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December 31, 2017

Fake President Wishes US "Happy New Year"

Trump Tweet:

As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies, haters, and even the very dishonest Fake News Media, a Happy and Healthy New Year. 2018 will be a great year for America!



https://twitter.com/yashar/status/947593180576407557
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/947592785519173637

December 31, 2017

2018 - RED ALERT From UN

NEW: UN Secretary-General issued a “red alert” for the world today.

In his New Year message: “Unfortunately – in fundamental ways the world has gone in reverse. On New Year’s Day 2018 I am not issuing an appeal, I am issuing an alert – a red alert for our world.

When I took office a year ago, I appealed for 2017 to be a year for peace. Unfortunately, in fundamental ways, the world has gone in reverse. On New Year's Day in 2018, I'm not issuing an appeal, I'm issuing an alert—a red alert for our world. Conflicts have deepened and new dangers have emerged. Global anxieties over nuclear weapons are the highest since the Cold War, and climate change is moving faster than we are. Inequalities are growing, and we see horrific violations of human rights. Nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise. And as we begin 2018, I call for unity. I truly believe we can make our world more safe and secure. We can settle conflicts, overcome hatred and defend shared values but we can only do that together. I urge leaders everywhere to make this New Year's resolution: Narrow the gaps. Bridge the divides. Rebuild trust by bringing people together around common goals. Unity is the path. Our future depends on it.




http://www.newsweek.com/un-secretary-general-nuclear-war-climate-change-766913
https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/947486219851644928
December 31, 2017

"The Year In Hats"

December 31, 2017

"Aiding and Abetting"

@DavidCornDC
Whatever scheming there may have been, Trump and his colleagues constant denying of Russian meddling provided cover for the Russian attack on the US election. That was aiding and abetting.


I don’t understand how people think there’s still a question of *whether* there was collusion, as opposed to “how extensive was it?” The campaign got advance word that Russia had thousands of hacked Dem emails, yet consistently feigned doubt publicly.




https://twitter.com/normative/status/947210417700556800
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/947308475360608256
December 31, 2017

Ding ding... agree and I've thought this for awhile

mathGuyNTulsa Dec 30 · 04:49:08 PM

Here are more dots to connect. Papadopoulos’ guilty plea states that he first learned about Russia’s willingness to help rig the election on March 14th of 2016. Two days later, key Senate Republican John Cornyn announced that he intended to block the Merrick Garland nomination.

At the time, blocking the nomination was at best a peculiar move. Everyone expected HRC would win the election and nominate someone even more liberal than Garland for SCOTUS. Polling at the time also gave the Democrats a good chance of winning control of the Senate. Blocking Garland was a risky strategy with a low probability of actual payoff.

However, blocking the Garland nomination makes perfect sense if the Senate leadership knew, in March of 2016, that the Russians were going to rig the election. The path to that knowledge is easy to deduce: Papdopoulos to Helms—already on the inside of the Trump campaign--to McConnell.

Proving all of this is another matter, but the circumstantial evidence is mounting that the 2016 election and all of its consequences was invalid.



comment from:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/30/1728716/-Did-Trump-now-about-Australia-s-spy-agency-notifying-the-FBI-from-the-start#comment_68821001

also remember THIS:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

December 31, 2017

Trump : "Iranian Govt should respect their peoples right to peaceful *protest"


Note: Not applicable in America, where kneeling #NFL players are ostracised and threatened by the IMPOTUS himself.





https://twitter.com/Far_Right_Watch/status/947251771830931456

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