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Hello Don, got a new tax cut? Trump continued

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PerkingFaintly · 29/09/2017 23:52

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3035639-Is-he-Right-Left-or-is-He-Nothing-at-All-Trump-thread-continued?pg=1

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cozietoesie · 08/10/2017 19:11

Just to let everyone know, C4 are re-running ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. The first episode has 27 days left to run so plenty of time for people to view it. (It’s on the ‘All4’ website and app - I don’t know whether it’s elsewhere.)

TheHeraldOfAndraste · 08/10/2017 20:08

Oh what wankery is this?
Pence attended a Colts game to make a point of walking out. Trump jumping on Pence's bandwagon and apparently asked him to.

@Unfollow VP
I left today's Colts game because POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem.

@UnfollowTrump
I asked VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and SecondLady Karen.

Lweji · 08/10/2017 20:11

A walkout could work on reverse.
It would be fun if the players walked out if the President or the VP attended the game.

lionheart · 08/10/2017 20:47

Like some of those graduation ceremonies in the Summer.

TheHeraldOfAndraste · 08/10/2017 21:58
Grin

@JoshMalina
“Did you see that piece of third-rate political theater? I choreographed it!!” — Donald Trump t.co/4xRAoMmyck

badbadhusky · 08/10/2017 22:14

What a chump!

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 06:57

“I despise politicking at something as sacred as sports games and do not approve of the protests so I’m going to politick at the game and protest” ineptly, using a photo from theee years ago so everyone can see how staged it was

“Also, this is more worthy of my time/attention/condemnation than white supremacists gathering at the same place where they killed someone”

Go pence!

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:08

Didn’t expect the fake news thing to be so meta. Not sure how to adapt the previous cat analogy to fit the latest twist

Trump: 'One of the greatest terms I've come up with is 'fake''

thehill.com/homenews/administration/354445-trump-one-of-the-greatest-terms-ive-come-up-with-is-fake?amp

Well done to those who watched the video - I can’t really even do more than give the transcript a cursory glance. He is just such a colossal twat.

I mean

"They had these beautiful, soft towels, very good towels. And I came in and there was a crowd of a lot of people, and they were screaming and they were loving everything," Trump said. "I was having fun, they were having fun."

Also this

^Huckabee asked Trump how he has taken to the role of post-tragedy consoler of the nation. Trump said he has mixed feelings.

“In one sense, you hate to see it,” he said. “In another sense, you feel you can do a good job. You’re really helping people. So it makes you feel good.”^

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:11

Carmen Yulín Cruz
Carmen Yulín Cruz @CarmenYulinCruz
Power collapses in San Juan hospital with 4 patients now being transferred out. Have requested support from FEMA. NOTHING! @DavidBegnaud

David Begnaud
David Begnaud @DavidBegnaud
In response, @FEMA_Brock responded: "We filtered out the mayor a long time ago. We don't have time for the political noise" (1/2)

David Begnaud
David Begnaud @DavidBegnaud
Replying to @DavidBegnaud and @FEMA_Brock
.@FEMA_Brock also said: "a couple thunderstorms passed through" knocking out progress that was being made to the Puerto Rican power grid

Ps: he made those comments to @MarthaRaddatz, on @ThisWeekABC (it aired Sunday morning)

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:13

Murtaza Hussain @MazMHussain
Unsettling that according to Mark Zuckerberg purpose of Facebook is forced social engineering. From "World Without Mind" by Franklin Foer:

"Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company. We're setting [international] policies."

  • Mark Zuckerberg
Hello Don, got a new tax cut? Trump continued
Hello Don, got a new tax cut? Trump continued
OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:18

Having already said

Senator Bob Corker
Senator Bob Corker @SenBobCorker
It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.

Corker now takes advantage of his not-running-again status to state a few more home truths

Bob Corker Says Trump’s Recklessness Threatens ‘World War III’

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/us/politics/trump-corker.html?referer=t.co/RxniK52UM6?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/08/us/politics/trump-corker.html?referer=t.co/RxniK52UM6?amp=1

Trump doesn’t have any publicly scheduled events today so I expect a tweet storm is a-brewing.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:23

From Saturday:

Russians, Heeding Navalny’s Call, Mark Putin’s Birthday With Protest

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/world/europe/russia-vladimir-putin-alexsei-navalny-protests.html?smid=tw-share&referer=t.co/j3FTt15mhh?amp=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/world/europe/russia-vladimir-putin-alexsei-navalny-protests.html?smid=tw-share&referer=t.co/j3FTt15mhh?amp=

MOSCOW — Answering a protest call issued from behind bars by the jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, small crowds of mostly young people gathered in towns across Russia on Saturday in a wave of nationwide demonstrations. The protests were timed to coincide with the 65th birthday of President Vladimir V. Putin.

The turnout for the protests, which began in Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East and then rolled westward throughout the day, was considerably smaller than in two previous days of nationwide rallies called by Mr. Navalny in March and June.

But their geographical reach confirmed the anti-corruption campaigner as Mr. Putin’s best organized and most determined political foe.

[...]Mr. Navalny was absent from Saturday’s protests, having been sentenced earlier in the week to 20 days in prison for organizing unsanctioned rallies. The sentence appeared to be an attempt to halt Mr. Navalny’s efforts to organize protests in St. Petersburg on Saturday.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:27

#WHITEWASH 5 - INSIDE THE WHITE RADICALISATION NETWORK

"Let me be more clear, I will unironically radicalize your children. Children include anyone from from the age of 5 to 18. I will be opening private schools and donating to your school boards to inject my propaganda into your child's classroom. There is nothing you can do to stop me."

I think this is a bit ambitious and overstated but does illuminate what they might try to do. Article where the quote was from here:

www.byline.com/column/67/article/1860

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:28

Kris Kobach Proposed Weakening Key Federal Voting Protections In Trump Meeting

Kobach fought hard to block the draft of his proposal from being released to the public.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_598dcd41e4b08a247273eb29

Lweji · 09/10/2017 07:32

I suppose the media better update Mr. Navalny's obituary.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:35

Ken Starr, who is not particularly well disposed towards the dems, is saying these things

Ken Starr predicts indictments in Russia probe

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/354379-ken-starr-predicts-indictments-in-trump-russia-probe?amp

Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals during Bill Clinton's presidency, predicted Saturday that there would likely be indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's election meddling.

"Given what we do know, especially given what happened this summer with respect to the FBI's intrusion into Paul Manafort's condominium, in light of the revelations that we've seen about General Flynn, I have a sense that there will in fact be indictments," Starr said on CNN's "Smerconish," referring to President Trump's former campaign chairman and his first national security adviser, respectively.

Starr said "there may be guilty pleas" in the investigation, and said the indictment of foreign nationals could take place.

"What I find very interesting ... is in light of the information that is now coming out with respect to Russian attempts to influence both the national election and 21 different states, what I expect to see is serious consideration of indicting one or more foreign nationals," he said.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 07:38

There was already another suspicious Russian death this weekend

Olga_Lautman NYC ✨
Olga_Lautman NYC ✨ @olgaNYC1211
Russian diplomat Alexander Gorban died in Rome.. Coming right after Cherevko’s passing in the Netherlands mid Sept. High risk job these days

This is seriously becoming a monthly occurrence for the past year. If I were a diplomat I would defect

Matt Scharfstein🇺🇸
Matt Scharfstein🇺🇸 @MattAsherS
Another dead Russian diplomat.

Honestly, there isn't a semi-plausible explanation for all these deaths other than Putin is killing them.

Lweji · 09/10/2017 07:52

I'm sure it's just all the vodka they drink...

It feels like nothing will happen or the calm before the storm.
I keep reminding myself that it's a marathon, but so much could go wrong.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 08:20

First Nato phones now us drones

US military drone fleet infected by computer virus that 'keeps coming back'

amp.businessinsider.com/russian-hackers-nsa-kaspersky-lab-software-2017-10

Natsku · 09/10/2017 09:13

Drones being infected with viruses is worrying, there's probably a way for someone to take control of the drones with the right malware.

orlantina · 09/10/2017 09:21

Drones being infected with viruses is worrying, there's probably a way for someone to take control of the drones with the right malware

If people ever watched 24 with Kiether Sutherland, that was the premise of the last series. Terrorists take over the US drone fleet with viruses and hack them.

I wonder if Jack Bauer would listen to Donald Trump?

SanFranBear · 09/10/2017 11:29

They've 'filtered out' the mayor of San Juan? What the fuck is wrong with these people - she's pissed off, blunt and not playing politics, so you just pretend she's not there.

I despair - that poor fucking island!

cozietoesie · 09/10/2017 11:33

I think they update them very very regularly, Lweji. For the whole family.

AcrossthePond55 · 09/10/2017 13:37

They've 'filtered out' the mayor of San Juan? What the fuck is wrong with these people - she's pissed off, blunt and not playing politics, so you just pretend she's not there.

Of course they've filtered her out, SanFran. She's committed two unpardonable mortal sins in Scrotus-World. She's a woman and she dared to speak her mind. Put the two together and it's put her 'beyond the pale'.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 09/10/2017 13:42

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix
Google uncovers Russian-bought ads on YouTube, Gmail and other platforms

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/09/google-uncovers-russian-bought-ads-on-youtube-gmail-and-other-platforms/

Carole Cadwalladr
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
Finally, the shitstorm reaches Google...
Note:

  1. Google admitting nothing
  2. Issue with search a MUCH bigger deal (also admitting nothing)