Couldn't think of a pithy quote so have this instead. Trump #85

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www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections

link to old thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3379262--Energy-and-persistence-conquer-all-things-even-vile-orange-ones-Trump-thread-con?msgid=81768323

Because everything they have 'done' this far has been so effective:
He added that the administration is "absolutely determined to do everything in our power to prevent these types of attacks from happening in the future."
'Pence rejects suggestions of a link between Trump rhetoric and acts of violence.
The vice president defended Trump's attacks on opponents as part of "political debate." '
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna925296?__twitter_impression=true

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/27/pittsburgh-shooting-suspect-antisemitism

What is it that it say's in the Bible about bearing false witness?
Vaughn Hillyard
@VaughnHillyard
VP Pence jumping right for it at rally in Yuma, AZ: “I was with Martha McSally every step of the way when she fought to protect pre-existing conditions for every American. She was there. I saw it.”

Jillian Resists
@Jillian1008
@VaughnHillyard, and @damonbethea1
She voted against it 9 times.

say's says

Jim Sciutto
@jimsciutto
New: Joe Biden says hate grows "when it hears an America political leadership say good people can be found among those spewing this ugly bile”

President sloping shoulders:
Philip Rucker
@PhilipRucker
Trump on his tone amid national tragedy: “If the press was fair, I’d have a much different tone all the time. But I’m fighting the media, I’m fighting -- the media is not being honest & I’m fighting that lack of honesty so I have to have that tone.”
Trump: “As president, it’s a level of terribleness & horror that you can’t even believe. It’s hard to believe. You stand as president & you do what people say is a good job, what I say, you just do the absolute best...You see something like this and you say, how can it happen?”

I found this article really informative because I know a little, but not a lot and wanted to understand the midterms more.

edition.cnn.com/2018/10/27/politics/us-midterm-election-explainer-intl-trnd/index.html

ohmymimi re: your Joel Marshall tweets - from my regular reading of right sources, I can say this is correct. They believe Soros/Jews/the Left are funding AND directing the caravan as an election stunt.

The shooter, now - he was an anti-Semite, but he was also anti-Trump (according to them). He was a nationalist, and thought Trump a globalist. Trump lit the fire and kept it stoked however.

Thank you for confirming that, Claws. And this is being openly promoted on Pox News.

Hello. This is just to lighten the mood. Though not really all that amusing, because too close to the truth.

True.😭

Bolleaux

October 25, 2018
Wyden, Markey, Merkley Question White House Use of Air Force One and Other Taxpayer Resources for Campaign Events
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., questioned whether the president has fully repaid taxpayers for his use of government resources to conduct political and campaign events, in a letter sent to the White House today.

www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-markey-merkley-question-white-house-use-of-air-force-one-and-other-taxpayer-resources-for-campaign-events

Pittsburgh. A Beast piece.

A moment of reckoning

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/29/voter-suppression-tactics-in-the-age-of-trump

Thanks, lion. Interesting.

scottbarrykaufman.com/the-one-personality-trait-that-is-ripping-america-and-the-world-apart/

'Asshole Age'.

But the shame of it.

...."populism will be a more regular feature of future democratic politics, erupting whenever significant sections of ‘the silent majority’ feels that ‘the elite’ no longer represents them.”....

Interesting piece.

Now we know why Mother keeps Pency on a tight leash

'Republicans and Democrats Don’t Just Disagree About Politics. They Have Different Sexual Fantasies.'
www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/27/sexual-fantasies-republicans-democrats-politics-221919

So this paper has endorsed him for his previous 8 terms and only now finds him unpalatable

'Iowa Newspaper Breaks Tradition To Back Rep. Steve King's Democratic Challenge'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/sioux-city-journal-steve-king_us_5bd5a20be4b0a8f17ef8a562

I had not come across this before.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/28/pittsburgh-shooting-victims-remembered

Eric Lipton
Eric Lipton
@EricLiptonNYT
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FOLLOW ALONG HERE: We traveled across the state of WYOMING, where we saw up close how the Trump Admi is re-writing the rules that govern oil and gas drilling on federal lands. Interior's Zinke is helping fuel a fracking BOOM in the West
@HirokoTabuchi
mobile.twitter.com/EricLiptonNYT/status/1056248062740480000

It's a consequence of his lack of care for the environment........