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History Makers And Record Breakers


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  1. 1 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 10:45 am

    How’s THAT for encouragement!!

  2. 2 Hillary Darton
    April 20, 2025 at 10:49 am

    No disrespect to Beyonce, but Michelle Obama you’re the Queen.

  3. 3 jer44
    April 20, 2025 at 10:54 am


    LIVE NOW: Elizabeth Warren holds 2020 campaign in Keene, NH - https://abcnews.go.com/Live

  4. 4 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 11:25 am

  5. 5 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 11:27 am

  6. 6 jer44
    April 20, 2025 at 11:36 am

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    🗽🇺🇸America

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  7. 7 sjterrid
    April 20, 2025 at 11:56 am

    Greetings,TOD!

    Happy Easter and Passover for all those who observe the holidays.

  8. 10 meta
    April 20, 2025 at 11:58 am

    OOOOMMERGAWD

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    At 7:30AM, apparently while he was on the treadmill in the private residence, President Obama sent a message to Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest via his secure Blackberry warning him that he planned to wear a tan suit to the Oval Office that day.[1]⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Earnest replied five minutes later at 7:35AM: “Talked to {White House Press Secretary Jay} Carney and we both agree this will be a big mistake. You are scheduled to make an appearance in the briefing room. Please ask XXXXXXXX to prepare a gray suit instead.”[2]⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Obama replied instantly, also at 7:35AM: “Don’t tell me what to wear.”[3]⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Despite the warning from Earnest and Carney, Obama did in fact wear the tan suit during his appearance in the White House briefing room, which created the biggest controversy of his administration.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ At approximately 4PM, Carney called an internal staff meeting with senior officials including Valerie Jarrett and Denis McDonough to discuss with the President how to handle the controversy.[4] McDonough’s notes from that day include the words, “We’re screwed; this is the end of his presidency.”[5]⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣

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  9. 15 jer44
    April 20, 2025 at 12:10 pm

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    April 20.2014… The Obamas leaving the White House today for Easter Services at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Malia Obama follows her father President Barack Obama, her mother First Lady Michelle Obama and her sister Sasha as they depart for Easter Services at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. Happy Easter …. #tansuit

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  10. 16 jer44
    April 20, 2025 at 12:15 pm

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    How I long for simpler times when a tan suit was scandalous. #MichelleAndBarack #Forever44 #BarackObama #MichelleObama #MaliaObama #SashaObama #Bo #Sunny #POTUS #FLOTUS #WhiteHouse #ObamaFoundation #ThankYouObama #TwoTerms #Hope #ComeBackBarack #MyPresidentWasBlack #NeverForget #Hawaii #Chicago #WashingtonDC #TanSuit

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  11. 18 bridgeriverpass
    April 20, 2025 at 1:34 pm

    Impeach Donald Trump.
    A list of advantages taken from this must-read article:
    (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/)
    “Starting the process will rein in a president who is undermining American ideals…With a newly seated Democratic majority, the House of Representatives can no longer dodge its constitutional duty. It must immediately open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and bring the debate out of the court of public opinion and into Congress, where it belongs.”
    1) “The first is that once an impeachment inquiry begins, the president loses control of the public conversation….Day after day, newspapers splashed the proceedings across their front pages….His ability to sidestep scandal by changing the subject—perhaps his greatest political skill—will diminish.”
    2) “As Trump fights for his political survival, that struggle will overwhelm other concerns. This is the second benefit of impeachment: It paralyzes a wayward president’s ability to advance the undemocratic elements of his agenda.”
    “It is, rather, the extraordinary elements of Trump’s presidency that merit the use of impeachment to forestall their success: his subversion of the rule of law, attacks on constitutional liberties, and advancement of his own interests at the public’s expense…Impeachment puts his own job on the line, and demands every hour of his day…There may be no more effective way to run out the clock on an administration than to tie it up with impeachment hearings.”
    3) “The third benefit is its utility as a tool of discovery and discernment…The process of impeachment can also surface evidence”…((Fake news ends up being substantiated + Trump’s audience shifts to Senators in Congress.))
    4) “Hosting that debate in Congress yields a fourth benefit: defusing the potential for an explosion of political violence. This is a rationale for impeachment first offered at the Constitutional Convention, in 1787.”
    5) “And what if the Senate does not convict Trump? The fifth benefit of impeachment is that, even when it fails to remove a president, it severely damages his political prospects.”

    • 19 bridgeriverpass
      April 20, 2025 at 1:35 pm

      “Many, including Al Gore, think that the impeachment cost Gore the election.” (Paul Rosenzweig)
      Impeachment is “a process that should be triggered only when a president’s betrayal of his basic duties requires it. But Trump’s conduct clearly meets that threshold.” If not now, when.

  12. 20 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 1:43 pm

    Ah! Remember when Lindsey had a thought about liars … that weren’t in HIS party that fueled is self interest? For a blow job, mind you! Not an attack on our democracy and accepting help from a foreign govt to help win an election. ITMFA

    • 21 marleysperson
      April 20, 2025 at 1:58 pm

  13. 22 meta
    April 20, 2025 at 2:08 pm

    Please read this thread and share with family and friends.

    • 23 meta
      April 20, 2025 at 2:09 pm

      Rolled up here:

  14. 24 meta
    April 20, 2025 at 2:26 pm

  15. 26 Sheila
    April 20, 2025 at 2:44 pm

    great question….what are the folks in the diary…answer

    • 27 bridgeriverpass
      April 20, 2025 at 4:18 pm

      Mr. Mueller laid out a detailed roadmap = heavy lifting done!
      -Dems in Congress can walk, talk and chew gum.
      Advantages regardless of outcome: (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/)

  16. 28 bridgeriverpass
    April 20, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    Mueller report = The “mother of all kitchen table issues.”
    “And let’s remember Manafort finagled himself into the role of running Trump’s campaign, doing the work for free.
    And for whose benefit?
    Certainly, the Mueller report indicates without equivocation that the Russians believed Trump presidency would benefit them.
    And are we foolish enough to believe Putin and the Russians care about the healthy and secure futures of American workers?
    Of America’s children?
    Americans are smarter than that.
    But to figure all this out, Americans must be sitting at their kitchen tables talking about the Mueller report and our ability to pick our own president, one who will support Americans having access to healthcare, education, good jobs, clean drinking water, and overall viable futures.
    This is why the Mueller report is the mother of all kitchen table issues.”
    (Tim Libretti)
    https://www.politicususa.com/2019/04/20/why-the-mueller-report-is-the-kitchen-table-issue-of-all-kitchen-table-issues.html
    “the Mueller report tells us a lot about how our president is being chosen for us—and not so much by us.”

  17. 34 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 20, 2025 at 4:26 pm

    • 35 Hillary Darton
      April 20, 2025 at 6:20 pm

      You know I have said this before, Trump is not totally the blame for this. The Republican Party who know what Trump is, but yet they remain silent and look the other way. They are just as bad as Trump.

  18. 36 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 4:51 pm

    Works for me

  19. 37 jer44
    April 20, 2025 at 5:38 pm

  20. 39 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    Well wishes and positive thoughts

  21. 41 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 20, 2025 at 6:15 pm

  22. 42 jacquelineoboomer
    April 20, 2025 at 6:36 pm

    I like them both but (is it me or) does one of ’em look like a cardboard cut-out? (Take your pick which one!)

  23. 44 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 7:12 pm

    Good

  24. 46 jacquelineoboomer
    April 20, 2025 at 8:13 pm

  25. 47 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 9:34 pm

    Traitor. The Play.

  26. 48 jer44
    April 20, 2025 at 9:50 pm

  27. 49 jer44
    April 20, 2025 at 10:03 pm

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    Miss you…

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  28. 51 jacquelineoboomer
    April 20, 2025 at 11:21 pm

    Sharing a quick funny story from my friend in Florida (she’s my age, 72, and very sweet and non-confrontational). She was shopping today and, on her way back to her car, walked by some outdoor tables at a cafe. Two gentlemen she did not know - one black, one white - were talking at one of the tables. The black gentleman said something positive about President Obama, which she overheard, but the white guy responded with something disgustingly pro-trump (I’m doing the editing here 🙂 ). My friend said she all of a sudden stopped in front of their table, looked at the white guy and said, “I LOVE PRESIDENT OBAMA!!!!!” He said something like oh no you’re wrong, smiling, but she turned on her heels and went to leave. The black gentleman laughed and said, “Come back, I need you to say more!” They were obviously buddies, having a calm conversation until she came along, and were both smiling at her even after her outburst, but she was really, really disgusted - and let’s just say it was uncharacteristic for her to blurt that out. Lots of trump people around her, where she lives, which she normally ignores big time … but not today. I toasted her from afar!

    “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” 🙂

  29. 57 marleysperson
    April 20, 2025 at 11:27 pm

    Reading the redacted report now….amazing in its detail

  30. 58 jacquelineoboomer
    April 20, 2025 at 11:31 pm

    As if the stories couldn’t get any worse. Glad they got one of these effers. This guy looks like trump’s evil twin.

  31. 61 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 12:09 am

    Thread

    • 62 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
      April 21, 2025 at 1:54 am

      An impressive summary. Thank you for sharing, df!!

      • 63 marleysperson
        April 21, 2025 at 6:37 am

        Very welcome, Bobfr! Thanks for posting the searchable version of the report. Reading now

      • 64 marleysperson
        April 21, 2025 at 9:27 am

        Look who else liked it:)

  32. 65 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 21, 2025 at 1:55 am

  33. 66 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 21, 2025 at 1:57 am

  34. 67 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 21, 2025 at 2:01 am

    Really worthwhile ….

  35. 68 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 21, 2025 at 2:15 am

  36. 69 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 6:51 am

  37. 70 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 6:57 am

  38. April 21, 2025 at 8:18 am

    Awfulness:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/six-blasts-hit-three-churches-three-hotels-sri-lanka-n996751

  39. 74 meta
    April 21, 2025 at 8:23 am

    • 75 Sheila
      April 21, 2025 at 1:32 pm

      i will hold not my breath …because i do not believe those same newspapers will call for the impeachment of Donald Trump…i’m not sure if those newspapers are still around

  40. 76 meta
    April 21, 2025 at 8:24 am

    Come the hell on!

  41. 77 todjey
    April 21, 2025 at 8:44 am

    Why would ANYONE believe ANYTHING that comes out of Sanders’s mouth?

    • 78 marleysperson
      April 21, 2025 at 9:20 am

      If I was a member of the the press, I wouldn’t show up to listen to Sarah’s lies. Let her come out to an empty room. Stay at the office and dig for the truth to share with the public. Not gonna find truth in THIS White House!!!

    • 81 marleysperson
      April 21, 2025 at 9:20 am

      If I was a member of the the press, I wouldn’t show up to listen to Sarah’s lies. Let her come out to an empty room. Stay at the office and dig for the truth to share with the public. Not gonna find truth in THIS White House!!!

  42. 82 todjey
    April 21, 2025 at 9:21 am

    Rudy Giuliani is on Jake Tapper’s SOTU. His face and head is covered in perspiration which is quite noticeable on tv. I suppose this would happen especially when one’s mouth is capable of only lying (I have the tv muted, I have no idea what he is saying but … whatever it is, I doubt it’s the truth).

  43. 83 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 9:22 am

  44. 84 meta
    April 21, 2025 at 9:43 am

    Happy Easter. We hope for renewal and the coming of spring and new growth.

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    Some traditions you never outgrow - Happy Easter🐰🐣🌸

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  45. 85 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 9:50 am

    Dropping this here

  46. 86 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 9:54 am

    Wow. This is what they’ve allowed themselves to believe. Given themselves permission to take help from foreign adversary to ‘win’ election . That’s fucked up

  47. 87 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 10:00 am

    Interesting thread

  48. 88 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 10:06 am

    Bottom line

  49. 89 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 10:08 am

    Our Forever President

  50. 90 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 10:10 am

    Contrast. Millions were killed in Sri Lanka?

  51. 92 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 10:18 am

    Exactly! An absolute non starter. They need to do the right thing. It’s not that hard

  52. 93 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 10:20 am

    Is everyone at church? Sleeping in? Eating Easter candy in a sugar trance? Am I all alone?!🐇🐇🐇

    • 94 Don
      April 21, 2025 at 10:23 am

      You will never be alone, sunshine.

      • 95 marleysperson
        April 21, 2025 at 10:34 am

        Thank you, sweet man! I was afraid everyone was gone off doing something and it was left here talking to myself again. So glad that that’s not the case:) Morning, Mister!

    • 96 jer44
      April 21, 2025 at 10:25 am

      You are not alone. 😊

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      On this Day : Senator Obama exchanges a glance with his wife Michelle during a rally at University of Pittsburgh, April 21, 2025 Happy Sunday…

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  53. 98 bridgeriverpass
    April 21, 2025 at 10:39 am

    The Guardian 10 mins ago reported 207 dead and seven arrested. Social media blackout to prevent fake news.
    Hospital reporting that the victims are from USA, Denmark, China, Japan, Pakistan, Morocco, India, Bangladesh, Turkey.
    Muslim, Buddhist, Hindi, Christian communities donating their blood. Police may have been killed while seeking the killers.

    • 99 bridgeriverpass
      April 21, 2025 at 10:40 am

      Q. How did fake president come up with “138 million people”? Is he going to correct that?

      • 100 marleysperson
        April 21, 2025 at 11:08 am

        Because he’s a flaming idiot that doesn’t care about facts. He disrespects the people that really DID die in this horrific attack

    • 102 bridgeriverpass
      April 21, 2025 at 10:48 am

      Humans are not separate…we are not separate…so much delusion by Trump and his blind followers who act as though separate and apart.
      Trump is a danger to society and must be removed.

  54. 103 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 10:53 am

  55. 104 jer44
    April 21, 2025 at 10:58 am

  56. 105 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 11:06 am

    Hummmm

    • 106 todjey
      April 21, 2025 at 11:11 am

      I was just wondering the same. Turned on AM Joy hoping to see him there, but nothing.

      • 107 marleysperson
        April 21, 2025 at 11:26 am

        Something happened. No sure what. He’s always on… now, nothing. He’s been saying everything that’s in the report for some time now… why wouldn’t he be on now?

        • 108 todjey
          April 21, 2025 at 11:32 am

          I will try and check on Twitter…(only thing on Twitter I check is Devin Nunes Cow 😂.).

          Maybe he has been posting stuff there.

  57. 109 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 11:23 am

    Correct, Sir

  58. 110 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 11:57 am

    Pleasant diversion:) Dance like no one is watching:)

  59. 111 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 12:00 pm

  60. 112 meta
    April 21, 2025 at 12:10 pm

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    To all who celebrate today, happy Easter from our family to yours! On this day of rebirth and renewal, let’s recommit to love and serve our brothers and sisters, especially those in need, in every way we can. Have a great day, everybody.

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  61. 113 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 12:25 pm

    So much law to rely on

  62. 114 meta
    April 21, 2025 at 12:26 pm

    This guy nails it every time.

    • 115 marleysperson
      April 21, 2025 at 12:42 pm

      Required reading. I’m crying. This should be sent to all Dems as they proceed forward. This is where we are and we shouldn’t fool ourselves. We must do the right thing to hold all these criminals accountable. There is no time to waste. None!

    • 118 Sheila
      April 21, 2025 at 1:26 pm

      HOW did this become the meme…the drumbeat that is beating ever louder….as Jill WineBanks has said…the House needs to conduct hearings to show and educate the American People about the criminality of Trump and his people….

      the pundits seem to not care that the Republican controlled Senate will never remove Trump from office….so then what….

      and because Pelosi has another way of handling this…she is beng called weak…ineffective…scared….when just a few months ago she was called a genius…powerful…etc…

      tired of the gateway pundits who seem to think that they know what is best…keep in mind …they were instrumental in helping Trump getting elected in the first place….they have never been held account for that

      Then you have Warren coming out throwing her weight around calling for impeachment …when she will never get a vote to impeach….do you think that she spoke to Pelosi…….Warren.implied that she has more of a moral compass than Pelosi…

      reminds me when she implied that Pres Obama was corrupt when it came to TPP…

      can’t watch any of the cable news shows

  63. 119 jacquelineoboomer
    April 21, 2025 at 12:27 pm

    Happy Bunny Day, Nerdy darlin’!!!

  64. 120 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 12:32 pm

  65. 121 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 12:36 pm

    Think about this. Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, Obama……all the majestic and important to people that went before. And there’s this jerk. He’s an asset alright

  66. 124 Bobfr (@Our4thEstate)
    April 21, 2025 at 12:52 pm

  67. 125 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 12:57 pm

    Another very important thread

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JYSexton

  68. 126 marleysperson
    April 21, 2025 at 12:59 pm

    Sorry. Here

    • 127 bridgeriverpass
      April 21, 2025 at 1:17 pm

      Who could negotiate with Hitler?
      Or his cohorts.
      The fake holier-than-thou must realize that Mafia Don wants to lock up anyone/everyone he decides is against him.
      Impeachment will put the pressure where it should be. Tie him up. And surface more evidence publicly.
      -GOAL is to make doublezilliontriple sure we get him out.
      -Requires an all-out attack from every conceivable angle on his seasoned criminal arse.


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