Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy. Trump no. 94.

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Quote from Walter Cronkite.

Previous thread here:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3345873-Trump-has-a-Pecker-problem-and-there-is-a-blue-pill-to-make-it-grow-bigger-midterms-Trump-threads-contd

My second laugh out loud moment today:
Mark Landler
@MarkLandler
Trump will chair a UN Security Council meeting on Iran later this month. What could go wrong? Aides are already trying to tweak the agenda to avoid “The Apprentice” with foreign leaders. W/⁦*@maggieNYT*
mobile.twitter.com/MarkLandler/status/1038027832331579393

www.salon.com/2018/09/06/exclusive-psychiatrist-bandy-lee-says-white-house-officials-told-her-trump-was-unraveling/

It's almost as if Kavanaugh wanted his notes to be read by others.

Of course he can

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
So WaPo reports that Kelly, Bolton, Sanders, and Kushner huddled in the Oval with Trump, trying to convince him that they could trust them and others.
But that leaked to the Post! One of those officials leaked it. So can Trump really trust them all?
mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1037889454663524352

Kenneth P. Vogel
@kenvogel
Hey, it’s Jared. I’m outside. Can someone let me in? ... Jared KUSHNER, the president’s son-in-law ... I’m here for the NAFTA negotiations ... Can someone unlock the door? ... There are reporters out here asking me about the op-ed, & it’s getting awkward.
mobile.twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1037858749724221441/video/1
mobile.twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1037858749724221441

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1 House Republicans have withdrawn from negotiations with Democrats over a pact that would have effectively barred both parties from using hacked or stolen material on the campaign trail this fall, NYT reports. The breakdown in talks laid plain once again the difficulty lawmakers have had bridging partisan divisions since Russia began its attack on the American political system. Frustration and Finger-Pointing as a House Pact Over Hacked Materials Fizzles nytimes.com mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1037856749737390080

Rate in a sack:
'Trump officials use Times op-ed to knife people they hate'
www.axios.com/trump-officials-op-ed-white-house-denials-4fe9a812-216f-4b1d-bfb4-5fe6becd16e3.html

Rate Rats

Keep an eye on the Dow.

Tesla in turmoil

They didn't have to leak anything. I bet someone placed a camera somewhere in the Oval Office. SS are probably on it too.

Tesla's been slowing combusting for a while. The SEC is all over it, senior executives have been jumping ship for months and Musk himself is becoming more and more erratic.

Tesla is going down thanks to Elon Musk. It's all hype and the last announcement was risky and wildly speculative. He didn't have the investors to back up his claims.

Unless he pulls a Trump... (see the connection there?)

Yeah, I'm quite upset about Tesla, as the company's being doing excellent work developing the battery storage which is critical to expanding wind and solar power usage.

Sadly Elon Musk is an arsehole, and an increasingly flaky one.

Not a happy solar-powered camper here...

POLITICO Playbook: Inside Washington’s money machine
www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2018/09/07/inside-washingtons-money-machine-302506

From your link, mimi: "THE SHAGGY PRESIDENCY … “It Wasn’t Me" about the NYT op-ed.

It's kind of an "I'm not Spartacus" movement.

David Nakamura
@DavidNakamura
Those uniformed sheriffs who applauded Trump’s tirade against the press? I talked to them to ask if they felt conflicted. They loved it. “We got to see our president chewing some serious ass.”
‘There’s a new sheriff in town’: Trump uses official events to wage campaign against press
washingtonpost.com
mobile.twitter.com/DavidNakamura/status/1038041456806686720

There are thousands of Bruce Wilsons
@brucewilson
Replying to @DavidNakamura
Three of the sheriffs quoted in that story (inc. Hodgson) are in, or have been members of, the Joe Arpaio and Richard Mack-founded CSPOA, which has extensive ties to the militia movement.
@brucewilson
Trump still cultivating potential generals for a head-bashing brownshirt force. Thread:
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@brucewilson
As pressure against Trump ramps up dramatically, he can be found cultivating favor with a group of renegade sheriffs who could unite whole swaths of the militia movement under his will, to impose true fascism. link: twitter.com/brucewilson/status/1038021853787447296 twitter.com/brucewilson/st…
mobile.twitter.com/brucewilson/status/1038074701405405184

www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/crazytown-a-bob-woodward-book-an-anonymous-new-york-times-op-ed-and-a-growing-crisis-for-the-trump-presidency/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Perking

Amy Fiscus
@amyfiscus
After @PressSec directed people to call the @nytimes and ask the opinion section to out the Op-Ed writer, many have called instead to voice their support for the Op-Ed and the NYT news coverage of the Trump administration. “Print the news, honey!” one told @Emily_Baum
mobile.twitter.com/amyfiscus/status/1037796835329564673

Watch out, there's an Obama about:
Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
Kicking off midterm campaigning, Obama says Trump is “capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years, a fear and anger that’s rooted in our past but that’s also born out of the enormous upheavals” of recent years.
mobile.twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1038100403949383681

Kyle Griffin
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Verified account

@kylegriffin1
2m2 minutes ago

'Obama: "When there's a vacuum in our democracy, when we don't vote, when we take our basic rights and freedoms for granted, when we turn away and stop paying attention and stop engaging and stop believing ... the politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold."'

slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/judge-brett-kavanaugh-should-be-impeached-for-lying-during-his-confirmation-hearings.html?__twitter_impression=true

'I wrote some of the stolen memos that Brett Kavanaugh lied to the Senate about. He should be impeached, not elevated.'

Jonathan Swan
@jonathanvswan
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@daveweigel
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mobile.twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1038086099313324032

Not much of a stretch.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-contributor-scottie-nell-hughes-joins-russian-network-rt-america-1140317

www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-good-the-bad-the-semantically-imprecise-09072018