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April 24, 2017

Borowitz: OBAMAS BARRAGE OF COMPLETE SENTENCES SEEN AS BRUTAL ATTACK ON TRUMP

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Appearing at his first public event since leaving office, Obama fired off a punishing fusillade of grammatically correct sentences, the likes of which the American people have not heard from the White House since he departed.

“He totally restricted his speech to complete sentences,” Tracy Klugian, a student at the event, said. “It was the most vicious takedown of Trump I’d ever seen.”

“About five or six sentences in, I noticed that all of his sentences had both nouns and verbs in them,”
Carol Foyler, another student, said. “I couldn’t believe he was going after Trump like that.”

Obama’s blistering deployment of complete sentences clearly got under the skin of their intended target, who, moments after the event, responded with an angry tweet: “Obama bad (or sick) guy. Failing. Sad!”

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/obamas-barrage-of-complete-sentences-seen-as-brutal-attack-on-trump

April 24, 2017

In lst encounter w Schumer - Trump Reduced to Seeking non-Custodial Relationship with Own Testicles

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/856624528289615873
In first grand encounter w Schumer, Trump Reduced to Seeking non-Custodial Relationship with Own Testicles

I want to go back to the point I made this weekend, which is that President Trump’s threat to shut the government down and kick people off insurance (by pulling subsidies) if Democrats didn’t agree to fund the wall is just a big time political loser.

I stick to that point. But let’s see what now seems to be happening. President Trump’s advisors are now signaling that Trump plans to back down because he knows he’ll lose. In other words, Mr Winning, Dominating, Make the Best Deals is about to go Low Energy and walk away from a sure loss while trying to pretend it never happened.

Folks on the Hill are saying they don’t think there needs to be shutdown. President Trump’s key advisors and spokespeople are today saying, well, it doesn’t really have to be money for the wall. Anything tied to border security will do.

Let’s not ignore what’s happening here. President Trump’s OMB Director Mulvaney said very clearly: dollar for dollar, you get $1 for Obamacare (actually, one not taken from Obamacare) in exchange for every dollar you give us for the boss’s wall.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-prepping-to-fold-like-a-cheap-suit-on-wall-demand-sad
April 24, 2017

Sessions is a Racist (period).

Jeff Sessions: If Mexico doesn't pay for wall, US could investigate Mexicans' taxes

“We're going to get paid for it one way or the other," Sessions said on ABC's This Week. "I know there's $4 billion a year in excess payments, according to the Department of the Treasury's own inspector general several years ago, that are going to payments to people — tax credits that they shouldn't get.”

"Now, these are mostly Mexicans," he continued. "And those kind of things add up — $4 billion a year for 10 years is $40 billion. There are a lot of ways we can find money to help pay for this."

https://mic.com/articles/174998/jeff-sessions-if-mexico-doesn-t-pay-for-wall-us-could-investigate-mexicans-taxes#.sDUnOrLX3
April 24, 2017

WOW-New NBC/WSJ poll: 73% prefer independent commission--instead of Congress--to investigate Russia

New NBC/WSJ poll: 73% prefer an independent commission -- instead of Congress -- to investigate Russia interference

https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/856538222100271105

April 24, 2017

Nuts! 100 Days Of Shame

April 24, 2017

John Dingell tweet re: Trump's 100 Days Cracked Me Up...

Safe to say @realDonaldTrump has had the least productive first 100 days in office.
Except maybe Harrison, who died of pneumonia on Day 31.

https://twitter.com/JohnDingell/status/855212393294647296
April 24, 2017

FYI from L MENSCH: Intel Sources: Trump accepted laundered money-to pay for Russia's hack on America

EXCLUSIVE: Intelligence Sources: Donald Trump accepted laundered money - to pay for Russia's hack on America
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/856281905913896960


snippet:

Today, however, I can also report that Ocean Way Capital, in Florida, which is the shell company that itself hosts Hostkey.com and all its servers, is linked to Russian-Ukranian money laundering to Donald Trump via a series of shell companies based in the British Virgin Islands. Ocean Way Capital Corporation was dissolved there along in April 24th, 2016 – around the same time that, according to the BBC’s Paul Wood, the then director of the CIA heard a tape from Estonian intelligence about Russian money being laundered to the Trump campaign.




pretty interesting stuff with lots of connecting dots (I know, I know, healthy dose of skeptism, but...) HERE:
https://patribotics.blog/2017/04/23/did-donald-trump-commission-russias-hack-of-the-us-election-himself/

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