'Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door,' Trump No. 95

[lionheart]

From Emily Dickinson.

Old thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3356297-Freedom-of-the-press-is-not-just-important-to-democracy-it-is-democracy-Trump-no-94

Now, now people! That wasn't laughter, that was 'alternative appreciation'!!!

Love that one, Across!

Wishful thinking...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/24/1798246/-Could-the-growing-Kavanaugh-catastrophe-possibly-take-down-the-entire-GOP

today

Love that.. Across

Michael Caputo is always invited for his extreme views but vote red to avoid your sons getting a rape charge is er... interesting. I thought the other guests were admirably measured in their response.

““Enough… I don’t get invited on here to be called out by you like this. This is inappropriate.”

Former Trump aide @MichaelRCaputo clashes with @KirstenPowers over her critique of his argument in favor of Brett Kavanaugh https://cnn.it/2N4uCgq https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1045114825280376832/video/1

'alternative appreciation' nails it Across

www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/justice/supreme-court/article219071435.html

Scroll down and watch the clip of Avenatti, he is fearsome in supporting his client

And now there is a fifth accuser , surely this man cannot be elected to the SC, he will be forever followed around by these accusations.

www.rawstory.com/2018/09/senate-investigating-fifth-brett-kavanaugh-accuser-says-raped-boat-rhode-island/#.W6wbjJJiwAg.twitter

'Fed vindicates Trump, projecting 3.1 percent growth as it raises rates'
www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/federal-reserve-raises-interest-rates-808704

Bloody Hell, anyone else struggling to keep up? We have

Blasey Ford (pinned to bed at a party & sexually menaced), about 1982, has extensive notes from therapy afterwards

Debbie Ramirez (swung his willy in her face, at a party), 1983, this was shouted down the hall

Julie Swetnick (witnessed & victim of gang banging, at parties) early 1980s

Elizabeth Rasor (witnessed someone else slammed against a bar wall & sexually menaced, Mark Judge's ex-gf, ER says BK also boasted about group sex), probably mid '80s

(male unnamed) beat up some men (including BK) after hearing about rape of close friend, August 1985 on a boat in RI

Please let us teach our daughters (& sons) never to hide or dismiss this shit; the perpetrators must be challenged at the time.

I am nauseated at that listyeolde
Let’s hope some good comes of it.

Through the looking glass:
Charlie Kirk
@charliekirk11
This press conference is exactly why we fought so hard to elect @realDonaldTrump

Strong, decisive, clear, confident, with an American first vision

He should do this many times a week. He is his own best advocate.

mobile.twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1045067743421239297

The MAGAwock
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

^We had fun. That was not laughing at me. So the fake news said, people laughed at President Trump. They didn't laugh at me. People had a good time with me. We were doing it together. We had a good time. They respect what I've done. The United States is respected again.

'The 10 Most Astonishing Moments in Trump’s Press Conference.
In his second solo press conference as president, Trump weighed in on allegations against his Supreme Court nominee and called into question George Washington’s past.'
Trump: I was in front of a large group of highly professional people, most of whom are from either other countries or the United Nations, people that aren't big into clapping, applauding, smiling, and I heard a little rustle as I said our country is now stronger than ever before. It is true. I mean it is true. I heard a little rustle, and I said, it is true. And I heard smiles. I said, I didn't know there would be—they weren't laughing at me, they were laughing with me. We had fun. That was not laughing at me. So the fake news said, people laughed at President Trump. They didn't laugh at me. People had a good time with me. We were doing it together. We had a good time. They respect what I've done. The United States is respected again.
www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/571456/?__twitter_impression=true

Caputo goes kaput. Bannon needs to find better minnions:
www.mediaite.com/tv/heated-cnn-panel-on-kavanaugh-goes-off-the-rails-stop-interrupting-me/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

www.thedailybeast.com/disaster-trumpworld-starting-to-sweat-over-brett-kavanaughs-mounting-sexual-assault-allegations

Officials inside the White House, as well as outside advisers, told the The Daily Beast that mood has become less bullish. Senior aides fear delivering Trump a major failure and humiliation that he can—and likely will—pin on those around him and squeamish Republican lawmakers. There is palpable fear that the party's base will turn on Republicans should the Kavanaugh nomination fail.
Top donors, meanwhile, have said that they will continue writing checks out of a growing fear that the party could lose the Senate in addition to the House this coming fall. But one major contributor warned that lawmakers had to show them that they had put up a sufficient fight to get Kavanaugh on to the Court or else the checks wouldn't come.

“You’re asking me what donors think? They think he is being railroaded. It is the first time the grassroots and the donors have been aligned in the Trump era,” said one major GOP donor. “I think Kavanaugh has the votes. I think he is going to get confirmed. But if he doesn’t get confirmed and goes down on a vote, I think the message to the donor community is we need to elect more Republicans. That could l supercharge giving, provided they think the party went down fighting.”

If your newsroom is like our newsroom, you currently have more Kavanaugh tips than you can possibly follow up on.

twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1045068166144151559

Editor in chief of The Daily Beast

Interesting body language from Dianne Feinstein

MURKOWSKI and FEINSTEIN huddling in Capitol basement. What are they talking about? twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1045014671118553090/photo/1

twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1045014671118553090

Tweeters on that Noah Shachtman thread reminding that some of the BK tips might be false stories attempting to flood the zone and drown real ones, and also discredit them (like the Project Veritas attempt on WaPo with a fake accuser of Roy Moore).

Also:

twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1043871958834851841
Christopher Bouzy
@cbouzy
At the start of this month trollbot accounts were focused on the usually polarizing topics, but now they are laser-focused on Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford. botsentinel.com/trending-topics

Screenshots from today's Bot Sentinel.

Rand Paul’s Push to Lift Some Russia Sanctions Fizzles
‘It was soundly defeated for obvious reasons,’ Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) told The Daily Beast.
www.thedailybeast.com/rand-pauls-push-to-lift-some-russia-sanctions-fizzles

An aide said Paul was the only lawmaker to vote for his amendment, which would scrap U.S. sanctions on members of the Russian Federal Assembly if Moscow agrees to lift its sanctions on American lawmakers. The 20 other senators on the foreign relations panel voted against it. The Daily Beast first reported that Paul would be introducing the amendment.

The Kentucky lawmaker’s push to normalize U.S.-Russia relations comes a month after he traveled to Moscow and met with Russian lawmakers. During that trip, he invited members of Russia’s legislature to visit the U.S. But many of them are subject to U.S. sanctions and are therefore unable to travel to the United States.

I saw that Perking and also that Huff Post was experiencing the same.

I also thought of this tweet from Nate Silver

4 accusations are much more credible than 1 accusation. But, it also gives you more evidence to cherry-pick from if you want to find weak links. It also allows you to allege a conspiracy, even though these women don't seem to have coordinated in any direct way.

twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1045085147102662657

Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian at that "happenstance" meeting in the Seychelles, apparently wrote a memo about it. George Nader was also at the meeting.

Revealed: What Erik Prince and Moscow’s Money Man Discussed in That Infamous Seychelles Meeting
www.thedailybeast.com/revealed-what-erik-prince-and-moscows-money-man-discussed-in-that-infamous-seychelles-meeting

Joint U.S.-Russian raids to kill top terrorists. Teamwork between an American government agency and a sanctioned Russian fund. Moscow pouring money into the Midwest.

These are just a few of the ideas [Kirill Dmitriev] the head of a Russian sovereign wealth fund touched on during his meeting with former Blackwater head Erik Prince in the Seychelles, just weeks before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to a memo exclusively reviewed by The Daily Beast.
[...]
Evelyn Farkas, an Obama administration Pentagon official who focused on Eastern Europe and Russia, said the proposals in the memo aren’t unusual; in fact, they mirror proposals that Moscow makes regularly.

“It’s nothing new,” she told The Daily Beast. “What is new is that they’re trying to do this through this weird backchannel.”

But the proposal of the task force—the memo’s fifth point—caught the eye of Mieke Eoyang, vice president of the think tank Third Way’s national-security program and a former House Intelligence Committee staffer.

“Number five, that there’s a task force where the Russians are going to participate in figuring out what the policy should be on numbers one through four, that’s really not normal

www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team

From time to time, Trump would see something in the paper about Christie’s fundraising and become upset all over again. The money that people donated to his campaign Trump considered, effectively, his own. He thought the planning and forethought pointless. At one point he turned to Christie and said: “Chris, you and I are so smart that we can leave the victory party two hours early and do the transition ourselves.”

Just been reading about the last story (the boat) and the possibility that it is planted by the GOP to muddy the waters.

I'm not sure if Sky or BBC will be showing the Senate committee hearing but these are the US schedules. Hearing starts at 10am ET which is 3pm BST (I think )

That's before you even get to the perverse rendition of a Spartacus moment here.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/two-men-told-senate-staffers-they-had-the-encounter-with