‘Energy and persistence conquer all things’ - even vile orange ones. Trump thread con.

[TheClaws]

From the august Benjamin Franklin. This thread is no. 84.

Old thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3369248-Not-knowing-when-the-Dawn-will-come-I-open-every-Door-Trump-No-95

'Trump-Loving Old White People Mock The Young For Not Voting In PSA
The campaign aims to inspire millennials to show up for next month's midterm elections.'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/old-white-people-trump-vote-psa_us_5bb5da66e4b028e1fe3adde6

I'm utterly appalled, ohmymimi. Shocked and appalled.

Should add, BTW, that the US companies involved have denied (perhaps rather narrowly) the story about the spy chips. So who knows.

All talky, no walky:
Burgess Everett
@burgessev
@jameswegmann: Sasse "has long been and remains at lean-yes. He's spent well over 150 hours doing his homework, and he pledged to fully review the information in the new FBI report ...he rejects the left's cynical play to use the MeToo movement for political gain"
Neera Tanden 🌊
@neeratanden
Yes it’s the left who is cynical here. Not the guy who lectures us all on integrity and tribalism and votes with Trump a 100 % of the time. Give me a break.

And:
They are not listening and don't care to look past their own self-interest 🙉🙈:
Lulu Ramadan
@luluramadan
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a lifelong Republican, told a small crowd in Boca Raton that Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s performance at confirmation hearings should disqualify him. “The Senators should pay attention to this.”

Wot a coinkidink:
Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
Letters sent to and released by Senate Judiciary Committee insist “Devil’s Triangle” is a drinking game

mobile.twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1047924963611750400

Uhoh, inconvenient logic from a Foxnick:
John Roberts
@johnrobertsFox
The only flaw in this explanation is - if you played four people in a triangle game, one would never have to drink, because the glasses would always be closer to the other three. Unless you rotate the glasses after every turn.
mobile.twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1047940814272380928/photo/1
mobile.twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1047940814272380928

Whatever the Midterms bring, it will be a new landscape, politically. Those who have been raised in TWorld, will be looking for personal advantage.

Robert Costa
@costareports
Another point about McGahn and the GOP push to confirm, based on more conversations this afternoon: He, more than almost any other witness, knows what Mueller is asking about possible obstruction of justice. And that Mueller report is likely being sent to DOJ after the election.
mobile.twitter.com/costareports/status/1047949838028083200
Wonder why
'A Supreme Court Case Could Liberate Trump to Pardon His Associates'
Gamble v. United States isn’t related to the Russia investigation. But the outcome—which one senior Republican senator has tried to influence—could still have consequences for the probe.'

Utah lawmaker Orrin Hatch, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, filed a 44-page amicus brief earlier this month in Gamble v. United States, a case that will consider whether the dual-sovereignty doctrine should be put to rest. The 150-year-old exception to the Fifth Amendment’s double-jeopardy clause allows state and federal courts to prosecute the same person for the same criminal offense. According to the brief he filed on September 11, Hatch believes the doctrine should be overturned. “The extensive federalization of criminal law has rendered ineffective the federalist underpinnings of the dual sovereignty doctrine,” his brief reads. “And its persistence impairs full realization of the Double Jeopardy Clause’s liberty protections.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/

An - interesting perspective on Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, George Papadopoulos’s wife.

Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman
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Under threat of lawsuit, I am publishing this meticulously researched and strongly sourced article about Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos and her apparent efforts to mislead the public about her background:

t.co/Qf2NfdzWp5

Beijing’s challenge to US warship in South China Sea ‘deliberate and calculated’, observers say

www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/2167034/beijings-challenge-us-warship-south-china-sea-deliberate-and

A reaction to the Veep's stupid speech.

Fake mailer warns of $500 fine for displaying O'Rourke signs, civil rights group says
A civil rights group is investigating reports of a fake mailer circulating in College Station that warns of a $500 fine for displaying signs supporting U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke.
www.statesman.com/news/20181002/fake-mailer-warns-of-500-fine-for-displaying-orourke-signs-civil-rights-group-says

Conservative Group Wants You to Believe Iran’s President Endorsed Beto O’Rourke

A neoconservative foreign policy group appeared to try and get audio recorded claiming erroneously that Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D-TX) Senate campaign was endorsed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

The campaign appears to have not made it into production, and maybe never will, as the site where the group posted a call for voice actors took down the solicitation on the grounds that the script was clearly false.

Before it was removed, a screenshot of that posting—which was made on the website Voicebunny in August—was provided to The Daily Beast on an anonymous tip line. According to the posting, the company producing the ad was “trying to do a voice dubbing of the Iranian President, so the voiceover needs to sound middle eastern and stern.”
www.thedailybeast.com/fake-ad-claiming-irans-president-endorsed-beto-orourke-is-pulled-from-production

Foxy may have found a flaw in the "Devil's Triangle = drinking game" story, but it ain't the only one.

I've just wasted part of my day reading the letter from Bart's mates about it, and just like Barty, their unnecessary elaboration has set the story up to fail.

They say "'Devil's Triangle' was a drinking game we came up with in high school."

If that's true, any claims by anyone unconnected to them to have played the same game and called it by the same name MUST be false. Since how would the unconnected people know game + name?

And interestingly, in that Fox Twitter thread linked above, there's one reply that does claim to know the game. And that reply happens to add the message "used to vote Dem but won't any more" – which we saw being a specific troll/bot campaign a few weeks ago.

mobile.twitter.com/angelamcknight9/status/1047959353263882240
Angela McKnight
@angelamcknight9
My step dad knew exactly what it was. He has only known it as a drinking game. And he's a democrat. Well now he's so angry at @TheDemocrats he's saying he's not voting at all.

Claws, thanks for that link about Pap's wife. As you said earlier, she does seem 'spooky'.
Brexiters missed a trick not shouting about this
“I used to work as a diplomat at the European Parliament for a few years and this could be a red flag because many officials at European Union actually — it’s a cover-up for spy jobs,”

That fake "message from the Iranian President"!

The same organisation has 17 other completed audio-actor jobs on the same website. According to the article, it looks like the organisation is Secure America Now, which is part-funded by the Mercers.

www.thedailybeast.com/fake-ad-claiming-irans-president-endorsed-beto-orourke-is-pulled-from-production
Secure America Now is also referenced in a New York Times report as an organization that Elliott Broidy, former deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, said he was “working with” to get the Trump administration to fill positions favorable to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1048019681913786368

“Trump’s most powerful tool is that he knows how to wield victimhood. He knows how to offer victimhood to the people who have the least claim to it.” #BetweenTheScenes https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1048019681913786368/video/1

Noah has an equally powerful monologue. Well worth watching.

Judge Dilly Dilly has his mop and bucket out for a last gasp clean up:
'Kavanaugh says his testimony might have been 'too emotional' and 'sharp'
As the Supreme Court nominee made a direct appeal for his confirmation, Trump pushed for him at a Minnesota rally.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/10/04/kavanaugh-confirmation-temperament-op-ed-870992

'Here Are The People The FBI Didn't Ask About Brett Kavanaugh
The FBI interviewed just nine people about the Supreme Court nominee. This isn't what a thorough investigation looks like.'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brett-kavanaugh-fbi-investigation-christine-blasey-ford-deborah-ramirez_us_5bb684eee4b0876eda9ca281

“I used to work as a diplomat at the European Parliament for a few years and this could be a red flag because many officials at European Union actually — it’s a cover-up for spy jobs,”

And also potential Russian spies if you read Stella Rimington's latest novel.

Papadopoulos’s wife is a classic Russian play.

Thanks for the link Claws

'The Forgotten Affidavits.
Four people say Christine Blasey Ford previously told them about her alleged assault -- but senators seem uninterested.'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/christine-blasey-ford-affidavits_us_5bb660bbe4b01470d04fcc5d

He shows he isn't SC Court Material every time he comments.
Kavanaugh says his testimony might have been 'too emotional' and 'sharp'
Now he's saying his judgement isn't sound.

I did read somewhere the reason they are sticking with him is he was the only shortlist candidate to give his loyalty to Trump. None of the others were willing to do that.

'Senator Orrin Hatch Tells Kavanaugh Protesters To 'Grow Up'.
Protestors occupied the Hart Senate Building in opposition to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sen-orrin-hatch-tells-female-protestors-to-grow-up_us_5bb677a3e4b028e1fe3c0bf3

'A Culture of Secrecy Is Helping Propel Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
This is why we haven’t heard more from Kavanaugh’s high school peers.'
www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/a-culture-of-secrecy-is-helping-propel-kavanaugh-to-the-supreme-court/

WOW, this march is HUGE! Thousands marching down Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court to #CancelKavanaugh! pic.twitter.com/3VUMO8RbQy
— Daniel Altschuler (@altochulo) October 4, 2018

www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/thousands-of-protesters-march-to-cancelkavanaugh/

'Florida Republican House candidate snubs Trump rally.
‘The problem with Trump is you never know what’s going to come out of his mouth,’ said a Florida pollster.'
www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/10/04/florida-republican-candidate-trump-rally-871028?__twitter_impression=true