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I'm paying attention.

'We are grateful for this gesture,’ is the diplomatic way of saying, 'Thank fuck for that.'

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-kennedy-center-honors-pull-out-political-distraction-latest-embarrassment-a7902206.html

Back-pedalling, University style.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/18/donald-trump-honorary-degrees-lehigh-university

Some of you haters and anti-democrats might find this interesting: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/16/donald-trump-supporters-liberals-sneer

Don't worry, it's the Guardian, quite safe.

I'm not an anti-democrat. And I'm not a big fan of hatred.

Will I still find it interesting?

Probably. A dodgy premise though.

Love the latest cartoon

Trump - isolated and shunned.

inews.co.uk/distractions/offbeat/ben-jennings-cartoon-trump-becoming-isolated-shunned/

Another one which has been surprisingly good in its analysis is "Teen Vogue".

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~50% of Trump's Twitter followers are fake

80% of pro-Trump tweets are automated

Obama has 93 million plus folowers, trump not even half...
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This doesn't surprise me. I read replies to Trumps tweets and some of his supporters replies are bizarre to say the least. Pro Trump meme after meme after meme

In Boston

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A massive march of 15,000 counter-protesters is headed toward Boston Commons

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UPDATE: Skirmishes break out when white supremacists walk "through crowd of protesters to try and incite violence"

This is amusing. Those poor white supremacists who didn't get the DNA results they wanted....

globalnews.ca/news/3680678/white-supremacists-dna-study/

5 more charities drop out of Mar a Lago fundraisers. Not many left now. That will enrage Trump

Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh

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Rush Limbaugh says white supremacists and the KKK ‘are not the problem,’ warns of second civil war goo.gl/LiuZtp

Thanks for posting the Guardian article, it's very good.

"Some of you haters and anti-democrats might find this interesting: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/16/donald-trump-supporters-liberals-sneer

Don't worry, it's the Guardian, quite safe."

With Bannon's departure will the Mercers now have less influence and success in pushing their secret agenda through? They still have Kelly-Anne Conway in the WH though and are back being Bannon's employers at Breibart but have they shot themselves in the foot by not realising what an uncontrollable loose-cannon Trump would become?
The New Yorker article that I think Perking linked to earlier in the thread is frightening - the scale of the insidious influence they have had on events.
Do they have any influence over Pence or would he be their worst nightmare after Hillary?

How Robert Mercer exploited America’s populist insurgency.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency

Please could you link to the Bannon interview again?

"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."

I can't decide if WhollyFather has read the article and is being sarcastic, or they are being serious and haven't actually read it. I think I have spent tlo long on Twitter arguing with trumpettes and am now unsure anything could be too stupid for them.

Another one which has been surprisingly good in its analysis is "Teen Vogue".

Buzzfeed is also excellent. I particularly enjoye being able to read in-depth political analysis and then cheer myself by reading "20 of the cutest tweets about kittens you will ever see" or other such adorableness.

Here, ringle: www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/the-rise-and-fall-of-steve-bannon/amp

Thanks!

Another reminder of why you should never take comments online at face value.

The Emergence Of The White Troll Behind A Black Face
www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/03/21/520522240/the-emergence-of-the-white-troll-behind-a-black-face?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

Bigly I don't think any pro-Trump person has come on here without name-calling, sometimes in the opening post.

When one does, it might be worth engaging. Maybe.

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Steve Bannon will be a tough and smart new voice at @BreitbartNews...maybe even better than ever before. Fake News needs the competition!

The counter protest in Boston looks huge.

orlantina

He's running scared I think.