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

[ohmymimi]

Titled with Across in mind

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:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3337261-Theres-a-pony-in-there-somewhere-Trump-cont?pg=39&order=

The numericals did for me too, ohmy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/30/nafta-trump-deal-trade-not-aid-farmers-urge-action-amid-uncertainty

This photograph is probably more powerful than the one they wanted to block.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/31/trump-volunteer-blocks-photographer-taking-picture-of-protester-indiana

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-lawyers-midterms-mueller-russia-don-mcgahn-a8516166.html

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paul-manafort-latest-news-cambridge-analytica-charged-sam-patten-a8517051.html

'A businessman with ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been charged with failing to register in the United States as a foreign agent for work lobbying on behalf of a Ukrainian political party.

The charges stem from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, which has already resulted in several guilty pleas from associates of President Donald Trump — and eight criminal convictions for Mr Manafort himself.'

I didn't know this was going on – looks like a really good set of discussions this week at #BylineFest:
twitter.com/hashtag/BylineFest?src=hash

Alice Stollmeyer @StollmeyerEU

Aug 24
Best @BylineFest panel so far :
@carolecadwalla & @lukeharding1968 interviewing each other on democracy subversion in both UK & US.
They got a standing ovation for their vital work. 👏👏👏
#DefendingDemocracy #BylineFest

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
Aug 25
Look at this. I can’t even get in to hear @PeterKGeoghegan & @maryftz of @openDemocracy talking about DUP & illicit Brexit funding at #BylineFest...

Steve Parks @steveparks
Aug 25
Next up at @BylineFest a panel with @DamianCollins and @carolecadwalla
Damian is chair of House of Commons Select Committee for culture Media and also sport, which conducted investigation into ‘fake news’ which followed evidential trail that broadened the remit...
#BylineFest

Alice Stollmeyer @StollmeyerEU
Aug 25
Great @BylineFest panel with @sarahkendzior, @ChiOnwurah, @chrisinsilico & others on democracy being hacked by the digital dominance of big tech.
High time to fix loopholes in data privacy & election law!

Byline Festival @BylineFest
Aug 25
BEAKING: Tom Watson says press ownership is becoming too concentrated:
“We are coming to the end of the Murdoch era, thank god. But we need to make sure that the powerful of Silicon Valley don’t simply fill the void.” #BylineFest #ChangeTheMedia

www.politicususa.com/2018/08/30/msnbc-gives-trump-zero-minutes.html

Also, a Canadian problem.

hillreporter.com/canada-trade-talks-in-jeopardy-after-leaked-off-the-record-trump-comments-6652?utm_source=Ed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=HR

'Donald Trump’s trade talks with Canada were in trouble on Friday morning after an “off the record” conversation with a Bloomberg reporter was leaked.

A report from the Toronto Star focuses on comments Trump made about refusing to make any compromises with Canadian officials. Trump admitted he wouldn’t state his refusal to compromise in public because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.”

“Here’s the problem. If I say no — the answer’s no. If I say no, then you’re going to put that, and it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal…I can’t kill these people,” the President shockingly said about Canadian officials.

Trump then admitted to “scaring the Canadians into submission by repeatedly threatening to impose tariffs.”'

www.apnews.com/d9a6e3aff09d4aed991a0914a182075b/Billboard-calling-Trump-%2527idiot%2527-roils-New-Jersey-town
That darned first amendment, eh?

'The artist (he won't say who paid for it) wanted "to get people to think a little deeper." '
www.good.is/articles/most-offensive-anti-obama-billboard-ever
' .... You can’t suggest things. You can’t profile. You gotta call a spade a spade.”
“Everything I have read about Mr. Obama points right to the fact that he is a Muslim. And that is the agenda of what Muslim is all about. It’s about anti-American, it’s about anti-Christianity,” West said.'
newsone.com/362767/racist-anti-muslim-obama-billboard-stirs-controversy/
'The man behind the billboards, business owner Robert Sullivan, agreed to take questions from reporters on the ground. But, according to Sullivan’s attorney, billboards are a matter of free speech although the signs are not in accordance with the law, according to building commissioner and zoning enforcement officer Robert P. Curran.
Sullivan’s attorney, Roger S. Davis of Quincy, had this to say:
“First amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It’s called freedom of speech,” Davis said.'
newsone.com/2033486/racist-barack-obama-billboards-hanson-massachusetts/
www.defshepherd.com/2012/10/racism-is-alive-and-well-35-incredibly.html

Still radio silence from those tiddly fingers!
Did a 'friend' forget to unlock the restraints before leaving. Is the Melbot doing the dance of the thousand veils? ($1000 per veil, natch). Zombie apocalypse in the West Wing? What!

twitter.com/ddale8/status/1035539603116240896?s=21

NAFTA BOMBSHELL: The Star has obtained inflammatory secret comments about Canada that Trump made "off the record" yesterday, and they have upended the talks this morning:
www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/08/31/bombshell-leak-to-toronto-star-upends-nafta-talks-in-secret-so-insulting-remarks-trump-says-he-isnt-compromising-at-all-with-canada.html

That article I just posted about Sam Patten was from April! From Natasha Bertrand's my lips to the Washington US attorney's ears!

rantt.com/trumps-war-on-mueller-is-backfiring-and-splintering-the-republican-base/

I assume that Mary Blackshear is baking cookies like crazy. (And laundering dishtowels to carry them in.)

www.rawstory.com/2018/08/member-powerful-trump-loving-arkansas-political-family-just-got-hit-multiple-federal-indictments/

Aretha.

www.politicususa.com/2018/08/31/al-sharpton-got-a-standing-ovation-at-aretha-franklins-funeral-when-he-called-out-trumps-disrespect.html

From one Queen to another.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/susan-collins-brett-kavanaugh-roe-v-wade_us_5b8963d5e4b0511db3d7d20d

'Trump packs foreign policy team with Cuba hardliners from Florida'
www.politico.com/story/2018/08/31/mauricio-claver-carone-cuba-national-security-council-805571

Ah lionheart that Changing of the Guard put a smile on my face!

She's a yes, lion. Just waiting for the biggest umbrella she can get from the hearings, which Kav. will have been prepped to provide, all that 'settled law ' tosh.

Classy way to show respect, Perking

Running scared of Beto. Let's hope #ETTD really does apply in Texas.
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
Zodiac Meets President Death Touch

@realDonaldTrump
I will be doing a major rally for Senator Ted Cruz in October. I’m picking the biggest stadium in Texas we can find. As you know, Ted has my complete and total Endorsement. His opponent is a disaster for Texas - weak on Second Amendment, Crime, Borders, Military, and Vets!
mobile.twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1035590018767708160

Patten.

www.emptywheel.net/2018/08/31/among-other-things-sam-patten-plea-signals-that-mueller-referrals-will-include-false-congressional-testimony/

he came to know Trump after advising the President and his legal team concerning the special counsel's investigation
If that didn't put him off .........

'Attorney Pat Cipollone being considered for White House counsel'

'Cipollone, a partner at the Washington law firm Stein Mitchell Cipollone Beato & Missner, is a seasoned litigator and former Justice Department official who served during President George H.W. Bush's administration. But he came to know Trump after advising the President and his legal team concerning the special counsel's investigation, a source familiar with the matter said.'
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/08/31/politics/pat-cipollone-white-house-counsel/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

Thanks for that @emptywheel, lion, v. good stuff.

But Mueller probably has bigger things planned for Don Jr probably definitely

More on Patten:

mobile.twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1035592004078628865

www.politico.com/story/2018/08/31/former-manafort-associate-is-charged-with-failing-to-register-as-a-foreign-agent-805566