‘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

Thin gruel:
'John Roberts’s Chance for Greatness.
As Kavanaugh tips the Court further to the right, the chief justice will have to decide whether the Court will dictate social policy from the bench.'
www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/572482/?__twitter_impression=true

??Rand Paul did not sign the letter from the Senate??
'Stop Military Aid to Saudi Arabia.
The regime must be held accountable for Jamal Khashoggi.'
www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/572692/?utm_source=twb&__twitter_impression=true

www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/mueller-russia-troll-sentence-889038

From lionheart's link:

Mueller gets longest sentence yet for man who helped Russian trolls
www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/mueller-russia-troll-sentence-889038

Pinedo’s case stemmed from his admission in February to unwittingly selling stolen bank accounts to Russian internet trolls who used the credentials to buy internet ads that sowed discord among Americans in the lead-up to Trump’s upset victory almost two years ago.

“He never let anyone know he was gathering information to make policy out of it … So he made it seem like he was chatting, talking economics and trade policy the way you’d talk about the New York Mets. Then he synthesised all the responses into one position, letting in the good bits and keeping out the bad.”
Is this just fantasy?
It is very rhapsodic

In case you wish to read the whole fandango:
Anthony Scaramucci
@Scaramucci
Exciting Fall Ahead! Blue Collar President OCT 23 (link: mail.barnesandnoble.com/H/2/v4000001665e7e7110934a90f4bbcfb920/f94cfde5-c772-4b88-872f-48f77b2c0781/HTML) mail.barnesandnoble.com/H/2/v400000166…

Margherita Stancati
@margheritamvs
Our latest: the team of Saudi operatives suspected of killing Jamal Khashoggi flew on a Gulfstream jet controlled by the Saudi crown prince. Turkey also released the names of the operatives, who appear to include a forensics expert and a Saudi Royal guard.
Turkey’s release of identities that appear to be linked to Saudi security forces highlights Ankara’s growing impatience in resolving the case
Turkey Ramps Up Pressure on Saudis Over Missing Journalist
wsj.com

Link's broken, mimi. And I now I need to knoooow!

Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
Two episodes of #WITHPod that are useful for the #JamalKhashoggi case.

1. A basic primer on the main regional alliances in the Middle East and especially MBS' role w/ Dexter Filkins www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna873981?__twitter_impression=true

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/09/a-saudi-princes-quest-to-remake-the-middle-east?icid=related

2. This discussion of the moral abomination that is the Saudi-led (and US backed!) war in Yemen w @shireen818 www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna906286?__twitter_impression=true

This linky works magnifico, Perking. I forgot to remove the ( ), no idea why sometimes these stop link working.
mail.barnesandnoble.com/H/2/v4000001665e7e7110934a90f4bbcfb920/f94cfde5-c772-4b88-872f-48f77b2c0781/HTML

Arggh! I'm still not getting the full glory...

But I understand that Scaramucci has published (written himself? No surely not...) a book entitled "Trump: The Blue Collar President". Which of course he isn't.

So, likely to be another heap of sycophantic shit designed to mislead then? It can join the dung heap...

More smooch than mooch:
'A fandango into literature – Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci is back with bouquets for Donald Trump and brickbats for Steve Bannon. The man who lasted only 10 days as White House communications director is publishing a memoir entitled Trump, the Blue-Collar President wherein he trashes Bannon as a hypocrite and a weirdo, while hailing Trump as having “an intellect that is uniquely suited to the presidency”.
The Briefing will let the Mooch explain that one: “He never let anyone know he was gathering information to make policy out of it … So he made it seem like he was chatting, talking economics and trade policy the way you’d talk about the New York Mets. Then he synthesised all the responses into one position, letting in the good bits and keeping out the bad.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/11/thursday-briefing-migrants-languish-in-costly-detention

Mamma mia, Perking, it's very, very frightening what some easy come, easy type will do to turn a buck . 'Sycophantic shit' would seem to sum it up pretty well, though

easy go type

I did have a qualm there for a moment, that despite the title and Scaramucci's history I was misjudging the book.

I'm over that now.

“We’re all having lunch,” explained Mr Trump. “This was not a set up.”
Of course not

'Trump tries to fire John Kelly 'but Kelly just ignores him', White House official says.
'I think the president just doesn’t know who to call to fire him,' claims staffer'
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-john-kelly-fire-white-house-olivia-nuzzi-pence-pompeo-oval-office-a8578486.html

While the POTUS indulges in yet another ego trip:
'A second person killed by Hurricane Michael, according to authorities. In Seminole County, Georgia, an 11-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell on her home amid the worst storm “in a century” to hit the region, authorities told US media.
It follows the death of a man in Florida who also died when a tree hit his house. Michael has caused widespread damage, leaving some 594,000 homes and businesses without power across three states and even blowing a train off its tracks in Florida with winds up to 155mph, according to reports.'
www.independent.co.uk/news/hurricane-michael-live-update-florida-latest-georgia-damage-flooding-wind-rain-power-a8578421.html

Thoughts and prayers, so heart felt it was read from teleprompter:
mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1050162568873033728/video/1

Spelling mistakes - ✔
Could have been written by an eleven year old - ✔
Full of inaccuracies and untruths - ✔
Random capitals - ✔
Includes 'horrible' at least once - ✔
Not bothered to update it - ✔
Makes you want to rip your hair out - ✔
Olivia Nuzzi
@Olivianuzzi
Here are the papers Donald Trump gave me yesterday, by the way:
mobile.twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1050192600928571393/photo/1
mobile.twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1050192600928571393/photo/2
mobile.twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1050192600928571393

Olivia Nuzzi @Olivianuzzi Guys this was my horoscope yesterday has @astrologyzone ever been more correct? mobile.twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1050130766506672142/photo/1

Ah, Ah. This is an accomplishment!?
"Republicans want strong borders. Democrats don't." (I paraphrase)

Now there's a surprise, personal greivance drives her too. May she should be better:
The first lady explained how her experience being bullied led in part to her "Be Best" initiative.
"I could say that I'm the most bullied person in the world," Melania Trump said.
'Melania Trump says she is one of the most bullied people in the world; distrusts some in the West Wing'
abcnews.go.com/Politics/melania-trump-bullied-people-world-distrusts-west-wing/story?id=58419018

grievance

For someone top of the class in Gaslighting 101, Lweji, maybe?

Very fine people on both sides:
Christopher Mathias
@letsgomathias
They stood next to each other in Charlottesville.
Taylor Wilson, recently sentenced to prison for armed takeover of a train he wanted to "save" from "black people."
And James Alex Fields, who drove his car into anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, killing Heather Heyer.
mobile.twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1049640235942989828

Because the United States lacks a federal statute that explicitly makes domestic terrorism a crime, it is relatively rare for the government to charge non-Muslims under terrorism laws. The reason the terrorism statute applied to Wilson’s crime was not that he was motivated by a particular ideology, but because attacks on trains are explicitly outlawed and labeled as terrorism. *
<a class="break-all" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/neo-nazi-domestic-terrorism-taylor-michael-wilson_us_5bb7931be4b01470d051338a#click=t.co/nKjaA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/neo-nazi-domestic-terrorism-taylor-michael-wilson_us_5bb7931be4b01470d051338a#click=t.co/nKjaA
www.newsweek.com/nebraska-white-supremacist-amtrak-terrorism-train-emergency-brake-machine-gun-1156503
m.facebook.com/Covenant-Nation-Church-Of-The-Lord-Jesus-Christ-327200547679877/

*www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/domestic-terrorism-statute-federal-overreach-not-justice-ncna814826

Oops, careless, this works:
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/domestic-terrorism-statute-federal-overreach-not-justice-ncna814826