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

[TheClaws]

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. if only we could learn well from the past.

Old thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3104707--Uneasy-lies-the-head-that-wears-the-crown-as-it-should-be-Trump-thread-continued

Why do I torture myself reading stuff like this?!

www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/12/a_line_by_line_breakdown_of_mike_pence_s_master_class_in_toadyism.html

Lots of places are reporting that Canada did change their stance based on Haley’s threat (although it’s all based on that one tweet saying so, which doesn’t seem like the way to be properly sourced) so if that’s the case, I’m glad trump’s twattery scores him an own goal again.

Potential gop own goal coming up, though how likely is it that the dems will adopt this tactic?

Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
The Garland Precedent: No presidential nominees for SCOTUS shall be considered from opposite party in the last part of a term until the people have a chance to weigh in through a presidential election.

It’s of people are unhappy with the dems passing time he continued resolution, as some of them voted with the republicans

Indivisible Guide
@IndivisibleTeam
Indivisible Statement: "Tonight, 32 Dems, including 18 in the Senate & 14 in the House, voted to deport Dreamers. For 3 months, Dem leadership has reassured Dreamers that they would use their leverage in the Dec spending bill to get the Dream done. They failed to deliver." 1/

Rest of thread here: mobile.twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/944023840128163841

More backfiring?

Andrew Exum
@ExumAM
Gerry Baker told his staff that if it didn’t like the way the @WSJ was covering Trump, it could leave, and so it has, in waves, for @nytimes and @washingtonpost.

WASHINGTON POST RAIDS WALL STREET JOURNAL: Journal reporters Paul Sonne and Shane Harris are soon heading to the Post to cover the Pentagon and intelligence, respectively, according to sources familiar with the moves. The Post has already hired three other reporters from the Journal’s Washington bureau this year — Devlin Barrett, Beth Reinhard, and Damian Paletta — and last year nabbed Adam Entous, who is now heading to the New Yorker.

From politico www.politico.com/media/newsletters/morning-media/2017/12/21/nyt-keeps-thrush-rolling-stone-sale-wapo-raids-wsj-breitbart-after-roy-moore-never-trumpers-carry-on-001409

God, the post from 8.07 is utter garbled. Second attempt:

Lots of people are unhappy with the dems for passing the continued resolution, as some of them voted with the republicans

More backfiring;

Unintended Consequences 101: Tax Scheme Ignites Global Tax War

The Bill Isn’t Signed Yet, But Other Countries Have Already Launched a ‘Race to the Bottom’ to Undermine New U.S. Corporate Tax Cuts

www.dcreport.org/2017/12/21/unintended-consequences-101-republican-tax-scheme-ignites-global-tax-war/

Utterly garbled ffs.

What AMAZING leadership right here.

Fox News @FoxNews 1 hr
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The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted Thursday to condemn @POTUS's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. On Wednesday, Trump made clear how that would make him feel. fxn.ws/2DpftCw

Those arse licking can net meetings are amazing. It's not as if he's threatened to blow them up with missiles or has Darth Vader powers, is it?

Sad about Dreamers, but some Dems are either afraid of immigration or afraid they may lose their seats.
The US needs brave people now, but that's not most Senators.

The US has been strong, but not if they decide to go alone. It won't do much good to them or their economy if their only allies are Israel.

Scott Dworkin
@funder

Trump-Russia Bombshell: Donald & Ivanka Trump’s business partner is also Vladimir Putin’s business partner

I dug up the photos, videos & documents that prove it & put it in the blog post post below. Please share far & wide.

#TrumpRussia #AMJoy

m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/14/1689606/-Trump-s-Dubai-business-partner-does-business-directly-with-Putin

Bob Cesca
@bobcesca_go
Which Democrats, @DrJillStein? The Republican chairs of the congressional committees? The Republican AG? The Republican Deputy AG? The Republican FBI Director(s)? The Republican NSA Director? The Republican CIA Director? Or the Republican Special Counsel?

I wonder what the perception that other countries have of America’s diplomacy is. They must put lots of it down to trump but how much of the GOP’s enabling behaviour will be credited for the shitshow and how much of previous relationships are salvageable if they get booted out of power? To be filed under “things to consider for The Aftermath” I suppose.

I suspect at the moment they think it's salvageable and are trying to weather the storm till the next Presidency. Not sure how long that will last. This vote seems critical in terms of showing how isolated the US is now.
Russia and China can only be too happy to be on the other side. That's their game. And Trump is playing to their hands.

Make America Go-Solo Again

Walter Shaub
@waltshaub
In your 12/19/17 letter, @SenRonJohnson, you call PTT’s emails “privileged.” Here’s a pic of the pre-election Trump campaign agreement, referencing IT rules, and a pic of GSA’s standard IT rules. I urge you to be careful until you see all relevant docs. www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/johnson-letter-to-gsa

Ted Lieu
@tedlieu
This document appears to be evidence Trump transition lawyers were just making stuff up in a desperate attempt to smear Mueller investigation, since .gov emails are not private. And Mueller has ALL of Jared Kushner's .gov transition emails. What is Kushner afraid of?

Kushner is extremely quiet, not seen hide nor hair of him for days/weeks

No! Trump staff just making any ol' shit up? Surely not!

Speculative, but:

Ale
@aliasvaughn

1. Briefly, this is what I am inferring from what's going on. McGahn's chat with Mueller that got "interrupted" by FLYNN FLIPPING? Got McGahn in a LOT of trouble.
2. McGahn was supposed to go back on the Friday and got a generous postponement from Mueller in order to deal with Flynn news. That was strategic. Mueller KNEW McGahn had LIED to him.
3. McGahn then of course HAD to go back to finish his interview with Mueller and at that point, CAUGHT in lies, he HAD to tell the truth. That HE KNEW about Flynn AND warned Trump BEFORE he asked Comey to go easy on Flynn.
4. So yesterday we got the MAJOR McGahn and WH documents leaks (Reminder that the reporter DID SEE part of the documents), and now? McCabe CONFIRMED to Congress that Comey DID share memos re: Trump asking him for loyalty and to go easy on Flynn.
5. This NAILS Trump not only for obstruction per se, but nails him for his INTENT to obstruct. Also shows that Priebus, who has the SAME lawyer as McGahn?LIED publicly re: flynn back then.
6. SPICER also lied about this back then, saying they did not know of ANY urgent reason to fire Flynn when instead they DID and McGahn had warned them. Now, guess whose interest it is to FLIP given this? Priebus and Spicer's.
7. So yes, I think both of them flipped AND now McGahn was forced to tell the truth, too. The fact McGahn has the SAME lawyer as Priebus? Makes me think Priebus has CERTAINLY flipped & told the truth bc same lawyer would NOT have clients tell OPPOSITE stories.
8. IF all my deductions here are correct, then this is HUGE and it means Mueller has a VERY solid case for obstruction of justice already. And traitor Nunes & co. are trying to DISTRACT bc THEY KNOW this is the case.
9. This would explain the panic caused by Flynn flipping, too. It would explain all that is going on, bc this would mean Mueller can definitely PROVE obstruction AND intent to obstruct. /END

Other things happening in this administration:

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
The Trump administration is considering a new policy that would separate parents from their children when families are caught entering the country illegally, officials who have been briefed on the plans tell NYT.

<a class="break-all" href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/redirect?to-mobile=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F12%2F21%2Fus%2Ftrump-immigrant-families-separate.html%3Freferer%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F6vpOh0QNkN%3Famp%3D1#click=t.co/6vpOh0QNkN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mobile.nytimes.com/redirect?to-mobile=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F12%2F21%2Fus%2Ftrump-immigrant-families-separate.html%3Freferer%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F6vpOh0QNkN%3Famp%3D1#click=t.co/6vpOh0QNkN

And

Kyle Griffin
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
A Trump admin official blocked a detained immigrant teenager from leaving a shelter to receive an abortion even though she had been raped, arguing it would be curing “violence with further violence,” according to docs unsealed as part of a lawsuit.

<a class="break-all" href="https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a3c1f45e4b06d1621b30381/amp#click=t.co/6jE7QmhJyj" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a3c1f45e4b06d1621b30381/amp#click=t.co/6jE7QmhJyj

And

The Hill
@thehill
JUST IN: Sessions ends Obama-era policy encouraging courts to avoid slapping massive fines on poor defendants hill.cm/Sfolib6

Re: foreign policy and perceptions

Susan Rice
@AmbassadorRice
Trump’s “America First” National Security Strategy is the summation of his abdication of traditional American global leadership. We have relinquished our moral authority, and this will make us less safe. See my piece in NYT.

www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/susan-rice-america-global-strategy.html

Social media watch:

Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior
The Facebook team helping repressive regimes fight the opposition

www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-the-facebook-team-helping-regimes-that-reach-out-and-crack-down

mobile.twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/943978134772203520/video/1

Pahahah!

Not that is a proper Holidays card.