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- Trump and Puerto Rico: More than a Failed President. A Failed Human Being. Spandan Chakrabarti
- Open thread: Puerto Rico in tweets Liberal Librarian
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- Mystery attacks drive American diplomats from Cuba embassy
- Russia investigators frustrated with tepid response from Twitter
- San Juan mayor: 'My people are dying here'
- Puerto Rico facing life or death crisis, 'no time for patience'
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Hel-lo, Meta! I bet you are a bit more upbeat today with the crush of the latest repeal attempt.
OMG, what a sigh of relief!! It’s been brutal.
{{{Meta}}} At least now there’s another little breathing space until they realize again they have nothing else to offer!
^5 as we appreciate another success!
Yes, for however long, we’ll savor it!!
PBO AND ENTOURAGE NEED TO GO TO Puerto Rico WITH HUGS AND PROVISIONS..PERIOD!
Always there for all Americans.
THAT is what I’ve been secretly waiting for. Because I KNEW he would do it. He’ll be getting the word out, and we’ll be helping him! And thanks to everybody at TOD (you know who you are, including you, meta) for getting the ACA details out to those who need ’em.
Taking a moment today to celebrate crushing GOP Graham Cassidy. Bless you, President Obama for teaching us “We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
Judith, THANK YOU so much for all you and your partners have done for this fight!!
Back at you. Meta! Stronger together.
#StrongerTogether
Kudos to you, Judith and to all others who are part of the #resistance. We did it!!
{{JF}} It’s good to see you are always out there doing your bit.
The work is unending and more difficult than it needs to be, but yes, it’s terrific that our forever president taught/reminded us “We are the ones we have been waiting for”.
Well done, JF, a true kenyan warrior.
Thank you Judith! You & your OFA team is AWESOME 💕
*team “are” AWESOME
https://www.wftv.com/news/florida/michelle-obama-says-diversity-starts-at-the-top/615241162
A Balloon Juice commenter brought up the fact that our fascist government under Trump will be scrutinizing all social media used by Naturalized Citizens and immigrants which involves communications with foreigners. Republicans are dangerous to democracy in so many ways.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adolfoflores/people-are-worried-about-dhs-plans-to-gather-social-media
And then they came for social media … and I did nothing.
I imagine those with mostly Muslim and Hispanic sounding names…..No Russian names.
GE pkayden.
Meta and I were sharing our outrage about this last night.
Of course I take this personally, since I’m a naturalized citizen, having arrived in this country as an infant, after being adopted by American parents.
Twitter appears to be tweaking their system now, but here’s what I sent last night:
In response to Congressman Ted Lieu:
❤️🕯🎶👏🏼🗝
This seems like a big deal
now, we will have twice the rants, twice the lies.
Why in the actual fuck does this man still have a job??
hear that kelly, mattis?
[From WAPo article, look who would be taking over, police dood from NJ, seems like a Dotard kinda dood]:
[…..] Fuentes is a career law enforcement officer who has led the New Jersey State Police since 2003. He harshly criticized the Obama administration for striking a deal with Cuba to restore diplomatic relations with that country without addressing the question of long-sought fugitives, including one who killed a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.
“We approach the next presidential administration with a renewed sense of optimism and moral superiority that justice will prevail,’’ Fuentes said in a statement in January. […..]
👏🏼🙌🏼🌟
🙂 Yes! 😉
Saw this when he delivered it in his monologue last night. So perfect! Thanks for posting this!
looks like twitling twit’s turd touch wins again in alafuckingbama.
Out Forever FLOTUS speaks tomorrow morning at 9ET. Hopefully someone will stream it.
“Our Forever FLOTUS…”
Love our forever FLOTUS.
Not much luck seeing recordings of her events. Maybe this one.
Adorable.
Fingers crossed
A Republican Senate primary in Alabama is twisting Donald Trump and his party in knots and turning the president’s supporters against each other.
Mr Trump has put his power and reputation on the line for the kind of Washington insider he used to rail against - a former corporate lobbyist who was appointed to the Senate by a governor who subsequently resigned in disgrace, no less.
Meanwhile erstwhile White House aides, rabble-rousing former Trump surrogates and even a member of the president’s own Cabinet are lining up behind an upstart insurgent who almost no one in Washington wants to see roaming the halls of the Senate.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/26/our-fellow-americans/#comment-1699009
gop - group of pigs.
His “power and reputation” - has he ever had either? Son of a hooker and a pimp… forever loser, has done nothing to make this world a better place.
turd’s touch. proven yet again. at least now, the congress rethugs will grow a pair?
The rethugs in congress will NEVER learn from their mistakes or grow a pair - they only listen to their owners aka donors (and trump if they can’t avoid him, their first choice). We have but to look at how they’ve acted since 2009 to be assured they have nothing individually to offer. That’s almost all of ’em, in my view.
Hopefully, Moore will never make it into the Senate because he’s another subhuman jerk. He would, however, fit right in.
GE, TODbots.
Congrats, Meta on your Au ⭐
Thanks, NW for a new post.
Evangelist, Bigoted Moore wins GOP Senate Nomination in AL.
And the Founding Fathers, Wept.
yet another scum on their ‘platform’.
They will accept ANY white male regardless of his stupidity as long as he can be a vote for racism and hate. This is the US republican party.
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/09/26/prime-minister-introduces-canadas-new-top-scientist
Why are there so few votes - or are they in groups? Seems crazy to have a member of a state legislature who receives 294 votes??
GM 99ts.
Per Wikipedia:
“The New Hampshire House of Representatives is the lower house in the New Hampshire General Court, the bicameral legislature of the state of New Hampshire. The House of Representatives consists of 400 members coming from 204 legislative districts across the state, created from divisions of the state’s counties. On average, each legislator represents about 3,300 residents.”
NH state senate has 24 members.
This is amazing to me. New Hampshire is one of the smallest states in the US, and they have a HUGE state legislature — if California elected one rep per 3,000 people, we’d have 13,000 reps. SMH.
Thank you arapaho - Still weird to me - out of 3000 people. under 500 voted? 16% - guess I am used to compulsory voting where over 90% vote.
fucking fifth columnist fourth estate.
GM amk.
For the most part, US MSM is horrible — they’re much like FUBAR, in that they think of themselves first and foremost. (Of course we have *some* journalists with integrity, but they aren’t paid by the NY Times.
Love the way @ddale8 says things that his US counterparts can’t (or won’t) say:
so much press freedom and yet these corrupt cowards suck up to the right most of the time.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/michelle-obama-rocked-bright-frock-tech-talk-011624078.html
Thanks AnnieB.
Gorgeous ensemble — love her dress and the SHOES!
You are welcome.
TODders love Doug Jones.
He’s carrying the torch forward that was lit during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s (posted this earlier here, so disregard if you’ve already seen).
This willful Stupidity is Crazy.
CAN this please be posted World Wide? Illegitimate president. Let’s be knowing exactly who is pulling the strings.
Before tonight, I had never heard about Robert San Luis … I guess this is another one we have to get to know highlight to others so that the can get to know further.
GE GCL.
This scheme sounds a lot like something I read about Bernie Sanders awhile ago — can’t recall the details now, but whatever article I read outlined how to get rich by creating a marketing company that gets campaign contributions — the marketing company keeps the bulk of the money, with just a few dollars spent on ads.
Did you see this? Now MORE names and locations to keep track of re: #TrumpRussia:
wowsers, congrats!
Aside from the sociopath in the WH (who wants to kill us all), US MSM is still acting as if there’s no civil war happening in the GOP.
some people’s political actions baffle me … still puzzle about the people who support this republican garbage
I guess he is a white guy.
yes, I am feeling petty …. someone needs to remind mcconnell that life comes at you fast …..;
Thanks for sending that tweet to that buzzard!
GE NCLB.
More details on the Jones Act.
And… the clincher (which sort of negates last night’s FUBAR whining tweets:
Just because…
❤️🎶😹
NYT has never faced facts in their 25yr+ attacks on Hillary Clinton. So they once called tRump a liar - he laughed and then they put those emails right back on the front page. Anyone who praises the NYT for their political coverage does not understand what reporters are supposed to do.
Where are the black folks?
He has no friends or family who want to dine with him, clearly obvious.
Is he personally paying for all these dinners? It’s my understanding Presidents pay for meals unless official business. Oh, on second thought, he’s probably calling these nightly dinners with various people official business so that he doesn’t pay for his meals. We can always count on him getting around the rules.
He will never OWE the government money, we know that! Ugh.
Hurricane Maria arrived in Puerto Rico on Wednesday morning, so it’s taken almost a week to deploy USNS Comfort, which has vital desalinization capability — would be a godsend for people without potable water now.
More on the clusterf**k surrounding the deployment of USNS Comfort:
NO ONE in the media wants to say why it took so long for Puerto Rico to get attention and aid…it is because it is a nation of brown people…the same folks that TRUMP and his ilk is obsessed with deporting…
Rachel says the hospital ship Comfort will head out for Puerto Rico in 4 days + 5 days to get there. PR Mayor Cruise who described the terrifying crisis, told Rachel that the FEMA chain of command has been blocked for fed responders with docs, nurses and medics still waiting for the green light. She says half of residents have no clean drinking water. No power grid, hospitals don’t have sufficient power to keep people alive. Need diesel, gas, water, help getting around. Seniors cut off and alone, cannot cook. People messaging her with desperate SOSes.
Been 6 days since Maria hit PR. And Comfort still preparing to go. Nine days till it arrives. People in San Juan hospital already dead.
King Tweet finally responding and doing what Hillary said to do.
Let’s hope the update from WaPo is correct and Comfort on its way. If so arrival 5 days from now.
fucking nyt.
Goodnight TOD ….
Uganda Political crisis:
this political junkie is facing a situation where my country of birth (Uganda) is in deep turmoil and then the mess in my current country of choice (US);
Tuesday in Uganda was spent with members of parliament engaged in physical fights in the legislative chambers. As far as I know, this is the first time actual fights have broken out on the floor of parliament -fist, kicks, furniture, wrestling. there was also loud singing done so that the speaker could not proceed.
reason for the fight is about the motion to remove the age limit for a sitting president which was to be tabled on Tuesday.
that the current dictator who has been in power since 1986 is determined to change the constitution by eliminating the age limit of 75 years. this comes after he tried to get around the age limit by “suddenly discovering a new record of birth” which made him suddenly “younger” than his current age;
members of parliament in the ruling party have been bribed by each receiving a cash payment of 300 million Uganda Shillings (equivalent to about US $ 833,000;
ordinary people are being beaten, arrested, stripped naked and then paraded on the street before being taken away by the police/army. you are targeted person if you are found wearing tee-shirts of the opposition; college students are being attacked by police and army as they peacefully demonstrate
the most vocal opposition members of parliament were arrested from their homes overnight and in the morning so that they can’t voice their opinions as the motion was tabled.
some vocal opposition MPs had to spend the nights away from their homes because they were tipped off that they would be arrested. when day broke, these MPs used various clandestine means to escape the police/army as they rushed to parliament.
others opposition MPs had to engage in live races on the streets as policemen chased them from car to motor bicycle to feet and with some determined citizens doing all they can to assist them while tripping up the police/army.
now it is early Wednesday morning ….. what will the day bring
typical bully. what a fucking coward.
indeed he is a coward;
the scumbag thinks that others are going to forget what we saw, read, and heard in real time …. and of course technology has a long memory
good morning everyone!
have a great day
trolling twitter
Morning everyone….guess who took Russian $$$??? BINGO!
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/investigators-follow-flow-money-trump-wealthy-donors-russian/story?id=50100024
Jackass never pays for ANYTHING. Why should an election be any different?
One down.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/famous-fake-news-writer-found-dead-near-phoenix
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/26/17
Trump staff, lawyers in tow, to face Mueller in Russia scandal
Rachel Maddow reports on expectations that special counsel Robert Mueller will interview White House staff this week in the Trump Russia scandal, and notes how crowded the timeline since 2016 has become with known events.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/26/17
Schiff: A lot more work to do on Russian use of social media
Congressman Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the investigation into Russia’s use of social media to interfere in the American democratic process is advancing.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/26/17
San Juan mayor: ‘This is a big S.O.S. for anybody out there’
Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz of Puerto Rico’s capital city, San Juan, talks with Rachel Maddow about the desperate situation in her city and in Puerto Rico broadly, and expresses her frustration with an administration that is slow to deploy eager helpers.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/26/17
Trump inauguration donor gets personal attention
Sam Stein, politics editor for The Daily Beast, talks with Rachel Maddow about a newly discovered example of apparent special access to White House officials given to a donor to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund.
He thinks they will win the shitcare vote? No one told him?
Keep calling Congress…this time to reauthorize CHIP. Children’s healthcare. It SHOULD be a no brainer, but we aren’t dealing with people with brains. Must reauthorize by this Saturday.
Love her so much!
Thank for the quotes. Agree that humans have a tendency to make stereotypes of what/who is outside of our sphere of immediate perception. We make our little nest nice and comfortable in a big world of people we don’t know and will never meet. But when I say that FLOTUS is adorable, I mean that from what I’ve seen of her she is fierce, brilliant, authentic and unpredictable. A rare leader. Wish I could hear what she said.
Not mad. Sane and wise. People crave that now. I’d be camped out, too.
Democrats flip two seats in state special elections
BY REBECCA SAVRANSKY - 09/27/17 07:21 AM EDT
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I get those phony emails.
If they don’t reference you by name or a specific incident, they’re phishing.
Nwver mind the sketchy punctuation and the Hotmail (!) address of the “attorney”.
Shame!
Bernie is not even a Democrat, so why is he ripping our party apart?
BY MICHAEL STARR HOPKINS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 09/27/17 09:00 AM EDT
Grumbling voices from his own rwnj base and his own party have started emerging against king modi, his own karl rove and his fucked up policies. Me ‘appy, ‘appy.
🙂
Yes but you haven’t shown respect for anything or anyone except Putin.
Bolt should come out and just say twitler is an idiot. Like LeBron did.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/27/chat-away-949/