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Thanks NW.
I am here for the historic occasion
I am glad I watched and listened
I’m glad I saw it “with you.” Wasn’t it wonderful.
Congrats, COS. Looking forward to hearing this.
GA TODville.
Not sure when PBO will deliver remarks, NerdyW’s “early bird” post says his remarks are scheduled for 5:05pm EST (2:05pm PST), and whitehouse.gov/live says it’s scheduled for 3:05pm EST (which was 15 minutes ago)… but whitehouse.gov/live livestream appears to be counting down to the originally scheduled 5:05pm EST.
The traveling WHPC aren’t the best photographers, most of the pics in my Twitter feed are pretty blurry, but here’s a few non-blurry ones:
Thanks for posting those!
This is Truth and Reconciliation…will our country ever be able to face racism…in the same manner…
“The Power of Tolerance and Reconciliation”
The unanswered question, even in the 21st century.
i know….it weighs heavily on me
Wish I were there to give you a big ol’ hug.
ty….(hugs)
PBO…gave an extraordinary speech
He did, he did.
Chris Christie Doesn’t Understand His Fate
by Martin Longman
December 27, 2025 1:55 PM
Chris Christie is back in New Jersey and badly wounded. He just failed to convince the legislature to relax ethics laws to allow him to profit from writing a book. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are more popular than he is in the Garden State, and the series of public humiliations he’s endured from the Trump camp since the election have been enough to make the Cleveland Browns blush.
At one time, he was in charge of the Trump transition team, but that plum position was yanked and his loyalists were largely purged from the lists. It was a predictable end if you knew that Christie had gone out of his way to humiliate the father of Trump’s son-in-law when he prosecuted him in 2005. The experience was traumatic enough for Jared Kushner, who was then working in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, that he gave up his aspirations to become a prosecutor himself.
………………………….
Yet, Christie is still in deep denial about what has happened to him, and why.
It could very well be that Trump’s first team is a disaster and that he’ll be looking to bring in some savior to rescue his presidency, but his son-in-law is not going to get dumped for the guy who put his father in prison and held a press conference to make it as brutal as he could make it.
I will not laugh …. oops, I just did … next up, I can go to confession
QUITE A HISTORIC MOMENT..KNOWING THE JAPANESE PM..REGRETS LOSING PBO………….STANDING BY HERE FOR THE WORLD TO BLOW A GASKET…
5:05 EST. Is there a significant reason for this particular time choice?
WATCHING ON MSN..<3…I DON'T WATCH MUCH OF PBO ANYMORE..IT IS TOO HARD ON ME!
Good morning TOD. Another beautiful day that we get to watch our great President. I don’t think we’ll be seeing events like this again.
The best gift I got this year was a new laptop. Last Friday my old desktop died. I said we’ll worry about it after Christmas. My son must have had an idea it was time because they bought this after a Thanksgiving sale. Now it is fun trying to set up a new computer. It’s frustrating because I have so many accounts that were on my desktop. My problem is I wasn’t so good at making sure everything went to the cloud. We’ll see how well I did.
Now to listen to the President.
BEAUTIFUL WORDS FROM PBO AND AS ALWAYS..HE LEAVES THE DOOR TO HIS HEART OPEN AND WE CAN SEE THE SADNESS….2,400 SOULS WRITTEN ON THIS PAGE IN OUR HISTORY. THE PRIME MINISTER LOOKS WORRIED AND CONCERNED…HE KNOWS WHAT DONALD TRUMP IS AND WHERE THE DARKNESS FALLS………………
hat tip-TPV
Some good news and human kindness! Secret Santa Donates 3,500 Pounds of Steak For Homeless Christmas Dinners.
Thanks to an anonymous Secret Santa, hundreds of homeless men, women, and children were able to eat a hardy meal for the holidays. A mystery donor gave 3,500 pounds of rib-eye steak to Union Gospel Mission shelter in Seattle, Washington.
“Thanks to our generous donors, we were able to serve 1,350 children and adults a Christmas feast that included steak, shrimp, a loaded baked potato and some herb roasted carrots!” wrote the organization. “It was quite the merry night at all of our shelters!” Union Gospel Mission has been providing emergency care and services to the homeless community since 1932. Though they reportedly serve about 1,000 meals a week to people living in property, the steak was a rare treat. “This meal means a lot – it’s the first Christmas I’m sitting down having a sober meal with my kids and new sisters and making new memories,” said one of the guests.
Wait for it….Birther will soon take credit. LOL.
If Trump is so sure he could have beaten President Obama , why didn’t Trump run in 2012?
Considering that he thanked ” the African Americans” for not voting and giving him “the win” by his own logic this would have precluded him from beating PBO if PBO could have run for a 3rd term. What a moron Trump is.
that was a very emotional event … exchanging vows of forgiveness and commitments to enduring friendship.
thanks a lot for PBO and PM Abe for taking this step of additional healing
Yes, it was. Two adults, preaching reconciliation and healing, yes!!
with Ambassador Caroline Kennedy at today’s ceremony, history comes full circle from the time of her father;
Beautiful - thanks for posting that.
HEADS UP:
Kennedy Center Honors will air tonight at 9PM EST on CBS
Thanks, NerdyWonka! Set the DVR. ❤
My timer is set. We are watching football but I told my husband we turn it to this at 8Tpm.
Thanks for this beautiful posts NW. This was such an important ceremony.
Thanks NW for the reminder 💃🏾
2017 tasks
http://www.nationalmemo.com/new-years-resolutions-trump-loser/
Remember when every LW goof was screaming for RBG to retire? Now my Inbox is flooded with “Tell Her Not To Retire!” Yikes
reconciliation
No idea the veracity of this, but it’s pretty funny.
At least one entity covered it:
“Carrie Fisher dead at 60, strangled by own bra (is the obituary Carrie Fisher wanted)”
http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/12/27/14094400/carrie-fisher-dead-obituary-request-strangled-bra
I hope the hammer comes down. Hard.
President Obama never fails us.
Never does. Never will.
Asking for Humanity ….
#RestoreHOPE
#TheResistance
I’m on a little bit of a delay watching the Kennedy Center Honors because I keep pausing my DVR … but (not to ruin it for anybody) just noticed the President as he intently sang along to a James Taylor song.
Wanted to cry!
Follow and join in!
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/12/27/informing-and-acting-tpvs-role-in-theresistance
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.
We have a country and a legacy to protect!
yes i was just about to post this…. i am all in….here is more from the post….
I think that by now we all realize how true this statement is. Donald Trump is about to capture the highest office in the land, and none of us can afford inaction - let alone silence - in the face of this great evil.
What shape does our actions against Trump’s rule take? I know that each of us has to decide for ourselves our individual best course of action, but I want to lay out my vision for TPV as a community and as a platform on our role in The Resistance. We want to expand beyond the role of explaining policy and counterpunching against an inept, corrupt media. I want us to give our community - and the entire popular galvanization against Donald Trump - a channel to act.
Alright, here it is: New Moon: Thursday 29 December 2016, 2016; 7.59 Capricorn at 1:53am EST. Wednesday 28 December 2016, 7.59 Capricorn 10:53pm PST. (Now, it’s all the same New Moon, y’all understand, just different time zones make it for different dates.) (Just kidding) (there is WAY too much going on for my nervous system, we may be seeing my brother head off into the Light any day now, he just never did make it back to even nearly functional). God Bless Us, everyone, it was a gift and an honor to be able to watch this meaningful dedication today. I❤ Barack Obama.
My thoughts are with you, our dear moon goddess, and your brother and family … and I love Barack Obama, too.
Pamela Taylor the West Virginia woman who call Michelle Obama a ape in heels was fired. You know we heard that she got her job back, but Tuesday it is reported that she was fired. Good.
Forget her, bella, if you can. Karma’s a bitch, and she’ll find her.
The bigot is forgotten.
Yes.
petesouza — President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan talk while on the Commander’s boat en route to the USS Arizona Memorial today.
That bottom pic right there. THAT’s our shared humanity. Wish we could see it everywhere, and forever.
Yup ….
Goodnight TOD …..
#RestoreHOPE
Goodnight, Bob. #RestoreHope