Good afternoon, TODville! Nerdy, as always, THANK YOU!
The first snow of the season is falling; car has been moved to th front of the driveway, windshield wipers are up. Hope we get enough to build a decent ☃️.
Stay safe in the snow, Alycee! It’s lovely until it isn’t.
.@ChelseaClinton is the ONLY Presidential daughter qualified to offer any advice on handling #Covid_19. Unlike empty-headed @IvankaTrump, Chelsea earned a Master of Public Health degree at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University & would NEVER undermine @CDCgovpic.twitter.com/vZZ3VxbGfT
After Krebs talks about threats he and other election workers have faced in part due to Republican rhetoric, Ron Johnson jumps in to point out that there are threats on Both Sides pic.twitter.com/UEPwlvs5Pa
In case you’re wondering how that stunning “Christmas Together” film (including the incredible dance routine) was produced, I have answers!pic.twitter.com/T3voUP1zpV
I had some fun answering questions about #APromisedLand for BookTube. I talked to creators about everything from fatherhood, to celebrating science at the White House, to the role strong women played in my life. You can watch the full episode on @YouTube: https://t.co/yCydcrqVW4pic.twitter.com/VLOBfnjc2z
“My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth?”
Reverend William H. Lamar IV, pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, WA.
(excerpt)
“I am deeply disturbed by this incident (one of several incidents targeting houses of worship),
but I am more disturbed by the continued mythology of imperial America. This mythology supports those who commit violence against human beings for political ends, deny citizens their right to vote, denigrate sacred spaces and claim as their own whatever they survey.
It mattered not that the land was ours. It mattered not that the sign was ours. The mythology that motivated the perpetrators on Saturday night was the underbelly of the American narrative — that White men can employ violence to take what they want and do what they want and call that criminality justice, freedom and liberty.
That is the history written into this nation, into the bodies of those brutalized by this mythology, and carried forth in this moment by human beings who have been malformed by a story of scarcity that precludes their own flourishing and the flourishing of others.
The world’s empires have all fallen upon the ash heap of history.
Only ideologues believe that the American empire will last forever. The death rattle gets louder with every frivolous lawsuit that seeks to overturn the election, with every conspiracy theory that gains purchase, with every refusal to protect the vulnerable from the coronavirus unless corporations are protected first. The political imagination of this entire nation is captive to a white-supremacist myth. Only a new narrative can change the way we order this society.
This new narrative must question everything if we are serious about imagining a better world. The media, academia and religious institutions alike often behave as if American capitalism was decreed by the divine. The economic infrastructure of this nation generates inhumane inequality. Religious fundamentalists believe in individual sin while turning a blind eye to the sinfulness of an economic system that forces working people to pay more of their income in taxes while refusing to pay them living wages, that deprives them of health care and humane retirements. And all this happens while the rich grow richer.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/15/dc-metropolitan-ame-church-vandalized-blm-sign/)
Reverend William H. Lamar IV:
“It mattered not that the land was ours. It mattered not that the sign was ours. The mythology that motivated the perpetrators on Saturday night was the underbelly of the American narrative — that White men can employ violence to take what they want and do what they want and call that criminality justice, freedom and liberty.”
(Wapo)
–the Silence.
Joy Reid: “What is your response to the silence that you heard out of the leader of the Christian right, essentially the president of the United States, about that vandalism?”
Reverend Lamar:
“And I expect nothing less than that silence. That is the same deafening silence of the ancestors of that theological movement, when genocide swept across the nation. It’s the the same silence during the long dark night of enslavement. The same silence when people were ground up in the industrial economy. The same silence now in the midst of the most pornographic inequality that we’ve experienced since the Gilded Age. The silence is the result of the fact that that theology, that world view is captive to white supremacist narratives and white supremacist understandings of the world. And so the theology cannot pierce through the white supremacy. And so you can expect no less than what it is that we’re seeing.”
Reid:
“Then he (see video below) claims that the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. King’s historic church,
is not a real American. That this man who was born in Georgia, raised in Georgia, Reverend Warnock who is a native Georgian, is somehow “parachuting into GA” his own home state. When his opponent literally parachuted into Georgia! So I don’t understand what’s going on here, but it feels like there is a fight being waged here against the Black Church. Do you feel that way as a pastor?”
Reverend Lamar:
“I think there has been unchecked violence against the church and its theology…
what the enslavers knew was that the worship is always political…so the young man that you showed who said “that fellow Warnock”. You know these are ways to dehumanize. There was a time when he would have called Warnock a racial epithet, but he can’t do that now and be considered politic. And so “that fellow”, ‘he wasn’t born here’. It is a settler colonial impulse as I said earlier that says ‘I own the space into which I enter and I determine which people belong’. And so saying that Warnock “parachuted in” is absolute nonsense. But if your conception of citizenship is that one must be white, and or one must hold to this white supremacist narrative, then those who are not a part of that are rendered ‘un-citizens’. Or worse as many scholars call it, ’anti-citizens’. And so those who breached our yard and tore down our sign are motivated by that same mythology. And they have no respect of our property, our tradition. They felt as if they could do what they wanted to do. And until that narrative changes, then our politics will not be able to change. They will not be able to supersede the story that we tell ourselves about we order ourselves as a nation.”
“I don’t understand the hesitation.
The people are suffering.
One in six families in America are describing their children as being hungry.”
(Vice President-elect Harris)
Maddow:
“We learned that William Barr was pushed out, or resigned, last night.
And we learned that his handpicked deputy, Jeffrey Rosen, will be taking Barr’s place and running the Justice Department until trump is no longer president. Jeffrey Rosen’s key role in trying to cover up the scandal in the alleged criminal behavior by the president that led to trump’s impeachment – it’s interesting to me it hasn’t had much scrutiny at all since the announcement that he’s going to be the new Attorney General. But if he is taking over the Justice Department for just the last month of the trump administration, it’s worth thinking about the kinds of things that trump might want to do in that last month.
It’s worth remembering the role that Rosen had in trying to make that alleged criminal behavior by president trump not only disappear, but disappear in a way that would submarine those allegations and prevent anybody else from looking at them.”
Trump administration finalizes rollback of showerhead standards punctuating President Trump's long-documented water flow grievances in the final weeks of his presidency https://t.co/MQ1CFNmfUrpic.twitter.com/cnMgjUXTOe
Breaking News: U.S. retail sales tumbled in November. Economists had not anticipated such a steep decline ahead of holiday shopping. https://t.co/eHp4kdWbG0
The Biden team should not accept the DC political-media asymmetry where Republicans constantly trash Democrats and its just background noise, yet when Democrats speak frankly about Republicans it's somehow a big problem for Democrats. That's part of how we got Trump. https://t.co/tBu5C3lR0k
It’s pretty revealing that people don’t even bother to write op-eds about what Republican leaders should do to “heal the country.” https://t.co/nNHorz2Yca
So the pick is between someone who won’t otherwise have a job in 2021 and someone who still holds one of the most important judicial spots in the country, whose selection would create a vacancy that would be a tough fight to fill? Wow, that’s a tough choice there. https://t.co/ckaOLzT2tc
The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by WaPo. https://t.co/hnbaElznR0
A Trump administration official sought to speed the spread of the coronavirus among children and young adults in order to achieve “herd immunity,” according to newly released documents: "We want them infected" https://t.co/yRklrIxrUZ
The news confirms that Democrats intend to press ahead with its long legal battle to compel testimony from a star witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's obstruction of justice investigation of President Trumphttps://t.co/8llr8GTsJd
BUNDLES OF JOY: This Pittsburgh nurse crocheted homemade swaddles for the newborn babies in her hospital – to dress them up like presents. "They probably are the best gifts of 2020." https://t.co/1jeLMHYmrJpic.twitter.com/TTmpRke7F8
SCOOP: Some advisers close to Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as "f*ckers."https://t.co/wBS7lhT53w
exactly. If biden & co are gonna play too goody two shoes every day and dance to the every fucking fifth columnist media framing, dems can kiss goodbye to the congress and the presidency next time around.
📺WATCH! Our democracy can't rely on judges resisting the impulses of autocratic politicians. The next time we may not have a circumstance of a blowout election or where it's Nancy Pelosi—not Kevin McCarthy—wielding the gavel.
"I am encouraging every Georgia Republican to vote by mail. Voting by mail is safe," says VP Pence in the mailer I got today from @DavidShafer & GA-GOP. The president & his allies have simultaneously alleged that Georgia's mail-in ballots are ripe for fraud. pic.twitter.com/tep0CMS9D5
Haven’t followed the news much today, but seems like one side is mad that a staffer called Republicans a bunch of fuckers, and that a First Lady with a PhD calls herself doctor, and the other side is mad that the president is ignoring the pandemic and overturning the election
Trump's now claiming he'll refuse to leave the White House, which means a Secret Service agent will have to stand outside, dropping a trail of french fries leading to a van
His name is @chefjoseandres. He’s helped feed millions of Americans & people across the world in times of need, after disasters. He’s a small-business owner/entrepreneur who employs thousands through his restaurants. Oh, and he’s an American citizen, who makes our country great. https://t.co/BvAq1KfAi2
My boyfriend got his covid vaccine yesterday and I can tell you the most prominent side effect is the inability to shut up about getting the covid vaccine
It’s pretty revealing that people don’t even bother to write op-eds about what Republican leaders should do to “heal the country.” https://t.co/nNHorz2Yca
NEW VIDEO: David Perdue has made 2,600 stock trades as a Senator, accounting for 1/3 of the entire U.S. Senate. He's traded more stocks than the next 5 most active traders in the senate COMBINED, many times on inside, classified information.
"Don’t allow him to become a self-styled president in exile, the golf-cart version of Napoleon on Elba. Do not set up a Mar-a-Lago bureau.Don’t have entire reporting beats dedicated to what he and his family members are up to." —@sulliview. https://t.co/sfiRKmUIMt
It is hurtful to the agent’s family and co-workers. Please be mindful of the things you write, repeat, or share – especially when there is absolutely no truth in them. (2/2)
She also isn’t acknowledging @JoeBiden’s victory, though several GOP leaders have publicly congratulated the Democrat for winning. “My focus right now is on my race,” she says, pivoting to an attack on @ReverendWarnock. #gapol#gasenpic.twitter.com/P6O7AWbKFH
At the end of the day, for McConnell, agreeing to a Relief Package comes down to an attempt to hold on to POWER…i.e., winning the 2 Senate seats in Georgia; not caring about the needs and suffering of the country. Ironically (or sadly) these two senators don’t even pretend that they care.
Mitch McConnell told Republicans in a private call that Loeffler and Perdue were “getting hammered” for Congress’s failure to deliver more pandemic aid to struggling Americans — and that enacting the measure could help them. #gapol#gasenhttps://t.co/z2m00t3bRe
This is exactly right. Jon @ossoff and @ReverendWarnock have kept intense pressure on Perdue and Loeffler to support direct relief. If they do it, they will only have done it for their own political gain, not some kind of change of heart. Perdue opposed relief checks all year. https://t.co/EEtvPifTr2
The value of Kelly Loeffler's mansion dropped $6 million overnight—and nobody can explain why.
The estate went from a $10.5 million appraisal to $4.1 million, resulting in a much lower tax bill for the senator and her husband. https://t.co/hAclAf1sgf
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to get his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as next week. He’ll get his vaccination in a public setting in an effort to encourage eligible Americans to get vaccinated and to instill trust in the treatments. https://t.co/Je8BVPAabd
In this 2m clip @KLoeffler is asked about Biden’s win six different times. She refuses to directly answer even one of the very specific questions. This is a small sample of the full presser where she refused to answer several simple questions. (Examples on this thread) pic.twitter.com/vRSXqAWO39
4 Georgia counties are being sued for failing to offer sufficient early voting for the runoffs.
Voting rights groups want emergency orders forcing the counties to offer more early voting. The groups are prepping additional lawsuits against other counties. https://t.co/YxmLUgWF2S
The New Georgia Project and Democracy Docket say Bibb [Macon], Clarke [Athens], Houston [Perry/Warner Robbins] and Paulding [Dallas/Hiram] counties are not offering early voting on a Saturday during three weeks of early voting, which they say is required by state law. Bibb also will not offer early voting on Dec. 31.
But election officials have said state law requires weekend voting only for a primary or general election, not for a runoff.
I’m speaking to you in a low and steady voice right now, just the way anybody would talk to an insane person. Are you ok? Are you looking past the Senate and thinking of trying to beat out @ZacEfron for the Bundy role in the next biopic? Are you trying to showcase sociopathy https://t.co/RctQyOjxsZ
Malignant and incompetent President the nation has ever had. His lethal lying and your complicit silence have killed hundreds of thousands of people. He has poisoned the country with his idiocy, racial animus, conspiracy theories and lies. He has assaulted the rule of law just
Your cancerous Accusations assaulting the legitimacy of our elections process which is the crown jewel of the American Constitutional Republic, the oldest in the world. Each morning you have the nerve to tweet out bible verses while serving as a handmaid to Trump’s’ indecency,
Corruption, death, lying and thousands of desecration’s against our institutions, Lil Marco, @marcorubio has finally roared or perhaps squeaked in righteous fury. His object, Jen O’ Malley Dillon, for referring to (accurately) GOP Senators as Fuckers in Glamour magazine. As if.
of a President of the Senate, once uttered on the floor of that august chamber, seem appropriate for the moment and especially for Lil Marco “Go fuck yourself”
…it allows Pence — once again — to put distance between himself and Trump’s complaints about the election outcome that are likely to intensify after Congress affirms Biden’s win.”
This is not the first time that Pence has sought to remove himself from under Trump’s brand in recent weeks. He has not been visible during Trump’s efforts to prove election fraud — and the campaign even appeared to drop him from their logo in fundraising requests.
It’s a tactic Pence has used to navigate the final days of Trump’s presidency: stay out of the spotlight and insulate himself from his boss’s baseless election-fraud crusade, all while still finding ways to burnish his own credentials and technically toe the party line.
Thank you again to our diligent scientists, healthcare leaders, operation distributors, and health agency officials for working in partnership to make this day a reality. https://t.co/6Tkh17Yt9I
NEW: CREW just filed a complaint asking the IRS to investigate Broken Promises, a dark money group that appears to have violated its tax-exempt status by spending 99.6% of its funds on political expenses.https://t.co/VBuEOWNNLs
“Don’t allow him to become a self-styled president in exile, the golf-cart version of Napoleon on Elba. Do not set up a Mar-a-Lago bureau.” (Jay Rosen)
–Tie Doom up legally or better – on the 1st minute after noon on Jan 20th.
–Or he will run an alternate Inauguration from his hotel.
See it as it is.
MS. ANJANETTE YOUNG on wrongful police house raid:
“Anjanette Young, who was handcuffed by the Chicago Police during a wrongful house raid, says that she wants to see accountability for what happened:
“It didn’t feel like any man in there cared anything about me as a woman or a female…they didn’t care
about what was happening to me.”
Reid: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anjanette-young-on-wrongful-police-house-raid-they-didn-t-care-about-what-was-happening-to-me-97881669838)
…43 times, social worker Ms. Young told police who broke her door down that they had the wrong place.
“Documents Show HHS Adviser Advocating For More Covid Infections In Trump Herd Immunity Bid”
Congressman James Clyburn:
Chairs the House committee overseeing the Trump coronavirus response.
“Maddow shares highlights from documents obtained by a House committee led by Rep. James Clyburn investigating political interference in the CDC’s coronavirus response that show HHS science adviser Paul Alexander advocating for more widespread coronavirus infections in pursuit of a herd immunity that seemed to form the basis of the Trump administration’s inaction on preventing the spread of the virus.”
Trump’s refusal to act plus his 30+ super spreader events…
his parting eff you events…
Have led to red hot infection all over the country and mass American death.
Those events were part of the WH plan to spread the virus and we have the smoking guns.
Trump is guilty of promoting an avoidable death toll in the hundreds of thousands.
–Why, tell me why should he go free when our loved ones die and go on dying at his hands?
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Republican challenges to Georgia's use of drop boxes, processing of absentee ballots prior to election day and signature match procedures. 1st of 3 case brought by GOP to suppress the vote in upcoming Senate run-off.https://t.co/OISfpUlJRF
President-elect Biden introduces Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary. So good to hear Mayor Buttigieg’s deep commitment and inspiration. Followed by President-elect Harris speaking about modernizing infrastructure, unions, creating jobs and opportunity, ushering in a clean energy future.
Dearest Joe,
How about a Black woman or man for Commerce Secretary?
Maybe some deep wrongs can be righted instead of trusting a Republican of any description with that position.
You know how they dealt with meat packing plants and Covid, OSHA, how they see regulations, minimum wage.
Please continue with your fab picks!
Build trust with Democrats, we are hurting so badly.
Build trust with GA voters.
-love.
Good Thursday Morning, TODville Community.
🙏💪🤲💪🙏to all those digging out & facing up to 4 feet of snow in the Northern Eastern parts of the USA. Japan & some areas are also suffering too.
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year, deliberately omitting what I think is a pretty good book – A Promised Land – by a certain 44th president. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did. pic.twitter.com/UHk4RA9dow
“Senator Gary Peters, top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee,
talks with Maddow about the challenge of rebutting bogus, already debunked election claims by Donald Trump, irresponsibly amplified by Republicans like Wisconsin’s Senator Ron Johnson, in a way that doesn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy.”
n.b. Photo above is of trumpy Ron Johnson.
GOP here did a re-run of the 60 false allegations already thrown out so strongly, knowing how dangerous it is to our democracy. America has been a model of peaceful transfer of power until now. Sen. Peters’ witness Chris Krebs, fmr Director Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, made clear there’s
‘no there there’ to the baseless allegations made by trump and his followers.
Six years ago, a hacker logged into Trump’s Twitter account by guessing the password: “yourefired.” This year he did it again. Trump’s super secret password was “maga2020!” https://t.co/hHWXviaXi4
A Post analysis found 45 of the 50 biggest U.S. companies turned a profit since March. The majority of firms cut staff and gave the bulk of profits to shareholders. https://t.co/w0xL3etdhx
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The Obama Diary 
Good afternoon, TODville! Nerdy, as always, THANK YOU!
The first snow of the season is falling; car has been moved to th front of the driveway, windshield wipers are up. Hope we get enough to build a decent ☃️.
May you all have a Blessed and jazzy day! 💖💐🎉
Good Afternoon Beautiful!
🎉💐💖
Snow, wintery weather! 😩
I know it’s December and only 9 days until Christmas! I’m just not ready for it. Not any of it.
Peace and blessings to you and to Madam VIP, Nerdy Wonka! 😘
Stay safe in the snow, Alycee! It’s lovely until it isn’t.
Wisconsin, this guy has GOT to go!!
I remember this one. 😭
So sweet!!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Thank you, NW, thank you all adorable TODobots, big big BIG hugs all around.
Keep Us All The Heart!
🕊🕯🌏🌲🙏🏼♥️🕊
😍📖
Put your shoes on, Georgia! It’s time to vote!
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Live now!
“My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth?”
Reverend William H. Lamar IV, pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, WA.
(excerpt)
“I am deeply disturbed by this incident (one of several incidents targeting houses of worship),
but I am more disturbed by the continued mythology of imperial America. This mythology supports those who commit violence against human beings for political ends, deny citizens their right to vote, denigrate sacred spaces and claim as their own whatever they survey.
It mattered not that the land was ours. It mattered not that the sign was ours. The mythology that motivated the perpetrators on Saturday night was the underbelly of the American narrative — that White men can employ violence to take what they want and do what they want and call that criminality justice, freedom and liberty.
That is the history written into this nation, into the bodies of those brutalized by this mythology, and carried forth in this moment by human beings who have been malformed by a story of scarcity that precludes their own flourishing and the flourishing of others.
The world’s empires have all fallen upon the ash heap of history.
Only ideologues believe that the American empire will last forever. The death rattle gets louder with every frivolous lawsuit that seeks to overturn the election, with every conspiracy theory that gains purchase, with every refusal to protect the vulnerable from the coronavirus unless corporations are protected first. The political imagination of this entire nation is captive to a white-supremacist myth. Only a new narrative can change the way we order this society.
This new narrative must question everything if we are serious about imagining a better world. The media, academia and religious institutions alike often behave as if American capitalism was decreed by the divine. The economic infrastructure of this nation generates inhumane inequality. Religious fundamentalists believe in individual sin while turning a blind eye to the sinfulness of an economic system that forces working people to pay more of their income in taxes while refusing to pay them living wages, that deprives them of health care and humane retirements. And all this happens while the rich grow richer.”
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/15/dc-metropolitan-ame-church-vandalized-blm-sign/)
Amen, my brother.
Arrest the vandals!
Reverend William H. Lamar IV:
“It mattered not that the land was ours. It mattered not that the sign was ours. The mythology that motivated the perpetrators on Saturday night was the underbelly of the American narrative — that White men can employ violence to take what they want and do what they want and call that criminality justice, freedom and liberty.”
(Wapo)
–the Silence.
Joy Reid: “What is your response to the silence that you heard out of the leader of the Christian right, essentially the president of the United States, about that vandalism?”
Reverend Lamar:
“And I expect nothing less than that silence. That is the same deafening silence of the ancestors of that theological movement, when genocide swept across the nation. It’s the the same silence during the long dark night of enslavement. The same silence when people were ground up in the industrial economy. The same silence now in the midst of the most pornographic inequality that we’ve experienced since the Gilded Age. The silence is the result of the fact that that theology, that world view is captive to white supremacist narratives and white supremacist understandings of the world. And so the theology cannot pierce through the white supremacy. And so you can expect no less than what it is that we’re seeing.”
Reid:
“Then he (see video below) claims that the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. King’s historic church,
is not a real American. That this man who was born in Georgia, raised in Georgia, Reverend Warnock who is a native Georgian, is somehow “parachuting into GA” his own home state. When his opponent literally parachuted into Georgia! So I don’t understand what’s going on here, but it feels like there is a fight being waged here against the Black Church. Do you feel that way as a pastor?”
Reverend Lamar:
“I think there has been unchecked violence against the church and its theology…
what the enslavers knew was that the worship is always political…so the young man that you showed who said “that fellow Warnock”. You know these are ways to dehumanize. There was a time when he would have called Warnock a racial epithet, but he can’t do that now and be considered politic. And so “that fellow”, ‘he wasn’t born here’. It is a settler colonial impulse as I said earlier that says ‘I own the space into which I enter and I determine which people belong’. And so saying that Warnock “parachuted in” is absolute nonsense. But if your conception of citizenship is that one must be white, and or one must hold to this white supremacist narrative, then those who are not a part of that are rendered ‘un-citizens’. Or worse as many scholars call it, ’anti-citizens’. And so those who breached our yard and tore down our sign are motivated by that same mythology. And they have no respect of our property, our tradition. They felt as if they could do what they wanted to do. And until that narrative changes, then our politics will not be able to change. They will not be able to supersede the story that we tell ourselves about we order ourselves as a nation.”
“Trump supporters vandalize historic Black churches in D.C.”
Rev William Lamar speaks to Joy Reid: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/trump-supporters-vandalize-historic-black-churches-in-d-c-97805893564)
Good Afternoon, TODville Community🙏💪🤲💙🤲💪🙏🤗😍🤗
Thank you ever so much, Nerdy Wonka🙏💪🤲💜🤲💪🙏🤗😍🤗
Awww! I love it!
OUTSTANDING! My Great-Uncle, John Mott Drew, Sr. was an owner of the Darby Hilldales.
“I don’t understand the hesitation.
The people are suffering.
One in six families in America are describing their children as being hungry.”
(Vice President-elect Harris)
Maddow:
“We learned that William Barr was pushed out, or resigned, last night.
And we learned that his handpicked deputy, Jeffrey Rosen, will be taking Barr’s place and running the Justice Department until trump is no longer president. Jeffrey Rosen’s key role in trying to cover up the scandal in the alleged criminal behavior by the president that led to trump’s impeachment – it’s interesting to me it hasn’t had much scrutiny at all since the announcement that he’s going to be the new Attorney General. But if he is taking over the Justice Department for just the last month of the trump administration, it’s worth thinking about the kinds of things that trump might want to do in that last month.
It’s worth remembering the role that Rosen had in trying to make that alleged criminal behavior by president trump not only disappear, but disappear in a way that would submarine those allegations and prevent anybody else from looking at them.”
“Jeffrey Rosen, Barr’s Replacement As A.G. Has Record Of Protecting Trump And Friends”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3kxk-Xq_PU)
“Who Is Jeffrey Rosen, Who Will Lead the Justice Dept. for Trump’s Endgame?”
“Attorney General William P. Barr’s resignation makes his low-profile deputy the nation’s top law enforcement official for President Trump’s last month.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us/politics/jeffrey-rosen-justice-department.html)
“This Newly Released Letter Details The Criminal Referral On Donald Trump Over His Ukraine Phone Call”
“BuzzFeed News obtained the document through a public records lawsuit.”
(https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/criminal-referral-on-trump-ukraine)
“Mitch McConnell And Senate Republicans
Cause Poverty To Grow At Highest Level Since 1960s”
“The findings for November paint a dire picture of a struggling nation”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2020/12/16/mitch-mcconnell-poverty.html)
“Real-time Poverty Estimates During the COVID-19 Pandemic through November 2020”
(https://harris.uchicago.edu/files/monthly_poverty_rates_updated_thru_november_2020_final.pdf)
Dec 15, 2020
Dangerous.
That looks scary!!
dems must do what the rethugs want. fuck the msm.
Creepy nazis.
We need to know who that “official” was. His/her Name and questioned by those who have lost a loved one to covid.
This should be all we’re talking about. They were trying to literally kill us.
Good. Start with some accountability.
jeez, get over it, you fucking ‘frustrated’ fuckheads.
exactly. If biden & co are gonna play too goody two shoes every day and dance to the every fucking fifth columnist media framing, dems can kiss goodbye to the congress and the presidency next time around.
Agreed.
It’s Republicans— not just Trump.
I can smell the popcorn.
Just posting because I like a good put-down.
Goodnight TOD.
LOL
Knowing 2 bit 3rd rate 4th estate 5th columnists, that’s too much of an ask.
At the end of the day, for McConnell, agreeing to a Relief Package comes down to an attempt to hold on to POWER…i.e., winning the 2 Senate seats in Georgia; not caring about the needs and suffering of the country. Ironically (or sadly) these two senators don’t even pretend that they care.
Playing games to avoid paying taxes.
ugh, what a creepy robot. Hope GAians do the right thing.
The New Georgia Project and Democracy Docket say Bibb [Macon], Clarke [Athens], Houston [Perry/Warner Robbins] and Paulding [Dallas/Hiram] counties are not offering early voting on a Saturday during three weeks of early voting, which they say is required by state law. Bibb also will not offer early voting on Dec. 31.
But election officials have said state law requires weekend voting only for a primary or general election, not for a runoff.
…because what they had in place didn’t work so well for them.
How are these people planning “foreign” trips with the travel bans other countries have in place???
…it allows Pence — once again — to put distance between himself and Trump’s complaints about the election outcome that are likely to intensify after Congress affirms Biden’s win.”
This is not the first time that Pence has sought to remove himself from under Trump’s brand in recent weeks. He has not been visible during Trump’s efforts to prove election fraud — and the campaign even appeared to drop him from their logo in fundraising requests.
It’s a tactic Pence has used to navigate the final days of Trump’s presidency: stay out of the spotlight and insulate himself from his boss’s baseless election-fraud crusade, all while still finding ways to burnish his own credentials and technically toe the party line.
And, good morning TOD.
Morning everyone
“Don’t allow him to become a self-styled president in exile, the golf-cart version of Napoleon on Elba. Do not set up a Mar-a-Lago bureau.” (Jay Rosen)
–Tie Doom up legally or better – on the 1st minute after noon on Jan 20th.
–Or he will run an alternate Inauguration from his hotel.
See it as it is.
MS. ANJANETTE YOUNG on wrongful police house raid:
“Anjanette Young, who was handcuffed by the Chicago Police during a wrongful house raid, says that she wants to see accountability for what happened:
“It didn’t feel like any man in there cared anything about me as a woman or a female…they didn’t care
about what was happening to me.”
Reid: (https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/anjanette-young-on-wrongful-police-house-raid-they-didn-t-care-about-what-was-happening-to-me-97881669838)
…43 times, social worker Ms. Young told police who broke her door down that they had the wrong place.
“Documents Show HHS Adviser Advocating For More Covid Infections In Trump Herd Immunity Bid”
Congressman James Clyburn:
Chairs the House committee overseeing the Trump coronavirus response.
“Maddow shares highlights from documents obtained by a House committee led by Rep. James Clyburn investigating political interference in the CDC’s coronavirus response that show HHS science adviser Paul Alexander advocating for more widespread coronavirus infections in pursuit of a herd immunity that seemed to form the basis of the Trump administration’s inaction on preventing the spread of the virus.”
Trump’s refusal to act plus his 30+ super spreader events…
his parting eff you events…
Have led to red hot infection all over the country and mass American death.
Those events were part of the WH plan to spread the virus and we have the smoking guns.
Trump is guilty of promoting an avoidable death toll in the hundreds of thousands.
–Why, tell me why should he go free when our loved ones die and go on dying at his hands?
President-elect Biden introduces Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary. So good to hear Mayor Buttigieg’s deep commitment and inspiration. Followed by President-elect Harris speaking about modernizing infrastructure, unions, creating jobs and opportunity, ushering in a clean energy future.
Dearest Joe,
How about a Black woman or man for Commerce Secretary?
Maybe some deep wrongs can be righted instead of trusting a Republican of any description with that position.
You know how they dealt with meat packing plants and Covid, OSHA, how they see regulations, minimum wage.
Please continue with your fab picks!
Build trust with Democrats, we are hurting so badly.
Build trust with GA voters.
-love.
“Scoop: Biden eyes last-minute Republican pick”
(https://www.axios.com/biden-commerce-secretary-republican-9cccc7b5-70f7-4bd4-afa2-5129fe6d4224.html)
Good Thursday Morning, TODville Community.
🙏💪🤲💪🙏to all those digging out & facing up to 4 feet of snow in the Northern Eastern parts of the USA. Japan & some areas are also suffering too.
“Senator Gary Peters, top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee,
talks with Maddow about the challenge of rebutting bogus, already debunked election claims by Donald Trump, irresponsibly amplified by Republicans like Wisconsin’s Senator Ron Johnson, in a way that doesn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy.”
n.b. Photo above is of trumpy Ron Johnson.
GOP here did a re-run of the 60 false allegations already thrown out so strongly, knowing how dangerous it is to our democracy. America has been a model of peaceful transfer of power until now. Sen. Peters’ witness Chris Krebs, fmr Director Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, made clear there’s
‘no there there’ to the baseless allegations made by trump and his followers.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/january-5th/