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.@senatemajldr on the U.S. Capitol Attack: "The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people." pic.twitter.com/QIeviyHkl3
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I've read that Melania Trump hasn't followed the tradition of previous First ladies by offering Jill Biden tea and a tour of the White House.
That just sounds mean-spirited and so typical of the Trump brand.
Promising signs on hospitalisations but it's early days and the combination of vaccinations (especially as we are told the efficacy increases with time so those vaccinated up to New Year should be in pretty good shape) and increased lockdown restrictions having the desired effect.
Early days.
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Either A;
Extremely bad and bitter
or B:
Full on schism, with the Trumpistas being by far the largest segment.
Add eleven million instant citizens, plus more in immigration, and well, the democrats can do what they like.
Pretty much for the duration.
One day, investors might wake up to that fact.
https://twitter.com/oilysailor/status/1351603373318037509
A key question over coming weeks and months is whether direct links are established between the rioters and leading Republicans.
Quite a few PB Trumptons around, even now.
Gets convicted here and can complain he cannot get a fair trial anywhere else.
Look at the Wyoming GOP's response to what Liz Cheney did. Outright condemnation. They were inundated with messages from voters yelling betrayal.
Cheney will probably be primaried now, when the time comes. And not in a good way.
Meanwhile Texas is throwing lawsuits at everything Biden is trying to do. They won;t win of course, but it just shows where we are.
People might have laughed when anybody suggested the break-up of the USA even just a few years ago.
Now? not so much. Not so much at all.
He becomes a rapidly deflating balloon at precisely 1200hrs EST tomorrow. A schmuck.
https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1351599663959437316?s=20
Corker of a lawsuit put together by "Blacks for Trump", "Latinos for Trump" - seeking to void not just Biden but the entire Congress, includes great lines such as
7. Accordingly, this Court should rest assured that the relief requested in this lawsuit will not result in the destruction of democracy
&
"Therefore, not a single member of the 117thUnited States Congress was legally elected, which renders Congress illegitimate."
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1120287/gov.uscourts.txwd.1120287.1.0.pdf
Note that previously the least popular FLOTUS upon leaving1600 Pennsylvania Ave was Hillary Clinton with net +13%
The number of peeps on here who think Trump stopped/lowered the usage of drone strikes is unbelievable.
Oh I know. Its a lazy slur by a person who can;t come up with an argument.
Trump or no Trump the GOP is shattered and broken and its probably going to stay that way. That's the point and its based on hard evidence.
Getting to a unanimous jury decision could certainly be a challenge though.
During the Reagan and Bush 41 years the Democrats still controlled the House of Representatives
https://twitter.com/JMPSimor/status/1351511829672030209?s=20
His lawyer got sworn testimony to count towards double jeopardy. So standing up and telling the truth under oath pretty much prevented hm being prosecuted for the crimes he said he committed.... so if Trump testified at the impeachment.....
Mind you North had an intelligent lawyer and listened to him. Can't see that working for Trump.
If someone calls me a Blairite or liberal or centrist I don't think how insulting even if liking Blair or being a liberal are not particularly popular at times.
This was the guy who built a military coalition that included the Arabs and the Israelis - fighting on the same side.
And used rock music to get Noriega into prison.
The Westminster constituency is held by the LibDems, I believe.
Must be like christmas Eve at NYSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uwflmfWfTM
However, Diane Dodds warned of the impact on products like steel, which could face tariffs of up to 25%."
Integral? Riiiiiight.
I imagine it will fall on deaf ears. Or rather fingers-in-ears.
--AS
https://twitter.com/OliverKay/status/1351613276224954368
Today there were 418 boxes from 3 vessels landed. (Not the 220 claimed in the tweet)
But guess what.
Yesterday there were 4333 boxes landed from 19 vessels.
Last Monday there were 6370 boxes landed from 20 vessels
Yes I am sure Brexit is having an effect but this sort of cherry picking of numbers to try and con people - and the fact so many on here are stupid enough to fall for it - just shows how desperate some people are for Brexit to fail.
You can look at all the numbers on the Peterhead port authority site. I reckon looking at the numbers on there and comparing to last year that landings are down by about 40%. This is bad. But the idea it has completely collapsed is just garbage.
I remember the same line being pushed when Obama become President. Yet there were fewer (a lot fewer) naturalisations as a percentage of the population under Obama than under Bush. (Indeed, in the two biggest years for naturalisation in the US happened under the two Bushes - and as a percent of the population Bush Sr was probably almost twice the level of Obama.)
Since 1996, US naturalisations have bounced around between 500,000 and 1,000,000 a year - with most years being around 700,000. As a percentage of the population, Obama's term probably had the lowest levels of naturalisation since the 1980s.
So, you said "eleven million instant citizens".
How confident are you in that forecast? Let's put some money on it, shall we?
When I say social do NOT mean upper-crust society of the hoity-toity kind, even in half-baked colonial fashion. Instead, the expectations of the mass of American people, most especially the majority of American woman.
My own mother, a child of the Great Depression who did not outlive the Reagan administration, was definitely a Democrat but not very politically-minded. She did, however, take an interest in the personalities and activities of all the First Ladies starting from when she was a girl and Eleanor Roosevelt was FLOTUS.
The lens through which she viewed and judged First Ladies was NOT political, nor partisan.
> Her favorite was Pat Nixon, whom she admired for being a loyal wife, good mother, well-spoken and classy.
>Her least favorite was Jacqueline Kennedy, despite (or perhaps because) fact that she was enthusiastic Irish Catholic Democratic JFK supporter; in addition to wee touch of jealousy think she thought Jackie was too much of an elitist for her taste.
That was then. BUT even today, the FLOTUS still matters. The personalities, activities, problems and achievements of the First Ladies have been the stuff of our history and politics since Martha Washington, and always will.
BTW my own personal favorite First Lady is Dolley Madison. The extrovert Philadelphia widow & bombshell who turned White House entertaining into a major political asset for her way-more introverted hubby James Madison. His forte was writing the Constitution and creating the foundation for government; hers was lubricating the workings of that government with rum punch and a ready smile.
Dolley also, as every American schoolchild used to know, before the British were able to burn the White House during the War of 1812 (aka Mr Madison's War) she ordered the Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington taken down and removed to safety. By the White House slaves. Nevertheless, she did it, and we'll never forget it.
Certainly impact of Mrs. Madison on her times AND subsequent generations was NOT overblown. Same can be said for Mary Toddy Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt. Similar case can be made for Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan, for Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. And others.
In one sense, you are right - it IS overblown! But that's just how it is, or a least has been.
https://twitter.com/maybulman/status/1351615053804548104
Do you call this elegant?...
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/10/02/melania-trump-audio-recording-christmas-stephanie-winston-wolkoff-sot-ac360-vpx.cnn
AND knocked the socks off the crown head of Europe, in competition with Eva Peron.
Melania? Not so much.
on Congress is probably the best choice, if the Republican party is to have a democratic future.
The level of the stock market is something of a secondary concern.
They really should stop moaning then...
We will naturally hear the horror stories - and there will be some given only c.40% of businesses were ready for this and we had no transition period - but we really need raw data on successful/unsuccessful transits at Dover/Calais, the new timelines on JIT delivery routes and the new costs of the NTBs to form an objective assessment of the impact.
And anyone reposting that rubbish as fact is equally as dishonest.
Benpointer: She's not elegant
HYUFD: What's that got to do with anything? She is beautiful
You literally stated she was elegant. Someone else claimed she is not elegant. How can you claim elegance has nothing to do with this when you were the one who brought it up?
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2020/11/15/the-fall-of-the-west/