US Politics

When the Deep State takes action. Or maybe that's a good thing. Fuck knows.

Whitehall:

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1ZkJzqjbaeaGv

All this "looking tough on terror" nonsense victimises a lot of people that would other have been victims.

And this tough on terror stuff when there hasn't been a terror attack in the US of late. What happens when there is one? And perhaps with all this posturing there is more likely to be one...

at what point does the USA become a dictatorship ?

When the president makes executive orders, which are declared unconstitutional and unlawful by the federal judicial system, but are enforced by the agents of the government in any case.

cf. The recent travel ban.

I wonder who the military are going to side with?

That too, this is great for the Isis propaganda mill :/

Manchester:

This is damning.

https://www.channel4.com/news/by/gary-gibbon/blogs/theresa-may-told-a-us-refugee-ban-was-coming?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

meanwhile, on the big british castle news...

You're really selling the idea of going to a protest.

Sheffield

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https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/donald-trumps-press-secretary-used-the-quebec-mosque-attack-to-justify-the-muslim-ban

Just came here to post that.

Pinch of salt required... But... Shitshitshitshit

This is heartening.

The LAPD police chief just openly rebelled against Trump’s immigration orders

http://usuncut.com/news/lapd-police-chief-just-openly-rebelled-trumps-immigration-orders/

"“We couldn’t deport 500,000 people if we wanted to, and if we did, it would be at the expense of public safety…” Beck said of the LAPD’s resources. “This is not our job, nor will I make it our job.”

Los Angeles has approximately 500,000 undocumented residents. Beck said in his experience, criminalizing these residents only makes for a more dangerous community."

well duh! if you don't let muslins into the country they can't be murdered by white supremacists.

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I've decided this is some kind of mass hallucination so just going to kick back amd pretend this is the new ultra real HBO series. Mix of Veep, West wing, House of Cards and Yes Minister

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https://mobile.twitter.com/studioexec1/status/825967135650349056/video/1

'Meanwhile there's also a pro Trump demo in Cardiff'
https://twitter.com/rascaldj/status/826183138372104192/photo/1

Trojan Horse never fails

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/breitbart-stephen-bannon-donald-trump-master-plan

But when I talked with Bannon, he expressed a wariness about the political genuineness of the Trump campaign persona. Trump is a “blunt instrument for us,” he told me earlier this summer. “I don’t know whether he really gets it or not"

curiouser and curiouser

https://twitter.com/search?q=trump+fires+attorney+general&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch

Best said with your best John Lyndon snarl.

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Perhaps this thread should be renamed. Suggestions on a postcard ....