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"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Trump threads continued [title edited by MNHQ]

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lionheart · 18/08/2017 23:43

I'm paying attention.

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lionheart · 19/08/2017 14:04

From the ipaper.

"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Trump threads continued [title edited by MNHQ]
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Roussette · 19/08/2017 14:07

Thank you Pain for the link. I have trouble linking vids from Twitter at times!

www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/19/trump-first-lady-pull-out-annual-kennedy-center-honors-program-avoid-any-political-distraction-forho/582818001/

Trump and wife have already pulled out because of not wanting political distractions. I don't know much about it but it does say that only twice have Presidents not gone for unforseen reasons. As it's not until December, it says it's a bit of a coincidence that it's the day after the Arts & Humanities Council resigned with a long long resignation letter...
Petty Trump

cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 14:09

You'll note that the event is in December, Roussette. That's a long time away. Smile

lionheart · 19/08/2017 14:09

Good grief:

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/08/15/us/white-nationalists-protests-tally-trnd/index.html

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 19/08/2017 14:20

A link to a Mother Jones report about the security of state voting systems in the US. Alarmingly, McAfee head of the security software firm, whose McAfee anti-virus software many of us have on our computers is part of the commission and thinks the Russian interference is a lie!
The Dems have to get their act together before the 2018 elections.

From the article:
Rather than accept the findings of the intelligence agencies, McCormick turned to John McAfee, the eccentric founder of the McAfee antivirus software company, as an expert on the question of Russian interference. McAfee, who ran unsuccessfully for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination in 2016, has spent the last year on a crusade to exonerate Russia from the intelligence community’s assessment that it hacked the Democratic National Committee. McAfee has found an audience in Russian state-run media outlets, conspiratorial radio host Alex Jones, and pro-Trump right-wing blogs such as Gateway Pundit. “McAfee believes that the report is deceptive propaganda perpetrated on the American public, and I agree,” McCormick said.

Trump's "election integrity" commissioners think Russian hacking was a hoax & won't secure state election systems
twitter.com/ariberman/status/898550559057301504
www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/trump-election-commissioners-are-resisting-efforts-to-protect-elections-from-hacking/

orlantina · 19/08/2017 14:22

I would have thought marching on Google was a great way to suddenly find your websites become unavailable through Google.

cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 14:27

Indeed. Wink

ringle · 19/08/2017 14:27

This interview really cheered me up, thanks.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhzRDjoH60s

lionheart · 19/08/2017 14:35

Let's hope so.

No arrests yet in relation to those thugs beating poor Deandre Harris with their sticks. Terrifying.

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cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 14:37

The journalists have stopped being.........reverential, I think?

lionheart · 19/08/2017 14:38

What might be coming next.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/bannon-unleashed/537381/

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cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 14:43

Apparently - i.e. iI read it somewhere - he only drinks tea. Grin

cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 14:44

That better be the case. Smile

Barnes79 · 19/08/2017 14:45

Just delurking 😊

Thanks for all the posts - I struggle to keep up to be honest.

cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 14:47

Achh. Just pop in and post when you feel moved to, Barnes. And never worry about asking for updates - most of us likely struggle as well. It feels as if time is different here, somehow. Wink

lionheart · 19/08/2017 14:55

It's what happens in the rabbit-hole.

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PerkingFaintly · 19/08/2017 15:08

Thanks for that New Yorker link, Set. It connects well with the Bannon interview I quoted above, where Bannon cites a mythical "Trump agenda".

But in the Trump White House there is no Trump agenda. There is a mercurial, highly emotional narcissist with no policy expertise who set up—or allowed his senior staffers to set up—competing ideological fiefdoms that fight semi-public wars to define the soul of Trumpism.

cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 15:11

You got it there, lion. Smile

PancakesAteTheChildren · 19/08/2017 15:23

thanks for all the links

lionheart · 19/08/2017 15:25
Smile

And thanks to MN for editing the title.

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MarilynWhirlwindRocks · 19/08/2017 15:27

Stomach-turning in every way. Sad Angry

( cartoonist credit/ source )

I strongly agree with PPs' words of thanks to this thread's regular posters. So much knowledge here: keeping up's frazzling my brain.

cozietoesie · 19/08/2017 15:27

Ah Yes. I noticed that. Smile

Natsku · 19/08/2017 15:34

That really is stomach turning!

Police think the Turku attacker was specifically targeting women, makes it even worse

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 19/08/2017 15:38

The New Yorker has had some brilliant articles in the last few months I think.

lionheart · 19/08/2017 15:39

Yes, and The Atlantic. Smile

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