US Politics

Charm offensive

https://twitter.com/NoorAjaj/status/826507461540642816

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38824925

Well now I don't know what to think!

I always think of Irish people saying 'writers'.

Porbably racialist.

Pride comes before a fall, I suppose.

Cough...

Lol

After the Republicans blocking Obama from replacing Scalia for the better part of a year, he's threatening to change the rules so this Gorsuch character gets in:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/01/neil-gorsuch-donald-trump-congress-nuclear-option

^^ He sounds like an expert, didn't he get the memo that nobody needs experts?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Also, as ideologues like Bannon need bogeypeople to divide us, increasing ISIS recruitment is probably something they need to sustain the perception of the threat from them.

Both May and Trump need to read some fucking Socrates.

Seeing as Socrates is historically said not to have written anything, this could prove tricky. :)

In Kentucky. Apparently no one knows who these guys are.

https://youtu.be/EqRquLskAu0

Thomson Reuters is the parent company of Reuters, they aren't the same thing and the BBC's headline is inaccurate.

The Guardian article is much better actually:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/01/finsbury-park-mosque-wins-apology-and-damages-from-reuters

Glad you liked the blog post though :)

This rolled through my twitter feed a few times last night

Is the current strategy to make everyday a good day to bury bad news and quietly keep all that doesn't get caught up in the counter-shift?

This is hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZPCp8SPfOM

...i'm trying. when do they stop talking about lions?

https://twitter.com/karinjr/status/827094009835290624

Entirely believable

I see your angry phone call, and raise you one threat to invade

https://mobile.twitter.com/passantino/status/826936990826262528

'We're going to war in the South China Sea ... no doubt'
~ Steve Bannon

This shit is getting serious and isn't funny in the slightest:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/trump-approved-yemen-raid-five-days-after-inauguration

Amazing

On the positive side you could get a military coup if he keeps sending soldiers on suicide missions

The leaking from the WH and military briefing suggests Bannon hasn't really got the hang of this dictatorship lark yet.

The leaking from the WH

It's incredibly leaky isn't it? More than any previous administration. Clearly a lot of WH staff recognise he's an idiot.

Wow, what a fuck-up. That explains Trump's trip yesterday (with Ivanka as his first-lady stand-in after he has presumably 'sorted' Melania) to meet William Owens' family. Although that won't explain why the first thing Trump probably would have said to them was how unfair the media were, followed by the crowd size story.