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We stand at a tipping point: do we fire up the popcorn maker or start digging a fallout shelter in the garden? (Trump cont)

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boatyardblues · 10/04/2018 22:01

Old thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3207431-When-a-nation-s-children-marched-and-their-President-ignored-them-Trump-cont

I’m all out of inspiration for the rest of this opening post. Send the St Bernard with the brandy please.

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cozietoesie · 14/04/2018 14:20

Sorry. To your DS that is.

AcrossthePond55 · 14/04/2018 14:27

On MSNBC, Pentagon news conference. Flatly denying that Russia was given a 'head's up' as to the missile target locations.

Sure

Lweji · 14/04/2018 15:25

I get the feeling that only the weapon industry benefited from this attack.
On both sides.

Roussette · 14/04/2018 16:39

In these difficult times this almost made me laugh out loud

I wonder if it was deliberate?!

www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/amazon-apologizes-for-shipping-ten-thousand-copies-of-comeys-book-to-white-house

(Disclaimer - no idea if it's true but it was amusing)

lionheart · 14/04/2018 16:54

I told him the truth cozie (more or less) because actually, I don't know what would happen. I like to think someone would stay Trump's hand or refuse a command, but who knows?

Today, DS has decided that landmines should be outlawed and also realised that the making and dropping of bombs is profitable.

Sleipnirthewonderhorse · 14/04/2018 17:03

I hope the Syrian strikes were distracting enough, but if people carry on talking about Comey, Cohen, Mueller etc etc etc we'll probably be bombing them again by next week. Or be onto a different war. Trump hasn't threatened North Korea in the last few days, has he?

lionheart · 14/04/2018 17:05

MSNBC
‏
Verified account

@MSNBC
2h2 hours ago

Pentagon: “The Russian disinformation campaign has already begun. There has been a 2,000 percent increase in Russian trolls in the last 24 hours.”

PerkingFaintly · 14/04/2018 17:20

Hamilton Dashboard for current Russian Twitter activity: dashboard.securingdemocracy.org

Here are a few of the graphs. I don't think they're telling us much we didn't expect.

We stand at a tipping point: do we fire up the popcorn maker or start digging a fallout shelter in the garden? (Trump cont)

lionheart · 14/04/2018 18:09

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/13/james-comey-book-trump-robert-mueller-michael-cohen

'The first big interview with the fired FBI director James Comey is blazing toward a broadcast on Sunday night, but for the Donald Trump presidency, multiple meteors have already hit.

In Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, obtained by the Guardian on Thursday from a bookseller in New York before publication, the former official casts Trump as both “unethical” and “untethered to truth” and compares his presidency to a “forest fire”.'

cozietoesie · 14/04/2018 18:14

How old - roughly - is DS, lion?

Sleipnirthewonderhorse · 14/04/2018 18:21

Every news Twitter page I've looked at has been full of people claiming that the original gas attack was staged. As I think boatyard blues said a few pages back "Nice try, but no"
Actually, that has become my all purpose phrase for the day, and possibly forever. It's so far covered why we're not going to McDonalds, why we still don't have a tortoise, and, no, I'm not cleaning up the cat shit from the garden.

lionheart · 14/04/2018 18:21

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boatyardblues · 14/04/2018 18:36

You have a very fine young man there, Lion. 👍

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cozietoesie · 14/04/2018 18:39

Difficult one - but you know him.

Sleipnirthewonderhorse · 14/04/2018 18:46

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!
1:21 pm · 14 Apr 2018

I got the impression from Twitter and the like that Mission Accomplished is a slightly loaded statement, although all I thought of was early computer games.

cozietoesie · 14/04/2018 18:50

A Guardian piece.

Comey swipes but..........

cozietoesie · 14/04/2018 18:55

I believe - and I'm not suggesting that you go look - that the far right are selectively lambasting 45 et al for the strike. Alex Jones (Infowars) may even have used ........intemperate language?

Natsku · 14/04/2018 19:02

WTAF are UK playing at with the immigrants from decades ago. I have tried to sign the petition but I'm not in England at the moment so it won't let me (obviously picking up foreign ISP address) will do it when I get home

Odd, I can sign it from Finland. Worries me the way the UK is treating immigrants, mum never bothered to get British citizenship.

Quite despairing of the whole world right now with the Syria thing. You've got a good lad there Lion

lionheart · 14/04/2018 19:02

Thank you boatyard.

He's a history boy cozie he has other sources the bloody internet (aside from me) and will google like a wild thing if he suspects the answers might be misinformation-- sugar-coated.