Hello Don, got a new tax cut? Trump continued

[PerkingFaintly]

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Nice work if you can get it.

Hey all! I'm still here. On holiday with cousin who has no cable or satellite tv. No CNN, no MSNBC. One one hand it's nice to not have Scrotus in my face. On the other who knows what may happen when I'm not looking! The thread is a lifeline to me since I can dip in and out to keep updated without having to hear the bombast.

The people of PR are in my prayers. It's fucking obvious the Scrotus has no business interests there, isn't it?

for you, Across.

Lost you lot for a while while distracted by other things.

Grit your teeth and keep reading. Sensible heads are needed in days like these.

Hello Across. Glad you found us Natsku.

Maryz. I know.

My instinct is that you need a few minutes of despair on a regular basis. Then you pick yourself up, shake it off and persist.

Have a thought for Ole Craggy (Mr M) and his people, currently swimming in a sea of cess. They keep going.

A man was shot in Marseille after killing two people.
It seems he screamed "Allah Akbar".

Marseille killings being treated as terrorism: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41461107

Shit, another attack? :(

And possibly in Canada

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-edmonton-police-terror-attack-canadian-football-league-u-haul-a7976526.html

Meanwhile, it's getting worse in Spain. The Catalan government intends to complain to the EU and Catalan policeofficers face several years of suspension for failing their duties. (sorry no English links)

This Catalan stuff is horrifying.

337 injured.

It's also election day for me, here. Local elections. Not sure what to think of our still Mayor showing up at the polling station to thank the volunteers there. We have a (should be strict) no campaigning in or around polling stations law. That's recent(ish) better thought out democracy.

And Donald is entertaining himself by trying to provoke nuclear war. Again.

Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...
...Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!

Well, a nuclear war will surely take everyone's mind off his abysmal behaviour towards Puerto Rico, and the athletes taking a knee

Why does he have to send messages to his own Secretary of State via Twitter?
Has Rex blocked him on his phone?

Tillerson ‘tried to steal his glory’.

He gave the impression that he/Foggy Bottom have been privately negotiating. Bad move. He should have said ‘POTUS’.

It's all so awful. Every time you think he's hit a new low, there's an even lower low. The previous low was just a middle.
Thank you all for keeping these threads updated.

twitter.com/The_UnSilent_/status/913754506038571009

Exaxtly so, Herald.

Lweji.

I thought that was how it would be from the start Maryz but what has transpired is much more destructive.

Kushner’s amazing political instincts kicking in again

Kyle Griffin
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1
Kushner wanted Trump to back Strange in AL to raise standing w/GOP 'if things go south in the Russia investigation.'

Kushner Again: How He Helped Push Trump Into A Ditch In Alabama

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An excerpt:

Once again, President Donald Trump finds himself in trouble after taking political advice from his son-in-law.

Over the last few months, Jared Kushner, who is also a White House senior adviser, was chief among those who lobbied the president to endorse Luther Strange, the losing candidate in Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Alabama.

According to two sources who work closely with the young real estate tycoon, Kushner suggested the endorsement, in part, because he believed that a Strange victory would enrage Steve Bannon, the newly reinstalled executive chairman of Breitbart News and a nemesis of Kushner’s from their time together in the Trump White House. Bannon backed the primary winner, Roy Moore, who thinks that homosexuality should be criminalized and suggested this week that parts of the United States are operating under Sharia.

Kushner also thought that getting Trump to support Strange would improve his own tenuous standing with Republican leaders in the Senate, according to several allies of Bannon. “He’s going to need them if things go south in the Russia investigation,” one explained.