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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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Roussette · 21/12/2017 15:23

Oh no cozie! nothing to do with being old already

We must have hope and as you say roll on Nov.8th or whenever it is.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 21/12/2017 15:23

Would we have migrated to gransnet? Hopefully arabella Kushner won’t be ruling over us (though I have nothing against her)

Emily Peck
@EmilyRPeck
The defamation suit against Bill O'Reilly just expanded -- two more women are now suiing him and Fox, alleging defamation. Murdoch is also named in the suit after his statements last week about harmless "flirting”

cozietoesie · 21/12/2017 15:31

A Beast piece.

WH signals abandonment of Ocare repeal

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 21/12/2017 15:31

His speaking so dismissively about it broke the confidentiality agreement, which allows them now to speak about it

www.rawstory.com/2017/12/watch-cnn-host-left-speechless-as-ex-fox-news-analyst-breaks-her-confidentiality-agreement-and-exposes-rupert-murdoch/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 21/12/2017 15:49

Bill Browder
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BREAKING: US Government publishes debut Global Magnitsky list. A veritable rogues gallery from all over the world. A good day for justice and for Sergei Magnitsky’s legacy www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20171221.aspx#.WjvSeRrsOV4.twitter

AcrossthePond55 · 21/12/2017 15:58

Ooh, ooh! And we can have Scrotus appear at the drawing a la Apprentice to say "You're NOT hired!" to the loser!

He'd LOVE that (but only if it's televised). It'd draw the hyugest ratings ever! Like the biglyest viewing audience! Bigger than Obama's!!!

cozietoesie · 21/12/2017 16:00

That last is the one that seems to count. Wink

GingerIvy · 21/12/2017 16:15

Having taken a good long break, I'm back and horrified.

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BREAKING: Nikki Haley at UNGA threatens to cut US funding to the UN over vote against Trump's Jerusalem announcement

GingerIvy · 21/12/2017 16:17

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Nikki Haley just threatened the nations of the world on behalf of Trump to try and strong arm them not to condemn our Israel embassy move to Jerusalem: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/20/donald-trump-threat-cut-aid-un-jerusalem-vote

cozietoesie · 21/12/2017 16:27

Her face looks a little haggard and desperate, don't you think?

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 21/12/2017 16:28

NIce to see you back ginger!

The trump’s shows themselves up over the taxes

Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump
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The Massive Tax Cuts, which the Fake News Media is desperate to write badly about so as to please their Democrat bosses, will soon be kicking in and will speak for themselves. Companies are already making big payments to workers. Dems want to raise taxes, hate these big Cuts!

The Hoarse Whisperer
@HoarseWisperer
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
Sooooooo, you're saying companies already have ample cash on hand to award bonuses even before your "tax cut" takes effect?

Psst... that kinda proves they didn't need a tax cut.

Also

Fox News
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.@IvankaTrump: "I'm really looking forward to doing a lot of traveling in April when people realize the effect that this has... The vast majority will be [doing their taxes] on a single postcard."

TrashRat
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Replying to @FoxNews and @IvankaTrump
I wonder if she realizes that we will be doing our 2017 taxes in April of 2018...hence under the previous system not the @GOP scam system

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 21/12/2017 16:31

Shock that Tillerson is being so explicit about it

Tillerson: Biggest Snag in U.S.-Russia Relations is Ukraine, Not Election Meddling

foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/07/tillerson-biggest-snag-in-u-s-russia-relations-is-ukraine-not-election-meddling-secretary-of-state-visit-europe-o-s-c-e-trump-moscow-kremlin/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

GingerIvy · 21/12/2017 16:32

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Mike Pence, next in line for president, says the Trump Administration is cooperating with Russia probe bit.ly/2BtjN6C

Interesting choice of words. "next in line for president"

Roussette · 21/12/2017 16:33

Welcome back Ginger! Plenty of fresh horrors on this thread for you Grin

GingerIvy · 21/12/2017 16:38

Brian Krassenstein 🐬‏
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Chilling Statement today...

“My assessment is that Trump is actually working directly for the Russians.”

  • Glenn Carle, a former CIA national intelligence officer responsible for evaluating foreign threats.

7:43 AM - 21 Dec 2017

GingerIvy · 21/12/2017 16:39

Thanks. Yeah, I've been following on Twitter, but shocked at how quickly it's spiralling.

Yamayo · 21/12/2017 16:46

Can't believe Haley's speech. She sounded like a mafia boss.

She was effectively talking like a lobbyist. We give money you do what we tell you. Refuse to do it and all this help to poor people that we generously provide will disappear.

And we'll remember today and next time you need military help or aid you can swivel.

I'm barely paraphrasing.
Shocking.

GingerIvy · 21/12/2017 16:51

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Trump "will be taught a lesson" for UN threats over Jerusalem showdown, Turkey's president says bit.ly/2zbFqCl

Roussette · 21/12/2017 16:52

Oh yes Yamayo you are so right. She was sounding like a mafia boss. I was shocked at her tweet, her tone, everything.

And then she had 45 fully endorsing what she said, the fat buffoon.

Spudlet · 21/12/2017 16:55

I was a lobbyist, I never talked like that! #notalllobbyists #makelobbyingrespectableagain Grin

I was somewhat alarmed to read the reports on the national security docs that apparently widened the scope for using nuclear weapons.... scary stuff. Ack.

cozietoesie · 21/12/2017 16:56

As if he didn't OK it on the phone beforehand! Smile

GingerIvy · 21/12/2017 16:58

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Not that he was paying attention to petitions that met the threshold anyway, but another sign of crumbling norms and silencing dissent. wapo.st/2BAmpfK?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4a922ee0c550

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"All of the petitions, including one that called on President Trump to release his tax returns — the most popular, with more than a million signatures — disappeared from Petitions.WhiteHouse.Gov

Yamayo · 21/12/2017 17:05

Sorry Spud I'm sure you were a fantastic lobbyist... Grin
I was thinking more in the line of the NRA.

Chinese ambassador just coolly announced he supported Palestine. The Don is not going to be happy.

cozietoesie · 21/12/2017 17:11

Interesting.

cozietoesie · 21/12/2017 17:19

What was the UN vote?