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He’s the match; we’re the ammo. Only we can stop ourselves - Trump thread 86

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TheClaws · 30/10/2018 03:24

This is one of the most apt political cartoon I’ve seen.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3393501-Couldnt-think-of-a-pithy-quote-so-have-this-instead-Trump-85

He’s the match; we’re the ammo. Only we can stop ourselves - Trump thread 86
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Minimammoth · 30/10/2018 06:44

Well I’m here. All agog for the Mid terms.

Gumpendorf · 30/10/2018 06:50

Thanks Claws.

We were taking about early voting data on the previous thread.

What early voting data does (and doesn't) tell us
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/28/politics/early-voting-value-debate/index.html

lionheart · 30/10/2018 06:50

Hello Claws and thanks for the new thread. Smile

Roussette · 30/10/2018 07:17

Thanks Claws, warming up for midterms here Smile

Gumpendorf · 30/10/2018 07:25

twitter.com/passantino/status/1057013271859994624

Shep Smith on the migrant caravan: "There is no invasion. No one is coming to get you. There is nothing at all to worry about." twitter.com/passantino/status/1057013271859994624/video/1

The wonderful Shep Smith taking a non Fox view. Why does he stay there?

lionheart · 30/10/2018 07:48

Whispers on social media that a smear campaign against Mueller is about to be launched...

ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 07:54

Thanks, Claws.
How Shep survives at Pox is a mystery to me, too, Gump.

What is wrong with these people? This is depraved:
Brendan Karet 🚮
@bad_takes
Lou Dobbs' guest blames "the continued invasion of this country" by immigrants for "diseases spreading across the country that are causing polio-like paralysis of our children"
mobile.twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1057085601676173312/photo/1
mobile.twitter.com/bad_takes/status/1057061701865144320

lionheart · 30/10/2018 08:06

Haley has spoken.

Nikki Haley

Verified account

@nikkihaley

'I have struggled w/ what happened in Pitts bc it’s so similar to what happened in Chas. The country was very racially divided @ the time. We didn’t once blame Pres. Obama. We focused solely on the lives lost & their families. Have some respect for these families & stop the blame.'

ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:07

'Overrun', McCaskill could stand for appropriate border security without mouthing the Stinker's lies:
Burgess Everett
@burgessev
McCaskill tacks toward Trump in border security rhetoric: “I do not want our borders overrun. And I support the president's efforts to make sure they're not."
McCaskill swipes at Warren, Sanders when asked about 'crazy Democrats'
foxnews.com

Lweji · 30/10/2018 08:07

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." Donald Rumsfeld

Or how not to call bullshit on a TV guest. Hmm Or too much knowledge even for Trump.

Just placemarking.

And on a side note, the guy who plays Eric on SNL is ruined for me on anything else. Watched him on Billions the other day. Weird. Grin

TheNorthWestPawsage · 30/10/2018 08:10

Thanks Claws

From the Dark Side...
www.indiewire.com/2018/07/mark-hamill-comic-con-2018-donald-trump-orange-darth-vader-1201987074/

lionheart · 30/10/2018 08:11

A theme.

He’s the match; we’re the ammo. Only we can stop ourselves - Trump thread 86
ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:15

DD's Ingraham/Stinker thread:
Daniel Dale
@ddale8
OK we’re gonna do a 10 PM thread
mobile.twitter.com/ddale8/status/1057093942578241537

Gumpendorf · 30/10/2018 08:24

What is wrong with these people?

A question I ask every bloody sadly sometimes literally day. 

ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:26

Again!
Daniel Dale
@ddale8
Riggleman isn't a congressman, and that is not the non-congressman's current Twitter account.
mobile.twitter.com/ddale8/status/1057105601514352640/photo/1

ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:31

I am finding it increasingly disorientating, Gump. I do wonder how this disturbed, upside down world can right itself.

ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:44

He cares nothing for the Jewish rituals of aninut, burial, the private mourning, sitting shiva. This another empty, performance a pre-midterms photo op.
'Pittsburgh Mayor asks Trump to delay visit to city.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto joins to talk about the tragic shooting in Squirrel Hill over the past weekend. In his latest comments, he asked the President to reconsider coming to the city "while we are burying the dead." '
www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/pittsburgh-mayor-asks-trump-to-delay-visit-to-city-1356379715569?v=railb&cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:45

That should be 'prompt burial'.

cozietoesie · 30/10/2018 08:46

Thanks, Claws.

TheClaws · 30/10/2018 08:49

Australians, North Korea is displeased with us.

Australia Should Behave with Discretion

Australia sent a frigate to the waters around the Korean peninsula, talking about support for the “implementation of sanctions”.

A senior military official of the country announced this fact at a press conference. The official said that the said frigate would be aided by reconnaissance planes based in Japan and that it shows the efforts of Australia to put economic and diplomatic pressure on the DPRK.
Australia is seeking to destroy the hard won peaceful atmosphere of the Korean peninsula and the region.

It has become clear that Australia is displeased with the trend of peace in the Korean peninsula and the region.

When many countries raise their voices at the United Nations that anti-DPRK sanctions should be relaxed or lifted, Australia is going against it. This fact shows that Australia has not abandoned its force of habit as a puppet.

Australia should clearly know that the DPRK is a dignified socialist state advancing by dint of self-development and science and technology and that economic sanctions or diplomatic pressure can never work on it.

If Australia is interested in the regional situation even a bit, it should behave itself, squarely seeing the trend of the times.

In case the affirmative atmosphere created on the Korean peninsula is wrecked owing to the riffs-raffs such as Australia, they must be held wholly accountable for it.

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ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:50

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Gillum: "It should be shocking when a press secretary lies from behind the W.H. podium, unfortunately under Pres. Trump it's just another Monday ... It's simply wrong to say Mayor Gillum is under FBI investigation—he’s not under FBI investigation and the FBI has confirmed it."
mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1057080918773547008

ohmymimi · 30/10/2018 08:58

'How Ivanka Trump And Don Junior Weaponize Class — In Opposite Ways.'
What’s fascinating is that Ivanka and Don Jr. are both carefully curating class performances — but of different classes. Ivanka is performing upper-middle-class career woman, while Don Jr. is performing working class regular Joe.
And while the two are not-so-quietly locked in a battle for who will become their father’s heir apparent, this performance is not a reflection of Trump but of America.
Read more: forward.com/opinion/412655/how-ivanka-trump-and-don-junior-weaponize-class-in-opposite-ways/

Read more: forward.com/opinion/412655/how-ivanka-trump-and-don-junior-weaponize-class-in-opposite-ways/

forward.com/opinion/412655/how-ivanka-trump-and-don-junior-weaponize-class-in-opposite-ways/