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Trump has a Pecker problem and there is a blue pill to make it grow bigger - midterms! Trump threads contd.

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ohmymimi · 24/08/2018 21:10

Titled with Across in mind Wink

May all the Oaf's problems be big ones, and the events of this week at least be the beginning of the beginning of the end.

Old thread:
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lionheart · 31/08/2018 12:19

Good. Good.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/trouble-trump-disapproval-high-63-back-mueller-half/story?id=57507081&cid=social_twitter_abcn

'Disapproval of Donald Trump is at a new high, support for the Mueller investigation is broad and half of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll favor Congress initiating impeachment proceedings against the president.

Sixty percent in the national survey disapprove of Trump’s performance in office, numerically the highest of his presidency, albeit by a single point; that includes 53 percent who disapprove strongly, more than half for the first time. Thirty-six percent approve, matching his low.'

lionheart · 31/08/2018 12:22

People can see the evidence for themselves, it seems.

secondnexus.com/news/donald-trump-lester-holt-fudging/?utm_content=inf_677_1164_2&tse_id=INF_bd39dc70ac7f11e8872dc93302272904

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 12:25

Graham:
If you're going to let Don McGahn go, find somebody as capable as Don McGahn, because he did a good job for you. And I hope you understand what's coming your way. If you don't have a very competent, capable White House counsel, you'll live to regret it

There has to be someone close to Trumpty who is perfect for the job of delivering that regret Paging RudyGrin

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cozietoesie · 31/08/2018 12:29

Seems it's down to $$$$, mimi. (Your post on the race and those who might be abandoned.)

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 12:30

The Oaf won't be lauding that pole poll in a tweet, lion (unless he gets the results are about face like the last timeWink)

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 12:32

Autocorrect doesn't like arse apparentlyShock

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 12:48

lion, 24 mins in on this Cuomo 'Prime Time' from yesterday, Michael Caputo demonstrates (ridiculously) how the surrogates etc are going to try to spin this Holt interview lie:

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 13:41

Always $ with the repuglies,cosie!Smile

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 13:41

cozieBlush

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 13:45

objective political reality
GrinGrinGrin
David Frum
@davidfrum
Looking at these ABC/WashPo numbers, presumably confirmed by the RNC/White House internal data, maybe it was objective political reality - not Don McGahn's (leaked) sage counsel - that deterred Trump from sacking Sessions, pardoning Manafort, and shutting down Mueller
mobile.twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1035494476448493569

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lionheart · 31/08/2018 13:58

Thanks ohmy.

An ad with the tagline, 'Find your Russian Woman!' came up when I played it. Smile I am not sure what they were selling ...

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 14:01

'Concern in White House over shortage of lawyers, press aides'
' ..... the effort to fill jobs is proving difficult. Qualified candidates are steering clear of the volatile West Wing, ignoring pleas from Shine and others to join the administration over fears to their reputation and even potential legal exposure, according to current and former officials and one candidate approached by the White House. Those people and others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations and conversations.
Others are wary of joining the team to defend the president, knowing full well he will often ignore their advice or could turn on them by tweet.'
apnews.com/amp/b780699b037640dda5b39f687f6a5fc7?__twitter_impression=true

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 14:07

They need to keep up the reporting on this, too important to get lost in the maelstrom of Oafcrap.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/30/politics/family-separations-hundreds-children-separated/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 14:16

That WaPo poll has Trumpty performance repugly approval at 78%, it was 85% three weeks agoSmile

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 14:36

It is a very quiet executive time in the private residence of the West Wing this morning. Cramp in his teeny mitt? Wink

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 14:39

<a class="break-all" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/morning-report/404500-the-hills-morning-report-mccain-sessions-lack-mcgahn-indiana?amp#click=t.co/xoR37zI3fG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thehill.com/homenews/morning-report/404500-the-hills-morning-report-mccain-sessions-lack-mcgahn-indiana?amp#click=t.co/xoR37zI3fG

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borntobequiet · 31/08/2018 14:43

Apologies if anyone has posted this already
www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-blames-bad-poll-numbers-on-existence-of-numerical-system

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 14:50

Trump asserts only he can be trusted over opponents and ‘fake news’
But this only works with the converted:

Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
This is one of the biggest stories of the Trump presidency.
@AshleyRParker: Trump's assertions are "bound by one unifying theme: All of his perceived opponents are peddling false facts and only Trump can be trusted"
‘Totally dishonest’: Trump asserts only he can be trusted over opponents and ‘fake news’
washingtonpost.com
mobile.twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1035352222299815943

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 14:55

I knew it, born, devious little numericals, so that's why I failed my maths 'O' levelGrin

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ohmymimi · 31/08/2018 15:04

Fight with different, better, weapons:
Steven Ginsberg
@stevenjay
Beyond the hoopla he has generated among Dems, Beto O'Rourke will help answer a key question for the party: better to outpunch Trump or better to offer something very different?
mobile.twitter.com/stevenjay/status/1035510543895945216

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cozietoesie · 31/08/2018 15:32

To note. Smile A Beast piece.

Al Gore's Trump Tower moment

PerkingFaintly · 31/08/2018 16:23

Long article about "Baltnews", Russia's front for its information war in the Baltics:

This Is How Russian Propaganda Actually Works In The 21st Century
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/holgerroonemaa/russia-propaganda-baltics-baltnews

TALLINN, Estonia — The Russian government discreetly funded a group of seemingly independent news websites in Eastern Europe to pump out stories dictated to them by the Kremlin, BuzzFeed News and its reporting partners can reveal.
[...]
Raul Rebane, a leading strategic communications expert in Estonia, said that this scheme and others like it are “systemic information-related activities on foreign territory. In other words — information warfare.”

He said that Russian propaganda networks in the Baltics had been operating for years but had become more intense recently.
[...]
The revelations about the websites in the Baltic states provide a rare and detailed inside look into how such disinformation campaigns work, and the lengths to which Moscow is willing to go to obscure its involvement in such schemes.

lionheart · 31/08/2018 16:29

apnews.com/4ac772445073491aa7d3ca9e558e0144

AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had ‘Trump over a barrel’

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