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

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TheClaws · 17/02/2019 23:44

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.

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lionheart · 17/03/2019 00:01

More ugly.

nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/new-zealand-shooting-white-supremacy.html?utm_source=flipboard.com&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part&mid=twitter_dailyintelligencer

'White supremacy is complex, of course. There is a counterargument to be made that there is not only an acceptable nonwhite presence under its auspices, but that white supremacy requires it. There is truth to this notion. All supremacy needs a foil. If there was nobody over whom to lord one’s superiority, how could that superiority be demonstrated? But this elides that white supremacy is also an elastic mythos. It is sustained by lives and deaths alike, and the utility of a nonwhite undercaste is defined by white supremacy’s judicious deployment of the latter. White supremacy would not be total if it could not kill with impunity those who make it possible. It is not satisfied merely claiming mastery — it must prove it. Even enslaved people in the antebellum South, who were among their country’s most valuable resources, possessed a utility predicated on the slaver’s ability to work them into an early grave.'

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TheClaws · 17/03/2019 00:09

Lara Trump, the wife of Eric, has an opinion column on the front page of Fox News for some reason. The piece below was placed directly underneath an article titled ‘Trump owes restitution for using foundation for campaign, NY AG claims’.

In case you don’t want to read it, and I wouldn’t blame you, it doesn’t actually say much, but does manage to blame immigrants at least in part for the problem.

www.foxnews.com/opinion/lara-trump-2020-budget-child-care-proposal-will-tackle-very-real-crisis-threatening-american-families

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lionheart · 17/03/2019 00:10

John Hudson (WP)
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Verified account

@John_Hudson
3h3 hours ago

Fox News asks Pompeo where climate change ranks on his list of top threats to the United States. He says it doesn't break his top 5. His list is:

  1. China
  2. Pakistan
  3. North Korea
..."I think I’m at five already"...
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cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 15:49

I see that his '5' doesn't include the CSZ? Smile

cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 17:50

I can only hope that if he and his mates keep flourishing the finger to Gaia, that she doesn't return the.................compliment.

cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 18:08

For those of you who haven't come across the CSZ, here's a older NY piece.

The really big one

lionheart · 17/03/2019 19:18

Woah. I thought you were referencing the initials of one of Trumpy's many wronged women ...

Had to look that up and it is proper Shock.

On the plus side. I now know that 'Orphan Tsunamis' and 'Ghost Forests' exist. As actual things in the world. Smile

Thank you cozietoesie and wikipedia.

cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 19:25

Time to be nicer to Japan and Canada, methinks.

cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 19:28

And to stop construction of The Wall.

lionheart · 17/03/2019 20:05

connecting dots Christchurch

cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 20:19

Tarrant et al.

white nationalism

cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 20:20

Sorry. A Beast piece.

EweSurname · 17/03/2019 21:28

Jakub Janda
@_JakubJanda
!! BREAKING:

Several years ago, FSB launched two undercover private firms in Prague, posing as regular IT companies. In reality, they served as hacking entities.

Czech counter-intelligence BIS dissolved this network in early 2018,
@okundra

Natasha Bertrand
@NatashaBertrand
this is a very big deal

The dossier says Michael Cohen went to Prague to pay off Russian hackers in 2016. Now we learnaccording to this storythat the FSB had two hacking entities operating there, undercover, until 2018. (link: www.respekt.cz/tydenik/2019/12/cesti-obcane-ve-sluzbe-fsb?issueId=100301

cozietoesie · 17/03/2019 21:45

2018??

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TheClaws · 17/03/2019 23:23

Trump is threatening GM Motors, just one of his many ridiculous tweets in the past 12 hours or so. He’s tweeted: conspiracy theories, bots, articles from extreme far-right sites (think ‘Hillary ate my baby’ type stuff), tweets supporting Fox and tweets threatening Fox. In this one, he appears to believe he runs the world.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors about the Lordstown Ohio plant. I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING. I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don’t care, I just want it open!

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TheClaws · 17/03/2019 23:32

I wonder, too. For context, Lindsey Graham blocked a resolution to release the Mueller report to the public that had been passed in the House 420/0. Why would this be?

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier “is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain.” Ken Starr, Former Independent Counsel. He had far worse “stains” than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!

Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈
@Amy_Siskind
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
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@LindseyGrahamSC
this was your best friend. And you’re allowing a 5x draft dodger who seeks to undo our democracy and cozies up to dictators to trash him again and again? Do you have no soul?
12:07 PM · Mar 17, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone

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Dumdedumdedum · 18/03/2019 09:09

I find this unutterably depressing, though the last para is a little bit hopeful: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/16/trumps-2020-campaign-just-like-2016-but-now-with-more-political-data

cozietoesie · 18/03/2019 15:20

For Dum

Beto raises $6.1 million

cozietoesie · 18/03/2019 19:40

Interesting.

The other two reports

lionheart · 18/03/2019 19:53

Interesting indeed.

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