(2) It's evening in Paris, and I expect the worst of the violence to occur in the middle of the night. Then, I assume, they will do it all again on Sunday.
Currently nearly 1,000 arrested, 50 injured... I am sure the injury numbers are under-reported.
(3) I don't support the protests, bc they have passed from protests to riots. They are no longer "peaceful protests." which are the only kind I support, unless you're in a country like Iran at the moment.
Yes, the French people have a legitimate grievance.
What he talks about is directly relevant not just to the UK, but to the US, & esp. this weekend, to France. Along with various others, like Saul Montes-Bradley, I've been warning about it for some time.
Thread #1 covers a 6-month period. Unfortunately a technical glitch means it cannot be unrolled at threadreader. I've tried everything. This one will be there, though.
(2) The above photo is from the late 1990s Ken Starr-led special counsel investigation into WJC. I'm nearly 50 years old & remember that time in detail.
RR is a very close friend of Justice Kavanaugh.
That should be "all you need to know" about his integrity & patriotism.
(3) Of course, my approach to discerning whether RR is on the side of America or not, rightly required a much deeper dive than that. I've spent hundreds of hours on this subject since Trump announced him as nominee for Dep AG.
Hot off the press: POTUS speech at a Hanukkah reception an hour ago.
Starts with beautiful, sincere words honoring 41.
So sweet - POTUS invites some elderly Holocaust survivors up onto the platform, and VP leaves his spot to go help them up. Instinctive. Future President Pence is so like 41. I love him.
There are two Hanukkah receptions today. This is the 4pm one. I hope the 8pm reception is more like last year's, which was really beautiful and dignified. I'm sure it will be.
I think the reason for this one was that frail elderly people prefer to get home before nightfall.
The 21-aircraft Missing Man Maneuver that the US Navy will perform in the next hour or so is going to be EPIC to watch. 41 is being brought from the train station to the burial site now.
If someone can bring together all the special moments of this #Remembering41 week it would be a beautiful documentary to watch. There have been so many moments.
The train journey was so nice. I am glad the family are about to have private time without the cameras.
I'm part way through preparing my photo threads covering the funeral week. The more photos available, the longer it takes to prioritize which ones to share. It will be worth the wait.
Here is an iconic photo from inside the train today. Lots of people lined the route.
(1) I know it must seem confusing that I have waxed eloquent about Lindsey Graham one minute and denounced him the next, so I better explain why. Same goes for Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and some others.
I believe in always #VoteGOP while criticizing issue by issue regardless.
(2) A lot of folk don't always #VoteGOP, and they, are the reason we don't always win elections. You can divert blame all over the place if you want, to vote fraud and other places, but this fact is inescapable. Staying home ensures that a Democrat wins.
(3) My heart goes out to all the patriots who have to vote for people like Mitt Romney, in order to keep a Democrat out. Your situation sucks.
As irritating as he's going to be in the Senate, he will vote for GOP-nominated judges, and that is EVERYTHING. Absolutely everything.
(2) The obvious and progressive major health issues HRC has were a serious issue for the US & the world in 2016, & I will not rest in my efforts to expose what the DNC did in nominating her against the wishes of multiple states' primary voters. The lessons must be learned.
(3) While, ultimately, even if Bernie Sanders had been nominated, he, like HRC, stood zero chance of defeating the duly elected 45th President, the brazen lies told about her serious ill health are the issue that concerns me so much. The need to expose the DNC is ongoing.
This blurry, happy photo says so much. Keep reading:
(2) I LOVE this photo after seeing so much pain on Bush family faces yesterday. I recognize Marvin B in the b/g, & some of the grandsons.
Captured by Politico reporter Burgess Everett @BurgessEv who said "The entire Bush family... greeting people... GWB is cracking people up."
(3) THIS was what I'd been waiting to see... 43's incredible sense of humor and down to earth way of connecting with people, that he got from both parents.
(1) Thread #1: President George HW Bush funeral week. #Remembering41
"A President's final conversation with the Nation." - White House Historical Association
Fair winds and following seas, Mr President.🇺🇸🙏
(2) The casket of 41 has left Houston and is arriving at Joint Base Andrews around now.
(3) Sully will be a central part of the commemorations this week. This could be the greatest promotion in history among the public, of service dogs for veterans and others in need. Sully's next assignment will be at Walter Reed Medical Center.
(3) Some photos from around Anchorage that I've seen on Twitter. In New Zealand we have an earthquake of this type about once or twice a year. It is scary, but thankfully little damage is done.
(1) Thread: The active shooter exercise at Walter Reed Medical Center today.
It was NOT a "false alarm." It was a planned exercise. Everyone who took the proper precautions did the right thing.
(2) Civilian reporters are falling over themselves in disgust at this exercise and the 60 or so minutes it took for the all clear to be given.
(3) Seriously, Jennifer Griffin, the wounded vets at Walter Reed do not expect an apology for a routine preparedness drill intended to save their lives if there is a real security threat onsite in the future.
(1) Update Thread #1: Ukraine Crisis from November 15, 2018 onward. 🇺🇦🇷🇺
If you've read my other threads on foreign affairs, you'll know I am no fan of Russia or Putin. The US & Europe need the "buffer states" around the West of Russia to be as safe & stable as possible.
(2) That's the main US/European rationale for being allies with Ukraine but, at its heart, this now 5-year conflict is about human rights.
Not UN-style human rights, which is merely a buzzword term selectively applied to suit it's socialist agenda.
Actual human rights.
(3) Americans & her allies made massive sacrifices to win WWI, WWII, & the first stage of the Cold War (1945-1991.)
We've been fighting the second stage of the Cold War since 1991.
In that year we welcomed the many former Soviet republics into the community of nations.
(2) The caption to the above photo of Ivanka's family with the WH Thanksgiving Turkey could be read as just a cutesy statement, and nothing more.
But it got me thinking about the differences between the sterotypical red state and blue state "mind."
(3) "After watching their Grandpa pardon “Peas” and “Carrots” at the White House on Tuesday, Joseph and Arabella have sworn off turkey and are insisting on a vegetarian Thanksgiving!"
My red state mind didn't read this in the way the blue state mind would.
November 25, 2018: The standoff continues in Tijuana and other border cities. The US has the ability and the will to win this, even with existing crappy laws.
(2) BTW, the man dressed in camo and holding a rifle in the above photo isn't military, he's law enforcement. They've always been able to lawfully use force to save the lives of others. Border patrol officers get murdered. Of course they are allowed to shoot back.
(3) I've seen liberal MSM reporters refer to Tijuana as a "town." The population is >1.2 million.
If 10k caravaners are there, that's a ratio of 1:120. There's bound to be a few open borders fans among the locals. They could billet people in their homes, but no.
(1) "Conspiracy theories being closed systems indifferent to probability and immune to evidence, the report did nothing to curtail speculation about the cause of Hastings’s death."
A detailed, 7-page article on "who or what killed Michael Hastings?"
(2) I've spent most of my life (48yrs) thinking about how people can determine what is real & what is not. In college I learned how to write in a "scholarly way," then learned on-the-job how to write credible policy reports 4 politicians, then retired & did "self-directed study."
(3) Medical issues forced me to retire far younger than I wanted to. I LOVED my job analyzing policy options, advising decision makers (Cabinet members), & drafting PR talking points. Still, I gained "intellectual freedom" to study & say whatever I want.
(1) I was just thinking about Secretary Pompeo and the incredible work he is doing every day for America.
Top of his class at West Point, an Army captain, businessman, congressman, spy chief and now, diplomat. International man of mystery, Kansan, Christian, husband, Dad.
(2) For a patriot who loves America, the job of Secretary of State is 24/7. When Mike Pompeo gets home and can finally have some peace and quiet in his day or week, I wonder what he does. He must be able to put the job out of his mind and let go of the worry.
(3) I am sure that for him, God, family & his love of country enable him to bear the heavy burden of serving the country in the demanding, challenging ways he has to each day. So much travel, difficult meetings, difficult people to negotiate with.
(2) The MSM critiques of the President's statement focus on peripheral aspects like his use of exclamation marks. Reflect on that, against the incredibly serious points made about Iran, international terrorism, global oil prices etc.
Which side is talking about what MATTERS?
(3) Every point POTUS made was already known to me, & to you, if you've been following actual events & trends, instead of the MSM spin.
YES the murder of Mr Khashoggi was AWFUL & it is NOT condoned by Trump, the US, or me, or you.
(1) These three beautiful people were murdered today at Mercy Hospital Chicago. I will tell you a little about them, what happened, and why it was not about guns, or Chicago, or politics. It was about #DomesticViolence.
Rest in peace.
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(2) The woman in the middle was 28yo Dr Tamara Neal MD, who worked in the ER. Her ex-fiance was the murderer.
25yo pharmacist Dayna Less walked out of an elevator at the wrong time.
32yo Officer Samuel Jimenez, a married father of three, helped save many lives.
Below: FLOTUS at the spouses event at #WWI100 in Paris.
(2) A family near Paradise, CA brought their US flag to wave as the President's motorcade passes. Today he is visiting some of the areas hit by wildfires.
A reminder of what's important at the moment: Helping the innocent Americans affected. POTUS will sort out the politicians.
(3) POTUS with Gov-Elect Newsom & Gov Brown at Paradise, CA. There is a lot of work to be done in getting through this crisis, then the time for accountability will come. I have no doubt that POTUS is fighting on behalf of the whole country to get things changed. #FixIt
Trump brought the Rs and Ds closer together, utilizing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's Dem-friendly positions to do the leg work. They've spent two years quietly working on this & with a Dem. House the genius of it is clear.
(2) Whether or not the Ds got the House at this point, Trump's prison reform strategy would still have been a good thing. But it strikes me as an early example of Trump teeing things up so that whatever happened, he has #TwoWaysToWin (a @ScottAdamsSays concept.)
(3) And if I'd been more willing to step back from my desire to keep the House, and objectively assess it, like Trump and his team did, I'd have seen that the odds were almost insurmountable. Not because of anything Trump or the GOP did or didn't do. But bc of political history.
(20) Not only have wildfires struck CA just 3 months after the last major episode of fires in August 2018, one of the communities at risk, Thousand Oaks in Ventura Co., had the #BorderlineBarShooting only 24 hours ago, where 12 innocents died.
So I'm RTing this thread.
(21) @BDP473 alerted me to it with this tweet: "Update: some geographical perspective and reference of where the #WoolseyFire and #HillFire are burning in Ventura County. Wouldn’t doubt this gets made into a complex soon."
(23) POTUS spoke about this in detail in August, as did several federal agency heads and GOP Congressmen, esp. those in the very smart @WesternCaucus. It's time for the nonsense to stop. #FixIt
