Despite all of the damage and unrest, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is still refusing any federal help in restoring the rule of law to her city. If they’re going to handle the problem themselves, so be it, I suppose. But what does she plan to do? In yet another instance of bowing to mob rule, Durkan and the City Council have decided that the way to calm the masses is to change the way they hire municipal government workers. What that has to do with the death of George Floyd is anyone’s guess, but the new plan certainly sounds woke enough to fit the 2020 narrative. Going forward, if you want a job with the city, you’ll need to prove your social justice credentials before anyone worries about whether or not you’re actually qualified for the job you’re seeking. (Free Beacon)
Just when you think you have some of the dumbest local politicians in the country, another city steps up and says "hold my beer". Well technically I have a house in the suburbs of Minneapolis / St Paul and an alternate home in Seattle, so I guess they're both sort of my "local politicians" at this point. Just have to bang my head against the wall regardless of where I am.
Tomorrow my wife is heading downtown Seattle for a ballet class, which I would normally accompany her since I always enjoy that area of the city... but with everything else going on, it looks like a quiet Friday night hanging out at home. While we technically have a Seattle address, we are far enough away from downtown that none of this affects us where we live. But it sure has taken it's toll on the social life.
90 comments:
get your pistol permits.
Be sure to tell your wife to wear a mask.
The President who sold beans from the Oval Office while Americans died.
In a now-infamous passage from the adult entertainer’s newly released memoir, Full Disclosure, Daniels writes in granular detail about her alleged 2006 affair with the future commander-in-chief, writing, “I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart … It may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had, but clearly, he didn’t share that opinion.”
And no matter what.....rat will keep his lips firmly planted on the lousy fat fucks obese white ass and ask for another!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! BTW, James.....rat lives alone for a reason!!!!!!
The hospitals in Arizona and Florida are overwhelmed with COVID-19 infected patients.
The President in his last two appearances he hardly mentioned the crisis, and instead he attacked Biden and his defense of the Confederacy by defeating the statues of traitors who fought to defend slavery.
Free Beacon is a joke
A Democratic Senate Is Looking More Likely
Jessica Taylor
notes that in the five U.S. Senate races the Cook Political Report currently rates as Toss Ups — Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Montana and North Carolina — Democrats outraised Republicans by about $42.6 million to $24.1 million in the second quarter — a difference of $18.5 million.
Jonathan Bernstein:
“The longer this election cycle goes on, the better the prospects for Democrats have looked. Right now, they not only have raised more money, but actually have an apparent polling lead in all five of those toss-up races, according to the RealClearPolitics averages, although several states (especially Montana) have had limited surveys so far.
“The Cook Report lists five more contests, including Alabama, as leaning Republican. If Trump really is down by nine points or so nationally, then it’s possible Democrats could pick off one or two of them…
“The real blowout possibilities start to kick in if Trump slips a little more. Then it starts to look possible for Democrats to win four of the five lean-Republican seats, or even one or two of the four likely Republican contests. In that case, the possibility of an aggressive legislative agenda starts to look much more likely. “
Trump’s 50% Problem
First Read says President Trump has a 50% problem:
50% of all registered voters in our poll “strongly” disapprove of the president.
50% say there is no chance at all they will vote for him.
50% say they’re “very uncomfortable” about his candidacy.
51% are backing Joe Biden in the horserace, versus 40% for Trump.
“One of the old maxims of American politics used to be that an incumbent (for any office) needs to be at 50% to be safe for re-election* — otherwise there’s a majority of voters who exist that don’t support him or her. But Trump has a different problem at hand: He’s got 50% (or more) of the national electorate saying they strongly oppose him.”
*Yep. That's what Ch used to say.
Biden Leads In Arizona
A new OH Predictive Insights poll in Arizona finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in the presidential race, 49% to 44%.
Trump’s Virus Non-Message
The Wall Street Journal editorial board:
“A more significant reason voters are souring on Mr. Trump’s virus management is his unwillingness to be candid or consistent about the disease’s likely toll…
“Mr. Trump’s messaging has caromed from saying the virus isn’t a problem, to the economy must shut down to crush it, to the economy must open and everything will soon go back to normal, to barely talking about it at all as cases rise. Now his aides are filling the vacuum by attacking the government health expert who sees it as his role to warn of worst-case scenarios.
“This is a mess, and if it continues Republicans will be routed in November…”
NATE COHN SAYS:
Even If the Polls Are Really Off, Trump Is Still In Trouble
“With Joe Biden claiming almost a double-digit lead in national polls, one question still seems to loom over the race: Can we trust the polls after 2016?
“It’s a good question. But for now, it’s not as important as you might guess. If the election were held today, Mr. Biden would win the presidency, even if the polls were exactly as wrong as they were four years ago.
“The reason is simple: His lead is far wider than Hillary Clinton’s was in the final polls, and large enough to withstand another 2016 polling meltdown.”
Team Trump Plots New Ways to Make Him Feel Good
Daily Beast: “As Trump’s re-election campaign has struggled to tear down former Vice President Joe Biden with less than four months until Election Day, the president’s staff have devoted considerable resources to finding novel ways to make him feel better about the crumbling world around him.
“They tell him tales of his sagging poll numbers being fake. They’ve concocted ways of convincing him that the adoring crowds he loves on the campaign trail are still there and ready. They’ve pledged that the social, racial, and economic crises ravaging the nation are ephemeral. And they’ve carried his water as he seeks to reassert his authority over situations falling beyond his control.”
We have about 4% of the world population and we have 25% of the virus infections.
By November the forecast for the number of deaths is expected to reach about 250,000
Republicans Alarmed by Democratic Senate Hopefuls
"Republicans are sounding alarms after Democratic Senate candidates outraised their GOP opponents in the first six months of the year, a gulf driven largely by small-dollar online contributions,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Democratic candidates in the 11 most competitive Senate races collectively raised $67.3 million in the second quarter of the year, $20.5 million more than their Republican counterparts, according to fundraising reports filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission. The total includes two Republicans who gave almost $6.5 million to their own campaigns.”
Said one Senate GOP strategist: “We’re scared to death by what we see.”
Mary Trump’s Book Sets Sales Record
After just two days. Mary Trump’s tell-all book sold 950,000 copies, setting a sales record for publisher Simon & Schuster.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
Bonus Quote of the Day
“It is officially official. Governor Kemp does not give a damn about us. Every man and woman for himself or herself. Ignore the science and survive the best you can.”
— Savannah Mayor Van Johnson (D), on Twitter, responding to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) order overriding local mandates requiring face masks.
Dana Dupree
June 14 ·
America is so aching for November!! Hey Trump supporters, when are you going to realize you have been conned by a ConMan. Hillary is not going to jail. There is no Obama gate. President Obama was born in Hawaii. Mexico is not paying for that wall. The coronavirus is not going to miraculously disappear. Medical personnel did not steal PPEs out of the back door. The American press is not the enemy of the people. Women are not pigs, stupid, ugly, fat, skank’s, nasty, that woman, horse face. The revolutionary army did not take back the airports from the British during the revolutionary war. The New York Times is not failing. Confederate generals are not heroes. Windmills do not cause cancer. Water doesn’t drip out of our showers.We don’t have to flush the toilet 15 times. No matter how many sharpies lying Donnie uses he cannot change a Weather pattern. You cannot Nuke A hurricane. The FBI are not scum bags. Peaceful protesters are not domestic terrorist. Lying Donnie is definitely not a stable genius. Lying Donnie is not the chosen one.I can go on and on and on. Trump supporters you have been duped, bamboozled, hoodwinked. Joe Biden is going to win this election. Americans are exhausted and had enough of Trump! We are not going to sit this one out! Are we better off than we were four years ago? We are aching for November!πΊπΈπΊπΈJOE BIDENπΊπΈπΊπΈ
If Trump is losing why is James and Roger so desparete?
BREAKING: UGH! π‘ Previously public data on hospital bed and ICU bed use has ALREADY disappeared from the CDC’s website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to themselves. π‘π‘π‘
Not desperate. DELIGHTED.
U.K. Says Russians Trying to Steal Vaccine Research
---The U.K. accused Russian state intelligence of hacking international pharmaceutical and academic research in a bid to win the race to secure a vaccine against Covid-19, Bloomberg reports.
WHY GO TO ALL THAT TROUBLE? ALL PUTIN NEEDS TO DO IS PHONE TRUMP.
U.S. Has Become Like Trump’s Dysfunctional Family
---Mary Trump told the Washington Post that watching the country’s leadership devolve into “a macro version of my incredibly dysfunctional family” was one of the factors that compelled her to write her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
Mary Trump said she blames “almost 100 percent” her grandfather, Fred Trump — the family patriarch whom she describes as a “sociopath” in her 214-page memoir of sorts — for creating the conditions that led to Trump’s rise and, ultimately, what she views as his dangerous presidency.
Republicans Dramatically Scale Back Convention
“The Republican Party will hold a scaled-back convention in Jacksonville next month that includes a mix of outdoor and indoor venues,” the Washington Post reports.
“The Thursday letter from Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said admittance will be limited to only regular delegates for the first three days of the convention — or about 2,500 people. For the final day, when the president attends, delegates will get a guest, and alternate delegates can also attend — or 6,000 to 7,000 people.”
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TRUMP IS Pee Oohed. He won't be able to get before big crowds to perform his Hitler act.
Hundreds of Trump Appointees Face Loyalty Test
---Politico: “In the middle of a devastating pandemic and searing economic crisis, the White House has an urgent question for its colleagues across the administration: Are you loyal enough to President Trump?
“The White House’s presidential personnel office is conducting one-on-one interviews with health officials and hundreds of other political appointees across federal agencies, an exercise some of the subjects have called ‘loyalty tests’ to root out threats of leaks and other potentially subversive acts just months before the election, according to interviews with 15 current and former senior administration officials.”
DR. FAUCI FAILED HIS LOYALTY TEST BY BEING LOYAL TO THE TRUTH.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday threw his support behind Anthony Fauci, as the nation's top infectious disease expert has come under fire from members of the Trump administration.
Asked during a stop in Kentucky what his level of confidence is in Fauci, McConnell replied: "Total."
Scott A**hole used the White House leaked documents to write a fake narrative about Fauci and the CDC reports to claim that the coronavirus is a Democratic strategy to defeat Trump.
Moscow Mitch McConnell has broken away from the President for now anyway
Things have grown so dire for Trump that non-partisan political handicappers are now predicting a Democratic takeover of the Senate due to Trump's current disastrous polling numbers. Talk of Republicans retaking the House majority is nonexistent. Every sign is pointing to an apocalyptic election for Republicans -- one that could set the party back at the state and national level for years, if not decades.
Mary Trump is going to be on the Rachel Maddow show tonight on MSNBC live.
The ratings will skyrocket.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/donald-trump-brad-parscale-2020-campaign/index.html
For those of us who can remember what happened in Germany in the 30s when Adolf Hitler would speak to large crowds and got adoring crowds to cheer in adoring slogans.
Donald Trump loves his supporters when they shout Look her up!
The parallels between the two men are undeniable.
He's unable to feel sympathy for anyone but himself.
He's the most dangerous man ever to hold the office of the President of the United States and for which it stands.
New polling from Quinnipiac University found that only 30% of America's registered voters say they trust the information that President Trump is providing about the coronavirus. To repeat: Just 3 out of 10 voters trust what he says about the biggest crisis of his presidency.
Yet Scott doesn't believe the Doctor.
I saw this last night and I couldn't believe it he actually said live on CNN
"You tell me how a president in the middle of a pandemic has got time for this bullshit," CNN host Chris Cuomo said on his nightly news program. "Are you kidding me?"
"On your dime, in the middle of a pandemic, they’re selling beans."
Roger you’re a fucking idiot
Another brilliant comment from the biggest Trump sycophant on this board.
No, only one of the biggest.
Speaking of fucking idiots.
Pederast do you still believe that teachers, doing on line course instruction, can catch Covid from their students???
LMAO
He knows that he is losing.
Axios
President Trump demoted campaign manager Brad Parscale and replaced him with his deputy, hours after a brutal new round of polls showed Trump losing five of six swing states — and sinking into a double-digit hole nationally.
Why it matters: Trump's announcement — on Facebook, in the midst of a Twitter outage — shows that he knows he's losing.It's obvious to all around him: All the data shows it. The family knows it. And with 110 days until the election, the president now admits it.
A recent spate of Fox News polls particularly infuriated Trump, Axios' Alayna Treene hears.
One official said Trump still brings up a warning by Fox News' Tucker Carlson last month that Trump "could well lose."Look for more changes to come.
The towering Parscale is a longtime Trump family digital guru who engineered the online side of Trump's 2016 upset.
He gets to stay, demoted to senior adviser. Trump really can't fire Brad: He knows too much, and he built the digital infrastructure the campaign relies on.He was replaced by his deputy, Bill Stepien, a Trump loyalist and longtime Republican operative. Stepien worked on Trump's 2016 campaign, then was White House political director before moving to the campaign.
One top Republican told me Stepien, who once was Chris Christie's top aide, is an expert at a vital skill in Trumpworld — candidate management.
Another power center is senior adviser Jason Miller, effectively the campaign's chief strategist, who has frequent conversations with Trump.
Behind the scenes: Trump lost confidence in Parscale after the Tulsa debacle, Axios' Jonathan Swan reports.
The switch is partly cosmetic: Jared Kushner — who gave Parscale the news that he was out — was calling the shots before, and calls them now.
What's next: A Trump confidant tells me the campaign believes it can make up ground with suburban voters by trying to tie Joe Biden to calls to defund police.
"I look forward to having a big and very important second win," Trump said on Facebook. "This one should be a lot easier as our poll numbers are rising fast, the economy is getting better, vaccines and therapeutics will soon be on the way, and Americans want safe streets and communities!"
The best text I got when the news broke: "The real campaign manager reports to the Oval every day, anyways."
That, of course, is Donald Trump.
He needs his advisers to suck his mushroom penis.
Mayor Putz says it's too dangerous to open public schools.
So he's going to provide child-care for 100,000 children.
Indoors.
With adult supervision.
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Voting for Biden is voting for mayor Putz nationwide.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3671905416156230&id=100000104244858
A white supremacist woman went crazy.
"You tell me how a president in the middle of a pandemic has got time for this bullshit," CNN host Chris Cuomo said on his nightly news program. "Are you kidding me?"
while fredo yuks it up with his brother live on XiNN while andrew kills 10,000 seniors in a matter of days.
fredo and his brother made time for THAT bullshit 3 nights/week.
Activist Angela Davis said in an interview that resurfaced this week she’s rallying behind Joe Biden because it’s crucial to back the candidate “who can be most effectively pressured” by the left.
In the interview, which took place in November 2019 on the YouTube show Going Underground With Afshin Rattansi, Davis admitted neither Joe Biden or President Donald Trump reflects her political views. However, she said Biden is far more likely to take mass demands seriously.
“I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction,” said Ms. Davis in the video clip. “It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.”
https://www.blackenterprise.com/angela-davis-said-she-backs-biden-because-he-can-be-pressured-by-the-left/
Probably. Donald may also meet some of the criteria for dependent personality disorder, the hallmarks of which include an inability to make decisions or take responsibility, discomfort with being alone, and going to excessive lengths to obtain support from others. Are there other factors that should be considered? Absolutely. He may have a long undiagnosed learning disability that for decades has interfered with his ability to process information. Also, he is alleged to drink upward of twelve Diet Cokes a day and sleep very little. Does he suffer from a substance- (in this case caffeine-) induced sleep disorder? He has a horrible diet and does not exercise, which may contribute to or exacerbate his other possible disorders. The fact is, Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he’ll never sit for. At this point, we can’t evaluate his day-to-day functioning because he is, in the West Wing, essentially institutionalized. Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.
Parscale is a data specialist not a campaign mgr.
For those of us who can remember what happened in Germany in the 30s when Adolf Hitler would speak to large crowds and got adoring crowds to cheer in adoring slogans.
Donald Trump loves his supporters when they shout Look her up!
The parallels between the two men are undeniable.
alky, i'm old enough to remember 0linsky speaking to adoring crowds in front of styrofoam grecian column, complete with chanting "yes we can!" & "we're the ones we've been waiting for!!!" and an audience full of grown adults sobbing like babies.
THAT is a much more accurate comparison.
so go fuck yourself and your incessant violations of godwin's law.
Anonymous Myballs said...
Parscale is a data specialist not a campaign mgr.
only the left is calling this a demotion.
Mary Trump
You would support Adolf Hitler if you lived in Germany at that time
Mary Trump's book about President Trump sold 950,000 copies in combined print, digital and audio edition preorders alone, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.
The sales numbers come as the president's niece, who is also a clinical psychologist, called on Trump to resign in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos that aired on Wednesday.
“I saw firsthand what focusing on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people can do — the collateral damage that can be created by allowing somebody to live their lives without accountability,” she said. “And it is striking to see that continuing now on a much grander scale," she also told ABC.
Mary Trump's “Too Much Is Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man" was released on Tuesday, one day after a New York judge lifted a temporary restraining order preventing her from promoting the tell-all.
Books about the Trump presidency have sold well since the former real estate mogul and reality TV star took office in January 2017.
Mary Trump is a certified lunatic.
As you're about to find out to your disappointment.
mary trump specifically and repeatedly LIED about Trump using a stand-in to take his SAT's to get into Penn.
SAT's are not required when applying as a TRANSFER, which Trump was. he transferred from Fordham.
mary has a PhD in LYING. she's a bitter cunt looking to cash in because she comes from the poor side of the family.
A Trump supporter said this on Facebook
I think our President Trump should make an executive order called “THE COMMUNIST FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROGRAM “ we will trade all of our citizens that hate America for good citizens that are vetted and want to assimilate to become U.S. citizens. I would love to see this happen.....for real, NOT A JOKE on my part.πΊπΈ
Probably. Donald may also meet some of the criteria for dependent personality disorder, the hallmarks of which include an inability to make decisions or take responsibility, discomfort with being alone, and going to excessive lengths to obtain support from others. Are there other factors that should be considered? Absolutely. He may have a long undiagnosed learning disability that for decades has interfered with his ability to process information. Also, he is alleged to drink upward of twelve Diet Cokes a day and sleep very little. Does he suffer from a substance- (in this case caffeine-) induced sleep disorder? He has a horrible diet and does not exercise, which may contribute to or exacerbate his other possible disorders. The fact is, Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he’ll never sit for. At this point, we can’t evaluate his day-to-day functioning because he is, in the West Wing, essentially institutionalized. Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.
U.S.—Hackers have been blamed as Joe Biden posted a complete, coherent thought on Twitter earlier today.
As soon as Twitter support saw that Biden had posted several complete sentences in a tweet, they immediately locked his account down, suspecting a hack.
"The full, rational sentences were a dead giveaway," said a Twitter IT guy. "If you're gonna pretend to be Joe Biden, you have to add in several rambling asides, some made-up words, and three or four major gaffes. It clearly wasn't him, so we took steps to lock down his account."
"Hackers, you know, thhhhe--the thing that, that hacks--hackers are dangerous," said Joe Biden in a statement to the press. "Back in my day, hackers were the guys who would cut down your telegram wire and listen in on the ol' party line. My cousin, Velma, she once said..." At this point, he abruptly fell asleep.
Meanwhile, President Trump's account posted several deranged rants about random stuff, assuring everyone that his account had not been compromised.
https://babylonbee.com/news/hackers-suspected-as-biden-posts-complete-coherent-thought-on-twitter?utm_content=buffer378a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Mary Trump is a certified lunatic.
and nursing home alky is such a basket case he's been reduced to copy/pasting her insane rantings.
LOL.
we will trade all of our citizens that hate America for good citizens that are vetted and want to assimilate to become U.S. citizens.
i disagree.
keep the America-hating BLM/antifa filth right where they are.
just cut off all of their welfare and other entitlements.
and let them starve.
Target and CVS are requiring masks
STEPHANOPOULOS: That's exactly what the White House says. They say it's a book of falsehoods that you're writing out of financial self-interest. Basically, you're lying for money.
TRUMP: It makes perfect sense that they would say that. Projection is a powerful thing. But if I had wanted money or revenge, I would've done this ten years ago, when it was infinitely safer. And he was still a very public figure. But neither one of those things interested me. I was living my life. I was beyond -- you know, well beyond what had happened 20 years ago with my family. And it would've served no purpose, other than getting revenge or maybe making some money.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And what do you say to the people who say, "America knew exactly what they were doing when they elected Donald Trump. He's kind of an open book"? What don't they know?
TRUMP: Yeah, I don't think that's at all true. Because outside of New York, I don't think people really quite understood the truth behind his business record and his financial failures, which are legion and serial. Beyond that, it was such a complex election, there was so much going on that -- I don't think the choices -- that people had to make were necessarily based on an honest appraisal. You know, there was so much interference from so many different sources. And the other thing that I think is really important to realize -- and that I certainly didn't realize before 2016 -- was just how enabled he would be. Which maybe I should've seen coming, 'cause --
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, it's one of the things you write about. You say that --
TRUMP: Yeah.
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- basically, he was enabled -- institutionalized, is your word, his whole life. What did you mean by that?
TRUMP: As I say, there's a through-line from the house to Trump Management, which was my grandfather's company in Brooklyn, to the Trump Organization, which my grandfather helped Donald set up in Manhattan, to the White House. And those are all situations and circumstances in which Donald has always been protected and continues to be protected from his inadequacies, from his incompetence, from his lack of knowledge, from his failures.
And he's always had support of more powerful people. He's always had people protecting him from his mistakes, or from people who would try to hold him account. And he's always been amply financed. So you know, as I also write, how do we gauge this man's ability to function in the real world, as he's never really had to? And that, to me, is quite terrifying.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You're a trained clinical psychologist.
TRUMP: Yes.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You come to the conclusion he's a narcissist.
TRUMP: I avoid -- I explicitly avoid diagnosing him.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I was gonna ask about. Do you have any qualms --
TRUMP: Sure.
STEPHANOPOULOS: -- as a psychologist, laying out the possible things that he could be suffering from?
TRUMP: No. I think it's useful, especially since so many other people have done it. And I thought it was important to address that -- since it has been such an important issue -- especially given the Goldwater rule -- versus the duty to warn that a psychologist and psychiatrist have been grappling with.
So I wanted to address all of that without explicitly saying, "This is his diagnosis." He is not my patient. He's never been my patient. I do, however, have access to information about him that nobody else has had. So it was a lot easier for me to put the diagnoses that are out there in context of his developmental history.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Boil it down. What's the single most important thing you think the country needs to know about your uncle?
TRUMP: He's utterly incapable of leading this country. And it's dangerous to allow him to do so.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-mary-trumps-interview-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=71803869
From the Wall Street Journal:
U.S. retail sales rose for the second straight month in June as malls and restaurants reopened and consumers bought big-ticket items, but a recent increase in coronavirus cases could again damp spending.
The Commerce Department on Thursday said retail sales—a measure of purchases at stores, at restaurants and online—increased a seasonally adjusted 7.5% on the month. Retail sales totaled $524.3 billion in June, up from $487.7 billion in May and nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.
but a bitter feckless cunt from the poor side of the Trump family wrote a book or something.
LOL.
Use of the N-Word Was Normal In Trump Family
Mary Trump told the Washington Post that President Trump is “clearly racist” and that racial slurs were common around her father’s family as she growing up.
She said that she got used to “a knee-jerk anti-Semitism, a knee-jerk racism,” and added: “Growing up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the n-word or use anti-Semitic expressions.”
WHY ARE WE NOT SURPRISED?
If someone had suggested five months ago that we would be seeing more than 3 million cases and 135,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. by mid-July, I wouldn’t have believed it.
But now it’s distinctly possible that, five months from now, half of all Americans could have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, and more than 800,000 Americans may die in this extraordinary outbreak. That is what many of our most prominent public-health experts now expect.
Could their projection models be off base? Maybe. But don’t count on it. As bad as the health consequences, disruptions, restrictions, and fear of the last five months have been, things could get a whole lot worse.
People Also Refused to Wear Masks in 1918—and 675,000 Died
‘DANGEROUS SLACKERS’
J. Alexander Navarro, The Conversation
https://www.thedailybeast.com/america-is-on-track-for-a-million-coronavirus-cases-a-day-and-at-least-800000-deaths-by-the-end-of-2020?ref=home
We have no plans from the President "just live with it"
President Trump has vowed that the nation’s schools must reopen for the fall semester, but neither he nor his administration has detailed a plan for how to do so safely.
Trump has boasted that the United States leads the world in coronavirus testing, yet he has declined to produce a national testing plan, and in many communities tests can take a week or longer to process, rendering their results all but useless in slowing the spread.
And with case numbers spiking from coast to coast and fears mounting of additional outbreaks this fall and winter, Trump’s most clearly articulated plan to end the covid-19 pandemic is to predict the virus will “just disappear” and to bank on a vaccine being ready “very, very soon.”
While most developed countries have managed to control the coronavirus crisis, the United States under Trump continues to spiral out of control, according to public health experts, with 3.3 million Americans infected and more than 133,000 dead.
There is no cohesive national strategy, apart from unenforced federal health guidelines. Instead, the administration is offering a patchwork of solutions, often in reaction to outbreaks after they occur. Although Trump and his team declare sweeping objectives, such as reopening schools, they have largely shirked responsibility for developing and executing plans to achieve them, putting the onus instead on state and local authorities.
Ilhem Messaoudi, an immunologist at the University of California at Irvine, likened the absence of a national plan to “going on a road trip and not having a map,” a circuitous and sickening journey that has left everyone from governors to schools superintendents to local hospital leaders “stuck in the mud” and “flailing around.”
“It’s a complete disaster,” Messaoudi said. “This is how this administration has handled this entire pandemic — conflicting messages, knee-jerk reactions, lack of cohesive plans and undermining the CDC and attacking science on a regular basis.”
Trump’s approach was on display Tuesday in the White House Rose Garden, where the president delivered a rambling, stream-of-consciousness set of remarks for 54 minutes on a medley of topics, only briefly addressed the current coronavirus surge and offered no agenda to arrest it other than a vague promise of a vaccine. Meanwhile, Trump’s advisers inside and outside the White House advanced a character assault on Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert.
In response to a request for details of the administration’s plans on a range of coronavirus challenges — including school reopenings, testing, contact tracing and managing future outbreaks — the White House press office offered a lengthy list of actions the federal government has taken or is planning to take to support states and localities.
“President Trump has led an historic, whole-of-America coronavirus response — resulting in 100,000 ventilators procured, sourcing critical PPE [personal protective equipment] for our front line heroes, and a robust testing regime resulting in more than double the number of tests than any other country in the world,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews said in an emailed statement. “This leadership will continue as we reopen the economy, expedite vaccine and therapeutics developments, and continue to see an encouraging decline in the U.S. mortality rate.”
The challenges the administration is facing, however, were underscored Sunday when Education Secretary Betsy DeVos struggled in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash to articulate a plan for schools to reopen safely for the 2020-2021 academic year starting soon.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If someone had suggested five months ago that we would be seeing more than 3 million cases and 135,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. by mid-July, I wouldn’t have believed it.
me either.
0linsky had 60 MILLION cases of H1N1 for fucks sake.
5% of that?
LOL.
alky, i'm old enough to remember 0linsky speaking to adoring crowds in front of styrofoam grecian column, complete with chanting "yes we can!" & "we're the ones we've been waiting for!!!" and an audience full of grown adults sobbing like babies.
THAT is a much more accurate comparison.
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Oh? When did Obama start rounding up mentally defectives and gypsies and Jews for liquidation?
Trump has boasted that the United States leads the world in coronavirus testing, yet he has declined to produce a national testing plan
and san francisco's streets are slathered in human shit.
we need a national defecation plan!
Fewer died in all of Obama's eight years than have died in three months of Trump's.
Scaramucci Wants to See Trump ‘Humiliated’
“Merely beating Donald Trump in November won’t be enough for Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as the president’s communications chief but is now seeking to oust his former boss and help elect Democrat Joe Biden,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Scaramucci: “He has a chance here to really get humiliated, which I hope he will. The economy’s in shambles as a direct result of his decision making and the politicization of a health-care crisis. And so for all those reasons, he’s obviously incompetent and so we’ve got to seek his removal.”
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Isn't it interesting how many of those who know Trump best hate him most.
Biden can't risk debates.
Biden refuses to commit to times dates locations.
sorry I'm late :-)
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James said...
JAWOHL!
whatever Goddard prints the POS "pastor" will spam and plagiarize.
Obviously he doesn't even bother reading thread topic and commentary.
I guess just like we just skip over him.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Throwing a public tantrum.
"New York Gov. Cuomo cites 'significant evidence' NYC restaurants are violating social distancing rules, threatens closures
PUBLISHED THU, JUL 16 2020 12:06.
James has posted today?
Where?
Daily Caller
@DailyCaller
A modern day Holocaust is happening right before our eyes.
This is the Chinese Communist Party.
PariahDog1312
@PDog119
Uighurs sitting, bound and blindfolded, waiting to be loaded onto train cars and taken — somewhere.
Drone footage from an unknown hero in China.
DRONE VIDEO: https://twitter.com/PDog119/status/1283359233866637314
Biden - C'mon man, China is our friend
Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Records show Mary L. Trump, the shrink who's written a book bashing her uncle, Donald Trump, as "dangerous" and called for his resignation, is a lifelong Democrat who not only donated to Hillary but also $3,050 to Obama + $2,044 to the DNC and several hundred to ActBlue
politics over family, as is common for democrats.
This is the Chinese Communist Party.
This is what Niki, LeBron James and the rest of the NBA are defending. The money they take for being Quislings is blood money.
Uighurs sitting, bound and blindfolded, waiting to be loaded onto train cars and taken — somewhere.
and we need to remember that there are prominent blacks in America advocating for the same thing to happen to white people.
Activist Angela Davis said in an interview that resurfaced this week she’s rallying behind Joe Biden because it’s crucial to back the candidate “who can be most effectively pressured” by the left.
Isn't it interesting how many of those who know Trump best hate him most.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pelosi urges Trump to 'ask for directions' on virus crisis
jul 16th 2020 2:39PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday compared President Donald Trump to “the man who refuses to ask for directions” as she pleaded with the White House to seek input from the nation's scientific leaders to reverse the rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
The Democratic speaker urged Trump to invoke the full power of the Defense Production Act to boost much-needed supplies for coronavirus testing and treatment as a weary nation battles the outbreak.
“Mr. President, admit it, you’ve gone down the wrong path, ask for directions, ask for directions from the scientists,” Pelosi said Thursday at the Capitol. "They know best."
Tensions are rising as Congress considers the next virus relief package with no apparent endgame in sight to the pandemic that now threatens longer-term economic and societal turmoil than first envisioned.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is poised to release the GOP’s $1 trillion package as soon as next week. That plan is a counteroffer to the sweeping $3 trillion proposal that House Democrats approved in May, before the latest spike in coronavirus cases and hot spots.
Months after McConnell hit “pause” on new spending, as he puts it, Republicans now face a potentially more dire situation. They had hoped the pandemic would ease and the economy would recover. Instead, coronavirus cases are spiking, states are resuming shutdowns and parents are wondering if it's safe to send children back to school.
“There were some that hoped this would go away sooner than it has,” McConnell said Wednesday during a hospital visit in Kentucky, where he urged people to WEAR MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCE.
"The straight talk here that everyone needs to understand: This is not going away," McConnell said.
This would be the fifth virus rescue bill since spring. Such an unprecedented federal intervention has occurred as Congress races to provide a comprehensive national strategy to try to bring the pandemic under control.
Polling shows Americans are increasingly uneasy over Trump’s handling of the outbreak. Members of Congress are hoping to ease the health and economic crises before many of them, like the president, face voters in November.
McConnell is straining to keep rising COVID costs down as Republicans revolt over deficit spending. But Pelosi's $3 trillion coronavirus aid bill, once dismissed by Republicans as a liberal wish list, now seems not as far-fetched.
“People are dying,” Pelosi said. “If we don’t invest the money now, it will be much worse.”
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James July 16, 2020 at 2:25 PM
Fewer died in all of Obama's eight years than have died in three months of Trump's"
Wrong again James.
James, these are the facts.
"current life expectancy for U.S. in 2020 is 78.93 years, a 0.08% increase from 2019.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2019 was 78.87 years, a 0.08% increase from 2018.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2018 was 78.81 years, a 0.03% decline from 2017.
The life expectancy for U.S. in 2017 was 78.84 years, a 0.03% decline from 2016"
Mask π· requirements are increasing
Safeway
Walmart
Sam’s Club
Target/CVS
Menards
Costco
Best Buy
Dollar Tree
Kohl's
Kroger
Verizon
Trader Joe’s
Whole Foods
Walgreens
Panera
Apple Stores
Fresh Market
Ralphs
Smart & Final
Baker's grocery stores
Family Fare
Uber
Ash's HaΓΌs of Nails
Harbor freight
They are private business so they can refuse you to enter their store.
No shoes No shirt No Mask No Service
President Trump built his political brand by stoking the nation's culture wars, but search data is showing us how much harder it's been for him to replicate that success while running against another white man in his 70s — and while there's a coronavirus pandemic.
The big picture: Google Trends data shows Trump's "Sleepy Joe" name-calling isn't generating nearly the buzz "Crooked Hillary" (or "Little Marco") did in 2016. Base voters who relished doubting President Obama's birth certificate aren't questioning Biden's.
Tech platforms are beginning to take more responsibility. And the coronavirus is a more unifying, longer-lasting fear than the president predicted.
Why it matters: Trump's struggle to find a line of attack that takes off against Joe Biden may be driving him to diverge more politically.
Other factors are working against Trump's playbook. Tech platforms are increasingly moving to shut down hate speech and flag misinformation, killing the sources of some of Trump's favorite conspiratorial material.
And search metrics suggest that, for the most part, a nation with more than 125,000 dead from the coronavirus has less patience for the president's usual tactics.
Trump's attempts to find an alternate culture-war footing with Confederate statues and police defunding — highlighted by his Mount Rushmore speech on Friday — appear to face their own limits.
Google Trends data shows that searches for "coronavirus" are far outpacing those for "statues," "police" and "antifa."
The president's disconnect with popular sentiment on two issues of the day — the virus and protests against structural racism — has led to some self-inflicted wounds, including his sparsely attended rally in Tulsa and his tweet about an elderly Buffalo protester being shoved by police.
Trump's continued attack line about Biden "not leaving his basement" hasn't taken hold measurably with voters, according to the search data. Biden's actions in terms of social distancing largely align with a majority of voters' own anxieties.
The Trump campaign didn't respond to a request for comment.
Between the lines: Conspiracy theories that benefitted Trump in the past often were formed in dark corners of the internet before bubbling up to more mainstream pundits — but now Big Tech is more aware than ever of its influence on society.
The president's earlier lever for a Biden-linked conspiracy theory revolved around son Hunter Biden's work with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which Trump tweeted about last week for the first time in months.
But Ukraine attacks present some challenges for Trump. They were publicly litigated at length during his impeachment trial — and serve to remind the public that Trump was impeached only months ago.
What's next: Trump isn't changing to meet the moment. He's moving away from comprehensive police reform, digging in as a law-and-order candidate and looking for another way to mobilize against Biden that can stick.
They are private business so they can refuse you to enter their store. "
That goes for not wanting to bake a cake?
That goes for not wanting to bake a cake?
the alky lacks the self awareness to avoid his own blatant hypocrisy.
Roger has many faces.
That goes for not wanting to bake a cake?
That’ll fly way over the liver’s head
KNEE SLAPPING HILARIOUS
when I said
Fewer died in all of Obama's eight years than have died in three months of Trump's
I was talking of swine flu under deaths under Obam's eight years
compared to
coved 19 deaths under Trump's last few months
SO WHAT DOES KDIM DO?
He goes looking for old age life expectancies!!!!!
LOL LOL LOL LOL
Not as stupid as believing teachers can catch Covid from students, while teaching on-line courses
Now that’s fucking stupid
BTW if you were talking of swine flu, as you claim, why say 8 years under Obunghole?
Just pointing out that in the entire eight years e that Obama was in office, there were fewer virus deaths in that entire time than in Trump's last few months.
James, more people died during the o'Biden years.
Get it, more.
Less under 3 years of Trump .
π@James,again
Caliphate4vr said...
Not as stupid as believing teachers can catch Covid from students, while teaching on-line courses
Now that’s fucking stupid.
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JAMES: Yeah? Well then, I guess you can call the two teachers who got sick and the husband of the one who died all "f'n stupid," since all of them are conviced that they got infected from the classroom where kids had been,
and all are convinced that it is dangerous, perhaps even more to adults than to kids, to have children crowding into schools this fall.
Total covid-19 deaths under Trump as of today:
137,856
Total swine flu deaths under Obama's entire time in office:
12,469
Projected deaths under Trump by July 31:
147,013
π@James.
Keep dancing Fairy.
KDim can't refute those figures.π
I don't need to James.
notice how fowlmouthed James has become.
A fowl is a bird.
James ,ty.
Foulmouth you get.
Now should I point out every spelling and grammar error you make?
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