carmen blackman

Wife, Mom, Grandma and retired early childhood teacher.

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@OccupyDemocrats He acts like a deranged dictator who has thrown all caution to the wind because he realizes he is losing it all. And like his many bankruptcies, he has made our economy worse not better.

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@AZ_Brittney @marykbruce 👍🏻

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@alifeofinsanity @FoxNews @Chevron 👍🏻

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@FoxNews @Chevron They’ll need it to pay for medical bills, and toys and food and rent …

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump and Republicans love to say they're going to protect IVF. But Senate Republicans have blocked IVF protections not once, but TWICE now.

Women are not stupid. We know that this has always been about controlling women's bodies. And we're fighting back.

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@RonFilipkowski Cometh the hour, Cometh the woman! Harris for President!

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@RonFilipkowski She needs prayers because she is married to a felon.

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@BarbraStreisand “King” is for the 18th century. In the 21st, dictator is the word of the hour.

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@remy2cents That King of England has less power than our President even before today’s decision. Think Putin

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@AllanSchlosser @JoyceWhiteVance Monarchy is 18th century. We are in the 21 st! Republicans used to reject dictators. Think Putin

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@SpeakerPelosi In the 18th century, the King of England and the American colonies had much more power than the present King of England. If Trump becomes President, it will be easier, now, to Putinize our country.

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@BeschlossDC Even the present King of England does not have this much power. A better word is dictator as in Putin.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is convicted of all 34 counts. He is the first former American president to be found guilty of felony crimes.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

In 2020, one of the main reasons I voted for Joe Biden was because I wanted trump out of office.

PERIOD.

Don't get me wrong: I knew Joe was a good guy, and he had a ton of useful experience in politics as well as in the White House, but he wasn't my first choice, and I wasn't expecting much.

But NOW I'm voting for Biden in November mainly because he blew my expectations of him all the way out of the damn water.

He's already the most legislatively successful President in the modern era, having signed key consequential bills into law, like the Infrastructure bill, the PACT Act, the CHIPs Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act.

Now, millions of Americans have insulin capped at $35/month.

The infrastructure bill is so good that Republicans who voted against it are clamoring to take credit for the funds going into their states.

He recovered and created a total of 15 million jobs. The last time unemployment was under 4% this long, we put a man on the moon for the first time.

Here's a new one, that not a lot of people are talking about, but it's a BFD: if you've ever had a flight delayed for hours or canceled, or lost your luggage, you'll love this: automatic compensation, within 20 days, and you don't even have to spend hours on the phone to make it happen.

He's gone after bullshit junk fees that companies charge us, death by a thousand cuts of mystery, mounting fees.

I prefer my President to be hard-working, compassionate, intelligent, and thoughtful.

I prefer my President to respect our NATO alliances, and the role we play in the world.

I prefer my President to respect our fallen soldiers, and not to see them as "suckers and losers."

I prefer my President who wants to leave the world, and his office, in better shape than he found it.

I prefer President Biden. 🙏💪

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@jeffrudd31 @RpsAgainstTrump I wonder who would defend her.

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@brianstelter @maddow This the scariest thing he has said lately. I don’t care if people are turned off by comparisons to the 1930’s. How can this kind of talk not be like the rise of Hitler.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

Rachel @Maddow describing Trump's dictator-worshiping pitch to voters: "If you pick me, that'll be the end of politics, and you won't have to deal with politics anymore. You won't have to deal with contested elections, you won't have to deal with contests or divisions when it comes to power, you'll have a strongman leader and I'll just do what I want. And won't that be a lot simpler? That's what he's offering. That strongman model is what the Republican base is enthused about."

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@HerbsandDirt That sounds like crazy uncle talk. Yes, let’s go back to the 70’s!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Robert De Niro’s full statement on Trump. Please read and let me know your thoughts:

I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about Donald Trump. When I look at him, I don’t see a bad man. Truly.

I see an evil one.

Over the years, I’ve met gangsters here and there. This guy tries to be one, but he can’t quite pull it off. There’s such a thing as “honor among thieves.” Yes, even criminals usually have a sense of right and wrong.  Whether they do the right thing or not is a different story — but — they have a moral code, however warped.

Donald Trump does not. He’s a wannabe tough guy with no morals or ethics. No sense of right or wrong. No regard for anyone but himself — not the people he was supposed to lead and protect, not the people he does business with, not the people who follow him, blindly and loyally, not even the people who consider themselves his “friends.” He has contempt for all of them.

We New Yorkers got to know him over the years that he poisoned the atmosphere and littered our city with monuments to his ego.  We knew first hand that this was someone who should never be considered for leadership.  We tried to warn the world in 2016.

The repercussions of his turbulent presidency divided America and rattled New York City beyond imagination.  Remember how we were jolted by crisis in early 2020, as a virus swept the world. We lived with Donald Trump’s bombastic behavior every day on the national stage, and we suffered as we saw our neighbors piling up in body bags.
The man who was supposed to protect this country put it in peril, because of his recklessness and impulsiveness. It was like an abusive father ruling the family by fear and violent behavior.  That was the consequence of New York’s warning getting ignored. Next time, we know it will be worse.

Make no mistake: the twice-impeached, 4-time indicted Donald Trump is still a fool. But we can’t let our fellow Americans write him off like one. Evil thrives in the shadow of dismissive mockery, which is why we must take the danger of Donald Trump very seriously.
So today we issue another warning. From this place where Abraham Lincoln spoke — right here in the beating heart of New York — to the rest of America:
This is our last chance.

Democracy won’t survive the return of a wannabe dictator.

And it won’t overcome evil if we are divided.

So what do we do about it?  I know I’m preaching to the choir here.  What we’re doing today is valuable, but we have to take today into tomorrow – take it outside these walls.   We have to reach out to the half of our country who have ignored the hazards of Trump and, for whatever reason, support elevating him back into the White House.  They’re not stupid, and we must not condemn them for making a stupid choice.  Our future doesn’t just depend on us. It depends on them.

Let’s reach out to Trump’s followers with respect.  Let’s not talk about “democracy.”  “Democracy” may be our holy grail, but to others it is just a word, a concept, and in their embrace of Trump, they’ve already turned their backs on it.  Let’s talk about right and wrong.  Let’s talk about humanity.  Let’s talk about kindness.  Security for our world.  Safety for our families.  Decency.  Let’s welcome them back.  We won’t get them all, but we can get enough to end the nightmare of Trump, and fulfill the mission of this “Stop Trump Summit.”

[carmen blackman @mommabear_45]

@TomFitton Sure! Nothing should be kept secret anymore. Spread them around. Let every one have nuclear secrets. Stop the spies from spying for us. Let every former President keep boxes of secrets. Then lay your head down tonight and see if u feel safe.