Fun Fact: 12 years ago from today we held a small birthday party for Michelle on the train ride in to DC for inauguration. Cake and all. 🎂 pic.twitter.com/kOwOCeHauv
Well, Chipsticks brought TOD to us in fall of 2009, some of us were on other blogs, but this one escaped me too! Looks like a lovely train ride into a fabulous story in our history!
Today, it was my honor to join @chefjoseandres and @WCKitchen to provide meals to our heroic National Guard troops who are keeping our Congressional community safe during this difficult time. pic.twitter.com/aqJ1JEwumA
The first Latina Supreme Court Justice will administer the oath of office to the first woman Vice President, also a woman of color. My little heart is bursting from the historical significance. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/DC2Ai3ADlN
YESSSS….the ARC bends..but not without the hands of all of us…this is truly significant….i heard today …that despite the white lash that that is taking place…that there has always been a resistance to the hatred…Yes…Indeed.Right ON!…✊🏽✊🏽
Fox News is talking about Biden’s “radical agenda” while 25,000 national guard troops have been authorized to keep the nation’s Capitol safe from people who watch too much Fox News. 😒
Hey Dudette – congrats on being the first to give birthday greetings to Michelle (after Nerdy, of course). What a joy to have had her as First Lady for 8 years and to know we finally have another First Lady in Jill Biden coming to restore the dignity and compassion to that position.
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
Bringing this over from the last post…Re: AMK’s comment about “Biden-Harris inauguration ceremony kicks off with ‘Kolam’”
Kolam or rangoli the Indian geometric art form for welcome will be used for the Inauguration of Joe Biden & Kamala Harris. Project Kolam2021 collected tiles from schoolkids across the US for months for the installation. Well done @2021Kolampic.twitter.com/JxnNfeYne3
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will resign her Senate seat on Monday, two days before she and President-elect Joe Biden are sworn in. California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to appoint Alex Padilla, California's secretary of state, to replace Harris. https://t.co/3AHvBLRwTH
A real disservice is done by using limited headline space on the fact that this perp is an Army vet, rather than the many more germane and remarkably horrific facts in this story. Let me share a few of them here: https://t.co/Eu6ltpeIuG
He was wearing body armor and laden with ammunition for his pistol, but needed to "defend" himself. Against whom? Glad you asked… pic.twitter.com/PjosXm7dYW
This article needs to be required reading by all white people. It shows exactly the what, when and how white people get away with murder. All of the defense buzz words are in this article.
Nothing says "I shot in self defense" like covering up the shooting and hiding out from authorities until you're fingered by others pic.twitter.com/YqN2RAqd9v
🗣STOP WHAT YOU DOING……HELP ME WISH MY AUNTIE/GRANDMA THE ORIGINAL GOLDEN GIRL #BETTYWHITE A VERY SPECIAL 99th BIRTHDAY….!!!!!! My Auntie/Grandma Says She in Quarantine Eating Hot Dogs & Drinking VODKA…. pic.twitter.com/0BpsBC6tXI
I don’t think I would have the courage to do what Navalny is doing… So at least let’s do all that’s in our power to support and to help him #Navalny#Magnitskyhttps://t.co/Vb1z8g58Tj
I don’t think I would have the courage to do what Navalny is doing… So at least let’s do all that’s in our power to support and to help him #Navalny#Magnitskyhttps://t.co/Vb1z8g58Tj
I’m going to give President -Elect Biden the freedom to make sound decisions based on input from his Counsel that he’s surrounded himself with. We are so quick to second guess and “suggest” what they “should” do when we don’t have all of the facts.
Actually Gail, my comments are the same that they’ve been for the past four years and in correspondence I’ve written to various Members of Congress since I witnessed – face to face in several instances – Nixon’s crew of criminals during the Watergate episode.
Nixon, Reagan, GW Bush and Dick Cheney were never held accountable.
Folk always had reasons to ‘move on.’
Well, the Nation ‘moved on’ and, as people way smarter than me predicted would happen, a MEGA-scale mobster emerged in the Oval Office and is far from curtailed from doing even more damage.
So, I will persist in sending a variety of missives to President Joe Biden and others in his Administration until they recognize that – from al Qaeda to the Tea Party, from ISIS to MAGA – the threat to democracy and our Democracy is the total failure to obliterate what is now a global mafia comprised of a small number of individuals who are the very definition of a Kleptocrat.
That said, I’ll accept that my approach is disruptive here and refrain from further posts that reflect my advice to the Biden Administration – advice based on several decades of scholarly research of the emergence of a global-scale mafia.
Am looking forward to celebrating the Inauguration with all of you.
'When I am dancing, I feel as if I am on top of the world' — This 11-year-old ballet star went viral after he performed barefoot in the rain. Subscribe to NowThis Kids on YouTube for more inspiring stories: https://t.co/KKzM8E39bHpic.twitter.com/J3GNMvG39m
Senate Commerce announces its nomination hearing for @PeteButtigieg for Secretary of Transportation – will take place on 1/21 (the day after Inauguration Day)
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is flying back to Moscow for the first time since he was poisoned with a nerve agent – an attack he blames on President Vladimir Putinhttps://t.co/rv8KNz20y5
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris announced additional staff members of the Office of the Vice President. These accomplished individuals will hit the ground running on day one and will serve our country with honor and integrity.https://t.co/zsfzwQCAec
— Biden-Harris Presidential Transition (@Transition46) January 17, 2021
On January 6th, Luke Mogelson followed President Trump’s supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, using his phone’s camera as a reporter’s notebook. Watch the footage here. https://t.co/APTfLdFrOE
"Trump has a tremendous amount of debt. While in office, he and Kushner have made illicit foreign deals to pay off that debt. There are no limits to what they will do now. Never forget that this is the mafia." — @gaslitnationhttps://t.co/zYJZb3xx16
But, if the Administration of President @JoeBiden fails, as EVERY Administration since #Nixon's, to #EnforceTheLaw re: Sedition, Abuse of Power, Money Laundering & other crimes of the global, kleptocratic elites, a sustainable dictatorship in America will be the outcome.
Would have been a wise policy beginning in the 1990's – at the latest.
A vast literature on what a crook and all around scum bag Trump is existed long before @CNN and every other TV/Cable CORPORATION began PROFITING from his BIRTHERISM and all that came thereafter.
"I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021," Rep. Jamie Raskin says as he presses forward with impeachment articles while mourning his son. #CNNSOTUhttps://t.co/ENtoAqOMMkpic.twitter.com/YkDJvMxC8t
NEW VIDEO. WAKE UP CALL FOR REPUBLICANS – The deliberate mass deception campaign that captured your party is a public health crisis. This is an intervention. https://t.co/mq7LoAXAE2
Next tine someone tells me that because I’m an actor I shouldn’t say my political opinions I am going to remind them they are listening to the My Pillow guy.
Happy birthday, @MichelleObama. Thank you for pouring every ounce of yourself into empowering the next generation of leaders. Our country, and myself, are better off because of you. pic.twitter.com/Hlvymr2Ndq
To my mentor and inspiration: Happy 90th Birthday to James Earl Jones. One of the greatest artist of our generation. May you be continuously blessed. pic.twitter.com/qxQv525gCE
Impeachment Manager Rep. Jamie Raskin on CNN: "I'm not going to lose my son at the end of 2020 and lose my country and my republic in 2021. It's not gonna happen."
To my mentor and inspiration: Happy 90th Birthday to James Earl Jones. One of the greatest artist of our generation. May you be continuously blessed. pic.twitter.com/qxQv525gCE
🎂 We woof like to wish a purry, purry Happy Birthday to the pawsome Betty White who is turning 99 years young today. She is a true advocate for animals and such an amazing actress and kindhearted hooman. We love you, #BettyWhite! #HappyBirthdaypic.twitter.com/pxftXWXnTo
Earth Kitt (January 17, 1927-December 25, 2008) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and activist noted for her sultry vocal style and slinky beauty.
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life" -Muhammad Ali Today is the date a giant was born pic.twitter.com/j382sKRhlz
Muhammad Ali (May Allah have mercy on him) was asked what he’d like people to think of him when he’s gone. He responded beautifully. pic.twitter.com/GetDuRysZJ
"In this country, a Black athlete or entertainer has a lot of influence. … I'd like to do all I can to uplift the people morally and spiritually, as far as loving ourselves and sticking together."
We're not going to "happy talk" this virus away. It's time for being straight with the American people about the crisis we are facing. When people say that the Biden "American Rescue Plan" is "too big," ask them if they appreciate just how big a mess we are facing. https://t.co/9ebKxCAx1B
This has probably already been posted – I’m just getting here – but although I love BOTH of these women, may I say as a fellow woman that I absolutely LOVE Mrs. Obama’s outfit in this photo!
Happy birthday, @MichelleObama. Thank you for pouring every ounce of yourself into empowering the next generation of leaders. Our country, and myself, are better off because of you. pic.twitter.com/Hlvymr2Ndq
No shame. Apparently it doesn't matter if judges have reviewed the so-called evidence and rejected it as false? Much of of what Trump said on Jan. 6 had already been rejected as BS in legal proceedings. And yet he still said it. https://t.co/kyu4CAmWSd
Just found out my other niece has COVID. Other than loss of taste and smell, her symptoms are mild for now.
I haven’t been in direct contact with her since Christmas for the few seconds when she handed me a gift. My sister-in-law, her Mom, however, has been in contact with her several times in the last couple of weeks. We are all pretty diligent about masking, distancing and hand-washing, but since I picked SIL and my sister up last week when they dropped off their cars for maintenance, we will all be self-quarantining and getting tests just to be sure.
Of course I had to review the My Pillow. In a nutshell I found it hard to sleep on a pillow so full of insurrection. The sedition kept shifting around and making strange claims. I think this pillow might be full of fraud. One star.
“The real danger came from putting a recklessly uneducated man with a personality disorder in the White House, who spent his one catastrophic term branding America’s Democratic cities enemies of the country.
While taking credit for economic growth rates he inherited from a Democrat.”
—can we get this video majorly OUT?
El Paso Times becomes 3rd major Texas paper to call for Cruz to resign. His actions contributed to “a violent uprising against the U.S. government… We call on law enforcement officials to thoroughly explore Cruz's role in inciting the insurrection.” https://t.co/b08L6ckSkH
To quote Cole in the NYT: “Doug and Kamala together are like almost vomit-inducingly cute and coupley. I’m like, When is this going to wear off?” https://t.co/N9iWZ9gtCJ
As I reflect on the past four years, I can't help but think of Congressman John Lewis' powerful words, "Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.”
Chairman Schiff:
“Adam Schiff Urges Trump Be Denied Access To Intelligence Briefings”
“There is no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence briefing,
not now or in the future, and he can’t be trusted with it now and certainly in the future. There were many intelligence partners who started withholding information from us because they didn’t trust the president, and that makes us less safe. We have seen this president politicize intelligence, and that is another risk to the country.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/17/adam-schiff-trump-intel-briefings.html)
—Mafia Don cannot be trusted with intelligence information past or future.
.@RepRaskin, my family and families across America are holding you, Sarah, and your entire family in our hearts during this difficult time. Thank you for sharing your strength, your patriotism, and your abiding sense of justice. https://t.co/l2tWmX6t5u
I appreciate Kamala Harris’ symbolism — starting her presidential run on MLK Day using Shirley Chisholm like graphics and holding her first presser at Howard U. Resigning from the US Senate two years later on MLK Day to get sworn in as VP with Thurgood Marshall’s bible. ✊🏾
— It’s Madam Vice President Harris to YOU in 3 days (@flywithkamala) January 17, 2021
Kamala Harris is very clear that she has been fortunate enough to be the first to do many things, but she also knows she wouldn’t be where she is today without the work and sacrifice of *our* ancestors. And she goes out of her way to honor them through and through.
— It’s Madam Vice President Harris to YOU in 3 days (@flywithkamala) January 17, 2021
Twitter just suspended QAnon terrorist Seditionist Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account for 12 hours for constantly posting propaganda about the election and other issues. Now if only they’d permanently ban her.
I’ve watched the new footage from inside the Capitol three times now and I’m literally shaking with rage. There’s no doubt in my mind they would’ve killed members of Congress if they had the chance. And every single police officer who enabled this needs to be fired.
Be inspired to be your best possible self. ❤️
Seeing that train b’day celebrations for the first time. How did we tod’dlers missed it?
HBD FLOTUS.
Well, Chipsticks brought TOD to us in fall of 2009, some of us were on other blogs, but this one escaped me too! Looks like a lovely train ride into a fabulous story in our history!
{{{ amk }}}
You are right. Tod came in late. I myself came from bwd blog. Thanks.
I always think I’ve frequented this site “since 2008”. I guess I confuse that with the ’08 primaries when my fandom began. 🙂 2009 works!
Yes, I think a fair few of us came over from BWD, bless her for all the work she has done, still doing!
Bring it AG James 👍🏾
Can we have more, please? 😂😷
Guessing that none of the rethugs lifted a finger to help these guards.
Mine is bursting too 💖🙋🏾♀️🎇
YESSSS….the ARC bends..but not without the hands of all of us…this is truly significant….i heard today …that despite the white lash that that is taking place…that there has always been a resistance to the hatred…Yes…Indeed.Right ON!…✊🏽✊🏽
Good Morning, TODers! Thank you, Nerdy!
Happy Birthday, Michelle Obama!!!
Hey Dudette – congrats on being the first to give birthday greetings to Michelle (after Nerdy, of course). What a joy to have had her as First Lady for 8 years and to know we finally have another First Lady in Jill Biden coming to restore the dignity and compassion to that position.
Hiya Judith! Good to see you! 👋🏾
Bringing this over from the last post…Re: AMK’s comment about “Biden-Harris inauguration ceremony kicks off with ‘Kolam’”
So beautiful!
WOW…Fill my heart with Joy!
💙💛💙💛💙
How long will her serve?
I think MVP Harris’ Senate term ends 2023. So Mr. Padilla appointment lasts until then.
danke, dudette.
Bitte schön.
Read that whole thread. Under the jail with those bastards. Under the goddamned jail!
Typical racists refrain – are you on welfare?
This article needs to be required reading by all white people. It shows exactly the what, when and how white people get away with murder. All of the defense buzz words are in this article.
This is how to reveal racism, 101
Happy and Blessed 57th Birthday to You, Michelle Obama, with our deep appreciation for your strength and kindness!
🕊💕🎂🥂🎂💕🕊
Well this won’t bode well for Blacks in OH…
Until the Democrats in “the” State of Ohio rise up and vote, this will continue. SMH
Lawdy! Am ziploc-ing my mouth right now! Might do that via a pretty drink in a pretty glass! So much more environmentally friendly than Ziploc. 😂😇😷
Happy 99th Birthday to You, Betty White! You are one Awesome woman! Enjoy this day! 🕊👏🏼🥂🎂🥂👏🏼🕊
Beyond courage, and all for the sake of the oppressed ….
I hope he’ll be okay. Damn.
So do I Dudette.
However …..
I’m going to give President -Elect Biden the freedom to make sound decisions based on input from his Counsel that he’s surrounded himself with. We are so quick to second guess and “suggest” what they “should” do when we don’t have all of the facts.
Actually Gail, my comments are the same that they’ve been for the past four years and in correspondence I’ve written to various Members of Congress since I witnessed – face to face in several instances – Nixon’s crew of criminals during the Watergate episode.
Nixon, Reagan, GW Bush and Dick Cheney were never held accountable.
Folk always had reasons to ‘move on.’
Well, the Nation ‘moved on’ and, as people way smarter than me predicted would happen, a MEGA-scale mobster emerged in the Oval Office and is far from curtailed from doing even more damage.
So, I will persist in sending a variety of missives to President Joe Biden and others in his Administration until they recognize that – from al Qaeda to the Tea Party, from ISIS to MAGA – the threat to democracy and our Democracy is the total failure to obliterate what is now a global mafia comprised of a small number of individuals who are the very definition of a Kleptocrat.
That said, I’ll accept that my approach is disruptive here and refrain from further posts that reflect my advice to the Biden Administration – advice based on several decades of scholarly research of the emergence of a global-scale mafia.
Am looking forward to celebrating the Inauguration with all of you.
Let’s pray it happens, peacefully.
Yes, let’s.
Yeh, so he’s definitely going for martyrdom.
I hope all this young man’s dreams come true. ❤️
Me too. 😊
Missed this one. ❤️
Well, au revoir, I’m already having a tough time staying logged in, must be the interwebz is reel bizy today! Big hugs and happy birthdays all around!
Bye until next time! Thanks again Bobfr, for the twitter updates! 🙏🏼🕯
((((((( pamela )))))))
🕊💕🕊
👍🏾
Is this guy finding a job in joe administration?
Thanks, jer.
More appointments
Nine minutes of the whole truth.
In case you want the youtube link…
From 11 Jan 2020 – definitely worth the few min to listen to it.
🙌🏾
Wooooot! Madam Vice President has some folks to swear in next week! 😁💃🏾👏🏾
😄👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
YEAH! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Oh Snap! 😎
SOON – Chuck Schumer speaks outside his NYC office – https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-06
💙💛❤️💙💛❤️💙
2 billion years in prison is more like it.
🤣🤣
Yes! Happy Birthday, senior statesman; JEJ 😎🙏🏾💖🕺🏾
This gon’ be good.
Lol. True.
Happy Birthday to these icons: Betty White James Earl Jones, Eartha Kitt, Muhammad Ali and Michelle Obama!
James Earl Jones
Betty White
Eartha Kitt
Muhammad Ali
By the way, please watch the outstanding One Night in Miami on Netflix, directed by Regina King.
😁❤️😁
I love this…. Two of the Greatest ever. Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson. The King of Pop and King of the Ring.
I’d forgotten about this.
This guy, this beautiful guy, influenced me so tremendously…miss him. Happy Birthday MA!!
Michelle Obama 🎂🎉🎈❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Timeless Beauty!
Gorgeous!
This has probably already been posted – I’m just getting here – but although I love BOTH of these women, may I say as a fellow woman that I absolutely LOVE Mrs. Obama’s outfit in this photo!
Stunning! stunning! stunning!
Happy birthday to our forever Michelle!! Congrats to both astonishing women for their work!!
Yes!
Happy Birthday to our forever FLOTUS44. A great First Lady. Happy Birthday Michelle Obama.
I love this…. Two of the Greatest ever. Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson. The King of Pop and King of the Ring.
Just found out my other niece has COVID. Other than loss of taste and smell, her symptoms are mild for now.
I haven’t been in direct contact with her since Christmas for the few seconds when she handed me a gift. My sister-in-law, her Mom, however, has been in contact with her several times in the last couple of weeks. We are all pretty diligent about masking, distancing and hand-washing, but since I picked SIL and my sister up last week when they dropped off their cars for maintenance, we will all be self-quarantining and getting tests just to be sure.
HAPPY to know you’re taking good care Dudette…things gettin’ goofier stuck at home, but we’re up for it.
Until such time…
Thanks brp! No problem staying at home for me. I’ve been trying to encourage family to do it more. Now they’ll listen.
Aw, Tyler did a portrait of Mrs. O.
Oops, left out the link.
would like to see a self-portrait if possible from Tyler…get a load of that smile, wow!
“The real danger came from putting a recklessly uneducated man with a personality disorder in the White House, who spent his one catastrophic term branding America’s Democratic cities enemies of the country.
While taking credit for economic growth rates he inherited from a Democrat.”
—can we get this video majorly OUT?
It appears to be going viral. It’s on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
They are such an adorable couple!
“Impeachment Manager Ted Lieu Says They Have A Mountain Of Evidence To Convict Trump”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/17/ted-lieu-mountain-of-evidence-against-trump.html)
Chairman Schiff:
“Adam Schiff Urges Trump Be Denied Access To Intelligence Briefings”
“There is no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence briefing,
not now or in the future, and he can’t be trusted with it now and certainly in the future. There were many intelligence partners who started withholding information from us because they didn’t trust the president, and that makes us less safe. We have seen this president politicize intelligence, and that is another risk to the country.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/17/adam-schiff-trump-intel-briefings.html)
—Mafia Don cannot be trusted with intelligence information past or future.
I soooooooo agree with this.
That’s My MVP!
So much about this photo makes my wife and I 🙂
Welp, no volunteering for me on MLK Day due to self-quarantining. ☹️
Awww! 💞💞 I just love them! What a lovely b-day message for “Miche”. 😂😍💞
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/17/birthday-wishes/
I can’t watch boxing, but loved the greatest! Happy Birthday, Mohammed Ali!
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52988605