I spoke with President @BarackObama about his (amazing) new book ‘A Promised Land.' If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s a deeply personal and insightful look into his presidency and his journey along the way. And for young people, it's an invitation to remake the world. pic.twitter.com/J2xxu2R0dx
🚨 7. DO *NOT* LET YOURSELF BE AUTO-RENEWED IF POSSIBLE!
Even if your household makeup & income stay exactly the same, available plans *and subsidies* could change dramatically each year. You could be leaving significant savings on the table, so log in & actively shop around! pic.twitter.com/OlYl86GtRC
Republicans, who BLATANTLY tried to rig the election OUT IN THE OPEN, have the AUDACITY to accuse Democrats and Joe Biden of trying to steal the election?
They're just pissed off THEIR efforts to steal the election weren't successful enough. Joe Biden didn't cheat, the GOP did. pic.twitter.com/auOQbXsmbl
“PA State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta:
Republican Political Self-Interest Props Up Trump’s Bogus Election Claims”
–“They are playing with fire, but what’s going to get burned is our democracy.”
–Toomey stood with trump “every day of the week”.
Those currently under consideration to be Joe Biden’s attorney general, according to a person familiar with the process (who adds that no decision has been made and one is not expected this week):
– Deval Patrick – Sally Yates – Merrick Garland – Doug Jones
Wonder if people denouncing this realize how common it was in the Dust Bowl and in Depression-era Appalachia for residents to band together to prevent sheriffs from evicting people, or to refuse to bid on foreclosed property at auction so the family could buy it back for $1. https://t.co/WAIR9qDJOo
President-elect Biden yesterday at health care team announcement:
“One out of every 22 people in our country, often with devastating consequences of health.
At this very moment, what is the outgoing administration asking the Supreme Court to do in the United States Supreme Court? To repeal the entirety of the Affordable Care Act when we need it most. A law that’s on the front lines against the pandemic, protects more than a hundred million Americans who live with pre-existing conditions, which will increase now including those with lung scarring and heart damage as a consequence of COVID-19.
It provides coverage for more than 20 million Americans who get the care they need if they’re showing symptoms of COVID-19. The law that fulfills our moral obligation here in America, healthcare is a right for all, not a privileged for a few. But as all of you know, I know that out of our collective pain, we’re going to find a collective purpose to control the pandemic, to save lives and to heal as a nation. Today, I’m pleased to announce a team that is going to do just that. It’s a team of world-class experts at the top of their fields, crisis tested, defined by a deep sense of duty, honor and patriotism who are already ready to jump in…
They’ll lead the COVID-19 response across the government to accelerate testing, fix our supply chain and distribute the vaccine. The work of my economic team, because controlling the pandemic, delivering better healthcare and reviving the economy go hand in hand. They’ll work with my foreign policy and national security teams because we can’t only beat the virus here at home, it must be beaten everywhere, or it comes back to haunt us again…
Whatever your politics or point of view, mask up for 100 days once we take office. 100 days to make a difference. It’s not a political statement. It’s a patriotic act. It won’t be the end of our efforts, but it’s a necessary and easy beginning, an easy start…
Let me repeat.
We need Congress to finish the bipartisan work underway now, or millions of Americans may wait months longer to get the vaccine, months longer than they otherwise would have to wait to get the vaccine, vaccination. Look, and then we’re going to need additional action next year to fund the rest of the distribution efforts. We also need the Trump administration to act now though, to purchase the doses it has negotiated with Pfizer and Moderna and to work swiftly to scale, manufacturing to U.S. populations and the world. This can be fixed. If it is fixed, my team will be able to get at least 100 million vaccinations done in my first 100 days…
We’ll look to have the most schools open that we can possibly in 100 days, if Congress provides the funding we need. It’s not a secret how to do it. Masking, vaccinations, opening schools…
We need to level with one another. It’ll take longer than we would like to distribute it to all corners of the country, depending on how it gets started off between now and the time I’m sworn in. We’ll need to persuade enough Americans to take the vaccine…
We can do this. There’s nothing we’ve ever failed to do when we decided to do it together.
Together, that’s America.”
In A Promised Land, I talk about the decisions I had to make during the first few years of my presidency. Here are some thoughts on how I approach tough questions: https://t.co/GFumGnNPln
Jarring and heartbreaking graphic. Together (apart) we can change the course of this pandemic. Please keep yourselves safe, masked and distanced and remember that everyone you come across, is someone’s loved one. Please keep them safe too. #MaskUpPApic.twitter.com/1umNEOEGTJ
On January 6, 1961, after his defeat by JFK, Vice President Nixon graciously appeared in person to announce to Congress that Kennedy had won enough electoral votes to be elected President. Nixon said that in America, “those who lose accept the verdict and support those who win." pic.twitter.com/gJEUck3iDr
Only eight days after 2016 election, then-VP Biden and Dr. Jill Biden gave VP-elect Pence and wife Karen a luncheon at Vice President’s residence. Biden said, "I plan on being available to Mike as senior staff for him as he moves.” Some people are givers — others are takers. pic.twitter.com/uRqOHtZjDP
The latest @GaRepublicans legal complaint doesn’t seek to overturn the November election – instead it aims to curtail the use of absentee ballot drop boxes across Georgia ahead of the January runoffs. #gapol#gasenhttps://t.co/p79DW7C9Bv
“Bag Man:
The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House”
Rachel Maddow’s “Bag Man” tells the story of Nixon’s VP Spiro Agnew, forced to resign over corruption and
tax evasion. So relevant right now.
“He was Individual One before Individual One.”
Maddow to O’Donnell:
“One of the key people who catapulted Spiro Agnew from obscurity in Maryland to Vice President
was Pat Buchanan. Because our old friend Pat absolutely loved the way Agnew played the racist card in Maryland, and the way that he abused his Black constituents. And the way that he played up his abuse of them for the television cameras. The way he was willing to essentially to do a mid-Atlantic version of what George Wallace was threatening during the ’68 election to rob Nixon of his base in the southern strategy. They picked Agnew because they thought he was provocatively and performatively racist enough, that it could defend Nixon’s racist right flank from what was otherwise going to be George Wallace denying him the presidency. And Wallace did in ’68, of course win a bunch of Deep South states. But the Mid-South states stayed with the Republicans, stayed with Nixon, and they really believed a large part of that was because Agnew’s appeal to the hard right racist base.”
Maddow:
“And at the end of it they had 40 pages worth of indictable offenses for Agnew.
They could have done a 40-count felony indictment against him. And that’s what allowed them to force the deal that forced him to resign, and kept him from becoming president.”
I remember this TrickyDick horror show all too well, old Spiro was our governor, but no one I knew liked him or thought much of him.. we are paying the price now, ever since. Time for all this darkness to be cast out into the Light of truth and honesty.
Just a quick hello, and a big hug to everyone.. stay safe, be well, Keep Us All The Heart!
Can’t believe Stacey Abrams was able to get all nine justices of SCOTUS, Brian Kemp, Doug Ducey and so many more ideological opposites to work together so seamlessly in this election conspiracy.
After Senators Ossoff and Warnock are elected and sworn in.
I hope Ms.Abrams finds an island for her to vacation at. Okay maybe she can take a hundred of her closest friends and volunteers etc etc etc … and enjoy a well deserved vacation.
Nothing but blue skies, warm turquoise waters, white Sandy beaches, and gently blowing breeze for a whole month!
Damn, I keep buying the darn lotto tickets … one of these days, I am keeping the faith 🤣
“Lawyers across the country urge bar associations to investigate Trump’s legal team.”
“Arguing that “a license to practice law is not a license to lie,”
nearly 1,500 lawyers issued a letter on Monday calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of President Trump’s legal team, including the architect of his post-election strategy, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
“It is indefensible for lawyers to falsely proclaim widespread voting fraud,
submit a pattern of frivolous court claims and actively seek to undermine citizens’ faith in our election’s integrity,” said the letter, which was signed by several former judges, former federal prosecutors and law professors. “We condemn this conduct without reservation.”
“Mr. Giuliani’s aim is obvious,” the letter said. “To fuel Mr. Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the outcome of the election.”
Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin: "I come to this new role as a civilian leader — with military experience, to be sure — but also with a deep appreciation and reverence for the prevailing wisdom of civilian control of our military."
Tune in as President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris introduce retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin III as their nominee to serve as the 28th United States Secretary of Defense. https://t.co/YJ0B1sICKV
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) December 9, 2020
Make sure to fill out your FAFSA–the Free Application for Federal Student Aid–every year that you’re enrolled in college. It’s the key that can help unlock free money for your education. Complete the FAFSA right now at https://t.co/GtWRyXyAId. https://t.co/TeLxcW63lg
Happy Birthday to Fair Count's Founder & all-around powerhouse @staceyabrams🎉 We are so thankful for your relentless leadership in ensuring every voice is counted.
I've been around long enough to know that global change relies on diplomacy and building relationships with people around the world. We need our allies. We need our partners. We need our friends. pic.twitter.com/XWRPZTUqSj
“Multilaterism is back. Diplomacy is back. Democracy is back. America is back.”
The incredible Linda Thomas Greenfield,
soon to be United Nations Ambassador for the United States.
This health team is made up of world-class experts at the top of their fields who are ready on day one to get the pandemic under control so we can get back to work, back to our lives, and back to our loved ones. pic.twitter.com/acwVxRQS6x
We’re excited to wish our founder @staceyabrams a happy birthday! She would LOVE for you to request or return your mail ballot today… Snap a pic (conceal private info) of yourself requesting or returning your ballot with hashtag #HappyBirthdayStacey
Wishing a speedy recovery to the legendary #kurtisblow as he recovers from a heart transplant. The first rap artist with a gold single. First rap artist signed to a major label. The culture owes him a debt of gratitude. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/n7hQJcd6tT
@joebiden chose a leader who is tested and is willing to face the moment.
We know this is true because we have been at the table with Loyd Austin, working to support transitioning service members through programs like Soldier for Life. https://t.co/GaPyi7Pkqm
This is a choice that ensures that veterans’ transition is just as high a priority as retention. Which will lead to a stronger fighting force in decades to come.
Please take a moment to get to know Gen. Lloyd Austin (Ret.), @JoeBiden’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense. pic.twitter.com/9Xz8VvQqr5
— VoteVets (Text VOTEVETS to 88424) (@votevets) December 8, 2020
"Aside from his credentials, this historic pick sends a sorely needed message to our men and women in uniform — that someone who looks like so many of them is finally leading the Pentagon," said @PaulDEaton52, senior adviser to VoteVets. https://t.co/DADnKhSGlh
— VoteVets (Text VOTEVETS to 88424) (@votevets) December 9, 2020
Got it.
1) The Jihad Party is prepared to die for trump.
2) Individual One and his henchmen are still SNOWING us with frivolous stuff.
–Their just-snow strategy has worked to derail media and keep trump relevant.
–Let’s end that now.
–Let’s quit, you know, chit chatting about 2024. And oh…doom and his crime syndicate running for office.
–Let’s figure out how to put him away. Done.
–Put them all away.
Let's be very clear here – every single person that @JoeBiden is nominating/hiring for a Cabinet spot of Administration job is exponentially more qualified and less corrupt than the current Trump cult-members they are replacing.
Good Afternoon, Beloved TODville Community
This tweet made me smile.
Facebook has used its monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition, all at the expense of everyday users.
Instead of improving its own product, Facebook took advantage of consumers and made billions of dollars converting their personal data into a cash cow.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, along with 47 state attorneys, files a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. pic.twitter.com/6qISYzGkLV
The 17 states that want to help Texas overturn the election are traitors to democracy. Alabama Arkansas Florida Indiana Kansas Louisiana Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Utah West Virginiahttps://t.co/R1Hqgd9TGo
The republican AG’s and their backers, not the entire states. There are many Democrats in these states and it is a disservice to imply that everyone (and I am sure this includes some republicans who have common sense and Independents) are not in support of this. Sometimes I have a fear that within a generation if not before, the US will break apart into regions with separate governments. Minorities and others who are considered to be persona non grata will suffer greatly. I think about what happened to Black people when federal troops pulled out of the South; 100 years of terrorism and no civil rights respected, Black people in US have h ad less than my lifetime of recognized rights (somewhat) and opportunity ( a little). One thing that helped to lift Black people into the middle class was federal jobs and every year the benefits are whittled away. The current climate, where the worst racism is proudly on display will not end any time soon.
The BIG question is…how did we end up here? This is a request to SCOTUS to declare civil war. As Californian, where 5mn more voted Biden…I certainly want to declare damn independence.
I’ve been saying this for years.
Then I realize after each thought…I’ve lived in MN for yrs. In 2000, I moved to the 6th Dist in MN. In 2002, Sen Paul Welsone was killed in a plane crash along with his daughter, wife & several aides. It was that year that I was horrified to find out that the 6th Dist was a Far-Right Dist. In 2004, MN, a Blue state passed Conceal & Carry. I was heartbroken.
In all the 50 States, there are Red & Blue areas…secession will be nearly impossible. But I would like the Blue States like CA, the 6th largest world economy to start making demands for change based on their tax Contributions to the Fed Govt. The Red States like West Virginia would die out without Fed dollars.
The 18 state attys. general who want to overturn the will of the people and give the election to the loser: Texas Missouri Alabama Arkansas Florida Indiana Kansas Louisiana Mississippi Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Utah West Virginia
Ok, let them secede. Remember fucking rick perry’s threat to secede when Obama was elected? So let them all go. We get blue states nation by default. The current insanity cannot go on under the guise of ‘union’.
No not secede.
Let’s stop entertaining whoever they are’s fantasies…
Compromised and mentally defective Trump would dotz planet Earth to avoid paying for his crimes.
Joe resoundingly WON the presidency as umpteen candidates did before him – including Doom.
—Cry us a river jihads!
–Next!
Republicans strip committee assignments from Rep. Cynthia Johnson, who received death threats after Guiliani committee hearing. She posted video warning Trump supporters of consequences of threats, saying she turned voice mail messages over to authorities.
Fascinating that Republicans are willing to defy Trump by passing a bill he swore to veto, but aren’t willing to state the obvious…he lost the election.
Climate change is an existential crisis. Life on this planet is being threatened.
But it’s not all doom and gloom, we have a major opportunity to change our course. @JoeBiden is challenging us to win the battle against the climate crisis – I’m ready to take that on. pic.twitter.com/vcUdP8pKm8
I’m driving on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland. I see a black wallet in the middle of the street. I stop, look inside, find $500 cash, credit cards, and insurance cards. Drove to the address on the license. The family opened the door in shock. They’re filled with joy 😊🙏🏽. pic.twitter.com/CCq1oc8Jxx
Mr. Stone, a good person with a good heart, was in the right place at the right time, and he chose to do a very good thing. In these dark days, I’m grateful for every reminder that there is goodness in the world. Thank you, Sir.
SCOOP: How Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) helped run a company that facilitated an Enron-like scandal that cost Americans an estimated $9 billion and Georgia residents at least $18 million (probably more). Please read my latest, RT, and like. #gasen#gapolhttps://t.co/vuZrjyqfeM
Crazy that we still haven't seen trump's tax returns after 4 years, and Hunter Biden still ISN'T running for office, but his taxes are being investigated. Fine, whatever.
This is the photo that I kept on the wall of my high school Language Arts classes. If a gifted writer like the president who is also a JD, had to edit his work and do re-writes then they can do so as well.
Dems should send someone in a banana suit to all of the events of every #BananaRepublican who hasn’t stood up for democracy and the rule of law since the election. https://t.co/ZD0eA2YUSP
BREAKING: Congress is now investigating Jared Kushner to see if he used his White House job to get a billion-dollar bailout for his company, from Middle Eastern countries
The Biden White House will have a private contractor provide "disinfectant misting services" to clear the air of lingering droplets after Trump moves out and before Biden moves in. https://t.co/xK2swGYwJF
The Biden White House will have a private contractor provide "disinfectant misting services" to clear the air of lingering droplets after Trump moves out and before Biden moves in. https://t.co/xK2swGYwJF
Terry was a great governor for Virginia and will be again! In our fights for voting rights and fair redistricting, he was the one person we could always count on. He had our back now we must have his. #FourMoreYearshttps://t.co/lFzHy9TGBD
Georgia Republicans are vowing to introduce legislation to limit mail voting despite, no evidence of fraud.
A day after Trump's loss in the state was reaffirmed, Republicans pledged to unwind the absentee voting system they themselves created in 2005.https://t.co/u7vifapz3J
They shouldn’t be able to change the rules…especially between a general election and the runoff associated with it. Plus, a number of people have already received their absentee ballots and have already returned them.
I say the same thing every single day. It's my first thought waking up and my last thought before I sleep. My own country, my own people. Wow. https://t.co/2zcztuHmsk
They were not brainwashed: he was the one that they were looking for to roll back regulations, get hefty tax cuts, to force their perverted religion on the rest of us and to let their racism out loud and proud. The only ones who did not like this were the elite class (like George Will, Bill Kristol and that group); the hoi polloi that they had used even as they held them in contempt, rose up and consumed them. Trumpism is more a revolt against the elite Republican class than it is a backlash against Obama and those of us who dared to vote for him. The elites joined us in dethroning the deplorable one because he made them irrelevant.
What’s clear from this s***show is that this is the strategy the GOP has had since 2000 and is going to follow for every election they lose moving forward. The only reason, I am guessing, they didn’t attempt in 2008 and 2012 was bc McCain and Romney actually cared about democracy
Democrats need to stay in the game and to be on the offensive. Republicans are the trolls under the bridge who continue to plot even when they defeated, They are ever planning to game the system. We have had minority rule from the moment we became a nation. Every document is tainted with the evils that came from compromising with Southerners. They see such willingness to compromise as weakness and they do not respect those who do so. We need to have leaders and active citizens who stand up for what we believe unapologetically. All of this wanting to work with others so much that we wound up letting them have the advantage is such bull shit and needs to stop. We do not need to be dishonest rule breakers, crooks and liars, but we can govern with the will to do what is in the benefit of the overall country come what may. it does not matter if they like us or that we do not have that bonhomie that some legislators had decades ago. It is time to get shit done and f**k what republicans think about it. They always benefit from the things that result from democratic rule even when they talk and vote against it so it really does not matter what they say. We have seen what 72 million of them think and what their officials will do; no need for any reaching out or begging them to agree with us or to come to the table in good faith.
Biden/Harris has the largest mandate that any candidate has had in over 100 years and they achieved it over a popular incumbent. They need to govern like the winners that they are.
Rant over.
Republicans have a knack for having their cake and eating it too. Just like the stimulus checks they voted against during the Obama administration. Yet GOP governors were eager to get checks for their states…even though they didn’t use it for the purpose intended.
They are able to say they were against something — have the vote to prove it — while reaping the benefits; often more of the benefits than the people that NEEDED the benefits more and for whom the benefits were intended.
This is notable — and a key marker for those who say Trump’s actions help China: The Chinese embassy in the US has retweeted Trump’s fake claim of election fraud. For autocrats, Trump is helping delegitimize democracy and eroding US standing. Putin has repeated his arguments too. pic.twitter.com/HCEg5kOl4J
They’re doing this cause they saw when voters aren’t suppressed they cast ballots and Republicans lose! This is nothing but more suppression tactics in hopes of steal those 2 senate seats, period
Dear @FLOTUS – Is your husband constantly losing his election? It’s a condition known as E.D. Or, Electile Dysfunction. There is something that can help. It’s called, Concede. Tell him about it. And then you can go home. #TrumpElectileDysfunction
Deeply offended by these Attorneys General who have joined this ridiculous lawsuit to overturn the will of the people in four states. Was especially disappointed to see the Montana AG on the list. Montanans who I know believe in democracy. This is the opposite of that.
Senator Harris became the first woman, first Black American and first Asian American to be elected vice president. Her rapid ascension in U.S. politics has also catapulted her onto the #PowerWomen list for the first time pic.twitter.com/euEVI6R3P3
The event coincides with the first week of early voting in the twin contests – and comes a day after presidential electors in Georgia and other states formally cast their votes to make Biden the next president. #gapol#gasenhttps://t.co/4clMA1NImQ
The two men spoke at the urging of Perdue, who along with Loeffler also received angry calls from Trump about Carr’s opposition to the lawsuit. Two Republican officials described Trump as “furious” in his call with Loeffler over the AG’s stance. #gapolhttps://t.co/VeWqaCvbqj
Georgia Republicans have recruited more than 4,000 volunteers to serve as poll watchers in the #gasen runoffs, part of what the GOP calls the “largest and most aggressive” poll-watching operation in state history. #gapolhttps://t.co/5onmjQa8G6#FoxNews
“Don’t let Republicans rewrite history. We can’t allow them to impose a standard of decency, morality or scrutiny that they refused to hold Trump or his Cabinet to literally for years.”
Republican criticism of Biden's Cabinet shows GOP's Trump amnesia is spreading
Early GOP criticism of picks like Neera Tanden and Xavier Becerra prove Democrats must be willing to fight fire with fire in 2021. https://t.co/OuKPrZlzT8
After having spent four years refusing to answer or acknowledge the dumpster fire that is the current president’s Twitter feed, Republicans in Congress now have the audacity to try to use the tweets of Biden nominees against them.
Apparently, Cornyn believes “insulting” a member of Congress makes you unfit to serve in the executive branch. And yet, there was Trump calling Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a liar and a cheat in January and labeling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., “dumb as a rock.” In October he called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “crazy.” (And don’t get me started on the names he used for his Republican challengers during the 2016 election.)
Such hypocrisy is an embarrassment but not at all surprising. It is a prelude of what we can expect going forward from Republicans in Congress. They will do everything they can to pretend the last four years didn’t happen. That it was some kind of liberal mirage that they had no hand in enabling or fueling.
1) The lawsuit, which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed Monday, calls on the court to delay the electoral vote in the four targeted states, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, to allow investigations of voting issues to continue. That would be unconstitutional. Article II, Section 4, says that Congress can choose the day the electors meet to vote but that it also says the day “shall be the same throughout the United States.” This year, it’s Dec. 14, five days from now.
2) Texas has no legal right to claim that officials elsewhere didn’t follow the rules set by their own legislatures. The United States doesn’t have a national election for president. It has a series of state elections, and one state has no legal standing to challenge how another state conducts its elections.
3) While it’s true that the Supreme Court is the place to go when one state wants to sue another, it has to get permission from the court first, and it has to show there’s no other place to resolve the issues. The Texas lawsuit is a compilation of legal claims that have already been chewed over in lower courts.
4) The lawsuit asks the Supreme Court for an order invalidating something like 20 million votes…which is unthinkable
5) The court filings also appear to have been prepared in haste. For example, the lawsuit says the four states that Texas wants to sue have a total of 72 electoral votes. The total is actually 62.
Cobb County, Georgia will add two more locations for the final week of early voting in the Senate runoff races after voting and civil rights advocates criticized changes they said would harm Black and Latino voters' access to the polls. https://t.co/MPyqnItLqx
hmmm I wonder what revisions everyone over at "We Didn't Come Anywhere Near The Worst Case Scenario And This Has Been Overblown" Twitter HQ is making today https://t.co/LtImoFgECh
I’ve received many messages acknowledging my strength & resiliency for how I’ve handled losing both my parents to #COVID19. While I am grateful for every bit of the encouragement. I want to openly share some of the ugly parts because healthcare workers are not superhuman. 1/12
USA: A "progressive" nation where an Anne Frank memorial can be vandalized with swastikas and Emmett Till's memorial can be shot up so many times it has to be replaced with one that's bulletproof. When COVID's gone, the virus of white supremacy will remain. I need to hug my kid. pic.twitter.com/w68FiYZAXt
The Obama Diary 
Morning everyone
Head’s up!!
Hope everyone is having a safe day!
Focus on Law Enforcement:
Simple protocol to neuter Trump molls.
Aww! Those were the days! 😍
Republicans are truly a bunch of thugs. What is their obsession with killing?
OMG…GA being in the limelight has exposed the crazies… more than usually.
Alot of these Republicans are as sick as Trump is.
“PA State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta:
Republican Political Self-Interest Props Up Trump’s Bogus Election Claims”
–“They are playing with fire, but what’s going to get burned is our democracy.”
–Toomey stood with trump “every day of the week”.
President-elect Biden yesterday at health care team announcement:
“One out of every 22 people in our country, often with devastating consequences of health.
At this very moment, what is the outgoing administration asking the Supreme Court to do in the United States Supreme Court? To repeal the entirety of the Affordable Care Act when we need it most. A law that’s on the front lines against the pandemic, protects more than a hundred million Americans who live with pre-existing conditions, which will increase now including those with lung scarring and heart damage as a consequence of COVID-19.
It provides coverage for more than 20 million Americans who get the care they need if they’re showing symptoms of COVID-19. The law that fulfills our moral obligation here in America, healthcare is a right for all, not a privileged for a few. But as all of you know, I know that out of our collective pain, we’re going to find a collective purpose to control the pandemic, to save lives and to heal as a nation. Today, I’m pleased to announce a team that is going to do just that. It’s a team of world-class experts at the top of their fields, crisis tested, defined by a deep sense of duty, honor and patriotism who are already ready to jump in…
They’ll lead the COVID-19 response across the government to accelerate testing, fix our supply chain and distribute the vaccine. The work of my economic team, because controlling the pandemic, delivering better healthcare and reviving the economy go hand in hand. They’ll work with my foreign policy and national security teams because we can’t only beat the virus here at home, it must be beaten everywhere, or it comes back to haunt us again…
Whatever your politics or point of view, mask up for 100 days once we take office. 100 days to make a difference. It’s not a political statement. It’s a patriotic act. It won’t be the end of our efforts, but it’s a necessary and easy beginning, an easy start…
Let me repeat.
We need Congress to finish the bipartisan work underway now, or millions of Americans may wait months longer to get the vaccine, months longer than they otherwise would have to wait to get the vaccine, vaccination. Look, and then we’re going to need additional action next year to fund the rest of the distribution efforts. We also need the Trump administration to act now though, to purchase the doses it has negotiated with Pfizer and Moderna and to work swiftly to scale, manufacturing to U.S. populations and the world. This can be fixed. If it is fixed, my team will be able to get at least 100 million vaccinations done in my first 100 days…
We’ll look to have the most schools open that we can possibly in 100 days, if Congress provides the funding we need. It’s not a secret how to do it. Masking, vaccinations, opening schools…
We need to level with one another. It’ll take longer than we would like to distribute it to all corners of the country, depending on how it gets started off between now and the time I’m sworn in. We’ll need to persuade enough Americans to take the vaccine…
We can do this. There’s nothing we’ve ever failed to do when we decided to do it together.
Together, that’s America.”
(https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-biden-announces-fauci-key-health-team-picks-briefing-transcript-december-8)
“Bag Man:
The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House”
Rachel Maddow’s “Bag Man” tells the story of Nixon’s VP Spiro Agnew, forced to resign over corruption and
tax evasion. So relevant right now.
“He was Individual One before Individual One.”
Maddow to O’Donnell:
“One of the key people who catapulted Spiro Agnew from obscurity in Maryland to Vice President
was Pat Buchanan. Because our old friend Pat absolutely loved the way Agnew played the racist card in Maryland, and the way that he abused his Black constituents. And the way that he played up his abuse of them for the television cameras. The way he was willing to essentially to do a mid-Atlantic version of what George Wallace was threatening during the ’68 election to rob Nixon of his base in the southern strategy. They picked Agnew because they thought he was provocatively and performatively racist enough, that it could defend Nixon’s racist right flank from what was otherwise going to be George Wallace denying him the presidency. And Wallace did in ’68, of course win a bunch of Deep South states. But the Mid-South states stayed with the Republicans, stayed with Nixon, and they really believed a large part of that was because Agnew’s appeal to the hard right racist base.”
Maddow:
“And at the end of it they had 40 pages worth of indictable offenses for Agnew.
They could have done a 40-count felony indictment against him. And that’s what allowed them to force the deal that forced him to resign, and kept him from becoming president.”
I remember this TrickyDick horror show all too well, old Spiro was our governor, but no one I knew liked him or thought much of him.. we are paying the price now, ever since. Time for all this darkness to be cast out into the Light of truth and honesty.
Just a quick hello, and a big hug to everyone.. stay safe, be well, Keep Us All The Heart!
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After Senators Ossoff and Warnock are elected and sworn in.
I hope Ms.Abrams finds an island for her to vacation at. Okay maybe she can take a hundred of her closest friends and volunteers etc etc etc … and enjoy a well deserved vacation.
Nothing but blue skies, warm turquoise waters, white Sandy beaches, and gently blowing breeze for a whole month!
Damn, I keep buying the darn lotto tickets … one of these days, I am keeping the faith 🤣
“Lawyers across the country urge bar associations to investigate Trump’s legal team.”
“Arguing that “a license to practice law is not a license to lie,”
nearly 1,500 lawyers issued a letter on Monday calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of President Trump’s legal team, including the architect of his post-election strategy, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
“It is indefensible for lawyers to falsely proclaim widespread voting fraud,
submit a pattern of frivolous court claims and actively seek to undermine citizens’ faith in our election’s integrity,” said the letter, which was signed by several former judges, former federal prosecutors and law professors. “We condemn this conduct without reservation.”
“Mr. Giuliani’s aim is obvious,” the letter said. “To fuel Mr. Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the outcome of the election.”
unintended addition of transition article!
Um meanwhile.
“Rudy Giuliani says ‘you can overdo the mask’ while in hospital for COVID-19
after ignoring mask-wearing and social distancing guidelines”.
(https://news.yahoo.com/rudy-giuliani-says-overdo-mask-221756111.html)
“Multilaterism is back. Diplomacy is back. Democracy is back. America is back.”
The incredible Linda Thomas Greenfield,
soon to be United Nations Ambassador for the United States.
Very Happy Birthday dear Stacey!!
A zillion thanks.
I wonder if Biden is tired of winning yet. 😁
I dunno about him, but I am DEFINITELY not tired of him winning! 😃
So much talent and magic and so much prettys.
We gotsta have them Senate-side.
—If ya voted just now, vote again, and take your Young Wans.
Wut?
We as Democrats love to eat our own.
Smh
Got it.
1) The Jihad Party is prepared to die for trump.
2) Individual One and his henchmen are still SNOWING us with frivolous stuff.
–Their just-snow strategy has worked to derail media and keep trump relevant.
–Let’s end that now.
–Let’s quit, you know, chit chatting about 2024. And oh…doom and his crime syndicate running for office.
–Let’s figure out how to put him away. Done.
–Put them all away.
Governor of PA has tested positive for COVID. No symptoms. Quarantining. Thread here…
Indeed!
Yay! Go FairFight!
Good Afternoon, Beloved TODville Community
This tweet made me smile.
4-3! That is still frightening that it was this close.
This gon’ be goooood!
Straight with no chaser; love this.
OH!! That was sooooooo good!!
The republican AG’s and their backers, not the entire states. There are many Democrats in these states and it is a disservice to imply that everyone (and I am sure this includes some republicans who have common sense and Independents) are not in support of this. Sometimes I have a fear that within a generation if not before, the US will break apart into regions with separate governments. Minorities and others who are considered to be persona non grata will suffer greatly. I think about what happened to Black people when federal troops pulled out of the South; 100 years of terrorism and no civil rights respected, Black people in US have h ad less than my lifetime of recognized rights (somewhat) and opportunity ( a little). One thing that helped to lift Black people into the middle class was federal jobs and every year the benefits are whittled away. The current climate, where the worst racism is proudly on display will not end any time soon.
Time for blue states to secede. Let the racists have their own ‘country’.
I’ve been saying this for years.
Then I realize after each thought…I’ve lived in MN for yrs. In 2000, I moved to the 6th Dist in MN. In 2002, Sen Paul Welsone was killed in a plane crash along with his daughter, wife & several aides. It was that year that I was horrified to find out that the 6th Dist was a Far-Right Dist. In 2004, MN, a Blue state passed Conceal & Carry. I was heartbroken.
In all the 50 States, there are Red & Blue areas…secession will be nearly impossible. But I would like the Blue States like CA, the 6th largest world economy to start making demands for change based on their tax Contributions to the Fed Govt. The Red States like West Virginia would die out without Fed dollars.
And maybe even Kentucky … ?
Brilliant…plus…
How’s Rev. Raphael Warnock doing for Ad Fabness?
= Rev. Warnock MUST HAVE ad fab-ness.
Ok, let them secede. Remember fucking rick perry’s threat to secede when Obama was elected? So let them all go. We get blue states nation by default. The current insanity cannot go on under the guise of ‘union’.
No not secede.
Let’s stop entertaining whoever they are’s fantasies…
Compromised and mentally defective Trump would dotz planet Earth to avoid paying for his crimes.
Joe resoundingly WON the presidency as umpteen candidates did before him – including Doom.
—Cry us a river jihads!
–Next!
Traitorous thug’s corrupt regime was a fantasy until it happened. Doing the same thing over & over, over decades has come to this disastrous pass.
I misseded you, Daddy! 😍😍😍😍😍
Crying!!! A son needs his father. Yes we miss so much…!!!
Marc is the lifeline that is keeping so many of us sane.
Yes he is!
LOL! 😆
This is the photo that I kept on the wall of my high school Language Arts classes. If a gifted writer like the president who is also a JD, had to edit his work and do re-writes then they can do so as well.
Awesome! So inspirational!
Tomorrow Twitler is gonna apoplectic … again.
Any thoughts? I think it should go to our front line healthcare workers myself.
That would be find. But I think most of them would rather have more PPE, Ventilators, some time off and people to wear masks.
fine
Do it multiple times.
Duh, wouldn’t you?
And one of those detector thingy to sniff out any bugs planted in the WH. I don’t trust the current idiots.
You can be sure P-E Biden’s people will be on it.
Can they do this this close to run-off elections?
Relentless corrupt thugs.
They shouldn’t be able to change the rules…especially between a general election and the runoff associated with it. Plus, a number of people have already received their absentee ballots and have already returned them.
They’ve done it. Added back 2 sites after pushback.
yup.
BECAUSE:
THE 70 MILLION PEOPLE WERE RIPE.
They had been ripened.
They were not brainwashed: he was the one that they were looking for to roll back regulations, get hefty tax cuts, to force their perverted religion on the rest of us and to let their racism out loud and proud. The only ones who did not like this were the elite class (like George Will, Bill Kristol and that group); the hoi polloi that they had used even as they held them in contempt, rose up and consumed them. Trumpism is more a revolt against the elite Republican class than it is a backlash against Obama and those of us who dared to vote for him. The elites joined us in dethroning the deplorable one because he made them irrelevant.
I put it down to 100% open racism and white entitlement resentment. Which both the totus thug and the traitorous gop peddled 24×7.
AMENNNNNNNNNN to the 1 millionth Power💥💥
Democrats need to stay in the game and to be on the offensive. Republicans are the trolls under the bridge who continue to plot even when they defeated, They are ever planning to game the system. We have had minority rule from the moment we became a nation. Every document is tainted with the evils that came from compromising with Southerners. They see such willingness to compromise as weakness and they do not respect those who do so. We need to have leaders and active citizens who stand up for what we believe unapologetically. All of this wanting to work with others so much that we wound up letting them have the advantage is such bull shit and needs to stop. We do not need to be dishonest rule breakers, crooks and liars, but we can govern with the will to do what is in the benefit of the overall country come what may. it does not matter if they like us or that we do not have that bonhomie that some legislators had decades ago. It is time to get shit done and f**k what republicans think about it. They always benefit from the things that result from democratic rule even when they talk and vote against it so it really does not matter what they say. We have seen what 72 million of them think and what their officials will do; no need for any reaching out or begging them to agree with us or to come to the table in good faith.
Biden/Harris has the largest mandate that any candidate has had in over 100 years and they achieved it over a popular incumbent. They need to govern like the winners that they are.
Rant over.
Republicans have a knack for having their cake and eating it too. Just like the stimulus checks they voted against during the Obama administration. Yet GOP governors were eager to get checks for their states…even though they didn’t use it for the purpose intended.
They are able to say they were against something — have the vote to prove it — while reaping the benefits; often more of the benefits than the people that NEEDED the benefits more and for whom the benefits were intended.
lol.
A seditious, treasonous traitor.
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The guy is a treasure. Are the dems listening?
Thanks for reminder. Subscribed and donated.
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Why aren’t the blue states not doing this? ‘Staying above the fray’ is a bs losing move.
Yessss.
At last!
That’s what I am talking about. Fight back. Go on the offensive. Do it all.
Goodnight TOD.
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17, not 14
Does tRump think adding himself to the petition will trigger Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett to do what he put them there to do?
Poll Watchers or Poll Obstructionists??????
Just thugs. with guns too, probably.
“Don’t let Republicans rewrite history. We can’t allow them to impose a standard of decency, morality or scrutiny that they refused to hold Trump or his Cabinet to literally for years.”
After having spent four years refusing to answer or acknowledge the dumpster fire that is the current president’s Twitter feed, Republicans in Congress now have the audacity to try to use the tweets of Biden nominees against them.
Apparently, Cornyn believes “insulting” a member of Congress makes you unfit to serve in the executive branch. And yet, there was Trump calling Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a liar and a cheat in January and labeling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., “dumb as a rock.” In October he called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “crazy.” (And don’t get me started on the names he used for his Republican challengers during the 2016 election.)
Such hypocrisy is an embarrassment but not at all surprising. It is a prelude of what we can expect going forward from Republicans in Congress. They will do everything they can to pretend the last four years didn’t happen. That it was some kind of liberal mirage that they had no hand in enabling or fueling.
1) The lawsuit, which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed Monday, calls on the court to delay the electoral vote in the four targeted states, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, to allow investigations of voting issues to continue. That would be unconstitutional. Article II, Section 4, says that Congress can choose the day the electors meet to vote but that it also says the day “shall be the same throughout the United States.” This year, it’s Dec. 14, five days from now.
2) Texas has no legal right to claim that officials elsewhere didn’t follow the rules set by their own legislatures. The United States doesn’t have a national election for president. It has a series of state elections, and one state has no legal standing to challenge how another state conducts its elections.
3) While it’s true that the Supreme Court is the place to go when one state wants to sue another, it has to get permission from the court first, and it has to show there’s no other place to resolve the issues. The Texas lawsuit is a compilation of legal claims that have already been chewed over in lower courts.
4) The lawsuit asks the Supreme Court for an order invalidating something like 20 million votes…which is unthinkable
5) The court filings also appear to have been prepared in haste. For example, the lawsuit says the four states that Texas wants to sue have a total of 72 electoral votes. The total is actually 62.
41 DAYS Y’ALL!!!
I don’t give a shit, stupid adult.
Continuing to do good…
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Per Bloomberg News Alert: Susan Rice to lead WH Domestic Policy. 💞
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/10/far-from-over/