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

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lionheart · 19/01/2019 01:08

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

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

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AcrossthePond55 · 14/02/2019 21:31

The Senate has just passed the spending bill. It will now to go the House where it will be voted on at around 6pm ET. It is expected to pass and will then be sent to Scrotus for signature.

I expect that if Scrotus plans to make a statement/declare a NE, it will be around 7-8pm ET.

AcrossthePond55 · 14/02/2019 21:44

We're really in uncharted territory here. Previous NE (at least in 'living memory') have usually 'made sense' as far as what a POTUS was trying to do or provide. And they were done with the Country in mind. This is the first time we're facing a NE declaration for what is in reality nothing more than a vanity project.

I've looked at the law and some '.gov' information on declaring a NE and it's just very vague. Once again we're dealing with legislation that presupposes that a POTUS is a person with at least a modicum of honour (and intelligence) who would declare a NE only when it was for the good of the country (in their estimation).

To quote Ozzy: "All aboard" hahahaha! (We're surely on the Crazy Train now)

cozietoesie · 14/02/2019 21:50

Honour??

TheNorthWestPawsage · 14/02/2019 22:29

Senate confirms Trump nominee William Barr as attorney general
He takes over the position with the special counsel's report on Trump and Russian collusion expected to land on his desk within weeks.

The Senate on Thursday voted to confirm William Barr as attorney general, 54-45.

The confirmation of President Donald Trump's nominee, who will oversee special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, had been expected given the GOP's 53-47 control of the chamber.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-confirms-trump-nominee-william-barr-attorney-general-n971326

lionheart · 14/02/2019 22:35

Lift.

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AcrossthePond55 · 14/02/2019 23:23

Re my previous post on NE declarations; I was referring to a POTUS, cozie, not this POTUS who obvs wouldn't know honour if it walked up to him and spat in his eye. Wink

TheClaws · 14/02/2019 23:36

He never wanted to sit down and genuinely work out a solution. He had February 15 slated for “National Emergency” that doesn’t exist, so here we are.

2666 was the year and 3 others liked
Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior
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3h
That aspiring autocrats can pre-schedule a "national emergency" is the actual national emergency

TheClaws · 14/02/2019 23:43

Apparently Schlapp’s wife is a White House spokesperson - so perhaps she knows a bit about what’s going on.

Matt Schlapp
Matt Schlapp @mschlapp
Tomorrow will be the first day that President Trump will have a fully operational confirmed Attorney General. Let that sink in. Mueller will be gone soon.

TheClaws · 14/02/2019 23:50

Puerto Rico threatens legal action over National Emergency declaration. Can’t Trump see he is tearing his own country apart?

thehill.com/latino/430118-puerto-rico-governor-threatens-legal-action-over-national-emergency-declaration-see

AcrossthePond55 · 15/02/2019 01:37

Can’t Trump see he is tearing his own country apart?

You must tear your victim apart before you can feast on it.

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TheClaws · 15/02/2019 06:09

This is referring to ultra-Conservative Schlapp’s tweet that I copied a few posts above this one. We’ll see what happens I suppose - it would be a dangerous move to pull.

John Aravosis 🇺🇸
@aravosis
Husband of senior Trump White House adviser seems to suggest new attorney general is planning a Saturday Night Massacre to obstruct justice in the Russia probe.

lionheart · 15/02/2019 06:12

www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/russia-investigation-senate-probe-faces-critical-point/582883/

“If there is snow on your front lawn, you can safely conclude that it snowed,” Rosenberg told me. “Is that direct evidence? No. It’s circumstantial—someone could’ve driven up to your house and thrown snow on your lawn. But that’s unlikely. The law treats circumstantial and direct evidence as being of equal weight.”

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TheClaws · 15/02/2019 06:19

‘Disgusting human,’ example, see below.

Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr
First it was Buzzfeed, then it was Covington and now apparently Jussie Smollett. The media will run with ANYTHING, regardless of how obviously false, if it makes
@realDonaldTrump
and his supporters look bad. ANYTHING!!!

Lweji · 15/02/2019 08:04

What can El Chapo teach about the border wall?

TheNorthWestPawsage · 15/02/2019 08:26

Another book (The Threat by Andrew McCabe). So tell us what we didn't know (or intuitively know) already. Sad

He didn’t read intelligence reports and mixed up classified material with what he had seen in newspaper clips. He seemed confused about the structure and purpose of organizations and became overwhelmed when meetings covered multiple subjects. He blamed immigrants for nearly every societal problem and uttered racist sentiments with shocking callousness.

This isn’t how President Trump is depicted in a new book by former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe. Instead, it’s McCabe’s account of what it was like to work for then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The FBI was better off when “you all only hired Irishmen,” Sessions said in one diatribe about the bureau’s workforce. “They were drunks but they could be trusted. Not like all those new people with nose rings and tattoos — who knows what they’re doing?”

It’s a startling portrait that suggests that the Trump administration’s reputation for baseness and dysfunction has, if anything, been understated and too narrowly attributed to the president.
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... overall, the book isn’t the comprehensive account McCabe was presumably capable of delivering. He seems reluctant to reveal details about his role in conflicts at key moments, rarely adding meaningful new illumination to areas of the Trump-Russia-FBI timeline established by Mueller, news organizations and previous authors.

McCabe is a keen observer of detail, particularly when it comes to the president’s pettiness. He describes how Trump arranges Oval Office encounters so that his advisers are forced to sit before him in “little schoolboy chairs” across the Resolute Desk. Prior presidents met with aides on couches in the center of the room, but Trump is always angling to make others feel smaller.

McCabe was known as a taciturn figure in the bureau, in contrast to the more garrulous Comey. His book reflects that penchant for brevity, with just 264 pages of text. Even so, he documents the president’s attempts to impair the Russia probe and incessant attacks on the institution, describing the stakes in sweeping, convincing language.
www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/andrew-mccabes-disturbing-account-of-working-for-sessions-and-trump/2019/02/14/91eba5a4-3081-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html

Lweji · 15/02/2019 08:41

Racist store owner goes out of business after refusing to sell Nike over the take a knee player ad. Ah!

www.businessinsider.com/store-closing-refusing-to-sell-nike-colin-kaepernick-ad-2019-2

PerkingFaintly · 15/02/2019 09:21

Yes, I saw similar quotes from the McCabe book.Shock

I have no way to gauge McCabe's credibility – but you'd think Sessions would have scope for legal action if statements that outrageous are untrue.

PerkingFaintly · 15/02/2019 10:43

That aspiring autocrats can pre-schedule a "national emergency" is the actual national emergency

Sarah Kendzior is right. Again.Sad

cozietoesie · 15/02/2019 10:58

Reset to 'factory settings'. I'm not sure I can bear it.

cozietoesie · 15/02/2019 11:00

Sorry. Grin

cozietoesie · 15/02/2019 11:01
cozietoesie · 15/02/2019 12:32

A Beast piece.

Top General

AcrossthePond55 · 15/02/2019 15:46

"Special Report" on now, He's blathering on about trade deals and summits. Expected to declare a NE.

My God he's rambling on as if he were drunk, veering from praising himself on one topic to praising himself on another!

(although I admit, I'm reading CC with the TV on mute)

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