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Standing on an Empire

She is England! Storms pass before the radiant power of her majesty! Ah, the glorious Ditchley Portrait of Elizabeth I, painted by Marcus Gheeraerts in 1592. Today is his day. pic.twitter.com/ohFb5d2OfI

— Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) January 19, 2019

On the front cover the outlook wasn't that bad.
But in the end the Snark was a Boojum. pic.twitter.com/lUD6dcvJgI

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) November 23, 2018

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Did God Help Trump?

The image below is from iBelieve.com, but Trump should retweet this too: United We Stand: a call to unity after the election.

 

On 2019-01-18, @realDonaldTrump retweeted Linda's tweet from 2016-11-09. The image is from https://t.co/f7VdFWkwpA , but Trump should have retweeted this: "United We Stand: a call to unity after the election."https://t.co/XuzZuHeFYw

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) January 19, 2019

It makes me sick to my stomach when the word God is used in any realm with you. But this I love. pic.twitter.com/MfH7EWTVa7

— Kim Minnaugh (@minnaugh_kim) January 19, 2019

With Trump No Middle Ground

[…] Mulvaney inserted himself into the conversation and tried to negotiate a compromise sum of money, according to the sources in the room. Mulvaney said “that if Dems weren’t OK with $5.7 [billion] and the president wasn’t OK with $1.3 [the Democratic offer] … he was trying to say we should find a middle ground,” one of the sources said, paraphrasing Mulvaney’s remarks. []

Trumps >5 billion $$ wall project is designed to be rejected by the Democrats. Trump and the GOP obviously don’t want a wall. Otherwise they would have built it before the midterms. Instead, they need an agenda to keep their supporters angry at the Democrats until 2020. I assume that therefore Trump didn’t like that Mulvaney (WH Chief of Staff) interfered with Trumps tactics. Trump does not really want the middle ground. Trump might want to use the shutdown to damage the Democrates. Trump still seems not to have recognized that in the public the majority holds Trump responsible for the shutdown.

"Trump cut him off … 'You just fucked it all up, Mick,'" the source recalled Trump saying. "It was kind of weird." https://t.co/IMwNfW8kED

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) January 13, 2019

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