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As GOP schism grows, Trump attacks fellow Republicans

Rats in a cage.

'Read my lips'

It's his (tanking) economy, stoopid!

I love that woman who embroiders her own placards.

She also has Refugees Welcome.

Hurrah for humanity!

A younger teen once asked me of my Nokia:

"what ring tone do you have?"

I answered that I only had the default one, to which he frowned.

"What's your high score in Snake?"

he asked. Embarrassed, I lied that I didn't play Snake.

"So what do you have a phone for then?" he protested.

These days, I have the larger iPhone 7. I love the image quality, the amazing camera, and the half dozen or so apps that have become indispensable to me.

I haven't checked the App Store for Snake yet.

The memory of wine lakes and butter mountains will finally be expunged.

To be replaced with Zinfandel and Cheez Whiz

Thanks, Jimizo.

Here's the link. Once again from Murdoch's Sky News.

http://news.sky.com/story/backtrack-on-give-nhs-163350m-eu-money-promise-10325543

Your serve, Gobshite.

Nowhere does it say let's give all 350 million to the NHS

Save it for the uninsured in the Brexitannia the neoliberals want.

How do you know it was a lie?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/10/brexit-camp-abandons-350-million-pound-nhs-pledge

Yes, I know it's the Guardian. But here's Murdoch, too:

http://news.sky.com/story/backtrack-on-give-nhs-163350m-eu-money-promise-10325543

Even the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/nigel-farage-350-million-pledge-to-fund-the-nhs-was-a-mistake/

But it wasn't Nigel's fault (nothing ever is), nor BoJo's nor Gove's fault, apparently. Damn bus driver!

So, anyone opposed to Brexit is a liberal, a socialist, (despite evidence that many conservatives, including the PM, backed Remain), a snowflake, a Remoaner, a bitching enemy of freedom, even.

Yet the best case for Brexit seems to be that it's an opportunity to raise a defiant index and middle finger to the elites in that London.

This rabbit hole we've stumbled down gets curiouser and curiouser...

Precisely, Jimizo.

The London élites can consolidate their power, and - freed from EU worker protections - have carte blanche to deliver a neoliberal paradise overflowing with opportunities (for themselves, that is).

Another intern in the Oval Office?

Making London come down a peg or six for the greater good of the surrounding UK is a good day

Just how exactly is Brexit doing that?

Had the economic success of the marriage also spread to those outside of major cities Brexit wouldn't have won in the first place

and the puzzling

The banks making huge profits while the poor in the country side watch?

Even the poorest parts of Scotland voted Remain. Scots had originally been against EU membership in 1972, but later saw how the EU, with its regional development support, softened the worst excesses of Tory government.

The 'Home Counties' mentality and rigid centralization of the UK economy wasn't an EU construct. Wales, Cornwall and Britain's most deprived areas which were the net beneficiaries of EU aid, were also worst affected by Tory govt. austerity.

The angry barked up a wrong tree shown them by neoliberals Tories and non-dom press barons.

Yet they'll go back again and again to that tree, marking it with red, white and blue pish (to borrow from the Bard), and find solace in celebrating the day they taught the tree who was boss.

No, no, no!

Once more:

Thank God for California!

What's your point?

OK. Use the Indian Rupee, then. 95 ↓ 81. Great for exports.

Not so great for JLR profits repatriated to Mumbai.

I keep forgetting, the environment is more important for the left than the lives of the average American.

Wow! Been to China, b4f?

It is now almost April, and it is almost 10 months after the referendum. Things have not been as bad as people expected.

Nothing to do, of course, with the fact that the UK's trading status hasn't changed one iota, and that Sterling had sunk to ¥127 in October compared with ¥162 at the end of May.

(xe.com)

Sitting in front of a lone Union Jack

Hold that thought.

The Scottish Parliament yesterday approved a second Independence Referendum by 69 votes to 59 (readers may remember back in 2014 that the threat of expulsion from the EU was a major incentive for the 55% of Scots who voted to stay in the UK). EU-loving Scotland subsequently voted 62% against Brexit in 2016.

Following recent elections Northern Ireland, meanwhile, no longer has a Unionist majority in its devolved assembly. The region, which voted 56% against Brexit last year (despite the best efforts of its then-majority Democratic Unionist party), was omitted in Theresa May's perfunctory tour of the peripheral nations to promote British unity. Britain's Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has confirmed that NI would remain part of the EU should its people vote to rejoin the rest of Ireland.

With these two components gone (Wales is unrepresented on the flag), would that Union Jack be reduced to a stark and 'chavvy' (according to the Daily Mail) St George's Cross?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2783001/The-patriots-embarrassed-fly-Cross-St-George-think-nation-s-flag-chavvy.html

Thank you, NRA.

War crime.

A nice little earner for Mar-a-Lago, owned by whom?

“I am taking historic steps to..."

kill the planet.

Look at Trump's signature: like a little Klan meeting.

Interesting, how would you know that?

Thanks, b4f.

All the pointy little hoods with a few grand wizards thrown in, too.

Suspects sought in deadly Cincinnati nightclub shooting

To include Wayne LaPierre? Plenty of blood on his hands.

“The white race is being eroded. ... No one cares about you. The Chinese don’t care about you, the blacks don’t care about you”

and this white (by sheer accident of birth) guy doesn't give two hoots about you either.

U.S. Representative Devin Nunes, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee... who was a member of Trump’s transition team

is in control of the henhouse.

Glad I put my coffee down.

Look at Trump's signature: like a little Klan meeting.

Trump’s mention of wiretapping drew attention away from...

Core modus operandi of the Distractor-in-Chief.

Watch your wallets, health and planet, people!

We're all ears, Bass.

People on the lower economic ladder predominantly.

That's screamingly obvious, Bass. As is how these people are being judged, dehumanized and written off as unworthy in the posts.