Loved this on SNL, Nerdy! Thanks for featuring it today. I’m going to watch it over and over. “Christmas in Hollis” has become one of my fave Xmas tunes, so you know making it into a PBO tribute is a win for me. Leslie Jones’ “Shoop” Biden homage was the cherry on top! And then Casey Affleck with the 80s breakdancer Jesus was awesomesauce on top of that. All those 80s hairdos and clothes made it even more fun. Yay for happy things!
Nerdy - thanks again for your yeoman;’s work to keep TOD going. I sent an email to [email protected] with an attachment of my White House photo with the Obamas. Hope you see it and post it if you like. XOXO
Look at these photos…stupidass wants that at a town near you! Because, FREEDUMB! Maybe the idiot isn’t picking a fight with China, maybe he wants to talk to them and see how the made all this deadly pollution, so he can replicate that here.
They let American and European businesses use their country for their manufacturing toilet and the people of China are suffering. I wonder how many Chinese will die before they realize that using coal is killing them and switch to solar?
BTW, from everything I’ve seen over the years, Steve Inskeep is one of the most respectful journalists out there and I truly appreciate the way he’s related to PBO, especially when it feels like it’s such a thing of the past.
Morning TOD. Meta, he has been decent, at least. I must say that for those who take the time to write PBO to tell him “good riddance”, I don’t believe they fully mean it because they at least know that he will hear them out. They just could not bring themselves to appreciate all that he has brought and all the good he has tried to bring because of their own insecurities- whatever they may be. Bet they can’t list what it is he has done to be determined the “worst president ever”. Like parakeets regurgitating RW talking points.
Conservative Group Wants Trump To ‘Ferret Out’ Pro-LGBT State Department Workers
A new twist on old McCarthyism.
12/16/2016 04:57 pm ET | Updated 2 days ago
A leading social conservative organization is calling on the Trump administration to “ferret out” employees at the State Department who worked to promote LGBT rights and replace them with conservatives.
The Family Research Council, in a little-noticed statement on Thursday, accused the Obama administration of having deployed the State Department to advance an LGBT agenda, and argued it was incumbent on the next secretary of state ― likely ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson ― to stop it.
“I certainly don’t see Tillerson cut from the same cloth as [Hillary] Clinton or [John] Kerry, but he doesn’t have to be for these anti-life, liberal social policies to continue,” said a statement that appears to be written by the group’s president, Tony Perkins. “He must have the courage to stop the promotion of this anti-family, anti-life agenda, which is very much a question mark given that he capitulated to activists pushing to liberalize the Boy Scouts’ policy on homosexuality when he was at the helm of the organization.
“The incoming administration needs to make clear that these liberal policies will be reversed and the ‘activists’ within the State Department promoting them will be ferreted out and will be replaced by conservatives who will ensure the State Department focuses on true international human rights like religious liberty which is under unprecedented assault,” the statement concludes.
The Media Need to Focus on Context, Not “Balance”
by Nancy LeTourneau
December 20, 2025 3:49 PM
POLITICAL ANIMAL BLOG
In writing about Democratic opposition to the electoral college vote yesterday, the only mention from Jonathan Martin and Michael Wines of the fact that he lost the popular vote by 2.8 million comes in a quote from Bill Clinton. Eventually, they report this reaction to the opposition from Kellyanne Conway.
“The professional political left is attempting to foment a permanent opposition that is corrosive to our constitutional democracy and ignores what just happened in this election,” she said. Liberals cannot, she added, “wave magic pixie dust and make this go away.”
As for whether Mr. Trump would now begin to offer a hand of friendship to his critics, Ms. Conway noted that he had met with multiple Democrats and spoken with President Obama “several times.” “He said, ‘I’ll be president of all people,’ but the left is trying to delegitimize his election,” she said. “They’re trying to deny him what he just earned. So why is the burden always on him?”
We have no way of knowing whether there was anymore to this discussion they had with Conway because that is where they leave things in their reporting. One wonders whether or not they reminded her of the way Republicans fomented a permanent opposition to Bill Clinton via everything from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky. Or if they brought up the permanent opposition to Barack Obama that began the night of his 2009 inauguration. It would have been particularly interesting to know how she would have reacted to a reminder that Donald Trump tried to delegitimize Obama’s election via his obsession with birtherism.
None of that historical context was included by Martin and Wines, even though they found the space in an article of more than 1,500 words to mention the Gingrich revolution in 1994 as well as Democratic opposition to the election of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
Bill O’Reilly sparked outrage online Tuesday for what he described as the “hidden reason” behind calls to abolish the Electoral College.
“This is all about race,” the conservative commentator said on his Fox News show. “The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with. Therefore white working class voters must be marginalized.”
He later added that liberals believe “white men have set up a system of oppression and that system must be destroyed … The left wants power taken away from the white establishment and they want a profound change in the way America is run.”
O’Reilly’s admission of “white privilege” and the “white establishment” struck a chord with Twitter users, and discussion on the topic became a trending topic overnight.
Love celestial events, reminders of the real world/universe we all inhabit.
Side note about SoCal weather now… absolutely gorgeous, balmy morning, mid-60s (it’s been cold, overnight lows in the high 30s and 40s with gale-force winds [more than 20 mph]) — so enjoying the beginning of the shortest day of the year) with only a slight breeze.😀
Posted three years ago, for that year’s winter solstice:
Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere tomorrow. Beginning Sunday, daylight kicks in earlier in the day. pic.twitter.com/H1AD5nUGpu
What Did Donald Trump Know, and When Did He Know It?
by David Atkins
December 17, 2025 8:30 AM
As news rolls in about Russia’s likely sabotage of the American political system, the noose is beginning to tighten uncomfortably around Republicans. The only question that matters now is this: what did Donald Trump know about the hacks on his political opponents, and when did he know it?
It is becoming increasingly clear from all sides that Russian intelligence–likely at the specific direction of Vladimir Putin–perpetrated the hack on the Democratic National Committee and on Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. It appears to have been done with the specific aim of making Donald Trump president over Hillary Clinton, handing control of American government to a man who is not only more willing to do Russia’s bidding around the world, but also has business interests in Russia that make him personally vulnerable to blackmail and corruption.
The CIA has said so directly. The FBI is corroborating the CIA. The current President of the United States, not given to hyperbole, is in agreement. The Russians themselves, while officially denying involvement in the sabotage, have been celebrating Trump’s victory. Trump himself called on the Russians to hack Clinton’s emails during his last press conference. There isn’t a smoking gun of “proof” yet, but there rarely is one in cases of international cyber-espionage.
It’s important to remember the context here. “Hacking” is seen as so routine in our modern age that it’s easy to lose sight of historical precedent. The Watergate scandal that brought President Nixon to his knees began with a burglary attempt on Democratic campaign offices–a failed attempt to do the same thing that the Russians allegedly succeded in accomplishing far beyond Nixon’s wildest dreams. If anyone in the Republican firmament had knowledge of Russia’s efforts and aided and abetted them in any way, it would be a scandal orders of magnitude worse than Watergate. The optics alone are disastrous.
In response, recently triumphant Republicans are lurching from one bad talking point to another.
First comes outright denial of the truth: both Trump and RNC chair Reince Priebus have openly attempted to discredit the findings of American intelligence agencies in defense of Russia. Trump’s transition team mocked the CIA by falsely blaming the agency for poor intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (in truth, it was the Bush Administration that manipulated the evidence in order to go to war.) Priebus tried to claim–falsely–that there was no official report implicating Russia. But no one outside the Republican Party and a few Glenn Greenwald adherents are seriously in doubt about Russia’s role in all of this.
Trump campaign manager KellyAnne Conway is taking a more brazen approach, saying that we should just forget about it and let bygones be bygones in the spirit of patriotism and “love of country.” In this funhouse mirror world, ignoring a foreign manipulation of our democracy is the highest form of patriotism, while insisting on getting to the bottom of it is petty and partisan. That’s not likely to get traction beyond Trump’s committed base.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unleashed his inner pit bull Tuesday on Twitter after the Legislature shelved his bill to yank millions of dollars in ads from state newspapers.
The measure was dubbed Christie’s “revenge” against newspapers that aggressively covered Bridgegate — the investigation that led to the convictions of two allies who conspired to cause a traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge in 2013 to punish a Democratic mayor who didn’t endorse the governor for re-election.
The bill would have repealed the state law requiring legal notices to be printed in newspapers, clearing the way for the lucrative ads to move online.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats df, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you are super-sensational, super-terrific, and topnotch at everything you do today. ❤ ❤❤
Notwithstanding the nightmare of BuffoonTrump in the Whitehouse, I am more than ever, Thankful to God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Norm Conquest
Trump is set to undermine the things you take for granted in government and public life.
By Jamelle Bouie
On Monday, the Electoral College cast its ballots, and now Donald Trump is officially the next president of the United States. Even now, we still don’t know what Trump will do. Vague promises aside (“We will bring back jobs” or “we’ll stop ISIS”), Trump has said little on policy. We don’t know his priorities for action or his agenda for the first 100 days of his administration. If there is anything we can expect, however, it’s an escalation of his ongoing attack on the norms of politics and civic life.
Trump is defined by his shameless disregard, and even disdain, for the bonds that hold political life together. To win the Republican nomination and then the election, he stoked hatred and intolerance in a demagogic campaign against Hispanic immigrants and Muslim Americans. Since the election, he’s rejected evidence that Russia hacked the Democratic Party and attacked U.S. intelligence agencies for their conclusions.
There’s more. Constitutional scholars have sounded the alarm that Trump is embroiled in massive conflicts of interests tied to his sprawling businesses and debts to foreign banks and other creditors. The knot is so thick that, unless he liquidates his assets and hands them to a third party to place in a “blind” trust, he risks violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. Despite this danger, and his promise to remove himself from his businesses, Trump has leaned into these conflicts. His children, for instance, attend high-level meetings with heads of state and use their father’s prominence to solicit donations to personal causes. Ivanka Trump, in particular, has already joined her father for conversations that have a direct bearing on the business interests of their family.
Likewise, foreign governments have already opened doors for Trump’s businesses, signing permits and resolving legal disputes. The most obvious conflict involves the Trump International Hotel. The lease on the property, issued by the General Services Administration, forbids members of Congress or other elected federal officials from having any part of it. And that’s to say nothing of the more venal examples of corruption, such as foreign governments booking rooms in the hotel or reserving it for events in an effort to curry favor with the incoming president.
Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish
The White House prods efforts out of concern Trump might expunge reams of information.
By DAN DIAMOND 12/21/16 05:09 AM EST
The White House is encouraging researchers to copy government data on Obamacare out of concern that President-elect Donald Trump might hit the delete key when he takes office.
Spooked by Trump’s rhetoric and pledge to repeal Obamacare, several dozen independent researchers are racing to download key health care data and documents before Jan. 20. They say they began the effort on their own, and then got a boost from Jeanne Lambrew, the White House’s top health reform official, who also sounded alarms the new administration might expunge reams of information from public websites and end access to data, researchers told POLITICO.
In her last solo interview as first lady, Michelle Obama spoke candidly with Oprah about her 'hope' for the future. https://t.co/kfoEpKeaur pic.twitter.com/w0XBYhsma0
@NYDailyNews 34 minutes ago
Donald Trump’s doc on his health: “If something happens to him, then it happens to him. That’s why we have a V.P.” — http://nydn.us/2hV4eKh
Oh, yes. That was supremely amazing. There are so many, many speeches he gave that made such a difference to so many…..Maybe they’ll be collected in one place some day………
Last night, my nice neighbors gave me a plate of the best homemade iced Christmas cookies I ever tasted in my life even though they’re gluten-free and I counted them and thought well if I eat a certain number a day these will last me until Christmas Eve so at this point looks like Christmas Eve will be Thursday!
Caption of photo from the article:
“Dr. Sylvia Earle gives President Barack Obama a photograph of Tosanoides obama on Midway Atoll, from the film ‘Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures’ premiering on National Geographic Channel on January 15.”
Really wish GOP “lawmakers” could have heard the guy at the 7-11 that I frequent for morning coffee on the day Obamacare enrollments began (Oct 1, 2025).
This guy, who looked like the kind of person that appeals to the GOP — youngish (20s/30s), white, looked like he might be in construction — BOOMED that “Today’s gonna be a great day! Obamacare starts today.”
No one in the store could have missed him saying this unsolicited — he was genuinely excited to have health care.
Unbelievable that MSM didn’t push back on GOP’s 50+ attempts to repeal something that so many Americans (including GOP) rely on, literally with their lives.
Still culling down my annual Year in Photographs. Here the President takes a photo of David Simas (with David's iPhone) in front of the Golden Gate Bridge just after we had landed on the Marine One helicopter.
My greatest fear, when I ponder going to jail, is that my 53-year-old prostate wouldn’t be able to handle the long wait until I am booked. Before Election Day, it seemed a little crazy to imagine that I would ever be behind bars. Now it seems a little crazy that the country would be where we are. Like many others, I am weighing what I am willing and able to do in response.
Henry David Thoreau begins his 1849 essay On the duty of civil disobedience with a timely question: “This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but in each instant losing some of its integrity?” American government lost more than some of its integrity on November 8, when Donald Trump was elected to succeed Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Donald Trump is the most comprehensively unworthy president-elect in generations. His mere venial sins astonish: his grifting business practices, exemplified by the $25 million settlement against Trump University, his tabloid affairs, the crude personal insults he hurls at critics and political opponents, his disdain for the craft of policy making, exemplified by his failure to attend national-security briefings. I’m not even mentioning his relationship to Putin.
Good piece..highly recommend:) Evening family…waiting for my “child” so we can go get a Christmas tree. Don’t start. I know it’s late. The “good” side of that is that trees are now 1/2 off:)
I noticed something during FLOTUS’ interview with Ms. Oprah:
FLOTUS quoted a scripture passage about hope which was the same as what POTUS did during the Eulogy for the Mother Emmanuel Nine (when he was starting the eulogy).
FLOTUS just mentioned the words as she gave her explanation - don’t remember if she said the exact book and verse — it just flowed as part of her answer without special emphasis.
The passage was not the obvious one that most people routinely use … which made me think that it has a special meaning in the Obama Household.
“As a scientist, what I know about the Arctic is terrifying. Currently, it’s warming twice as fast as anywhere else on the planet. As a photographer, I can observe and document these effects first-hand: receding glaciers, struggling wildlife populations, and cities impacted by rising sea levels.” —@PaulNicklen, Arctic scientist and photojournalist, on the importance of protecting the Arctic. Click the bio link to see how President Obama took action this week to protect our pristine Arctic waters and the species that live there. #ActOnClimate 📷@PaulNicklen
A photo posted by The White House (@whitehouse) on
#Pope Francis washes feet of #Muslim #Hindu & #Christian refugees from #Mali #Eritrea #Syria #Pakistan. USA building a wall #humility #love pic.twitter.com/mHTMTXOQLK
— Greg Mortenson (@gregmortenson) December 21, 2025
White House.gov
Morning:) Thanks bunches, Nerdy.
Congrats, DF!
“I’ma hurt myself before I lose Obamacare.” - Chance The Rapper is so freaking awesome!😀😀😀
Loved this on SNL, Nerdy! Thanks for featuring it today. I’m going to watch it over and over. “Christmas in Hollis” has become one of my fave Xmas tunes, so you know making it into a PBO tribute is a win for me. Leslie Jones’ “Shoop” Biden homage was the cherry on top! And then Casey Affleck with the 80s breakdancer Jesus was awesomesauce on top of that. All those 80s hairdos and clothes made it even more fun. Yay for happy things!
P.S. Of course Jesus is a Democrat.
Nerdy - thanks again for your yeoman;’s work to keep TOD going. I sent an email to [email protected] with an attachment of my White House photo with the Obamas. Hope you see it and post it if you like. XOXO
Hey Judith, if you can, please DM me the picture and that way I can receive it faster.😀
Um, how do I DM you Nerdy? Is it via email or Facebook or some other way? Twitter?
Look at these photos…stupidass wants that at a town near you! Because, FREEDUMB! Maybe the idiot isn’t picking a fight with China, maybe he wants to talk to them and see how the made all this deadly pollution, so he can replicate that here.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-travel-idUSKBN14A15H?il=0
GM DF.
Every day when I open the Internet, I swear it feels like the most recent episode of the Twilight Zone (paging HF2).
It’s truly horrifying… a half a billion people is many more than live in the US:
They let American and European businesses use their country for their manufacturing toilet and the people of China are suffering. I wonder how many Chinese will die before they realize that using coal is killing them and switch to solar?
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/state-status
Good morning TOD folks. Wishing everyone a wonderful day.
Good morning, NW and TODville.
This is our very thoughtful and introspective President Obama talking about letters he’s received since the election. Heartbreaking.
BTW, from everything I’ve seen over the years, Steve Inskeep is one of the most respectful journalists out there and I truly appreciate the way he’s related to PBO, especially when it feels like it’s such a thing of the past.
Morning TOD. Meta, he has been decent, at least. I must say that for those who take the time to write PBO to tell him “good riddance”, I don’t believe they fully mean it because they at least know that he will hear them out. They just could not bring themselves to appreciate all that he has brought and all the good he has tried to bring because of their own insecurities- whatever they may be. Bet they can’t list what it is he has done to be determined the “worst president ever”. Like parakeets regurgitating RW talking points.
Here we are.
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/811570570043228160
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller
Morning Everyone🙂
ICYMI:
Uh huh
Uh huh
Conservative Group Wants Trump To ‘Ferret Out’ Pro-LGBT State Department Workers
A new twist on old McCarthyism.
12/16/2016 04:57 pm ET | Updated 2 days ago
A leading social conservative organization is calling on the Trump administration to “ferret out” employees at the State Department who worked to promote LGBT rights and replace them with conservatives.
The Family Research Council, in a little-noticed statement on Thursday, accused the Obama administration of having deployed the State Department to advance an LGBT agenda, and argued it was incumbent on the next secretary of state ― likely ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson ― to stop it.
“I certainly don’t see Tillerson cut from the same cloth as [Hillary] Clinton or [John] Kerry, but he doesn’t have to be for these anti-life, liberal social policies to continue,” said a statement that appears to be written by the group’s president, Tony Perkins. “He must have the courage to stop the promotion of this anti-family, anti-life agenda, which is very much a question mark given that he capitulated to activists pushing to liberalize the Boy Scouts’ policy on homosexuality when he was at the helm of the organization.
“The incoming administration needs to make clear that these liberal policies will be reversed and the ‘activists’ within the State Department promoting them will be ferreted out and will be replaced by conservatives who will ensure the State Department focuses on true international human rights like religious liberty which is under unprecedented assault,” the statement concludes.
The Media Need to Focus on Context, Not “Balance”
by Nancy LeTourneau
December 20, 2025 3:49 PM
POLITICAL ANIMAL BLOG
In writing about Democratic opposition to the electoral college vote yesterday, the only mention from Jonathan Martin and Michael Wines of the fact that he lost the popular vote by 2.8 million comes in a quote from Bill Clinton. Eventually, they report this reaction to the opposition from Kellyanne Conway.
We have no way of knowing whether there was anymore to this discussion they had with Conway because that is where they leave things in their reporting. One wonders whether or not they reminded her of the way Republicans fomented a permanent opposition to Bill Clinton via everything from Whitewater to Monica Lewinsky. Or if they brought up the permanent opposition to Barack Obama that began the night of his 2009 inauguration. It would have been particularly interesting to know how she would have reacted to a reminder that Donald Trump tried to delegitimize Obama’s election via his obsession with birtherism.
None of that historical context was included by Martin and Wines, even though they found the space in an article of more than 1,500 words to mention the Gingrich revolution in 1994 as well as Democratic opposition to the election of George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
Bill O’Reilly: ‘The Left Wants Power Taken Away From The White Establishment’
Twitter erupted.
12/21/2016 02:41 am ET
Bill O’Reilly sparked outrage online Tuesday for what he described as the “hidden reason” behind calls to abolish the Electoral College.
“This is all about race,” the conservative commentator said on his Fox News show. “The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with. Therefore white working class voters must be marginalized.”
He later added that liberals believe “white men have set up a system of oppression and that system must be destroyed … The left wants power taken away from the white establishment and they want a profound change in the way America is run.”
O’Reilly’s admission of “white privilege” and the “white establishment” struck a chord with Twitter users, and discussion on the topic became a trending topic overnight.
🌕Winter Solstice, Sun into Capricorn: today, 21 December 2016, 5:45am EST, 2:45am PST. So, we are there. 🌝❤🌹🙏🏻🌹❤
GM MP.
Love celestial events, reminders of the real world/universe we all inhabit.
Side note about SoCal weather now… absolutely gorgeous, balmy morning, mid-60s (it’s been cold, overnight lows in the high 30s and 40s with gale-force winds [more than 20 mph]) — so enjoying the beginning of the shortest day of the year) with only a slight breeze.😀
Posted three years ago, for that year’s winter solstice:
Waving to Chips and Danny now. Love you both, and miss you so much.
What Did Donald Trump Know, and When Did He Know It?
by David Atkins
December 17, 2025 8:30 AM
As news rolls in about Russia’s likely sabotage of the American political system, the noose is beginning to tighten uncomfortably around Republicans. The only question that matters now is this: what did Donald Trump know about the hacks on his political opponents, and when did he know it?
It is becoming increasingly clear from all sides that Russian intelligence–likely at the specific direction of Vladimir Putin–perpetrated the hack on the Democratic National Committee and on Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. It appears to have been done with the specific aim of making Donald Trump president over Hillary Clinton, handing control of American government to a man who is not only more willing to do Russia’s bidding around the world, but also has business interests in Russia that make him personally vulnerable to blackmail and corruption.
The CIA has said so directly. The FBI is corroborating the CIA. The current President of the United States, not given to hyperbole, is in agreement. The Russians themselves, while officially denying involvement in the sabotage, have been celebrating Trump’s victory. Trump himself called on the Russians to hack Clinton’s emails during his last press conference. There isn’t a smoking gun of “proof” yet, but there rarely is one in cases of international cyber-espionage.
It’s important to remember the context here. “Hacking” is seen as so routine in our modern age that it’s easy to lose sight of historical precedent. The Watergate scandal that brought President Nixon to his knees began with a burglary attempt on Democratic campaign offices–a failed attempt to do the same thing that the Russians allegedly succeded in accomplishing far beyond Nixon’s wildest dreams. If anyone in the Republican firmament had knowledge of Russia’s efforts and aided and abetted them in any way, it would be a scandal orders of magnitude worse than Watergate. The optics alone are disastrous.
In response, recently triumphant Republicans are lurching from one bad talking point to another.
First comes outright denial of the truth: both Trump and RNC chair Reince Priebus have openly attempted to discredit the findings of American intelligence agencies in defense of Russia. Trump’s transition team mocked the CIA by falsely blaming the agency for poor intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (in truth, it was the Bush Administration that manipulated the evidence in order to go to war.) Priebus tried to claim–falsely–that there was no official report implicating Russia. But no one outside the Republican Party and a few Glenn Greenwald adherents are seriously in doubt about Russia’s role in all of this.
Trump campaign manager KellyAnne Conway is taking a more brazen approach, saying that we should just forget about it and let bygones be bygones in the spirit of patriotism and “love of country.” In this funhouse mirror world, ignoring a foreign manipulation of our democracy is the highest form of patriotism, while insisting on getting to the bottom of it is petty and partisan. That’s not likely to get traction beyond Trump’s committed base.
Should be on his way to jail
Gov. Chris Christie tweets up a storm after ‘revenge bill’ fails in New Jersey Legislature
NBC News
ALEX JOHNSON
Dec 21st 2016 7:35AM
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unleashed his inner pit bull Tuesday on Twitter after the Legislature shelved his bill to yank millions of dollars in ads from state newspapers.
The measure was dubbed Christie’s “revenge” against newspapers that aggressively covered Bridgegate — the investigation that led to the convictions of two allies who conspired to cause a traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge in 2013 to punish a Democratic mayor who didn’t endorse the governor for re-election.
The bill would have repealed the state law requiring legal notices to be printed in newspapers, clearing the way for the lucrative ads to move online.
Good morning Ms. Chips, Danny and TOD family, I hope all is well with everyone this lovely Wednesday morning. Congrats df, on being first this morning.
Nerdy, thanks so much for helping Ms. Chips and the sacrifices you are making for us TOD’ers. 💫🙏👌👊❤
To all, I hope you are super-sensational, super-terrific, and topnotch at everything you do today. ❤ ❤❤
Notwithstanding the nightmare of BuffoonTrump in the Whitehouse, I am more than ever, Thankful to God that President Obama is still the President of The United States of America. ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆 ⭐🏆
Norm Conquest
Trump is set to undermine the things you take for granted in government and public life.
By Jamelle Bouie
On Monday, the Electoral College cast its ballots, and now Donald Trump is officially the next president of the United States. Even now, we still don’t know what Trump will do. Vague promises aside (“We will bring back jobs” or “we’ll stop ISIS”), Trump has said little on policy. We don’t know his priorities for action or his agenda for the first 100 days of his administration. If there is anything we can expect, however, it’s an escalation of his ongoing attack on the norms of politics and civic life.
Trump is defined by his shameless disregard, and even disdain, for the bonds that hold political life together. To win the Republican nomination and then the election, he stoked hatred and intolerance in a demagogic campaign against Hispanic immigrants and Muslim Americans. Since the election, he’s rejected evidence that Russia hacked the Democratic Party and attacked U.S. intelligence agencies for their conclusions.
There’s more. Constitutional scholars have sounded the alarm that Trump is embroiled in massive conflicts of interests tied to his sprawling businesses and debts to foreign banks and other creditors. The knot is so thick that, unless he liquidates his assets and hands them to a third party to place in a “blind” trust, he risks violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. Despite this danger, and his promise to remove himself from his businesses, Trump has leaned into these conflicts. His children, for instance, attend high-level meetings with heads of state and use their father’s prominence to solicit donations to personal causes. Ivanka Trump, in particular, has already joined her father for conversations that have a direct bearing on the business interests of their family.
Likewise, foreign governments have already opened doors for Trump’s businesses, signing permits and resolving legal disputes. The most obvious conflict involves the Trump International Hotel. The lease on the property, issued by the General Services Administration, forbids members of Congress or other elected federal officials from having any part of it. And that’s to say nothing of the more venal examples of corruption, such as foreign governments booking rooms in the hotel or reserving it for events in an effort to curry favor with the incoming president.
For those in the bleacher seats.
And, can’t understand election results.
Hillary Clinton won the Archie Bunker votes.
She lost Archie’s college educated boss and his White wife.
So, FOH with this bullshyt.
Well, since all eight years of his Presidency has been “no day at the beach,” glad he’s there! Merry Christmas, Obama Family and Hawaii hosts!
Hummph
Better call Canada again:
Researchers race to copy Obamacare data for fear it will vanish
The White House prods efforts out of concern Trump might expunge reams of information.
By DAN DIAMOND 12/21/16 05:09 AM EST
The White House is encouraging researchers to copy government data on Obamacare out of concern that President-elect Donald Trump might hit the delete key when he takes office.
Spooked by Trump’s rhetoric and pledge to repeal Obamacare, several dozen independent researchers are racing to download key health care data and documents before Jan. 20. They say they began the effort on their own, and then got a boost from Jeanne Lambrew, the White House’s top health reform official, who also sounded alarms the new administration might expunge reams of information from public websites and end access to data, researchers told POLITICO.
She is my First Lady
@NYDailyNews 34 minutes ago
Donald Trump’s doc on his health: “If something happens to him, then it happens to him. That’s why we have a V.P.” — http://nydn.us/2hV4eKh
G’morning Nerdy & TOD! 🙂 Happy Wednesday everyone.
Good morning everyone! Let’s keep the Faith, and keep Hope alive!
Wonderful page for safekeeping:
Well, that’s a treasure!
i would like to add….the Eulogy that the President gave for Rev Pinckney
Oh, yes. That was supremely amazing. There are so many, many speeches he gave that made such a difference to so many…..Maybe they’ll be collected in one place some day………
yessss
Last night, my nice neighbors gave me a plate of the best homemade iced Christmas cookies I ever tasted in my life even though they’re gluten-free and I counted them and thought well if I eat a certain number a day these will last me until Christmas Eve so at this point looks like Christmas Eve will be Thursday!
#Yummy #CoffeeAndCookies #MerryChristmasEverybody
Most excellent, Jacqueline!!!!😀😀😀
Merry Christmas to you, Steve and your family!!
Thank you, Bob, and to you and yours!
Cookie Monster!!
Cookie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a lovely gift. Enjoy!
Thanks! Especially because I am a “domestic goddess” in every room BUT the kitchen. 🙂
Lol. That’s funny. Enjoy them to the fullest. 😍😉🎄
No joke ….
Wonder how all the “Muslims for Trump” think about that? Bunch of idiots……
somethings are hard to comprehend
Shadow and Act talks with the author of Hidden Figures , Margot Lee Shetterly
http://shadowandact.com/2016/12/20/interview-hidden-figures-author-margot-lee-shetterly-talks-uncovering-a-rich-and-powerful-story/
GA TODville.
Caption of photo from the article:
“Dr. Sylvia Earle gives President Barack Obama a photograph of Tosanoides obama on Midway Atoll, from the film ‘Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures’ premiering on National Geographic Channel on January 15.”
Just 4 days before PBO’s last day in office.😦
GA JER.
Really wish GOP “lawmakers” could have heard the guy at the 7-11 that I frequent for morning coffee on the day Obamacare enrollments began (Oct 1, 2025).
This guy, who looked like the kind of person that appeals to the GOP — youngish (20s/30s), white, looked like he might be in construction — BOOMED that “Today’s gonna be a great day! Obamacare starts today.”
No one in the store could have missed him saying this unsolicited — he was genuinely excited to have health care.
Unbelievable that MSM didn’t push back on GOP’s 50+ attempts to repeal something that so many Americans (including GOP) rely on, literally with their lives.
Indeed…The Jig is UP!
Winter Solstice Beauty Break
Don’t think I’ve ever seen this one:
Wow! Love it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/thinking-about-committing-civil-disobedience-in-the-age-of-trump/
My greatest fear, when I ponder going to jail, is that my 53-year-old prostate wouldn’t be able to handle the long wait until I am booked. Before Election Day, it seemed a little crazy to imagine that I would ever be behind bars. Now it seems a little crazy that the country would be where we are. Like many others, I am weighing what I am willing and able to do in response.
Henry David Thoreau begins his 1849 essay On the duty of civil disobedience with a timely question: “This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but in each instant losing some of its integrity?” American government lost more than some of its integrity on November 8, when Donald Trump was elected to succeed Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Donald Trump is the most comprehensively unworthy president-elect in generations. His mere venial sins astonish: his grifting business practices, exemplified by the $25 million settlement against Trump University, his tabloid affairs, the crude personal insults he hurls at critics and political opponents, his disdain for the craft of policy making, exemplified by his failure to attend national-security briefings. I’m not even mentioning his relationship to Putin.
Good piece..highly recommend:) Evening family…waiting for my “child” so we can go get a Christmas tree. Don’t start. I know it’s late. The “good” side of that is that trees are now 1/2 off:)
I noticed something during FLOTUS’ interview with Ms. Oprah:
FLOTUS quoted a scripture passage about hope which was the same as what POTUS did during the Eulogy for the Mother Emmanuel Nine (when he was starting the eulogy).
FLOTUS just mentioned the words as she gave her explanation - don’t remember if she said the exact book and verse — it just flowed as part of her answer without special emphasis.
The passage was not the obvious one that most people routinely use … which made me think that it has a special meaning in the Obama Household.
hope some of you caught it too.
Joy wrote a piece for Ebony magazine on Pres. Obama’s legacy and the myth of a post-racial America. Be sure to check it out, #reiders!
@mikememoli
Hmmm … I have a long-time friend who works there. Hmmm.
Goodnight TOD ….
Oh, and this ….