He is the very model of a Very Stable Genius: Trump cont

[PerkingFaintly]

We rushed out of the last thread without even a pocket handkerchief: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a3124599-Trump-2018-Resistance-is-Never-Futile

So here's a new one, with its own

I am the very model of a Very Stable Genius.
I have a mighty button and no problems with my penius.
I have no time for television, golf or social media
Since my brain is way way better than the best encyclopedia.

I'm cutting tax, I'll build a wall, I'll take away their medicare
You can trust me 'cos I'm orange and I have the most amazing hair.
So with my total ignorance of matters heterogeneous
I am the very model of a Very Stable Genius!

Compared to other leaders, my behavior's quite unusual
My twisted tweets and pissed-on sheets have managed to amuse you all
I have to drink two-handed 'cause my fingers are the teeniest
I need a sippy-cup with the inscription "Stable Genius."

Tea Pain
@TeaPainUSA

1. BIG NEWS! Remember the whistle blower story that involved Mike Flynn and Alex Copson textin' on Inauguration Day? It involved a bunch of people gettin' rich over a huge deal involving nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia.
2. Today, Mark Lambert, former president of a Maryland-based transportation company was indicted on 11 counts includin' bribery of Vadem Mikerin to secure contracts with TENEX, a subsidiary of ROSATOM.
3. ROSATOM is the Russian nuclear company mentioned as part of a consortium deal that Michael Flynn and Alex Copson texted about that would "make a bunch of people very wealthy."
4. Accordin' to the plan, the US military would supply security for 16 nuclear construction sites in Saudi Arabia using Russian nuclear components, but in order for this deal to go thru, the cripplin' Russian Sanctions must be lifted first.
5. Where this gets really interestin' is that ROSATOM's attorney, Scott Balber, is also the lawyer for Agalarov & Kaveladze who was at Don Jr's Trump tower meeting in June 2016. Balber was also formerly the lawyer for Trump and the Miss Universe organization.
6. Remember those mysterious trips Jared Kushner made to Saudi Arabia that went under-reported? To arrange the US military to provide support would require the cooperation of the Commander-in-Chief, Donald J. Trump.
7. Bob Mueller waived decades of prison sentences for Mike Flynn in exchange for important information. Tea believes we are lookin' at a massive "Quid Pro Quo", one of the drivin' motives for Trump to lift Russian Sanctions.
8. The real beauty of this news is that Maryland has jurisdiction over this case and any subsequent indictments involvin' members of the Trump family are free from any Presidential pardon power. This may be the straw that breaks the Tyrant's back!
9. Lastly, it's no coincidence Trump has tried to fabricate a phony Uranium One story involving Mueller, Hillary and Obama, et al. In true Trumpian fashion, Trump projects his own crimes onto his enemies. Watch this one close, folks. It's gonna be a biggie.

And another thread on the same thing here:

Wendy Siegelman
@WendySiegelman
Former President of Maryland-Based transportation company indicted on 11 counts related to Foreign Bribery, Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme - Mark Lambert allegedly paid bribes to a Russian official to win nuclear fuel transportation contracts

twitter.com/WendySiegelman/status/951948198431641600

Ah - apologies to Dr Jackson...
Trump will release doctored physical results!

Citizens for Ethics
‏*@CREWcrew*
A company that once had financial ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was one of two firms selected Thursday by the Education Department to help the agency collect overdue student loans. The deal could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Education Dept. awards debt-collection contract to company with ties to DeVos
www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/01/11/education-dept-awards-debt-collection-contract-to-company-with-ties-to-devos/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_debt-devos-430pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.29dc8e6eb35e

Dan Diamond‏Verified account
@ddiamond
Scoop: Teresa Manning — the anti-abortion activist who was put in charge of Title X — was physically escorted from HHS premises today.
Abortion-rights groups had been furious that Manning — who once said that “contraception doesn’t work” — was helping set national strategy for contraception and abortion.
An HHS spokesperson said that Manning “resigned,” although would not say why she was leaving or why it was so sudden.
Manning had served in her role for less than nine months. Her replacement, Valerie Huber, is an advocate for abstinence education.
Story of Teresa Manning’s departure is out from behind the firewall, with a few more details.

www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/teresa-manning-hhs-title-x-escorted-premises-339514

Aaron Harris
@aaronharris
This is the second forcible removal from a government building in this administration, right?

Rose von Perbandt
@MiraclesArt
This month

abbeysmom
@missnicely
That we know of

A second porn star just came forward to reveal Trump invited her to a threesome
washingtonpress.com/2018/01/12/second-porn-star-just-came-forward-reveal-trump-invited-threesome/

Renato Mariotti
@renato_mariotti
Just so there’s no doubt what Trump’s remarks were all about, here’s the former Grand Wizard of the KKK proclaiming “Hail Trump!” In response to them.

And disappointingly, some elements of the media are competing amongst themselves to see who can normalise this the quickest. I mean, wtf are these. People who don't stand for racism = etiquette experts? :

Reuters Top News‏Verified account
@Reuters
Trump's profanity delights supporters, horrifies etiquette experts reut.rs/2Dr0fxu

And

James Fallows
@JamesFallows
Did long thread this morning on anomaly of “it’s what a lot of people think” in response to “shithole” twitter.com/JamesFallows/status/951854200023146496

Genuinely surprised to see WaPo (exemplary in Trump era) go down that road just now.

Trump's vulgarity: Overt racism or a President who says what many think?

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-vulgarity-overt-racism-or-a-president-who-says-what-many-think/2018/01/12/83354506-f7b1-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html

And obviously. the Republicans aren't helping either:

Manu Raju
@mkraju
So for those keeping track of those who were in Trump mtg:
Durbin: Trump said "shithole" countries
Graham: publicly silent, but confirmed comments to Tim Scott
McCarthy: Silent
Goodlatte: Silent
Diaz-Balart: Skirts comments in stmt
Cotton: Does not recall
Perdue: Does not recall

And

Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
A former Republican senator authorized me to share this from an email he sent:
"Shocking that no one was indignant enough to walk out of the meeting....The members of the majority party...pretend not to notice the rising stench. The normalization of abnormal accelerates apace."

And

CBS News‏Verified account
@CBSNews
Paul Ryan calls Trump's "sh*thole" comment "very unfortunate" and "unhelpful" cbsn.ws/2D0IMeh

Cheri Jacobus
@CheriJacobus
Trump and his racism is strengthened when he sees GOP leaders basically shrug their shoulders.

And

Ken Tremendous
@KenTremendous
TRUMP: Africa is a shithole
RYAN: Well that's unfortunate
TRUMP: White people are good, black people are garbage
MCCONNELL: Not the words I'd use
TRUMP: I wanna fuck the moon
COTTON: Don't recall him saying that
TRUMP: Girls are just tits and butts
RUBIO: Colossians 3:12

Looking forward to the doctored physical report!

How surprising!

Tax officials reduce Trump’s tax bill on D.C. hotel by nearly $1 million
www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/01/12/tax-officials-reduce-trumps-tax-bill-on-d-c-hotel-by-nearly-1-million/?utm_term=.2b1a47728e68

More on this week's special elections:

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tuesday-116-special-elections-in-wi-ia-and-sc_us_5a585a2ce4b0d3efcf695744

Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
Paul Manafort's notes from the Trump Tower meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya were shown to Glenn Simpson during his Senate Judiciary interview. The transcript reveals some interesting new details. My latest:

uk.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-notes-trump-tower-russia-meeting-glenn-simpson-testimony-2018-1?r=US&IR=T

"Following the assassination of the Haitian President in July of 1915, President Woodrow Wilson sent the United States Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in the Caribbean. ... The United States Government's interests in Haiti existed for decades prior to its occupation."

Geez, all these 'shithole' countries with all these decades of CIA (or intelligence services before CIA involvement). Who would have thought?

I guess Meuller's agenda doesn't allow for investigating the paid for sexual 'favours' or the sexual abuse claims.

This sentence from the Wolff book didn’t get the attention it deserved
twitter.com/michelleinbklyn/status/951917874343530497

CNN Politics @CNNPolitics
3h3 hours ago
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The United Nations human rights office labels President Trump's reported "shithole countries" comment as racist cnn.it/2ECaeiG

Dan Scavino completely trolled by genealogy expert!

Thread shows genealogical evidence of family immigration from Italy.

So Dan. Let's say Victor Scavino arrives from Canelli, Italy in 1904, then brother Hector in 1905, brother Gildo in 1912, sister Esther in 1913, & sister Clotilde and their father Giuseppe in 1916, and they live together in NY. Do you think that would count as chain migration?

twitter.com/clevertitletk/status/951485584090034176

That genealogy thread is a good read. I didn’t realise Ivana wasn’t yet a citizen when Trump’s older children were born - someone says that in extreme right wing parlance they are “anchor babies”.

The bar is just so low.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-welfare-black-white-780252?utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social

ooh.

www.politico.com/story/2018/01/12/trump-racism-daca-dreamers-judge-339512

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-trump-tweet-imperiled-fisa-surveillance-legislation-n837231

www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/inside-the-feedback-loop-between-the-president-and-fox-news

Here is Trump's map of the world...

Divide and ... lose your population.. then crack the shits when the same militaristic crap for a bunch of not so ex fascists who make money off military sales (and these come from all religions) doesn't seem to work as well as it used to.

Love the map Roussette

Haitian government claims ousted dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier laundered stolen money through Trump Tower

www.rawstory.com/2018/01/haitian-government-claims-ousted-dictator-baby-doc-duvalier-laundered-stolen-money-through-trump-tower/amp/?p=1196731&__twitter_impression=true

That map cracked me up Roussette.

Then I realized that it was probably accurate. And probably hanging on the wall in the Oval Office.

This is a really upsetting, graphic thread (will only post the first bits so people can decide whether to read the rest or not)

Chet Powell
@ChetPowell
AMERICA, WE ARE AT THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE.

Yesterday, as Trump was ranting about “shithole countries,” I was in a county courthouse in Georgia looking at a death certificate for a black man who died in 1930. I watched the courthouse employees’ faces... 1/
closely as they read the cause of death “Unlawful act.” Their confused looks confirmed what I suspected; they had never seen such a vague description listed as a cause of death. They clearly did not know about the incident that occurred there 88 years before, even though it 2/
had been the focus of national news for weeks back in 1930. “It was a lynching” I explained, pointing to the word scribbled in parenthesis on the document. I had them pull another death certificate; this one for a white 16 year-old girl who had died one day prior to the man. 3/

mobile.twitter.com/ChetPowell/status/952042370748633088