How fun would it be if in the first meeting, if Nunes & Dowdy – neither of whom have clearance to know/see ANY of the evidence are asking for, are arrested on the spot and charged with #ObstructionOfJustice if they insist on seeing evidence they don't have clearance to see?
That would be deliciousness! 😂
My other pissed off state is MSN consistently calling DOJ “Dotard’s DOJ”. No. It. Is. Not! Didn’t these pseudo 4th Estate take civics classes? Damn & eff! 😖 OK, I gotta go breathe slowly now, trying to get rid of Dotard-PTSD, corrupt MoFo’s, all of them. Before I do so, allow me to yell another EFFers!! Ooh, that felt good! Nite TOD! ❤
Ahem! As a kid, when walking along a path, I was told to watch the ground I was walking. If you see a squiggly line across that path, reverse. A snake is around, & you don’t know if it’s coming or going. In my imaginative way, these Dotards are those snakes, leaving squiggly lines in the fabric of America. Destroying that precious, fragile fabric. As with that story of the scorpion & the frog, it’s in their nature. This is what has saddened me & all of us cognizant people. Am still not losing hope that all the beautiful people in this land, the We The People, will become “snake-damn-catchers”, not just choose a different path, or reverse out of fear. ❤ & peace.
I’m not losing hope, either, Gazelle! Truth be told, I feel it may be close at hand. (Well, close as in maybe not after the election – but before!) Goodnight to you – love and peace.
#SteveBannon has dangerously and erroneously co-opted my father’s name, work and words.
Bannon’s assertion that my father, #MLK, would be proud of Donald Trump wholly ignores Daddy’s commitment to people of all races, nationalities, etc. being treated with dignity and respect.
My father’s concerns were not sectional, but global. He was an activist for the civil rights of Black people in America, but he was also an activist for human rights. #MLK
Further, he would not refer to people as “illegal aliens.” The term is degrading and does not reflect his belief that we are all a part of the human family. #MLK
In addition, he would never pit one group against another in the struggle for justice, as Bannon attempts to use him to do in discussing those he termed as “illegal aliens” and Black people. #MLK
My father would be extremely disturbed by the climate created by leaders, who have emboldened people to easily express and demonstrate cruelty, predominantly toward people of color and immigrants. #MLK
Here's a quick list I just threw together of the worst things Trump has done so far. I did not need to research this list — I wrote it off the top of my head in about 10 minutes. What have I left off? pic.twitter.com/CghKgE7PRY
Plus the tax cuts that only 13% major companies gave bonuses and raised the minimum wage while the other 87% used it to buy back stock and reward stockholders. Companies are laying off and closing plants, shipping them out of the country. One employee with Harley Davidson, a Trump voter, is being laid off but still believes in the Con-man. He deserves to loose everything.
My new strategy on talking to Trump supporters….Last night I said to my Trump loving Uncle ;
“I’m so glad that our next Democratic President won’t have to sell off international assets and businesses that they own, and can solicit help from any foreign government that they want. Oh, and at least we know that they would be able to have a checkered sexual past, multiple marriages, kids with multiple partners and accusations of abuse from many former sexual exploits. And if the Democrat denies it, of course it didn’t happen and none of it would matter.
Oh, thank goodness they won’t have to make their tax returns public…who wants to do that? And glad they can hire all of their family members too. Hopefully they’ll have lots of adult kids that they can bring into their administration, because at least they’ll know they can be trusted.”
My Uncle started to speak, they just turned and walked away:)
A TBT flashback from our Brilliant Japa to remind us (as if that is necessary) of the eternal reach of the man we know as Barack Hussein Obama. The only president of this country, ever
President Trump cancels the planned June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, citing the "tremendous anger and open hostility" in a recent statement from North Korea. https://t.co/Db7YZNikcD
When you're too busy minting coins and blaring on about the Nobel to prepare, to read briefings about the inordinately complex issues at stake, to research the history of the region….. https://t.co/hLQ6UJaJs6
Most of us with sane minds are not surprised because things are going his way, he’d use any excuse to back out. Now will all those partriots who thought he deserved a Nobel Peace Price step forward?
I’m glad he wrote, “Look closely.” At first, I thought it was against the players (before I read it more carefully and saw the actual wording and all the names). Heartbreaking.
As I prepare to share BECOMING this fall, I hope you’ll also think about your own story, and trust that it will help you become whoever you aspire to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own. #BECOMINGpic.twitter.com/agb7uJhYu8
Maybe if they turn the letter upside down and read it from left to right and skip all of the vowels during the first reading and then adding the vowels all at the end during the second read. Obviously, someone has to explain to South Korea’s leaders that no one on the planet can make sense of anything Trump says or does.
a doddering old fool announced a hastily-planned summit with Kim Jong Un, awarded himself the Nobel Peace Prize and minted a gaudy commemorative coin and then had it all blow up in his face and now my mentions are going to be full of nitwits telling me Trump planned it that way
Rachel Maddow puts into perspective former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s assertion that Donald Trump is only in office because Russia put him there, and what that means to current political events.
Congressman Adam Schiff tells Rachel Maddow that he has been informed by an intelligence official that the DoJ briefing on the United States’ investigation of the Russian contacts made by members of Donald Trump’s campaign will include the bipartisan Gang of 8 so as not to be a partisan Republican exercise.
Rachel Maddow recaps breaking news that Rep. Adam Schiff has been informed by a cabinet member that the Gang of 8 will be included in the DoJ’s briefing on how the United States investigated contacts by the Donald Trump campaign with Russian intelligence, raising the possibility of conflicting expectations of what will occur.
Rachel Maddow tells the story of how Adlai Stevenson, acting for the good of the country, not only rejected overtures of the Soviet Union to assist his presidential campaign but told his political rival, President Eisenhower about the matter.
Russian interest in influencing American elections is not a new thing, but Donald Trump’s failure to uphold the basic American value of rejecting such an offer has no precedent in history, Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian explains.
Thread: Trump's Morning of Intemperance@potus badly mishandled DPRK policy. USA weaker as result. 3 changes made summit possible: 1) President Moon elected President ROK, reaching out to DPRK; 2) KJU consolidated political and military power; 3) Max pressure by UN/Trump
Remember when the media was always saying PBO was too “professorial” using them big words that the average American (white guy) could not understand in a soundbite. Yet instead of saying “Trump’s Morning Tantrum F’d UP DPRK policy”. Everyone would understand this and makes a wonderful soundbite.
– No North Korea deal- Withdrew from Iran Deal- Withdrew from Paris Accord- Fleeced on China deal- Withdrew from TPP- No new NAFTA deal- No Middle East peace deal- No trade deal with EU- No DACA deal#ArtOfTheDeal— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) May 24, 2018
He heard "4 terms" for FDR and thought to himself "trump's gotta ask Pence if 4 x 4 is 16." Probably thinks FDR is still alive, living with Frederick Douglass.
Wow — @LauraAJarrett saw Emmett Flood leaving the Department of Justice alongside Nunes, Gowdy, Ryan and Kelly. Flood replaced Ty Cobb on Trump’s legal team earlier this year.— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 24, 2018
VP Joe Biden, one of the most genuine and decent people in all of government made it crystal clear at the State Convention that @NYGovCuomo NOT @CynthiaNixon is by far the best choice for New Yorkers. https://t.co/BwqT5flmKs
The Parkland Kids emphasis on voter registration is a smart move for a number of reasons:
1. It’s true that you need the votes to vote people in and out.
2. It’s something CONSTRUCTIVE that you can get ANYONE involved with. Not everyone can do policy. Not everyone can be in the POLICY lane. But, pretty much anyone can be in the VOTER REGISTRATION lane.
3. Most gun laws are local. Legislative bodies aren’t always in session. What do you do when they’re NOT in session – register people to vote, so that they can be contacted when they’re back in session.
Movements can stall if folks think they’re nothing to do. Voter registration is something that can always been done.
After Black women helped elect Doug Jones, at least 70 black women then launched electoral campaigns across Alabama for local, state, and national offices. This is so good. https://t.co/HvKBG243PB
— Evette Dionne 🤷🏾♀️ (@freeblackgirl) May 24, 2018
One of the slides presented by the plaintiffs in today's lawsuit against white supremacists responsible for Charlottesville violence—basically an org chart of the conspiracy alleged: pic.twitter.com/qRN8CRs2eD
She put her 12 kids through school, and had to put her own education on the back burner. But at 89-years-old, she's proving it's never too late to follow your dreams. https://t.co/ON72Feqh0Hpic.twitter.com/bxKPEdirsB
South Korean confidence in US president to make the right decisions ranged from 75% to 88% through the Obama years. https://t.co/3pyz72iXmn In Trump, SoKo confidence was 17% – BEFORE most recent chaos. If Trump imagines he has SoKo backing for his threats, he's deluding himself
Today's Gang of Eight briefing was conducted in a manner that protects sources & methods. Nothing we heard today has changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the FBI or any intelligence agency placed a “spy” in the Trump Campaign.
Because being a shoe and handbag designer, IP thief and sweatshop employer calls for our the attainment of our highest government secrets. https://t.co/87xMciPkgf
BREAKING: Massive lawsuit claims Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives stole data, spied on users and repeatedly broke the law to save the social network from financial collapse. Story: https://t.co/6YaNc8tKZnpic.twitter.com/jajkzYDXIP
For the record, the President’s Chief of Staff and his attorney in an ongoing criminal investigation into the President’s campaign have no business showing up to a classified intelligence briefing.
Nothing we heard today has changed our view that there is no evidence to support any allegation that the @FBI or any intelligence agency placed a ‘spy’ in the Trump Campaign, or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures and protocols.
#SteveBannon has dangerously and erroneously co-opted my father’s name, work and words.
Bannon’s assertion that my father, #MLK, would be proud of Donald Trump wholly ignores Daddy’s commitment to people of all races, nationalities, etc. being treated with dignity and respect.
Emmet Flood, the man the White House said was hired to defend the President against the Russia “witch hunt” attended the top of the classified briefings with Justice officials
Certain journalists' jealousy of Michael Avenatti is something to behold. They're more critical of him than they are of the Trump admin, whose reps threaten and even assault reporters.
People should be glad Avenatti exposes Trump team tactics and doesn't back down.
Emmet Flood’s presence and statement at the outset of both meetings today was completely inappropriate, and I told him so. It only underscores what Rudy Giuliani said: the President’s legal team expects to improperly obtain and use such information for their defense.
Every lawyer who signs on with Trump, @NatashaBertrand, was either disgraced even before doing so or besmirched shortly thereafter. Emmet Flood fits into the latter category. https://t.co/ae7k1IPrNx
former Dir of National Intelligence James Clapper says he's personally concluded Russians not only influenced but DECIDED outcome of 2016 election: "80 thousand votes in 3 states" @NewsHour tonight
First and foremost, I want to say to everyone that voted for me, thank you so very much!! Volunteers – thank you!! Team Lucy is ready to keep fighting hard and move onward!#GA06#GAprimary#TeamLucypic.twitter.com/J7rWlpppfj
Hey @Walmart, we have been ordering water from you guys for a while now. Can we get you to match us and donate some pallets of water for our water distribution in #Flint this Sunday #TeamWorkMakesTheDreamWork
OK, allow me a moment of that laughter that begins at belly level & works it’s path to my mouth, & snorting, & LOL tears running out of eyes! 😂😂 So, is there a Dotard nobel prize? Note: Lower case “n” & “pee”. 😂😷
There was never one. It was all a scam as in the case of the Trump University. Come on, what has this vulgar man done to merit anything? Even the Oval Office he occupied was bought and paid for by you-know-who for him.
I was having a cackle, No Child! Thus the lower case letters for Nobel! He wasn’t anywhere near the Nobel. I know Dotard, in his inherent iq45, is a vindictive arse who lusts & hates everything that’s POTUS44. Thus, in his idiocy thinks he & his gang of inadequates can bring peace to Mid East, Korea, etc., while insulting everyone around the world, including US allies. Meanwhile never-ending grifting for their own selves. Eff USA, the world. Biggest con game ever. Mazel tof! (Being facetious here.) 😖
Obama White House.gov
Congrats Tally!
♥️🙏🏻🕯♥️🗝
That would be deliciousness! 😂
My other pissed off state is MSN consistently calling DOJ “Dotard’s DOJ”. No. It. Is. Not! Didn’t these pseudo 4th Estate take civics classes? Damn & eff! 😖 OK, I gotta go breathe slowly now, trying to get rid of Dotard-PTSD, corrupt MoFo’s, all of them. Before I do so, allow me to yell another EFFers!! Ooh, that felt good! Nite TOD! ❤
He apparently has an Obama versus Trump book coming out in October with “shade” in its title. LOL. Looking forward to buying that one as well.
Ahem! As a kid, when walking along a path, I was told to watch the ground I was walking. If you see a squiggly line across that path, reverse. A snake is around, & you don’t know if it’s coming or going. In my imaginative way, these Dotards are those snakes, leaving squiggly lines in the fabric of America. Destroying that precious, fragile fabric. As with that story of the scorpion & the frog, it’s in their nature. This is what has saddened me & all of us cognizant people. Am still not losing hope that all the beautiful people in this land, the We The People, will become “snake-damn-catchers”, not just choose a different path, or reverse out of fear. ❤ & peace.
I’m not losing hope, either, Gazelle! Truth be told, I feel it may be close at hand. (Well, close as in maybe not after the election – but before!) Goodnight to you – love and peace.
Hang in there, everybody!
Plus the tax cuts that only 13% major companies gave bonuses and raised the minimum wage while the other 87% used it to buy back stock and reward stockholders. Companies are laying off and closing plants, shipping them out of the country. One employee with Harley Davidson, a Trump voter, is being laid off but still believes in the Con-man. He deserves to loose everything.
My new strategy on talking to Trump supporters….Last night I said to my Trump loving Uncle ;
“I’m so glad that our next Democratic President won’t have to sell off international assets and businesses that they own, and can solicit help from any foreign government that they want. Oh, and at least we know that they would be able to have a checkered sexual past, multiple marriages, kids with multiple partners and accusations of abuse from many former sexual exploits. And if the Democrat denies it, of course it didn’t happen and none of it would matter.
Oh, thank goodness they won’t have to make their tax returns public…who wants to do that? And glad they can hire all of their family members too. Hopefully they’ll have lots of adult kids that they can bring into their administration, because at least they’ll know they can be trusted.”
My Uncle started to speak, they just turned and walked away:)
good on you!
EXCELLENT.
Brilliant.
Beautiful.
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10151479805673845&id=566648844
A TBT flashback from our Brilliant Japa to remind us (as if that is necessary) of the eternal reach of the man we know as Barack Hussein Obama. The only president of this country, ever
Sources: NFL used polling firm to get public opinion on Colin Kaepernick
https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sports/sources-nfl-used-polling-firm-get-public-opinion-colin-kaepernick-050421636.html?__twitter_impression=true
LOVELY!!
I am looking forward to this book.
I see another prize for the Obama’s…sold out books & audio. It will be part of my collection.
I see Melania copying the title, “HOW I BECAME MELANIE” LOLOLOLOL
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
on my birthday!!
Cool!!
Most of us with sane minds are not surprised because things are going his way, he’d use any excuse to back out. Now will all those partriots who thought he deserved a Nobel Peace Price step forward?
I’m glad he wrote, “Look closely.” At first, I thought it was against the players (before I read it more carefully and saw the actual wording and all the names). Heartbreaking.
I had the same reaction. It’s very powerful.
LOVE HER so much.
meta, me too.
Maybe if they turn the letter upside down and read it from left to right and skip all of the vowels during the first reading and then adding the vowels all at the end during the second read. Obviously, someone has to explain to South Korea’s leaders that no one on the planet can make sense of anything Trump says or does.
What the hell is going on? Everything seems to be in total chaos.
This is Sparta! NO! This is madness!
Clapper Russia assessment calls Trump legitimacy into question
Rachel Maddow puts into perspective former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s assertion that Donald Trump is only in office because Russia put him there, and what that means to current political events.
Schiff: DoJ briefing of Trump Russia source to include Gang of 8
Congressman Adam Schiff tells Rachel Maddow that he has been informed by an intelligence official that the DoJ briefing on the United States’ investigation of the Russian contacts made by members of Donald Trump’s campaign will include the bipartisan Gang of 8 so as not to be a partisan Republican exercise.
It already has become a partisan Republican exercise, Congressman.
Breaking: Schiff expects Gang of 8 inclusion in DoJ briefing
Rachel Maddow recaps breaking news that Rep. Adam Schiff has been informed by a cabinet member that the Gang of 8 will be included in the DoJ’s briefing on how the United States investigated contacts by the Donald Trump campaign with Russian intelligence, raising the possibility of conflicting expectations of what will occur.
History highlights Trump’s failure on Russian election outreach
Rachel Maddow tells the story of how Adlai Stevenson, acting for the good of the country, not only rejected overtures of the Soviet Union to assist his presidential campaign but told his political rival, President Eisenhower about the matter.
Trump lacks American democratic value enforced by past presidents
Russian interest in influencing American elections is not a new thing, but Donald Trump’s failure to uphold the basic American value of rejecting such an offer has no precedent in history, Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian explains.
Super informative.
Remember when the media was always saying PBO was too “professorial” using them big words that the average American (white guy) could not understand in a soundbite. Yet instead of saying “Trump’s Morning Tantrum F’d UP DPRK policy”. Everyone would understand this and makes a wonderful soundbite.
– No North Korea deal- Withdrew from Iran Deal- Withdrew from Paris Accord- Fleeced on China deal- Withdrew from TPP- No new NAFTA deal- No Middle East peace deal- No trade deal with EU- No DACA deal#ArtOfTheDeal— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) May 24, 2018
Easy to do when your mark is 1) the neediest ego desperate for a win; and 2) he and his administration know jack shit about foreign policy.
I doubt that Trump ever won a history prize while he was going to school. Or any prize, come to think of it.
I’m not even sure he went to school!
The leaders of tomorrow!
EXCELLENT
Incredible!
Wow — @LauraAJarrett saw Emmett Flood leaving the Department of Justice alongside Nunes, Gowdy, Ryan and Kelly. Flood replaced Ty Cobb on Trump’s legal team earlier this year.— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 24, 2018
The Parkland Kids emphasis on voter registration is a smart move for a number of reasons:
1. It’s true that you need the votes to vote people in and out.
2. It’s something CONSTRUCTIVE that you can get ANYONE involved with. Not everyone can do policy. Not everyone can be in the POLICY lane. But, pretty much anyone can be in the VOTER REGISTRATION lane.
3. Most gun laws are local. Legislative bodies aren’t always in session. What do you do when they’re NOT in session – register people to vote, so that they can be contacted when they’re back in session.
Movements can stall if folks think they’re nothing to do. Voter registration is something that can always been done.
Right On!
GA, TODbots.
Congrats, Tally on your Golden ⭐
It looks like US is going through a period of Decline & Fall.
Oh, well.
BARACK OBAMA TAKES JAB AT DONALD TRUMP: ‘I DID NOT HAVE SCANDALS AS PRESIDENT’ – http://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-donald-trump-scandal-white-house-943806
Just the way I see it …
One of my new heroes. Hope to return myself next year!!
I love that this beautiful lady got her degree. Wish it wasn’t that institution. Just my simple opinion.
The Arc of Justice is Long…241yrs now since 1776.
When will it end? 400 yrs plus since the 1400s.
ENOUGH!
Nothing but greed and graft for MILES.
Do Barron have full security clearence too?
Oh that smirk! Rules do not apply to these two. Everyday they show the world that they are above the law. This is not normal!
Leaders of tomorrow
Seemingly *everything* that PBO’s detractors on the Right and Left used to attack him manifest on the Republican side.
I recall the emoprogs used the “he’s just not into you” metaphor to portray PBO as a lover who was no longer interested in them.
Here comes needy Trump acting like a jilted suitor and looking ever more the fool.
As we all know to be true …
…. but nice of Clapper to confirm ….
Hadn’t checked back to see if she’d won – looks like she’s number one but in a runoff. Good for her, and I so very much admire her courage.
OK, allow me a moment of that laughter that begins at belly level & works it’s path to my mouth, & snorting, & LOL tears running out of eyes! 😂😂 So, is there a Dotard nobel prize? Note: Lower case “n” & “pee”. 😂😷
There was never one. It was all a scam as in the case of the Trump University. Come on, what has this vulgar man done to merit anything? Even the Oval Office he occupied was bought and paid for by you-know-who for him.
I was having a cackle, No Child! Thus the lower case letters for Nobel! He wasn’t anywhere near the Nobel. I know Dotard, in his inherent iq45, is a vindictive arse who lusts & hates everything that’s POTUS44. Thus, in his idiocy thinks he & his gang of inadequates can bring peace to Mid East, Korea, etc., while insulting everyone around the world, including US allies. Meanwhile never-ending grifting for their own selves. Eff USA, the world. Biggest con game ever. Mazel tof! (Being facetious here.) 😖
Agree 100%.
testing
woo…hooo! ring out the bells.
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2018/05/24/life-giving-wisdom/