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

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TheClaws · 05/12/2017 05:30

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

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sagamartha · 10/12/2017 10:05

It wasn't packed to the rafters as Trump claimed not was it empty as the Wa Po journalist claimed.

[[https://www.snopes.com/was-trumps-pensacola-rally-packed-rafters/

SanFranBear · 10/12/2017 12:09

Sorry if this has been posted today - just catching up.

Trump & Talking Heads Grin

SanFranBear · 10/12/2017 12:14

Oh and I think this:

I'm just amazed and shocked that Trump can waste so much time and brain power on a petty argument about crowd size. Again

is purely because of his reaction to the inauguration crowd. If he'd let that go, no one would give a shiny shit how many Trumpets turn up to his rallies...

Lweji · 10/12/2017 15:19

I'm just amazed and shocked that Trump can waste so much time and brain power on a petty argument about crowd size.

I'm not amazed or shocked (little from him does at this point), but it's still ridiculous that he can waste so much time and brain power on rallies rather than governing, and then having to argue about crowd size.

I'd suggest someone gives him virtual reality goggles and let him run loose with those.

Lweji · 10/12/2017 15:23

It looks like there's not enough sex on the news or in politics. Only the older guy managed to keep a straight face.

Watch a Trump defender lose it, demand black voters have “intercourse” with presidency

shareblue.com/watch-a-trump-defender-lose-it-demand-black-voters-have-intercourse-with-presidency/

Trump supporters have the best words.

AcrossthePond55 · 10/12/2017 15:35

Roussette, certainly. Declaring a federal disaster area is done by the President on advice from FEMA. Scrotus did this relatively quietly two days ago. This paves the way for federal funds for fighting the fires. BUT publicity surrounding the signing of a disaster declaration and a Presidential appeal to our fellow citizens for donations and prayers is also important. Scrotus' failure to 'make a big deal' about this or really to say much about the fires at all speaks volumes about his attitude to my state.

But that's OK. We have the 6th largest economy in the world (for reference, the UK has the 5th). And we're a determined and cohesive populace. We'll get through this, with Scrotus' help or without it.

As far as the rally and crowd size, etc, it just proves once again that Scrotus is simply 'a little man'. A very little man. A very little man with a puny mind. He sickens me.

AcrossthePond55 · 10/12/2017 15:45

Op-Ed piece from the LA Times re the recent No Cal fires. The same goes for the current fires in So Cal.

www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-nazaryan-fires-trump-20171019-story.html

The only caveat is that Scrotus probably has rich GOP friends donors (like Murdoch) in the area affected by a couple of the fires as they are in 'ritzy' areas. So he may think it's worth a visit. Although most of them are probably not worried about rebuilding and certainly not worried about low-cost Federal FEMA loans.

Roussette · 10/12/2017 16:42

Thanks for explaining Across Smile

This is encouraging. I follow Randy Bryce on Twitter, can but hope he knocks Ryan into the ground

shareblue.com/shocking-poll-shows-paul-ryan-embarrassingly-close-to-unknown-democratic-challenger/#.Wi1ZcrrdCkI.twitter

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 17:42

If Democrats take the House at the midterms, I'm guessing that Ryan would have to do a formal 'handing over the baton' thing? Smile

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 17:56

If he survives the midterms of course. Smile

Lweji · 10/12/2017 18:14

I wouldn't plan Ryan's funeral just yet. They play dirty.

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 18:19

True.

I'm just indulging myself. Wink

AcrossthePond55 · 10/12/2017 20:08

Indulge away, cozie.

The Speaker of the House would then indeed be a Democrat, chosen by the House majority party senior leaders. Nancy Pelosi was speaker until the GOP won the majority.

Ryan would go back to being just a 'regular congressman' unless he was chosen for party leadership by the GOP members of the House.

That's encouraging news Roussette. And I'll take any good news I can find these days!

We just got our tree today. It always put me in such a good mood. Plus DH broke my tree topper last year so I finally was able to get one I've wanted for a few years now. It's a 'vintage look' Radko and reminds me so much of the one my parents had when I was a kid.

Some tree trimming, Christmas music, and a bit of the 'good stuff' in a glass and no one will be able to bring me down!

Lweji · 10/12/2017 20:20

Ryan would go back to being just a 'regular congressman' unless he was chosen for party leadership by the GOP members of the House.

Not if he's not voted in. Ah, ah, ah.

Lweji · 10/12/2017 20:24

A friend mentioned the other day that the media in the US was blatantly taking sides. That Fox was biased and the others were biased too.

It was interesting because she was on a maybe week long trip to the US and clearly hadn't been following the Trump saga, so she would explain things to me as if the US were secretive North Korea.

Anyway, it looks to me it simply got to a point that serious journalists can't help but take sides. And rightly so. The attacks on freedom of press, freedom of speech, facts and the vulnerable have been so blatant and vicious that you can't be neutral.

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 20:38

Just how do you break a tree topper?

This sounds like a story of shame to me. Grin

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 20:42

Lanktree and Bambilla also see the midterms as critical.

Thanks for the link, lion.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 10/12/2017 20:45

Judge Roy Moore
@MooreSenate
I'm honored to have the endorsement of Brexit leader @Nigel_Farage, who'll join us in Fairhope on Monday >>> [breitbart link that I haven’t included] #ALSen

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 20:46

Sorry. Brambilla.

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 20:49

Nigel is missing being at the 'centre of something'?

PerkingFaintly · 10/12/2017 21:02

Well Nige won't fucking be at the centre of UK politics if people here cotton on to who he's campaigning for.

I mean, there's a lot of hissing about the concept of "sharing a platform with" nasty people - but in my view that's not a cut and dried bad act: a person may be speaking against the nasty, or may be there on an unrelated topic, or whatever.

But flying to another country to make campaign appearances urging people to vote for someone... that's pretty clear.

cozietoesie · 10/12/2017 21:13

And an all-expenses-paid trip, I'm guessing? Wink

lionheart · 10/12/2017 21:24

I never heard of Radko before so I learnt something there. Glitterball

I think NF is like a desperate little lapdog waiting for scraps to fall his way.