US Politics

[FrostyWinnipeg]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/herman-cain-hospitalized-with-covid-19.html

[HardCoreBlue]

I love how the Judiciary claim judicial independence but then within their own group, take the Supreme Court of the United States for example, certain Justices are pitted against each other when making a ruling because of their differing political positions but they hide behind this Rule of Law argument. Justice is blind is a farce. This group should not be untouchable when it comes to needed change and holding them more accountable. Just like any profession I’m sure most are good but the bad ones need to be outed. 

[Tracker]

21 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

I love how the Judiciary claim judicial independence but then within their own group, take the Supreme Court of the United States for example, certain Justices are pitted against each other when making a ruling because of their differing political positions but they hide behind this Rule of Law argument. Justice is blind is a farce. This group should not be untouchable when it comes to needed change and holding them more accountable. Just like any profession I’m sure most are good but the bad ones need to be outed. 

I suggest that we all ought to thank our Creator every morning that we live in an imperfect country with imperfect government and judiciary, but not even close to as stupid and broken as the American system. I suspect that almost every American entering the country lowers the average IQ here.

[bustamente]

One of these days it will come out why Trump is so beholden to Russian, does the Russian government have something on him, does he owe millions to Russian banks or oligarchs, something really stinks about the way acts like their puppet, his tax returns are the key

[FrostyWinnipeg]

8 minutes ago, bustamente said:

One of these days it will come out why Trump is so beholden to Russian, does the Russian government have something on him, does he owe millions to Russian banks or oligarchs, something really stinks about the way acts like their puppet, his tax returns are the key

2 words...pee tape!

[do or die]

GOP Arizona lawmaker says Fauci and Birx 'undermine' Trump's coronavirus response
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/505736-gop-arizona-lawmaker-says-fauci-and-birx-undermine-trumps-coronavirus-response

This is Rep. Andy Biggs, chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus:  
"Their time of usefulness has expired. What they do is when the president comes out and makes a policy, because he is the president, he is the policymaker, when they come out, and they make these statements that they make, they engender panic and hysteria and undermine what the president's doing."

Someone should ask Biggs......what actual policy or response is he talking about?  How in the hell, do you undermine absolutely nothing, anyways?
Pretty clear that the big problem with a lot of these Red States, these days.....are simply their political representatives.

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by do or die

[17to85]

26 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

2 words...pee tape!

American banks wouldn't give trump loans, who do you suppose would be willing to loan someone like trump money?

[bustamente]

Trumpidiot Jr. pretty well came out and said they got all the funding they needed from Russia......................I'm Eric agreed

[bustamente]

If the Democrats don't get complacent and get their voters out they will obliterate Trump with cronies and the GOP

 

[Tracker]

Former "Apprentice" producer alleged to have "all the dirt" on Trump paid by RNC committee: report

The GOP National Convention's Committee on Arrangements reportedly made a dozen payments totaling more than $66,000

Chuck LaBella, who now heads his own company LaBella Worldwide, Inc., is known in the entertainment world for his work at NBC and on Donald Trump's hit reality show, "The Apprentice" (which became "The Celebrity Apprentice"). Actor Tom Arnold, who was a contestant on that show, has alleged that LaBella has "all the dirt" on Trump — and according to Daily Beast reporters Lachlan Markay and Sam Stein, LaBella has been receiving large payments from the Republican National Convention.

Markay and Stein explain, "From August 2019 through May 2020, the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Convention made a dozen payments totaling more than $66,000 to LaBella Worldwide, Inc. for 'production consulting services.'"

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/02/former-apprentice-producer-alleged-to-have-all-the-dirt-on-trump-paid-by-rnc-committee-report_partner/

[Tracker]

US military confirms ‘horrendous’ decision to issue bayonets to troops responding to George Floyd protests

“Are they supposed to stab protesters?” That was Rep. Ted Lieu’s (D-Calif.) response Thursday to a letter by the highest-ranking military officer in the United States confirming that bayonets were issued to some of the troops deployed to the nation’s capital last month as part of the Trump administration’s effort to crack down on demonstrators protesting the police killing of George Floyd.

Faced with questions from Lieu and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley admitted that members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, North Carolina and the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment were given bayonets for their June 2 deployment to Washington, D.C.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/us-military-confirms-horrendous-decision-to-issue-bayonets-to-troops-responding-to-george-floyd-protests/

[Tracker]

CNBC founder claims Trump has a specific plan to stay in office no matter what the voters say

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the founder of CNBC walked viewers through a scenario where Donald Trump would attempt to remain president even if he is rejected by the voters in November.

Speaking with hosts, Tom Rogers along with co-author former Senator Tim Wirth (D-CO) explained the central point of their piece in Newsweek that proposes: “How Trump Could Lose the Election– and Still Remain President.”

According to Rogers, who began by saying his scenario was “not farfetched” he believes Trump has no chance of winning the election and will do anything to remain in office.

“This is how it happens, Biden wins,” he began. “I don’t just mean the popular vote, he wins the key swing states, he wins the electoral college. President Trump says there’s been Chinese interference in the election. He’s been talking about Biden’s soft on China — China wanted Biden to win so he says a national emergency; the Chinese have intervened in the election.”

“Why do I think that’s real?” he continued. “Just ten days ago he tweeted, he actually tweeted, ‘rigged 2020 election,’ millions of mail-in ballots will be printed by foreign countries it will be the scandal of our times. so he’s laying the groundwork for this. So he does an investigation and [Attorney General Bill] Barr backs this up with all kinds of legal opinions about emergency powers that the president has.”

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/cnbc-founder-claims-trump-has-a-specific-plan-to-stay-in-office-no-matter-what-the-voters-say/

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Trump official spins out-of-control anti-China conspiracy theory

Trump White House Trade advisor Peter Navarro used the long Independence Day weekend to spin a fantastical conspiracy theory that directly blames China for creating the deadly coronavirus, then sending “hundreds of thousands” of its people to the U.S. to infect and ultimately kill Americans.

“It is the Chinese Communist Party that is making us stay locked in our homes and lose our jobs,” Navarro, the author of the 2011 book, Death by China, told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Friday afternoon.

“They spawned the virus. They hid the virus. They sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals over here to seed and spread the virus before we knew,” he continued, refusing to respond to Velshi’s questions.

“So, ah, the dateline is November. They spawned the virus, probably came out of the biological lab. For two months, they hid the virus from the world and the possibility of a pandemic, behind the shield of the World ‘Health’ Organization. While they did that, they vacuumed up the world’s protective equipment, including two billion masks, and,” said Navarro, plowing through Velshi who repeatedly asked if China did this deliberately.

“Here’s the point. While they were preventing any domestic travels from Wuhan to Beijing or Shanghai, locking down their transportation network, they freely sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals on aircraft to go around the world.”

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/trump-official-spins-out-of-control-anti-china-conspiracy-theory/

(I sure looks like Trump is setting the stage for a de facto coup when he loses the coming election)

[Tracker]

Bill Barr is now targeting "anti-government extremists"
 

OK, the Law & Order hunt Is now officially on. It’s not clear who that is exactly — but it means the Justice Department won’t be doing anything important.

Atty. Gen. William P. Barr has directed the formation of an interagency task force dedicated to countering "anti-government extremists" from a variety of viewpoints who agree on nothing else but challenging the public order.

https://www.salon.com/2020/07/03/bill-barr-is-now-targeting-anti-government-extremists_partner/

 

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[Tracker]

Trump Blames China For COVID-19 Spread At Crowded Independence Day Celebration

The president, who was not wearing a mask, claimed without evidence that 99% of U.S. coronavirus cases are "totally harmless" at the National Mall event. Continuing to ignore the advice of scientists and public health experts who’ve urged Americans to remain socially distanced as COVID-19 cases continue to surge nationwide, President Donald Trump hosted a crowded Independence Day celebration at the National Mall in Washington on Saturday night.

Trump, who did not wear a mask despite evidence that facial coverings can help to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, blamed China and its “secrecy, deceptions and cover-up” for the global spread of COVID-19.

China must be held “fully accountable,” he said, adding without evidence that the U.S. would have a treatment or a vaccine for the virus “long before the end of the year.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-independence-day-national-mall-event-coronavirus_n_5f010599c5b612083c5d48ae?ri18n=true

[bustamente]

Sounds like Ghislaine Maxwell is going to sing like a bird, she best be worried if she sees clean sheets outside of her cell

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

Sounds like Ghislaine Maxwell is going to sing like a bird, she best be worried if she sees clean sheets outside of her cell

We can only hope that she was smart enough to create a poison pill that if she dies, someone, somewhere will spill all the beans to the world. Her father, Robert Maxwell was apparently assassinated by Israeli agents but was not wise enough to do this.

[do or die]

Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in COVID-19 boom
https://apnews.com/2edf8670a491a702ecfb7312f507f83a
 

[Tracker]

Trump Wrongly Accuses NASCAR Driver Bubba Wallace of Noose ‘Hoax,’ Defends Confederate Flag

President Donald Trump kicked off the week by slamming NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, falsely accusing him of a “hoax” after a suspected noose was found hanging in his garage at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway last month. NASCAR officials found the rope—and informed Wallace of its existence—weeks after it banned the racist Confederate flag from events. The FBI investigated and declared that the rope should not be considered a hate crime, though photos emerged showing it was clearly a noose. “Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX?” Trump tweeted Monday morning before slamming the racing organization for banning the Confederate flag. “That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-attacks-black-nascar-driver-bubba-wallace-over-noose-hoax?ref=home

[do or die]

Always thought that some one like George Wallace could never be elected President....
Wrong.

[17to85]

Interesting to me how this is basically turning into Donald Trump being the confederacy champion... He knows they lost right? And quickly? Apparently the civil war never really ended in the United States.

 

[Tracker]

The Ticking Time Bomb of HIV in the COVID-Plagued South

The dire situation in Mississippi—where disease surveillance for HIV has succumbed to coronavirus chaos—could send the larger region into a death spiral. 
Since her HIV diagnosis 24 years ago, Laurie Ann Lewis can count on one hand the number of times she’s missed her quarterly appointment for blood work. Both were this spring. 

For patients with the deadly virus that causes AIDS, regular blood draws are the only way to make sure their medication is keeping their viral loads in check. But as cases of another infectious disease, COVID-19, surged earlier this year, Lewis’s doctor told her to stop coming in. Labs had become overwhelmed with coronavirus testing. Blood work for patients with HIV would have to wait. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ticking-time-bomb-of-hiv-in-covid-plagued-mississippi?ref=home

[do or die]

In my best Ronald Reagan voice.........."There she goes again"...

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-kayleigh-mcenany-spends-entire-briefing-dodging-on-trumps-support-for-confederate-flag-and-attack-on-bubba-wallace/

 

[17to85]

I don't understand why people willingly take on the job of white house press secretary... Spend your day having to defend the indefensible and make yourself look like a complete moron avoiding questions that everyone already knows the answer to. How do you bounce back in career situation like that?