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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.

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 07:51

At a FUNERALAngry
Kate Bennett
@KateBennett_DC
Replying to @ChelseaClinton
(both of your parents just shared a stage for hours on end with Louis Farrakhan)

@ChelseaClinton
For anyone who wonders what normalization of bigotry looks like, please look no further than Steve Bannon being invited by both
@TheEconomist & @NewYorker to their respective events in #NYC a few weeks apart.

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 07:54

Philip Rucker
Philip Rucker
@PhilipRucker
A good look here at what Democrats intend to do subpoenas, oversight hearings, investigations, etc. if they win back the House majority, by
@npfandos
Representative Elijah Cummings, the House Oversight Committee’s ranking Democrat, left, gives opening remarks during a hearing with former F.B.I. agent Peter Strzok while people hold up guilty signs featuring former associates of President Trump.
Democrats, Eyeing a Majority, Prepare an Investigative Onslaught
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/03/us/politics/democrats-trump-impeachment.html
nytimes.com
mobile.twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1036780908408463361

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lionheart · 04/09/2018 07:56

I was rather dismayed that Bannon was invited. The above is from April and is probably the last thing he'd be drawn on if allowed to attend such an event. He would simply deliver yet more of this bile.

www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/steve-bannon-five-things-to-know

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 08:54

Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
The Senate was just given an additional 42,000 pages of Kavanaugh documents the NIGHT BEFORE his confirmation hearing. This underscores just how absurd this process is. Not a single senator will be able to review these records before tomorrow.

Republicans know this has been the least transparent SCOTUS process in history and the hearings should be delayed until we can fully review Judge Kavanaugh’s records.
mobile.twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1036769126411366401

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 09:02

Susan Hennessey
@Susan_Hennessey
You can be an autocratic president if you've got a feckless Congress so beholden to base partisanship that it fails to discharge its basic constitutional mandate as a co-equal branch and together you stack the courts.

@ChuckGrassley
So...Obama’s going on campaign trail to alert ppl of trend toward authoritarianism/a hit on Trump That’s easy for Trump to counter. No President can be autocratic when u share Constitutional power w Congress&Court@real Donald Trump give it to Obama

mobile.twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1036782011959193600

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lionheart · 04/09/2018 10:44

Contemptuous on the part of GOP and their leader alike.

lionheart · 04/09/2018 10:48
Smile
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 · 04/09/2018 12:26

KAVANAUGH CONFIRMATION

Why Trump won’t see a Kavanaugh bump
The dramas of the past year have dissipated the president’s ability to reset the narrative of his presidency
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-trump-polling-806294

Dems hunt for a win as they struggle in Kavanaugh battle
Democrats have an uphill battle in blocking Kavanaugh's confirmation. But they can still eke out minor victories.
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/03/kavanaugh-confirmation-democrats-supreme-court-trump-806099

Democrats’ last shot at stopping Trump’s Supreme Court pick
If they can’t beat Kavanaugh, they’ll use his conservative views to fuel their 'blue wave.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/03/kavanaugh-democrats-strategy-trump-supreme-court-health-care-806034

www.politico.com/video/2018/07/10/7-facts-on-brett-kavanaugh-067104

Keeping up with Kavanaugh's confirmation: Top buzzwords decoded
Democrats aren't likely to get any straight answers out of Kavanaugh about how he'd rule, so they're more likely to poke and prod at his judicial philosophy and more.
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/kavanaugh-confirmation-top-buzzwords-decoded-806124

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 12:29

You get what you vote for:
'Trump's rollback of pollution rules to hit coal country hard'
apnews.com/amp/4c0ec2408aec431b8063bddc1076a54f?__twitter_impression=true

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 12:35

You get what you vote for:
'When President Donald Trump came into office pledging to cut regulations “massively,” he made a point of exempting regulations that protected workers’ health.
But almost two years in, the Trump administration has done the opposite, rolling back worker safety protections affecting underground mine safety inspections, offshore oil rigs and line speeds in meat processing plants, among others.'
www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/09/03/trumps-worker-safety-regulations-protections-unions-806008?__twitter_impression=true

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 12:39

Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson
"[Trump] discussed with state Republican leaders the idea of using the governorship as a platform to run for president." DECEMBER 2013,
@realdonaldtrump. So why are you trying to pretend you weren't telling people you were going to run for POTUS in 2013?
Donald J. Trump speaking at a Republican event in New York City in February 2014. He explored running for the state’s governor that year.
Donald Trump Considered Path to Presidency Starting at Governor’s Mansion in New York
nytimes.com
mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1036881283174080512

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 12:44

This Week
This Week
@ThisWeekABC
JUST IN: 38% in new @ABC
News/WaPo poll say Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed, among the lowest level of support for a high court nominee in polling back to 1987. (l
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/public-split-kavanaugh-views-abortion-access-shift/story?id=57538740&__twitter_impression=true
mobile.twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1036922674558197761

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 15:09

Riiiiiight:
'Kavanaugh pledges to be a 'neutral' umpire on Supreme Court.
Democratic senators are readying an intense volley of questions for the 53-year-old appeals court judge.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/04/kavanaugh-remarks-neutral-umpire-806306

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 15:14

'Trump irritated he wasn't interviewed by Woodward for upcoming'
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/04/politics/donald-trump-bob-woodward-book-interview/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

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Lweji · 04/09/2018 15:18

Does he know who Woodward is? Grin

cozietoesie · 04/09/2018 15:22

To be published 'next Tuesday'?

cozietoesie · 04/09/2018 15:22

I'm not sure that he would, Lweji.

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 15:24

@CNNPolitics
JUST IN: Democrats call to adjourn the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over withheld documents (link: cnn.it/2PCmS6V) cnn.it/2PCmS6V
mobile.twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1036974431900499970/video/1
mobile.twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1036974431900499970

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 15:33

"We're in a fight for the soul of America," Biden said from the steps of a Catholic church following morning services, as he prepared to march with workers in one of the largest Labor Day parades in the country. "Everything" is at stake in the coming midterm elections, Biden added.'
amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/03/politics/biden-trump-labor-day/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

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Lweji · 04/09/2018 15:36

Wolff said he was able to get access because he pitched a book that seemed sympathetic to the administration and Trump encouraged staffers to speak with him for the book, two sources told CNN.

GrinGrinGrinGrinGrin

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 15:41

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

@SenatorLeahy points out that while he was chairman for the Kagan hearing, "We had 99% of her records from the White House made public 12 days before the hearing. With Kavanaugh we have 7%, and only 4% are public... what's being done here is unprecedented. What are we hiding?"
mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1036984033132126213/video/1
mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1036984033132126213

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 15:42

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Grassley refuses to allow a vote on @SenBlumenthal's motion to suspend the hearing.
"If there is no vote on this motion, which has been properly seconded and which could be given a vote in executive session, this process will be tainted and stained forever," Blumenthal says.
mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1036979961570181121

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ohmymimi · 04/09/2018 15:44

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Sen @JohnCornyn argues that whether all of Kavanaugh's documents are released to senators or not doesn't really matter, because Democrats are just going to oppose him anyway.
mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1036985324310876161

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