NEW YORK - The NYPD is investigating vandalism of the Black Lives Matter mural painted last week outside Trump Tower.
Just after Noon Monday, a man threw red paint on the large, yellow letters, on Fifth Avenue in Midtown. The man is seen on video dropping the paint can and then running off on West 56th Street, according to police.
Funny how we don't investigate when people deface or tear down decades old statutes and historical landmarks, but we are concerned that someone put some paint on something just put up a few days ago that won't last but a few weeks anyways as cars roll over it (and more graffiti and coverings are done to it).
This was always designed very specifically as a childish attempt to poke a stick in the eye of Trump. It's impossible to actually take it seriously.
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The New York Times
Morning newsletter
July 14, 2020
Biden’s big opportunity
Joe Biden in front of his childhood home in Scranton, Pa., last week.Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Joe Biden doesn’t seem like an obvious candidate to be a transformational president.
He is not a great public speaker, and he doesn’t have a strong ideology. Over his long career, Biden has mostly tried to stay near the center of the Democratic Party, even when that center has moved.
But history suggests that transformational presidents usually don’t look the part before taking office.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s critics called him an aristocrat without a coherent theory of how to end the Depression. Ronald Reagan was dismissed as an intellectual lightweight from Hollywood. And yet Roosevelt and Reagan each ushered in an era of dominance for their preferred policies.
They did so because of their political skills — and because each was taking office during a national crisis, when a transformation of the government suddenly seemed reasonable to many Americans. If Biden wins, he may be taking office at a similar moment, in the midst of a deadly pandemic, a deep recession and a reckoning with racism.
Which means he may have an opportunity to preside over greater change — on climate policy, racial issues, health care, taxes, education and more — than any recent president. Biden’s advisers say that, over the course of the campaign, he has become increasingly attracted to that notion.
In a 45-minute phone call that Biden held yesterday with several journalists, I asked him whether he would be comfortable pushing a more ambitious agenda than his former boss, Barack Obama, did. His answer: Yes.
“I do think we’ve reached a point, a real inflection in American history. And I don’t believe it’s unlike what Roosevelt was met with,” Biden said. “I think we have an opportunity to make some really systemic change.”
He added: “Something’s happening here, it really is. The American people are going, ‘Whoa, come on, we’ve got to do something.’” As evidence, he cited the number of white Americans participating in Black Lives Matter protests.
Biden has called for police reforms, sharp cuts in carbon emissions, a major infrastructure program, universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, a big expansion of Medicare and substantially higher taxes on the rich. Bernie Sanders says the agenda would make Biden “the most progressive president since F.D.R.”
And most polls show that a majority of Americans support each of those policies.
None of this means Biden will necessarily succeed. He still needs to win, help Democrats retake the Senate, avoid intraparty fights between the left and center — and then deliver policies that actually affect Americans’ lives.
But the potential for sweeping change is real, even if Biden isn’t most liberals’ idea of a visionary.
And the filibuster? Asked whether he supports getting rid of the filibuster, so the Senate could pass bills with a straight majority, Biden said: “It’s going to depend on how obstreperous they become,” referring to Republicans.
He noted that he has historically supported the filibuster and was optimistic he could find common ground with Republicans. “But I think you’re going to just have to take a look at it,” he added.
THANK YOU, Roger, for an informative and helpful bit of relief from the deflectional kind of tripe Ch is putting here.
Shell Biden
Joe Biden is no FDR or Reagan. More like bob dole 2020
After Trump thumped Hillary.
Good comparison Myballsinthewoodsagain.
Biden refuses to commit to Live in person on the same stage without being given the questions ahead of time with instant fact checkers and Animal Cookies with milk Debates.
It is as he put it "Too dangerous".
New York Post
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At least 17 people shot in NYC on Monday as gun violence continues to soar https://trib.al/HANV51w
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