Trump 2018: Resistance is Never Futile

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To pick up on the Star Trek motif.

Gloat away! I think it's acceptable, necessary even, after such an intense, heartbreaking, fear-filled year.

How money laundering works in real estate

An explanation of a new allegation from Bannon

www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/04/how-money-laundering-works-in-real-estate/?utm_term=.746ec0c11ae0

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4 minutes apart.

same conclusion.

Under Trump, worst average monthly jobs #s since 2010 pic.twitter.com/mrrWjJYzzP

Odd.

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My friend and former colleague @jackmjenkins with the scoop — Kushner is, in fact, ordained in the Universal Life Church. (So is this reporter.) religionnews.com/2018/01/04/jared-kushner-isnt-an-internet-unitarian-but-he-is-ordained …

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I haven't read this yet but it looks interesting

I’ve Studied the Trump-Fox Feedback Loop for Months. It’s Crazier Than You Think.

www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/trump-media-feedback-loop-216248

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Increase in Dow under:

• Obama from Jan 20, 2009 to Jan 4, 2010: 33.2%
• Trump from Jan 20, 2017 to Jan 4, 2018: 26.5%

Increase in S&P under:

• Obama from Jan 20, 2009 to Jan 4, 2010: 40.7%
• Trump from Jan 20, 2017 to Jan 4, 2018: 20.0%Steven Rattner added,

Donald J. Trump

I just got this message from Amazon:

Hello,

Due to a higher than expected level of demand for Fire and Fury, there may be a delay in dispatching your order XXX.
We’re currently working with our suppliers to obtain further stock of this and we’ll update you again with details of when we expect to fulfil your order.

If you'd like access to the title on release day, you can instead purchase the Kindle and Audible editions available below:

This book must be flying off the shelves!

There were pics on twitter of people lined up by midnight to purchase it.

A strong takeaway from the article

Trump may not be trying to divert the media, but the media definitely gets distracted. Trump’s morning tweets upend the news cycle, with cable news producers and assignment editors redistributing time and resources to cover his latest comments. Statements from the president are inherently newsworthy. But the result is certainly a positive one for Fox: The network’s partisan programming gets validation from the president, and forces the rest of the press to cover Fox’s obsessions whether they are newsworthy or not.

Due to a higher than expected level of demand for Fire and Fury

That's probably Trump trying to buy all the samples.

Ebola versus Cancer dailybeast style

‘THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN’

Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other

Watching Bannon fall victim to the claws of the monster he helped create mostly invokes the response of ‘Alexa, order all the popcorn.’

www.thedailybeast.com/bannon-banished-for-telling-truths-about-trump-as-maga-monsters-turn-on-each-other?source=twitter&via=desktop

Another interesting bit from the book:

Why is Trump so weird? Or rather, why has he continued to be such a weird president? Here's one theory, writes Wolff: everyone else who's become president has moved from relatively normal life into a very strange, opulent life, full of servants and security officers with constant access to a plane and anything else you want. But that's what Trump's life already looked like, and that's how it continues to look. So he doesn't realise how important his new job is, Wolff writes, claiming to relay a theory from inside the White House.

But another theory floating around Washington suggests the complete opposite. Mr Trump was a creature of intense, sometimes unusual habit – and his immense wealth allowed him to ensure that his life never much changed. He's lived in the same apartment in Trump Tower since it was built in 1983, he has worked in another part of the building just a few floors down, and he's not even changed the decor or the staff since.

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Obama has a bigger Jobs Button....and it WORKS!

Recap of non-Wolff things that happened yesterday (though they were posted on this thread, apart from the anti segregation rule I think)

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With the Wolff book dominating airtime (for obvious reasons), yesterday was one of the most significant policy days of Trump's tenure:

• Allowed offshore drilling
• Opened door to going after state-legal marijuana
• Denied aid to Pakistan
• Delayed anti-segregation rule

[Anti-segregation rule: www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/upshot/trump-delays-hud-fair-housing-obama-rule.html ]

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A U.S. official tells me WH counsel McGahn and other WH officials called Sessions to urge him not to recuse from Russia investigation--partially confirming NYT, WashPost, AP reports.

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And other WH officials? Well that would be a significant new development.

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It wasn't just a Don McGahn production, the source said.

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Well, now that collusion with Russia is proving to be a total hoax and the only collusion is with Hillary Clinton and the FBI/Russia, the Fake News Media (Mainstream) and this phony new book are hitting out at every new front imaginable. They should try winning an election. Sad!

6:32 AM - 5 Jan 2018

He's only trying to convince himself, isn't he?

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Preet Bharara: If Sessions sought out negative media coverage of Comey, he "must go now" hill.cm/6Z6xzxr

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Sarah Sanders: Americans who aren’t “celebrating” Trump are “mentally unfit” shareblue.com/sarah-sanders-americans-who-arent-celebrating-trump-are-mentally-unfit/#.Wk-S4RBBtHk.twitter … via @shareblue

Confirmation that many of Trump's outbursts on Twitter were simply him live tweeting Fox News!

www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/trump-media-feedback-loop-216248?cid=apn

I've downloaded the book after getting the 'we don't know when you'll get it' email from amazon.

Confirmation that many of Trump's outbursts on Twitter were simply him live tweeting Fox News!

So, to avoid starting a nuclear war it would be justified to shut down Fox News, wouldn't it?

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kansas-men-trial-trump-voters-jury-request-bomb-plot-somali-refugees-a8142781.html%3famp

Anyone else find it disturbing that Trump voters are considered more likely to acquit terrorists?

We've ordered our (paper) copy from Amazon (US). We'll have to draw straws as to who gets to read it first.

Or maybe we'll have one of those 'reading parties' where one of us reads it aloud as the others drink fine port, eat rare cheese and/or nibble on dark chocolate, and listen intently to each chapter. We could even follow the reading of each chapter with hysterical laughter serious intellectual discussion!

Or maybe we'll have one of those 'reading parties' where one of us reads it aloud as the others drink fine port, eat rare cheese and/or nibble on dark chocolate, and listen intently to each chapter. We could even follow the reading of each chapter with hysterical laughter serious intellectual discussion!

The listener could take notes/discussion points down for review at the end of each chapter.

Oh bugger, I just checked my emails and found the “due to heavy demand” notice from AmazonUK about Fire and Fury...

So much for S Sanders assertion that no one is interested in the book!