Yes, thanks, NW. š Good morning. Glad you slept, df. So did I with the help of Benedryl and small sip of the codine cough med. Like you, donāt do every night, but I canāt go without sleep either.
Good day to all. Going to one of my service opportunities today. bbl………
Which will lead to even MORE Americans losing their health insurance than the 32 million the CBO predicted yesterdayhttps://t.co/9jnbMbEVLu https://t.co/ptEv1QdyOb
Early optimism among business lobbyists and executives that Donald Trumpās election heralded better days has slowly given way to uncertainty as the president-elect fires off mixed and sometimes confusing messages on healthcare, taxes and trade.
An initial euphoria in the business world fueled a powerful post-election stock rally. Some of that has frayed as questions arise over the nuts and bolts of Trumpās campaign promises, although many in the business community said they remain optimistic.
Doubts deepened over the weekend as Trump declared he would replace President Barack Obamaās signature healthcare plan known as Obamacare with “insurance for everybody” - a goal far beyond Republican designs - and criticized a key component of a plan in Congress to overhaul corporate taxes.
“It is fair to say that since the election, there has been mounting uncertainty about exactly what the specific policies are likely to be with regard to tax reform and replacing Obamacare,” a financial industry official said.
Expectations for faster growth, tax reform and a quick repeal of Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, have “given way to ‘We are not really sure what he means by thatā,” the official said.
A veteran Republican financial lobbyist said she is under constant pressure from clients to predict what the new administration is planning, but she has no reliable answers for them.
Morning df. I may have to take your sleep remedy. I have a hard time sleeping through the night too. I wake up several times and I am up at 5am every day.
Trump has the shallowest idea of what power really means. He's an empty shell of quivering testosterone, sitting duck target for shame. https://t.co/MRlm84LTst
51% think Pres. Obama will go down in history as an above-average president, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds https://t.co/99sUcYFiMI pic.twitter.com/onm9XQnkto
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 18, 2025
of course they will. after especially knowing the rethugs canāt and wonāt do jacksquat about it as long it ensures their
‘victoryā. even vichy was better when compared to these treasonous pos.
.@JoeBiden lambastes Putinās "meddling" in foreign politics during his speech to the #worldeconomicforum in Davos https://t.co/CKqQ9BiZSn pic.twitter.com/jRCqu1p8mK
Obama's approval hits 60%, his highest since 2009, as he prepares to leave office, according to a CNN/ORC poll. https://t.co/4xRhU6ATZ7 pic.twitter.com/kiza99lGhY
PBO still cleaning up the mess of previous administrations on his way out of the door. The 1995 case that A-A Secret Service agents brought against the organization for prejudice regarding promotions (the main plaintiff was on Billās detail, had been denied promotion 200 times, and had trained the white agents who were promoted over him) is finally being settled, according to the msn newsfeed this morning.
Like Trevor Noah said in one of his skits, “President Obama is baby-proofing America.” It will not be so easy for the would-be gangsters coming in to dismantle everything because the president is neither careless nor sloppy. He knows better than any the various dodges his enemies (letās call them what they are) will use to try to wreck havoc. Another thing that should bring comfort is that there has been great systemic change and innovation in the various governmental departments that deal with the meat and potatoes of American life. While the rethugs were pouncing on the shiny objects, PBOās smart and discreet staffs were getting a lot of shit done that will benefit us for decades to come. e know that they do not read the various briefs, reports, and memos that are produced and the idiots coming in certainly have neither the mental capacity nor the desire to do so. While it is more than likely that we will take some hits, I believe that they will be things that can be righted or their effects lessened. PBO and his administration have done more to protect us and to make our lives better than any other president; it is now on us to fight for ourselves and others.
Erik Prince, Americaās most notorious mercenary, is lurking in the shadows of the incoming Trump administration. A former senior U.S. official who has advised the Trump transition told The Intercept that Prince has been advising the team on matters related to intelligence and defense, including weighing in on candidates for the defense and state departments. The official asked not to be identified because of a transition policy prohibiting discussion of confidential deliberations.
On election night, Princeās latest wife, Stacy DeLuke, posted pictures from inside Trumpās campaign headquarters as Donald Trump and Mike Pence watched the returns come in, including a close shot of Pence and Trump with their families. āWe know some people who worked closely with [Trump] on his campaign,ā DeLuke wrote. āWaiting for the numbers to come in last night. It was well worth the wait!!!! #PresidentTrump2016.ā Princeās sister, billionaire Betsy DeVos, is Trumpās nominee for education secretary and Prince (and his mother) gave large sums of money to a Trump Super PAC.
In July, Prince told Trumpās senior advisor and white supremacist Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, that the Trump administration should recreate a version of the Phoenix Program, the CIA assassination ring that operated during the Vietnam War, to fight ISIS. Such a program, Prince said, could kill or capture āthe funders of Islamic terror and that would even be the wealthy radical Islamist billionaires funding it from the Middle East, and any of the other illicit activities theyāre in.ā
Prince also said that Trump would be the best force to confront āIslamic fascism.ā āAs for the world looking to the United States for leadership, unfortunately, I think theyāre going to have to wait till January and hope Mr. Trump is elected because, clearly, our generals donāt have a stomach for a fight,ā Prince said. āOur President doesnāt have a stomach for a fight and the terrorists, the fascists, are winning.ā
Trump Off to Historically Bad Start
by Martin Longman
January 17, 2025 1:46 PM
Dana Milbank collected a (still incomplete) list of all the people Trump has insulted and gloated over since we won his surprising election in early November. As I read it, I kept having the same experience: āOh yeah, I forgot about that one.ā Itās more evidence that the specifics of the insults donāt matter. Whatās important is that heās always on offense. Heās always giving his audience more.
Itās true that this demonstrates continuity with this approach to the campaign, but it also makes him a sore winner. And very few people like sore winners. Milbank probably puts too much emphasis on this one point as he uses it to explain Trumpās astonishingly bad poll numbers, but itās a factor.
Looking back, it will also be hard to judge the way the Bush presidency handled winning the presidency despite losing the popular vote because the 9/11 attacks reshaped everything. But he was struggling by Labor Day of 2001. In late may, Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont was already so incensed by the way Bush was handling the presidency that he defected from the Republican Party and handed control of the Senate over to the Democrats. By late-August, a rift had opened up between Colin Powell at the State Department and the Cheney/Rumsfeld axis. The overall perception was that Bush was acting as if heād won some giant mandate that simply didnāt exist, and that he wasnāt doing enough to reach out to those who had opposed his presidency. It was beginning to cost him.
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From WaPo:
Compared with other presidents, Trumpās handling of the transition has been judged harshly by respondents. As with his favorable rating, 40 percent say they approve and 54 percent disapprove. In comparison, roughly 8 in 10 approved of the way Obama and former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush handled their transitions. And about 7 in 10 approved of the way former president George W. Bush handled his, even though it came amid the rancorous 37-day recount of ballots in Florida and a controversial Supreme Court decision that helped put him in the Oval Officeā¦
ā¦So far, Trump has generated little confidence about his ability to make sound decisions as president. When asked generally about their faith in his decision-making, just under 4 in 10 say they have either a āgreat dealā or a āgood amountā of confidence in him, and about 6 in 10 say they have ājust someā or ānone at all.ā That is the mirror opposite of attitudes eight years ago on the eve of Obamaās first inauguration.
Trump gets no respect. Thatās because he hasnāt earned it.
By Dana Milbank
Opinion writer January 16
Kellyanne Conway is walking a Dangerfield line.
āWe got no forbearance. We got nothing. We got no respect,ā the Trump strategist told CNNās Anderson Cooper last week, complaining about media coverage of her boss. āThis man is president of the United States!ā
Conway raises a fair question: Why hasnāt the president-elect been given more respect?
Hereās a fair answer: He hasnāt earned any.
To Trumpās many self-assigned superlatives, he can now add another: the sorest winner. With charity for none and with malice toward all but his supporters, he has in the past two months set a new standard for gracelessness in victory.
Instead of brushing off criticism, as a president-elect can afford to do, Trump in recent days marked Martin Luther King weekend by telling off civil rights icon John Lewis (a King acolyte) and his āfalling apartā and ācrime infestedā congressional district. He bemoaned āSaturday Night Liveā spoofs as a āhit jobā and used the words ācrapā and āsleazebagā in his public statements. He called the top Democrat in the land the āhead clownā and accused the American intelligence community of acting like Nazis.
The first time I ever photographed then-Senator Barack Obama, somewhere in Portsmouth, NH, December, 2006. #obama #barackobama #potus #nh #alonglonglongtimeago
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Exit poll data bears out the thesis that Trumpās ābaseā is the white middle class:
Trump voters are better off than Clinton voters.
First, note that voters as a group are better off than the entire adult population. While only 33 percent of adults had a four-year college degree, fully 50 percent of the electorate was college-educated. The median income for all voters was $66,000 (my calculation from CNN exit poll numbers), while Trump voters were slightly wealthier than Clinton voters (the median income of Trump voters was $69,000 versus $63,000 for Clinton supporters).
Just 1 in 6 Trump voters was a non-college-educated white earning less than $50,000.
Breaking down the Trump vote by income reveals that Trump got 31 percent of his votes from people in households with incomes under $50,000 (which I have called elsewhere the āpoor,ā ānear poor,ā and ālower middle classā), 34 percent from those with incomes between $50,000 to 100,000 (my definition of āmiddle classā), and 35 percent from those with incomes above $100,000 (my definition of āupper middle classā and ārichā).
Some might think that most of the 31 percent who voted for Trump with incomes under $50,000 came from whites who lost their manufacturing jobs and had trouble finding comparable employment. But they would be wrong. Clinton bested Trump among voters in households with incomes below $50,000 by 12 percentage points
Yes we can,Yes we did!ššššššššššš #Repost @cnn President Barack Obama will leave office Friday with his highest approval rating since 2009. In a new CNN/ORC poll, his approval rating stands at 60%, 65% say his presidency was a success, and a quarter rated him one of the nation's greatest presidents. (š·: Zach Gibson/Getty Images) #presidentobama #obama #YesWeCan #YesWeDid #obamaisthebest #theobamas #thanksobama #potus #mypresident #barackobama #presidency
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Quick Takes: You Donāt Know What Youāve Got āTil Itās (Almost) Gone
by Nancy LeTourneau
January 17, 2025 5:30 PM
* Robert Pear reports:
President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans appear to have accomplished a feat that President Obama, with all the power at his disposal, could not in the past seven years: They have galvanized outspoken support for the Affordable Care Act.
People who benefit from the law are flooding Congress with testimonials. Angry consumers are confronting Republican lawmakers. And Democrats who saw the law as a political liability in recent elections have suddenly found their voice, proudly defending the law now that it is in trouble.
Thousands of people across the country held rallies over the weekend to save the health care law, which Republicans moved last week to repeal with a first but crucial legislative step. A widely circulated video showed Representative Mike Coffman, Republican of Colorado, eluding constituents who had wanted to meet with him to express their concerns on Saturday at a community event in Aurora, Colo. Rallies on Sunday to save the health law drew robust crowds around the country.
an updated CBO report on what happens if Republicans repeal Obamacare.
CBO estimates that, compared to whatās already projected to happen under current law:
* 18 million more people would become uninsured in the first full year after the billās enactment ā rising to 32 million more people by 2026;
* premiums in the individual insurance marketplaces would soar ā theyād go up 20 to 25 percent above currently projected increases in the first full year after repeal, and āwould about double by 2026ā;
* and access to coverage on the individual markets would plummet ā about half of the US population would live in areas āthat would have no insurer participatingā in the individual market, CBO projects.
The Republicans Are Stuck on Health Care Reform
by Martin Longman
January 17, 2025 4:48 PM
I think itās reasonable to talk about what would have happen if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act without replacing it because there is no assurance that anything will replace it. The Republicans can try to reassure people that all these horrible things wonāt happen, but thereās no reason to believe theyāll be able to make good on that promise.
For one thing, the reason that horrible things will happen is because they want to get rid of most of the things that make the health care scheme work. In order to make it possible to be profitable while insuring people with pre-existing conditions, you need lots and lots of healthy people paying premiums who donāt actually use much health care. Thatās why there is an individual mandate. The subsidies in the individual market and the Medicaid spending are what makes it affordable for millions of people to get coverage, so if you eliminate or drastically reduce those subsidies, tens of millions will lose their health care access. The Republicansā plan is not fully developed, but we know that they things they donāt like are the things that keep the insurance pool of young and healthy enough that premiums can be kept at an affordable level.
What the GOP is going to attempt to do would be unpopular even if they had better intentions for many of the same reasons that Obamacare has struggled to maintain widespread support. People will be forced to change plans and doctors. Insurance companies will stop serving their market. Theyāll get blamed for premium hikes even if, somehow, those hikes are lower than they have been in the past.
To avoid some of this, theyāll need to avoid messing up the scheme, but they canāt do that if they break the scheme apart.
Most importantly, theyāve arranged things so that they need only fifty votes in the Senate to mess things up but still need sixty (and a majority in the House) to fix them. Republicans wonāt want to replace what theyāve just repealed, especially the things they hate. So, it looks like an impossible task to replace Obamacare with anything that would work.
This is truly an abomination. Trumpās nominees are horrifically unqualified for the job. All of them. DeVos, Tillerson were especially heinous. Today, itās Price. OMG, what a nightmare.
For these black and Latino students, seeing a portrait of Barack Obama in their school every day inspires them to dream big. pic.twitter.com/PoZkx0Bhqv
Trumpās Attempt to Ally with Russia Against China is Equal Parts Racism and Stupidity
by David Atkins
January 15, 2025 8:00 AM
Few people today think much about the George W. Bush Administration prior to 9/11. The collective memory of the early Bush presidency is mostly condensed to the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision, followed by not much of interest until the 9/11 attacks. But itās important to recall that the Bush Administration floundered on foreign policy during its initial year, including an ill-advised staring contest with China after a Chinese pilot collided with an intrusive U.S. spy plane and died, leading to the detainment of 24 U.S. air crew until the Bush Administration finally apologized to China for the incident. Until terrorism rearranged American foreign policy, increased tensions with China were the lead storyline of Republican foreign policy.
Donald Trump is still six days away from his inauguration and already he and the GOP are ramping up aggressive rhetoric against China. During the same Wall Street Journal interview in which he suggested he would be open to lifting sanctions on Russia, Trump also stated that he might revisit the āOne-Chinaā policy regarding Taiwan. This, of course, comes on the heels of Trump speaking directly with the President of Taiwan, which is unprecedented in U.S. foreign policy.
Meanwhile, Exxon CEO and Trumpās pick for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said during his confirmation hearing that China should be barred from the islands it has created in the South China Sea.
Needless to say, China is reacting angrily, warning Trump that the One-China policy is non-negotiable and that attempts to keep China away from its new South China Sea islands would cause a ādevastating confrontationā and would lead to a āmilitary clash.ā
All of this is sheer madness. The American relationship with China is complex and problematic for many reasons: Chinaās human rights record is abysmal and its willingness to steal intellectual property is a significant problem for economies banking on an information economy future. But China is also a crucial trading partner, and the American and Chinese economies depend on one anotherās good health.
The Trump team is taking a dogmatic oppositional approach based on very simplistic notions of trade and jobs. The number of jobs being ālost to Chinaā is quite low compared to those being lost to automation, the best way to counter offshoring is to punish companies domestically rather than to threaten China, and the most effective avenue to protect intellectual property from Chinese theft is the very sort of trade deals Trump has consistently opposed. Adopting a hostile military and trade war footing with China threatens to plunge the world into an economic depression or even a brutal military and cyberwar conflict.
Something horrid just occurred to me. Weāre fucked. Pence is worse.
Tiny Hands Donny is narcissistic, illiterate, insane, has ADD, the emotional maturity of a 7 year old, is too stupid to understand that Putin will be acting POTUS with a built-in Russian asset-filled cabinet, and has a nuke fetish, but he and 48 dems might be the only thing standing between Medicare/ACA-SHINY IMPROVED OR STFU 2.0 OVERLAY REPLACE WITH SINGLE PAYER NON-PROFIT(because itās the ONLY sustainable ETHICAL model)/Social Security and The Mitch McConnell/Paul Ryan Final Solutionā¢.
Unless of course, Pence already has instructions to just sign everything….. then maybe we wonāt piss off NATO unless Mitch & Paul are on board with Manafort, Bannon, & Co. Then - Earth is fucked…. any friendly ETs monitoring your very-long experiment down here that can save us? Help?
All because of an Illegitimate Election perpetrated by a political party that has to cheat with the assistance of a foreign hostile state and other unconstitutional tricks, and a BROKEN Electoral College System, that allows 33 votes to pick a President and failed itās own Failsafe.
A New, EMERGENCY Election all the way down the ticket is what we need - as impossible as it sounds, is the right thing to do…because… if SOMEONE nails just ONE of them for espionage before the incoming can stop any investigations… If one goes….. that thread will unravel all of it, which has to happen or weāre lost as a country. How far down the Chain To POTUS do you think it goes, since Ryan is clearly powerhungover at the moment….. Iām sure it goes down that list pretty far with the incoming. Weāll become a land of warring mafias, when law becomes meaningless.
Or Anonymous can hopefully save us again… seems theyāve got their own dossier on THINGS… because Iād bet most of the silent/pro-Russia GOP money whores/teacraziers are in on it w/Putin. Pence is likely the most clue-free/religous-insane one, of the bunch. Isnāt he the only one without a Russia connection?
If only Trump would Turn Stateās Evidence and he and the Fam went into witness protection and just came clean and SAVED AMERICA?Planet Earth (and that corrupt HATEparty he switched to)…. heād go down in history as a the worldās greatest hero. A girl can dream.
Otherwise, here comes the end. Now that theyāll control everything, the GOP have no intention of ever losing power again - which is why Ryan danced when he broke the ACA this week.
Iāve never been so depressed, scared, and sad for my country. To see the death of the USA. Thatās what this feels like to me. A giant sense of foreboding. An end to our Democratic Republic, turned into mist because we allowed it to break…. just when we were reaching the stars and a More Perfect Union.
It makes me sick that that makes Putin happy… and 30% of my countrymen love Russia more than the US because theyāve been taken advantage of, abused, taught to hate Everything Not Them by fake/packaged/easy “money/religion” (nothing close to actual faith, education about that faith, and knowledge of MATH/Economics), and sucked into by the Cult that is still abusing them. (I refuse to believe itās more than that. Thereās more to the hacking than we know. There are more good people in this country than hateful dicks. We just donāt live them them. And they control the More Important States - so much for our Equal Protection Clause…)
And they donāt WANT to be helped. Sometimes I think that theyāre so far gone, Trump could just ask them to drink the koolaid…. and they most likely would, all the while sticking their fingers in their ears, shouting, “FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS I CANāT HEAR YOU” as the rest of us scream at them, “STOP! DONāT DRINK! IT WILL KILL YOU!”
Reminds me of the coal industry and why humans are idiots: It shouldnāt have taken us to the point of killing the planet to get rid of coal. We should have done it for humanitarian reasons - but again… desperate humans will take desperate measures to survive… even work in a death pit to take care of the humans they love, because thatās the best they can do with the tools theyāve got. Because theyāve been denied the better tools by their lying abuser masters who tell them the tools they need are evil and only evil/bad/not-like-us people use them.
Hate is a powerful thing. Itās just so damn sad… okay, and now I should go cheer mysellf up with kitten videos….. la la la la la
Anonymous vs Trump: Hackers threaten to expose 'personal ties with Russian mobsters' https://t.co/jzUN6EqHdd via @IBTimesUK
Rev Al said it all and said it very well. He covered all of the important bases.
Oh please, letās tweet this so people will have the pleasure and the pride while listening to it.
JER, I said thanks to you for posting it before I listened and now Iām very grateful to you for finding and posting it. THANKS ā¤
OMG - I got tears. Rev. Al certainly has supported the President. And if it hasnāt been “all the way,” well then Iāve forgotten when he didnāt. Thank you, Rev. Al - your country wonāt forget it. And thanks for all you continue to do for justice.
When I was recalling how much Rev. Al supported the President, I unfortunately remembered back to how some others didnāt, like Tavis Smiley (out of what I believe started out to be jealousy). I watched his State of the Black Union event for YEARS, before Barack Obama came along. Always enjoyed watching those earlier years, and learned from it, until I had to turn away from Tavis. But today I want to think about good things, and Iāve gotta say this particular segment of the event in February 2008, early in the campaign, came to my mind and luckily I found Dick Gregoryās “performance” on youtube:
Oh, great, when the first video appeared it was Joe Bidenās on my screen. Now itās two Dick Gregory vids Iāve given ya. It was the Russians, not me, although I shouldnāt joke.
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 TODāers. š«šššā¤
To all, I hope know the more that you work at maintaining your integrity, goodness, and principled character, it becomes habitual each today. ā¤ ā¤ ā¤
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. āš āš āš
Excerpts from .@BillMoyersHQ article~We Cannot Wait For History's Judgement. We Need The Truth About Trump And Putin Now. ššš pic.twitter.com/qGEoZ87sYI
For those who are interested in recording (yes, my DVR free space is becoming very limited) LOD stated last night that MSNBC will be airing PBOās final news conference live today at 2:15.
Jan 20: @BarackObama's team wraps up 8 years in the @WhiteHouse. Get an unprecedented look inside those final days tonight at 9p. #CNNFilms pic.twitter.com/I1YDyTIkLf
Love this guy. Heās been invaluable to our national security.
The Energy Department is, at its core, a science and technology agency. My advice for future agency leadership: https://t.co/EsR95Lhsy8 pic.twitter.com/gtfqNYNL7h
Me too Meta. Simply cannot believe this is happening. Thought I had finally adjusted after the election, but this week has been hell and will only get worse the next couple of days
Very same. It comes in waves. Sheer terror not just at Trump - whoās about as horrible as they come - but the entire GOP. They are all completely reprehensible and power mad, motivated by REVENGE.
Eeeeek. š¦ I was just doing my usual daily browsing. In need of a little uplifting, I visited Pete Souzaās usual twitter page, and itās already gone. However, @petesouza44 is already up and running and appears to have everything transferred over to it. Phew!!!
My feelings arenāt mixed. I am totally against it. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson played a role in giving this country the most unqualified liar as President, in the history of this country. I really would like to know if Stein was also one of Putinās pawns.
President Obama on his plans after leaving the White House: “Well, hereās one thing is Iām not setting my alarm. That, Iām certain of. That I am absolutely positive of. Iām going to spend time with Michelle. And, you know, we got some catching up to do. Weāve both been busy,ā he said.
White House.gov
Dear Real Journalists,
Read this and act accordingly.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-case-for-not-being-crybabies
Sincerely,
America
Thanks a bunch, Nerdy:)
Yes, thanks, NW. š Good morning. Glad you slept, df. So did I with the help of Benedryl and small sip of the codine cough med. Like you, donāt do every night, but I canāt go without sleep either.
Good day to all. Going to one of my service opportunities today. bbl………
Did you see that I take liquid benedryl? (ZZZZQuil…or the generic) You donāt have to take the codeine if you take that:) Glad we slept last night!
Paging Dr. Flower.
Netipot
DUH!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-idUSKBN1521CE
Early optimism among business lobbyists and executives that Donald Trumpās election heralded better days has slowly given way to uncertainty as the president-elect fires off mixed and sometimes confusing messages on healthcare, taxes and trade.
An initial euphoria in the business world fueled a powerful post-election stock rally. Some of that has frayed as questions arise over the nuts and bolts of Trumpās campaign promises, although many in the business community said they remain optimistic.
Doubts deepened over the weekend as Trump declared he would replace President Barack Obamaās signature healthcare plan known as Obamacare with “insurance for everybody” - a goal far beyond Republican designs - and criticized a key component of a plan in Congress to overhaul corporate taxes.
“It is fair to say that since the election, there has been mounting uncertainty about exactly what the specific policies are likely to be with regard to tax reform and replacing Obamacare,” a financial industry official said.
Expectations for faster growth, tax reform and a quick repeal of Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, have “given way to ‘We are not really sure what he means by thatā,” the official said.
A veteran Republican financial lobbyist said she is under constant pressure from clients to predict what the new administration is planning, but she has no reliable answers for them.
LIKE RUSSIA AND CHINA???
and North Korea…..
smdh….how could I forget them! Morning,jojo
Morning df. I may have to take your sleep remedy. I have a hard time sleeping through the night too. I wake up several times and I am up at 5am every day.
He chooses the “best people” !! JUST NOOOOO!!!!! This woman is an idiot! She CLEARLY has no idea what the hell sheās talking about!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/5-head-scratching-moments-from-betsey-devoss-confirmation-hearing/2017/01/18/0df60b18-dd5e-11e6-8902-610fe486791c_video.html
Hello Everybody.
Gollygee
Love this. Although I believe the numbers should be higher for President Obama, his above average approval beat Bill Clinton.
Shocked, I know.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/17/new-trump-adviser-being-sued-for-hiring-whites-to-attack-blacks.html
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Of course they will. It worked this time.
of course they will. after especially knowing the rethugs canāt and wonāt do jacksquat about it as long it ensures their
‘victoryā. even vichy was better when compared to these treasonous pos.
Zacklee. Morning, amk:)
morning miss op. so drugged yerself to sleep, didja?
Girlās gotta do what a girlās gotta do! You DONāT want to see what happens with no sleep. Ugly.
PBO still cleaning up the mess of previous administrations on his way out of the door. The 1995 case that A-A Secret Service agents brought against the organization for prejudice regarding promotions (the main plaintiff was on Billās detail, had been denied promotion 200 times, and had trained the white agents who were promoted over him) is finally being settled, according to the msn newsfeed this morning.
Like Trevor Noah said in one of his skits, “President Obama is baby-proofing America.” It will not be so easy for the would-be gangsters coming in to dismantle everything because the president is neither careless nor sloppy. He knows better than any the various dodges his enemies (letās call them what they are) will use to try to wreck havoc. Another thing that should bring comfort is that there has been great systemic change and innovation in the various governmental departments that deal with the meat and potatoes of American life. While the rethugs were pouncing on the shiny objects, PBOās smart and discreet staffs were getting a lot of shit done that will benefit us for decades to come. e know that they do not read the various briefs, reports, and memos that are produced and the idiots coming in certainly have neither the mental capacity nor the desire to do so. While it is more than likely that we will take some hits, I believe that they will be things that can be righted or their effects lessened. PBO and his administration have done more to protect us and to make our lives better than any other president; it is now on us to fight for ourselves and others.
I agree with this, CEB:) That gives me comfort.
President Obama is baby-proofing America.
trevor nailed it.
the vid
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/barack-obama-baby-proofs-america_us_587ef1b9e4b0cf0ae880c6fd
Good Morning, Everyone š
I am so glad that the Cubs went now. I wouldnāt have watched if they had gone after January 20th.
Uh huh
Uh huh
NOTORIOUS MERCENARY ERIK PRINCE IS ADVISING TRUMP FROM THE SHADOWS
Jeremy Scahill
January 17 2017, 2:42 p.m.
Erik Prince, Americaās most notorious mercenary, is lurking in the shadows of the incoming Trump administration. A former senior U.S. official who has advised the Trump transition told The Intercept that Prince has been advising the team on matters related to intelligence and defense, including weighing in on candidates for the defense and state departments. The official asked not to be identified because of a transition policy prohibiting discussion of confidential deliberations.
On election night, Princeās latest wife, Stacy DeLuke, posted pictures from inside Trumpās campaign headquarters as Donald Trump and Mike Pence watched the returns come in, including a close shot of Pence and Trump with their families. āWe know some people who worked closely with [Trump] on his campaign,ā DeLuke wrote. āWaiting for the numbers to come in last night. It was well worth the wait!!!! #PresidentTrump2016.ā Princeās sister, billionaire Betsy DeVos, is Trumpās nominee for education secretary and Prince (and his mother) gave large sums of money to a Trump Super PAC.
In July, Prince told Trumpās senior advisor and white supremacist Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, that the Trump administration should recreate a version of the Phoenix Program, the CIA assassination ring that operated during the Vietnam War, to fight ISIS. Such a program, Prince said, could kill or capture āthe funders of Islamic terror and that would even be the wealthy radical Islamist billionaires funding it from the Middle East, and any of the other illicit activities theyāre in.ā
Prince also said that Trump would be the best force to confront āIslamic fascism.ā āAs for the world looking to the United States for leadership, unfortunately, I think theyāre going to have to wait till January and hope Mr. Trump is elected because, clearly, our generals donāt have a stomach for a fight,ā Prince said. āOur President doesnāt have a stomach for a fight and the terrorists, the fascists, are winning.ā
Trump Off to Historically Bad Start
by Martin Longman
January 17, 2025 1:46 PM
Dana Milbank collected a (still incomplete) list of all the people Trump has insulted and gloated over since we won his surprising election in early November. As I read it, I kept having the same experience: āOh yeah, I forgot about that one.ā Itās more evidence that the specifics of the insults donāt matter. Whatās important is that heās always on offense. Heās always giving his audience more.
Itās true that this demonstrates continuity with this approach to the campaign, but it also makes him a sore winner. And very few people like sore winners. Milbank probably puts too much emphasis on this one point as he uses it to explain Trumpās astonishingly bad poll numbers, but itās a factor.
Looking back, it will also be hard to judge the way the Bush presidency handled winning the presidency despite losing the popular vote because the 9/11 attacks reshaped everything. But he was struggling by Labor Day of 2001. In late may, Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont was already so incensed by the way Bush was handling the presidency that he defected from the Republican Party and handed control of the Senate over to the Democrats. By late-August, a rift had opened up between Colin Powell at the State Department and the Cheney/Rumsfeld axis. The overall perception was that Bush was acting as if heād won some giant mandate that simply didnāt exist, and that he wasnāt doing enough to reach out to those who had opposed his presidency. It was beginning to cost him.
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From WaPo:
Trump gets no respect. Thatās because he hasnāt earned it.
By Dana Milbank
Opinion writer January 16
Kellyanne Conway is walking a Dangerfield line.
āWe got no forbearance. We got nothing. We got no respect,ā the Trump strategist told CNNās Anderson Cooper last week, complaining about media coverage of her boss. āThis man is president of the United States!ā
Conway raises a fair question: Why hasnāt the president-elect been given more respect?
Hereās a fair answer: He hasnāt earned any.
To Trumpās many self-assigned superlatives, he can now add another: the sorest winner. With charity for none and with malice toward all but his supporters, he has in the past two months set a new standard for gracelessness in victory.
Instead of brushing off criticism, as a president-elect can afford to do, Trump in recent days marked Martin Luther King weekend by telling off civil rights icon John Lewis (a King acolyte) and his āfalling apartā and ācrime infestedā congressional district. He bemoaned āSaturday Night Liveā spoofs as a āhit jobā and used the words ācrapā and āsleazebagā in his public statements. He called the top Democrat in the land the āhead clownā and accused the American intelligence community of acting like Nazis.
Memory Lane
THANK YOU!!!
Archie Bunker has gotten a bad rep this election.
Archie Bunker actually voted for HILLARY.
it was Archieās boss and his White wife that voted for Cheeto Benito.
But, that boss is more than willing to push Archie out in front as the face of this election, making him the scapegoat.
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Trump and the Revolt of the White Middle Class
No, the white working class didnāt propel Trump to the presidency.
by Stephen Rose January 18, 2025
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Exit poll data bears out the thesis that Trumpās ābaseā is the white middle class:
Trump voters are better off than Clinton voters.
First, note that voters as a group are better off than the entire adult population. While only 33 percent of adults had a four-year college degree, fully 50 percent of the electorate was college-educated. The median income for all voters was $66,000 (my calculation from CNN exit poll numbers), while Trump voters were slightly wealthier than Clinton voters (the median income of Trump voters was $69,000 versus $63,000 for Clinton supporters).
Just 1 in 6 Trump voters was a non-college-educated white earning less than $50,000.
Breaking down the Trump vote by income reveals that Trump got 31 percent of his votes from people in households with incomes under $50,000 (which I have called elsewhere the āpoor,ā ānear poor,ā and ālower middle classā), 34 percent from those with incomes between $50,000 to 100,000 (my definition of āmiddle classā), and 35 percent from those with incomes above $100,000 (my definition of āupper middle classā and ārichā).
Some might think that most of the 31 percent who voted for Trump with incomes under $50,000 came from whites who lost their manufacturing jobs and had trouble finding comparable employment. But they would be wrong. Clinton bested Trump among voters in households with incomes below $50,000 by 12 percentage points
Ya think?
Quick Takes: You Donāt Know What Youāve Got āTil Itās (Almost) Gone
by Nancy LeTourneau
January 17, 2025 5:30 PM
* Robert Pear reports:
President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans appear to have accomplished a feat that President Obama, with all the power at his disposal, could not in the past seven years: They have galvanized outspoken support for the Affordable Care Act.
People who benefit from the law are flooding Congress with testimonials. Angry consumers are confronting Republican lawmakers. And Democrats who saw the law as a political liability in recent elections have suddenly found their voice, proudly defending the law now that it is in trouble.
Thousands of people across the country held rallies over the weekend to save the health care law, which Republicans moved last week to repeal with a first but crucial legislative step. A widely circulated video showed Representative Mike Coffman, Republican of Colorado, eluding constituents who had wanted to meet with him to express their concerns on Saturday at a community event in Aurora, Colo. Rallies on Sunday to save the health law drew robust crowds around the country.
Good West Coast morning NW & TOD family.
Thanks NW for posting PBO & the Cubs. Something pleasant to start my day š¹
an updated CBO report on what happens if Republicans repeal Obamacare.
CBO estimates that, compared to whatās already projected to happen under current law:
* 18 million more people would become uninsured in the first full year after the billās enactment ā rising to 32 million more people by 2026;
* premiums in the individual insurance marketplaces would soar ā theyād go up 20 to 25 percent above currently projected increases in the first full year after repeal, and āwould about double by 2026ā;
* and access to coverage on the individual markets would plummet ā about half of the US population would live in areas āthat would have no insurer participatingā in the individual market, CBO projects.
And thatās the good news…… repealing the ACA & privatizing Medicare & SS will take the economy with it.
The profile is a pretty good likeness. What do you think?
Awesome…….i would like to get these coin…along with the new lady liberty coin
Agree - love it š
wow…look at these…
Yes, I can see PBO in these coins. Thanks meta!
I look forward to seeing what the First Lady Michelle coin will look like too. š
The Republicans Are Stuck on Health Care Reform
by Martin Longman
January 17, 2025 4:48 PM
I think itās reasonable to talk about what would have happen if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act without replacing it because there is no assurance that anything will replace it. The Republicans can try to reassure people that all these horrible things wonāt happen, but thereās no reason to believe theyāll be able to make good on that promise.
For one thing, the reason that horrible things will happen is because they want to get rid of most of the things that make the health care scheme work. In order to make it possible to be profitable while insuring people with pre-existing conditions, you need lots and lots of healthy people paying premiums who donāt actually use much health care. Thatās why there is an individual mandate. The subsidies in the individual market and the Medicaid spending are what makes it affordable for millions of people to get coverage, so if you eliminate or drastically reduce those subsidies, tens of millions will lose their health care access. The Republicansā plan is not fully developed, but we know that they things they donāt like are the things that keep the insurance pool of young and healthy enough that premiums can be kept at an affordable level.
What the GOP is going to attempt to do would be unpopular even if they had better intentions for many of the same reasons that Obamacare has struggled to maintain widespread support. People will be forced to change plans and doctors. Insurance companies will stop serving their market. Theyāll get blamed for premium hikes even if, somehow, those hikes are lower than they have been in the past.
To avoid some of this, theyāll need to avoid messing up the scheme, but they canāt do that if they break the scheme apart.
Most importantly, theyāve arranged things so that they need only fifty votes in the Senate to mess things up but still need sixty (and a majority in the House) to fix them. Republicans wonāt want to replace what theyāve just repealed, especially the things they hate. So, it looks like an impossible task to replace Obamacare with anything that would work.
Lamar Alexander is not allowing follow up questions for Trump nominees that go before his committee.
Yesterday it was Betsy Devos and today it is Tom Price.
This is truly an abomination. Trumpās nominees are horrifically unqualified for the job. All of them. DeVos, Tillerson were especially heinous. Today, itās Price. OMG, what a nightmare.
Abomination, horrifically unqualified, heinous, nightmare is a perfect description of *everything* about DJTās administration. š¦
HOPE
Trumpās Attempt to Ally with Russia Against China is Equal Parts Racism and Stupidity
by David Atkins
January 15, 2025 8:00 AM
Few people today think much about the George W. Bush Administration prior to 9/11. The collective memory of the early Bush presidency is mostly condensed to the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision, followed by not much of interest until the 9/11 attacks. But itās important to recall that the Bush Administration floundered on foreign policy during its initial year, including an ill-advised staring contest with China after a Chinese pilot collided with an intrusive U.S. spy plane and died, leading to the detainment of 24 U.S. air crew until the Bush Administration finally apologized to China for the incident. Until terrorism rearranged American foreign policy, increased tensions with China were the lead storyline of Republican foreign policy.
Donald Trump is still six days away from his inauguration and already he and the GOP are ramping up aggressive rhetoric against China. During the same Wall Street Journal interview in which he suggested he would be open to lifting sanctions on Russia, Trump also stated that he might revisit the āOne-Chinaā policy regarding Taiwan. This, of course, comes on the heels of Trump speaking directly with the President of Taiwan, which is unprecedented in U.S. foreign policy.
Meanwhile, Exxon CEO and Trumpās pick for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said during his confirmation hearing that China should be barred from the islands it has created in the South China Sea.
Needless to say, China is reacting angrily, warning Trump that the One-China policy is non-negotiable and that attempts to keep China away from its new South China Sea islands would cause a ādevastating confrontationā and would lead to a āmilitary clash.ā
All of this is sheer madness. The American relationship with China is complex and problematic for many reasons: Chinaās human rights record is abysmal and its willingness to steal intellectual property is a significant problem for economies banking on an information economy future. But China is also a crucial trading partner, and the American and Chinese economies depend on one anotherās good health.
The Trump team is taking a dogmatic oppositional approach based on very simplistic notions of trade and jobs. The number of jobs being ālost to Chinaā is quite low compared to those being lost to automation, the best way to counter offshoring is to punish companies domestically rather than to threaten China, and the most effective avenue to protect intellectual property from Chinese theft is the very sort of trade deals Trump has consistently opposed. Adopting a hostile military and trade war footing with China threatens to plunge the world into an economic depression or even a brutal military and cyberwar conflict.
Off to DC for the protest march. Love to all!
Take us with you in spirit, be safe, victorious !
Thank you, Judith, and take good care. Look forward to hearing about it.
Safe travels Judith and thanks for representing us!
Be safe.
Safe travels Judith and please take and post lots of photos!
Godspeed!
see ya there!
Safe travel Judith and be safe! I wish I couldāve made it myself but we will be cheering you on.
4XRZXGF
Something horrid just occurred to me. Weāre fucked. Pence is worse.
Tiny Hands Donny is narcissistic, illiterate, insane, has ADD, the emotional maturity of a 7 year old, is too stupid to understand that Putin will be acting POTUS with a built-in Russian asset-filled cabinet, and has a nuke fetish, but he and 48 dems might be the only thing standing between Medicare/ACA-SHINY IMPROVED OR STFU 2.0 OVERLAY REPLACE WITH SINGLE PAYER NON-PROFIT(because itās the ONLY sustainable ETHICAL model)/Social Security and The Mitch McConnell/Paul Ryan Final Solutionā¢.
Unless of course, Pence already has instructions to just sign everything….. then maybe we wonāt piss off NATO unless Mitch & Paul are on board with Manafort, Bannon, & Co. Then - Earth is fucked…. any friendly ETs monitoring your very-long experiment down here that can save us? Help?
All because of an Illegitimate Election perpetrated by a political party that has to cheat with the assistance of a foreign hostile state and other unconstitutional tricks, and a BROKEN Electoral College System, that allows 33 votes to pick a President and failed itās own Failsafe.
A New, EMERGENCY Election all the way down the ticket is what we need - as impossible as it sounds, is the right thing to do…because… if SOMEONE nails just ONE of them for espionage before the incoming can stop any investigations… If one goes….. that thread will unravel all of it, which has to happen or weāre lost as a country. How far down the Chain To POTUS do you think it goes, since Ryan is clearly powerhungover at the moment….. Iām sure it goes down that list pretty far with the incoming. Weāll become a land of warring mafias, when law becomes meaningless.
Or Anonymous can hopefully save us again… seems theyāve got their own dossier on THINGS… because Iād bet most of the silent/pro-Russia GOP money whores/teacraziers are in on it w/Putin. Pence is likely the most clue-free/religous-insane one, of the bunch. Isnāt he the only one without a Russia connection?
If only Trump would Turn Stateās Evidence and he and the Fam went into witness protection and just came clean and SAVED AMERICA?Planet Earth (and that corrupt HATEparty he switched to)…. heād go down in history as a the worldās greatest hero. A girl can dream.
Otherwise, here comes the end. Now that theyāll control everything, the GOP have no intention of ever losing power again - which is why Ryan danced when he broke the ACA this week.
Iāve never been so depressed, scared, and sad for my country. To see the death of the USA. Thatās what this feels like to me. A giant sense of foreboding. An end to our Democratic Republic, turned into mist because we allowed it to break…. just when we were reaching the stars and a More Perfect Union.
It makes me sick that that makes Putin happy… and 30% of my countrymen love Russia more than the US because theyāve been taken advantage of, abused, taught to hate Everything Not Them by fake/packaged/easy “money/religion” (nothing close to actual faith, education about that faith, and knowledge of MATH/Economics), and sucked into by the Cult that is still abusing them. (I refuse to believe itās more than that. Thereās more to the hacking than we know. There are more good people in this country than hateful dicks. We just donāt live them them. And they control the More Important States - so much for our Equal Protection Clause…)
And they donāt WANT to be helped. Sometimes I think that theyāre so far gone, Trump could just ask them to drink the koolaid…. and they most likely would, all the while sticking their fingers in their ears, shouting, “FAKE NEWS FAKE NEWS I CANāT HEAR YOU” as the rest of us scream at them, “STOP! DONāT DRINK! IT WILL KILL YOU!”
Reminds me of the coal industry and why humans are idiots: It shouldnāt have taken us to the point of killing the planet to get rid of coal. We should have done it for humanitarian reasons - but again… desperate humans will take desperate measures to survive… even work in a death pit to take care of the humans they love, because thatās the best they can do with the tools theyāve got. Because theyāve been denied the better tools by their lying abuser masters who tell them the tools they need are evil and only evil/bad/not-like-us people use them.
Hate is a powerful thing. Itās just so damn sad… okay, and now I should go cheer mysellf up with kitten videos….. la la la la la
Hey Tally, itās been a while since youāve shared your thoughts with us. Good to “read” ya š
Thanks darling. š
Thanks JER š
Rev Al said it all and said it very well. He covered all of the important bases.
Oh please, letās tweet this so people will have the pleasure and the pride while listening to it.
JER, I said thanks to you for posting it before I listened and now Iām very grateful to you for finding and posting it. THANKS ā¤
Hi GGail. It is my pleasure. Glad you like it.
OMG JER, it spoke to me! š
OMG - I got tears. Rev. Al certainly has supported the President. And if it hasnāt been “all the way,” well then Iāve forgotten when he didnāt. Thank you, Rev. Al - your country wonāt forget it. And thanks for all you continue to do for justice.
When I was recalling how much Rev. Al supported the President, I unfortunately remembered back to how some others didnāt, like Tavis Smiley (out of what I believe started out to be jealousy). I watched his State of the Black Union event for YEARS, before Barack Obama came along. Always enjoyed watching those earlier years, and learned from it, until I had to turn away from Tavis. But today I want to think about good things, and Iāve gotta say this particular segment of the event in February 2008, early in the campaign, came to my mind and luckily I found Dick Gregoryās “performance” on youtube:
Iāve been hacked by the Russians. My computer turned itself off, and when this reappeared it had the wrong video posted. Will try again.
Oh, great, when the first video appeared it was Joe Bidenās on my screen. Now itās two Dick Gregory vids Iāve given ya. It was the Russians, not me, although I shouldnāt joke.
JāOB, you are truly a keeper. Youāve got me nodding my head in agreement with you regarding Tavis, then laughing out loud regarding video blooper.
It was a (Russian-hacked) blooper! Glad you LOLād!
Thank you so much, JER, for sharing this! Rev. Al puts to shame all the “blackademics” who spent 8 years trashing President Obama!
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 TODāers. š«šššā¤
To all, I hope know the more that you work at maintaining your integrity, goodness, and principled character, it becomes habitual each today. ā¤ ā¤ ā¤
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. āš āš āš
one true journalist whose voice was silenced by fifth columnist msm.
Good morning TOD! If you want to listen to VP Bidenās final foreign policy speech, you can hear it (audio only) here. Begins at the 33.33 mark.
We will always love our first Lady, Michelle Obama.
via bj, a collection of trumpist posā come to jesus moments.
http://www.areyousorryyet.com/
For those who are interested in recording (yes, my DVR free space is becoming very limited) LOD stated last night that MSNBC will be airing PBOās final news conference live today at 2:15.
It will probably be on all local networks also.
Thanks so much - trying to keep myself distracted with other things, and would have forgotten. DVR set!
This is happening right before our eyes. RWNJs now consider neo-Nazis to be an integral part of the conservative movement. This is @GOP 2017.
oh, go away, you lefty pundtwits.
stolen from bj
Wow, you always find the best pieces. Iāll have to tweet this on Friday. And many more times in the future.
THANKS.
Itās a keeper alright. Just like everything about him.
Yes, sir. Everything.
YES. EVERYTHING.
TBH, I start to cry every time I look at that.
OMG. That picture breaks my heart all over again. š¦
Oh my…this pic is a treasure…thanks amk for posting and sharing. I agree with meta that we have to tweet this on Friday.
That one just breaks my heart in two.
Love this guy. Heās been invaluable to our national security.
MY HEART IS BREAKING RIGHT NOW
Me too Meta. Simply cannot believe this is happening. Thought I had finally adjusted after the election, but this week has been hell and will only get worse the next couple of days
Very same. It comes in waves. Sheer terror not just at Trump - whoās about as horrible as they come - but the entire GOP. They are all completely reprehensible and power mad, motivated by REVENGE.
it could have been left in the hands of a saner and a safer person. thatās what she is thinking.
I feel the agony every single day. Itās unfathomable.
THIS!!!!!
We love you FLOTUS and may I say THANKS to you and your husband.
Thank you President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Thank you. Thank you. We love you.
We love you. We really do. Bless you.
Eeeeek. š¦ I was just doing my usual daily browsing. In need of a little uplifting, I visited Pete Souzaās usual twitter page, and itās already gone. However, @petesouza44 is already up and running and appears to have everything transferred over to it. Phew!!!
Oh, thanks. I might have had a heart attack without knowing!
Thanks. Hopefully we can help everyone will save themselves the shock!
I was shocked, even though I knew it was/is coming. I am so not ready for any of this. š¦
Itās like a shot to your whole system. Takes your breath away and makes the whole thing so horribly real.
I meant, shock!
Either one works in this case! š
Unfortunately so.
i have mixed feelings aobut this…
but i find it fascinating that the unicorn crowd has silent regarding Steinās Russian connections
My feelings arenāt mixed. I am totally against it. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson played a role in giving this country the most unqualified liar as President, in the history of this country. I really would like to know if Stein was also one of Putinās pawns.
yup. useful putin tools.
THIS THIS THIS
President Obama on his plans after leaving the White House: “Well, hereās one thing is Iām not setting my alarm. That, Iām certain of. That I am absolutely positive of. Iām going to spend time with Michelle. And, you know, we got some catching up to do. Weāve both been busy,ā he said.
well, today is the last day…. for sanity.
gunnite folks.
‘Inspiring, determined, kindā: Who are these London schoolgirls describing?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38657875
Sad news….
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/01/18/president-obama-holds-his-final-press-conference/