I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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Oh what a day:
July 30, 2020
Today juxtaposed the worst of America and its best.
The day began with the news that, as bad as we expected the second-quarter's economic news to be, it was worse. Gross domestic product (GDP) which measures good and services produced, fell 9.5%, equal to a 32.9% annual rate of decline. The last three months have been the worst since economists began keeping track. NPR noted that "The economic shock in April, May and June was more than three times as sharp as the previous record — 10% in 1958." The last three months wiped out the economic growth of the past five years. And that crisis is despite the fact the government has pumped trillions into an attempt to shore up the economy.
Also in the news was the story that Herman Cain, a prominent Trump supporter and former candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has died of Covid-19. Cain was co-chair of "Black Voices for Trump," the Trump campaign's outreach to Black voters, and attended Trump's June 20 indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma without a mask. The 74-year-old was hospitalized with Covid-19 in early July.
Then Trump tweeted: "With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"
Trump's tweet was incorrect, of course: mail-in voting and absentee voting are exactly the same thing, and there is no evidence that they create voter fraud. The first secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, a Republican who served under President George W. Bush, recently told ABC News: "There is absolutely no antecedent, no factual basis for [Trump's] claim of massive fraud in mail voting."
The president has no authority to delay the timing of an election, which is set by federal law. An act of Congress could change that date, but it is unlikely the Democratic House of Representatives would do so.
The tweet was pretty transparently an attempt to distract from the dire economic news, the death of Herman Cain, the outrage over yesterday's announcement that he is withdrawing 12,500 U.S. troops from Germany, and Representative John Lewis's funeral, where three former presidents were giving eulogies and he was not even going to attend. It also advanced his attempt to sow doubt about the safety of the 2020 election.
But at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend his politicization of the State Department, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threw gas on the fire. When asked by Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), "Can a president delay the November presidential election, Mr. Secretary?," Pompeo answered, "Senator, I'm not going to enter a legal judgment on that on the fly this morning." Surprised, Kaine listed Pompeo's impressive legal training, then asked again. Pompeo replied: "In the end, the Department of Justice, and others, will make that legal determination. We all should want–I know you do, too, Senator Kaine–want to make sure to have an election that everyone is confident in."
"NO. THEY. WON'T," University of Texas Law Professor Steve Vladeck tweeted before listing the relevant laws. Still, one legal expert noted that it was possible Attorney General William Barr was giving the administration different advice. "Because this is not a thing he can do unilaterally or lawfully, the Justice Department should disclose any formal advice or guidance to the contrary," Christian Farias tweeted.
Trump perhaps misjudged the reaction to his suggestion that the election be postponed. After all, in May, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner floated the idea of delaying the election, and reaction was muted (When asked about whether or not it could be held on schedule because of the pandemic, he said: "I'm not sure I can commit one way or the other, but right now that's the plan.") Today, though, the outcry was universal. In the New York Times, a co-founder of the rightwing Federalist Society and formerly staunch Trump supporter Steven G. Calabresi called the tweet "fascist," and said it is "grounds for the president's immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate.
By afternoon, Trump was trying to pass off the tweet—which he had briefly pinned to the top of his timeline—as an attempt to protect the vote. "Glad I was able to get the very dishonest LameStream Media to finally start talking about the RISKS to our Democracy from dangerous Universal Mail-In-Voting (not Absentee Voting, which I totally support!)." His campaign said he was just asking a question.
Other stories continued to drop.
Vanity Fair ran an article by Katherine Eban about how the administration fumbled the ball so badly on its response to the coronavirus pandemic, noting that Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was the key decision maker in the process, and that his team first set up, and then dropped, a plan for national coordination to fight the virus. They abandoned the plan after Trump began to downplay the virus out of concern that it would hurt his chances for reelection, and because it appeared the virus was largely confined to cities. According to one public health expert who worked with Kushner's team "The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy."
This afternoon, we learned that in December 2019, Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, received a package of "information" about Joe Biden from Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker linked to Putin. Derkach claims to have sent packages to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), as well as former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, but it appears there is actually a shipping receipt for the package to Nunes.
The Senate adjourned today until Monday at 3:00, although federal unemployment benefits that have added $600 weekly to state unemployment benefits expire tomorrow. Republicans have been unable to agree on a bill. They tried to pass a week's extension of the $600 benefit, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blocked it, while Republicans blocked Schumer's effort to pass a full bill.
Tonight, a judge ordered nearly 2000 documents from the 2015 defamation civil lawsuit of Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, the companion of Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex trafficking of young girls, to be made public. The documents claim that retired Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, raped Giuffre repeatedly.
The news today was awful… except when it wasn't.
Today, Representative John Lewis's family and friends held his funeral in Atlanta, Georgia, where they remembered the civil rights icon with speeches honoring his conviction, courage, and compassion. Lewis's life, former President Barack Obama said, "vindicated the faith in our founding, redeemed that faith, that most American of ideas: The idea that any of us, ordinary people without rank or wealth or title or fame, can somehow point out the imperfections of this nation and come together and challenge the status quo." Lewis, he said, would someday be considered a founding father of a "fuller, fairer, better America."
Still, it was to Representative Lewis that the last word fell. In a New York Times op-ed he wrote to be published the day of his funeral, he gave us a benediction:
"Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself."
"Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key."
"Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring."
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Repeating your words from Representative John Lewis:
"Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself."
"Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key."
"Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.”
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I love how Obama said Lewis would be considered a “founding father of a "fuller, fairer, better America."
RIP John Lewis
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I agree with others who said Trump specifically chose the day of John Lewis's funeral to spew out the idea of postponing the election because Trump wants equal time and headlines and also wanted to diminish the attention and coverage Lewis got. Trump knows the controversy is what throws it all back on him. I think Trump has an arsenal of other controversial statements ready to throw out whenever upstanding citizens garner national attention away from him. The media needs to preface these announcements with “In Yet Another Attempt at Keeping the Spotlight on Himself, Trump Proposes...." Trump has limited intelligence in most areas, but he knows how to play the media game.
Haha, the alien binge-watching tv, great humor, altho I'm pretty sure he drinks Corona beer and not Coors!
Jackie, it's possible your Louis Gohmert getting pregnant meme is the very best one yet! Omg, loved it.
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Oh goody. Just found out orang slime and our asshole gov are going to be here later today. Will land at Tampa airport, then here. Boy is that ever gonna screw up traffic. Guess I better plan on staying home.
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Kush belongs in jail for so many reasons, but his evil incompetence allowed covid-19 to spread and kill over 154,000.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-...
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Ruth, I loved the "Freedom to Not Wear a Mask" letter.
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The Trump family is the poster child for the "Peter Principle". If you have not heard of this, please google it. They all have positions for which they have little to no experience, intelligence nor aptitude to accomplish the task at hand. Jared sold real estate. Now I liked my real estate agent but would I permit her to make other life changing decisions for me, hell no!
Shame on Trump for not attending John Lewis's funeral but I am sure he did the family a big favor. His calling a press conference when Obama was to speak is the lowest blow he could have possibly taken. Also the fact that Obama's portrait has yet to be hung in the WH is a disgrace. Chances are it would have been banished to an area even more unsavory than that where the other President's portraits were moved, the unused dining room. His childishness is so unbecoming of any adult and worse because he is POTUS. I would hang his presidential portrait (making sure if is painted with the make-up he had on the other day) by my garbage bins.
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I think the orange menace's face on toilet paper would be very appropriate.
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I like it!
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Not only is the Trump administration totally corrupt and immoral, they are (to quote their own former Secretary of State)"fucking morons". To think that, if not brought under control, the virus would not eventually affect the Red States, or that it wouldn't affect you personally because you are Trump supporter, is the height of stupidity.
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The words of Hope from John Lewis as read by Morgan Freeman. https://twitter.com/dbwofficial/status/1289254999600447488?s=19&fbclid=IwAR1k_JJ_lTUtNGs9M1eCGg3K41DUrt4SZDUhs6_VH3FFHKkLKMmiglArZBQ
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Love the toilet paper and suggest we send a case to the WH to be put in their bathrooms. I'd chip in. Doesn't look like it is a top seller since it is on sale.
Ruth: hear, hear. I don't think the virus knows or respects state lines nor political parties. What an asinine thought that blue states should not get help and I think we all saw the proof of that when PPE was denied to them. Jared is a moron and needs to go back to NYC where he belongs or will he and the witch become residents of FL after this? Can't see DT allowing his DD to live so far away since it would be hard to lust after her at that distance. He is one sick man.
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ananda...I just listened to Morgan Freeman's reading and again, after listening to the one in the NYT, was moved to tears and to get more involved with issues related to BLM.
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The reason the Trump TP is selling poorly is that reports have surfaced of shit rejecting it.
Assuming the election hasn't been thrown into the House before Inauguration Day, if it is still undecided by then Pelosi would temporarily become President--until such time as all results are in, certified by each state, and the EC has "met" (likely online) and ceremonially "cast" its votes.
Slight correction re The Kush: he did not "sell" real estate. He owned, trashed and otherwise mismanaged it to the point of being an incompetent but ruthless slumlord.
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Hoping Jared will follow in his father's footsteps and end up in jail.
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Sandy: Thanks for catching my real estate and Jared gaffe. He is a slumlord and should be made to live in his rentals. Sure the witch and their children would love that living arrangement.
Perhaps he and his FIL could share the same prison cell? What a family with Jared's father an ex-con, Melania's father also had some history of being imprisoned or should have been in Slovenia and this crew all eligible for some type of prosecution for legal misdeeds.
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This is heartbreaking.
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Trevor Noah's narratives are always impressive and I watch him nightly, minus the 3 day weekends ;(
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“The reason the Trump TP is selling poorly is that reports have surfaced of shit rejecting it.“
Sandy, I fell off a chair because I laughed so hard when I read this !
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Jim Jordan is an ass (I'm being extremely nice). So proud of Dr. Fauci.
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Yes - The Peter Principle --- rising to the level of your own incompetence which I think most of the Trumps did before they even got to the WH. Such a shame and if you can rise far enough -- oddly many people around you will just go into some strange pretense that you are capable when you aren't even close. Now Trump I think, since he has no interior brakes on things, just mainly scares most people into treating him way, way better than he will ever deserve because they are aware of his heavy-duty need to be as vindictive as possible should you disappoint him in some way.
I do take some heart that several are telling him no but that is likely one of the few ways you can give him a shove. One or even two or three people would be a risk but ten or twelve and it won't be so easy to Pay Back. I often said if they would do what needs to be done as a whole GROUP they would be reasonably safe, but until it hurts them enough, they just wouldn't take the chance. Now here is Trump dismantling their party and letting hit crash all around them. Things are not looking so hot.
Well, we will see how it goes. It does seem according to some of the news I heard this afternoon that in lg. part Trump may be now running to cause as much un-certainty as he can in voting and the fact it could be so very fraudulent. I took it that the idea was that since he is even starting to think of his actual possible loss of another term he is trying to cast as much doubt as possible. Now, Lawrence Tribe says since if a winner isn't clear by a reasonable time ( if votes are still being counted ) after Nov 3rd. Nancy Pelosi would become acting President until the votes are dealt with. The kicker is --- if that happens all of Trump's cabinet, including Barr since he is a Trump appointee would have no standing -- so they could not work to continue to try and undermine and be dirty tricksters. Tribe said that is a fail safe for the Constitution. I hope he is right about everything because Mr. Totally Vindictive to the nth. degree is going to make it as wild a ride as he is able. I'm hoping some of those around him maybe fearing outcomes for themselves may choose to quit participating in the schemes.
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Also, wanted to say I'm working with the mods -- had strange things happening to my computer and it would not accept my password etc. and said rather than preview etc. at the bottom, had a bar up top that I would have to log-in with user name and password each time I wanted to post in here -- so just saying if I'm not on here as usual -- I'm working to try to get normalized.
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Got back here the hard way and thought I'd share this:
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