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#AskPOTUS: The Baton Rouge Edition

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122 Responses to “#AskPOTUS: The Baton Rouge Edition”


  1. 1 MightyPamela
    January 14, 2025 at 4:18 pm

    <3

  2. 8 taiping1
    January 14, 2025 at 4:19 pm

    Our President needs to spend this last year crisscrossing the country. He is the best leader around; local coverage is much better. He inspires that is best in us.

  3. 11 JER
    January 14, 2025 at 4:21 pm

  4. 14 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 4:25 pm

    Best.President.EVER!

  5. 16 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 4:27 pm

    Awww! Still can’t believe he’s gone.

  6. 17 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 4:36 pm

    “Rest in Peace, Voice of God. Back to Heaven, where you came from..” I kept it together until that.

  7. 19 No Child Left Behind
    January 14, 2025 at 4:42 pm

    • 20 bella2758
      January 14, 2025 at 4:48 pm

      I can’t imagine anything with that racists Trump. And you are right, hopefully we will never find out. This country even with all it’s problems deserve better then Donald Trump.

  8. 22 No Child Left Behind
    January 14, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    A cure for cancer could not come too soon! Cancer got me and two of my siblings in the span of 18 months.

  9. 30 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 4:46 pm

    • 31 pkayden
      January 14, 2025 at 7:48 pm

      Now that’s such a nasty move that it should cost Gov Snyder his job. He should be recalled for allowing his residents to be abused like this.

  10. 32 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 4:50 pm

  11. 33 JER
    January 14, 2025 at 4:52 pm

  12. 35 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 4:52 pm

    Hiilary is on with Jimmy Fallon tonight.

  13. 37 Allison
    January 14, 2025 at 4:56 pm

  14. 38 swbluega
    January 14, 2025 at 4:59 pm

  15. 40 No Child Left Behind
    January 14, 2025 at 5:00 pm

  16. 43 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:06 pm

  17. 44 Allison
    January 14, 2025 at 5:12 pm

  18. 46 Allison
    January 14, 2025 at 5:14 pm

  19. 53 No Child Left Behind
    January 14, 2025 at 5:14 pm

    Such a fine actor!

  20. 54 Allison
    January 14, 2025 at 5:17 pm

  21. 56 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:20 pm

  22. 57 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:24 pm

  23. 58 swbluega
    January 14, 2025 at 5:25 pm

    On Tuesday, insurer MetLife Inc. became the second major firm in the past 10 months to decide that the demands of being “systemically important” in the eyes of regulators may outweigh the benefits of continuing to operate at its current size. General Electric Co. made the same choice in April for its giant finance arm, GE Capital.

    The moves show that while the U.S. government hasn’t heeded populist calls to “break up” the nation’s largest financial firms, those demands are at times being answered through indirect pressure from regulators.

    The very largest U.S. banks, some of whom report earnings this week, are also facing increasing questions about whether they can remain profitable at their current size. In recent years, the Federal Reserve and other overseers have made it clear that being big will come with costs: Large U.S. banks have added $641 billion of capital since 2009 to meet tougher regulatory rules, according to the Fed.

    Those requirements make it tougher for firms to produce outsize returns.

    =====

    *** Note that you may not be able to get to the article from the link. May be able to see it by googling “Not too big to fail. To expensive to exist.”***

    • 59 Wilson Michael
      January 15, 2025 at 5:15 am

      PBO’s regulations already on the way to achieving what Bernie Sanders claims he wants to do. Seems its taking the wind out of Sanders campaign sails!!!! Lol.

  24. 60 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm

  25. 61 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:33 pm

  26. 62 SUEDUVALL SMITH
    January 14, 2025 at 5:33 pm

    BBL……………I HAVE TO GO AND OIL UP THE FLATSCREEN DARTS!

  27. 63 swbluega
    January 14, 2025 at 5:35 pm

  28. 66 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:41 pm

    :-D

  29. 68 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:45 pm

  30. 69 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:50 pm

  31. 70 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:52 pm

  32. 71 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 5:55 pm

    You might have heard the Al Jazeera America network is shutting down soon. Well, guess what could happen next?
    [collective eyerolls commence!] :roll:

  33. 75 tnmtngirl
    January 14, 2025 at 5:58 pm

    Home safely 10 minutes ago. Thanks for your prayers and thoughts. bbl………

  34. 77 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:01 pm

    • 78 Judith Fardig
      January 14, 2025 at 8:14 pm

      Several members of my OFA team and me were in that hearing room, just to the right of this photo. The sticking point was the orchardists who don’t want to pay migrant workers even the current minimum wage. This is a good plan, but the roll-out to these wage numbers is far too long.

  35. 80 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:04 pm

  36. 81 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:09 pm

    FLONYC wants some of the #OscarsSoWhite action!

    • 82 Dudette
      January 14, 2025 at 6:09 pm

    • 83 bella2758
      January 14, 2025 at 6:43 pm

      Remember the General Hospital daytime actress who had so much to say when Viola Davis made her comment about black actresses, what do she has to say now I wonder.

  37. 85 99ts
    January 14, 2025 at 6:10 pm

    I saw in our news yesterday that Liberia was ebola free. The never ending fear generated by the US media is the last stand of the 4th estate. The immediate call to arms when a US boat ventures where it should not be - is another form of this disease.

    I live in a relatively fear-free part of the world. The US should be the same - but the gun lobby and the media really want to be on a war footing - internally & externally - all the time.

    I cannot imagine the world without PBO keeping the peace. I will be thankful every day that I lived in his time.

    • 86 prettyfoot58
      January 14, 2025 at 8:33 pm

      the use of fear to gin up white votes for the GOP has been effective…fear of blk and brwn people….fear of Muslims….fear of the blk man as President who really is a usurper…FEAR of FEAR…..

      they have NOTHING to offer America….. nothing…so they use fear to control folks…

  38. 87 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    Good luck with that, ya damned vultures!

    • 88 Dudette
      January 14, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    • 89 swbluega
      January 14, 2025 at 6:48 pm

      They should be suing those individuals (in congress?) whose pockets they were lining who probably “guaranteed” that the pipeline would happen.

    • 90 prettyfoot58
      January 14, 2025 at 8:35 pm

      TransCanada is using NAFTA — the North American Free Trade Agreement — to file its lawsuit. Instead of in a court of law, the decision about billions of dollars in taxpayer money will be made undemocratically in a private tribunal.

      Lawsuits like this prove just how dangerous global trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) can be.

      *******************

      This petition seems more like an attack on TTP…then anything else

  39. 91 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:30 pm

  40. 92 99ts
    January 14, 2025 at 6:35 pm

    Thank you NW - I’ve been reading all your tweets over the past few days - always appreciated

  41. 96 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:36 pm

    1. This is an achievable goal.
    2. We’re going to need waaaaaaaaay more money.
    3. Researchers have to start playing nice.
    4. We have to stop treating cancer patients differently.
    5. A singular “cure” for cancer suggests all cancer is the same. It isn’t.

    Check out the article for details
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/americas-quest-to-cure-cancer-biden_5696e281e4b0b4eb759d300d

  42. 98 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:38 pm

  43. 99 Marlz (@marjgra)
    January 14, 2025 at 6:39 pm

    For Chips…

    (hope it shows)

    • 100 Dudette
      January 14, 2025 at 7:13 pm

      Finally made it! I was so hoping he/she would! :-)

      But, why didn’t the stick get stopped when pooch reached the vertical posts? Looks like it went through them. Doctored video? :-)

  44. 101 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 6:41 pm

  45. 102 Nena20409
    January 14, 2025 at 7:00 pm

  46. 103 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 7:01 pm

    From the article that Charles links — Alan Rickman said the following in an interview about his role in Die Hard, his very first movie:

    “I didn’t know anything about LA. I didn’t know anything about the film business … I’d never made a film before, but I was extremely cheap,” he said. After reading the script, he thought: “What the hell is this? I’m not doing an action movie.”

    Rickman, who was 41 at the time, was won over by the wit of the script and the progressive storyline, which still stands out from other action films. “Every single black character in that film is positive and highly intelligent,” he said. “So, 28 years ago, that’s quite revolutionary, and quietly so.”
    <3 <3 <3

  47. 106 meta
    January 14, 2025 at 7:24 pm

    These guys are all the same.

    687764428385841152

    • 107 meta
      January 14, 2025 at 7:54 pm

      Sorry about that!

      • 108 nospin
        January 15, 2025 at 10:08 am

        forget that, look at the body language…what husband looks at a camera in that way when briefly kissing his wife as if to say..did you get that? No connection at all to the woman he is kissing. Look at his left hand on her arm. how unfortunate for her.
        This was nothing but a photo op.

  48. 109 lovelyplains
    January 14, 2025 at 7:39 pm

    The GOP crazies really do want to cannibalize themselves…Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley…wonder who is next :???:

  49. 110 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 7:40 pm

  50. 111 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 7:42 pm

  51. 112 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    • 113 Dudette
      January 14, 2025 at 7:51 pm

    • 114 Dudette
      January 14, 2025 at 8:03 pm

      Worth a watch if you can get a hold of the DVD.

  52. 116 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 7:57 pm

  53. 117 jacquelineoboomer
    January 14, 2025 at 8:02 pm

    Late to the party! I did want to pass along a funny one-liner out of a CNN right wing pundit earlier. While speaking about Cruz, she asked, “How do they say ‘flip-flop’ in Canada?”

    Of course, they’re ALL a joke - a bad joke - to me.

  54. 118 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 8:07 pm

    Gabrielle Union was in “Something the Lord Made” with Alan Rickman and Mos Def (now Yasiin Bey). Found this on her Twitter Feed.

  55. 119 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    January 14, 2025 at 8:09 pm

  56. 120 Dudette
    January 14, 2025 at 8:09 pm


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