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Match your outfit with the drapes and no-one will see you are here.

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lionheart · 19/05/2017 17:33

Watch and listen.

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BoreOfWhabylon · 21/05/2017 01:54

Interesting programme on BBC World Service re Trump and Russians

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p052nt68

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lionheart · 21/05/2017 02:01

Thanks Cozie. I have been wondering what it has been like for those who have stuck their heads above the parapet and I imagine that they have been targetted by some scary and anonymous 'advocates'.

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lionheart · 21/05/2017 02:05

I wondered how Trump's trip would go down with some of his allies. Silver linings and all that:

Roger Stone‏ @RogerJStoneJr 9h9 hours ago
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Instead of meeting with the Saudis @realDonaldTrump should be demanding they pay for the attack on America on 9/11 which they financed.

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lionheart · 21/05/2017 02:15

More cracks:

The Hill‏Verified account @thehill 2m2 minutes ago
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Fourth candidate for Trump's FBI director drops out of consideration

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TheClaws · 21/05/2017 02:17

BerylStreep re: James Comey attraction, I have a thing for dark handsome intelligent men, so I'm with you there. Actually, I think Donald Trump is with you there too. My theory - and this is unlikely to be revealed is open testimony I suppose - is that unrequited love is behind the firing of Comey. Disgust at hugs? Hiding in curtains? Haven't we all done that before? Grin

Dumdedumdedum · 21/05/2017 04:29

TheClaws - thank you for making my morning re Trump, Comey, and the love that dare not speak its name Grin
I was so cross about the timing of Comey's leak about the Hillary Clinton email server that I have never looked beyond it at the man himself, to be honest Grin

NaiceBiscuits · 21/05/2017 06:59

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Lweji · 21/05/2017 07:03

Fourth candidate for Trump's FBI director drops out of consideration

Are they all being asked for personal loyalty?
Or are they all corrupt and couldn't pass basic screening?

Lweji · 21/05/2017 07:08

Fracking in California? Near the San Andreas fault? What could possibly go wrong?

Actually, I think it could release some tension and help avoid a huge earthquake. Which is not to say that it won't cause small ones.
But nobody knows with any certainty.

Lweji · 21/05/2017 07:37

Fresh SNL Weekly Update.

It's been a crazy week. (Has anyone said that before?)

Watch the tribute part. To the people Trump has already lost.

Lweji · 21/05/2017 07:40

Regarding Rep Al Green, that's exactly what people should do about such threats. Report to the police and expose them.

MrsT2007 · 21/05/2017 07:59

Maggie Haberman reporting Reince Priebus and one other (Jared?) are on their way back to USA just a day after arriving.

Wonder why....

PerkingFaintly · 21/05/2017 08:03

Fixed the link to that Mother Jones article about Al Green:
www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/05/al-green-impeachment-town-hall

MrsT2007 · 21/05/2017 08:03

Lweji there's no such thing as fracking releasing tectonic tension. If anything unsettling a fault area more would precipitate quakes.

Outing myself as a geography bod....

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 21/05/2017 08:13

Can I just note that the sunny optimism of the American nationsl character allowed a nuclear power plant to be built on the San Andreas fault.

www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/nuclear-plant-near-san-andreas-fault-ran-for-over-a-year-with-emergency-systems-disabled.html

Sweet dreams, all.

BiglyBadgers · 21/05/2017 08:18

Fourth candidate for Trump's FBI director drops out of consideration

Are they all being asked for personal loyalty?
Or are they all corrupt and couldn't pass basic screening?

Third option. They all still have some tiny shred of sanity that has jumped up at the last moment and pointed out that this job is going to either get them killed or imprisoned. Can't see any win situation being the director of the FBI with trump/Russia on one side and the law on the other.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 21/05/2017 08:42

A little light relief to start the day...
grubstreet.relaymedia.com/amp/2017/05/tapas-magazine-trump-baloney-cover.html

Orlantina · 21/05/2017 08:57

Are they all being asked for personal loyalty

Doesn't being asked for loyalty remind you of this?

TheNorthWestPawsage · 21/05/2017 09:17

How are they going to stop him making his stupid hand gestures when he speaks?!

Taboos in Saudi Arabia. Last bullet point = Trump's signature gesture.

twitter.com/anniekarni/status/865788667373142016

Match your outfit with the drapes and no-one will see you are here.
saffronwblue · 21/05/2017 09:17

Just saw the curtesy and laughed aloud! Am sitting in an airport so not much other laughing matter here.

MrsT2007 · 21/05/2017 09:24

It's bloody hilarious. He cannot work out wtf he's supposed to do as he has NO class and has listened to the advice of nobody.

So instead he just makes a tit of himself. Again.

originalbiglymavis · 21/05/2017 09:25

But sold enough arms to saudi to blow up the universe. He really has no idea what the hell he is doing.

MrsT2007 · 21/05/2017 09:29

Illegal deal as well, apparently

We can't say anything though as the Brits sell shedloads of military hardware to Saudi

originalbiglymavis · 21/05/2017 09:34

It seems a bit short-sighted to arm an opressive regime that although keeping a bit of a lid in the crazies (like Saddam Hussein and Gadaffi did through brutality - see what happened when that lid was lifted), is the spiritual home to a lot of the current religious terrorism. Are we just trying to keep them sweet because they have all the money?