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So, are we your friends and allies, or not?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pompeo-stresses-importance-of-us-friends-a-day-after-pence-blasted-key-allies/2019/02/15/863cc166-3135-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html?utm_term=.019d7c625de4
It’s also good to see just how equal everyone is in dTrumph’s Amerika, including those elected members of their State government:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2019/02/14/georgia-unlawful-arrest-police-brutality-black-women-policing-the-usa/2854252002/
I'm surprised - and disappointed - that there has been no assassination attempt.....so far.
Fat orange pig - should be easy target.
Agent Orange’s best quote:
He really is lining it up for the opposing lawyers.
Lucky he got the two picks on the supreme court since reckon it will end up there. Not sure that will really be to his detriment though since it will take long enough he can use it as part of his electoral campaign.
Fat orange pig – should be easy target.
In recent US (and European) history most of the loonies with a penchant for violence are those who would agree with him politically. If it was the 60/70s I suspect he would have ended up the wrong end of an assassination attempt. That and the secret service have upped their game after that embarrassing incident in 1963.
So, three possibilities
1) Manafort loves Trump so much he is prepared to spend the rest of his life in prison to protect him
2) Manafort thinks Trump will pardon him
3) Manafort is so scared of Russian oligarchs that he is prepared to spend the rest of his life in prison to avoid testifying against them.
The alternative of course is that Manafort is so dumb that he thought he would get away with repeatedly lying to the special counsel. And we know that Donald only hires 'the best people', so that is presumably not an option.
Fat orange pig – should be easy target.
Go for it.
https://www.helibacon.com/texas-helicopter-hog-hunting/#hoghuntingprice
Fat orange pig – should be easy target.
Go for it.
Nah, that’s too easy! Fish in a barrel springs to mind. I’d like a bit more of a challenge.
It would be fun though chasing him about a golfcourse with a helicopter and a machine gun.
There is a big assumption here that he can actually run.
He could still end up as a cell mate of Manefort at this rate though
Mueller has recommended that Manafort gets 24 years, gues he’s been mullerered
There is a big assumption here that he can actually run.
I had assumed that the best he could manage would be a sort of moderate waddle, hence my comment.
Maybe put a rubber ring around him and chuck him into a flight of fast rapids, he’d be a much more challenging target...
Bob’s yer uncle...
“Donald Trump, we’ll see you in court”
As Agent Orange so rightly said, he didn’t have to do this:
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/15/695251288/donald-trump-we-ll-see-you-in-court-california-to-sue-over-emergency-declaration?t=1550361901434
flipping ‘eck that’s some serious porridge!
thats some serious anti ageing cream/hair dye!
Mueller has recommended that Manafort gets 24 years, gues he’s been mullerered
Think it’s something like 19-24 years plus pay mooosive fines.
Anyway witch hunt no collusion but let’s not forget this is for his previous tax fiddling plus his porky pies but it’s a definate signal,if old donny’s been a bit naughty in the past.
But definately serious porridge.
Or he knows this will get stuck in the Supreme Court for longer than his tenancy, the wall will never get built and he can turn around and say I tried everything including a national emergency.
The guy is an total embarrassment to the office of the presidency and I can't wait to see the back of him. But, this may be a masterstroke.
Hurts my teeth even suggesting giving him some credit.
Hurts my teeth even suggesting giving him some credit.
yep could be the masterstroke that enables a democrat president circumvent the gun lobby entirely.
yep could be the masterstroke that enables a democrat president circumvent the gun lobby entirely.
Not while the gun lobby have guns. Too many nutters in that deep there is no taking them away now.
Not while the gun lobby have guns.
the federales love it
yep could be the masterstroke that enables a democrat president circumvent the gun lobby entirely.
many a jest said in truth 😉
Trump jr is a class act too...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/editorpicks/why-donald-trump-jrs-loser-teachers-comment-was-a-chilling-moment-for-educators-around-the-world/ar-BBTHB7u?ocid=spartandhp
The whole Trump Jr thing is double weird. I mean, literally all he's ever achieved in his life was to be a lucky sperm- he dossed around for a while, did some catastrophic failure business stuff for his dad, then suddenly- he's giving speeches about teachers and people are listening. Get to ****.
The whole Trump Jr thing is double weird. I mean, literally all he’s ever achieved in his life was to be a lucky sperm- he dossed around for a while, did some catastrophic failure business stuff for his dad, then suddenly- he’s giving speeches about teachers and people are listening. Get to ****.
Or his daughter, a handbag saleswoman trying to fend off her dads leering advances but somehow advising who should head up the World Bank
I have to remind myself sometimes that this is actually happening and it's not a weird fever dream
literally all he’s ever achieved in his life was to be a lucky sperm
Mostly true of his dad, too.
Mostly true of everyone.
Mostly true of everyone.
Most people are the product of a lucky sperm?
he dossed around for a while, did some catastrophic failure business stuff for his dad
Which Donald are we talking about here?
Most people are the product of a lucky sperm?
Yes, but some are a gift from God.
Yes, but some are a gift from God.
If you say so.
Essay from Jim Wright
Malice
This is still my favourite Trump clip (skip to 1 minute in):
This is one for the Fox News/Tucker Carlson fans. Delicious takedown - takes a while to get going, but worth it.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1098282209834950657
Cohen slaughtering Trump before Congress, extraordinary
And we're off!
Cohen doing his best to spill the dirt on his former boss to Congress in his new role as a penitent sinner.
Or just a spurned lover getting his own back?
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1100760410570006529
Oh, wow!
Cohen is going down swinging
Oooh some lovely stuff in there already:
"He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat... I was actively negotiating in Russia for him... Trump's personal lawyers reviewed and edited my [false] statement to Congress... He lied about it because he never expected to win the election. He also lied...because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project... Lying for Mr. Trump was normalized, and no one around him questioned it. In fairness, no one around him today questions it, either... He asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and to lie to his wife about it, which I did... [Trump] thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws... declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores... He tasked me to handle the negative press surrounding his medical deferment from the Vietnam draft. He claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery... the following comment. 'You think I'm stupid? I wasn't going to Vietnam.'"..
I reckon the draft dodging could be the thing that actually upsets his base the most. They don't care if he is racist, a conman, or paid off porn stars. Many of them probably admire him for it. But dodging the draft? Oof
There’s not a big enough bag of popcorn
This is amazing viewing
I think Champ Kind gives a wonderful summary of what has just happened.
'[Michael Cohen], steps up to the plate, aaaaaannnnnnndddddd.....'
But dodging the draft? Oof
Thats been known for a long time and oddly doesnt seem to do any damage. Not just Trump but dubya before him (getting into the Texas air national guard).
Yeah I know, but to actually have him reported as sneering about it as he asked Cohen cover it up might be a step beyond for some.
Does twitter not work in Vietnam? Or maybe he has broken it with an extreme torrent of fury and vitriol.
I think a lot of people have no problem at all with draft dodging. I'd have dodged the draft for Vietnam and so would plenty of others. It's just that trump combines it with all sorts of mad hawkishness, denigrates actual veterans and decorated war heroes, wants to send other people's kids off all over the place, and loves to play dress up. A draft dodger who said "Vietnam was horseshit, I won't do that to you or your kids" would get on just fine even with a lot of serving personnel.
Also compared veteran's experiences of Vietnam with his victory in the battle against picking up the clap in Studio 54.
It could not be happening to a nicer bloke.
I think a lot of people have no problem at all with draft dodging
I dunno, implying people who did go, to serve their country, were stupid probably won’t win him any friends among folk who didn’t have a choice.
It could not be happening to a nicer bloke.
I think that applies to any of Cohen, Trump, Guiliani, Stone, Pecker...
Wowsers! That's quite some testimony.
I do wonder if it will make any difference - we all knew all this anyway, right? Trump the liar, conman, racist, draft-dodger and general all-around scumbag. I wonder if it will change anybody's mind?
The stuff about Russian business dealings is interesting, one has to assume that what he's saying is aligned with what Muller has already in his report.
Part of me thinks it'll be one of the smaller issues that brings him down..... I'd love it to be something as ridiculous as using his charitable foundation to buy his own portrait
Entertaining but I don't think it will make any sort of difference, either for his supporters or detractors - he's already far from a person you can be on the fence about. The Republican and Democrat questions were mostly very cringeworthy, I know it was all for show but some interrogation from a neutral source would have been nice to see, although I guess that's what he's done with Mueller.
poor ol' donny didn't get his signing ceremony>
https://twitter.com/StateDept/status/1101028965546749954
I watched about half of this, he's already trying to take credit for peace between India and ****stan and just looks bored talking about anything that's not about him.
darthpunk.
Never mind all that nonsense,look at the cool new flag in the background,would look great on a basketball 🙂
I watched about half of this
I watched about 15 seconds on the news this morning and had to turn him off. I mean "India and ****stan" have been "going at it" "we're gonna help them out" blah blah "Venezuela" ... bloody idiot made no sense whatsoever!
Apparently Trump thinks Kim had nothing to do with Otto Warmbier's death.
"Some really bad things happened to Otto — some really really bad things. But he tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word," Trump said, referring to the North Korean dictator.
The president added that Kim told him that he "felt very badly about it."
-- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-otto-warmbier-death-kim-jong-un-wasn-t-blame-n977516
Fair enough then I guess? I mean a US Federal Court ruled he had been tortured to death by North Korea. But I'm sure that was just a misunderstanding.
But how could he have been? He wasn’t in North Korea when he died!
(I’m minded of the scene in Vice, where Cheney is discussing the Geneva convention etc ‘The US does not torture suspects. So if the US does those things (water boarding etc) to suspects, then that isn’t torture.)
If he's so super rich, why did he have to repay Cohen in instalments?
It's almost as if he's a total fraud.
Probably to get under various people radar? 1 payment of the full amount would be obvious. Instalments, not so much.
Installments to make it look like a retainer for legal services.
Total amount of installments double the original payment due to 50% tax bracket.
I wasted hours watching it up until the recess then realised I should probably go to work.
http://nj1015.com/nj-teen-arrested-after-81-year-old-attacked-over-maga-hat-at-shoprite/
http://time.com/5541025/new-jersey-maga-hat-assault/
That's obviously indefensible but I guess if you're going to be fair you should list all the violent acts that could be attributed to Trump supporters etc this may include several shootings and various racial attacks.
I only got to see Cohen’s closing speech this morning - behind his eyes you can see him thinking ‘I wonder who’s going to play me in the movie of this’
‘I wonder who’s going to play me in the movie of this’
Kevin Spacey.
The internet seems to have David Schwimmer pencilled in for that one.
Alongside Kermit the Frog as Roger Stone.
he's lost it
BBC News - Donald Trump launches furious attack on Robert Mueller
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47430996
It reminds me a proper decent into madness film like videodrome I wonder how much different it looks through his eyes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/senate-emergency-declaration-trump.html > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/senate-emergency-declaration-trump.html < Looks like he is going to be angry again, nobody seems to want to let him has his wall
After "<i>successfully" </i>negotiating new trade deals with china (yeah...right!) trump now sets his sights on india/turkey...nothing at all to do with obfuscating the cohen/senate/collusion inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/us/cindy-yang-trump-donations.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
It's all about the company you keep 🙂
It’s all about the company you keep 🙂
Who dat?
Link is on the pic, NYT seems to link that way in the new forum world
No link working in pic.
No link working in pic.
Works for me (Chrome on iMac)
Interesting discussion about the Christchurch attack on the BBC yesterday - apparently Trump offered condolences to the victims but didn't condemn the perpetrator. Hmm, class. (from memory it was a Daily Mail journalist noting Trump's omission)
Anyway Mike, are you suggesting that Trump is holding bunga bunga parties? 😜
Trump offered condolences to the victims but didn’t condemn the perpetrator.
That's quite a big concession for him, normally he's at pains to point out that there are fine people on both sides.