Via FBI: We have GPS coordinates of every cellphone inside or around the Capitol. We may not come for you today or tomorrow, but we’ve coming. We guarantee it.
Exactly. From day one, the thug has refused to say if he will concede if he loses and his sole answer was let’s see because he and his minions were planning to steal the vote.
I don’t care if Joe Biden wasn’t everybody’s choice; I don’t care if he seems “too old” to some; I don’t care if he sometimes uses the wrong words and isn’t the “orator” some are looking for … if I ever see him in person, I’m going to kneel down and kiss his ring!
He’s the one who put himself through all that hell and beat out trump (with help from so many supporters!); he’s the one who told him “Shut up, man!” in the first debate; he’s the one about whom we don’t have to wonder what his sincerity or motivation is.
Forget about me – the highest endorsement he had in my mind was when President Obama picked him as HIS VP! I can’t wait – hopefully – to sometimes see President Obama stop by the White House to have lunch with Joe!
Jacqueline, I pray for Rep Jim Clyburn every day as my only substantive way of thanking him for his endorsement of President-Elect Joe Biden. That act changed FOR THE BETTER the race about as dramatically as any single event I can remember in any Presidential campaign.
It surely did…and i am still in awe of how it all happened…and then all the dramatic changed that occured in GA….
but although this is a victory to be savored…#WEThePeople must know that they will be coming for us…as they already did…they will be doing their best to gerrymander and suppress the vote…two of the most important bills to pass…the The John Lewis Voting Rights Bill…and the George Floyd policing bill…
So thankful. Joe Biden is already proving he is more of a president that drumpf ever was. How shameful that drumpf was EVER elected. I am so happy that President Obama will now be welcome at the White House and treated with the respect he should always have been receiving. I am so thankful for black women who got Joe the presidency and the senate. I hope that the white supremacist (Republican) party is decimated and humiliated over and over again until they die out.
Fitting way for the clusterfuck to end, with the My Pillow Guy pitching martial law schemes. Next Friday, we can all just have a Friday. What a relief.
So there was supposed to have been a confirmation hearing today for Biden’s DNI nominee Avril Haines, but it was postponed. I wonder why.
Rubio/Warner: “Despite the unusual circumstances on Capitol Hill, the committee is working in good faith to move this nominee as fast as possible and ensure the committee's members have an opportunity to question the nominee in both open and closed settings.”
First page as shot by @jabinbotsford appears to suggest Trump is also being counseled to appoint military attorney Frank Colon as Acting National Security Advisor and to consider “martial law if necessary.”
She's gone: The woman heading @USGSA who single-handedly blocked all communication between the #Trump and #Biden teams, ruining transition in many areas — most egregiously, for the #COVID19 response.https://t.co/2yeN1b1WgA
She should be tried for sedition. Almost the entire ‘cabinet’ members of this thug’s corrupt regime have to be investigated for corruption, negligence of sworn duty, sedition. Not sure Garland is the guy for that job.
Your — twice impeached, insurrectionist, racist, laundromat operator for scum like the Putin's kleptocrat crime syndicate — daddy, @IvankaTrump, is responsible for incalculable suffering of those he sentenced to #DeathByCOVID.
At the annual MLK Shabbat sermon, @ReverendWarnock makes a request for him and Jon @ossoff, who is about to be Georgia’s first Jewish US senator: “Regardless of your politics, will you pray for us? We must build together the beloved community. It takes all of us.” #gapol#gasenpic.twitter.com/tVdGtXdXib
“I would like a pardon from the President of the United States.” Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan is the 2nd D.C. riot participant to ask for one. She flew on a private jet to D.C. to “stop the steal.” FBI arrested her today. She says: I feel persecuted. pic.twitter.com/Rk4XCYVqX3
For the sake of clarity—The Biden-Harris Administration will return to the policy of releasing White House visitor logs. Also true that visitors will be limited for some time because safety during the pandemic is top priority.
Brilliant scientists produced nearly-miraculous vaccines in record time. Politicians, officials, and policymakers have screwed up the delivery. It’s a national scandal, echoed across many states, that can measured in hardship and death.
If you watched Lawrence, you may have seen this guy talk about some of his thoughts that are in the full article … I’m liking his perspective at this point (sometimes in the past, I haven’t, but this time I definitely do). Please don’t hold me to each and every one of his points of view, since my brain’s tired tonight, and I’m not ready for all that. 🙂
So many people aren’t willing to “fall for this,” right now. They should hang onto it and re-read it at a later point. I think this guy has something here, although it will no doubt still take a while. Nevertheless, this is the best little slice of HOPE I’ve seen spelled out so it’s understandable – even enjoyable – to read about, in like forever. I’m already feeling prouder of “us” (as in: the U.S. that looks like it may survive still). Maybe we have this, after all. It’s so rare to think that, I felt I must share it. And – believe me – I’m not preaching (I’ve been burned, too, looking for hope), just sharing.
Trump, Kushner and their circle will walk out of government knowing a tremendous amount of very classified and very valuable information. Does anyone really think they won't try to monetize that knowledge?
Between the country club rejecting their application for membership, her dad, via his coup attempt, derailing her political aspirations, Nordstrom dropping her clothing line, and the fact that no one wants them, and they’re no longer even sure where to live, Ivanka is having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are in a "panic" as it all falls apart for them – Palmer Report https://t.co/quYGzBKJjG
The bar and restaurant industry has been gutted this last year. Making it so that when its safe for those people to go back to work that they can make an actual living wage instead of hoping their customers aren’t jerks is exactly what they deserve
Also: if you’re a person who tips now and say you will stop once people make the actual minimum wage even without tips? Why? Why would you suddenly think “well, I guess they no longer did the exact same thing that would have gotten them a tip before”?
What military? The rag tag group that stormed the Capitol last week? I’m hoping that a lot of them are in jail, others are too afraid, and the rest feel betrayed.
By definition, Prince and his crew are PAID. Do they believe in the “cause”/believe in tRump so much that they are willing to work for free? I don’t believe even Prince is *that* loyal to tRump.
To be clear, Mitch McConnell didn’t have the leverage to not hold an impeachment trial. But when he announced he wasn’t holding one, and the media reported it as fact instead of pointing out he didn’t have the leverage, it gave him the leverage. As usual, the media fucked us.
Part of the vicious cycle is that the media has convinced YOU that villains like McConnell have infinite powers. It scares you into staying tuned in, gives you the adrenaline rush you’re addicted to, so you just go along with it instead of questioning it.
Guess what? The media – especially MSNBC – is going to spend the next two years insisting that Senate MINORITY Leader Mitch McConnell still has infinite power when in fact he’ll have zero power. If you choose to swallow this bullshit, it will indeed give McConnell some power.
As always it comes down to how much bullshit you’re willing to swallow from the media just because you’re addicted to the adrenaline rush of being told you’re going to lose. Are you activists who want to make change happen, or are you merely addicts looking to get high?
This is quite remarkable. Trump's former principle deputy DNI argues that he shouldn't have post-presidential access to intelligence information. It's too big a national security risk. https://t.co/NxxnomDLo6
I propose that the next SECDEF turn off all Fox News feeds into military bases. My last deployment 14 years ago, they ran Fox 24/7 in every facility that had a tv. When I was deployed Iraq, there was Fox News in the chow tents! Want to deradicalize military members? Ban Fox News!
— CopterDoctor Trump Im 🍑’d LOSER AND SUCKER (@copter_chief) January 16, 2021
“I so…I mean, I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me,” Miller said.
Stephen Losey of the Air Force Times described it as “the most epic case of senioritis ever.”
Gobsmacking incoherent briefing from the US acting defence secretary, Chris Miller, today. Highlights include "I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me." "blah blah bluh blah" (actual quote according to DoD transcript). contd..
NEW: Manhattan D.A. subpoenaed records on an estate where Trump obtained a $21M tax break. (Confirming @WSJ scoop)
To get the tax break, Trump said he was giving up the chance to build 24 mansions. He didn't have permission to build 24 mansions.https://t.co/aJivlv62MS
After a vast effort to challenge the eligibility of 360,000 Georgia voters, election officials rejected just a few dozen ballots, undermining false claims of significant voting fraud promoted by President Trump and his allies. #gapolhttps://t.co/s1qVVS2dJ4
A group of ex-staffers for Claire McCaskill are launching a new organization dedicated to preventing Josh Hawley from winning any further election, whether it's reelection to the Senate in 2024 or in a future presidential run. https://t.co/TMlwrN1jLr
At the annual MLK Shabbat sermon, @ReverendWarnock makes a request for him and Jon @ossoff, who is about to be Georgia’s first Jewish US senator: “Regardless of your politics, will you pray for us? We must build together the beloved community. It takes all of us.” #gapol#gasenpic.twitter.com/tVdGtXdXib
In honor of my dear sister-friend-goddess @ReginaKing, I officially pronounce today #ReginaKingDay!!!!! Not only is it this QUEEN’s birthday but her film One Night in Miami is available to stream TODAY!!!! pic.twitter.com/OmXX4iTv7J
This picture of a masked, decorated US Marine opening the door for an unmasked, conspiracy theorist, pillow salesman says it all. pic.twitter.com/FbUkoglhzS
I experience this every time I clean my glasses. 🤓
Whoa… much better.
A flaw in Hubble's mirror meant that the telescope first looked to the universe with blurry vision. But #OTD in 1994, @NASA announced that new optics installed during the first servicing mission to Hubble had solved the problem: https://t.co/T5dJnKu7aKpic.twitter.com/GZOUVxGPks
tRump never really wanted a CoS; at least not one who would be serious about doing the job. He just want someone willing to facilitate the things he wanted done. Someone who had unquestionable loyalty.
After trying for all four of its years in office to keep undocumented immigrants from being counted in the 2020 census, and two SCt rulings along the way, the Trump team gives up, leaving it to Biden team to scuttle that plan. Full details at https://t.co/IpKqBOueXw
“Trump closed the door behind me and threw me against the wall, banged my head, also was trying to press his lips against mine. It got very serious. He got my tights down. And there was a real struggle. I fought. And it was against my will.” @ejeancarroll https://t.co/PyXGG7yWXO
Georgia authorities aren’t taking any chances. Officers are patrolling the state Capitol. Atlanta police have canceled some leave and added shifts. And @GovKemp has extended an executive order authorizing him to deploy the Georgia National Guard. #gapolhttps://t.co/v7rNtoUHW5
Rep. Nikema Williams has introduced a resolution on permanently banning Donald Trump from entering the U.S. Capitol Complex after he leaves office. https://t.co/aV7A3wuV0J
The idea of "America" is audacious. ✅ Sizable % of White America doesn't dig racism. ✅ 70+Million #WhiteSupremacist don't dig extinction. ✅ From #Nixon until TODAY, America has NEVER held a #POTUS accountable except for a bj. ✅https://t.co/fEIZUfNWaO
A gazillion historians and archivists and librarians tearing up here at the appreciation for historical context and the expertise of the @librarycongresshttps://t.co/ltaKCOKRb3
Truth decay and the construction of personality cults go hand in hand when authoritarians are in power. The more supporters bond to his person, the less they care about his falsehoods. They believe him because they believe *in him.* – from the introduction to #Strongmen. https://t.co/lRYF0PP6oQ
The obsession of white journalists w/understanding white Trump voters blinded them to pursuing the more informed perspective of Black people, whose vantage point provides a clear look at precisely what is broken in American democracy. https://t.co/MLJjHU3RLy
I have to add .. my mom didn’t get to go to college until she was in her early 50s .. she got her Masters. It wasn’t bc she didn’t wanna go earlier. It’s bc she simply couldn’t bc life shit, single mom shit etc. she had to do what she had to do. So, please don’t w/Ed shaming.
I’m really looking forward to watching Doug Emhoff approaches his role as our nation’s first Second Gentleman.
I'm so incredibly honored and humbled to be the first @SecondGentleman of the United States. As we countdown to Inauguration Day, I've been doing my homework—and looking to the past for inspiration. pic.twitter.com/bhE7SvCls2
The big picture: The losses are stark and substantial.
They lost their congressional power.
Their two leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, are hamstrung by corporate blacklisting of their election-denying members.
The GOP brand is radioactive for a huge chunk of America.
The corporate bans on giving to the 147 House and Senate Republicans who voted against election certification are growing and virtually certain to hold.
The RNC is a shell of its former self and run by a Trump loyalist.
“We Will Manage the Hell Out of This Operation”
“President-Elect Joe Biden proposed to overhaul eligibility rules for coronavirus vaccines and open more sites to receive shots, but his plan to rev up U.S. inoculations largely retains the bones of the Trump administration’s system”
President Elect Joe Biden:
“Look, our plan is as clear as it is bold. Get more people vaccinated for free. Create more places for them to get vaccinated, mobilize more medical teams to get the shots in people’s arms, increase supply and get it out the door as soon as possible. This will be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country.
But you have my word, and we will manage the hell out of this operation.”
The Obama Diary 
Wonderful post! Thank you Nerdy!
Exactly. From day one, the thug has refused to say if he will concede if he loses and his sole answer was let’s see because he and his minions were planning to steal the vote.
Beautiful way to put it!
I don’t care if Joe Biden wasn’t everybody’s choice; I don’t care if he seems “too old” to some; I don’t care if he sometimes uses the wrong words and isn’t the “orator” some are looking for … if I ever see him in person, I’m going to kneel down and kiss his ring!
He’s the one who put himself through all that hell and beat out trump (with help from so many supporters!); he’s the one who told him “Shut up, man!” in the first debate; he’s the one about whom we don’t have to wonder what his sincerity or motivation is.
Forget about me – the highest endorsement he had in my mind was when President Obama picked him as HIS VP! I can’t wait – hopefully – to sometimes see President Obama stop by the White House to have lunch with Joe!
Allow me to add to my final point –
And total appreciation to “Latter Day Saint” Rep. Jim Clyburn, who got him elected this time around!
Jacqueline, I pray for Rep Jim Clyburn every day as my only substantive way of thanking him for his endorsement of President-Elect Joe Biden. That act changed FOR THE BETTER the race about as dramatically as any single event I can remember in any Presidential campaign.
It surely did…and i am still in awe of how it all happened…and then all the dramatic changed that occured in GA….
but although this is a victory to be savored…#WEThePeople must know that they will be coming for us…as they already did…they will be doing their best to gerrymander and suppress the vote…two of the most important bills to pass…the The John Lewis Voting Rights Bill…and the George Floyd policing bill…
I so very much agree, Bob!
So thankful. Joe Biden is already proving he is more of a president that drumpf ever was. How shameful that drumpf was EVER elected. I am so happy that President Obama will now be welcome at the White House and treated with the respect he should always have been receiving. I am so thankful for black women who got Joe the presidency and the senate. I hope that the white supremacist (Republican) party is decimated and humiliated over and over again until they die out.
Amen!
So there was supposed to have been a confirmation hearing today for Biden’s DNI nominee Avril Haines, but it was postponed. I wonder why.
Another corrupt rat jumps ship. alex azar.
She should be tried for sedition. Almost the entire ‘cabinet’ members of this thug’s corrupt regime have to be investigated for corruption, negligence of sworn duty, sedition. Not sure Garland is the guy for that job.
This ….
And, this …
And, this ….
The typical arrogant sense of entitlement to get away with committing seditious crimes.
After four fucking years? too lil, too late.
this shithead thinks that shithead gives a shit about her.
corruption till the last minute. pathetic pos.
So good. Another take about where we are
Didn’t realize you’d already posted this, darlin’, but I totally agree with you and am glad to be in your company.
Good article.
Can’t beat a little bit of hope, from a new perspective.
It’s time for hope again, J’ob and for positive changes.
With you on that. Goodnight – and sweet dreams to you!
If you watched Lawrence, you may have seen this guy talk about some of his thoughts that are in the full article … I’m liking his perspective at this point (sometimes in the past, I haven’t, but this time I definitely do). Please don’t hold me to each and every one of his points of view, since my brain’s tired tonight, and I’m not ready for all that. 🙂
So many people aren’t willing to “fall for this,” right now. They should hang onto it and re-read it at a later point. I think this guy has something here, although it will no doubt still take a while. Nevertheless, this is the best little slice of HOPE I’ve seen spelled out so it’s understandable – even enjoyable – to read about, in like forever. I’m already feeling prouder of “us” (as in: the U.S. that looks like it may survive still). Maybe we have this, after all. It’s so rare to think that, I felt I must share it. And – believe me – I’m not preaching (I’ve been burned, too, looking for hope), just sharing.
https://the.ink/p/hope
They have been doing that from day one, Ben.
Between the country club rejecting their application for membership, her dad, via his coup attempt, derailing her political aspirations, Nordstrom dropping her clothing line, and the fact that no one wants them, and they’re no longer even sure where to live, Ivanka is having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Lady Gaga Will Sing the National Anthem at Biden’s Inauguration
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a35201732/inauguration-2021-performers/
(All I saw in the article was “Bruce Springsteen”!)
Seriously.
Goodnight TOD.
4 MORE DAYS!!! [Feels like drip, drip, dreip]
What military? The rag tag group that stormed the Capitol last week? I’m hoping that a lot of them are in jail, others are too afraid, and the rest feel betrayed.
Erik Prince and his mercenaries ate waiting in the wings.
By definition, Prince and his crew are PAID. Do they believe in the “cause”/believe in tRump so much that they are willing to work for free? I don’t believe even Prince is *that* loyal to tRump.
AMEN!
Agreed. But, Heck! He shouldn’t have it NOW!!!
“I so…I mean, I cannot wait to leave this job, believe me,” Miller said.
Stephen Losey of the Air Force Times described it as “the most epic case of senioritis ever.”
Biden should give him the presidential medal of honor and wash away the stain given to it by the seditious thug.
I love this so much! Being a kinder teacher takes a special person…this man has what it takes! He’s amazing…the kids are lucky to have him
“Being a kinder teacher takes a special person…” That is so true!
He’s found a way to teach that incorporates the children’s need to be active. Fun while learning.
Hope the Biden’s comms team is smart enough to finger the media minions whenever they spout rethug talking points.
Good Morning Family! 🕊⚖️✊🏾❤️
WOW
Should’ve sent him a Falcons jersey too! 😄
IKR!?!?!?! 😄
The thug’s regime
I experience this every time I clean my glasses. 🤓
Mars Sunrise
Mark Meadows has earned his title of worst chief of staff in history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/18/mark-meadows-worst-chief-staff-ever-trump/
A regime of deplorables, by deplorables and for deplorables.
tRump never really wanted a CoS; at least not one who would be serious about doing the job. He just want someone willing to facilitate the things he wanted done. Someone who had unquestionable loyalty.
Centrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party’s virtual conference.
He is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55688300
Watch. Share.
Patriotic data mining ….
Let’s retire the “#Karens.
#Ivanka serves the purpose of the meme beyond any other imaginable female name.
I’m really looking forward to watching Doug Emhoff approaches his role as our nation’s first Second Gentleman.
Breathe
The post-Trump GOP, gutted
The big picture: The losses are stark and substantial.
They lost their congressional power.
Their two leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, are hamstrung by corporate blacklisting of their election-denying members.
The GOP brand is radioactive for a huge chunk of America.
The corporate bans on giving to the 147 House and Senate Republicans who voted against election certification are growing and virtually certain to hold.
The RNC is a shell of its former self and run by a Trump loyalist.
Thank you for this^^^.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/16/aint-got-nothing-to-do-with-us/
“We Will Manage the Hell Out of This Operation”
“President-Elect Joe Biden proposed to overhaul eligibility rules for coronavirus vaccines and open more sites to receive shots, but his plan to rev up U.S. inoculations largely retains the bones of the Trump administration’s system”
President Elect Joe Biden:
“Look, our plan is as clear as it is bold. Get more people vaccinated for free. Create more places for them to get vaccinated, mobilize more medical teams to get the shots in people’s arms, increase supply and get it out the door as soon as possible. This will be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country.
But you have my word, and we will manage the hell out of this operation.”