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Trump thread # 100 “Cannot you see that I, too, have a tall and beautiful person?”

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TheClaws · 16/12/2017 06:25

Roman Emperor Nero wrote the above in a manual titled ‘Care of the Hair’. Nero was tyrannical, vain and cruel, and thought little of the lives of others. He also liked to erect buildings and carve his name into them. Smile if only we could learn well from the past.

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OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 19/12/2017 21:58

Also

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Democrats will have erased a more than 30-seat advantage by Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates if this race is certified as it currently stands, and will now likely share power with Republicans.

A single vote leads to a rare tie for control of the Virginia legislature

www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/virginia-politics/democrat-wins-va-house-seat-in-recount-by-single-vote-creating-50-50-tie-in-legislature/2017/12/19/3ff227ae-e43e-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.797a7e9a7374&__twitter_impression=true

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 19/12/2017 21:59

NEWPORT NEWS — A Republican seat flipped Democratic in a wild recount Tuesday - with the Democrat winning by a single vote - creating a rare 50-50 tie between the parties in the House of Delegates and refashioning the political landscape in Richmond.

Democrat Shelly Simonds emerged from the recount as the apparent winner in the 94th District of the House of Delegates, seizing the seat from Republican incumbent David Yancey. A three-judge panel still must certify the results, an event scheduled for Wednesday.

Of the 23,866 votes cast in the Newport News district on Election Day, Yancey held a tenuous lead of just 10 votes going into Tuesday's recount.

But five hours and much nailbiting later, after painstaking counting overseen by local elections officials and the clerk of court, Yancey's lead narrowed before it gradually disappeared and then reversed, allowing Simonds to beat him by one vote.

lionheart · 19/12/2017 22:12

One vote counts. Smile

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 19/12/2017 22:19

E. C. Myers‏
@ecmyers

And now we know which of our reps were planning to screw us over, so we can lean on them even harder. Please call!

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 19/12/2017 22:29

Ken Dilanian‏Verified account
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Fascinating, lively interview happening right now of Chris Christie by @NicolleDWallace
Trump ally Chris Christie: Mike Flynn has been cooperating for a while.

Deadline White House‏Verified account
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"As I've said (Bob Mueller) is an honest guy. I believe he will do an honest, fair investigation" - Chris Christie tells @jheil w/ @NicolleDWallace on #DeadlineWH

Ken Dilanian‏Verified account
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Christie: Jared Kushner deserves law enforcement scrutiny "because he was involved in meetings that call into question his role."

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Revenge is a dish best served cold....very cold.

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"It's ignorant. Ignorance of that kind bothers me no matter what .... I'm criticizing it as I've done today because I don't agree with it" - Chris Christie responds when asked if he is bothered by criticism of the special counsel & DOJ
on #DeadlineWH

TheClaws · 19/12/2017 22:29

The GOP passed their Tax bill, but they are going to have to vote on it again as it was so shoddily put together the first time.

thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/365670-house-will-have-to-vote-for-tax-cut-bill-again

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lionheart · 19/12/2017 22:49

Amy Siskind‏Verified account
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18m18 minutes ago

First time I can remember this as a voter: since Trump took over, Americans now trust Democrats more than Republicans with taxes and the economy per @WSJ . We are truly witnessing the end of the Republican Party in real time.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 19/12/2017 22:56

And still the government shutdown looms ever closer

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 19/12/2017 23:05

Although

Jim Newell‏Verified account
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aaaaaaand Democrats fold on "DACA fix by year's end"

Democrats unlikely to force DACA vote this week, probably averting shutdown

www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/democrats-unlikely-to-force-daca-vote-this-week-probably-averting-shutdown/2017/12/19/e8e59ca8-e441-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?utm_term=.62e19be31ba6

Democrats are backing away from a pledge to force a vote this month over the fate of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children, angering activists but likely averting the threat of a government shutdown at a critical moment in spending negotiations with Republicans and President Trump.

With a deadline of midnight Friday to pass spending legislation, dozens of Democrats had vowed to withhold support if Republicans refused allow a vote on a measure known as the Dream Act that would allow roughly 1.2 million immigrants to stay legally in the United States.

But a group of vulnerable Democratic senators facing reelection in conservative states next year aren’t willing to go that far — meaning the party is unlikely to muster the votes to block the spending bill.

“We’ve got to get it done, but I’m not drawing a line in the sand that it has to be this week versus two weeks from now,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who faces reelection next year in a state that Trump won by more than 18 points. Other Democrats facing similar head winds echoed that sentiment, including Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W. Va.) and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.). Trump won those states by 42 and 19 percentage points, respectively.

Their reluctance to enact legislation protecting “Dreamers” has exposed a rift among Democrats, with immigration advocates staging protests this week and accusing some Democrats of taking the party’s Latino supporters for granted.

“I had [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi tell me to my face that she would get this done by the end of the year,” said Adrian Reyna, 26, an immigrant who arrived from Mexico at age 11 and whose work permit expires in May. Reyna is the membership director of United We Dream, the youth-led immigrant organization organizing protests.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Reyna said, “looked into the eyes of our members and said he’s committed to getting this done. They cannot just tell us they are going to do something and then just drop out.”

TheClaws · 19/12/2017 23:13

Said with a straight face.

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.@PressSec: "We've restored old alliances, forged new ones, begun rebuilding our military, and made it clear to the world that there is no greater ally, no more fearsome adversary, than the United States of America."

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TheClaws · 20/12/2017 01:00

KCNA rhetoric on the US’ recent mention of the use of ‘non-lethal weapons’. There is a disturbing paragraph in there (I mean, more disturbing than the rest) that reads, ‘The US talk about “non-lethal weapon” is just sophism to create public impression that the second Korean war, a global thermonuclear war, will be safe and thus secure a justification for provoking the war’.

KCNA Commentary on U.S. Talk about "Use of Non-lethal Weapons" against DPRK
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- U.S. media recently spread a story about the development of microwave weapons targeted on the rockets of the DPRK.

NBC News and CNN reported that the White House discussed the use of microwave weapon on trial in order to neutralize the nuclear weaponry of the DPRK in August last.

With regard to this, a spokesman for the U.S. Air Force Institute stressed that if a war with the DPRK breaks out, such weapon will paralyze the electronic circuits of its rockets and prevent them from firing and that such action will never require any blitz nor cause casualties on the part of the enemy side.

The keynote of the above-said claim is that the U.S. can destroy the DPRK's ICBMs capable of striking the whole U.S. territory in their launching bases and it is to ignite a "humanitarian war" by use of non-lethal weapons.

Its noisy talk about "war" is not surprising as Trump once cried out for totally destroying the DPRK. But it is something which cannot be overlooked that it has put up the card of non-lethal weapon use all of a sudden.

Now Americans are getting vocal in their opposition to the use of force against the DPRK with their increasing fear and uneasiness of being exposed to the attack by its nuclear forces which have put the whole U.S. territory in their strike range.

This troubles the Trump administration and war maniacs of the U.S. military who are pining hope on the use of force, obsessed with megalomania.

Against this backdrop, they raised the issue of non-lethal weapon development to calm down the anti-war sentiments of the public at home and abroad and to justify their scenario for igniting a war against the DPRK.

It is just red herring to cover up their bloody imperialist acts of war against humanity and civilization.

On Nov. 30 the U.S. Department of Defense issued a statement that it would lift the ban on the use of cluster bomb internationally recognized as WMD, asserting it is "badly needed for maintaining strong military muscle" and remains a "safe weapon."

A cluster bomb sends out smaller bombs when it explodes to cause mass destruction. Its use is banned by an international treaty.

The above-said decision betrays the true colors of the U.S. which is touting a "humanitarian war without victims on the part of the enemy side."

In the final analysis, the U.S. talk about "use of non-lethal weapon" is just sophism to create public impression that the second Korean war, a global thermonuclear war, will be safe and thus secure a justification for provoking the war.

The U.S., employing all sorts of trickery to provoke a fresh war, is just the wrecker of global peace and security.

The U.S. moves once again prove the necessity and justice of the DPRK's measures for bolstering its war deterrent.

The international community should heighten their vigilance against the U.S. sinister moves to plunge the world into a crucible of war. -0-

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OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 20/12/2017 06:53

So the tax bill has been passed

amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/19/donald-trump-tax-bill-plan-house-approves-senate?__twitter_impression=true

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 20/12/2017 07:02

James Comey
@Comey
Don’t let them get you down: “We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason. “ Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1830)

Lweji · 20/12/2017 08:03

We are truly witnessing the end of the Republican Party in real time.
If only that was true.
They are in power now and things change. I'm worried about the damage they'll do and how long it will last.

cozietoesie · 20/12/2017 08:13

Of course, Lweji.

There will be bad hurts, no question. If there are many, then there will be more work to do.

Lweji · 20/12/2017 08:16

If they do hand over power.

cozietoesie · 20/12/2017 09:23

Oh they will.

Lweji · 20/12/2017 09:26

I hope so.

lionheart · 20/12/2017 10:42

Trump hotel.

Projections