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Join the Schiffettes for covfefe in the SCIF as they await Comeys return from behind the curtains...Trump cont.

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MicrowaveSpy · 31/05/2017 23:41

Will get link to previous thread

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AcrossthePond55 · 04/06/2017 00:06

This is just so so horrible! I don't understand why it appears that the UK is being so targeted. First Westminster, then Manchester, now this. I don't understand.

If any nation would be targeted, you'd think it would be us. Trump's ugly words and anti-Muslim 'travel ban', not to mention the outspoken ugliness that we're hearing daily over here from the alt-right.

saffronwblue · 04/06/2017 00:08

Just unbelievable. Rousette glad your dds are ok. We are sitting on sunny morning here in oz watching in horror and disbelief .

AcrossthePond55 · 04/06/2017 00:23

Scrotus' latest tweet:

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 4m4 minutes ago
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We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!

Fuck you, Scrotus just FUCK YOU!! Not a word of concern, not a breath of support. Asshole!!!

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 04/06/2017 00:34

Fuck you, Scrotus just FUCK YOU!! Not a word of concern, not a breath of support. Asshole!!!

Couldn't better that, Across. The guy's a weapons grade idiot with the compassion and aelf-awareness of an amoeba.

illegitimateMortificadospawn · 04/06/2017 00:34

^ self-awareness

BoreOfWhabylon · 04/06/2017 00:51

And if anyone had any doubt at all about the true nature of SCROTUS there can surely be none now.

Asshole. Fucking, fucking, self-absorbed, self-serving, lying, criminal asshole.

cozietoesie · 04/06/2017 00:56

Have you all heard of Captagon? It might be a good idea to alert your kids to the problems associated with it. A Newsweek piece on the stuff.

Captagon

PerkingFaintly · 04/06/2017 01:30

Just in case anyone with images is reading, police are making an appeal for photos or video to be uploaded here:
ukpoliceimageappeal.co.uk/CSIPS_Public/upload/choose

They're also asking for "common sense and restraint" in circulating images.

PerkingFaintly · 04/06/2017 01:35

From one of the other threads, it looked like not everyone is familiar with "Run Hide Tell", which is what to do if you are caught up in a shooting incident.

Leaflet and film here:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/stay-safe-film

RUN
Escape if you can
Consider the safest options
Is there a safe route? RUN if not HIDE
Can you get there without exposing yourself to greater danger?
Insist others leave with you
Leave belongings behind

HIDE
If you cannot RUN, HIDE
Find cover from gunfire
If you can see the attacker, they may be able to see you
Cover from view does not mean you are safe, bullets go through glass, brick, wood and metal
Find cover from gunfire e.g. substantial brickwork / heavy reinforced walls
Be aware of your exits
Try not to get trapped
Be quiet, silence your phone and turn off vibrate
Lock / barricade yourself in
Move away from the door

TELL
Call 999 - What do the police need to know? If you cannot speak or make a noise listen to the instructions given to you by the call taker
Location - Where are the suspects?
Direction - Where did you last see the suspects?
Descriptions – Describe the attacker, numbers, features, clothing, weapons etc.
Further information – Casualties, type of injury, building information, entrances, exits, hostages etc.
Stop other people entering the building if it is safe to do so

ARMED POLICE RESPONSE
Follow officers instructions
Remain calm
Can you move to a safer area?
Avoid sudden movements that may be considered a threat
Keep your hands in view

OFFICERS MAY
Point guns at you
Treat you firmly
Question you
Be unable to distinguish you from the attacker
Officers will evacuate you when it is safe to do so

You must STAY SAFE
What are your plans if there were an incident?
What are the local plans? e.g. personal emergency evacuation plan

TheClaws · 04/06/2017 01:40

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 1h1 hour ago
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Whatever the United States can do to help out in London and the U. K., we will be there - WE ARE WITH YOU. GOD BLESS!

Maybe this tweet should have been sent before the other one. He can't take back that bigly mistake now.

GingerIvy · 04/06/2017 02:39

Rousette Glad your dds are okay.

We're in London, but didn't even realise this was going on, as I was watching Netflix.

AcrossthePond55 · 04/06/2017 03:13

Totally agree Claws. As usual with his 'gestures' it's too little, too late!

RedToothBrush · 04/06/2017 05:15

It's almost as it Trump wants terrorist attacks to fuel racism and to allow him to get his own way and then goes oh shit best give my sympathy too as an afterthought.

AcrossthePond55 · 04/06/2017 05:34

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say he 'wants' them. But I do believe he has no aversion to using them to forward his own agenda and that's just about as bad.

Natsku · 04/06/2017 07:06

Fuck, another attack to wake up to :(

MsHooliesCardigan · 04/06/2017 07:08

Rousette Glad your DDs are ok. My DD was at borough market earlier today although left a few hours before this happened. She was with a friend who is sleeping over at ours tonight. They both seem a bit shaken at being so close to this. This feels a bit too close to home - we have spent thousands of hours around that area. Thoughts to those injured and bereaved or worried about loved ones Flowers

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 04/06/2017 07:14

It is so horrifying. Those poor people

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 04/06/2017 07:19

His quick tweeting of the Sweden "attacks" all those months ago show that he doesn't give a shit about what's actually happened, it's all about how he can use it to push his agenda of fear and fuel the alternative reality he has going for his core supporters. His tweets about last night show the same.

This has just popped up on twitter

Operation Veracity™ @OPSVeracity
Hey @realDonaldTrump the Russians are leaking.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 04/06/2017 07:22

I don't know whether it's real or not - as there's no other information about it that I can see, I'd err on the side of caution and say it's not but it's not been up for long so who knows.

Lweji · 04/06/2017 08:02

Such sad news again. Sad

It feels like last desperate attempt from a group that knows they're beaten, but that only makes it more poignant in relation to the victims.

As for the WH low life...

Roussette · 04/06/2017 08:07

Thanks Ginger and Saffron. Have to say I didn't sleep, but I woke at 3am and put on the telly as I just felt compelled to find out what had happened. There are parents/families out there who will be awake night after night in grief or in worry and it is so awful this has happened again. I think it hit home more for me because I was online as it happened. I want my 3 DCs to come home and live in a big shed in the bottom of the garden so I can keep them safe.

Hoolie yes Borough Market is great and mine go there lots, so glad your DD is safe and hoping this won't have too much effect on her.

I can't stomach Trump's exclamataion marks on his tweet, it looks like he's saying Have A Great Time!!! or something equally fun not sending his throughts to a country that has suffered a horror. I'm with you on the Fuck You Scrotus Across

Lweji · 04/06/2017 08:25

I see in the Guardian that they haven't released any info on the attackers.

GingerIvy · 04/06/2017 08:34

Roussette I had difficulty sleeping too. I had the stressful task of discussing an age appropriate version of last night's attacks with my dcs, who are autistic and have high anxiety. As we live in London and use public transport, they're likely to see newspapers on the tube and bus and I don't want them to hear about it while we're out in public. At home is best, so I can answer any questions they have and reassure them.

GingerIvy · 04/06/2017 08:35

John Aravosis‏Verified account @aravosis 8h8 hours ago
It's surprising these attacks keep happening, as we're well beyond the 30 days @realDonaldTrump told us it would take him to defeat ISIS.

Roussette · 04/06/2017 08:41

Awww Ginger that cannot be easy, yes they need to know but it's tricky how to do it isn't it.

How true Ginger on that tweet and there is condemnation for Trump who is making mileage out of what has happened with talk of his Travel Ban which he denied ever being a Travel Ban but has now confirmed in a tweet it obviously is!