solidarity Day is November 8th.
October 26, 1996 marks the anniversary of the first public demonstration by intersex people in the United States.
What is intersex?
See FAQ: https://interactadvocates.org/faq/
—Historically surgeons and doctors have done unnecessary interventions on newborns and children.
= Let each person grow up and make their own decision.
Just coz it’s our Joe! 💞
Good evening Todville.
Love the song.
Love it! 🧡🧡🧡
Cher! ❤️😁
how fabulous of Cher to do that.
Dang, & she’s 74 years alive! Bless! 💞
Chris Hayes explaining the “faustian bargain” ( Elie Mystal).
Hayes saying every time he sees Barrett’s name he will see how many we lost. Hope we can see this segment on video tomorrow.
I am just watching that too.
Effin turtle filled 220 judicial positions while laughs at the mention of ppl dying from Covid (at his debate with Amy McGrath).
Evil gotta evil.
I can describe him in 25 Words or Less. Correction: half a word: “Eff”! 😏😖
I was listening on my Sirius app. Good show tonight.,
greetings todjey and tnmtngirl1 from the land of the cold snows!!!
Am spreading my bountiful distractions to y’all! These are necessary Joy’s to sandwich tough times. Chins up! We got this! 💞😂
Deadline: ‘Rise Of Skywalker’ Second Unit Director Victoria Mahoney To Helm Lionsgate Action Drama ‘Shadow Force’.
https://deadline.com/2020/10/rise-of-skywalker-second-unit-director-victoria-mahoney-to-helm-lionsgate-action-drama-shadow-force-1234603490/
In case someone out there thought they were worth anything. Show no mercy
CORNCOB BARRETT.
The Court must be BALANCED and that will be accomplished through expansion.
I certainly hope so
Chitown Buckeye replying to sarahcpr
SCOTUS was last expanded in 1869 from 7 to 9 justices to match the # of federal circuits. We now have 13 federal circuits. Sooooo…….
I had forgotten that PP was impeached, until Don Lemon mentioned it tonight.
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Vote. Just vote and we can make them sorry they even breathe
Oct 16:
“MICHIGAN
BANS
OPEN CARRY
OF GUNS
inside and near polling places.”
“Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson sent guidance to local election officials on Friday — 18 days before Election Day — to clarify that the open carry of firearms on Election Day in polling places, clerk’s offices and absent voter counting boards is banned.”
(https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/16/michigan-bans-open-carry-guns-polling-places/3676462001/)
—Arrest.
Unfortunately that ban was overturned.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/28/michigan-court-gun-advocates-voting
the low IQ boys should stick to FOX before we take that outfit down.
My strong suggestions to all those who have ballots, drop them off at your official ballot drop off boxes. Not your USPS mailboxes. Make sure they’re real official drop off boxes. Also help your family, friends, neighbors, etc. drop off theirs, especially those who don’t have transport to get to said official drop off boxes. 💞😷
Seconded. Now is not the time to mail the ballots.
Night all
Brought it! 👏🏾
Sad to say he nailed it.
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seen a lotta dance, but this….. …. .. …… . . ……..
That’s beautiful, divine! 💞
hafta see the full piece – small lower video.
Amazing vocal [Kwabs – Last Stand]
Thank you for keeping TODville alive and kicking, Nerdy darlin’!
Good morning, y’all.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”…MLK
I will echo what others here have said. If you have a ballot in your hands now DO NOT MAIL IT IN!!! Take it to an official ballot drop off box, the elections office in your area , Too late now with a week to go. Must make sure that your voice is heard and ballot counts!
Good Morning, TODbots🙏🙏🤩😍🤗😊💪🙏🙇♀️🎺🥁🎹📯💯%❣💙💙
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/10/27/voting-tutorial/