100 days in - congrats to us all for keeping sane on the Trump train

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The Trump thread continued. We are all LEGENDS!

Hopefully Trump won't figure that means he needs to up his game in the "dictatorship" category to get Duterte to visit him.

Jim Clancy‏Verified account @ClancyReports 16m16 minutes ago
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NKorea's Kim Jong Un vows to develop nuclear program at full speed in reaction to Trump rhetoric and threats. english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2017/05/01/0301000000AEN20170501006800315.html?input=www.twitter.com …

101 fucking days and he's utterly pissed off (another) psychotic tyrannical dictator with nuclear weapons. What a complete tool.

Dr. Dena Grayson‏ @DrDenaGrayson 23h23 hours ago
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Yup. Burr's own hometown paper is calling out his obstruction, as is @businessinsider (not exactly a liberal rag).

www.businessinsider.com/senate-investigation-trump-russia-richard-burr-2017-4 …

Matthew Yglesias‏Verified account @mattyglesias 22m22 minutes ago
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Combining the stepped-up basis loophole with estate tax repeal means the consumption of rich heirs will go entirely untaxed.

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UPDATE: Hamas trying to fool the world with new policy document - spokesman for Israeli PM reut.rs/2qph5pp
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Jim Clancy‏Verified account @ClancyReports 23m23 minutes ago
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Jim Clancy Retweeted Reuters Top News
PM Netanyahu and Hamas leadership depend on each other's hardline policies to perpetuate their own.

Daniel W. Drezner‏Verified account @dandrezner 1m1 minute ago
"Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi quickly put out celebratory statements. But McConnell and Paul Ryan did not." www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/05/01/daily-202-eight-ways-trump-got-rolled-in-his-first-budget-negotiation/590687f2e9b69b3a72331f09/?

That is some temporary budget.

Could someone remind me. Has Biden made a Sherman Pledge yet?

I do not see Steve Bannon. Not see Steve Bannon. Not see Steven Bannon.

That vox article on how trump has placed the most politically vulnerable republicans in an unenviable position is really interesting! He really has set them (and so his party) up for a lose-lose situation

I have to agree about Jackson. Not all of our "esteemed forefathers" were nice men. Products of their time, I suppose. Perhaps enlightened in some ways. But nice men?

Exactly Ginger but there again he's taken to calling KimJong 'a smart cookie' in a rare 20 seconds of trying to diffuse something somewhere. KimJong may be many things --a bloated nasty dictator for starters- but I'm not sure I'd be calling him a smart cookie.

I think he is desperate for war. Trump that is. He wants to keep poking that hornets nest to justify it. It's to shore up his possible leaking support by his supporters.

Yet another embarrassment for him. How much more can we stand... accuse and threaten, then backtrack. Rinse and repeat.

www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/trump-cbs-interview.html

He wants to play with all the toys in his new toy box.

The New York Times @nytimes
President Trump released an ad that declared his first 100 days a success and branded other reports as “FAKE NEWS”

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“If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live”

Trump’s casino business went bankrupt, and then a lawyer representing investors told police he got a menacing call from a man who said “we’re going to your house for your wife and kids” if he didn’t stop “fucking with Mr. Trump.” The FBI determined the call came from a phone booth across the street from the theater where Trump was appearing on The Late Show with David Letterman.

www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/if-you-keep-fucking-with-mr-trump-we-know-where-you-live?s=webapp&utm_term=.oaZVKNmV7#.xgKkrPykA

"Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost"
www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article147475484.html

Ye gods. I find it particularly scary that I know more about American history than the POTUS and my knowledge is scant!

He's making a complete fool of himself and his grasp on language seems to be deteriorating rapidly.

www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/24/trump_s_mystical_grasp_of_time_is_straining_the_limits_of_grammar.html

mieke eoyang @MiekeEoyang
Bannon wrote a Shakespearean hip-hop rap musical about LA riots.

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So much wrong.

I have this vision of 45 being sought out to make a crisis decision and being found at the base of a corridor wall in a foetal ball, yelling 'Go away - just deal with it'. So they will.

He'll implode. It's just a question of when.

Donald Trump just gave two incredibly bizarre (and fact-free) interviews

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-wiretapping/index.html

Can you imagine if, on the same day:

There are gas attacks in Syria
North Korea tests a ballistic missile.

Claude Taylor‏ @TrueFactsStated 4h4 hours ago
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I have been tweeting that while Comey is far along with two grand juries, NYAG Schneiderman is further behind. I may have been incorrect....

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NY Martin Act.
NY AG has close to unlimited powers bestowed in the 1930s against Organized Crime.
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I imagine this is a self-serving choice of Trump.
www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/11/15/trump-administration-looks-to-neuter-nys-martin-act.html
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Claude Taylor‏ @TrueFactsStated 4h4 hours ago
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Claude Taylor Retweeted Kris
Yes and as I tweeted, it is Schneiderman that will leave Trump, Don Jr, Eric, Ivanka and Jared penniless...

Roussette I think Trump has misjudged his audience with NK. He's talking about "smart cookie" and he "won't be happy" if NK does another test. It's like he thinks he is talking to a child. Is this just illustrating a tenuous grasp on reality??

The Winter Trump Hole is closed now - so what will the New Jersey one be called? Will the Bedminster inhabitants welcome their Orange neighbour?
www.palmbeachpost.com/news/national-govt--politics/new-trump-plans-weekend-bedminster-golf-club-faa-notice-indicates/DWWWbodMtJAcK69IApstZJ/

breaking-news‏ @UrgentNews5 2h2 hours ago
North Korea warns it will carry out a nuclear test "at any time", in latest rhetoric to fuel jitters in the region . pic.twitter.com/RsOdf6rDoY