my elementary school, JEFF DAVIS ELEMENTARY, is changing its name to BARACK OBAMA ELEMENTARY AND I LOVE THIS SONG mississippitoday.org/2017/10/17/oba…
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the tweets are interconnected.
IMportant case
Hoping to beat a DeVos-backed mayor in just 20 days. I’d love to have your support! https://www.scotturbanowski.com/support
This from an MSNBC correspondent:
Isn’t there someone else besides Bernie Sanders to represent the Democratic party on taxes? Why is he always the fake face of the Democratic party at these townhalls?
No idea, and I never watch his “things.” I’m guessing he talks the hosts into it, or they are his supporters or something.
DEMs need to get over their Bernie obsession….
what happened to all the money that RC collected?
And, FEMA can’t find these people…
Uh huh
Uh huh
Thank goodness for Chef Andres. He’s been a savior for the people of Puerto Rico while FEMA drags its feet.
I hope nobody just had dinner.
slanderous. daisy granny was a no nonsense type of gal.
Ha. She sure was! I see she also “got around.” 🙂
heh, when you got it, you got it.
“That’s what she said.”
LOL.
That’s a huge insult to Granny. I’m not aware that she was a bigot.
Thanks for sharing the great name change news. In a sea of ugliness, that makes me feel hopeful.
LOL.
Wow. So disgusting. There are no words to describe Trump.
kelly lost whatever little honor he had a long time ago.
Indeed.
Kelly’s son was married. Did his son’s wife get a call?
Sure would like to know given she would be the first person contacted by the WH.
Why does anyone think that Kelly has any honor? If he did, he wouldn’t be working for Trump.
Uh huh
Uh huh
Although I believe DT is a racist to his core, there were white families in the group that were not contacted as well. Bottom line is that he is lazy as hell with a completely incompetent staff. Add to that his obvious discomfort with POC and I suspect it was laziness more than anything.
This just makes me sick.
Nepotism. She’s not qualified for anything she’s doing in the White House. This is not normal.
I thought she was Mrs. Kushner!
LOL. Perfect zing.
This crew is too much for my brain to understand. What a pack!
*Perfect zing
How right you are!
This from a United States Senator.
what is this? I asked for the nukular FOOTBALL - the turd.
They could just answer the fat ass by saying, “It’s a large cookie, Mr. President. Take a bite.”
An Australian government plan to overhaul its citizenship process has stalled after opposition parties effectively blocked its Senate passage.
The proposed bill would have made it harder to gain citizenship. It included requirements for applicants to have advanced English language skills and four years of permanent residency.
Opponents argued the requirements were too tough on non-English speakers.
PM Malcolm Turnbull’s government says it will make amendments to the bill.
Late on Wednesday, a Senate deadline expired after Labor, the Greens and the Nick Xenophon Team signalled they would not support the bill in its current form.
Labor said a demand on applicants to pass university-level language tests had the potential to create an underclass of non-citizens.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-41674895
This is good news. People can always learn English so it’s obvious that the conservative Australian government is trying to keep out “certain” people. Glad their plans have been stalled.
Just as believable as anything else in 2017:
Just felt like posting one of Obama and Clintons bad ass moments
One of my favorite memories. Chinese tried to pull a fast one and Barack and Hills forced their way in an took that shit over. Fastforward a few years later and the Chinese were signing the Paris Agreement.
Morning everyone…now he’s got paranoid delusions. Time to go, Donny.
Huummmmmm….
That should be more than enough for Mueller.
Makes me sad that even with the clear harm that the GOP does that it takes Biden and PBO to campaign for Northam. This lets me know that all indicators show he will probably lose.
With the help and blessings of so many Republicans…because they would never win otherwise
If this was about Hillary or PBO, it would be the only thing that all media would be covering. I hope/pray that someone all of this and similar info. from other areas will come to light in time to remove the deplorable one from office.
We have to fight for the 20th Century.
If we can gather the troops and stop this..
Dolt45 will realize just how much the GOP has been covering for him.
I said stopping TRUMPCARE was important, not just to save healthcare for millions, but also to force them to show their sociopathy out in the open. We are about to see it, plain and simple.
They are discussing getting rid of the deductions for state and local tax.
Here’s the thing. There are GOP congressmen in the states that they want to punish. If they vote for this, they are literally signing their career death warrant. Republicans squeal about taxes. Putting their fingerprints on something that cannot be hidden, and that the voters can directly attach to them IS career suicide.
I know these areas in my state. These are people who are Republicans because ‘ they keep my taxes low’.
That’s the first thing out their mouths.
Something that directly hits their bottom line – they are proud members of the IGMFY crowd….
The folks that I’m talking about aren’t the Baby Jesus crowd. They moved to these areas for quality of life. And especially schools. That’s why it has been hard for the charter school scammers to move into the suburbs. How you gonna sell that scam to people who specifically moved there FOR the public schools? The attack on the taxes isn’t just taxes; they will see it-and correctly so- as an attack on ‘their way of life’. ALL made possible by the taxes. These taxes are their bottom line. Taking away that deduction is HUGE. HUGE.
The GOP controls all levers of government. There’s nobody to hide behind. They didn’t get TRUMPCARE, so they have to do their sociopathy out in the open.
These are the people who have accountants. Or know accountants. You don’t think that the whispering has already started about what the lack of state and local tax deductions will do their bottom line?
And, the only thing that they can explain is that the Koch Brothers will get a tax cut and somehow it will get back to them – which they know is bullshyt.
Good luck to the GOP reps thinking that they can sell that..
The path is direct now. They have nobody to hide behind.
I looked it up: Between CT, NY, NJ, CA, MA, IL and PA, there are over 40 GOP Reps. All being asked to commit Career Suicide. That’s more than enough to take back the House.
These tax cuts are about decimating the American Social Safety Net. Repealing the New Deal. Ridding us of the 20th Century.
You see now that, when people bring up the huge deficits that these tax cuts will cause, they don’t really care about the deficit. They spent 8 years howling about it when the Black Man was President. But, now, deficits don’t really matter.
Once they get those tax cuts past, then they’ll begin whining about the deficit, and how we have to make up that by cutting social programs – never defense, but Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. It would fiscally irresponsible not to deal with the deficit…but AFTER the giveaway to the rich and corporations.
Make no mistake…they are coming after the 20th Century.
Lost in the shytstorm about the disrespect of Sgt. Johnson’s family was the news that Melania has a body double. There’s something so absolutely patently absurd about that..I can barely wrap my mind around it. They are so phony and disingenuous that they have a double for the plastic First Lady who doesn’t do shyt already.
Uh huh
Uh huh
Wow…is that true???!
Doors for the Thursday evening rally open at 5 p.m. Tickets are required to attend the rally.
Looking at PBO’s photos starting in childhood on TOD. Once he started blooming there was no stopping him. And imo he’s one of those guys whose life experiences go on making him better and better looking. If that’s even possible. (But hey not a fan.)
Agreed, fan !! 🙂
He’s the Patrion Saint for White Supremacist Steve Bannon and only ‘ Seems Racist’?
Phuck.outta.here.
Robert Mercer Seems Really Racist
by Martin Longman
October 18, 2025 P
With an assist from Charles Pierce, I can across an article in Vanity Fair that details allegations made in court filings against Robert Mercer by a former business associate named David Magerman. I am not surprised by Mercer’s banal views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its effects, but I am relieved to see Mercer’s views on what’s “not important.”
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Robert Mercer may be the first person I’ve heard argue that all the depredations that blacks suffered under the Jim Crow regime were “not important.” His reasoning seems to be that blacks were “doing fine” under that regime when compared to what came after the major civil rights legislation of the 1960’s.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, speaking of China as above: In all the kerfuffle, we’re forgetting how China dashes into fill whatever vacuums
it can around the globe and is the rising Economic power. And though Russia’s economy is smaller than Italy’s - it is busy hacking us all.
China may be also being hacked (dunno) but guessing not as interesting to Putin as it has no free elections.
Um…’free’.
god bless murka.
Why aren’t we talking more loudly and consistently about these three things related to the tax cut: (a) no evidence that it the tax cut results into economic growth ; (b) it is a blatant action to rob the treasury on behalf of the very rich; (c) Kansas and Oklahoma are some of the most clear example how this robbery led to utter devastation of basic services (education, social programs, public safety etc.) to such an extent that republicans had to reverse them.
Most people know nothing about all of this. The only thing in the so-called news report is related to the distraction of the reality show white house. Meanwhile, the GOP congress and its donors are sneaking in all of the things that they have wanted for the past 50 years and the stupid DNC is involved in organizational drama instead of organized resistance and growing the party. We would not have had Barack Obama as president if it had been left to the DNC. Things are getting done these days by people/groups that are not part of this ineffective organization. If we manage to flip congress and get rid of the deplorable one and his crew, it will be not be because of anything the DNC has done. I am especially disappointed and disgusted by the fact that the two POC co-leaders are being led by the nose by an old white man who is not even a Democrat.
As PBO & VP Biden are hitting the campaign trail, we, ordinary people can help out by directly imploring the people in our own networks to show up and vote. Most people are not paying attention about these elections that are very near completion. Early voting in my state has already started
Vox’s Matt Yglesias explained yesterday, shaping a more progressive tax-cut plan is pretty straightforward:
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/18/17
Trump disgrace laid bare in interactions with gold star families
Rachel Maddow struggles to process how it could be reality that Donald Trump has picked a fight with the families of people who died in service to the United States, to whom Americans owe a debt, not an insult.
NOTHING NEW….he did this before the elections…it seems that only the Obama Coalition was paying attention
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/18/17
Maddow: What is Trump hiding about U.S. military in Niger?
Rachel Maddow points out that for all the attention given to Trump’s disgraceful behavior toward gold star families, the actual question Trump was asked was about Niger. Why the Trump distraction?
Yes any excuse to ladle more money onto the very rich. Then they use the freebies to donate so as get more favors, so they can get more rich and more powerful. Trickle down has been demonstrated o’er and o’er to be just a mirage. In the long discussion a few years ago the duo that came up with the so-called ‘trickle down’ idea admitted that it didn’t work!! Wish I could find the ref.
in response to gcl above.
They are not patriots. They are TRAITORS TO THIS COUNTRY.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/18/17
Sessions testimony reveals no DoJ plan to protect elections
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about testimony from Jeff Sessions in which he reveals that the Justice Department does not have a plan to protect future elections from outside influence.
Could this…might this…be a back alley plot to do away with the next election or Postpone it?
Cover your eyes…very sorry.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/18/17
Brennan: ‘Implausible’ Russians had no US cooperation on election
Rachel Maddow shares video of former CIA director John Brennan explaining that he thinks it is implausible that Russians were not able to get some help, wittingly or unwittingly, from Americans in their mission to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
Google, Facebook, and Twitter all willing conspirators.
New Moon today: 26♎️35. 3:12pm ET. 12:12pm PT. May we be restored to some level of balance, in order to move out of the current morass of chaos, and forward into Light and sanity. 🙏🏻🕯
Catalans want independence. Kurds want independence. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge, blue states.
I LOATHE all these mofos.
HELLO MEDIA! PBO’s personal response was to host a BREAKFAST with Kelly:
“White House visitor records from former President Barack Obama’s term show that he hosted current White House chief of staff John Kelly at a breakfast for Gold Star families after his son died in Afghanistan.” (ABC)
I knew that rat-bastard told that orange-satan that! I DON’T TRUST NONE OF THEM! I never felt that Kelly or any of the people around that Dotard is keeping American’s safe from him. I would not put it past any of them that they would hand him the nuclear football and tell him have at it. Kelly, Mattis, and Tillerson are all evil just like their boss.
Diwali:. Lighting those in darkness. Diwali so fab lasting 6 days beginning on 12th day of Kartik with fasting. Next day cleaning, decorating doorsteps wthe rangoli, courtyards with lanterns. 2nd night lamps and firecrackers and visiting relatives exchange of sweets. 3rd is about Lakshmi and welcoming her with lamps and lanterns and skies lit by fireworks. 5th day every man dines in his sister’s house - gifts. Thousands join hands for sacred bath in the Yamuna. “The cognition of all objects arises from the light of pure Consciousness.”
Yay Happy Diwali !! One lamp can light a 1000 more and still the flame of the first lamp loses nothing = unity of Sun, moon, stars, fire.
🙏🏼📿🗝👁👁
REMINDER!!
Rally with President Obama and Ralph Northam
Thursday, October 19
Doors will open at 5PM
Guessing the program will start about 7PMish. I’ve found one livestream so far but there will likely be more and it may even be broadcast somewhere.
https://patch.com/virginia/richmond
JER will likely come to our rescue as usual!!
thanks meta….nervous and excited at the same time…as i am always am when PBO spoke at a rally..smiling
Required thread:
I’m sure Bobby Three Sticks heard…loud and clear.
The Senate votes today on its FY 2018 budget which demands more than $5 trillion in cuts to vital safety net programs over the next decade, while at the same time creating the framework to raise taxes on families struggling to make ends meet and give tax breaks to the wealthiest in our nation. The federal budget must reflect our morals as a nation—it must fund human needs programs that #MendtheGaps.
To learn more about the Senate’s unfaithful budget resolution, stay tuned for our Facebook live event TODAY at 4PM with our Senior Government Relations Advocate, Tralonne Shorter and Executive Director, Sister Simone Campbell .
When George H Bush actually acts and sounds Presidential you know how badly America is being fucked by Trump and his fellow KKKTraitors ….
I am sure that, the networks are waiting with baited breath for something from PBO’s speech to give them another 24hr news cycle.
WE SHOULD BE PROTECTING THE @@@@%%% INTERNET.
Amn’t I right?
Yes and the ship of No-comfort in animated suspension for All to see.
Like an active suspension of nematodes immersed in a gel-like biological structure, moving at a low Reynolds number.
If you don’t mind.
this is how I see it too.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/10/19/freedom-of-speech/