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=

Saturday will be a moment of “national humiliation”, “It’s part of a big pattern. In so many ways, Donald Trump has marooned himself on a faraway island. His boat is now wrecked on the shore and he’s sitting sulking.”

And now Barack Obama. Who we all know is a great orator. Now is not the time or place but a lot of the nation will be mourning what we miss in a President after listening to Obama.

Chris Wylie's whistleblowing interviews are revisited by Rachel Maddow towards the end of this piece:
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-gets-another-guilty-plea-flip-following-foreign-money-1311010371707?v=railb (Sep 01 2018).

In which Wylie says Sam Patten's work at Cambridge Analytica included testing pro-Russia and pro-Putin messages on the American public circa 2014, and that Putin was the only foreign leader about whom such messages were tested (at least in Wylie's time at CA).

It's worth watching all of that clip, which follows kaytola's clip above: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-light-shines-on-blatantly-shady-trump-inauguration-finances-1311010883566?v=railb (Sep 01 2018)

They're both about her belief the Trump Inauguration Fund was actually a giant slush fund, but we don't yet know what for. Patten's admission it took illegal contributions from a pro-Putin Ukrainian party/person make that all the more interesting.

Obama

Is it me or is there a distinct orange-coloured subtext to the McCain eulogies?

Ouch, Obama.

Yes, I agree NorthWest. But maybe we are reading things into things that aren't they. I just think the eulogies pinpoint everything that Trump isn't.

There was always going to be a sub-text. That just happens to be it in many people's minds......

Interesting that, in so much being said in the eulogies to McCain (I didn't listen to Kissinger), there is an implicit rebuke of the current POTUS, in particular, and the repuglies in Congress.

And how appalling to be tweeting bile about Canada and NAFTA during the memorial service.

Has he no filter at all? (No need to answer, I know he hasn't)

Every single speaker has at some point had DH and I look at each other knowingly and nod. Every single speech has made silent reference to the behaviour of the Orange Oaf. Problem is that he's too fucking thick to get it.

Scrotus is this Country's best argument for Roe v Wade.

There's a lovely clip on Twitter of GeorgeW passing Laura Bush a sweet (or candy?) and Michelle Obama looks and he sneaks her one too!

Apparently, Michelle O and George W get on like a house on fire.

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George W. Bush: "Above all, John detested the abuse of power. He could not abide bigots and swaggering despots." (via ABC)

And during that Mitch McConnell is sat looking very po faced.

I can't believe Ivanka and Jared are there and Meghan McCain threw them a comment about MAGA.

" The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great.”

That would be STB 'Senator McCain'.

Roussette here’s a link to that gif. I like to think Bill Clinton is stiffling a giggle a la Barack too, just we can’t see it with the plant obstructing his face!

twitter.com/rolandscahill/status/1035904690825908225?s=21

www.cnbc.com/2018/08/31/democrat-suffers-the-kind-of-smear-john-mccain-would-recognize.html

Ah darn, I was obviously sitting down to watch Maddow when I should have been watching McCain.

Will catch up on Ch4 News now...

That is very interesting about Wylie/Patten, Perking, I didn't have the chance to catch up on yesterday's shows this morning, so that will be my first listen later (if I can stay awake)

Interesting MSNBC piece. (It's a long one - sorry.)

Sorry. Try 2.

I noticed Bill chewing a bit later, so Laura must have had plenty of sweeties
Ivanka seemed to be looking down a lot, and Jared was sitting as if he had a stick up his bum. I hope the whole thing was an uncomfortable few hours for both of them.

Ivanka texting at McCain’s funeral.
Why am I not shocked. twitter.com/superlorna69/status/1035916686090797056/video/1

I was shocked to see Ivanka at the service tbh. She had a nerve.

CaveMum love that clip! There's such a warmth for all those sat there.

And then there's Ivanka texting...