linda~lou
Pearl Clutcher
Keep calm and eat crumpets
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Location: Motown but my heart is in San Francisco
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Post by linda~lou on Aug 11, 2017 3:33:23 GMT
From Politico.... "President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his controversial ban on transgender troops serving in the military, saying he's doing them "a favor" despite a flood of criticism for the policy change. "It's been a very difficult situation, and I think I'm doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying it," Trump said while on a working vacation at his golf club in New Jersey. "As you know, it's been a very complicated issue for the military. It's been a very confusing issue for the military, and I think I'm doing the military a great favor." This man is so stupid. I hate him from the depths of my soul. This crap, then being glad diplomats lost their jobs because of Russia? WTF dude? I thought you were all about getting people jobs, not glad they are losing them. Then he blames the Senate for failing to pass a new health care act? Oh no, not his fault. But had it passed? Oh hell, he'd be taking ALL the credit. And while I'm at it, throw in pissing off NKorea even more and getting us all freaking blown up. I'm drinking tonight.... oh and while I really do realize there's a opioid epidemic, he better not take away my Xanax. It's the only thing that's getting me through this whole shit show.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 11, 2017 12:43:46 GMT
Yesterday the US kicked 2 Cuban Diplomats out of the country for doing "something" to US Officials in Cuba. Some of these folks had to seek medical attention because their hearing had been affected by something. Rachel showed a bit of the State Department press conference where the spokeswoman acknowledged two Cubans had been kicked out because of what happened to the US people in Cuba. Today she provided less information although she did acknowledge what happen to the US folks also appeared to happen to employees foe another country but wouldn't talk about it. The AP released a story that the other country was Canada. I have to say writers of Political Thrillers don't have to make up their next plot. They just need to read the news "Canadian diplomat in Cuba also suffered hearing loss"
By MATTHEW LEE, ROB GILLIES and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Canadian government said Thursday that at least one Canadian diplomat in Cuba also has been treated for hearing loss following disclosures that a group of American diplomats in Havana suffered severe hearing loss that U.S. officials believe was caused by an advanced sonic device. Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman Brianne Maxwell said Canadian officials “are aware of unusual symptoms affecting Canadian and US diplomatic personnel and their families in Havana. The government is actively working — including with US and Cuban authorities - to ascertain the cause.” Maxwell added that officials don’t have any reason to believe Canadian tourists and other visitors could be affected. Canada helped broker talks between Cuba and the United States that led to restored diplomatic relations. In the fall of 2016, a series of U.S. diplomats began suffering unexplained losses of hearing, according to officials with knowledge of the investigation into the case. Several of the diplomats were recent arrivals at the embassy, which reopened in 2015 as part of President Barack Obama’s reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. Some of the U.S. diplomats’ symptoms were so severe that they were forced to cancel their tours early and return to the United States, officials said. After months of investigation, U.S. officials concluded that the diplomats had been attacked with an advanced sonic weapon that operated outside the range of audible sound and had been deployed either inside or outside their residences. It was not immediately clear if the device was a weapon used in a deliberate attack, or had some other purpose. The U.S. officials weren’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the U.S. retaliated by expelling two Cuban diplomats from their embassy in Washington on May 23. She did not say how many U.S. diplomats were affected or confirm they had suffered hearing loss, saying only that they had “a variety of physical symptoms.” The Cuban government said in a lengthy statement late Wednesday that “Cuba has never permitted, nor will permit, that Cuban territory be used for any action against accredited diplomatic officials or their families, with no exception.” The statement from the Cuban Foreign Ministry said it had been informed of the incidents on Feb. 17 and had launched an “exhaustive, high-priority, urgent investigation at the behest of the highest level of the Cuban government.” It said the decision to expel two Cuban diplomats was “unjustified and baseless.” The ministry said it had created an expert committee to analyze the incidents and had reinforced security around the U.S. embassy and U.S. diplomatic residences. “Cuba is universally considered a safe destination for visitors and foreign diplomats, including U.S. citizens,” the statement said. U.S. officials told The Associated Press that about five diplomats, several with spouses, had been affected and that no children had been involved. The FBI and Diplomatic Security Service are investigating. Cuba employs a state security apparatus that keeps many people under surveillance and U.S. diplomats are among the most closely monitored people on the island. Like virtually all foreign diplomats in Cuba, the victims of the incidents lived in housing owned and maintained by the Cuban government. However, officials familiar with the probe said investigators were looking into the possibilities that the incidents were carried out by a third country such as Russia, possibly operating without the knowledge of Cuba’s formal chain of command. Nauert said investigators did not yet have a definitive explanation for the incidents but stressed they take them “very seriously,” as shown by the Cuban diplomats’ expulsions. “We requested their departure as a reciprocal measure since some U.S. personnel’s assignments in Havana had to be curtailed due to these incidents,” she said. “Under the Vienna Convention, Cuba has an obligation to take measures to protect diplomats.” U.S. diplomats in Cuba said they suffered occasional harassment for years after the restoration of limited ties with the communist government in the 1970s, harassment reciprocated by U.S. agents against Cuban diplomats in Washington. The use of sonic devices to intentionally harm diplomats would be unprecedented. This type of weaponry frightens me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 15:12:07 GMT
This morning....
"Military solutions are now fully in place,locked and loaded,should North Korea act unwisely. Hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!"
Ah they already were "locked & loaded" just liked military options are for any potential hot spot even, I'm pretty sure, against your BFF in the Kremlin.
He talks like some third rate actor in a "B" movie.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 15:18:33 GMT
tiny hands October 2012...
"Polls are starting to look really bad for Obama. Looks like he'll have to start a war or major conflict to win. Don't put it past him!"
I swear this man must of had a crystal ball when he wrote this crap, But I don't think he thought this would apply to him.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 15:39:50 GMT
Kurt Eicheneald.,,
"Russia has put its eastern air defense on alert in response to Trump's saber rattling at North Korea. But...her emails!"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 15:49:21 GMT
Fortune Magazine....
'California crops rot as immigration crackdown creates farmworker shortage"
And a lot of these farmers voted for tiny hands. Maybe they can "import" some of the folks in the rust belt looking for jobs to pick the crops before they rot.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 11, 2017 15:53:19 GMT
this morning on the radio (either MSNBC or Progress, I can't remember which) they read some memos / info regarding Trump and his tendency to spout off without thinking... apparently some of his top officials have pretty much said outright to just ignore the BS he spews, because he doesn't know what he's talking about. ?!? To have to say "ignore anything the President says" is a bit unreal! (good in this case, but still- unreal.) He's shown time and time again he's unwilling to learn about how government works; WHEN is enough going to be ENOUGH to finally say he is UNFIT for the office? ETA: ahhh, now I remember what it was that he was talking about when the whole 'just ignore him' thing was discussed! Apparently he (Trump) made some comment about some sort of Navy ship (?) and the comment actually had to do with wanting to commission a study to change something about it to being steam-powered? Found it; from an interview he gave to Time magazine re: aircraft carriers. But it's technology the Navy is already replacing, and he wanted to scrap the digital upgrade and go back to steam "to save money" Slate story re: Trump's comment about steam catapult on aircraft carrier
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 16:00:00 GMT
Evan McMullin...
"This is quite a headline in the @washingtonpost today, one that would not have been considered necessary for past presidents."
The headline...
"Little to stop trump if he orders a nuclear attack!"
So it's hard to ignore what trump says in spite of what his aides say.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 11, 2017 16:11:01 GMT
the show I was listening to also said that during Nixon's last year in office before his impeachment / resignation, there was apparently some sort of legislation passed that made it impossible for him to do anything big without having it reviewed and signed off by some other officials. Maybe they learned a lesson from that and having seen just how incapable Trump actually is, hopefully they have something like that in place for him.
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Post by grammadee on Aug 11, 2017 16:15:17 GMT
tiny hands October 2012... "Polls are starting to look really bad for Obama. Looks like he'll have to start a war or major conflict to win. Don't put it past him!" I swear this man must of had a crystal ball when he wrote this crap, But I don't think he thought this would apply to him. I have been thinking this week of how GW Bush's ratings went WAY up after 9-11. Don't think DJT hasn't thought about the same thing. And since he seems to be obsessed with ratings, I would "not put it past him" to manufacture a crisis out of something to bring the rest of the country to heel. If it hadn't been the crazy guy from NK, it would have come up somewhere else.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 11, 2017 16:19:15 GMT
That's a stupid poll question. Why not just ask if we should crown Trump king and make the Trump family the official royal family of America? The people who answered that question in the affirmative aren't too smart either. WAIT just a minute there. IF we are going to have a royal family there MUST be another election for that specifically. I'm pretty sure, if that's really what we are gonna go for we can do better.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 11, 2017 16:24:42 GMT
Ben Rhodes... "Using the "both sides" language is both false and a way of diminishing the responsibility for Trumpism on the right." I love it when someone articulates what I'm thinking and it's so much better then I would have said. There are valid issue with both parties. Denying that is not going to help. BUT having valid issues in either or both parties does not make the shit Trump does right. Man is totally inappropriate for the office and there's a mental issue of some kind that he has not always had. Whatever issues there are in the Democratic Party do not apply to Trump they did not pick him to represent them. However the issues in the Republican Party created this catastrophe.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 17:13:03 GMT
Lindsay Graham...
"Just to be clear:
President @realdonaldtrump INHERITED the mess with North Korea.
He did not create it. (1)"
"Republican and Democrat Presidents for the past 25+ years have warned and complained about the North Korean nuclear program. (2)"
"No one stopped NK because the price of taking action was deemed too high.
There’s now no place for him to kick the can down the road."
"Nobody is in their right mind believes North Korea is now going to stop until somebody makes Kim Jong Un stop. (4)"
"We capitulated in the past to evil people and have always lived to regret it. (5)"
"In my view, giving the leader of North Korea the ability to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped ICBM - is simply unacceptable.(6)"
Ben Rhodes response...
"every POTUS inherits a mess with DPRK - they tested a nuke before Obama took office. Not every POTUS manufactures a destabilizing crisis."
Escalating to using nukes is not just simply unacceptable but absolutely unacceptable you dimwit.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 11, 2017 17:49:08 GMT
and, per Rachel Maddow, there is only ONE intelligence agency report about the miniaturized nuke, it hasn't been corroborated by ANY other agencies, and the very same report came out 3 years ago. And they were wrong about it then- there's no proof that they're right about it this time. (the only thing different is Trump)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 18:00:23 GMT
Greg Sargent
"Important reminder from @sarahposner: Amid all the lunacy, Trump is using presidency to enrich self and family:"
Well duh! The only people who can't grasp this are his supporters who are waiting for those $30 an hour jobs they may get hired for if they have the skills and if they can pass a drug test.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 18:42:58 GMT
This tweet is aging well:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 19:36:48 GMT
NBC News Politics...
"Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Trump "was being sarcastic" when he thanked Putin for expelling diplomats from Moscow"
If you say so.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Aug 11, 2017 19:46:35 GMT
With most of the BS he spews, I seriously think they wait to gauge the public reaction, then decide how they need to spin it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 22:24:40 GMT
NBC News...
"President Trump: "We have many options for Venezuela, including a possible military option if necessary"
So North Korea isn't enough for him. I wondered why he wanted a BIG army now I know.
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jayfab
Drama Llama
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Post by jayfab on Aug 11, 2017 23:36:22 GMT
With most of the BS he spews, I seriously think they wait to gauge the public reaction, then decide how they need to spin it. I agree.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 23:58:32 GMT
I was right in the middle of something so I couldn't mute the TV and had to listen trump. He was asked about McConnell. He said that we should of had health care by now but McConnell had a couple of Senators "turn on him".
We elect our representative to look out for our interests. I know they don't always do that. But the Republican Senators who voted no, at least 2 of them, didn't like what was in the replacement bills and didn't want a straight repeal. So because these Senators didn't believe what was offered was good for their constituents and voted no "they turned" on McConnell?
How messed up is that? When he says things like that you can believe Comey when he said trump wanted Comey to pledge his loyalty to him.
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suzastampin
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Post by suzastampin on Aug 12, 2017 3:34:47 GMT
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PLurker
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Post by PLurker on Aug 12, 2017 5:11:40 GMT
With most of the BS he spews, I seriously think they wait to gauge the public reaction, then decide how they need to spin it. I agree. and I've said it before and I'll say it again, with him "the truth' is not absolute but a moving target to be decided over time, testing the waters. It can change by his constant spin, spin, spin. If the truth doesn't fit, you must spin it. (gag)
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Aug 12, 2017 13:23:12 GMT
NBC News Politics... "Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Trump "was being sarcastic" when he thanked Putin for expelling diplomats from Moscow" If you say so. Revisionist history.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 13:51:46 GMT
So which part of this statement, when asked to comment on Angela Merkel's statement, did he think she was speaking for Germany I wonder. When asked he replied : "She's a very good friend of mine, she's a very good friend of Ivanka" Trump said. "Maybe she's referring to Germany"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 15:43:32 GMT
Dan Pfeiffer...
"Only 8 months into the Trump Presidency we are on the brink of nuclear war and Nazis are in streets of an American city. Seems about right"
To all those who voted for change is this the type of change you were looking for?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 17:18:08 GMT
From AP... "BREAKING: Virginia governor declares state of emergency in response to white nationalist rally." Way back when, BeckyTech and I went around and around about trump's message being music to the ears of white nationalist. I felt because of trump's words they felt they could crawl out from the gutter into main stream. She did not agree and thought I was being silly. At the time I felt trump really didn't know what he was saying. That was before he added Steve Bannon to his campaign and ultimately made him a senior adviser in the White House along with alt-right poster boy Stephen Miller. I was wrong that trump didn't understand what his message meant to a certain segment of this country but I was right about the rest. In this case I hate it because I was right. This whole thing is just disgusting.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 17:21:17 GMT
Bill Clinton..
"Even as we protect free speech and assembly, we must condemn hatred, violence and white supremacy. #Charlottesville"
Yup!
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Post by femalebusiness on Aug 12, 2017 17:25:59 GMT
and, per Rachel Maddow, there is only ONE intelligence agency report about the miniaturized nuke, it hasn't been corroborated by ANY other agencies, and the very same report came out 3 years ago. And they were wrong about it then- there's no proof that they're right about it this time. (the only thing different is Trump) Yes, it is reminiscent of the lies Bush and Cheney fed the nation. Look where that got us by buying into it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 17:28:41 GMT
From ABC News...
"Pres. Trump spoke today with Macron, discussed "need to confront increasingly dangerous situation" associated with North Korea's behavior."
Hey tiny hands what about the "need to confront increasingly dangerous situation" associated with what's happening in this country and white nationalist?
You like to chant "America First" so prove it and start by condemning what's happening in Charlottesville.
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