TY for keeping us safe. ♥️After 9/11 that mattered. Husband lost 4 coworkers and we were lucky to be on a project that meant he wasn’t in those buildings when they fell. It still matters, but not to this admin who would rather concede to Iran and cosy up to Russia, abandon Ukraine while China has its eye on Taiwan. Then spit in the face of our allies of 80 years who came to our defense post 9/11. What can we expect from someone who dodges service, but has no problem putting Americans in harms way and murdering thousands of civilians in a war with no reward, made us less safe and economically unstable.
Classified should stay in secure location to protect those putting their lives at risk for the rest of us. Period. And the department that controls it all should be run by someone with intelligence experience and a deep understanding and education regarding actual history, not the “alternative facts” version of this admin.
Thank you, Lieutenant, again for your service and for keeping us safe. More importantly, thank you for using your voice and speaking out. I hope more will be encouraged to do the same bc of it!🙏 🇺🇸♥️
I was a senior USAID official for many years. I knew I couldn’t accept even a ham sandwich as a “gift” from a contractor or business, much less a refurbished 747-800 from Qatar. Just saying…
I think we should keep one of those detention centers around so that we can throw the entire
Trump administration into it when it's over. They deserve to starve to death together.
It was great to see and hear wonderful speeches and music and pride in the accomplishments of the Obama administration. I heard real coherent sentences, formed into paragraphs and no ones hands were waving in front of them.
I feel that now I am living in a dystopian novel that won't end.
It's unfortunate that the people who are glued to FOX and other right wing media are not willing
to acknowledge their fellow Americans even exist. There are millions of us that didn't vote for the disgusting government we now have. These Trump followers want to blame the rest of us for their lives.
I too watched the festivities and speeches at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center yesterday. It was like breathing fresh air after having been in a dank, musty cellar. It was good to remember what a functioning government looked like "back then" and gave me hope we will have another functioning government beginning in '26 and '28. We can't go back to what was, but we can learn from this chaos, build better and go forward.
Amen. I thought the opening was wonderfully done; respectful, obvious critiques of the current situation, but nothing said inflammatory, no partisanship, and there was joy in the air. How refreshing is that!
What? A flu outbreak in our military? Who could have seen that coming? Oh, that's right, pretty much ALL of us! And I was heartened to read a recent CNN poll found Obama to be the most popular president ever. He sure is mine!
When you show the Fox News clips, it just makes me sick to my stomach with all the hate and division being spread. Now the White House spreads this hate and division on social media. I'm 64 and never thought I would live to see the USA at such a low point. This warped reality we are living in now. Sad beyond belief.
As a fellow 64 year old, I agree 100%! Let’s follow Mamdani’s advice from yesterday when he suggested we all go out and do something about “it” when the odds are stacked against us!
The talking heads at Fox are NOT news correspondents. They couldn't get jobs at Walgreen's as cashiers, if Fox wasn't giving them obscene amounts of money. They are the stupidest, most ill-informed people that ever occupied any seat in the media. Folks on Tik Tok are more informed, and that is going a long way. There are only a few qualified people on Fox, and strangely enough, you rarely hear from them. There was a very good reason was Caputo quit. Yes, he has MS, but he also hates Trump. He knew he couldn't hold his news show on a daily basis, and speak the party line.
Trump proudly comparing himself to Genghis Khan. Trump couldn't carry Khan's gym bag. Read Khan's bio. No comparisons whatever.
Trump is better compared to the incompetent Roman emperor Commodus. Mismanaged the government. A weakling posing as a strongman. Put his name on public buildings and currency and claimed false credit to boost his ego. Stole from his citizens and wasted huge sums of citizen money on vanity projects. Hosted violent gladiator entertainments to distract from his crimes. Donald is "Commodus the Orange"!
Is that where the other name for a toilet came from, commode? Quite apt if you use it in vernacular, Flushing money down the toilet! Something this President and minions are excellent at. Of course, right into the pockets of the Trump Family Enterprise called the Presidency. Of course, he has spent his whole life perfecting the technique, after all, he declared bankruptcy 6 times in the past, now he has almost accomplished it again only with our US Treasury!!!!! I heard this morning that Kegsbreath is on Capital Hill today, with his hand out for another $30 billion.
"No, the word commode did not come from the Roman Emperor Commodus.
The word traces its origins to a Latin adjective meaning "convenient" or "suitable":
Latin Root: It derives from the Latin word commodus.
French Evolution: It transitioned into French as commode, which initially referred to a stylish piece of furniture or a decorative chest of drawers.
Shift to Toilet: By the 1800s, specialized cabinets designed to discreetly house a chamber pot inside the bedroom were called commodes. Over time, this term was carried over to modern indoor plumbing fixtures.
While Emperor Commodus (the son of Marcus Aurelius) was known for his chaotic and eccentric reign—even renaming Rome after himself—he had no connection to the toilet!"
Commodus was such a low life, low quality, self despising human, he put his name on everything. Including changing the name of the City of Rome to "Commodiana" after himself. He claimed to be a demi-god, using statues and currency to portray himself as Hercules.
The Trump AI cartoons of himself as Superman and Jesus echo Commodus' megalomania. How about the "Gulf of America". And "the Department of War". And "I won the election". And "Canada is the 51st state". And "gimme Greenland because I want it." And "give me $1.7 Billion of taxpayer money that I can spend any way I want."
As his former Sec of State said, "He's an effing moron."
Is there NO law against what Kristi Noem has done to the USA?! As a taxpayer, I want justice from all of these absolutely corrupt and greedy jerks and jerkettes like her Thanks to the Supreme Court, we can't touch Trump until he leaves office. But there has to be some consequences for how monstrous these folks have been. We cannot afford SNAP for hungry families; we cannot afford health care programs for all; we cannot afford our national parks; we cannot afford green energy investments; we cannot afford free university and college for our young people -- but we can waste money on dark ideologies by exacting the sort of cruelty on immigrants to isolate the USA from the world, and power-grabs to cheer an insane dictator named Trump. And all of the journalists who shore up this miscreant-filled administration need to be horsewhipped, too. What a shameful bunch of rats.
The real problem is the Not-So-Supreme Court. They will reel in a democrat president (Biden and his loan forgiveness) but give demented, deranged Dumpy the green light to do anything he wants to do. We have to balance the court. Impeach the ones who lied under oath (abortion is settled law)? Or just appoint more justices.
We CAN have all those things. It starts with taking over local offices, then state legislatures. When you control the state legislature you control gerrymandering. And then you can clean it up.
One of the keys to the turn around of the warehouses has been the exercise of power by local governments. They have rightly denied development that would overwhelm water, sanitation and electric infrastructure. Many thanks to those sane and practical local officials.
There’s something called a secure facility for the nation’s secrets. Putting them in a briefcase and yippee skippee-ing them home doesn’t qualify as secure.
Under this administration, I feel that the word “Intelligence” is a complete misnomer. I like Christine’s idea of saving one of those warehouses and throwing the whole tRump administration in. I was thinking of no improvements but that would be beneath most of us. Give them their own toilets, separate cells, and a subscription to the New York Times and The Guardian as reading material. A TV and the only channel is PBS. And the same crappy diet they feed people in other prisons. Exercise in the yard can only be done in the rain. And no memory foam mattresses. What goes around comes around.
Thanks, Adam! Great recap of the events going on. Maybe another time, show images of other presidential libraries. Beats the hell out of a Quatari jumbo jet. I can hardly wait to take a trip to Chicago to visit the Obama Presidential Library.
I was in the Marine Corps for 12 years and the Navy for 4 and don’t remember a single flu outbreak. Vaccines work.
We should impeach Kegsbreath for risking the health and welfare of our military.
And also eject RFK for risking the health and welfare of the entire country.
You mean measles?screwworm?flu?
and whooping cough is back. they should probably start bringing iron lungs out of mothballs.
WELLDUH... Yes they do.. that is why they are for ,especially for close quarter living as in military posts and in schools.
Meningitis vaccine has probably save thousands of military lives
... but what does Trump care.
I was a lieutenant in army intelligence. I knew I couldn't take classified documents home!
TY for keeping us safe. ♥️After 9/11 that mattered. Husband lost 4 coworkers and we were lucky to be on a project that meant he wasn’t in those buildings when they fell. It still matters, but not to this admin who would rather concede to Iran and cosy up to Russia, abandon Ukraine while China has its eye on Taiwan. Then spit in the face of our allies of 80 years who came to our defense post 9/11. What can we expect from someone who dodges service, but has no problem putting Americans in harms way and murdering thousands of civilians in a war with no reward, made us less safe and economically unstable.
Classified should stay in secure location to protect those putting their lives at risk for the rest of us. Period. And the department that controls it all should be run by someone with intelligence experience and a deep understanding and education regarding actual history, not the “alternative facts” version of this admin.
Thank you, Lieutenant, again for your service and for keeping us safe. More importantly, thank you for using your voice and speaking out. I hope more will be encouraged to do the same bc of it!🙏 🇺🇸♥️
I was a senior USAID official for many years. I knew I couldn’t accept even a ham sandwich as a “gift” from a contractor or business, much less a refurbished 747-800 from Qatar. Just saying…
I think we should keep one of those detention centers around so that we can throw the entire
Trump administration into it when it's over. They deserve to starve to death together.
It was great to see and hear wonderful speeches and music and pride in the accomplishments of the Obama administration. I heard real coherent sentences, formed into paragraphs and no ones hands were waving in front of them.
I feel that now I am living in a dystopian novel that won't end.
It's unfortunate that the people who are glued to FOX and other right wing media are not willing
to acknowledge their fellow Americans even exist. There are millions of us that didn't vote for the disgusting government we now have. These Trump followers want to blame the rest of us for their lives.
If their lives suck, it's not because of me.
I too watched the festivities and speeches at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center yesterday. It was like breathing fresh air after having been in a dank, musty cellar. It was good to remember what a functioning government looked like "back then" and gave me hope we will have another functioning government beginning in '26 and '28. We can't go back to what was, but we can learn from this chaos, build better and go forward.
Amen. I thought the opening was wonderfully done; respectful, obvious critiques of the current situation, but nothing said inflammatory, no partisanship, and there was joy in the air. How refreshing is that!
What a great idea!!!!!!! Keep more than one open, cuz we're gonna need a lot!!!!!
T R U T H ! ✨👏🏼
What? A flu outbreak in our military? Who could have seen that coming? Oh, that's right, pretty much ALL of us! And I was heartened to read a recent CNN poll found Obama to be the most popular president ever. He sure is mine!
When you show the Fox News clips, it just makes me sick to my stomach with all the hate and division being spread. Now the White House spreads this hate and division on social media. I'm 64 and never thought I would live to see the USA at such a low point. This warped reality we are living in now. Sad beyond belief.
As a fellow 64 year old, I agree 100%! Let’s follow Mamdani’s advice from yesterday when he suggested we all go out and do something about “it” when the odds are stacked against us!
The talking heads at Fox are NOT news correspondents. They couldn't get jobs at Walgreen's as cashiers, if Fox wasn't giving them obscene amounts of money. They are the stupidest, most ill-informed people that ever occupied any seat in the media. Folks on Tik Tok are more informed, and that is going a long way. There are only a few qualified people on Fox, and strangely enough, you rarely hear from them. There was a very good reason was Caputo quit. Yes, he has MS, but he also hates Trump. He knew he couldn't hold his news show on a daily basis, and speak the party line.
The media station owned be a family of foreigners.
Trump proudly comparing himself to Genghis Khan. Trump couldn't carry Khan's gym bag. Read Khan's bio. No comparisons whatever.
Trump is better compared to the incompetent Roman emperor Commodus. Mismanaged the government. A weakling posing as a strongman. Put his name on public buildings and currency and claimed false credit to boost his ego. Stole from his citizens and wasted huge sums of citizen money on vanity projects. Hosted violent gladiator entertainments to distract from his crimes. Donald is "Commodus the Orange"!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus
Is that where the other name for a toilet came from, commode? Quite apt if you use it in vernacular, Flushing money down the toilet! Something this President and minions are excellent at. Of course, right into the pockets of the Trump Family Enterprise called the Presidency. Of course, he has spent his whole life perfecting the technique, after all, he declared bankruptcy 6 times in the past, now he has almost accomplished it again only with our US Treasury!!!!! I heard this morning that Kegsbreath is on Capital Hill today, with his hand out for another $30 billion.
Your question is indeed apt.
Google AI:
"No, the word commode did not come from the Roman Emperor Commodus.
The word traces its origins to a Latin adjective meaning "convenient" or "suitable":
Latin Root: It derives from the Latin word commodus.
French Evolution: It transitioned into French as commode, which initially referred to a stylish piece of furniture or a decorative chest of drawers.
Shift to Toilet: By the 1800s, specialized cabinets designed to discreetly house a chamber pot inside the bedroom were called commodes. Over time, this term was carried over to modern indoor plumbing fixtures.
While Emperor Commodus (the son of Marcus Aurelius) was known for his chaotic and eccentric reign—even renaming Rome after himself—he had no connection to the toilet!"
Commodus was such a low life, low quality, self despising human, he put his name on everything. Including changing the name of the City of Rome to "Commodiana" after himself. He claimed to be a demi-god, using statues and currency to portray himself as Hercules.
The Trump AI cartoons of himself as Superman and Jesus echo Commodus' megalomania. How about the "Gulf of America". And "the Department of War". And "I won the election". And "Canada is the 51st state". And "gimme Greenland because I want it." And "give me $1.7 Billion of taxpayer money that I can spend any way I want."
As his former Sec of State said, "He's an effing moron."
shhh ... or trump will want to rename our country after himself.
I agree with that Commodus is a good choice for the comparison.
Is there NO law against what Kristi Noem has done to the USA?! As a taxpayer, I want justice from all of these absolutely corrupt and greedy jerks and jerkettes like her Thanks to the Supreme Court, we can't touch Trump until he leaves office. But there has to be some consequences for how monstrous these folks have been. We cannot afford SNAP for hungry families; we cannot afford health care programs for all; we cannot afford our national parks; we cannot afford green energy investments; we cannot afford free university and college for our young people -- but we can waste money on dark ideologies by exacting the sort of cruelty on immigrants to isolate the USA from the world, and power-grabs to cheer an insane dictator named Trump. And all of the journalists who shore up this miscreant-filled administration need to be horsewhipped, too. What a shameful bunch of rats.
If impeached and removed from office, can we go after him?or you think Vance would pardon him?
He will never be held accountable for any of this. I think people are better off accepting this.
Nobody is willing to do what actually needs to be done, sooo…🤷🏻♀️
The real problem is the Not-So-Supreme Court. They will reel in a democrat president (Biden and his loan forgiveness) but give demented, deranged Dumpy the green light to do anything he wants to do. We have to balance the court. Impeach the ones who lied under oath (abortion is settled law)? Or just appoint more justices.
1. They do not GAF about the law.
2. Paragraphs, please.
Focus, Mary. Focus.
It’s Mari. Paragraphs make it easier to focus on what people are writing. ✌🏼
Thank you, Mari.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy your w/e. 🙂
It will be very hard, as I must now study how to write in paragraphs.😉
We CAN have all those things. It starts with taking over local offices, then state legislatures. When you control the state legislature you control gerrymandering. And then you can clean it up.
Intelligence per se is anathema to the current administration.
One of the keys to the turn around of the warehouses has been the exercise of power by local governments. They have rightly denied development that would overwhelm water, sanitation and electric infrastructure. Many thanks to those sane and practical local officials.
A Mark Kelley Adam Kinzinger presidential ticket in 28 would win.
Agree!
There’s something called a secure facility for the nation’s secrets. Putting them in a briefcase and yippee skippee-ing them home doesn’t qualify as secure.
I used to read NYT and local news first thing. Now it’s Adam Kinsinger Report.
Under this administration, I feel that the word “Intelligence” is a complete misnomer. I like Christine’s idea of saving one of those warehouses and throwing the whole tRump administration in. I was thinking of no improvements but that would be beneath most of us. Give them their own toilets, separate cells, and a subscription to the New York Times and The Guardian as reading material. A TV and the only channel is PBS. And the same crappy diet they feed people in other prisons. Exercise in the yard can only be done in the rain. And no memory foam mattresses. What goes around comes around.
No! No nothing. Alligator Alcatraz is where they belong.
Taking the President’s security brief home is all you need to know about him.
i'm also shocked the guy is only 38 years old! i thought he was 20 years older. just shows what stupid will do to a person.
Thanks, Adam! Great recap of the events going on. Maybe another time, show images of other presidential libraries. Beats the hell out of a Quatari jumbo jet. I can hardly wait to take a trip to Chicago to visit the Obama Presidential Library.
How on EARTH can Obama's popularity be that low?! Seriously.
Great job America