‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’ - as it should be! Trump thread continued.

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From Shakespeake’s Henry IV, Act 3 Scene 1.

Old thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3094156-All-we-want-for-Christmas-is-an-IMPEACHMENT-Trump-cont

A little recap of the people the GOP is proud to call its leaders:

Kyle Griffin‏
@kylegriffin1
WASHINGTON (AP) — AP Exclusive: Former aide says GOP Rep. Trent Franks offered her $5 million to carry his child.

www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/trent-franks-expected-to-resign-286967

And

Michael Linden‏
@MichaelSLinden
Interior staff: That whole public funding for private jets scandal was really bad. Gotta be sure we don't do that again.

Zinke: Sure sure. No more private JETS, I hear you.

Zinke booked government helicopters to attend D.C. events
www.politico.com/story/2017/12/07/ryan-zinke-helicopters-dc-212730

And

a la Steven Colbert

Robert Maguire‏
@RobertMaguire_
Imagine being so scared of being perceived as gay that you have to derail a public meeting to declare your heterosexuality after he touches your arm in the course of talking

Chairman of the Pa. House State Government Committee Rep. Daryl Metcalfe overreacts to a gesture by Democratic Chairman Matt Bradford, by disparaging Democratic members and gay people.

And

Dr. Robert Jeffress‏
@robertjeffress
Awaiting arrival of @POTUS for @WhiteHouse “Merry Christmas” reception. God bless President @realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS!
3:42 pm - 8 Dec 2017

Parker Molloy‏
@ParkerMolloy
This man once said that businesses that don't discriminate against transgender people were a bigger threat than ISIS.

(I'm not exaggerating. This is something this guy actually thinks and has said out loud)

www.dallasnews.com/news/news/2016/05/22/first-baptist-dallas-jeffress-says-transgender-friendly-businesses-are-greater-threat-than-isis

Cool that he's chilling with the president as part of his goofy evangelical inner circle.

Plus:

• Roy Moore, the racist paedophile
• The guys endorsing Orban's theory of non mixing

Oh yes, also

Lydia DePillis
@lydiadepillis
How did Trent Franks get $5 million, you ask? The @phoenixnewtimes found his net worth, which comes from his shares in an oil company, skyrocketed to $33 million after he voted repeatedly to deregulate the oil industry. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/trent-franks-net-worth-wealthiest-members-of-congress-trinity-petroleum-9395850

NBC News‏Verified account
@NBCNews
6h6 hours ago
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JUST IN: Fed prosecutors say that by Monday they expect to have shared with attorneys for Manafort and Gates the following items, per court filing:

• 400,000 e-mails, financial/corporate records
• 2,000 "hot" documents
• 36 electronic devices collected
• 15 search warrants

Pensacola rally went well - plenty of preaching to the believers, trotting out the same old lines, etc. POTUS’ rhetoric definitely up to the standard he’s set in the past.

Fox News‏Verified account
@FoxNews
2h2 hours ago
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.@POTUS: "We want the strongest borders you've ever seen. We're going to have such borders. We'll have borders on top of borders." fxn.ws/2BOI4j5

He also backed Roy Moore, of course, and cast doubts on Moore’s victim.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/09/donald-trump-backs-roy-moore-florida-alleged-victim

Sarah Kendzior‏
@sarahkendzior

🎶By the 8th day of December, Paul Manafort gave to thee...
36 laptops
400,000 documents
Three separate passports
And got charged with conspiracy!🎶

James Comey
@Comey
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.” - Edmund Burke (1730-1797)
12:20 am - 9 Dec 2017

Kyle Griffin‏
@kylegriffin1
Conveniently tweeted just about an hour before Trump takes the stage at a rally in Florida.

More on the rally, from the horse's mouth. They've ditched the dog whistles and have gone full on parades and brass bands:

Donald J. Trump‏
@realDonaldTrump
This is your land, this is your home, and it's your voice that matters the most. So speak up, be heard, and fight, fight, fight for the change you've been waiting for your entire life!

MERRY CHRISTMAS and THANK YOU Pensacola, Florida!

Also from the rally:

jeremy scahill
@jeremyscahill
Trump just blurted out: “We have thousands of people under surveillance.”

Also at the rally:

Angelo Carusone‏
@GoAngelo
FYI members of the media at Trump rally: Mike Pence's nephew, John Pence, is supposedly working with the venue to adjust wifi bandwith so that regular media is throttled and a right-wing pro-Trump YouTube page is prioritized. If your internet is slowing down, this is why.

Angelo Carusone‏
@GoAngelo
You might say: "But Angelo, how can you possibly know this?"

And that's because Trump's incompetent team was talking about it while their stream was still live streaming. Truly the dumbest people.

PROUD RESISTER 👊‏
@ProudResister
Trump in #Pensacola: “They call themselves #TheResistance. You know what they’re really resisting? The will of the American people.”

And on the more amusing front, though still terrifying because he is POTUS:

Pé Resists‏
@4everNeverTrump
Trump in #Pensacola on wind power: "What happens when the wind stops blowing and we need energy?"

Our government is run by a fucking idiot.

Also:

Of Washington, he said, "They will lie and leak and smear, because they don't want to accept the results of an election where we won by a landslide."
He called himself the leader of "proud deplorables," a reference to how Clinton described half of Trump's supporters during a private fundraiser last year.
"Your voice will never, ever be ignored again," he said.
He also mocked the Democratic "resistance" to his presidency Friday night, chiding Clinton as the crowd chanted "Lock her up!"
"They're resisting the will of the American people -- that's what they're resisting," Trump said.
Clinton resisted, he said, and "she lost the election in a landslide."
Trump also derided a "rigged system" at the rally, even though he won the 2016 presidential election.

But less of his words and more of the impacts:

Indira Lakshmanan‏Verified account
@Indira_L
So dangerous: Trump’s 'fake news' mantra has spread to at least 15 countries, is a hit with despots politi.co/2yOHp2N

Also

Yashar Ali 🐘‏Verified account
@yashar
The official Twitter account of a Congressional committee is being used to attack a private company

Natural Resources‏Verified account
@NatResources
.@Patagonia doesn't want #MonumentsForAll, they just want your money #BearsEars
[it's worth clicking on the actual tweet to see the images twitter.com/NatResources/status/939236821971734530 ]

Walter Shaub‏Verified account
@waltshaub
A private American company, @yashar. The branch of government responsible for conducting oversight of the White House and federal agencies (including holding them accountable for ethics violations) is actively misusing governmental authority to attack an American company.

Also

Official Toll in Puerto Rico: 62.
Actual Deaths May Be 1,052.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/08/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-death-toll.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&mtrref=t.co

Also

VICE News‏Verified account
@vicenews
“Forty years ago in Alabama, there’s a lot of mamas and daddies that’d be thrilled that their 14-year-old was getting hit on by a district attorney.”

Watch @FrankLuntz’s full panel of Alabama voters on VICE News Tonight, 7:30PM EST on @HBO

twitter.com/vicenews/status/939203328013160448

Also

Stephen Schwartz‏Verified account
@AtomicAnalyst
Oh look, the Trump administration has its own uranium-related scandal, except this one is real and there's proof the administration did the industry's bidding.

Washington Post‏Verified account
@washingtonpost
Uranium firm urged Trump officials to shrink Bears Ears National Monument

www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/uranium-firm-urged-trump-officials-to-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument/2017/12/08/2eea39b6-dc31-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.d365152d2188&tid=sm_tw

Also

CNN‏Verified account
@CNN
A divided Supreme Court agreed 5-4 to temporarily freeze a lower court order requiring the government to turn over documents related to its decision to end DACA cnn.it/2yQvBwK

Also

Former chairman of Colorado’s Republican Party found guilty of voter fraud — after trying to blame it on Democrats
www.rawstory.com/2017/12/former-chairman-of-colorados-republican-party-found-guilty-of-voter-fraud-after-accusing-dems-of-doing-it/#.WiniMVGqMao.twitter

Yoav Lurie‏Verified account
@yoavlurie
One often ignored technical argument against #VoterID laws is that signature recognition software is an even more effective way of finding fraud.
That’s how this clown got caught.

Also

Koch-Backed Business Group Splinters in Climate-Change Dispute
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/corporate-revolt-has-business-group-at-a-crossroads-over-climate

Patrick‏
@TrickFreee
ALEC is NOT a "business group." It is a bribery enterprise that writes legislation, using lobbyists to bribe lawmakers to use their legislation. It's a criminal enterprise. #BoycottKoch

Also

Adam Khan‏
@Khanoisseur
Le shock: When the EPA this week proposed repealing Obama’s tighter emissions standards for a type of freight trucks, it cited research underwritten by the biggest truck manufacturer challenging the rule.

EDF‏Verified account
@EnvDefenseFund
Pruitt once again challenges the findings of EPA’s scientists at the request of polluter allies.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/epa-is-taking-more-advice-from-industry--and-ignoring-its-own-scientists/2017/11/10/aa1fbaba-b8fb-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_campaign=upd_dmt&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=.8e9e9892e422

Also

TIME‏Verified account
@TIME
"Not a drill." Students hid in classrooms as shooter kills 2 at school

Sarah Silverman‏Verified account
@SarahKSilverman
Barely made news yesterday. Another school shooting in America. Two kids murdered at school. Still no change in legislation, not even a conversation.

Also

Kyle Griffin‏
@kylegriffin1
Kushner, Greenblatt, and Powell met with a senior Palestinian diplomats just last week, never told the delegation that Trump would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital at the meeting, according to Foreign Policy.

foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/08/trump-administration-blindsided-palestinian-leaders-on-jerusalem-designation/

There's also the desperately sad case of Daniel Shaver who was killed while complying with the police. The police officer, who shot him in the back 5 times as Daniel lay prostrate on the floor, was found not guilty. The video of the murder was released yesterday but apologies, I can't bring myself to post it. It's in the article though. Oh, and contrary to what you may have thought, not unreasonably given the precedents, Daniel Shaver is not black but white.

Ta-Nehisi Coates‏Verified account
@tanehisicoates
"There are consequences to America's unique attitude toward police killings." @conor64
on the killing Daniel Shaver.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/footage-of-a-police-killing-that-jurors-didnt-punish/547868/

Shaun King‏Verified account
@ShaunKing
At first I thought it was an urban legend, but Officer Philip Brailsford really did have the words “You’re Fucked” etched into the steel of the AR-15 assault rifle that he used to murder Daniel Shaver.

The jury did not know this.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.‏Verified account
@MuslimIQ
Cops executed Daniel Shaver.
•Shaver unarmed, peaceful, compliant, and inebriated
•Cop shot Shaver in the back & neck 5x as Shaver lay face down
•Cop acquitted as Not Guilty

This is 2017 America: “the land of the free.” Unacceptable.😓

Mountain MⒶn 🌲 ☠️ 🏴‏
@SemperLiber9
Btw #BlackLivesMatter is fighting for Daniel Shaver, a white man killed by a white cop while the All Lives Matter crowd is defending the cop. Shows you who really believes that all lives matter and who just wants to defend privilege and police brutality.

The US ranks 15th in the world corruption list.
And 16th for democracy.
I wonder where it will be next year. (And how accurate these lists are)

www.worldaudit.org/corruption.htm

He's still going.

Caroline O.‏
@RVAwonk

Donald Trump is speaking in Pensacola. He just said Hillary Clinton lost in a landslide. She beat him by 3 million votes.

Arrghhh....too much trump words this morning. I need coffee (covfefe?).

I can't seem to get past 'we'll have borders on top of borders' and the fact that this was the bit Fox choose to quote rather suggesting that everything else was even more nonsensical.

Also Comey has been doing some pro-level trump trolling recently. The man is an artist.

Puerto Rico deaths

I'm just going to put this here, because it made me feel all the feels and be a bit weepy in a lot of different ways. I think it is good to remind ourselves that there are people out there trying to do good things even if it's just a drop in the ocean. After reading all that shit from Trump I needed that reminder.

cardsagainsthumanityredistributesyourwealth.com

Here's that , Bigly. It's all I can manage at the moment - can't quite cope with the torrent of shit.

Ahh that is lovely bigly.

Sorry everyone, think I may have overdone it with the horrific stuff in the roundup

Please accept this as my penitence

WeRateDogs™‏Verified account
@dog_rates
My goodness guys. We only rate dogs. Please stop sending in bedridden Harp Seals. No matter how huggable. Thank you... 12/10

www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/listening-to-what-trumps-accusers-have-told-us?mbid=social_twitter

Relax.

No no, thanks for continuing to post it. Got to be done.

I'll read properly in a day or two. I just need one of those little break things...

at snuggly harp seal dog.

Yes indeed. Well done, Pain.

Fox intesifying anti-Mueller and FBI rhetoric. Priming the pump.

money.cnn.com/2017/12/07/media/fox-news-mueller-investigation-coverage/index.html

Ha! As DS said, “A seal pup!”

Reading the 'borders on top of borders' bit reminds me of an episode of father ted:

Dougal: (Describing the Beast of Craggy Island) "They say it's as big as four cats and has a retractable leg so it can leap up at you better and it lights up at night and it's got four ears, two are for listening and the other two are kind of back up ears and it's claws are as big as cups and for some reason it's got a tremendous fear of stamps, Mrs Doyle was telling me it's got magnets on it's tail, so if you're made of metal, it can attach itself to you and instead of a head, it's got four arses"