'Everybody has a heart. Except some people,' Trump thread 90.

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From Bette Davis, who was too canny to name names.

Here is the old thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3458456-Shutdowns-military-pullouts-and-resignations-it-s-Christmas-and-Trump-thread-89?watched=1&msgid=84240445#84240445

A new low. Trump references genocide - the ‘trail of tears’. Not an accident.

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Today Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to by me as Pocahontas, joined the race for President. Will she run as our first Native American presidential candidate, or has she decided that after 32 years, this is not playing so well anymore? See you on the campaign TRAIL, Liz!

What a mountain out of a molehill about the shutdown, everythings still running, bins being emptied, homes heated, if anything its just proven how bloated the government is with bureaucracy that it can go for so long and still function fine with so many 'essential' workers off. Trump did promise to filter unneeded bureaucracy so.......

OK his reteric and what he says is garbage but when it boils down to it and comes to the crunch his policies have in general been quite good and have worked. He's just not very good at putting it into words.

He's also good at not rising to stupid demands like minimum wage, something that our government brings about as a 'good thing' to make it look like theyre doing something.

adrienne You would be totally OK going without pay for a month or more? (And not being able to borrow extra to get you through, as you have no job certainty, etc.). And then living with the threat of it happening again in the next month or so?

Sorry, did you say minimum wage is a stupid demand?

adrienne many federal employees weren't sitting at home picking fluff out of their navels - they were still required to turn up to their jobs and work WITHOUT pay!

The comment about minimum wage is just puerile.

Yep, the country was working really well.

That's why Trump caved and has at least temporarily ended the shutdown, suffering a humiliating defeat.

He did that because the country was working great without federal employees.

He also ordered many federal employees to turn up at work unpaid, because the country was working really well without them.

National parks workers – just enough to reopen hunting. Air safety workers, so he and his mates could continue to fly.

Can't remember whether he ordered tax employees back to work so he and his mates could have their rebates, but certainly US farmers were left struggling without rebates and payments.

The FBI was running out of money for enforcing law and order. Of course that's a bonus if your last name is Trump.

Those are just a few examples where the impact was visible immediately. Doesn't begin to count the long term effects.

I presume adrienne had been on the sauce when she posted that. I doubt the person who lives pay packet to pay packet and had to pawn her wedding ring to survive would agree with your view... The shutdown cost the US more or less the amount Trump demands for his stupid wall... but move along, it's not a problem
As for the MW comment, I'll just leave that to speak for itself!

Coming up to a year since the Parkland shootings.

From Columbine to Parkland: how we got the story wrong on mass shootings
After Columbine, Dave Cullen swore he would never write about a mass shooting again. But over the next 20 years, he realised that he and other journalists had a duty to destroy the deadly myths they had helped create
www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/10/columbine-parkland-gun-crime-dave-cullen?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Corruption 101

CRITICAL THREAD: Anonymous donors, $700,000 for bands for only three balls, $25,000,000 for new LLCs - the Trump Inauguration
twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1094413405564403712?s=21

Based on this thread:

^PURPOSE: I am going to walk you through the methodology and various steps I use when sourcing receipts via Open Source Data.
At all relevant times I will link to the original data source.^
Knowledge is power and sharing is caring.

Trump’s Inauguration Fund 🇷🇺THREAD 🇷🇺
twitter.com/spicyfiles/status/1094412045863260160?s=21

If only a tiny bit of this is provable it explains a lot (and for the older MNetters there's an interesting throw back to good old Robert Maxwell)

Let’s talk about organized crime. Because it's not just Jared & Junior we’re up against here.

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twitter.com/gregolear/status/1094258062460882946?s=21

Them Trumps do State of the Union Adress.

(I'd watch)

And SotUA or Bezo's pecker?

It's SNL, the comedic echo chamber.

My goodness TheNorthWestPawsage. That was somewhat disheartening, at least until the end.

Also, women in Congress. Not sure they were inspired by Charlie's Angels or by the MN logo.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/10/in-revering-trump-the-religious-right-has-laid-bare-its-hypocrisy

North Korea meeting.

Trump gears up

SHUTDOWN tensions. @SenShelby says talks are "stalled." @MickMulvaneyOMB says "absolutely cannot" rule out a shutdown at end of the week. Senior Democratic aide says "talks have broken down"
twitter.com/kellyo/status/1094614382158458881?s=21

Oh brother.

This is very Trumpy.

www.newsweek.com/white-house-aggressively-hunting-executive-time-leaker-who-embarrassed-trump-1325363

....embarrassed....?? 😀

I'm astonished that it's even possible!

Seems like a stretch.

Judge Jeanine and the NRA’s Dana go for a smear job. Honestly, this is awful.

Jeanine Pirro @JudgeJeanine 21 hr
Kamala Harris is a lot of things—a senator, a candidate for president, a former prosecutor but @DLoesch joined me to say that is also a threat to your freedom. Take a look at what she had to say:

twitter.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1094429277095948288?s=20

He’s on about weather and global warming again, and yet only executive time embarrasses him.

His base undererstands laziness. Other matters, they don't.............