Ah, that tweet brought back so many wonderful memories. The hosts for our Easter friend brunch put a sign on the front door: Yay! Trump resigned! We all had our hopes up for a second until it dawned on us this was a cruel April Fool’s joke..
Yep they are pretty hard to swallow. I go between- trying to see they’re on the right side now and recognizing they have some sense & decency AND not being able to forget how they did not support a good and fine President Obama & pushing the rightwing bs along for years. I’m thinking of Steve Schmidt in particular who brought us the likes of Palin- but now has a soul. It’s hard some days.
I hope it’s not the Doctor Jekyll, Mr Hyde thing. I think Jennifer Rubin, Bill Kristol, David Frum, Steve Schmidt, Nicole Wallace and Richard Painter are well spoken and definitely able to clearly characterize Trump in all his indecency and treason, but I am not sure if they are woke. I just don’t think so. I guess we have to take what help we can get to get back on the right track but I personally only trust someone’s conversion when they can honestly own up to the harm they have done in the past. Their inability to admit the treatment of PBO and to acknowledge the incredible work our president (Barack) did for our country and for each of us leaves me with grave doubts.
In saying "NO MORE DACA DEAL" President Trump just admitted that he never had any interest in caring about the innocent children who were Americanized without a say. This is akin to the Native Americans saying, "No more Whites" and forcing us all back to Europe.
So I love April Fool’s, today I texted my whole family that Trump resigned… couldn’t fool my youngest as he’s upstairs and he figured I’d be screaming and running through my house if it were true. Did get my middle son, woohoo. Although this is a rather unkind April Fool’s trick, I admit. We’ll see if I fooled the rest of them 🙂
Watching Jesus Christ Super star on NBC. I remember how US “Christians” los their minds even before it hit the stage in this country. 40 years later after and it is part of our pop culture and produced everywhere. Strangest thing so far: Norm Jewison as Caiaphas wearing corn rows.
Something we do like – Jesus aligned himself with the poor and the disenfranchised, not with those in power. If He was born today, these are the individuals who would be his disciples. #JesusChristSuperstarLive
More seriously – imagine the emotional and physical toll it took on Jesus to heal so many. This scene is effective in conveying that. #JesusChristSuperstarLive
That portrayal of Judas’ guilt and desperation…oof. Lord, have mercy on those who desire forgiveness but don’t know where to turn #JesusChristSuperstarLive
#2 leaker….Twitler himself. He can’t keep his stupid mouth shut and probably gets on the phone and complains to everyone he knows what’s going on in the WH. #3 COS Kelly.
I know right? My niece: “Man, the costumes are all bangin’! Jesus is fly. Caiaphus is fly. Pilate is fly. And Judas with the leather and then the heavenly bling! Damn! “ 😄#JesusChristSuperstarLive
I have seen various productions of this musical over the years, but this one had a certain intimacy and spirituality that the others did not. This was conveyed not only by the performances, but also by the staging and the incredible camera work.
How twisted and cruel do you have to be to announce an attempt to END DACA – affecting a group who are mostly Catholic – On EASTER SUNDAY, the highest holy day of the year? Matthew 25:40…
Morning everyone:) So, I was doing my normal morning peruse of the internet…and was checking DU, when an advertisement for the jackass’ hotel in DC caught my eye….and then I saw this
“If either Congress or a court holds that Trump must give up certain parts of his operations (or segregate any monies… from foreign governments), he may finally need to decide whether the presidency is worth giving up parts of his financial empire.” https://t.co/6vgRIA97rX
I saw something on Morning Joe that turned my stomach. I went on Twitter and responded to Deadspin that showed us how Sinclair group made their news outlets say the exact same thing. Frightening! Here is my post to my local station (WJLA)
I find it so sad that local news stations are spouting a party line. Not cable but LOCAL. I will not watch @abc7news YOU are extremely dangerous to our democracy. Be the media that reports news, not puppet a company's edicts. 😡 https://t.co/gf2pK2Muxy
If anyone else wants to let their local station know that you don’t like them parroting this claim, I will like and retweet. We need to let our local media know that we don’t want to lose our democracy to state media. We are not Russia, China etc. I think we need to stand up like the kids around the country. Or we may be looking at a very trumpian future. 😦
We also need to let the advertisers know we don’t appreciate being propagandized to and will refuse to buy their products show on these stations new shows.
Reminder: Jared Kushner has said that Trump's campaign struck a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group during the campaign to try and secure better media coverage. https://t.co/rPjP8etwwnpic.twitter.com/wehV6ZR8BZ
Virtually everything out of that man’s mouth is a lie. His 30-40% is eating it up. Kushner is as dirty as his boss/father-in-law. (if not more so)
I’m shocked at people that don’t see this as a problem.
We must pay homage. For decades, she lead the struggle against apartheid. She challenged the world to fight &made us aware of this cruelty. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela dies at 81. She was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and former wife of Nelson Mandel… https://t.co/zQ2QnRcyiC
In the darkest hours of the struggle to free South Africa, with Nelson Mandela in prison, the face of hope and courage was #Winnie Mandela. May she forever rest in #Power. pic.twitter.com/VrJ6PjMr1F
MAGAT’s Voted for that A$$HOLE. They chose NOT to believe him. It was just bluster during the campaign…..WELL, the price for bluster is 25% increase in prices…..MAGA?
I don’t blame him. He is having the time of his life. Y’all didn’t want to get up off your a$$es to help elect HRC, plus those that voted 3rd party, plus the theft by Russian bots. Mostly people did not care to vote that could have voted or fought in those states demanding recounts.
Max Tani @ maxwelltani
Lou Dobbs has been on speaker phone during White House meetings on issue like trade and taxes.
Per @swin24, Trump has even cut off WH officials so Dobbs can get a word in.
Dobbs, these sources all independently recounted, has been patched in to senior-level meetings on issues such as trade and tax policy—meetings that featured officials such as senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, former top economic adviser Gary Cohn, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, trade adviser Peter Navarro, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
When Trump fired Comey, he did it while Russian foreign minister Lavrov and ambassador Kislyak were in DC, and the three of them gloated about it together in person the next day.
Oh, oh. I thought we elected a savvy business president, one who knew how the economy and market worked, the best DEALER with STRONG financial opinion about tariffs and trades.
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Fresh shock waves hit U.S. markets after Trump tweets criticize Amazon, China steps up trade war
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 500 points Monday as technology companies came under fire and fears grew about a trade war with China. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 2.4 percent, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 2.9 percent as volatility continues to rock markets.
Trump’s promise of tariffs on products including steel, aluminum, tech goods and fruit have infused the financial markets with fresh volatility.
All three indexes are now negative for the year and are in correction territory. A correction is generally considered a 10 percent drop from its peak.
Conservative Evangelicals have been morally corrupt for decades. Trump just exposed them for who they really are. No wonder people are staying away from organized religion these days! #HappyEaster#Easter#EasterSundaypic.twitter.com/JkY9g8V0Rp
Zinke’s Interior Dept Disproportionately Reassigned Native American Workers
By Alice Ollstein | April 2, 2018 6:00 am
Nearly a third of the senior Interior Department (DOI) career officials reassigned under Secretary Ryan Zinke in a major agency reshuffling are Native American, even though Native Americans make up less than 10 percent of the Department’s workforce, a review by TPM has found.
The finding comes days after Democratic lawmakers demanded an investigation into whether Zinke discriminated when he reassigned 33 career officials last summer, and follows on reports that Zinke has repeatedly told DOI officials he doesn’t care about diversity — which prompted one member of Congress to accuse Zinke of working to create a “lily-white department.”
Former government officials tell TPM that they see the reassignment of top Native American staffers as part of an effort to remove internal opposition to Zinke’s plan to open up more tribal and public lands to the fossil fuel industry.
If we as a country don’t go full on in March, strike and activism mode when/ if Putin gets welcomed to our White House, then I don’t know what’s next for us.
Also- how long will it take for these tariffs to have an effect at the grocery store, or will it? I keep imaging Russia’s food lines & if that’s whats in store for many of us, should these people continue to run our govt.
Of course I have many, many more concerns- but that’s my two for this morning.
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A former Sinclair journalist sent me a screenshot of their contract. “I couldn’t leave because of this part of my contract.”
……….. Sinclair gets money damages from the employee if the employee quits rather than read propaganda. 40% of annual salary plus a multiplier in certain situations.
That sounds like slavery, indentured to do this company yet if it were for religious reasons in denying care or services to LGBT/Transgender people, that’s OK.
Noticed the Bunny is a lot shorter. This man is so insecure he can’t stand for someone in a bunny suit to be taller than him. It’s probably Melania…..HAHAHAHA!
Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York, PA
Sinclair currently owns and operates the Harrisburg station WHP (CBS 21) and is set to acquire the York station WPMT (Fox 43) in its pending purchase of Tribune Media. In a recent filing with the FCC, Sinclair identified the Harrisburg local media market as one of 10 markets in which the Tribune merger would push Sinclair above the current FCC ownership caps — meaning it may have to sell one of the two largest stations. If Sinclair were to sell WHP or WPMT in order to comply with the FCC rules — at least as they are currently written — it could still theoretically enter into an agreement with the new owner to continue operating both stations. That means there’s a good chance a Harrisburg-area viewer tuning into a top local news station would find a Sinclair-controlled newscast, just as the state of Pennsylvania gears up for competitive gubernatorial, Senate, and congressional races in 2018
Oh, and if you've checked that list and you're feeling relieved there are no Sinclair stations in your market — they're expanding, courtesy of Trump's FCC. Here's a list of communities Sinclair is poised to infiltrate: https://t.co/WA3gc3Hd7Xpic.twitter.com/Mbiwl6v38a
This chilling video featuring local news anchors of stations owned by the conservative television empire Sinclair Broadcast Group across the country reciting a script warning of “biased and false news” — word for word — went viral over the weekend pic.twitter.com/gsdrBFQsWu
If my memory serves me correctly, I think Al Franken was also at the forefront of the pushback AGAINST this merger even happening as well last year before he was pushed out. Both aggravating and enraging to put it mildly if this merger could have been stopped in its tracks. Now it’s like trying to get the cat back in the bag. Yet another piece of our democracy under assault by the GOP thugs.
WSJ has an email from Roger Stone to Sam Nunberg, dated August 4, 2016 in which Stone says, “I dined with Julian Assange last night,”https://t.co/ipI2oYeN3G
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Many blessings, look towards the Light! Keep You All The Heart.. ♥️
Happy Easter Pamela!
Happy Easter Nerdy!
Blessings, peace and joy in TODVille!
Ah, that tweet brought back so many wonderful memories. The hosts for our Easter friend brunch put a sign on the front door: Yay! Trump resigned! We all had our hopes up for a second until it dawned on us this was a cruel April Fool’s joke..
Happy Easter TOD!
I can’t get over these GOP NoTrumpers who for years created this Monster.
Yep they are pretty hard to swallow. I go between- trying to see they’re on the right side now and recognizing they have some sense & decency AND not being able to forget how they did not support a good and fine President Obama & pushing the rightwing bs along for years. I’m thinking of Steve Schmidt in particular who brought us the likes of Palin- but now has a soul. It’s hard some days.
I hope it’s not the Doctor Jekyll, Mr Hyde thing. I think Jennifer Rubin, Bill Kristol, David Frum, Steve Schmidt, Nicole Wallace and Richard Painter are well spoken and definitely able to clearly characterize Trump in all his indecency and treason, but I am not sure if they are woke. I just don’t think so. I guess we have to take what help we can get to get back on the right track but I personally only trust someone’s conversion when they can honestly own up to the harm they have done in the past. Their inability to admit the treatment of PBO and to acknowledge the incredible work our president (Barack) did for our country and for each of us leaves me with grave doubts.
Sadly they will revert to loving the GOP when trump is gone.
I can’t argue with a thing you said because I totally agree with you 🙂 !
My two feral cats are more civilized than Trump. He’s filth.
Yes and those making under $25K get an average of $60 for the whole year and those making $45K – $84k get an average of $35 a week. MAGA!
Do I dare check out Twitter today?
So I love April Fool’s, today I texted my whole family that Trump resigned… couldn’t fool my youngest as he’s upstairs and he figured I’d be screaming and running through my house if it were true. Did get my middle son, woohoo. Although this is a rather unkind April Fool’s trick, I admit. We’ll see if I fooled the rest of them 🙂
You are bad!
I am. I love April fools & they expect it from me 🙂 However, out of the 5, only one was fooled 😦 Next year.
Watching Jesus Christ Super star on NBC. I remember how US “Christians” los their minds even before it hit the stage in this country. 40 years later after and it is part of our pop culture and produced everywhere. Strangest thing so far: Norm Jewison as Caiaphas wearing corn rows.
that is interesting…does that mean that we will look back on these days as well
Only as a warning of how carelessness, greed, and hatred almost brought us to destruction.
it is my hope CEB….that destruction is not our fate….but if it is …i hope that the story is that we did not give up without a fight…
Um, that’s my *husband* Norm Lewis, not Norm Jewison, although both are giants in their respective fields. 🧐
Thanks. I did well getting as close to it as I did😊.
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Ears lol too funny 😁
Ha, ha!
#2 leaker….Twitler himself. He can’t keep his stupid mouth shut and probably gets on the phone and complains to everyone he knows what’s going on in the WH. #3 COS Kelly.
You’re right Jojo.
loved THAT…SO MUCH…..
That was cool AF.
This CA timeline is a MUST SHARE. She deserves lots of praise for this work!
😍
I think I’m already up to 100 replays of this gif, but who’s counting.
Damb that man is phoine!
This was me standing in the living room!
Brandon V. Dixon’s performance was everything! In a night of stellar performances his was the brightest star in the firmament.
This woman could sing the phonebook and I’d be entranced! Love her!
Yvonne Elliman’s performance of the song is the one that plays in my mind as the gold standard, but Sara’s is notable as well.
[Nods in agreement]
ditto
My musical theatre geek genes where well-satisfied.
Hello! Right? 🙌🏾
I have seen various productions of this musical over the years, but this one had a certain intimacy and spirituality that the others did not. This was conveyed not only by the performances, but also by the staging and the incredible camera work.
i agree…the staging and set…and production were on point….the orchestra became part of the scene….simply great
Tally, because he is of the Devil, spawn of Satan.
Morning everyone:) So, I was doing my normal morning peruse of the internet…and was checking DU, when an advertisement for the jackass’ hotel in DC caught my eye….and then I saw this
I saw something on Morning Joe that turned my stomach. I went on Twitter and responded to Deadspin that showed us how Sinclair group made their news outlets say the exact same thing. Frightening! Here is my post to my local station (WJLA)
If anyone else wants to let their local station know that you don’t like them parroting this claim, I will like and retweet. We need to let our local media know that we don’t want to lose our democracy to state media. We are not Russia, China etc. I think we need to stand up like the kids around the country. Or we may be looking at a very trumpian future. 😦
We also need to let the advertisers know we don’t appreciate being propagandized to and will refuse to buy their products show on these stations new shows.
I agree. They only listen when it hurts their bottom line.
And it carries on today.
And this.
Virtually everything out of that man’s mouth is a lie. His 30-40% is eating it up. Kushner is as dirty as his boss/father-in-law. (if not more so)
I’m shocked at people that don’t see this as a problem.
Willful ignorance, with some racism mixed in….
Morning Read (and all the previous parts, too)
View story at Medium.com
Winnie Mandela has passed away at the age of 81.
RIP.
@GaleTStrong – MAGA MY A$$! THIS COMPANY IN INDIANA IS ALREADY FEELING THE HEAT FROM TRUMP’S NEW TARIFFS. a.msn.com/00/en-us/AAvhP1g?ocid=st …
… LOOK’s president, Matt Arnold, said the company has seen steel prices increase 25 percent and aluminum as high as 35 percent. He told CNBC that he’s afraid his suppliers’ prices have even further to run in the months ahead… https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/this-company-in-indiana-is-already-feeling-the-heat-from-trumps-new-tariffs/ar-AAvhP1g?ocid=st%20%e2%80%a6%e2%80%80
MAGAT’s Voted for that A$$HOLE. They chose NOT to believe him. It was just bluster during the campaign…..WELL, the price for bluster is 25% increase in prices…..MAGA?
I don’t blame him. He is having the time of his life. Y’all didn’t want to get up off your a$$es to help elect HRC, plus those that voted 3rd party, plus the theft by Russian bots. Mostly people did not care to vote that could have voted or fought in those states demanding recounts.
Dow down 478
Dow down 510
Is that an April Fool’s joke….please say yes!
Oh, oh. I thought we elected a savvy business president, one who knew how the economy and market worked, the best DEALER with STRONG financial opinion about tariffs and trades.
——————————-
Fresh shock waves hit U.S. markets after Trump tweets criticize Amazon, China steps up trade war
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 500 points Monday as technology companies came under fire and fears grew about a trade war with China. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 2.4 percent, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down 2.9 percent as volatility continues to rock markets.
Trump’s promise of tariffs on products including steel, aluminum, tech goods and fruit have infused the financial markets with fresh volatility.
All three indexes are now negative for the year and are in correction territory. A correction is generally considered a 10 percent drop from its peak.
Be informed:
Thanks!
She put tampons facing out!!
Zinke’s Interior Dept Disproportionately Reassigned Native American Workers
By Alice Ollstein | April 2, 2018 6:00 am
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/zinkes-interior-dept-disproportionately-purged-native-american-workers
Dow down 527
Steven Bochco, RIP.
Man, he was a part of my TV Viewing days.
Mine too. I loved Hill Street Blues.
Down down 608
If we as a country don’t go full on in March, strike and activism mode when/ if Putin gets welcomed to our White House, then I don’t know what’s next for us.
Also- how long will it take for these tariffs to have an effect at the grocery store, or will it? I keep imaging Russia’s food lines & if that’s whats in store for many of us, should these people continue to run our govt.
Of course I have many, many more concerns- but that’s my two for this morning.
Why don’t the journalists leave, instead of work for Sinclair?
Read on:
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A former Sinclair journalist sent me a screenshot of their contract. “I couldn’t leave because of this part of my contract.”
………..
Sinclair gets money damages from the employee if the employee quits rather than read propaganda. 40% of annual salary plus a multiplier in certain situations.
That sounds like slavery, indentured to do this company yet if it were for religious reasons in denying care or services to LGBT/Transgender people, that’s OK.
Dow down 670
Dow down 705
Noticed the Bunny is a lot shorter. This man is so insecure he can’t stand for someone in a bunny suit to be taller than him. It’s probably Melania…..HAHAHAHA!
Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York, PA
Sinclair currently owns and operates the Harrisburg station WHP (CBS 21) and is set to acquire the York station WPMT (Fox 43) in its pending purchase of Tribune Media. In a recent filing with the FCC, Sinclair identified the Harrisburg local media market as one of 10 markets in which the Tribune merger would push Sinclair above the current FCC ownership caps — meaning it may have to sell one of the two largest stations. If Sinclair were to sell WHP or WPMT in order to comply with the FCC rules — at least as they are currently written — it could still theoretically enter into an agreement with the new owner to continue operating both stations. That means there’s a good chance a Harrisburg-area viewer tuning into a top local news station would find a Sinclair-controlled newscast, just as the state of Pennsylvania gears up for competitive gubernatorial, Senate, and congressional races in 2018
If my memory serves me correctly, I think Al Franken was also at the forefront of the pushback AGAINST this merger even happening as well last year before he was pushed out. Both aggravating and enraging to put it mildly if this merger could have been stopped in its tracks. Now it’s like trying to get the cat back in the bag. Yet another piece of our democracy under assault by the GOP thugs.
The whole thing… free.
https://www.nbc.com/jesus-christ-superstar/video/jesus-christ-superstar-live-in-concert/3689643
Karma on display.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people, after all you people help put that piece of crap in the White House.
WSJ has an email from Roger Stone to Sam Nunberg, dated August 4, 2016 in which Stone says, “I dined with Julian Assange last night,”https://t.co/ipI2oYeN3G
— Scott Stedman (@ScottMStedman) April 2, 2018
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/04/02/queens/