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!

He's started tweeting on the hearing. It's a brain dump though.

The final sentence of that Slate article is absolutely brilliant:

If a public official is unwilling to hear the counsel of someone like Sally Yates, he is dramatically more likely to one day be prosecuted by someone like Sally Yates.

Thought I'd explore his most recent tweets and my bookmark takes me to the Potus twitter page. I then click on the realDonald link which appears in the bio at the top...

Oh wait - it's been removed Get the feeling they're trying to distance Potus from re actual man!!

Good final sentence.

Where is Flynn by the way?

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
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Biggest story today between Clapper & Yates is on surveillance. Why doesn't the media report on this? #FakeNews!
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Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
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The Russia-Trump collusion story is a total hoax, when will this taxpayer funded charade end?
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Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
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Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today --- she said nothing but old news!
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Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
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Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows- there is "no evidence" of collusion w/ Russia and Trump.
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Several WH sources say the Gen McMaster stories are coming from Bannon and are false. Trump has full confidence in McMaster. "He loves him."

Guess we'll see in the coming days or weeks.

Jamil Smith‏Verified account @JamilSmith 11m11 minutes ago
The Sessions DOJ cited a 1971 ruling allowing segregation at public pools as legal defense for Trump’s travel ban. huff.to/2qTWh90

Is it my memory or are 45's 'likes' going down?

He can't get rid of McMaster. Not at the moment, anyway.

About an hour ago, I caught something on a channel called Comedy Central called 'The President Show'. It seems to be a comedy series.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

Golly gosh, that's a Trump twitter tantrum. That's a whole lot of diversion going on right there! Why not LOOK AT THIS STORY? Why FAKE NEWS? Why me? What about HER?

I was just wishing so hard that Yates had done a 'mike drop' when she pwned Cruz.

Trump's Twitter-rhea is beginning to sound more and more deranged. #Sad #Trumpsucksdonkeydongs #TrumpisNixon

I also have a bit of a crush on SY. Amazing woman. I know it all takes time but I have this image of a screw being turned tighter and tighter.

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Ohhhh wow --> Trump just changed his header pic to include his own tweet, in which he lies about James Clapper's public testimony today.

Pain, I saw that. It's truly awful. How can his colleagues not see that as unprofessional, at best, and sociopathic, at worst? Neither are qualities I would wish for a POTUS.

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How to spot fascism before it's too late

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So a few hours after the Yates' hearing, the White House decides it's going to redouble the efforts in Afghanistan, bumping headlines about Yates down the post and ny times:

www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-poised-to-expand-military-effort-against-taliban-in-afghanistan/2017/05/08/356c4930-33fa-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html

The Today programme is covering Sally Yates' testimony and Flynn. Afghanistan not mentioned...

Thanks, Odfod. It was linked above, but that's my morning reminder to try to get my head round a bit more of it...

(It's the "The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked" article.)

Trumplestiltskin is off on one this morning isn't he?

Methinks he doth protest too much. Very Nixonian!

I know! I'm not keeping up at all!

Rant rant rant!!! Sorry, you're wrong about Clapper. He wasn't aware of the investigation when he made that statement. And everyone now agrees it's no hoax.

Ah that's encouraging illegitimate