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Sun Jan 15, 2017, 05:00 PM Jan 2017

Another Dem boycotting inauguration because of Twitless' attack on John Lewis

Rep. Mark Pocan ?@repmarkpocan 6h6 hours ago
After reading classified Russian hacking doc & @realDonaldTrump offensive tweets to @repjohnlewis I will not be attending the Inauguration.


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Another Dem boycotting inauguration because of Twitless' attack on John Lewis (Original Post) bigtree Jan 2017 OP
Excellent comment from Rep Mark Pocan. sheshe2 Jan 2017 #1
One by one by one, this is what has to happen. Senators and Reps turn away. LuckyLib Jan 2017 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2017 #3
But that's only a sliver of action. There will be LOTS of disclosures Eyeball_Kid Jan 2017 #4
Don't you think this tRumps bdamomma Jan 2017 #9
The ball is rolling orangecrush Jan 2017 #5
I wish the Clintons had "other plans."..n/t monmouth4 Jan 2017 #6
I'm sure both they and the Obamas wish they did too radical noodle Jan 2017 #7
I really don't think they could wriggle out of at least being there for the swearing in.... George II Jan 2017 #8

LuckyLib

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2. One by one by one, this is what has to happen. Senators and Reps turn away.
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 05:40 PM
Jan 2017

The media turns away. People look away. No social media response. Trump is left "twisting in the wind."

Response to LuckyLib (Reply #2)

Eyeball_Kid

(7,432 posts)
4. But that's only a sliver of action. There will be LOTS of disclosures
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 06:13 PM
Jan 2017

from intelligence sources in the coming days. That's nearly guaranteed, especially from foreign intelligence sources who are loathe to work with Trumpy BECAUSE he's a Russian asset. They all know it by now, and probably knew about it before last August. The NATO and eastern European countries are crapping in their collective pants because Putin wants to energize the Russian Bear and take over as much real estate as possible, and Trumpy is happy to give him the green light-- just to keep Putin from releasing all of that secret information: the sex tapes, to a lesser extent, but more importantly, Trumpy's clandestine relationship with Putin DURING his campaign for president. That Russian agents stated that they didn't have to release sensitive information (contained in the "dossier&quot BECAUSE the Trumpy campaign was "voluntarily co-operative" has to render many of the intelligence agencies, world-wide, speechless.

Trumpy is extraordinarily dangerous. He's afraid that Russia will expose him, and he's being very nice to Russia and Putin to keep them quiet. It's working for Putin. But right now, it's not so good for Trumpy. And it will get worse. A lot worse.

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
9. Don't you think this tRumps
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 08:00 PM
Jan 2017

main goal to dismember the Congress particularly those who don't accept him as being a fascist leader. He is ignorant/arrogant to the branches of government.

He wants to be the one and only. Feedback please.

George II

(67,782 posts)
8. I really don't think they could wriggle out of at least being there for the swearing in....
Sun Jan 15, 2017, 07:45 PM
Jan 2017

...but I wonder if, based on Obama's outspokenness about the election and Bill's outspoken defense of his wife, do they possibly have some other way of expressing their disgust? Might they be secretly planning to speak at the Washington rally on Saturday? Something else?

Oh, I wish that were true!!!

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