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

Turkey stirring itputting pressure on the Saudis I would guess..........

Accept it? Collude with it, more like:
'Mike Pompeo Looks Ready To Accept Saudi Arabia's Spin On Jamal Khashoggi's Fate.
The secretary of state even thanked the Saudis for their "transparent" investigation into the journalist's disappearance.'
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/mike-pompeo-trump-saudi-arabia-khashoggi_us_5bc60262e4b0a8f17ee65

Are they planning on doing a Pruitt rerun with Stinky Zinke?
Kyle Griffin
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If his eyes are open and his mouth is moving he is lying:
'Scott Walker, in fight for political life, slow-walks Medicaid work rules
The delay comes as many Republicans have retreated from health care on the campaign trail'
www.politico.com/story/2018/10/16/scott-walker-wisconsin-medicaid-midterms-903154?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=0000014e-f0fe-dd93-ad7f-f8ff7e290000&nlid=964328

'Scott Walker vows to protect people with pre-existing conditions. There’s just one problem.
Shameless doublespeak.'
www.politico.com/story/2018/10/16/scott-walker-wisconsin-medicaid-midterms-903154?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=0000014e-f0fe-dd93-ad7f-f8ff7e290000&nlid=964328

What is that sound - it's hollow laughter:
“It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem,” McConnell said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg News when asked about the rising deficits and debt. “It’s a bipartisan problem: unwillingness to address the real drivers of the debt by doing anything to adjust those programs to the demographics of America in the future.”
www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-16/mcconnell-blames-entitlements-not-gop-for-rising-deficits?__twitter_impression=true
Translation - we've got our 'entitlements', now we have an excuse to come after yours and to blame the Dems for the out of control deficit.

Short memory, Smugly, wasn't that tax bill going to more than pay for itself?
mobile.twitter.com/SimonMaloy/status/1052194462217179136/photo/1

'DHS finds increasing attempts to hack U.S. election systems ahead of midterms
The assessment said the feds don't know who is behind the attacks, but none have been successful.'
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna920336?__twitter_impression=true

This is a good watch and a reminder that there were once noble Republican values.

"the imprint of Donald Trump ...his flirtation with misogyny, race baiting, a man of vacuous ideology with little conviction...the GOP orthodoxy has gone so far astray from the Jack Kemp days"
Fmr Rep. @DavidJollyFL on his decision to leave the GOP w/ @NicolleDWallace twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1052317712477765632/video/1

Guess who? Hint - she is married to that 'volunteer coffee boy':
'For wife of former Trump adviser, a doctored passport photo stokes new questions'
abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wife-sentenced-trump-adviser-doctored-passport-photo-stokes/story?id=58519340&id=58519340&__twitter_impression=true

BREAKING: Trump tells AP that Saudi Arabia being blamed for missing journalist is another case of "guilty until proven innocent."

twitter.com/AP/status/1052318734185099269

He's working hard on PR for the Saudi Royal Family.

Details on the murder beginning to surface.

Also:

The Associated Press
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@AP

'BREAKING: Trump tells AP his former attorney Cohen was "lying" when he testified that Trump directed him to break the law.'

Ohr

'President Trump on Tuesday appeared to urge his attorney general to fire Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who was a contact for the author of a dossier that is the focus of Trump allies trying to discredit the probe into Russia’s interference in the presidential election.'

Top 10 'Russophobes.'

www.rt.com/news/441417-top-10-russophobes-2018/

Sally Q.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-let-trumps-use-of-celebrities-distract-you-from-his-criminal-justice-failures/2018/10/16/2bfd7b14-d096-11e8-a275-81c671a50422_story.html?utm_term=.dad2bf1d1d94

Wait on, we’re getting our alternative facts straight.

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Just spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who totally denied any knowledge of what took place in their Turkish Consulate. He was with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
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...during the call, and told me that he has already started, and will rapidly expand, a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly.

Just a reminder: this is the POTUS. Or, as an excitable pro-Trump Reddit forum terms him, the GEOTUS. Keep a sick-bag handy for this one - the God Emperor of the United States. Not a joke, unfortunately.

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“Federal Judge throws out Stormy Danials lawsuit versus Trump. Trump is entitled to full legal fees.” @FoxNews Great, now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She will confirm the letter she signed! She knows nothing about me, a total con!

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That rundown of all the news on Politico was not intentionalBrain not in gear.

Yes lion, saw this this morning

www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-khashoggi-829291552

And this is who DT is defending. Appalling. But there are tapes about to be released

Perhaps this is the reason...

• Saudis have connection to bailing out Kushner/666 5th Ave
• Trump spoke about the Saudis spending $40M-$50M on apartments at a rally in Mobile, AL, in 2015
• Saudis stay at his hotels when visiting the US

From your most read list ohmymimi.

www.apnews.com/8908e666f826456ea62a53d9c7ba2a4a

'NEW YORK (AP) — In the three years that Donald Trump rocketed from candidate to president, the PEN American Center has criticized him as a bully, an autocrat, a user of hate speech and an enemy of free expression. It has published studies, organized petitions and established a Press Freedom Incentive Fund.

Now the literary and human rights organization, which includes thousands of authors and journalists, is taking a more direct step: PEN is suing the president.'

Daniel Dale
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AP tells Trump the budget deficit is very big and that he used to criticize Obama about such deficits.
Trump says he "had to take care of our military"...and also that there were forest fires...and "California does a horrible job maintaining their forests."
mobile.twitter.com/ddale8/status/1052396313663410178/photo/1
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'Trump tells AP he won’t accept blame if GOP loses House'
apnews.com/8f4baf7aaddc442dad0a726f3ebe7fff

Full transcript of AP interview:
apnews.com/a28cc17d27524050b37f4d91e087955e

Dear God.

Trump: No, no. Some say that and some say differently. I mean, you have scientists on both sides of it. My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years. Dr. John Trump. And I didn’t talk to him about this particular subject, but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture.

From mimi's link to the AP transcript.

Deepities.

quillette.com/2018/10/16/deepities-and-the-politics-of-pseudo-profundity/

Inspite of myself, I laughed out loud when I read that in the transcript, Gump. You have to pinch yourself to remember this man really is POTUS.

Meanwhile, back on terra firma, Melania sets Mr Colbert straight:

Meanwhile, please spare a thought for poor Tucker Carlson.

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