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

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TheClaws · 01/05/2017 11:44

The Trump thread continued. We are all LEGENDS!

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TheClaws · 02/05/2017 11:53

Lweji, is spotty tie teenager Spicey?

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TheClaws · 02/05/2017 11:55
  1. Ryan?
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Lweji · 02/05/2017 11:59

Yes, Putin and Spicer.

Lweji · 02/05/2017 13:00

Also (because I had googled it) to Ryan and Melania answers.

She looks much happier there.

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 02/05/2017 13:07

Thanks to the pics catching up in my lunchbreak was bigly easy today. I'm assuming no-one has been arrested while we are at play. Wink

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 13:18

No arrests yet but less than a week til more public hearings!

Jace Galloway @JaceLGalloway
Sally Yates & James Clapper will TESTIFY May 8, 2017. And yes - we get to watch!

#Russiagate

t.co/aac5nnZDmf

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 13:19

This just in from Mensch (although apply whatever shovelful of salt you'd usually add):

Louise Mensch @LouiseMensch
So @TrueFactsStated has discovered something even worse for Spicey than yesterday's @patribotics story SAY TUNED

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 13:23

There's also this potential arrest Hmm:

A Woman Is On Trial For Laughing During A Congressional Hearing
Activist was arrested by a rookie cop after laughing at a claim that Jeff Sessions treated "all Americans equally."

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59076a93e4b05c3976810a3a/amp?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 13:29

Wtf

The New York Times @nytimes
Ivanka Trump plans to review some executive orders before they are signed, according to White House officials

t.co/dTf7yGxYEx?amp=1

AcrossthePond55 · 02/05/2017 13:35

A Woman Is On Trial For Laughing During A Congressional Hearing

I'm not surprised at all. It's all part of the 'Silence the Truth' campaign of Scrotus and Co. I'm just trying to figure out how they're going to spin his instituting a gestapo/stasi/thought police 'for the security of the country'.

I think pic 4 is Jeff Sessions.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 13:40

And you would be right across! Star

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 13:47

Yes, there was an interview with Amy siskind where she talked about how he's silencing any opposition:

"...compared to what it is now. I mean, there was one thing unusual that first night, which was there was a New York Times reporter who had tweeted a criticism of his paper, and the next morning I woke up and looked for it, because I thought it was a really interesting tweet, and it was gone. I happened to have screenshotted it, because I had quoted it. I just thought that was an interesting sign of silencing dissent, which was one of the things authoritarian experts had warned about. So, that was the picture for the first week’s list." - See more at: www.damemagazine.com/2017/04/27/trump-and-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-first-100-days#sthash.LkrBWo7i.dpuf"

"I’m very fastidious about backing up the stuff on Medium. I’m not normally a person that is an alarmist, but, yeah, with one good spammer they could come in — and obviously they’re very good at that - and wipe the list away. So I’m very cautious about having them in a bunch of different forms in a lot of different places. Because realistically, yes, this is what happens in silencing dissent. And the first few weeks were very heavy on silencing dissent, if you look at the early lists. Stuff you won’t remember like the union worker that he tweeted about that was getting death threats. From Carrier. He’d said [Trump] didn’t create as many jobs as he publicly said. That kind of stuff. The first few weeks were attacking our media, attacking individuals, attacking anybody that was speaking out. So, that was certainly part of what I thought we could expect, and that was certainly what happened."

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 13:51

Don't know if anyone's posted this already:

Republican Blurts Out That Sick People Don’t Deserve Affordable Care
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/republican-sick-people-dont-deserve-affordable-care.html

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 14:01

@mattyglesias
It's fake surprising that none of the 100 Days coverage focused on email protocol issues that we spent a year pretending to care about.

Lweji · 02/05/2017 14:11

I like how that link turned out:

republican sick people dont deserve affordable care

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 14:20

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

either elect more Republican Senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51%. Our country needs a good "shutdown" in September to fix mess!
2:07 pm · 2 May 2017

cozietoesie · 02/05/2017 14:29

....Our country needs a good shutdown....

Goodness.

cozietoesie · 02/05/2017 14:31

Sorry.

....Our country needs a good "shutdown"....

Mustn't forget those pesky quotes or apostrophes. Grin

OhYouBadBadKitten · 02/05/2017 15:19

Good grief!

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 15:29

24m
Peter Daou @peterdaou
Periodically, I post this unbelievably astute Alexander Hamilton quote. Read it and you'll see what I mean...

100 days in - congrats to us all for keeping sane on the Trump train
cozietoesie · 02/05/2017 15:30

It sounds as if he's already setting up the excuses for failure.

I still think he's heading for 'Independent' status.

cozietoesie · 02/05/2017 15:31

Wow, Pain.

lionheart · 02/05/2017 15:35

Flipping heck, Pain.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 02/05/2017 15:42

It's incredibly prescient of him.

cozietoesie · 02/05/2017 15:46

I wonder who Hamilton was talking about, historically? It rather sounds as though he had someone in mind, I think?

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