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Trump thread 6

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amispartacus · 30/01/2017 18:52

And it's only been a day since no 5

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GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 00:57

Elizabeth Warren ‏*@SenWarren* 38s39 seconds ago
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Tonight @SenateDems will hold the floor as we speak out against @realDonaldTrump’s illegal & unconstitutional Muslim ban. #NoBanNoWall

ZebraOwl · 31/01/2017 01:02

FROM HANSARD
Ian Paisley (North Antrim) (DUP)
May I congratulate the Government on a very successful visit to the United States of America, and on putting the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the front of the queue? Does the Secretary of State agree that there is a touch of a double standard here? People from Ulster have been told for decades that they must talk to, and work and be in government with, the most objectionable people, yet they are now being told by the same people that the President of the most democratic country in the world should not come to this country. May I encourage the Secretary of State to ensure that the state visit proceeds? Could he also advise Northern Ireland citizens who hold Irish passports but who are entitled to full British passports on whether they should apply for British passports for ease of travel to the United States?

Boris Johnson
I completely agree with the point that the hon. Gentleman rightly makes. President Trump and his Administration have not, to the best of my knowledge, been engaged in terrorist offences on mainland Britain, unlike those with whom the hon. Gentleman and his party were asked to negotiate.

I'm sorry, did I read that right? Did the British Foreign Secretary just flat out call Sinn Féin terrorists? And/or accuse them of just being the IRA? Lovely how people conveniently forget about the existence of loyalist paramilitaries. They didn't do anything over on the mainland so they aren't real? Bastard Paisley's cut from the same cloth as his evil father who, might I just remind you all, following loyalist attacks on Catholic homes, came out with this gem: "Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs; Catholic churches were attacked and burned because they were arsenals and priests handed out sub-machine guns to parishioners." Those same Catholics he believed to be led by "the anti-Christ" (aka the Pope) & who he announced "bred like rabbits & multiplied like vermin".

Slow handclap for Johnson for endorsing Sectarianism AND the loyalist paras AND undermining the legitimacy of the NI Peace Process & Assembly. Maybe the UDF will make him a patron?

What an utter twunt. I just... But then, why am I surprised - Brexiteers don't give a shiny shit about the [in]stability of Northern Ireland. Feckers.

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:03

CNN ‏*@CNN* 26s27 seconds ago
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David Axelrod on Steve Bannon and the NSC: "I woke up this morning as an Alternative Fact" cnn.it/2jN8nQA via @CNNOpinion
edition.cnn.com/2017/01/30/opinions/david-axelrod-i-woke-up-this-morning-as-an-alternative-fact/index.html?sr=twCNN013117david-axelrod-i-woke-up-this-morning-as-an-alternative-fact0102AMStoryPhoto&linkId=33949162

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:04

I agree, Johnson is an utter twunt. I don't think it has anything to do with Brexit. He was a twunt long before Brexit was a thing. Grin

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:05

Watching US senate live.
floor.senate.gov/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&event_id=1197

ZebraOwl · 31/01/2017 01:11

Ah, no, I was meaning I shouldn't be surprised he said something so stupid about NI given the Brexit shite...

ZebraOwl · 31/01/2017 01:14

(And of course it was Johnson's father who made that comment on "The Last Leg" in the summer that upset the Irish diaspora so much. Maybe it's genetic...)

AcrossthePond55 · 31/01/2017 01:14

God, I love Elizabeth Warren!

ZebraOwl · 31/01/2017 01:14

AcrossThePond55

She's amazing!

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:35

Across I was watching her (she was doing brilliantly) and the stupid stream crashed. Haven't been able to bring it back up. grrrrrrr

ZebraOwl · 31/01/2017 01:37

GingerIvy

Same here: what don't they want the people in the U.K. to know... Hmm

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:40

yeah, I've tried a couple different devices, nothing. Couldn't connect to server.

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:48

livestream.com/fednet/senate

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:48

Zebra try that

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 01:49

it's working for me.

Thadius · 31/01/2017 01:53

#resignmay is trending on Twitter at the moment. People aren't happy about her not calling Trump out on his shit.

voldemortsnose · 31/01/2017 02:08

The Tories who are defending the PM not calling POTUS on the this, and Nigel Farage defending Trump, are using the 'why aren't you as upset about Russia/China/Saudi Arabia etc'. They're making the point themselves, really: what's different after one week of Presidunt Trump (sic) is we now put the US in the same file as those countries. This is the week where the US shifted from the 'not that bad, but they do still have the death penalty' bit of Amnesty International's list to 'the kind of place where human rights abuse is routine, the people get to hear half truths and propaganda rather than balanced, factual reporting, good governance standards not met, etc etc'.

AcrossthePond55 · 31/01/2017 02:25

Breaking on Rachel Maddow; Trump has just fired acting AG Sally Yates. She was the one who ordered the DoJ to NOT enforce the ban.

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 02:26

Damn it. This is ridiculous.

AcrossthePond55 · 31/01/2017 02:27

We caught the rest of the speech on CSPAN. That feed crashed for me too and I'm in the US

AcrossthePond55 · 31/01/2017 02:27

The rest of Sen Warren's speech that should say

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 02:28

across - try the livestream link I posted. it's working for me here.

AcrossthePond55 · 31/01/2017 02:28

Mr. Dana Boente appointed new acting AG.

AcrossthePond55 · 31/01/2017 02:29

We can get the Senate and House live on TV on CSPAN

GingerIvy · 31/01/2017 02:49

I'm just horrified. I should be asleep, but I'm just not able now.

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