This thread will see you in court.Again. Trump watch

[amispartacus]

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I wonder when this thread will fill up.

Hope so.

Could someone be my thread buddy today? I have to draft a witness statement and keep getting distracted by politics. If I post, could someone ask if I've done my own work first?

Trump is bad for my business head!

DistractTweeting

"I think they've 'deployed' it rather than firing it?"

ah yes, I failed to understand the difference last night.

I can keep an eye out this morning Nevertheless!

Does anyone feel like the dickswinging with missiles is the dead cat? If you can fashion a missile crisis or external threat, it redirects the conversation from internal mischief and infighting.

Neverthe I'll keep on and on and on...

(but am out for an hour or two this morn, kitten will watch out for you! )

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this buzzfeed article about Patriot Barbie retweeting a white supremacist made me giggle. It was this bit that did it for me. She sounds like a teen caught in the act.

"Conway told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, “I don’t know who had access to my account.”
“Let me see who tweeted that,” she said. “That’s terrible.”
Conway said she had “obviously” never heard of Lib Hypocrisy.
“I denounce whoever it is,” she said. “It will be immediately deleted. Everybody makes mistakes.”"

I dunno Mort, I think it's the usual Russians testing the boundaries - probably laughing cos they know they have Trump over the barrel.

Or maybe it is. Maybe he will issue some sort of brave tweet and they will put their toys away and he will then say 'of course I'm tough on russia, just look what happened.'

"By a vote of 23-15, Republicans just voted to not request President Trump's tax returns from the Treasury Department."

Report on yesterday's vote by the Ways & Means Committee, as tweeted by the Official Twitter Account for the Democrat members of said body. Funnily enough, the Dems all voted to get to see them, yes.

Your kidding? Is that how many republicans he owns now?

Jesus Mary & Joseph...

Matt Gaetz (Republican, I am not shocked; Florida, State that does seem to produce more than its share of batshit crazy news, so again...) has introduced a Bill to get rid of the EPA: www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/861/text

OhYouBadKitten

Maybe he's given them all memberships to his stupid golf resorts?

Regarding Piers Morgan.

I'd want Trump to be a successful President, a good President for his country. Yet, he's failing miserably and it's nobody's fault but his and his cronies/puppet masters.

I think Florida must be on a suicide mission. It's one of the most vulnerable states to climate change.

Do they want giant killer alligators swimming through their living rooms?*

*That may not be an expected consequence of climate change.

Kitten, I think she sounds like Paul "It wasn't meeeee" Nuttall who is very unfortunate when it comes to third parties making untrue claims on his behalf because

of course that's more likely than his own pants being on fire

I think Florida must be on a suicide mission

Isn't it?

Also, did Russia hack and interfere with Barbie's tweets? Anonymous? Or maybe, just maybe, she was in so much need for validation that she didn't care who supported her.
Of course she could be a white supremacist too.
So many options...

Maybe Florida are planning to be Atlantis Mark 2 Kitten, and are thus trying to sink themselves? Egads, perhaps it is an alligator conspiracy - someone needs to check if this Gaetz character is a human or just a well-disguised gator!

Oh & in case anyone outside the US is wondering about the process by which Bills pass into Law there: www.youtu.be/tyeJ55o3El0

I'm more inclined to think that Patriot Barbie is like those people on Facebook who "Share" articles from idiots like "Britain First". They see the headline but don't bother reading further or looking at the source. When you pull them up on it the lightbulb goes on and they say "Oh I didn't notice that's what it says".

Simpletons, basically (and sadly I include a number of my own family members in that group).

New Yorker piece on why we should be angry with Paul Ryan for his toadying (from 7th Feb, I don't think it's been posted already, v sorry if it has): www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/what-explains-paul-ryans-craven-words-about-trump?mbid=social_twitter

The bit that I find sticking in my craw the most is the healthcare stuff.
Republicans: Obamacare is the worst! Kill it! Kill it with fire!
Trump: Yes! And my new plan will be the best! Everyone will be covered! And you get ice-cream too! With sprinkles! SPRINKLES FOR EVERYONE!
Republicans: Yeah, no. Fewer people will be covered with the new plan that will be some hideous mix of the worst parts of all our plans for how to do this (KILL OBAMACARE! KILL IT WITH FIRE!) And no ice-cream for anyone. Except us. And we'll be having all the sprinkles too. Because screw everyone else.

YES!!!! I understand now.

Trump is a Killer Alien Alligator. He has to return to Florida every weekend to recharge on swamp water so that he doesn't die. The Alligators are staging a coup. But in order to do so they need swamp water across the entire country.

The Mexican wall is there to keep the swamp water levels up.

It all makes perfect sense now.

Meanwhile, it looks like Mad King Jong-un has managed to kill his half brother in Malaysia. The plots thicken.

After previous news about Russian operatives being found dead, I'm waiting for news of who the Trump Administration dispatches.

Interesting analysis of Trump's handshake pull and pat technique.

They conclude that someone who shakes hands like that is not an egalitarian. He needs to feel superior.

Makes perfect sense kitten you've cracked it!

New York Times article about investigation into Trump aides' contact with Russian intelligence during election period: www.nyti.ms/2lhzcxv

(Obvious joke is obvious, but you can't blame them for seeking contact with some form of intelligence...)

Slightly worryingly, Kitten, I'm not sure I'd even be all that surprised at this point.