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Happy Impeachment! Next step is removal. (Trump thread 98)

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TheClaws · 24/12/2019 00:12

In the last thread, Trump was impeached by Congress. Now the question is when the articles will be sent to the Senate for Trial, as - at this stage - there is no guarantee from Mitch McConnell of a fair trial. Trump clings to his belief that his call to Zelensky was “perfect”.

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3732056-Trump-and-the-Giant-Impeachment-Trump-thread-97

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lionheart · 17/01/2020 22:22

I don't think he has a Schtum button.

cozietoesie · 17/01/2020 22:56

You could be right! Grin

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 17/01/2020 23:05

In the days since ordering the strike on Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, Trump has regaled friends with details of the mission as if he were narrating a scene from a Michael Bay movie. “Trump said they were watching it live,” one person who spoke with him told me. “He described how the military officer was counting down and when he got to zero he said, ‘He’s been eliminated, Mr. President.’”

I think that is sick. And I cannot imagine any other President both doing that and boasting about it.

lionheart · 17/01/2020 23:09

He is sick.

Roussette · 18/01/2020 08:40

Soliemani taunted him on Twitter. He'd like to do that to everyone who ridicules him on Twitter. What a thin skinned arse he is.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 18/01/2020 09:33

Back in the un real world.

Apparently space is full of leaves...

twitter.com/spaceforcedod/status/1218335200964464650?s=21

Happy Impeachment! Next step is removal. (Trump thread 98)
Lordfrontpaw · 18/01/2020 09:36

Why isn’t it the Air Force uniform anyway? It does look like something out of Star Trek.

lionheart · 18/01/2020 10:18

That's funny.

But I expect they can render themselves invisible if the need arises, just like those stealth bombers.

cozietoesie · 18/01/2020 12:46

Why is the Space Force bit sewn on but the US flag looks to be Velcro?

Roussette · 18/01/2020 13:16

God he's such a dick isn' t he...

Big Boy Donnie playing tuff pwesident and he wants a space force

cozietoesie · 18/01/2020 13:21

Dershowitz.

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AcrossthePond55 · 18/01/2020 13:46

That Space Force uniform shit isn't real is it? Is it? Nah, can't be. What, it is? Really?

Gen George C Marshall must be doing barrel rolls rolling in his grave.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 18/01/2020 13:47

A page out of Kim Jong-un's Guide to Dictator-ring?

National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump
<a class="break-all" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-archives-exhibit-blurs-images-critical-of-president-trump/2020/01/17/71d8e80c-37e3-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html#click=t.co/0dj0f4XeuA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-archives-exhibit-blurs-images-critical-of-president-trump/2020/01/17/71d8e80c-37e3-11ea-9541-9107303481a4_story.html#click=t.co/0dj0f4XeuA

The large color photograph that greets visitors to a National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage shows a massive crowd filling Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Trump’s inauguration.
The 49-by-69-inch photograph is a powerful display. Viewed from one perspective, it shows the 2017 march. Viewed from another angle, it shifts to show a 1913 black-and-white image of a women’s suffrage march also on Pennsylvania Avenue. The display links momentous demonstrations for women’s rights more than a century apart on the same stretch of pavement.
But a closer look reveals a different story.

The Archives acknowledged in a statement this week that it made multiple alterations to the photo of the 2017 Women’s March showcased at the museum, blurring signs held by marchers that were critical of Trump. Words on signs that referenced women’s anatomy were also blurred.
....
“We do not alter images or documents that are displayed as artifacts in exhibitions,” she said. “In this case, the image is part of a promotional display, not an artifact.”

You say potatoes, I say censored.

AcrossthePond55 · 18/01/2020 15:45

Doesn't surprise me, Paws, that any displays in Federal Bldgs would be censored for 'potentially offensive' content. Can't have innocent eyes seeing the word 'pussy' on a placard. Displays must also be 'neutral' as far as 'current events' go. Under the Hatch Act, no Federal display can appear to be endorsing (or 'unendorsing') a particular candidate/party.

So whilst a historic display could show 'Down with FDR' or 'Vote Nixon' on a photo from the past, it probably would choose to err on the 'safe side' and 'edit out' negative or positive posters for any candidate running for election today, whether it says "Fuck Trump" or "Go Bernie".

When I was working we had to be extremely careful as to any possible political inference from anything we wore or said. My (former) manager agonized over a rather odd-looking horse head pendant worn by a coworker because he was concerned that it might be mistaken for a donkey. Another coworker was asked to remove an elephant statue from her desk in case a client 'mistook it' for a political endorsement. The only acceptable political 'items' were American flags and 'I have voted' stickers.

Govt offices always display a portrait of the current POTUS in the public area. One of the best things about retiring when I did is that I never had to see Barack Obama's (classy) portrait come down from the wall and the 8x10 glossy of Scrotus' gurning face go up.

I saw the pictures just published of Barack and Michelle's anniversary shots. God, I miss them! I know he's not eligible to run again, but still.

AcrossthePond55 · 18/01/2020 15:54

BTW, DH and I are off to the 2020 Women's March in a couple of hours.

Looking forward to it.

TheNorthWestPawsage · 18/01/2020 17:11

Interesting Across - and I admit I don't know what the guidelines are here in the UK re similar items in government buildings etc. There were plenty of placards with 'colourful' language on the Anti-Brexit marches and our own Women's marches (I may have been the author of a few of them Wink) which I'm sure the current government wouldn't consider to be appropriate historical artefacts.
Hope this year's march is bigly ✊🏻

lionheart · 18/01/2020 18:29

Have a good one Across.

RhinoskinhaveI · 18/01/2020 18:32

he's using the lawyers that got Epstein his sweetheart deal, why does trump think that standing shoulder to shoulder with that vile old lizard is a good look?
I suppose he knows that his base consists of people who admire Epstein and see him as a lucky bachelor whom they would emulate given half a chanceConfused
or maybe no one else would agree to represent him...no money is worth that stain?

RhinoskinhaveI · 18/01/2020 21:17

Trump openly admires ruthless dictators, no wonder he wants to line himself up with OJ Simpson and Epstein, he doesn't seem to realise that it's not a good look
the fuck is the matter with him 😳

TheClaws · 18/01/2020 23:48

Ha ha ha!

The White House @WhiteHouse

"The Articles of Impeachment submitted by House Democrats are a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their President."

President @realDonaldTrump's response to the impeachment summons: 45.wh.gov/mYVvZt

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cozietoesie · 18/01/2020 23:50

Oh the singing.

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