It’s a National Non-Emergency: Trump thread 91

[TheClaws]

Here we are in February 2019 - Trump has declared a National Emergency to funnel the funds for his border wall, he’s just come off a ridiculous SOTU that contained more lies than not, and he’s just tweeted this:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
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“These guys, the investigators, ought to be in jail. What they have done, working with the Obama intelligence agencies, is simply unprecedented. This is one of the greatest political hoaxes ever perpetrated on the people of this Country, and Mueller is a coverup.” Rush Limbaugh

But here’s a reminder he’s not one of the sharpest tools in the box.

Yeah. Not sure why I'm attempting to be fair when Fox is involved. It's not like they'd recognise the concept...

And some stupid Australian is blaming Muslim immigration for the attack.

About Lindsey Graham, maybe they are already investigating Hillary's emails. But that would open the door to investigating the emails missing from Dubbya's administration. That would be fun!

www.ibtimes.com/christchurch-mosque-shooter-calls-trump-symbol-white-identity-not-policy-maker-2775736

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'Silence is complicity. Our children are listening. The time to speak out is now.'

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-investigation-mueller-rick-gates-sentencing-report-court-a8825116.html

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tweets-today-mueller-report-russia-investigation-a8824771.html

"as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose,"

And that's the mindset of Scrotus' MAGA-fans 'worldwide' in a nutshell. It has nothing to do with 'making anywhere great again. It has to do with White Supremacy and 'othering'.

Russian oligarch and Putin ally sues Treasury, demands lifting of U.S. sanctions

www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-oligarch-and-putin-ally-sues-treasury-demands-lifting-of-us-sanctions/2019/03/15/3681d78e-4755-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.html

Clip on CNN just now.

Reporter: "Do you see White Nationalism as a rising threat?"
Trump: "Not really. It's a small group of people with serious problems."

Ignorant git.

Global...

From an Australian senator:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/15/trump-veto-national-emergency-declaration-resolution-senate

at that statement by Anning.

Yes.

Don’t give Fraser Anning any headspace. No one here does. He’s a vile little man.

www.brennancenter.org/blog/the-fight-against-trumps-muslim-ban-isnt-over

Fair enough, TheClaws. I've lifted the lid, seen what he is... and put it down again.

Holy hell!! Well at least that one makes himself clear, doesn't he?

Chris Wallace: No Way Trump Will Win In 2020 With Just His Base
And that seems to be all the president cares about now, Wallace tells Fox News' Shepard Smith.
www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-wallace-trump-2020-shepard-smith_n_5c8c5c54e4b0db7da9f3758f

Also:
NZ prime minister Jacinda Ardern says Donald Trump called her and asked what the US could do. She says she replied: "Sympathy and love for all Muslim communities."
twitter.com/jonswaine/status/1106657986192252928?s=21

And with a wave of a magic wand, it can be done...

BREAKING: New Zealand attorney general @DavidParkerMP announces the government will ban semi-automatic guns.
twitter.com/dataandpolitics/status/1106743864029646848?s=21

Federal court holds First Amendment does not protect Trump Campaign in alleged conspiracy with Russia-Wikileaks.

Court holds that Supreme Court case (Bartnicki) does not apply for the reasons that Bob Bauer and Ryan Goodman argued here:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1106626013277184000.html

It is too onerous to keep track of children separated at the border, but entirely possible to track girls’ pregnancies?
twitter.com/sruhle/status/1107026097789648896?s=21

Now on @MSNBC:

@Maddow Exclusive: Trump admin. spreadsheet tracked girls' pregnancies.
twitter.com/msnbc/status/1106726897860440064?s=21

Motivation.......

From a couple of weeks ago:

Former Trump refugee director says he never warned higher-ups about family separations
www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/scott-lloyd-migrant-family-separations-1216323

As part of an HHS review last year, refugee office staff told officials that Lloyd instructed them to stop keeping the spreadsheet once the family separation issue began attracting media attention, three individuals with knowledge of the operation told POLITICO. HHS did not respond to questions about whether [Scott] Lloyd discouraged efforts to track separated families.

Lloyd was effectively removed from leading the refugee office in the midst of the crisis. In November, he was formally transferred to the HHS office for faith initiatives
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Meanwhile, Lloyd denied that he'd personally visited any teenage girls in his office's custody to discourage them from obtaining an abortion. However, that claim appears to contradict emails Lloyd sent, which were obtained in an ACLU lawsuit that's still pending.

For instance, in a March 2017 email, Lloyd described a trip to a Texas shelter and referenced his conversation with one pregnant teenager. "As I've said, often these girls start to regret abortion," Lloyd wrote to colleagues.

Lloyd at first dodged questions about whether he tracked menstrual cycles of girls in the refugee office's custody, as he had testified in a December 2017 deposition tied to the ACLU lawsuit. At the time, Lloyd said he asked for weekly updates of pregnant minors, which included their last menstruation date.

"I don’t have a yes or no answer to that question," he said Tuesday in response to a question from Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) about whether he monitored that information. After further questioning, Lloyd said his office did create a pregnancy tracker.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/female-black-democrats-ejaculate-report-local-police-testicular-bill-of-rights-park-cannon-darshun-kendrick/

'In Georgia last week, a white Republican man in the House of Representatives introduced a bill to ban abortions after six weeks, legislation commonly known as a “heartbeat bill,” since it aims to cut off abortion at the moment a heartbeat is detectable and before many women know they are pregnant. It passed, 93-73, late last Thursday.

In response, a group of black female lawmakers, all Democrats, introduced a bill on Monday to amend the state code to require men 55 and older to “immediately report to the county sheriff or local law enforcement agency when such male releases sperm from his testicles.” One of the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Park Cannon—whose co-sponsors include Reps. Dar’shun Kendrick, Sandra Scott, Renitta Shannon, and Donna McLeod—said, “This bill helps men who are well past reproductive age to self-report when they willfully engage in conception,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.'

Ugh. Dynasty?

Jon Cooper@joncoopertweets
Donald Trump Jr. is said to be eyeing a 2024 presidential run. In an interview, Eric Trump said that although he has no political ambitions himself, he believes his brother does. When asked if there could be a Trump family dynasty, Eric replied, “Oh sure.”

Ugh, yes.