“We now have got an epicenter developing within Japan. Unless we stop it with a full force as a nation, I worry that we might go the same way as New York or Milan,” said Tatsuhiko Kodama, a professor at the University of Tokyo who is leading a research project on the virus.
In Australia and some other places such as Hong Kong and Israel, all of which had appeared to defeat the virus, infections are growing twice as quickly as in the United States, or even faster, suggesting there is no end in sight to the virus’s spread. A million new infections are being reported every four days worldwide, pushing the total well past 16 million cases…
So basically the so called "second wave" is hitting much of the world, not just a handful of states in the United States. Some experts are seeing trends that suggests that these increases may eventually hit other parts of the U.S. regardless of what we attempt to do.
What once was just Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona, has now started moving west and up the east coast. California is now a hot spot (if not the hot spot) and Oregon and Washington have closed back down, Georgia, Alabama, South and North Carolina are seeing an increase in cases, and Virginia is seeing new cases at a pace that runs about equal to their previous peak in May.
Maryland is approaching May numbers and even Pennsylvania is starting to see a rise in their cases. If this trend continues northward, then New Jersey and New York may find themselves with an increase in cases as well. Certainly the last thing that anyone (especially the liberal press) would like to see is for New York to get caught up in another Covid wave. How would it look if New York really didn't "do it right" and start adding to their 33,000 deaths.
But the bottom line is that it would appear that none of this is U.S. specific and that many countries (including many European countries thought to have had everything under control) are seeing a steep increase in cases, which will likely eventually lead to a increase in deaths (albeit not where we were at the peak).
Shut down. hole up. Wear masks. Social distance. Regardless of what people are doing, it appears that the Covid virus is doing it's thing... as viruses tend to do. We may need to either get to herd immunity or perfect the vaccine before we get any of this completely under control. In the meantime, we all may need to admit and adapt to the fact that Covid will be sticking around for a while...
and that it's not because of Trump saying it would go away or because there is disagreement about hydroxychloroquine or because some people didn't wear masks. It's not that simple.
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I saw that in Miami it wasn't until about a month after they made masks mandatory that infections spiked.
Lots of all-over-the-place data.
Also I just heard that California is giving mail-in ballots 17 days after the election to "arrive". Have to be "postmarked" by election day, that sure is hard to counterfeit...
I say have to ARRIVE by election day. Results should be faster not longer than it was a hundred years ago. And should be more accurate, not less.
Go down the list of states that you mentioned and simply ask, How many of these states are strongly Republican, where people, like those who attended Trump's Tulsa event (with the now deceased Herman Cain among them),
have been opening up too soon, as Trump wanted, and refusing to wear masks, as Trump also wanted?
True, there is something of a frightening unknown in this virus' resurgence, and we should all be concerned about that and diligently search for what to do about it,
but nothing can hide the fact that we would all be better off now if we had been led by a President who had better taken and respected and followed the advice of his experts.
Well Reverend...
California, Oregon and Washington on the west coast are three liberal states that felt compelled to roll back their reopening because of a significant increase in cases. Louisiana is run by a Democrat, so is Virginia and North Carolina. All three are starting to see a significant rise in cases. Pennsylvania (Democratic governor) is also seeing a rise, going over 1000 cases four times in the past couple of weeks.
The virus doesn't seem to care what letter is behind the Governor's name or what phase of the reopening that they are currently in. It would seem that the second wave simply started in the Sun belt states and are moving up, whereas the first wave started in the Upper East Coast and West coast and worked it's way in.
Just watched George Bush deliver an inspiring tribute to John Lewis at Lewis's funeral in Atlanta. The man demonstrated more grace, sincerity, compassion and credibility in 10 minutes than Trump has shown in his entire life... Thank you, President Bush. I didn't often agree with you and I didn't care for your wars or your environmental policies but I was comfortable that you honestly thought you were doing the right thing for America. I accept that. You just distinguished yourself well.
Hey asshole "pastor"
There was no spike of Covid-19 deaths in Tulsa, only one yesterday and 94 in total.
California, parts of which have been in lockdown since early March and many county's having strict mask policies, is seeing a surge. Ever think that all these "experts" with no scientific studies may just have postponed (or "flattened") the inevitable ?
You are one pompous stupid piece of shit.
No need to keep proving it
Florida is reaching the level of Infections of New York in April
Breaking:
Guinness Book of World Records Committee says that John Lewis' funeral has a chance of beating John McCain's for most time spent honoring a most undeserving corpse
h/t - AoS
Equality, liberty and Justice for all are American values. You are for them or against them. You are a part of the solution or you are a part of the problem. No more sidelines.
"Roger AmickJuly 30, 2020 at 11:54 AM
"Florida is reaching the level of Infections of New York in April"
Hospitalizations?
Deaths?
You used to respect President Bush. But because he gave a great speech today you will call him a never Trumper.
Just watched George Bush deliver an inspiring tribute to John Lewis at Lewis's funeral in Atlanta. The man demonstrated more grace, sincerity, compassion and credibility in 10 minutes than Trump has shown in his entire life... Thank you, President Bush. I didn't often agree with you and I didn't care for your wars or your environmental policies but I was comfortable that you honestly thought you were doing the right thing for America. I accept that. You just distinguished yourself well.
Roger, never discuss his issues he brings to any thread, he simple is this blogs Biden.
The level of deaths and hospitalizations has declined because the scientists and researchers have found ways to reduce the risk and side effects
All 50 states have issued warnings about those mysterious packages of seeds
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN
Updated 4:45 PM EDT, Wed July 29, 202
Roger's Official Flag.
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Blogger Roger Amick said...
Equality, liberty and Justice for all are American values.
that's right alky.
equality under the law.
not equality of outcome.
this is the part that you can never grasp.
and liberty? you would throw us all under the yoke of socialism. calling it "democratic" socialism because voting to piss away your liberty makes it ok.
and justice for all?
yeah, i'll believe that when i see comey, brennan, yates, clapper, strzok, page and mccabe under indictment. until then it's just a novel concept reserved for the left's political enemies.
so again you prove yourself to be completely full of shit, alky. what you care about is unbridled and unending power for democrats under the guise of the bullshit you posted above.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
—Winston Churchill
Shut up, Cowardly. Unlike with you, Ch and I can speak to one another civilly even if strongly.
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CH, you might want to consider the following and ask yourself, How many of these hard-stricken states, with California being the exception, have records of voting Republican nationally.
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Let’s say that the threshold [for reducing exposure] is 14.3 new daily cases per 100,000 people — the Trump task force’s “red zone.”
According to the feds, residents in this red zone should “wear a mask at all times outside the home and maintain physical distance” and “reduce your public interactions and activities to 25 percent of your normal activity.”
At the same time, public officials should “close bars and gyms and create outdoor dining opportunities with pedestrian areas,” “limit social gatherings to 10 people or fewer” and “ensure that all business retailers and personal services require masks and can safely social distance.”
But nowhere does the Trump task force say that public officials in a red zone should require residents to “stay at home.”
In contrast, the Harvard group says that “at the red level, jurisdictions have reached a tipping point for uncontrolled spread and will require the use of stay-at-home orders and/or advisories to mitigate the disease.”
Right now, that would mean 13 of the Trump task force’s 21 “red zone” states returning to lockdown:
Florida (with a staggering 48.1 new daily cases per 100,000 people),
Louisiana (46.2),
Mississippi (43.5),
Alabama (39.1),
Arizona (36.6),
Tennessee (34.1),
Georgia (33.8),
Nevada (33.0),
South Carolina (30.1),
Texas (27.9),
Idaho (27.5),
Arkansas (26.4)
and Oklahoma (25.6).
The other eight task force red-zone states — California (23.5),
Missouri (22.0),
North Dakota (18.2),
North Carolina (18.1),
Utah (17.9),
Iowa (16.3),
Wisconsin (15.7)
and Kansas (14.2) — would fall into Harvard’s “orange zone.”
So do an additional 14 states, including several — such as
New Mexico (15.6),
Nebraska (15.1)
and Maryland (14.6)
— that seem to be getting worse fast.
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LOTS OF RED STATES in that list, Ch.
Though some may be changing with this election. :-)
ALBANY — In early April, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo warned that the state may need 40,000 ventilators and up to 150,000 hospital beds — projections that would prove to be far beyond the state's actual needs.
In response to those initial concerns, his administration began spending hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase thousands of ventilators, mobile X-ray machines and "BiPAP" breathing-assistance devices, most of which were never used.
Although the inventory of the state's medical stockpiles is arguably a matter of public record, the governor's office declined to provide details on how much medical and personal protective equipment are now in its reserves — much of it stored at large industrial warehouses in Guilderland, at Oriskany, Oneida County, and a facility in the New York City region.
The office did, however, promptly provide a breakdown of its expenditures during the pandemic, including listing $278 million to purchase more than 8,800 ventilators; $94.4 million to buy 1,179 mobile X-ray machines; and $60.7 million for more than 17,000 "oxygen concentrators" — a category the administration said encompasses the BiPAP devices.
On April 7, as the governor appeared on MSNBC to report that New York had logged a pandemic-high 800 deaths during the previous 24 hours, he said that hospitals were "over capacity" and facing a critical shortage of the ventilators used to treat critically ill coronavirus patients.
"We have been scrambling with ventilators. We move them all over the state like pieces on a chess board, literally whatever hospital has the greatest inflow (of patients) that night, we move ventilators around the state," he said. "We have also used other machines that have a ventilating capacity, something called the BiPAP machine."
BiPAPs are bi-level airway pressure machines that push air into a person's lungs. Under the state's plan, Cuomo had said, they were to be fitted with a special part that could make them function like a ventilator. The state scrambled to acquire those machines as Cuomo cited health experts' worst-case scenarios for hospitalizations and patients who may need to be intubated. On April 2, he announced the state had 750 BiPAPs in reserve and had purchased another 3,000 from a Pittsburgh medical supply company.
Six days later, Cuomo said a Florida company, Mercury Medical, had donated another 2,400 BiPAP machines that were being flown to New York for free by JetBlue.
But despite the governor's assertions in April that the BiPAP machines were being "used" to treat patients, they were never put into operation.
"BiPAPs, luckily, were not needed," Richard Azzopardi, an adviser and spokesman for Cuomo, acknowledged this week. He added: "As a matter of policy we do not comment on our stockpiled supplies."
Azzopardi said the purchases were necessary at a time when the state — facing a $6.1 billion deficit before the pandemic struck — was planning for the worst, despite pushback from the White House that the governor was overstating his needs.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/New-York-spent-millions-on-medical-equipment-that-15443113.php
Rat is out of date, in the past.
Here is the source for my up to date 12:15 article above
https://news.yahoo.com/these-are-the-13-states-that-need-to-lock-down-now-according-to-harvard-coronavirus-experts-162201179.html
The man demonstrated more grace, sincerity, compassion and credibility in 10 minutes than Trump has shown in his entire life.
Roger... you spent eight years hating George Bush, calling his election stolen, and treating him as poorly as you treat Trump. Don't pretend today that suddenly Bush is a great guy.
UPDATED: JULY 29, 2020 AT 2:49 PM
Matthew Egler (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Photo)
PHOENIX – A banned former Democratic volunteer was arrested for arson Wednesday in the fire that destroyed the party’s Maricopa County headquarters in Phoenix last week, authorities said.
Mostly peaceful Matthew Silvanus Egler, 29, was booked on one count of mostly peaceful arson of an occupied structure, a mostly peaceful class 2 felony, in connection to the mostly peaceful blaze set early Friday morning in central Phoenix.
Egler had been banned from volunteering at the Democratic office “due to the nature of his mostly peaceful previous behavior,” according to a joint press release from the Phoenix fire and police departments.
He claimed responsibility for the mostly peaceful fire on social media and threatened more mostly peaceful violence, according to the release.
https://ktar.com/story/3444388/banned-ex-volunteer-arrested-for-democratic-party-office-fire-in-phoenix/
Roger... you spent eight years hating George Bush, calling his election stolen, and treating him as poorly as you treat Trump. Don't pretend today that suddenly Bush is a great guy.
hypocrisy is the mostly peaceful bedrock of liberalism.
Dr. David Samadi
@drdavidsamadi
Allowing one doctor & one doctor only to make unilateral decisions for 350,000,000 people while simoultaneoulsy silencing any other opinions is ludicrous and completely un-American.
and assisted by big tech censorship
roger regularly called Bush wait for it....
....
....
Hitler.
James said...
Shut up, Cowardly. Unlike with you, Ch and I can speak to one another civilly even if strongly.
I just notice that you always refuse to answer him and then post unrelated Goddard spam. Or ask a different question after he has answered yours.
But don't you have another funeral to politicize or casket to go dance on ???
and it's COWARDLY KING OBAMA
thanks
Rat is out of date, in the past.
uh huh.
by posting a story posted today about one hour ago.
in the past.
Allowing one doctor & one doctor only to make unilateral decisions for 350,000,000 people while simoultaneoulsy silencing any other opinions is ludicrous and completely un-American.
hey!
the alky calls that liberty, equality and justice!
Black conservative videographer Andrew Duncomb, 25, was mostly peacefully stabbed at the mostly peaceful Portland protests early Saturday morning, according to local media.
On Wednesday, The Oregonian published graphic video of the moment he was mostly peacefully attacked.
Police arrested Blake David Hampe, 43, in connection with the mostly peaceful attack, The Oregonian reported.
Duncomb told the newspaper that the man mostly peacefully stabbed him after Duncomb confronted him for following his group of friends.
"I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist," Duncomb said.
https://news.yahoo.com/black-videographer-got-stabbed-portland-101349853.html
In the memory of John Lewis, sing this song today.
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome, some day
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day
We'll walk hand in hand
We'll walk hand in hand
We'll walk hand in hand, some day
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day
We shall live in peace
We shall live in peace
We shall live in peace, some day
Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome, some day
We are not afraid
We are not afraid
We are not afraid, TODAY
A Super Court decision gave the election to George W Bush
I strongly disagreed with him on most things.
But that's how our democracy works.
Bush said that he and John Lewis disagreed on many issues, but that is how our Democratic republic works.
In the memory of John Lewis, sing this song today.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF3aPT7C51Y
Scott A**hole watch George W Bush today
https://youtu.be/Te-s7SLUwa4
Bush has said that he regrets going into the Iraq war because of the false information on WMD.
President Trump has never said that he was wrong about anything because he's a narcissist pathological liar.
I disagreed with Bush but that's how a democracy works.
Many people who are real Republicans are deeply concerned about the President today because they believe that he is a risk to our country.
Your a fucking racist rodent bastard
George W Bush today
https://youtu.be/Te-s7SLUwa4
rat's 12:35 was primarily about the past.
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Ch, this is for you. Let it dovetail onto the long article I posted above.
Florida reports record increase in deaths for third day in a row
Jul 30th 2020 12:06PM
(Reuters) -
Florida reported a record increase in new COVID-19 deaths for a third day in a row on Thursday, with 252 fatalities in the last 24 hours, according to the state health department.
Arizona also reported a record increase with 172 fatalities on Thursday, bringing that state's death toll to 3,626. Both states had been hotspots with major outbreaks but new cases have recently slowed in both, according to a Reuters tally.
Florida reported 9,956 new cases, bringing its total infections to over 461,000, the second highest in the country behind California. Florida's total death toll rose to 6,709, the eighth highest in the nation.
Due to the spike in cases, the Miami-area school district, the nation's fourth-largest district, said students would not return to classrooms when the new academic year begins in a few weeks.
Florida was among six states on Wednesday that reported single-day records for coronavirus deaths.
California, Idaho, North Carolina, Texas and South Dakota also had their biggest one-day spikes in coronavirus fatalities since the pandemic started.
California, Florida and Texas are the three most populous states where about a quarter of all U.S. residents live.
One person in the United States died about every minute from COVID-19 on Wednesday as the national death toll surpassed 150,000, the highest in the world. Deaths are rising at the fastest rate since early June.
Coronavirus cases are
rising in 37 states,
down from 44 a week ago,
according to a Reuters analysis of cases the past two weeks compared with the prior two weeks.
Deaths are
rising in 26 states,
up from 23 last week.
Nationally, COVID-19 deaths have risen for three weeks in a row while the number of new cases week-over-week recently fell for the first time since June.
Again lots of red states in that list, Ch.
President Trump has never said that he was wrong about anything because he's a narcissist pathological liar.
Vietor’s reply is quite revealing. It is apparently a point of pride in the White House that Obama’s PDB is “not briefed to him.” In the eyes of this administration, it is a virtue that the president does not meet every day with senior intelligence officials. This president, you see, does not need briefers. He can forgo his daily intelligence meeting because he is, in Vietor’s words, “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-obama-alone-this-president-does-not-need-intel-briefers/2012/09/13/c11e1a52-fda5-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_story.html
The White House takes pride in the fact that Obama’s PDB is “not briefed to him” – because, they say, he is “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.” That hubris brings to mind this revealing quote from a September 2008 New York Times profile of Obama:
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
So it should come as no surprise that apparently Barack Obama thinks he’s a better intelligence briefer than his intelligence briefers.
https://www.aei.org/foreign-and-defense-policy/obama-im-a-better-intelligence-briefer-than-my-intelligence-briefers/
you were saying, alky?
President Obama speech today
https://youtu.be/noPSKqIU2iI
In the memory of John Lewis, sing this song today.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF3aPT7C51Y
Your source is totally false
https://youtu.be/noPSKqIU2iI
the WaPo and NYT are totally false, alky?
LOL.
ok. if you say so.
LOL.
Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt said President Trump "is either trying to provoke a reaction or trying to sow doubt about the outcome" of the 2020 election by raising the idea of delaying it.
"The idea for an incumbent to suggest that we would delay an election now while he is in power is totally out of character with all of his predecessors and it is a sort of fragrant and flagrant expression of his current weakness."
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/509820-fox-news-political-editor-trump-either-trying-to-provoke-a-reaction-or-trying
Faux News is turning into a real news coverage
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/509820-fox-news-political-editor-trump-either-trying-to-provoke-a-reaction-or-trying
Marc Thiessen writes a twice-weekly column for The Post on foreign and domestic policy. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is a Fox News contributor.
Trump Campaign, Then and Now
When Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh was told that Joe Biden had warned that President Trump would try to delay the election,
he said,
“Those are the incoherent, conspiracy theory ramblings of a lost candidate who is out of touch with reality.”
AND WHAT DID TRUMP SAY TODAY ON TWITTER?:
“Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote.”
--Donald Trump
Republicans Reject Trump Suggestion to Delay Election
July 30, 2020 at 1:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Top Republicans offered a rare rebuke of President Trump, condemning his suggestion that the Nov. 3 general election be delayed — something he has no authority to order, the New York Times reports.
Said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA):
“Never in the history of the federal elections have we not held an election and we should go forward.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, initially declined to comment, but later dismissed Trump’s suggestion in an interview with WNKY:
“Never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions, and the Civil War have we ever not had a federally scheduled election on time, and we’ll find a way to do that again this Nov. 3. We’ll cope with whatever the situation is and have the election on Nov. 3 as already scheduled.”
Cornyn Says Trump’s Tweet Was a Joke
July 30, 2020 at 1:06 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told CNN that President Trump’s tweet about delaying the election was a joke “so all you guys in the press, your heads will explode and you’ll write about it.”
OH, SO IT WAS ALL JUST A JOKE?
TELL THAT TO McCARTHY AND McCONNELL ABOVE.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Marc Thiessen writes a twice-weekly column for The Post on foreign and domestic policy. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is a Fox News contributor.
tanks for the bio, alky.
now discredit him. be specific. show your work.
Twitter Rep to Israel's Knesset:
We Flag Trump But Not Ayatollah Khameini Because Khameini's Exhortations to Wipe Israel Off the Map Are Not the Kind of "Glorification of Violence" or "Inspiration to Harm" That We Worry About
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/389377.php
Cronyn and rat are both pathological liars and FULL OF SHIT!!!!! Yeah, another trump joke that is neither a joke or funny!!!!!!!
Obama is the King Of Racist.
Pedo Joe, "racial jungle"
Coward.
FULL SPEECH: Former President Obama eulogizes civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis https://nbcnews.to/30g7sO2
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10164290838035647&id=890775646
Pants on fire bullshit again
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/marc-thiessen/
Bullshit again from kput'z
In his books and speeches, Obama frequently invoked, explicitly and implicitly, King's dream for America. He endorsed King's ideals of racial equality and integration, and regarded an end to discrimination and prejudice, the elimination of racial disparities and interracial unity as ultimate goals.
Yet he forthrightly stated that, despite considerable advances since the civil rights era, existing racial disparities - in education, wealth and income - remain the debilitating consequences of slavery and Jim Crow. Pervasive discrimination in the past - in housing, employment and lending - explains the current racial disparities in wealth and income. The fact that blacks were prevented from amassing assets they might pass on to their children largely accounts for urban and rural poverty.
The highest barriers to racial equality in the present, Obama insisted, are the structural inequalities that are the legacy of racial injustice in the United States. In this, Obama has much in common with King. Where they diverge is on the question of how to respond to the racial disparities and inherited disadvantages caused by historical injustices. Obama never supported reparations for the descendants of slaves or the victims of the segregation regime - though he did concede that affirmative action in higher education can be a useful, if limited, tool to expand opportunity for underrepresented racial minorities.
Instead, Obama favoured universal programs that aim to help all who are disadvantaged, regardless of race, over policies that aim to compensate or aid specific racial groups. Because racial minorities are disproportionately disadvantaged, he reasons, they will reap a large share of the benefits of such policies.
In The Audacity of Hope , Obama offered two reasons to explain why an emphasis on universal programs over race-specific ones makes good political sense. The first is that white guilt has run out. White Americans now resent blacks' continuing grievances and sense of victimhood. Thus, they do not support policies that grant the legitimacy of black claims of injustice. Second, whites perceive that spending our limited public resources on further attempts to create racial equality or end ghetto poverty runs contrary to their self-interest. Such efforts not only mean higher taxes; they mean fewer public resources to aid whites.
Obama concludes that policies to help all in need - which would, in theory, disproportionately aid racial minorities - should be favoured in the current context. He believes universal policies will more likely garner multiracial support, including white support. Like King, Obama is convinced that we cannot establish a just society without interracial cooperation. Thus, we must chart a course to bridge the racial divide and foster racial conciliation.
But there are further obstacles to the realization of this vision, and Obama is keenly aware of them. In his "A More Perfect Union" address, delivered in Philadelphia ten years ago, he explained that as a result of our history of racism and the pain it has caused, many blacks remain angry - at times, bitter. Though sometimes justified, anger can be counterproductive. Not only can it blind blacks to their responsibility to improve their own condition, but it can prevent the formation of interracial alliances essential for real social change.
Even the conservative don't believe that vote by mail is not happened before.
The Heritage Foundation.
States weigh vote-by-mail options amid Trump and GOP opposition https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vote-by-mail-trump-republican-opposition/
“I know this is a celebration of John’s life. There are some who might say we shouldn’t dwell on such things,” Obama said. “But that’s why I’m talking about it.” He said Lewis “devoted his time on this earth fighting the very attacks on democracy ... that we’re seeing circulate right now.”
The private service was held inside the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was once a pastor.
Obama said Lewis was “perhaps” King's “finest disciple, an American whose faith was tested again and again to produce a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance.”
The first Black president recalled an early example of that perseverance while Lewis was fighting for desegregation in Nashville during the early 1960s.
"He and other young men and women sat at a segregated lunch counter, well-dressed, straight back, refusing to let a milkshake poured on their heads or a cigarette extinguished on their backs or a foot aimed at their ribs — refused to let that dent their dignity and their sense of purpose," Obama said.
Lewis, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, played an instrumental role in the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965.
That year, Lewis was beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where state troopers beat and used tear gas against peaceful marchers who were advocating against racial discrimination.
In his speech, Obama recalled the event, known as “Bloody Sunday.”
President Barack Obama in a march with civil rights movement veterans across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Ma,
President Barack Obama in a march with civil rights movement ss the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., March 7, 2015. On Obama's right are Rep. John Lewis and first lady Michelle Obama. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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“The thing is, I imagine initially, that day, the troopers thought they’d won the battle,” Obama said. “Except this time there were some cameras there. This time the world saw what happened, bore witness to Black Americans who were asking for nothing more than to be treated like other Americans, who were not asking for special treatment, just equal treatment, promised to them a century before.”
When Lewis was released from the hospital, Obama said, he “would make sure the world saw a movement that was, in the words of Scripture, hard-pressed on every side but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed.”
The movement made its way to the White House, and the Voting Rights Act was signed into law.
“I, like so many Americans, owe a great debt to John Lewis and his forceful vision of freedom,” Obama said. "America was built by John Lewises. He as much as anyone in our history brought this country a little bit closer to our highest ideals. And someday, when we do finish that long journey towards freedom, when we do form a more perfect union, whether it’s years from now or decades or even if it takes another two centuries, John Lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better America.”
Lewis, 80, died from complications due to pancreatic cancer on July 18.
Obama recalled the last time he spoke with Lewis following a virtual town hall with young activists fighting for racial equality in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
“Afterwards I spoke to John privately, and he could not have been prouder to see this new generation of activists,” Obama said. “And I told him, all those young people, John, of every race and every religion, from every background and gender, of every sexual orientation, John, those are your children. They learned from your example.”
Former President George W. Bush speaking at the funeral of John Lewis. (Alyssa Pointer/pool via Reuters)
Former President George W. Bush speaking at the funeral of John Lewis. (Alyssa Pointer/pool via Reuters)
The two other former presidents at the event also paid tribute to Lewis’s legacy.
Bush said Lewis, who served more than three decades in Congress representing Georgia's Fifth Congressional District, was able to bridge the country’s partisan divide.
“John and I had our disagreements, of course,” Bush said. “But in the America John Lewis fought for and the America I believe in, differences of opinion are inevitable elements and evidence of democracy in action. We the people, including congressmen and presidents, can have differing views on how to perfect our union while sharing the conviction that our nation, however flawed, is at heart a good and noble one. We live in a better and nobler country today because of John Lewis.”
Trump Insists on Knowing Results on Election Night
July 30, 2020 at 5:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
President Trump on Twitter:
“Must know Election results on the night of the Election, not days, months, or even years later!”
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He can insist all he wants, but we have had elections that were not clear on election nights before.
TRUMP HECKLES TRUMP!!!
A Heckler In His Own Government
July 30, 2020 at 4:33 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
New York Times:
“Far from a strongman, Mr. Trump has lately become
a heckler in his own government,
promoting medical conspiracy theories on social media,
playing no constructive role in either the management of the coronavirus pandemic
or the negotiation of an economic rescue plan in Congress —
and complaining endlessly about the unfairness of it all.”
Trump Will Do Whatever It Takes to Win
(THAT IS, HE WILL TRY)
July 30, 2020 at 4:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Trump fears this election not simply because the general public seems to want him to lose but because a loss of the powers and asserted immunities associated with the presidency may ultimately cost him his freedom* in the long run.
“A post-Trump era might indeed be rife with serious legal threats not just to Trump but to Barr and many close to them. Therefore, they will do whatever it takes to win.”
*IN SIMPLE WORDS, HE KNOWS HE MAY END UP IN JAIL BECAUSE OF CRIMINAL ACTS.
"LOCK HER UP!"
WILL BECOME
"LOCK HIM UP!"
Capitol Hill Staffers are FURIOUS Over Gohmert Revelation
July 30, 2020 at 4:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“The revelation Wednesday that Texas Republican Louie Gohmert, a renegade lawmaker known for stalking the halls of Congress without a mask, tested positive for Covid-19 has unleashed a fusillade of anger on Capitol Hill — a sudden release of built-up tension over how the institution has dealt with the coronavirus pandemic within the confines of its own workplace,” Politico reports.
“Now, legislative aides, chiefs of staff, press assistants, members of Congress, career workers and maintenance men and women
are venting their fury with an institution that
does not have uniform rules or masking requirements,
does not mandate testing,
is run with minimal oversight
and must contend with a gaggle of lawmakers who doubt scientists and hold themselves out as experts on everything from disease hygiene to pharmacology.”
Trump’s Grip on the GOP Is Slipping
July 30, 2020 at 3:55 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 177 Comments
Amy Walter: “The once rock-solid grip that the president had on his party seems to be slipping. Talking with pollsters and strategists from both sides this week, it’s clear that Trump is suffering not just with Democrats and independents but also with GOP voters. They tell us of polling that shows Trump underwater in districts he carried easily in 2016.”
“One GOP strategist told me that even in heavily Republican districts, Trump’s job approval rating among Republicans has dropped 10-20 points. The KFF poll released last week found Trump’s overall job approval rating among Republicans dropped 12 points between May and July. On handling coronavirus, the drop in GOP support was an even more dramatic 26 points.”
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