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=

'Donald Trump’s Funeral Problem.
John McCain’s ceremony is only the latest from which he has been shunned. Might be for the best because he’s been known to make it all about him.'
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/01/mccain-funeral-trump-shunned-219628

‘Whoever wins South Carolina will be the Democratic nominee’
Presidential prospects rethink primary election strategy for 2020.
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/01/south-carolina-democratic-nominee-elections-806104

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jared-and-ivanka-attended-john-mccains-funeral-and-twitter-wasnt-having-it_us_5b8aff8de4b0511db3d946cc

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-papadopoulos-nodded-approval-putin-meeting_us_5b8aeffce4b0511db3d93bb6

'Beto O'Rourke's Path To Victory Runs Along The Border.
Turning Texas blue means radically changing the state’s voter turnout demographics.'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/beto-orourke-texas-border-hispanic-vote_us_5b86e5cfe4b0cf7b00318d1d

Walter Shaub
@waltshaub
You should probably learn something about govt ethics before talking about the subject. 18 U.S.C. § 208 doesn't impute a spouse's employer's interests to a Fed, unless the spouse has an equity interest. In fact, Ohr's wife wasn't even an employee of GPS. (She was a contractor.)

@RudyGiuliani
Bruce Ohr worked on Steele dossier while at DOJ. His wife worked for FusionGPS, company peddling lies about President Trump, and was paid by them. A CRIME. 18 USC 208. If they worked for Trump campaign they would now be arrested. Let’s see if media covers it.
mobile.twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1036074887302053893

'Kansas court rules for grand jury investigation of Kobach'
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A grand jury must be convened to investigate whether Republican gubernatorial candidate and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach intentionally failed to register voters in 2016, the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled.
apnews.com/6d71bac9ec854c0f86af5490f87bab4c

Tom Nichols
@RadioFreeTom
Trump shill explains how his funeral will totally be better and more godly than the one planned by a dying war hero and national icon who wanted to deliver one last message to the country he loved.
Matt Schlapp
@mschlapp
Thinking about funerals: I hope I have lots of time but if not: anyone can come, will be about God and not politics, and celebrate.
mobile.twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1036089143762272256

'John McCain’s Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet.
Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter teamed up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump.'
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/john-mccains-funeral-was-the-biggest-resistance-meeting-yet/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Interesting Politico piece on who could be Dem's 2020 nominee - mimi links to above.

WELCOME TO MACTRUMPTOWN
Three theories about Trump’s plan to build an entire village in rural Scotland
qz.com/1341021/where-did-trump-org-get-the-money-to-build-a-village-in-scotland/

I lived in Aberdeen for a number of years, and was familiar with the beach areas Trump’s golf resort destroyed- there was, and still is, a lot of opposition to the development and to Trump as well.
Planing laws were repeatedly broken, locals were bullied, environmental considerations about sensitive development were ignored and valuable habitats which were to be preserved as part of the planning consents were destroyed.

I doubt the locals will be keen on Trumptown.

Across, I happened to catch Bernie Kraus talking about his recordings of birdsong in Calif., Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, while I was doing Sunday lunch prep. earlier today. Such a stark demonstration of effects of drought and fires resulting from our changing climate. I have put a link to the programme below, but am not sure if BBC stuff plays in the US. You may well already be familiar with this, but I thought of you immediately when I heard it.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03kwgj0
www.outsideonline.com/2035701/you-can-actually-hear-climate-changing

'Don't Use Mollie' To Push Racism, Says Dad Who Points To 'Heartless' Donald Trump Jr.
Rob Tibbetts slams those who "callously distort and corrupt Mollie’s tragic death to advance a cause she vehemently.'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dont-use-mollie-tibbetts-death-to-promote-racism-says-dad_us_5b8b45dfe4b0511db3d94eb1

When Brett Kavanaugh appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week for the hearing to consider his nomination to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, he will officially become the most unpopular person to sit in that seat since Robert Bork. Bork’s nomination was scuttled in 1987 because of what were seen as his extreme legal views.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-the-most-unpopular-supreme-court-nominee-in-decades/

'DONALD TRUMP’S FORMER ICE CHIEF TO BE HONORED AT NOTORIOUS ANTI-MUSLIM CONVENTION'
theintercept.com/2018/09/01/act-for-america-conference-thomas-homan/

It's the same old song ......

David Frum
@davidfrum
It never happened =>
It happened, but we didn't seek stolen info =>
We sought stolen info, but didn't get any =>
Anybody would have done it =>
Ok, but it's not a crime.
link: twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1036061566628757504

@davidfrum
On deck: "OK, but it's not a high crime within the scope of the impeachment clause."

@realDonaldTrump
“There is no possible way the Trump Tower meeting between Don Trump jr and a couple of Russians, who have very deep connections to both the Clintons & Fusion GPS, & where no information on the Clintons was exchanged, is a crime. Dems are blinded by their hatred of Trump.” Bongino
mobile.twitter.com/davidfrum

'The Identity Mistake'
Mistaken Identity claims to overcome the limits of identity politics but leads us down the same dead end.
www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/mistaken-identity-asaid-haider-review-identity-politics

lettuce, the first time I noticed Trump was when the golf course battle was on. There was a documentary about the dubious tactics his minions adopted to push it through ...

thehill.com/homenews/news/404726-7-times-trump-was-called-out-at-john-mccains-funeral

That birdsong clip is pretty dramatic mimi. Interestingly enough we were talking about something similar the other day. A friend got back from holiday and was remarking on how beautiful the birdsong was where she was in the morning. We both said it seemed there was more birdsong 'years ago' here, but then figured we must be mistaken.

Apparently not!

7 subtle jabs speakers took at Trump during John McCain’s funeral
Not really subtle, though, we're they

I found it pretty depressing, Across, not a good start to my Sunday!

I couldn't bring myself to watch it.

Not subtle, no.

www2.ljworld.com/news/2018/aug/31/kansas-supreme-court-agrees-douglas-county-must-summon-grand-jury-to-investigate-kobach/