Beautiful post! Been offline more or less for a couple of days, so this was a nice way to “wake up” to the blog this morning. Thanks, Nerdy – and meta!
1/ A cocktail party at the DC Mayflower Hotel last year is "where the agreement for Russia to assist Trump in the elections all began." https://t.co/wqxhjV7FKS
Here’s @SethAbramson’s megathread (40+ tweets, with links to published articles):
(MEGA-THREAD) The plot to sell America's foreign policy for foreign oil _and_ steal an election in the bargain began at the Mayflower Hotel. pic.twitter.com/XkoFpmMAeJ
đ We are our own little nest of investigators here, aren’t we?? đ Thanks, Arapaho!! Hope that this all gets into the hands of those that are truly connecting the all these dots.
I guess when you have cabinet full of millionaires/billionaires you have to double their security. While teachers and taxpayers go broke… https://t.co/fvhipp7GAn
Here’s Stupid Idiot, John McCain. No, John. There’s no fucking “reboot”
I'm calling bullsh*t on this. There's no "reboot" with a fraud, bigot, and sexist installed by Putin and FBI abuse of power. #trumprussiahttps://t.co/6S8Dv85DNh
— Dr. DaShanne Stokes (@DaShanneStokes) April 9, 2017
I guess what galls me the most about Trump is that he might be the most unqualified person to become President. Itâs like America went out of her way to pick the most belligerent and vulgar and narcissistic and misogynistic person it could find to be President.
âSo Trumpist governance in practice so far is turning out to be just Republican governance with (much) worse management,â he writes. âWhich brings me back to the original question: Does the appalling character of the man on top matter?â
Krugman believes it does. He argues that Trumpâs appeal is rooted not in the substance of his politics but in his crude personality, which gives âoutright, unapologetic voice to racism, sexism, contempt for âlosersâ and so onâfeelings that have always been an important source of conservative support, but have long been things you werenât supposed to talk about openly.â
âOne way to think about Fox News in general, and Mr. OâReilly in particular, is that they provide a safe space for people who want an affirmation that their uglier impulses are, in fact, justified and perfectly O.K.,â he continues. âAnd one way to think about the Trump White House is that itâs attempting to expand that safe space to include the nation as a whole.â
I’m just saying that if Trump launches a nuclear attack on North Korea there isn’t really a going back to normal. And this is the person we’ve chosen to be our President. How much more corruption do we need to find out about Trump before something is done about it? There are clear and undeniable links between Trump and Moscow and it seems that nobody is doing anything about it. I know that there are ongoing investigations going on but what do we do in the mean time. We have attack navy ships headed to North Korea and the entire region is on high alert for a possible nuclear launch. We are now in a nightmare scenario.
That is another reason why the Republicans control the House, the Senate, the WH, Governorship, because people don’t get out and vote. After Trump that ought to had people running to the polls.
Yep, we are feeling it, people that I know from work are having a hard time with the hiring freeze and all the implications that go along with it. But hey, they voted for the guy.
“We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two US Navy vessels in the eastern Mediterranean,” Williams said. “I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I am guided by the beauty of our weapons.’ And, they are beautiful pictures of fierce armaments making, what is for them, a brief flight over to this airfield. What did they hit?”
Williams received criticism on social media after his remarks, which were largely viewed there in a jingoistic light.
The efficient authoritarian response:
REXXON TILLERSON: âWell, George…we have the war to defeat ISIS in which many of those battle plans are being coordinated between the US, its coalition agreements, Turkey, some of the Syrian opposition and others and it is being coordinated somewhat with the SYRIAN regime and the RUSSIAN forces to put pressure on ISIS to eliminate them.
Read: Empty missile strike. No offence intended by Trump attack in which a mere 15 people (4 children) were killed.
Read: Working with Russia, Russia, Russia, Syria, Syria and coalition forces against ISIS.
If you need a Sunday chuckle, watch this. This little boy has figured out how to express himself. Cracks me up each time I see it. https://t.co/q7PUMdrA15
That’s a good idea but we don’t want to seem like stalkers, I had a bad experience in college once when I was trying to get someone’s attention. Lets just say she thought I was crazy, and really, how do you convince someone that you’re not crazy.
Don’t know how factual this info is, but I heard a caller from GA one day this week saying that the Rs are trying to change the boundaries of that district. Doesn’t make sense. How could they do that before this election? The caller mentioned some other shenanigans the Rs are involved in surrounding this election.
#Afghanistan innovative education for Kuchi nomads in tent schools w mobile teachers on motorcycles. Students excelling – some 6th grade now pic.twitter.com/Z2vKN5Fvto
VIMY RIDGE, France — Canadians who died at Vimy Ridge helped shape Canada into a nation committed to peace, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle.
Trudeau was among the dignitaries to speak at the ceremony at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in northern France, where as many as 25,000 people came to honour the Canadians who died in the fighting.
The battle marked the first time all four Canadian divisions fought together side-by-side during the war, advancing together on the heavily fortified ridge. Earlier British and French attacks on the stronghold had failed to budge the defenders.
Canada lost 3,600 soldiers and more than 7,000 were injured during the three-day battle.
………………………. //
Seven years ago I visited Vimy Ridge with a group of friends when we traveled to France. One member of our group was a Canadian whose uncle had fought and died at Vimy Ridge. We found his uncle’s name on the monument, this was personal. Our Canadian had also arranged for us to have a tour of the tunnels. (it is a Canadian national park, on 250 acres ceded to Canada by France). That tour was awe-inspiring in a terrible way. Thinking about men living in these tunnels, wet, cold, dark, dirty brought this war home to me. The two sides were separated by a 50 yard “no man’s land” not a very long distance. There are still myriads of pieces of unexploded ordnance in the area of northern France and Belgium. Almost every year a farmer is killed by one of these. Every day personnel go out hunting these trying to clean it up…..100 years later!
I’ve been thinking about this experience and contemplating how personal and real war is to Europeans. We have never been affected by an international war like the Europeans have. I think this is one reason so much of our public think war is a game, and a show of superiority. We have not suffered the damaging effects. The British had rationing clear up into the 50s. We didn’t. The 50s were boom years for us…..
This week PBS is having a three night series on The Great War. It should be educational, and probably eye-opening for many of us.
Hi Carolyn, how are you?
Though I am not at all fond of flying, I am planning my very first trip to France (and Europe) this summer. With all the talk here in Canada of this 100th anniversary I’ve been contemplating whether or not I can handle a trip to Vimy Ridge. I’ll wait and see. I find it harder and harder to contemplate man’s inhumanity to man without having nightmares so I can’t say yet what I’ll do. In addition, the actions of the current occupant of the U.S. White House actually has me seriously reconsidering if I really want to travel while he’s flaying about stirring up friction in all directions. At the rate he’s going, some of us might be exposed to war’s ravaging effects on our shores sooner rather than never! I don’t want to say he scares me, but the negativity he has masterminded in his less-than-3-month stint has left me flabbergasted.
Good to see you. I second everything you said about our new prez. He frightens me. When we went to Vimy Ridge, we flew to Brussels and went to the site on the way to Paris. World War I is just almost an unknown to most Americans. This trip made it real. I can truly understand your hesitance about going there. it is quite unnerving.
There was a strong moral basis to take action against Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria, but NOT without Congressional approval: pic.twitter.com/tlDduM1E8E
strong moral basis for America to take action, but those it have to be military action all the time. I am dam tired of America acting like they have to do everything to save the world when it has problems back here in America. Those airstrikes didn’t do a dam thing to help the Syrian civil war end. It just put America on a path to getting into another war.
A Russian computer programmer, Pyotr Levashov, has been arrested in the Spanish city of Barcelona, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Madrid said on Sunday.
It was unclear why Levashov was arrested. The embassy spokesman declined to give details for his arrest, and Spanish police and the interior ministry were not available for comment on Sunday.
Russian television station RT reported that Levashov was arrested under a U.S. international arrest warrant and was suspected of being involved in hacking attacks linked to alleged interference in last year’s U.S. election.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Departmentâs criminal division, said: “The U.S. case remains under seal, so we have no information to provide at this time.”
According to this report, this is what Petr Levashova’s wife said her husband told her when she talked to him after his arrest in Barcelona:
“He told me he was shown some document in Spanish with a low-res photo of him. They said something about a virus that my husband had allegedly created and that it has something to do with Trump winning the presidential elections,â Levashova said.
The Barcelona and Madrid City Courts held a joint hearing via Skype and arrested her husband, according to Levashova. The Russian Consulate in Madrid told her Levashov is not the only one in such a situation. A Consulate representative is going to visit Levashov on Monday.”
Great to spend time with @GeorgeHWBush & Mrs. Bush in Houston today. We caught up about kids, grandkids, old times and new times. And socks. pic.twitter.com/CshV6tI5Ae
Breaking: the pilot Gen Mhmd Hasoury who made the chemical massacre in Khan Shaikhoun had been killed today by a bomb blast under his car pic.twitter.com/gxiPbvW2cg
1st!
Congratulations, Don! Well, we on the West Coast are still alive today. That’s something.
Good West Coast morning NW & TOD family.
Congrats Don on First đ
Yes, seeing PBO first thing in the morning is very refreshing đ
Thanks meta for these great tweets and thanks NW for posting them this morning đ
This is when we had a Presidential Candidate who believed in the law — not an Outlaw-in-Chief. Good times!
Thanks, Nerdy:) Thanks for these Tweets, meta:) Congrats on first, Don! Morning, GGAIL:) Catching up…
Beautiful post! Been offline more or less for a couple of days, so this was a nice way to “wake up” to the blog this morning. Thanks, Nerdy – and meta!
GM DF.
Your posts have been invaluable in trying to sort out #kremlingate.
Stumbled onto some information last night (may have been posted here, since @SethAbramson’s megathread was posted on Mar 23).
IMHO, this (short) article is a must-read to connect the dots:
Here’s @SethAbramson’s megathread (40+ tweets, with links to published articles):
đ We are our own little nest of investigators here, aren’t we?? đ Thanks, Arapaho!! Hope that this all gets into the hands of those that are truly connecting the all these dots.
I never sleep well anymore. Ever.
Why is this? The Sec. of Ed!! Gee, if she needs security, maybe she should ask her brother, not the taxpayers!
Yep, a nuclear attack by Trump is now on the table, and it might be announced on twitter.
Does this mean we shouldn’t pay our taxes this year? Go blow that $$ on Bucket List? Asking for a friend
THIS
Here’s Stupid Idiot, John McCain. No, John. There’s no fucking “reboot”
I guess what galls me the most about Trump is that he might be the most unqualified person to become President. Itâs like America went out of her way to pick the most belligerent and vulgar and narcissistic and misogynistic person it could find to be President.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/racism-sexism-and-contempt-for-losers-paul-krugman-explains-why-he-cant-sympathize-with-trump-voters/
âSo Trumpist governance in practice so far is turning out to be just Republican governance with (much) worse management,â he writes. âWhich brings me back to the original question: Does the appalling character of the man on top matter?â
Krugman believes it does. He argues that Trumpâs appeal is rooted not in the substance of his politics but in his crude personality, which gives âoutright, unapologetic voice to racism, sexism, contempt for âlosersâ and so onâfeelings that have always been an important source of conservative support, but have long been things you werenât supposed to talk about openly.â
âOne way to think about Fox News in general, and Mr. OâReilly in particular, is that they provide a safe space for people who want an affirmation that their uglier impulses are, in fact, justified and perfectly O.K.,â he continues. âAnd one way to think about the Trump White House is that itâs attempting to expand that safe space to include the nation as a whole.â
I think that about covers it.
Well then if this is the case it means that Trump is willing to fuck over a whole lot of white people just to get to a few black and brown people.
Thanks so much, Nerdy. Love you.
Miss our POTUS so much every day………..
I’m just saying that if Trump launches a nuclear attack on North Korea there isn’t really a going back to normal. And this is the person we’ve chosen to be our President. How much more corruption do we need to find out about Trump before something is done about it? There are clear and undeniable links between Trump and Moscow and it seems that nobody is doing anything about it. I know that there are ongoing investigations going on but what do we do in the mean time. We have attack navy ships headed to North Korea and the entire region is on high alert for a possible nuclear launch. We are now in a nightmare scenario.
Talk about LAZY
Nothing more appealing than a man who thinks before he acts.
I don’t why I’m wasting my time here on TOD when I should be out in my back yard building a bomb shelter.
OMG, it really is that crazy and scary, isn’t it?
Bingo.
Plato today – pisspoor voting gets you pisspoor president.
It just keeps getting worse. Nearly nobody turned out for recent special election vote for house seat in CA.
That is another reason why the Republicans control the House, the Senate, the WH, Governorship, because people don’t get out and vote. After Trump that ought to had people running to the polls.
You would think.
Literally people’s lives are on the line and they stay home and don’t vote. And then they complain when their situation change for the worst.
Sometimes I just want to scream? It’s just too stupid for words. 11.45% in LA special election for Becerra’s seat. ARRRRGHHHHH.
Seriously…why do you think that Dems did not come out to vote,,,in significant numbers in CA…
Wow! This is worrying for 2018.
Getting ready to meet Tally, Purpleshoes & Jojothecat for our Monthly Get-to-gether. Brunch at beautiful scenic Castaways.
Bye đ
Have a great time! THAT sounds fun!
Big hugs to each of you from me! đ
Enjoy your get-to-gether, and say hi to everybody for me.
HUGS all around!!
Enjoy! Hope it’s a beautiful day.
i hope that you all had a great time
Sorry I couldn’t be there. Being sick sucks.
Yep, we are feeling it, people that I know from work are having a hard time with the hiring freeze and all the implications that go along with it. But hey, they voted for the guy.
Plus, this drives eyeballs and $$$ to the network. Always follow the $. They are divorced from reality
Case in point: Who the HELL says stuff like this?? People that don’t have skin in the game and are not living in reality.
http://www.businessinsider.com/brian-williams-beautiful-missile-launch-syria-2017-4
“We see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks of these two US Navy vessels in the eastern Mediterranean,” Williams said. “I am tempted to quote the great Leonard Cohen: ‘I am guided by the beauty of our weapons.’ And, they are beautiful pictures of fierce armaments making, what is for them, a brief flight over to this airfield. What did they hit?”
Williams received criticism on social media after his remarks, which were largely viewed there in a jingoistic light.
The efficient authoritarian response:
REXXON TILLERSON: âWell, George…we have the war to defeat ISIS in which many of those battle plans are being coordinated between the US, its coalition agreements, Turkey, some of the Syrian opposition and others and it is being coordinated somewhat with the SYRIAN regime and the RUSSIAN forces to put pressure on ISIS to eliminate them.
Read: Empty missile strike. No offence intended by Trump attack in which a mere 15 people (4 children) were killed.
Read: Working with Russia, Russia, Russia, Syria, Syria and coalition forces against ISIS.
Trumputin and company creating the apocalypse while saying they are the only ones who can fix it.
Oh, he’s so adorable!!
Valerie Jarrett enjoyed it, too.
Perfect.
60 tomahawk missiles later and these numbnuts couldn’t render a glorified airstrip useless. Who was in charge of this operation, Pepsi?
Imma add to this..
That should be a long march.
I think they should just camp out on the WH lawn…Use a bullhorn in the middle of the night and scream in the window…
That’s a good idea but we don’t want to seem like stalkers, I had a bad experience in college once when I was trying to get someone’s attention. Lets just say she thought I was crazy, and really, how do you convince someone that you’re not crazy.
Let’s be honest here. We are literally ALL suffering from PTSD. Pot gonna call the kettle black? WTF ever. They should camp out and grab the bullhorn.
We are literally All suffering from PTSD, Ha!, or camp out at Mar-a-Largo. This guy uses the White House as a layover.
Mar-a-LaLa! BETTER IDEA!
Oh Lord, when I first looked at that, I did a double-take! đ My name is spelled Lala. đ lol
Sorry to scare you, tnmtngirl:)
I hope this guy can pull it out.
So do I. GA needs this. We ALL need this!
Watch this space:)
A Review. If we want to have a Lasting Impact, we MUST VOTE.
http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/15/13957714/voting-rights-states-ballot-franchise-civil-rights
Don’t know how factual this info is, but I heard a caller from GA one day this week saying that the Rs are trying to change the boundaries of that district. Doesn’t make sense. How could they do that before this election? The caller mentioned some other shenanigans the Rs are involved in surrounding this election.
There is a God.
IOKIYAR
What he’s doing is getting free helipads installed and or improved at all of his resorts at no cost to him.
bbl. Off to impress upon young minds the importance of learning:)
File this under …Water is WET Category….
“Safely out of the United States”
Says a lot.
VIMY RIDGE, France — Canadians who died at Vimy Ridge helped shape Canada into a nation committed to peace, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the First World War battle.
Trudeau was among the dignitaries to speak at the ceremony at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in northern France, where as many as 25,000 people came to honour the Canadians who died in the fighting.
The battle marked the first time all four Canadian divisions fought together side-by-side during the war, advancing together on the heavily fortified ridge. Earlier British and French attacks on the stronghold had failed to budge the defenders.
Canada lost 3,600 soldiers and more than 7,000 were injured during the three-day battle.
………………………. //
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/trudeau-pays-homage-to-fallen-soldiers-at-vimy-ridge-1.3361081
Seven years ago I visited Vimy Ridge with a group of friends when we traveled to France. One member of our group was a Canadian whose uncle had fought and died at Vimy Ridge. We found his uncle’s name on the monument, this was personal. Our Canadian had also arranged for us to have a tour of the tunnels. (it is a Canadian national park, on 250 acres ceded to Canada by France). That tour was awe-inspiring in a terrible way. Thinking about men living in these tunnels, wet, cold, dark, dirty brought this war home to me. The two sides were separated by a 50 yard “no man’s land” not a very long distance. There are still myriads of pieces of unexploded ordnance in the area of northern France and Belgium. Almost every year a farmer is killed by one of these. Every day personnel go out hunting these trying to clean it up…..100 years later!
I’ve been thinking about this experience and contemplating how personal and real war is to Europeans. We have never been affected by an international war like the Europeans have. I think this is one reason so much of our public think war is a game, and a show of superiority. We have not suffered the damaging effects. The British had rationing clear up into the 50s. We didn’t. The 50s were boom years for us…..
This week PBS is having a three night series on The Great War. It should be educational, and probably eye-opening for many of us.
Hi Carolyn, how are you?
Though I am not at all fond of flying, I am planning my very first trip to France (and Europe) this summer. With all the talk here in Canada of this 100th anniversary I’ve been contemplating whether or not I can handle a trip to Vimy Ridge. I’ll wait and see. I find it harder and harder to contemplate man’s inhumanity to man without having nightmares so I can’t say yet what I’ll do. In addition, the actions of the current occupant of the U.S. White House actually has me seriously reconsidering if I really want to travel while he’s flaying about stirring up friction in all directions. At the rate he’s going, some of us might be exposed to war’s ravaging effects on our shores sooner rather than never! I don’t want to say he scares me, but the negativity he has masterminded in his less-than-3-month stint has left me flabbergasted.
Good to see you. I second everything you said about our new prez. He frightens me. When we went to Vimy Ridge, we flew to Brussels and went to the site on the way to Paris. World War I is just almost an unknown to most Americans. This trip made it real. I can truly understand your hesitance about going there. it is quite unnerving.
I always felt that the Great Depression was the defining experience for that generation of Americans, while WW2 and 1 were defining for Europeans.
From January http://billmoyers.com/story/10-investigative-reporting-outlets-to-follow/
You aren’t the only one who miss President Obama, I miss Michelle, I miss them all, including Bo and Sunny too.
It’s not true since he’s away for the weekends, but I read that first as a ‘weekend’ politician.
weakened politicians
That works too! đđź
Except that on the weekends he seems to only work on his personal business.
Hello there Ms M! đ
Hellooooo vc! It seems like he teams presidential about as seriously as he takes his weekends.
{{{Maryl}}}
strong moral basis for America to take action, but those it have to be military action all the time. I am dam tired of America acting like they have to do everything to save the world when it has problems back here in America. Those airstrikes didn’t do a dam thing to help the Syrian civil war end. It just put America on a path to getting into another war.
Oh, wonder why Republicans were reluctant to go along with airstrikes against Assad. Let me guess, that black President.
Don’t say…..
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-russia-idUSKBN17B0O2
A Russian computer programmer, Pyotr Levashov, has been arrested in the Spanish city of Barcelona, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Madrid said on Sunday.
It was unclear why Levashov was arrested. The embassy spokesman declined to give details for his arrest, and Spanish police and the interior ministry were not available for comment on Sunday.
Russian television station RT reported that Levashov was arrested under a U.S. international arrest warrant and was suspected of being involved in hacking attacks linked to alleged interference in last year’s U.S. election.
Peter Carr, a spokesman for the U.S. Justice Departmentâs criminal division, said: “The U.S. case remains under seal, so we have no information to provide at this time.”
GE/GM DF (hopefully you check your WordPress replies, but if not, will repeat myself on the next thread):
According to this report, this is what Petr Levashova’s wife said her husband told her when she talked to him after his arrest in Barcelona:
“He told me he was shown some document in Spanish with a low-res photo of him. They said something about a virus that my husband had allegedly created and that it has something to do with Trump winning the presidential elections,â Levashova said.
The Barcelona and Madrid City Courts held a joint hearing via Skype and arrested her husband, according to Levashova. The Russian Consulate in Madrid told her Levashov is not the only one in such a situation. A Consulate representative is going to visit Levashov on Monday.”
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Dallas, TX today ….
#NoBanNoWallsNoRaids
Karma needs to visit him
http://arizona.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bf80c53ef01bb098e613d970d-pi
LOL
After so many Years of almost getting there…….He won a Major! Sergio?
Hello TODville Community.
Wow!
Why in the world would Trump put that out there? I’m also asking the same about the media. Way too dangerous for me.
That is just dam stupid
One a truly independent firm not affiliated with Fox will do.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/04/09/yaaaaaaas/