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Morning Chips. Furst???
Yes you are, moooooooooorning Roberta!!
Good morning Chips :)
Don’t want you to miss ….
gotta go … have a great day …..
Yikes, just saw mention of it this morning Bob, he had an affair?
Who knows, who cares, Chips …. all that matters is that the Twitterverse is having a grand time of it :D :D
On seriously, yes it’s way past time for folk to get certain clues side …..
And, on the creatively funny side ….
And, back to work except to note how remarkably silent - from all reports I’ve seen since I never listen to the crap - the ‘very serious #NEWSTAINER class’ seems to be silent on the matter … Cheers!
Tweeters are getting creative with this…
Well, it looks like this story might get some traction. The Truth will soon be known, Irony & Karma are about to collide?
And if/when it does, it will be well deserved.
Can you imagine this guy laying on top of you going to town, and that fucking voice of his moaning.
I’m sorry I just realized it was good Friday, I apologize for my insensitive comment.
All is forgiven Don!
:)
Don, you just gave me nightmares. LOL.
That image just fried my brain, Don. Ewwwwwwww!
I’d demand he wear a paper bag on his head and make it snappy :) :) :)
should we even want to know what that was all about, Bob?
I grew up watching Garry Shandling, he was one of my favorite comics and I loved watching his t.v. show.
Good Friday, Chipsticks…TOD Family!!!
Everyone, Enjoy your day! :-D
So if she refuses, what will he do; endorse Trump/Cruz (GOP nominee)??? He who is not and will not become a Democrat (based on is filing to run again as an IND in Vermont) wants to dictate how the Democratic Party should be?!?!?!? The audacity of ego.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) insisted he’ll stay in the presidential race, but outlined conditions under which he would endorse Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton “if I can’t make it.”
Sanders, who badly trails Clinton in delegates for the Democratic nomination, said Wednesday that his chief priorities include making sure the party embraces his anti-establishment platform and expands its base.
Sanders also listed policy demands he would make of Clinton, including a single-payer health care system, a $15 an hour minimum wage, tougher regulation of the finance industry, closing corporate tax loopholes and “a vigorous effort to address climate change.”
The fucking balls on this guy, after he gets his ass handed to him he wants to make demands. This guy is a grade-A prick, a political arsonist that should be roundly denounced.
Some tweets in response…
bs and dd seem to be the two sides of the same egomaniac coin.
His head is getting bigger with each passing day.
The one thing that I will say about Hillary, when it was her turn to play a good soldier and endorse President Obama she did it, she might have done it reluctantly but in the end she embraced President Obama and her and Bill campaigned for President Obama. Unlike Bernie Sanders, he wants to destroy the Democratic Party all because the voters weren’t interested in his pie in the sky bullshit. And now Sanders is threatening the Democratic Party and making demands. Since when does the loser gets to make demands?
Again…he’s not even a Democrat…still running in Vermont as an Independent.
I fully blame the pissing in their pants dnc for even letting this lil fecker contest on a dem ticket. Otherwise, it would have been hrc vs mom contest by now and this fecker would not have even crossed beyond IA.
While he is enjoying his 30 minutes of fame, I truly don’t believe this “one hit wonder” really wants to be POTUS. He just wanted a forum to preach about *his* issues, and in the process is making over-the-top promises to retain his support. He cares little (if anything) about the span of issues that POTUS/CIC should care about. He doesn’t have the demeanor that would make him a successful POTUS. Does he even know the meaning of “compromise” much less “diplomacy”?
Yep, the only thing this clown wanted was a bigger platform to spew the bullshit that’s be building inside of him for ages, and what better way to do that than to fun for President. Like Trump, Sanders has no advisors or infrastructure around him to navigate the social, economic, a political landscape.
VERY WELL SAID. He entered the race knowing very well he wouldn’t win. He just wanted to make a point. He is the man of ONE issue: income inequality. You ask him a question about any problem and in a matter of minutes he will all bring it back to the concentration of wealth. Granted income inequality is a very very important problem; but after a while you realize Bernie’s vision of the world is pretty narrow.
Another thing that bothers me is that he is driven by one emotion: rage. Not far from hate. Compare this to the tone of Barack Obama in 2008.
You can’t be a leader if you use divisive language. You can’t be a leader if you don’t propose a positive and REALISTIC path to change.
“You can’t be a leader if you use divisive language. You can’t be a leader if you don’t propose a positive and REALISTIC path to change.”
Exactly, Lovepolitics2008!
The scene of the states calling out delegates at the 2008 convention, & they skipped states so Hillary could put PBO over the top with NY’s votes- THAT’s how Democrats behave. It was the beginning of Hillary’s path to finding her own greatness, with PBO’s help. Although there were some slips along the way, Bill was a very effective champion for PBO in both elections.
No way BS will do that, ever.
I effing loathe this guy. And trust me, he would move the goalposts, just like GOP.
Climate change, corporate tax loopholes, regulation of finance industry - already important to HRC and the Dems. Of course, “tougher” regulation” to BS means destroying the 21st century banking system. The Sanders supporters think $12/hour minimum wage is evil, but $15/hour minimum wage is Heaven.
I wish Hillary had made more of an effort in the caucus states so we could minimize BS’ gloating.
I want him gone. And his pixie dust supporters to grow the hell up and try to build a real progressive political infrastructure - that means building public opinion over years and decades instead of demanding which ends in backlash.
I loathe these people.
“single-payer health care system”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLzzzz
We just started to turn the tide toward positive polling on ACA. Bernie would love to disrupt that, spend time knocking it and undoing the immense good that PBO has built.
Have I mentioned how much I have come to loathe this guy?
Just seeing that BBC doc, part 2, on Obamacare brought back the whole traumatic roller coaster ride of passing ACA. It was a nailbiter all the way. I’m sick of Sanders and his ilk thinking they can just trash all that hard work and make a miracle happen with Congress. Pure idiocy!
Another words, if Bernie cannot win himself he is okay with his opponent who had a different set of policies that were validated by the majority of voters being President if she adopted his policies instead of implementing her own.
One of his final tweets? He was a great comedian, and I really like what he said here! Rest in peace, Garry Shandling.
That man is in his own world. Who the hell does he think he is? Thank you DWS for allowing him in the party for the Presidential elections this year. God how damned dumb was that.? Got to do some work today. And am coming down with Jackie’s cold darn. BBL
President Barack Obama and not his successor elected in November should be the one who gets to nominate the next Supreme Court justice, according to the results of a national CNN/ORC poll released Friday.
Nearly six-in-10 — 57 percent — said Obama should be able to make the pick, which he did on March 16, sending the nomination of D.C. Circuit chief judge Merrick Garland to the Senate. Another 40 percent said the next president elected in November and taking office in January should be the person to tap the potential justice to fill the vacancy.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/poll-majority-says-obama-not-next-president-should-pick-supreme-court-justice-221231
And the reality of the situation is that Americans in 2016 aren’t hungry for a political revolution. In fact, it can be argued that Barack Obama already achieved a revolution in 2008. The people most hungry for change are millennials who are receiving the brunt of thirty years of destructive Republican policies. They simply don’t understand that their stagnant wages, high cost of living, and student loan debt are all products of a concerted effort by Republican administrations to continue to peddle the myth of trickle-down economics. They also fail to realize that the proposals Bernie Sanders is making such as a higher minimum wage, universal healthcare, free community college, and improving our infrastructure are all things that Barack Obama has proposed and enacted as best he could under his constitutional authority as well as blatant Republican obstruction. Millennials, largely unaware of how partisan Washington D.C. had become, were fully on board for Sander’s political revolution.
Great points, ladyhawke. And it doesn’t help that clueless emprogs, of whom BS is their leader, blame Dems & PBO for these issues.
The best and only way to change the dynamic is incremental change, so that public opinion comes along with the changes and progressive policies become part of the national identity again. To demand, to tear apart, only creates backlash.
We need an informed electorate….hard to have..when no one seems to tell the real truth…the DNC has been very quiet these 8 years about touting the accomplishments of the DEMs and this President…dovetail that with the lies of the GOP and RW entertainment radio…and their handmaidens in the MSM..
then of course the left purists with their never ending disappointments and minimizing of the accomplishments of this administration…
That’s one of the problems. Fewer Democrats invited on TV to tout PBO”s accomplishments; only invited the ones who complained about him or what he wasn’t doing has led to this uninformed electorate. Thank God for this place or i’d be one of them.
GM LH.
Haven’t read this @latimes article, the headline is enough for me…
Reality check:
Hard for me to believe that #FeelTheBern will still be a factor on Jun 7 (CA primary election date).
Hard to me to believe that Bernie Sanders can convince California democrats to support him with all the Obama bashing.
The arrogance is starting to annoy the hell out of me. CA is blue, we get that; but the BS campaign assumes that means that they are all raving emoprogs. CA is diverse, has reelected a centrist Senator in Dianne Feinstein for decades. There are many sane Democratic Californians who want stable, incremental change and don’t want their lives put at risk for the likes of BS’ “revolution”.
I think Hillary needs to sharpen her attacks a bit. She has run an almost entirely positive campaign (something BS promised but he apparently loves being in the gutter). However, there is a line between who gets to frame who. Hillary needs to do a bit of that, IMO.
Biden discusses Supreme Court vacancy, dismisses ‘Biden rule’
So Mr 99 has been asking me questions about US politics - mainly in relation to PBO’s nomination to SCOTUS. Then travelled to the spat between Trump & Cruz with the outcome looking like Cruz is more road kill.
Tony Abbott was a disaster (and a book I am currently reading is telling me much I never knew about it all) BUT compared to the GOP pretenders Abbott is a sane, resourceful, admirable leader.
I cannot believe that this is a campaign for the right to run as a major party’s nominee for US President. You cannot even compare them to children as that insults the children.
This is just unseemly:
TODVille, Chips and Danny-the-Boy
:-D :-D :-D
that is a hair on fire twitter need. never trusted it.
The news is from all other outlets, too.
You expected more from those clowns?
FRIDAY, MAR 25, 2025 05:00 AM CDT
“Morning Joe” childishness: The show’s inane demand that President Obama treat Americans like children
Obama’s response to the terrorist attack in Brussels was measured and serious. Of course, “Morning Joe” hated it
ELIAS ISQUITH
Earlier this week, a series of coordinated terror bombings in Brussels, which ISIS claims it planned, left 34 human beings (including three perpetrators) dead. The terrorists bombed the city’s airport and one of its metro stations. Taken altogether, the real target of the attack was clear. It was the European project itself; and the modern cosmopolitanism that, to many, it represents.
At the risk of stating the obvious: These are serious issues. And they deserve a serious response. President Barack Obama, who was on a diplomatic trip in Cuba and elsewhere in South America, provided that serious response. And this made some of the media’s self-designated stewards of American empire very, very mad.
trevor
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/trevor-noah-hammers-cruz-youre-a-sanctimonious-jackass-for-harping-on-obama-after-brussels-attacks/
2016 Catalyst Awards Dinner: The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau
Excellent speech
Love this Allison. He seems to have an Obamaesque style in storytelling and humor.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he learned from our POTUS. Many would benefit from doing the same.
OF COURSE, it was by design.
THURSDAY, MAR 24, 2025 12:37 PM CDT
What happened in Arizona wasn’t an accident: When states make voting impossible, it’s for a very clear reason
Arizona residents were forced to wait hours on line in order to vote in this week’s primary. Some were turned away. VIDEO
BOB CESCA
Once again, an American election was unnecessarily thwarted by long lines and not enough ballots. To say there’s no excuse for such nonsense, especially in a nation that prides itself on its representative democracy and, yes, its exceptionalism, is understating the problem. This time around, it happened during the Arizona primary where countless voters were forced to stand in lines for hours, while others were told they weren’t registered in the first place.
In Maricopa County alone, election officials infuriatingly reduced the number of polling places by 70 percent. Such a drastic reduction meant there was only one polling place per 21,000 residents of the highly populated Phoenix metroplex. Officials including County Recorder Helen Purcell (a Republican) said the cutbacks were due to budgetary concerns. Uh-huh. Of course, I doubt members of either party who were forced to wait in five-hour lines would’ve minded the additional expense to facilitate our most basic right as Americans. Elsewhere, independent voters who switched their registration to the Democratic Party were allegedly told they hadn’t registered at all, forcing them to sit out the closed primary.
Good morning, TODVille! So happy to have our First Family back home. But also super happy they had such a great trip.
And it looks like they loved our First Lady back:
“Are you familiar with ‘mansplaining’?” Jimmy started off. “Do you know what that is?”
“Yeah,” Hillary said in a deadpan tone. “That’s when a man explains something to a woman in a patronizing way?
“Actually, it’s when a man explains something to a woman in a condescending way,” Jimmy answered back. “But you were close.”
THIS…………………..IS A MOURNING DAY FOR ME…A DAY WHEN I ASK GOD WHY HIS SON HAD TO SUFFER SO MUCH FOR THIS WORLDLY TRASH THAT HAS NEVER CHANGED!..BUT CHANGE IS GONNA COME..JESUS CHRIST IS GONNA’ SEE TO IT AND AS ALWAYS..GOD IS IN CHARGE!
Winning the internet:
I didn’t know that a tango could be so powerful… ISIS should learn the lessons. Any future dance will mark the end of one of their leaders.
The second-in-command of so-called Islamic State (IS) has been killed in a US operation in Syria, US media report.
Defence officials told NBC News that Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, an Iraqi who was also known as Hajji Iman, was killed during a raid this month.
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter was expected to confirm the jihadist militant’s death and provide details of the raid at 10:30 (14:30 GMT).
The US authorities had offered a reward of $7m (£5m) for Qaduli.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35899711
I would bet that if Trump, Cruz, Kasich or Sanders were asked to name the head of ISIL, not one of them could do it.
Hillary would know for sure.
I would bet that outside of England, France, Germany & Canada Trump couldn’t even name a world leader. He could even be doubtful on the big 4.
donald dreck called belgium a city the other day. Typical arrogant murkan ignorance.
WAPO
Senior Islamic State commander killed, Pentagon official says
Haji Imam, a top Islamic State commander, was killed during an operation earlier this month, according to a senior defense official.
Morning TOD. I only have a minute, so no time to see if someone has already posted this…those of us going to Washington DC in June have sent emails to Donna asking for a tour confirmation, and haven’t heard back. Also, I haven’t seen her post here lately (although I am running a day or so behind). Does anyone know anything about how she is?
Thanks for whatever help you can give, and have a lovely Friday everyone. Now off to my first of many to-do’s today.
Cathleen
Someone said the other day that she is posting a lot on Facebook, but I don’t know what her name is there. I also want to know about the tour. I have bought my plane tickets, and want to fill out whatever is necessary for the tour. I have her email and will email her.
The adult in the room - doesn’t jump in with the stupid - considers the situation & works out the next step forward.
<3 Good
Chat away
http://theobamadiary.com/2016/03/25/chat-away-776/