Yep, wasn't too long ago and I suspect it will be again. It's only a protest if it's a media-liberal approved cause. Everything else is an insurrection.
‘Everybody I Know Is Pissed Off’ August 12, 2021 at 12:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Ron Brownstein: "While most state and national GOP leaders are focused on defending the rights of unvaccinated Americans, new polling shows that the large majority of vaccinated adults—including a substantial portion of Republicans—support tougher measures against those who have refused COVID-19 shots.
“These new results, shared exclusively with The Atlantic by several pollsters, reveal that significant majorities of people who have been vaccinated support vaccine mandates for health workers, government employees, college students, and airline travelers —even, in some surveys, for all Americans or all private-sector workers.
"Most of the vaccinated respondents also say that entry to entertainment and sporting arenas should require proof of vaccination, and half say the same about restaurants.
“All of this suggests that as the Delta variant’s ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ disrupts the return to ‘normal’ life promised by the vaccines, a backlash may be intensifying among those who have received the shots against those who have not.”
AND THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES COULD GET WORSE FOR THE RECALCITRANT GOP.
Businesses Move from Carrots to Sticks on Vaccines August 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Bloomberg: “In recent weeks, Google and Facebook have announced that employees returning to their offices must be vaccinated. Walmart mandated vaccination for the mostly white-collar workforce at its corporate headquarters. Tyson Foods Inc., the meat processing giant, is requiring it of all its employees. In late July, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs made vaccination mandatory for its health-care personnel. This week Citigroup Inc. was the latest financial firm to require employees returning to its offices to be vaccinated, a day after the Pentagon announced a mid-September deadline for vaccinating all of the armed forces.
“Today, vaccine holdouts still have a choice, but increasingly that choice is between keeping their jobs and losing them.”
GOOD OLE UNCLE JOE Biden Calls on Congress to Lower Drug Prices August 12, 2021 at 11:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Axios: “Biden will ask Congress to create reforms that will prevent drug companies from raising their prices ‘faster than inflation.’ He will also ask Congress to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which it is currently prohibited from doing by law.”
Most In Highly-Vaccinated Places Live in Virus Hot Spots August 12, 2021 at 11:04 am EDT By Taegan Goddard “Two-thirds of Americans in highly vaccinated counties now live in coronavirus hot spots, as outbreaks of the highly transmissible delta variant — once concentrated in poorly vaccinated pockets — ignite in more populated and immunized areas still short of herd immunity,” the Washington Post reports.
Taegan Goddard comments: It seems the Delta variant is sparing no one who is not vaccinated — and it’s getting some who are.
Schumer Says Centrists and Progressives Need Each Other August 12, 2021 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Politico: “This week, with the slimmest possible Democratic majority and in the same 16-hour period, Schumer’s two wings flew in unison. Sanders and other progressives voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan, and moderates voted for a budget that sets up a $3.5 trillion spending bill.
“It was a distillation of one of the trickiest balancing acts in Schumer’s career — something that the New York Democrat is getting used to while captaining a 50-50 Senate for longer than anyone in history.
“His path to resolving internal caucus battles, Schumer said, is ‘not mysterious. I preach how we each need each other. And without unity we have nothing.’”
U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy August 12, 2021 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard “American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group overruns the capital in a direct challenge to the country’s government,” the New York Times reports.
Republican Governors Lean Into Mask Wars August 12, 2021 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Associated Press: “Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states’ urban, heavily Democratic areas over whether students should be required to mask up as they head back to school — reigniting ideological divides over mandates even as the latest coronavirus surge ravages the reddest, most unvaccinated parts of the nation.
“Even the Republican gubernatorial candidate in the purple state of Virginia has decried school mask mandates in the name of parental rights.
“Still, some within the GOP’s own ranks have begun to warn of the safety and political risks involved in making schools — and children’s health — the chief battleground for an ideological fight.”
THIS COULD EASILY BITE THE GOP IN ITS DESERVING BUTT.
BETTER READ THIS AGAIN: “Still, some within the GOP’s own ranks have begun to warn of the safety and political risks involved in making schools — and children’s health — the chief battleground for an ideological fight.”
Moreover, because much of the riot was caught on camera and social media, the amount of discovery material it has created has also been enormous. Prosecutors have collected tens of thousands of hours of video footage from surveillance cameras inside the Capitol and from body cameras worn by the police. There are disks full of cellphone tower readings, flash drives of radio transmissions, hundreds of thousands of tips from individuals, and reams of texts and photographs from thousands of cellphones seized by federal agents. The government has said that it has gathered more than one million posts from the conservative social media app Parler alone.
Complicating matters for the defendants, the rioters on Jan. 6 moved as a mob, often working in proximity or concert. That has meant that much of the discovery data is “overlapping and interlocking,” as prosecutors have said, and needs to be shared with multiple defendants.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
To organize the material, the government has established a squad of prosecutors, the Capitol breach discovery team, which meets regularly with counterparts in the Washington Federal Defenders Office. In May, it also signed a contract with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services to create a database intended to allow defense lawyers to find evidence related to their clients and search for videos by location on the Capitol grounds.
But the process of setting up the database has not been smooth or quick. Judge McFadden ribbed the leader of the discovery team, Emily A. Miller, on Monday in court.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
You would have been a terrible defense attorney.....
“[W]e are not in a position to turn over the universe of information we possess for Defendant to review. Although we are aware that we possess some information that the defense may view as supportive of arguments that law enforcement authorized defendants (including Defendant) to enter the restricted grounds, e.g., images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks, we are not in a position to state whether we have identified all such information” (emphasis is mine).
After explaining that the government possesses “[t]housands of hours” of video footage from a variety of sources, they conceded these materials include recordings of Capitol Police Officers allowing protesters to enter the so-called “restricted” area into which Griffin is alleged to have trespassed. The prosecutors stated:
“[W]e are not in a position to turn over the universe of information we possess for Defendant to review. Although we are aware that we possess some information that the defense may view as supportive of arguments that law enforcement authorized defendants (including Defendant) to enter the restricted grounds, e.g., images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks, we are not in a position to state whether we have identified all such information” (emphasis is mine).
Let’s underline that point: federal prosecutors have evidence – which so far they refuse to provide to any of the Jan. 6 criminal defendants – that Capitol Police Department officers moved obstructions to allow protesters to enter locations that prosecutors are now calling “restricted areas.” And more than that, the government possesses evidence that the officers were taking photos with, hugging and fist-bumping many of those who they allowed to enter those areas.
But if the Capitol Police were allowing the protesters to access certain areas that the feds now claim were “restricted,” or were acting in a way that communicated their acquiescence or approval of the protesters’ physical presence in those locations, there is simply no way that the government can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that those protesters-cum-criminal defendants broke the law.
So if there is so much evidence (and there is) why has so little been provided to the defendants ?
Release the tapes
Admit to any FBI involvement and what it was
Hunt down the pipe bomber
Release Pelosi's security actions
Don't "squeeze" "illegal paraders" in solitary
DOJ is corrupt as are the judges allowing this, one of them is judge Sullivan whose outrageous conduct didn't allow for true justice being done with General Flynn. Despite DOJ trying to drop the charges.
This week’s revelation by federal prosecutors that Capitol Police Officers either explicitly or implicitly authorized protesters to enter the very portions of the Capitol grounds that those protesters are now being charged with trespassing onto guts the government’s case.
It was hardly surprising news then that federal prosecutors offered Griffin a confidential plea deal this week. In all likelihood, the prosecutors know that they can’t prevail at trial and so are doing whatever they can to scotch the matter as quickly and quietly as possible before they have to disclose the exculpatory evidence in their possession.
Once that material is provided to the defense, Griffin and others may well choose to take their cases to the mat. And an acquittal at trial for a Jan. 6 defendant – let alone several of them – would be an enormous humiliation for the Department of Justice.
The DOJ is undoubtedly aware of this, and I suspect it is trying desperately to avoid such a black eye at all costs – even if that means offering favorable plea dispositions to people like Cuoy Griffin for charges that it knows should never have been brought in the first place.
HATE TO TELL YOU GUYS (WELL, NOT REALLY) BUT SCOTT'S ATTEMPT TO DIVERT AND DEFLECT CANNOT HIDE THE FACT THAT THE VIRUS IS STILL THE ISSUE
Why the Delta Variant Reset Pandemic Expectations August 12, 2021 at 1:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Ed Yong: “In simple terms, many people who caught the original virus didn’t pass it to anyone, but most people who catch Delta create clusters of infection. That partly explains why cases have risen so explosively.
"It also means that the virus will almost certainly be a permanent part of our lives, even as vaccines blunt its ability to cause death and severe disease.”
Key takeaway from infectious disease expert Inci Yildirim: “If you’re vaccinated, you did the best thing you can do, and there’s no reason to feel pessimistic. You’re safe. But you will need to think about how safe you want people around you to be.”
AND THERE'S WHERE THE GOP IS MAKING A FATAL MISTAKE.
GOP AT ODDS WITH MILITARY, PRIVATE SECTOR, AND LOCAL CONTROL August 12, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Olivier Knox: “A look at the carnival ride that is Republican politics in 2021 shows the GOP at odds with institutions and principles that used to be written into the party’s DNA, perhaps especially the idea government closest to the people knows best.
“Instead, the so-called culture war — fights against ‘Big Tech,’ policies and ideas seen as ‘woke,’ and national efforts to promote coronavirus vaccines and other efforts to mitigate the resurgent pandemic — is now dominating the GOP and drives its parade of potential 2024 presidential contenders.
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is, in some ways, the poster politician for the trend of trying to wrest control over local decisions from local officials — though he has stiff competition from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.”
LOL QUESTION: "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OLE 'LOCAL CONTROL' GOP?"
On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, you would have supported the police officers who brutally attacked him and almost killed dozens of other black people.
Because you believe in law and order. When it fits your beliefs.
You know I'v wounded old F'n when he responds so lamely. And I live so much in his poor excuse for a brain that he even keeps my pen name in his every post.
"U.S. producer prices jumped much higher than expected in July, suggesting inflation could remain higher than anticipated by the Biden administration and Federal Reserve officials.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index rose one percent compared with June, matching the June rise and outpacing the 0.6 expected. Compared with a year ago, the index is up 7.8 percent, the fastest pace of price increases in data going back to 2010"
The closing of the Keystone pipeline and sauashing federal land fracking permits along with Begging for other Countries to boost oil.production to lower gasoline prices here is not helping.
SO, ON THE GLORIOUS 6TH: Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”.
“So when they got mad because we stole the election in plain sight, we decided to take their very mild protest and claim it was an insurrection. They said we wouldn’t like what came next.”
“And did you?”
“I still hear the tumbrils rolling. I hid under the bed afraid they’d stop at my door. Then one day they did.”
….. Or, to put it more clearly: the tea party was the polite request. Trump’s election… not so polite.
They won’t like us when we’re angry. And at this point, most of us are.
SO, ON THE GLORIOUS 6TH: Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”.
They need to produce everything they hold and everything they and the DOJ/FBI did
The frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults — reported in the United States so far this year seems poised to surpass last year despite months of political and social activism, according to a new report released Thursday.
Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that became the authority on gathering data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic, received 9,081 incident reports between March 19, 2020, and this June. Of those, 4,548 occurred last year, and 4,533 this year. Since the coronavirus was first reported in China, people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent have been treated as scapegoats solely based on their race.
Lawmakers, activists and community groups have pushed back against the wave of attacks. There have been countless social media campaigns, bystander training sessions and public rallies. In May, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, expediting Justice Department reviews of anti-Asian hate crimes and making available federal grants. Those supporters should not feel discouraged because the data hasn’t shifted much, Stop AAPI Hate leaders said.
Mississippi Hospital System Close to Failure August 12, 2021 at 1:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard “Hard-hit Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the USNS Comfort,” ABC News reports
Hey Nancy, Go F*** Yourself’: Florida Man Charged in Connection with U.S. Capitol Breach After Paid Informant Provides Intel
COLIN KALMBACHERAug 12th, 2021, 11:31 am
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A paid informant for the FBI has resulted in the arrest of a photographer and Florida man who allegedly took part in the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol Complex on Jan. 6.
Michael Aaron Carico stands accused of four relatively minor federal crimes: (1) entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; (2) disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; (3) disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and (4) parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
The frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults — reported in the United States so far this year seems poised to surpass last year despite months of political and social activism, according to a new report released Thursday.
Indeed. So tell the fucking BLACKS to knock it off and stop beating the shit out of Asians.
Following 15-hour filibuster Texas Senate passes elections legislation State Senate Democrat Carol Alvarado talked through the night in an attempt to filibuster the bill.
The Texas Senate on Thursday morning passed the elections bill that state Democrats have attempted several times to prevent from becoming law.
Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Carol Alvarado filibustered the bill for 15-hours in the latest long shot attempt to prevent its passage, but the chamber endured and passed the legislation by a vote of 18-11 this morning. Filibuster rules required Alvarado to remain standing, addressing the chamber on exclusively the subject of the bill, without bathroom breaks or food.
The attempt came one day after Dade Phelan, the Republican Speaker of the Texas House authorized arrest warrants for the 52 Democrats who have failed to show up for the second special session this summer of the Texas legislature, thereby denying the chamber a quorum.
The bill, which state Senator Bryan Hughes (R) says contains "simple, common sense reforms," like preventing 24-hour drive through voting, has met ample opposition from the Democratic party, who say it is a restrictive bill meant to suppress and intimidate marginalized voters. https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/following-15-hour-filibuster-texas-senate-passes-elections-bill?utm_campaign=ligthouse&utm_content=following-15-hour-filibuster-texas-senate-passes-elections-legislation&utm_source=social-jsr&utm_medium=twitter
the paid FBI informant managed to identify a man who:
Michael Aaron Carico stands accused of four relatively minor federal crimes: (1) entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; (2) disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; (3) disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and (4) parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building
WORTH READING AGAIN: “Still, some within the GOP’s own ranks have begun to warn of the safety and political risks involved in making schools — and children’s health — the chief battleground for an ideological fight.”
An Ohio man who was identified by online investigators in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack was arrested by the FBI on Thursday and charged with attacking law enforcement during a brutal siege on the western side of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Dave Mehaffie of Dayton, Ohio, was known to online investigators as #TunnelCommander because he was issuing orders to members of the mob who were attacking officers during a brutal battle at the lower western terrace entrance to the Capitol. Mehaffie was 86-AFO on the FBI’s Capitol wanted list, meaning he was wanted for assault on a federal officer.
A judge signed an arrest warrant for Mehaffie on Aug. 4 after he was indicted by a grand jury as part of an existing case.
Mehaffie was involved in one of the toughest battles of the Capitol siege. Members of the mob had stormed past police barriers and ascended the scaffolding set up for President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, and were attempting to break into the building. During the “medieval” battle, members of the pro-Trump mob kidnapped D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was repeatedly electroshocked. Rosanne Boyland, a pro-Trump member of the mob, was trampled during the brutal clash. The woman’s brother-in-law said that former President Donald Trump “incited a riot” that killed one of his “biggest fans.”
The arrest of #TunnelCommander is yet another boost for online “Sedition Hunters” who have used open-source information to identify the rioters who took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The open-source work of the online community is a constant presence in court filings, and prosecutors have recently been more explicit about citing their work.
Online people found this asshole like kputz and rrb...
It's the story of how the FBI coerced 7 not too bright guys in Miami in a sting operation. Railroaded them.
This August, as the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, approaches, FRONTLINE presents “In The Shadow Of 9/11,” the latest documentary from award-winning director Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”) chronicling a pivotal but often forgotten landmark case from the post-9/11 “War on Terror” for the first time on television as a documentary feature.
Following its world premiere at Sheffield DocFest in June, Reed’s five-years-in-the making documentary examines the domestic terrorism case of the “Liberty City Seven” — a group of Black men from Miami accused of planning an al Qaeda plot to blow up U.S. buildings, including Chicago’s Sears Tower.
Their trial marked the U.S. government’s first major post-9/11 domestic counter-terrorism sting. Yet the men had no weapons and never communicated with anyone from al Qaeda.
The documentary goes inside the case and examines this under-reported chapter of 9/11’s legacy — raising questions about the FBI’s tactics, and whether the men posed a legitimate threat to national security.
“This is a cautionary tale… be careful as to how far your undercover agents or your informants push,” says former Department of Justice Counter-Terror chief Mike Mullaney. “The goal is not to take somebody that is not a terrorist and make them a terrorist.”
Yossi Gestetner https://mobile.twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1425546714610499588 The Biden DOJ wants to drag out the clock so that defendants take time-served plea deal or other type of plea deals.
Cernovich “You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.”
That’s how prosecutors operate. Indict innocent people or overcharge them.
Drag it out, make them bankrupt, maybe “accidentally” kill one of their children in a raid.
Then get a plea deal out of a beaten and broken person.
Biden's fool proof plan will work when people do what is sensible and stop doing what makes no sense at all by resisting vaccination and by GOP governors defying local governments by forbidding them to try to protect their precious children by requiring masking in schools.
If children and/or teachers start getting sick in large numbers -- and perhaps some even dying -- there's going to be real political hell to pay, and that is probably a fool proof prediction.
Jim Geraghty https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1425464390246146051 This is an ominous indicator for northern states, because as autumn advances, outdoor temperatures will get colder, and people will spend more time indoors where it’s warmer. https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-air-conditioning-covid-19-wave/
John Hayward Months after destroying our society and economy with lockdowns, we finally admit they were the absolutely worst thing that could possibly have been done with a virus that spreads like Covid does. Who could have guessed fresh air, sunshine, and exercise were healthy?
2. Next But then what? Delta is transmissible enough that once precautions are lifted, most countries “will have a big exit wave,” Adam Kucharski, an infectious-disease modeler at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told me. As vaccination rates rise, those waves will become smaller and more manageable. But herd immunity—the point where enough people are immune that outbreaks automatically fizzle out—likely cannot be reached through vaccination alone. Even at the low end of the CDC’s estimated range for Delta’s R0, achieving herd immunity would require vaccinating more than 90 percent of people, which is highly implausible. At the high end, herd immunity is mathematically impossible with the vaccines we have now.
This means that the “zero COVID” dream of fully stamping out the virus is a fantasy. Instead, the pandemic ends when almost everyone has immunity, preferably because they were vaccinated or alternatively because they were infected and survived. When that happens, the cycle of surges will stop and the pandemic will peter out. The new coronavirus will become endemic—a recurring part of our lives like its four cousins that cause common colds. It will be less of a problem, not because it has changed but because it is no longer novel and people are no longer immunologically vulnerable. Endemicity was always the likely outcome—I wrote as much in March 2020. But likely is now unavoidable. “Before, it still felt possible that a really concerted effort could get us to a place where COVID-19 almost didn’t exist anymore,” Murray told me. “But Delta has changed the game.”
The President Biden probably promised more than he can achieve because the vaccines have become Delta variance and maybe worse.
But getting people vaccinated can save hundreds of thousands of lives.
🚨(Bloomberg) -- A measure of U.S. financial liquidity whose declines foreshadowed two of the decade’s worst equity routs is flashing alarms even before the Federal Reserve embarks on its planned winding down of asset purchases.🚨
U.S. stocks traded mostly flat on Thursday, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 managed to notch intraday records as investors weighed hot inflation readings but improved jobless claims data. Because higher wages will balance inflation rates.
The growth in the American population over the last decade was driven entirely by minority communities, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, as the number of white Americans declined for the first time since the nation's founding.
Non-Hispanic whites make up just under 58 percent of the American population, the first time since the Census was first conducted that they have fallen under the 60 percent mark. By contrast, the 2000 Census showed non-Hispanic whites made up just over 69 percent of the population, and 63.7 percent in 2010.
Hispanic or Latino Americans have grown steadily to 62.1 million, or 18.7 percent of the population, up from 12.6 percent in 2000 and 16.4 percent in the 2010 count. Asian Americans grew faster than any other minority group in the last decade, to 24 million, up about 20 percent since 2010.
The breakup by others said that it's not bad for the Democrats.
The sunburn population density up.
Even though a lot of the Hispanic voters have voted for Republicans, but the Asian population has increased significantly.
"Companies charge more for their goods to pay higher wages, and the higher wages also increase the price of goods in the broader market. ... The percentage increase of the wages and prices and their overall effect on the market are key factors driving inflation in the economy. https://www.investopedia.com › terms Wage Push Inflation - Investopedia"
If the Fed does the right thing the wage increase will get this!
This may be the Democrats' last chance to recover working-class Whites Analysis by Ronald Brownstein Aug 9, 2021 (CNN) - The blue-collar barricade looms as the most stubborn obstacle to President Joe Biden enlarging his base of support. As both candidate and president, Biden has devoted enormous effort to regaining ground with working-class voters, particularly the White voters without college degrees who have drifted away from the Democrats since the 1970s. But in the campaign, he improved on Hillary Clinton's anemic 2016 performance with those voters only modestly. And in office, an array of recent polls show he's failed to increase his approval rating with those non-college-educated White voters much, if at all, beyond the roughly one-third of them who he attracted last November -- even though he's aimed much of his rhetoric and presidential travel at them and formulated an agenda that would shower them with new government benefits. Biden's small gains with these voters last fall still helped him tip the critical Rust Belt battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and many Democrats say that any progress with them will be critical to the party's electoral fortunes in 2022 and 2024. "The key is you have a president who is speaking to them and fighting for them, non-college-educated voters of all races," says John Anzalone, who served as a lead pollster for Biden during the campaign. "I think he has their attention, and that's what is really important for the future, whether the 2022 election or 2024." But the continuing resistance confronting even Biden -- a 78-year-old White Catholic who highlights his working-class roots at every turn -- underscores the challenge an increasingly diverse and culturally liberal Democratic Party will face in recovering as much support as it attracted from these voters as recently as in Barack Obama's two campaigns. It may be too strong to say Biden represents the Democrats' last chance to restore their competitiveness with working-class White voters. But it seems likely that if he can't do so, there are few others in the Democrats' next generation of emerging leaders who have a better chance. "I don't see people on the horizon" who could do better for Democrats, says David Kochel, a Republican consultant based in Iowa, one of the heartland states where the rightward shift of working-class Whites, especially those in rural and exurban communities, has decisively tipped the partisan balance toward the GOP. Losing blue-collar Whites Working-class White voters constituted the bedrock of the Democratic coalition from the 1930s to the 1960s but the party has lost ground among them, largely because of issues relating to race and culture, in the half century since. For almost as long, the party has debated how much emphasis to place on recapturing those voters.
Biden routinely calls his economic agenda a "blue-collar blueprint to build America" and his proposals would shower working-class voters of all races with a wide array of new government benefits. The $1.9 trillion stimulus plan included direct $1,400 payments and a vastly expanded tax credit for families with children that benefited almost all voters without a college education. The bipartisan infrastructure plan expected to receive Senate approval Tuesday is centered on blue-collar jobs rebuilding roads, bridges and water systems. The follow-on $3.5 trillion human capital budget bill Democrats plan to advance this week offers working-class families increased subsidies for health insurance and child care, guaranteed paid family leave, expanded Medicare benefits and, for their children, access to universal preschool and two years of free community college. Some experts have described the cumulative package as the largest expansion of direct government assistance to working families since Social Security during the New Deal. But so far, Biden has very little to show for it in terms of improved approval among White working-class voters. In the latest Gallup Poll for July, his approval rating among Whites without college degrees stood at 34%; he's exceeded 38% among them in only one of Gallup's monthly surveys. Surveys released over the last few weeks by Monmouth and Quinnipiac universities, as well as an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, likewise put his approval with those voters at just 32-34%. (Another Marist poll showed him at 37%.) In each case, his approval rating among those non-college-educated White voters was about 20 percentage points less than his standing among White voters with college degrees. With approval from roughly one-third of working-class Whites, Biden's support now remains essentially unchanged from his vote among them last November: The major data sources (including the network exit polls conducted by Edison Research, the academic Cooperative Election Study and the Pew Research Center's validated voters study) all showed him winning almost exactly one-third of them. In each case, that was only slightly better than Clinton's performance in 2016, when most of the data sources showed her winning just under 3 in 10 of those voters. Biden's performance also remained well below the roughly 40% of these voters that Democrats won in each presidential race from 1988 to 2008, according to the exit polls. Previously unpublished details on the 2020 results provided to me by each of those sources offer a more nuanced picture of Biden's performance. Democratic analysts who believe the party must continue emphasizing blue-collar White voters often argue that the Democrats' weakness with them is exaggerated by the large number of culturally conservative evangelical Christians in their ranks. And indeed, the previously unpublished results provided to me from the exit polls, the Cooperative Election Study and Pew all show that Biden lost non-college-educated White voters who identify as evangelical Christians by an even larger margin than Clinton did: All three of those sources showed Donald Trump winning about 85% or more of those voters, up from around 80% in 2016. Trump's support among White non-college evangelicals reached about 90% in Southern states such as Georgia, Texas and North Carolina, according to the exit polls. By contrast, each of those three studies showed Biden improving over Clinton among the non-college White voters who are not evangelical Christians. Even so, all three studies still showed him losing those non-evangelical blue-collar Whites to Trump and winning only 42% to 47% of them. Comparing each study with its own 2016 results, only in Pew's did Biden significantly improve over Clinton's performance with them. How crucial are they for Democrats? For many liberal analysts, the big takeaway in these results is that Biden has made such marginal gains with blue-collar Whites as a candidate and as President. "
All of the obsessing over a 3% uptick in White non-college polling numbers [for Biden] misses the larger and more important reality: There is a ceiling for Democrats [with them] so long as they are seen as the party affiliated with people of color. Are we really supposed to get excited over 32% support instead of Clinton's 29%?" says Phillips, author of the upcoming book "How We Win the Civil War." "Isn't the dominant, and consistent, reality the nonsupport?" While Biden has framed his public identity around courting blue-collar Whites, Phillips says, the party would be better served by investing more "in efforts to increase turnout of people of color" especially across the Sun Belt; focusing more on causes that energize young people (including racial justice and climate change); and redirecting "some of the millions of dollars spent on research and data analysis on trying to better understand how to increase White support for racial justice instead of the current practice of seeking magic words for Democratic candidates by downplaying any connection to people of color."
Genève Campbell https://twitter.com/bergerbell/status/1425465136672919552 The US panic about covid and kids—something unique, unfolding here unlike anywhere else in the world—is a mass hysteria.
I’m sorry, but the Democratic Party is the party of delusional mass hysteria right now. Full stop, that’s what it is. It’s QAnon-level alternative reality.
I say this as a lifelong progressive Democrat who has never voted for a Republican in my life.
Fuck, this was my Facebook profile picture throughout the primaries: (image)
The Discourse, the media, the opinions, the emotion. This is culture-bound, this hyper-dichotomized reaction. We are the outliers here, and it’s not because everyone else on the planet is deluded.
Getting a lot of “erm this is uh Bad Take” or “child killer Karen says wat???” or “siding with the fascists now are we lady!” so if you’re here by means of one of those, please know you’re far from alone here. It just feels that way amidst the endless shame-y emotional appeals.
It's not like the end of the Vietnam war and the helicopters flying people out of Saigon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending in an additional 3,000 troops to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, officials said Thursday.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Army and Marine forces will enter Afghanistan within the next two days to assist at the Kabul airport with the partial embassy evacuation.
The decision to reduce staffing levels at the embassy was announced by State Department spokesman Ned Price, who said diplomatic work will continue at the embassy.
Republicans Are Fast Becoming the Face of Delta Surge August 12, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Washington Post: “In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott has banned local governments from implementing mask requirements even as he pleads for emergency medical help in combating a surge in coronavirus cases from the delta variant.
"In South Dakota, Gov. Kristi L. Noem welcomed hundreds of thousands of revelers to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally that last year bore characteristics of a superspreader event for the virus.
“And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is waging war on school districts seeking to defy his executive order prohibiting mask mandates for students — while the state sees its rates of hospitalization from covid surge past the worst levels of 2020.
“The three Republican governors — all frequently mentioned as potential presidential candidates in 2024 — are at the vanguard of GOP resistance to public-health mandates aimed at stemming the tide of the delta variant, which has caused a new spike in coronavirus cases as the country attempts to reopen schools, restaurants and other businesses.”
FLIP OPEN THE HEAD OF TODAY'S GOP. LOOK INSIDE. CAN YOU FIND A BRAIN ANYWHERE IN THERE?
Judges Block Arrests of Texas House Democrats August 12, 2021 at 3:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Texas Tribune: “Three state district judges in Houston have signed orders to temporarily protect more than 40 Texas Democrats from civil arrest for being absent from the state House.”
Donald’s Plot Against America August 12, 2021 at 3:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Mary Trump: “The Republicans haven’t lost their way. They have, instead, found it. And it has led them straight toward unabashed white supremacy and fascism.”
Bill Gates Pledges $1.5 Billion Towards Infrastructure August 12, 2021 at 4:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Bill Gates told the Wall Street Journal he would spend $1.5 billion over three years on infrastructure projects aimed at slowing the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change.
However, he will likely shift funding for the biggest projects to Europe and Asia instead if the bipartisan infrastructure package doesn’t become law.
U.S. Jobless Claims Near Pandemic Low August 12, 2021 at 4:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Associated Press: “The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell for a third straight time last week, the latest sign that employers are laying off fewer people as they struggle to fill a record number of open jobs and meet a surge in consumer demand. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
“A total of about 12 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, down sharply from the previous week’s figure of nearly 13 million… So far at least, there has been little sign that the delta variant has depressed hiring or prompted layoffs.”
The Case Against Crisis-Mongering August 12, 2021 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Matt Yglesias: “A lot of liberals look at the crisis-mongering insanity from the left and right and say to themselves that we are living through a crisis of liberalism, but I don’t think that’s really true either.
“I would say that we are living through some problems that are both serious and difficult, but not necessarily any more serious or more difficult than the problems of the past, and certainly not serious in a way that should cause one to doubt the basic tenets of liberalism.
"And then on top of that, we are living through some pretty ordinary political contestation that, as is inevitable in the course of things, involves some people going overboard at times.”
Judges Block Arrests of Texas House Democrats August 12, 2021 at 3:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 28 Texas Tribune: “Three state district judges in Houston have signed orders to temporarily protect more than 40 Texas Democrats from civil arrest for being absent from the state House.”
Revolver One Ups New York Times With Accurate Jan 6th Reporting On George Tanios — He’s Now Out on Bond
Earlier this week an appeals court overturned the district court’s ruling that 1/6 defendant George Tanios be detained without bond, noting that the D.C. district court “clearly erred” in its assessment that Tanios posed a danger to the community.
A West Virginia man charged in the assault of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after defending the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, can be released on bond while he awaits trial, a federal appeals court ruled.
The district court erred in assessing the danger posed by George Tanios, according to the appellate ruling issued Monday.
“The record reflects that Tanios has no past felony convictions, no ties to any extremist organizations, and no post-January 6 criminal behavior that would otherwise show him to pose a danger to the community within the meaning of the Bail Reform Act,” the ruling said. [WTAE]
Revolver News has been following George Tanios’ tragic and shameful mistreatment for months now. Tanios, a 39 year old sandwich shop owner from West Virginia, attended the January 6 protests along with a childhood friend Julian Khater, who runs a smoothie shop. Tanios allegedly was carrying bear spray in his backpack to protect against Antifa and other elements. When a melee involving Capitol Police officers erupted, Khater allegedly asked Tanios for “that bear sh*t” to which Tanios replied “no, no, not yet, it’s too early.” At a later time, Khater allegedly took the bear spray out of Tanios’ bag, used the spray, and the spray allegedly hit a few Capitol officers.
For responding “No, no, not yet, it’s too early” when Khater asked him for the spray, Tanios was charged mid-March with multiple counts of assault on an officer with a dangerous weapon and faces up to 60 years in prison. If 60 years — more than most people get for first degree murder — seems like a ridiculous sentence for Tanios, it gets even more outrageous when we recall the full context of these charges. ... While Revolver is glad that Tanios is finally allowed out on bond, the charges filed against him remain unspeakably absurd and unconscionably unjust. He faces 60 years in prison for saying “no, no, not yet” when his friend reached into his bag to grab bear spray. And it turns out Officer Sicknick wasn’t even sprayed with bear spray, and there is no evidence whatsoever of Khater using any spray of any kind.
Apart from the utter injustice of Tanios’ detention and indictment, the above analysis ought to remove any doubt as to the acuteness and accuracy of Revolver News’ investigative capacity. There’s a reason the Regime Media and its allies in the Biden Administration would do anything to stop our reporting, in particular our ongoing investigation into possible Federal foreknowledge and involvement in the 1/6 operation.
We take pride in their scorn and draw motivation from their endless efforts to silence us. Our investigation into the full truth behind the events of 1/6 is just beginning.
With vindication after vindication, our biggest investigative work is yet to come. Stay tuned. full story https://www.revolver.news/2021/08/revolver-jan-6-george-tanios-appeal/
Darren J. Beattie https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1425824426885455884 It's great that 1/6 defendant George Tanios is finally allowed bond, but the case against him should be tossed entirely
Revolver News utterly humiliates New York Times unravelling this tangle of thorns
I remember not too long ago in which the GOP was actually conservative and cared about the nation......!!!!!!! Fucking Daddy is the new norm of the right....moronic idiots with my shit don't stink attitude and hating everything but old white men!!!!!!! Wasn't the Charlottesville anniversary on this date or you white boys forgot about that riot for bigotry???
Insider Paper https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1425923875548897283 JUST IN - Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has been asked to resign by US Sec of State Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin (via: @CameliaFard)
WTF could the Biden administration get any more fucked up ???
Brit Hume https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1425885893706063877 The Biden administration is threatening to deny the Taliban diplomatic recognition as a way to halt the rout in Afghanistan. State Dept. says the "international community" won't recognize them either. Boy, that ought to stop the Taliban in its tracks.
Who the fuck is running our foreign policy
some WOKE idiot
or are they all out attending some new propaganda class ???
Bill Melugin https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1425878229353594882 BREAKING: 212,672 migrants were encountered at our Southern border during the month of July, a 13% increase over June (188,829) which was a 20 year record in itself. The numbers have gone up every single month President Biden has been in office. July is new 20 year record.
Forty percent of migrants released in Texas border city test positive for COVID-19, officials say
AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Laredo, Texas, has refused to take in migrants who have been bused in from elsewhere on the border after discovering 40% of them tested positive for the coronavirus, according to two local government officials.
“That was very high,” Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz said in an interview, referring to the infection rate among migrants dropped off by the Border Patrol last week. Laredo health authority, Dr. Victor Trevino, confirmed the numbers.
The 40% infection rate is the highest known positivity rate along the U.S.-Mexico border. Last week, McAllen, Texas, reported a 15% positivity rate among migrants released from custody.
Concerned that migrants arriving in Laredo would further strain hospital resources, Laredo officials contracted private bus companies to transport migrants arriving from the Rio Grande Valley to larger cities across the state. By not admitting migrants on the McAllen buses, the city is not required to test them for the coronavirus and could forward the families elsewhere. Those who test positive cannot travel and must be quarantined for 10 days, a situation Saenz wanted to evade to avoid migrant overflow.
TEXAS BORDER TOWN STRUGGLES UNDER SURGE OF MIGRANT FAMILIES AND COVID-19
Since late spring, Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley region have transported thousands of migrant families to Laredo because shelters were less inundated than those in McAllen. Migrants were immediately tested at the shelter upon being admitted. In that time, coronavirus positivity rates among migrants arriving in Laredo rose from 4% in April to 40% in August.
Laredo does not have a pediatric intensive care unit. With several families arriving in Laredo recently, city officials worried young children would not get emergency care if they were forced to quarantine.
This past week, the city began busing migrants on to Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Laredo selected those three cities because they were among the top places migrants planned to go after crossing the border.
The extended bus rides are free to migrants, and the city is picking up the cost, up to $10,000 per day. Saenz expects to be reimbursed by the federal government. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/texas-city-officials-40-of-migrants-test-positive-for-covid-19
Covid, the border, inflation, debt, Afghanistan, China, etc etc etc
Exactly what I have been saying for a long time......as the GOP does everything they can to stay in power with voter suppression and new impediments!!!!!
Caitlin Dickson·Reporter Thu, August 12, 2021, 3:43 PM Newly released census data shows that the United States has become more diverse over the last decade, while the white population is on the decline.
The 2020 census found that white people still make up the country’s largest racial or ethnic group, with a total of 235.4 million identifying either as white alone or in combination with another group. However, the population of people who identify as white alone has decreased by 8.6 percent since 2010.
Great leadership by the GOP of the deniers south!!!!!
Yahoo News Florida and Texas account for nearly 40% of new coronavirus hospitalizations Alexander Nazaryan Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent Thu, August 12, 2021, 2:30 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Of new hospitalizations for coronavirus-related illness, nearly 40 percent are in Florida and Texas, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients revealed during a Thursday press briefing.
Cases have been rising in both states, and the attendant rise in hospitalizations is not a surprise. But it is concerning, because only people with serious and potentially life-threatening illness require hospitalization. Hospitals in central Florida are reporting 30 children hospitalized, six of them requiring intensive care. And in Houston, a public health official warned earlier this week that if the current surge continues, “there is no way my hospital is going to be able to handle this.”
Zients said that the situation in Florida was especially dire, with that state alone accounting for more cases than the 30 states with the lowest infection rates combined. Public health officials have called the new coronavirus surge, driven by the hypercontagious Delta variant, a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Texas and Florida both have vaccination rates (44.7 percent and 49.8 percent, respectively) that are far too low to halt community transmission of the virus. For that to occur, some 80 percent of a population would have to be vaccinated.
I just looked at the short video provided above for the thread article. I didn't see anyone breaking out windows or pushing through doors or throwing objects at police.
Just shouting and chanting and waving signs.
Seems like a pretty good example of a peaceful protest.
Higher vaccination rates in Texas and Florida could've saved 4,700 lives, study finds
Epidemiologists used hospitalization rates from highly vaccinated states like Connecticut and Vermont to calculate excess deaths in Texas and Florida.
Medical staff members zip up a body bag containing a deceased patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on Dec. 6, in Houston.Go Nakamura / Getty Images file
Aug. 12, 2021, 2:21 PM PDT / Updated Aug. 12, 2021, 5:04 PM PDT
By Tim Fitzsimons
More than 4,700 lives lost to Covid-19 in Florida and Texas could have been saved if those states had higher vaccination rates, according to a study released on Thursday.
The study from the Commonwealth Fund, a private health care endowment, was conducted by an international team of epidemiologists and data scientists. The analysis compared the Covid hospitalization and death rates of a group of states like Vermont and Connecticut, which had fully vaccinated roughly 3 in 4 adults on average, with those of Florida and Texas, where roughly 1 in 2 adults are fully vaccinated.
Houston hospitals need more staff as number of Covid patients grows
"Outbreaks are predominantly affecting states that have relatively low vaccination coverage, with nearly a third of recent cases occurring in Florida and Texas," the researchers wrote, warning that the highly infectious delta variant would only worsen matters.
The estimated toll: Higher vaccination rates in these two states could have prevented more than 70,000 hospitalizations and 4,700 deaths by the end of July.
"We found that enhanced vaccination would have markedly curbed the rise of cases in Florida and Texas — averting more than 460,000 cases. Since the start of vaccination on Dec. 12, 2020, until July 31, 2021, Florida and Texas have reported more than 1.5 million and 1.7 million cases, respectively," the researchers wrote. "Achieving 74 percent vaccination coverage by July 31, 2021, could have reduced the case count to approximately 1.3 million cases in Florida and 1.5 million cases in Texas."
The study said more than 7 million Florida residents and 9 million Texas residents who are eligible for the vaccination remain unvaccinated, and many of them are in danger.
"If estimates through the end of July hold true, many of these people will suffer through hospitalizations, and some will likely die — making more rigorous vaccination campaigns in those states all the more imperative," they concluded.
Pratha Sah, a Yale researcher who contributed to the study, told NBC News in a statement "the U.S. has entered another wave of COVID-19 pandemic driven by the Delta variant."
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CORONAVIRUSA Florida woman gave birth while battling Covid-19. She died days later.
"The vaccines authorized in the US are effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalizations against the Delta variant. It is therefore not surprising that there is a clear correlation between vaccination coverage and viral transmission level across the states in the US," Sah wrote.
"Accelerating vaccination coverage is critical to combat the current COVID-19 wave driven by the Delta variant and potentially other looming variants in the future," she continued.
As cases surge across the country, experts told NBC News this delta-variant-driven rise was "completely preventable" and warned it will get worse before it gets better, with the return of long testing lines and dwindling intensive care unit beds in hard-hit Southern states.
In Florida, amid heated debate over requiring masks for children as classes are set to resume within days, the federal government this week sent hundreds of ventilators to help the state respond to its record number of Covid hospitalizations.
Covid Kills 4 Teachers In One Day In Same School District August 13, 2021 at 7:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Four Florida teachers working in the same school district died of COVID-19 within one day of each other this week, CBS Miami reports.
Three of the teachers were unvaccinated and the vaccination status of the fourth was unknown.
106 comments:
Yep, wasn't too long ago and I suspect it will be again. It's only a protest if it's a media-liberal approved cause. Everything else is an insurrection.
If they had been black you would support lynching every single drug addicted black man or woman.
Have an officer fire a flash bang into that crowd and what do you think will happen ?
Jan 6th VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/JRMajewski/status/1421347697576054784
release ALL the tapes
unedited
the truth will set you free
and democracy dies in darkness
Outhouse Joe said Inflation is transitory.
Nope.
"August 12, 2021 - 10:14 AM EDTProducer prices rose record 7.8 percent annually in July"
They didn't invade the Capitol building Scott.
Roger Amick said...
If they had been black you would support lynching every single drug addicted black man or woman.
apparently the only person who has attacked a black woman here is you
and we are not like you
‘Everybody I Know Is Pissed Off’
August 12, 2021 at 12:12 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Ron Brownstein:
"While most state and national GOP leaders are focused on defending the rights of unvaccinated Americans, new polling shows that the large majority of vaccinated adults—including a substantial portion of Republicans—support tougher measures against those who have refused COVID-19 shots.
“These new results, shared exclusively with The Atlantic by several pollsters, reveal that significant majorities of people who have been vaccinated support vaccine mandates for
health workers,
government employees,
college students,
and airline travelers
—even, in some surveys,
for all Americans
or all private-sector workers.
"Most of the vaccinated respondents also say that
entry to entertainment
and sporting arenas
should require proof of vaccination,
and half say the same about restaurants.
“All of this suggests that as the Delta variant’s ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ disrupts the return to ‘normal’ life promised by the vaccines,
a backlash may be intensifying
among those who have received the shots
against those who have not.”
AND THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES COULD GET WORSE FOR THE RECALCITRANT GOP.
Businesses Move from Carrots to Sticks on Vaccines
August 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Bloomberg:
“In recent weeks, Google and Facebook have announced that employees returning to their offices must be vaccinated.
Walmart mandated vaccination for the mostly white-collar workforce at its corporate headquarters.
Tyson Foods Inc., the meat processing giant, is requiring it of all its employees.
In late July, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs made vaccination mandatory for its health-care personnel.
This week Citigroup Inc. was the latest financial firm to require employees returning to its offices to be vaccinated,
a day after the Pentagon announced a mid-September deadline for vaccinating all of the armed forces.
“Today, vaccine holdouts still have a choice,
but increasingly that choice is
between keeping their jobs
and losing them.”
GOOD OLE UNCLE JOE
Biden Calls on Congress to Lower Drug Prices
August 12, 2021 at 11:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Axios:
“Biden will ask Congress to create reforms that will prevent drug companies from raising their prices ‘faster than inflation.’ He will also ask Congress to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices, which it is currently prohibited from doing by law.”
Most In Highly-Vaccinated Places Live in Virus Hot Spots
August 12, 2021 at 11:04 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Two-thirds of Americans
in highly vaccinated counties now live in coronavirus hot spots, as outbreaks of the highly transmissible delta variant
— once concentrated in poorly vaccinated pockets —
ignite in more populated and immunized areas still short of herd immunity,” the Washington Post reports.
Taegan Goddard comments:
It seems the Delta variant is sparing no one who is not vaccinated — and it’s getting some who are.
Schumer Says Centrists and Progressives Need Each Other
August 12, 2021 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Politico:
“This week, with the slimmest possible Democratic majority and in the same 16-hour period, Schumer’s two wings flew in unison.
Sanders and other progressives voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan,
and moderates voted for a budget that sets up a $3.5 trillion spending bill.
“It was a distillation of one of the trickiest balancing acts in Schumer’s career — something that the New York Democrat is getting used to while captaining a 50-50 Senate for longer than anyone in history.
“His path to resolving internal caucus battles, Schumer said, is ‘not mysterious. I preach how we each need each other. And without unity we have nothing.’”
U.S. Asks Taliban to Spare Its Embassy
August 12, 2021 at 10:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
“American negotiators
are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the U.S. Embassy in Kabul if the extremist group overruns the capital in a direct challenge to the country’s government,” the New York Times reports.
Republican Governors Lean Into Mask Wars
August 12, 2021 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Associated Press:
“Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states’ urban, heavily Democratic areas over whether students should be required to mask up as they head back to school — reigniting ideological divides over mandates even as the latest coronavirus surge ravages the reddest, most unvaccinated parts of the nation.
“Even the Republican gubernatorial candidate in the purple state of Virginia has decried school mask mandates in the name of parental rights.
“Still, some within the GOP’s own ranks have begun to warn of the safety and political risks involved in making schools — and children’s health — the chief battleground for an ideological fight.”
THIS COULD EASILY BITE THE GOP IN ITS DESERVING BUTT.
Another invalid parallel comparison.
More proof that you have lost your mind Scott.
BETTER READ THIS AGAIN:
“Still, some within the GOP’s own ranks have begun to warn of the safety and political risks involved in making schools — and children’s health — the chief battleground for an ideological fight.”
It was really just an attempt by Scott to misdirect us away from issues wherein the GOP is not doing well.
During the 60's the demonstrations were conducted peacefully most of the time.
But the white supremacist of that era said the exact same comparisons.
You want be a Dixiecrat of the era.
Now that inflation is out of control .
Can't wait to see what outhouse Joe's,
"All-Star Team of Economic Advisors " do next.
They already have Outhouse Joe bending over forward and begging OPEC for more oil.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If they had been black you would support lynching every single drug addicted black man or woman.
Says the guy who BEAT his BLACK wife like it was his fucking JOB.
Roger AmickAugust 12, 2021 at 11:57 AM
During the 60's the demonstrations were conducted peacefully most of the time."
Nope.
Bobby Kennedy
JFK
MLK
Moreover, because much of the riot was caught on camera and social media, the amount of discovery material it has created has also been enormous. Prosecutors have collected tens of thousands of hours of video footage from surveillance cameras inside the Capitol and from body cameras worn by the police. There are disks full of cellphone tower readings, flash drives of radio transmissions, hundreds of thousands of tips from individuals, and reams of texts and photographs from thousands of cellphones seized by federal agents. The government has said that it has gathered more than one million posts from the conservative social media app Parler alone.
Complicating matters for the defendants, the rioters on Jan. 6 moved as a mob, often working in proximity or concert. That has meant that much of the discovery data is “overlapping and interlocking,” as prosecutors have said, and needs to be shared with multiple defendants.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
To organize the material, the government has established a squad of prosecutors, the Capitol breach discovery team, which meets regularly with counterparts in the Washington Federal Defenders Office. In May, it also signed a contract with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services to create a database intended to allow defense lawyers to find evidence related to their clients and search for videos by location on the Capitol grounds.
But the process of setting up the database has not been smooth or quick. Judge McFadden ribbed the leader of the discovery team, Emily A. Miller, on Monday in court.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
You would have been a terrible defense attorney.....
Abundance of Jan. 6 Evidence Collides With Suspects’ Right to Speedy Trials https://nyti.ms/3yEh97s
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
“It doesn’t compare to any case that has ever occurred in the history of our government,” a prosecutor said at Mr. Hale-Cusanelli’s hearing.
Roger AmickAugust 12, 2021 at 11:57 AM
During the 60's the demonstrations were conducted peacefully most of the time."
Nope.
Assassinations
Bobby Kennedy
JFK
MLK
“[W]e are not in a position to turn over the universe of information we possess for Defendant to review. Although we are aware that we possess some information that the defense may view as supportive of arguments that law enforcement authorized defendants (including Defendant) to enter the restricted grounds, e.g., images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks, we are not in a position to state whether we have identified all such information” (emphasis is mine).
After explaining that the government possesses “[t]housands of hours” of video footage from a variety of sources, they conceded these materials include recordings of Capitol Police Officers allowing protesters to enter the so-called “restricted” area into which Griffin is alleged to have trespassed. The prosecutors stated:
“[W]e are not in a position to turn over the universe of information we possess for Defendant to review. Although we are aware that we possess some information that the defense may view as supportive of arguments that law enforcement authorized defendants (including Defendant) to enter the restricted grounds, e.g., images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks, we are not in a position to state whether we have identified all such information” (emphasis is mine).
Let’s underline that point: federal prosecutors have evidence – which so far they refuse to provide to any of the Jan. 6 criminal defendants – that Capitol Police Department officers moved obstructions to allow protesters to enter locations that prosecutors are now calling “restricted areas.” And more than that, the government possesses evidence that the officers were taking photos with, hugging and fist-bumping many of those who they allowed to enter those areas.
But if the Capitol Police were allowing the protesters to access certain areas that the feds now claim were “restricted,” or were acting in a way that communicated their acquiescence or approval of the protesters’ physical presence in those locations, there is simply no way that the government can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that those protesters-cum-criminal defendants broke the law.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/jan-6-prosecutors-admit-to-possession-of-images-of-officers-hugging-or-fist-bumping-rioters-posing-for-photos-with-rioters-and-moving-bike-racks/
Defendants are entitled to exculpatory evidence possessed by the prosecution.
Failure to deliver that means the prosecutors are breaking the fucking law.
So if there is so much evidence (and there is) why has so little been provided to the defendants ?
Release the tapes
Admit to any FBI involvement and what it was
Hunt down the pipe bomber
Release Pelosi's security actions
Don't "squeeze" "illegal paraders" in solitary
DOJ is corrupt as are the judges allowing this, one of them is judge Sullivan whose outrageous conduct didn't allow for true justice being done with General Flynn. Despite DOJ trying to drop the charges.
This week’s revelation by federal prosecutors that Capitol Police Officers either explicitly or implicitly authorized protesters to enter the very portions of the Capitol grounds that those protesters are now being charged with trespassing onto guts the government’s case.
It was hardly surprising news then that federal prosecutors offered Griffin a confidential plea deal this week. In all likelihood, the prosecutors know that they can’t prevail at trial and so are doing whatever they can to scotch the matter as quickly and quietly as possible before they have to disclose the exculpatory evidence in their possession.
Once that material is provided to the defense, Griffin and others may well choose to take their cases to the mat. And an acquittal at trial for a Jan. 6 defendant – let alone several of them – would be an enormous humiliation for the Department of Justice.
The DOJ is undoubtedly aware of this, and I suspect it is trying desperately to avoid such a black eye at all costs – even if that means offering favorable plea dispositions to people like Cuoy Griffin for charges that it knows should never have been brought in the first place.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/08/jan-6-prosecutors-admit-to-possession-of-images-of-officers-hugging-or-fist-bumping-rioters-posing-for-photos-with-rioters-and-moving-bike-racks/
Our own DOJ is the criminal here.
Nice.
Defendants are entitled to exculpatory evidence possessed by the prosecution.
Failure to deliver that means the prosecutors are breaking the fucking law.
What the justice department is doing in unAmerican
a real press would be all over this
there is no equal justice
just state media
Banana Republic
HATE TO TELL YOU GUYS (WELL, NOT REALLY)
BUT SCOTT'S ATTEMPT TO DIVERT AND DEFLECT CANNOT HIDE THE FACT THAT THE VIRUS IS STILL THE ISSUE
Why the Delta Variant Reset Pandemic Expectations
August 12, 2021 at 1:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Ed Yong:
“In simple terms, many people who caught the original virus didn’t pass it to anyone, but most people who catch Delta create clusters of infection. That partly explains why cases have risen so explosively.
"It also means that the virus will almost certainly be a permanent part of our lives, even as vaccines blunt its ability to cause death and severe disease.”
Key takeaway from infectious disease expert Inci Yildirim:
“If you’re vaccinated, you did the best thing you can do, and there’s no reason to feel pessimistic. You’re safe. But you will need to think about how safe you want people around you to be.”
AND THERE'S WHERE THE GOP IS MAKING A FATAL MISTAKE.
GOP AT ODDS WITH MILITARY, PRIVATE SECTOR, AND LOCAL CONTROL
August 12, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Olivier Knox:
“A look at the carnival ride that is Republican politics in 2021 shows the GOP at odds with institutions and principles that used to be written into the party’s DNA,
perhaps especially the idea government closest to the people knows best.
“Instead, the so-called culture war —
fights against ‘Big Tech,’
policies and ideas seen as ‘woke,’
and national efforts to promote coronavirus vaccines
and other efforts to mitigate the resurgent pandemic
— is now dominating the GOP
and drives its parade of potential 2024 presidential contenders.
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is, in some ways, the poster politician for the trend
of trying to wrest control over local decisions from local officials
— though he has stiff competition from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.”
LOL
QUESTION:
"WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE GOOD OLE 'LOCAL CONTROL' GOP?"
ANSWER:
"IT WENT TRUMPSTERING."
THE ONLY PERSON TRYING TO DIVERT IS THE LYING POS "PASTOR"\WITH HIS MAN CRUSH ON ANYTHING GODDARD
I GUESS I NEED TO START "TALKING" LIKE THE ASSHOLE
HE MUST BE HARD OF HEARING AND OUT OF UNDERAGE BOYS
fucking asshole is being to kind
what a mindless turd
On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, you would have supported the police officers who brutally attacked him and almost killed dozens of other black people.
Because you believe in law and order. When it fits your beliefs.
LOL
I know how to spell TOO kind.
James is right.
Outhouse Joe has failed Americans on the Virus.
HEY "PASTOR"
YOU WON'T FIND ANY UNDERAGE BOYS HERE
TRY ANOTHER BLOG
AND STOP SHOUTING
ROFLMFAO !!!
The President is speaking right now but you will read opposition party agendas
You know I'v wounded old F'n
when he responds so lamely.
And I live so much
in his poor excuse for a brain
that he even keeps my pen name
in his every post.
JamesNewLeaf said...
LOL
I know how to spell TOO kind.
the spelling Nazi actually found something he could address
brilliant
ROFLMFAO !!!
Thanks for noticing me "pastor"
you sure like encouraging me to appear
after any time you put in goddard spam
which seams like all the time
and so I do
ROFLMFAO !!!
"U.S. producer prices jumped much higher than expected in July, suggesting inflation could remain higher than anticipated by the Biden administration and Federal Reserve officials.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index rose one percent compared with June, matching the June rise and outpacing the 0.6 expected. Compared with a year ago, the index is up 7.8 percent, the fastest pace of price increases in data going back to 2010"
The closing of the Keystone pipeline and sauashing federal land fracking permits along with Begging for other Countries to boost oil.production to lower gasoline prices here is not helping.
SO, ON THE GLORIOUS 6TH: Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”.
“So when they got mad because we stole the election in plain sight, we decided to take their very mild protest and claim it was an insurrection. They said we wouldn’t like what came next.”
“And did you?”
“I still hear the tumbrils rolling. I hid under the bed afraid they’d stop at my door. Then one day they did.”
….. Or, to put it more clearly: the tea party was the polite request. Trump’s election… not so polite.
They won’t like us when we’re angry. And at this point, most of us are.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/467238/
*seems
ROFLMFAO !!!
nazi bait
8 months of Outhouse Joe and the hoe running things is a disaster.
rrb said...
SO, ON THE GLORIOUS 6TH: Jan 6 Prosecutors admit to possession of “images of officers hugging or fist-bumping rioters, posing for photos with rioters, and moving bike racks”.
They need to produce everything they hold and everything they and the DOJ/FBI did
And Nancy
The frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults — reported in the United States so far this year seems poised to surpass last year despite months of political and social activism, according to a new report released Thursday.
Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that became the authority on gathering data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic, received 9,081 incident reports between March 19, 2020, and this June. Of those, 4,548 occurred last year, and 4,533 this year. Since the coronavirus was first reported in China, people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent have been treated as scapegoats solely based on their race.
Lawmakers, activists and community groups have pushed back against the wave of attacks. There have been countless social media campaigns, bystander training sessions and public rallies. In May, President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, expediting Justice Department reviews of anti-Asian hate crimes and making available federal grants. Those supporters should not feel discouraged because the data hasn’t shifted much, Stop AAPI Hate leaders said.
It was really just an attempt by Scott to misdirect us away from issues wherein the GOP is not doing well.
Is that why the Democrat in Wisconsin decided to retire?
Because his GOP opponent was doing so poorly???
Keep telling yourself whatever it is that you want to believe Reverend! I will stick to reality and the facts!
Mississippi Hospital System Close to Failure
August 12, 2021 at 1:21 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
“Hard-hit Mississippi
has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the USNS Comfort,” ABC News reports
Reality is in that last post of mine.
Also in several others above.
I just found Ch's new hero. On topic
Hey Nancy, Go F*** Yourself’: Florida Man Charged in Connection with U.S. Capitol Breach After Paid Informant Provides Intel
COLIN KALMBACHERAug 12th, 2021, 11:31 am
1
A paid informant for the FBI has resulted in the arrest of a photographer and Florida man who allegedly took part in the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol Complex on Jan. 6.
Michael Aaron Carico stands accused of four relatively minor federal crimes: (1) entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; (2) disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; (3) disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and (4) parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The frequency of anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults — reported in the United States so far this year seems poised to surpass last year despite months of political and social activism, according to a new report released Thursday.
Indeed. So tell the fucking BLACKS to knock it off and stop beating the shit out of Asians.
Following 15-hour filibuster Texas Senate passes elections legislation
State Senate Democrat Carol Alvarado talked through the night in an attempt to filibuster the bill.
The Texas Senate on Thursday morning passed the elections bill that state Democrats have attempted several times to prevent from becoming law.
Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Carol Alvarado filibustered the bill for 15-hours in the latest long shot attempt to prevent its passage, but the chamber endured and passed the legislation by a vote of 18-11 this morning. Filibuster rules required Alvarado to remain standing, addressing the chamber on exclusively the subject of the bill, without bathroom breaks or food.
The attempt came one day after Dade Phelan, the Republican Speaker of the Texas House authorized arrest warrants for the 52 Democrats who have failed to show up for the second special session this summer of the Texas legislature, thereby denying the chamber a quorum.
The bill, which state Senator Bryan Hughes (R) says contains "simple, common sense reforms," like preventing 24-hour drive through voting, has met ample opposition from the Democratic party, who say it is a restrictive bill meant to suppress and intimidate marginalized voters.
https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/following-15-hour-filibuster-texas-senate-passes-elections-bill?utm_campaign=ligthouse&utm_content=following-15-hour-filibuster-texas-senate-passes-elections-legislation&utm_source=social-jsr&utm_medium=twitter
I though Filibusters were racist ?
Anyways a win for election integrity
The governor of Kentucky signed an order requiring masking in schools,and public areas.
He is a Democrat.
Indeed. So tell the fucking BLACKS to knock it off and stop beating the shit out of Asians.
Biden owns this hate crime surge
racist
A paid informant for the FBI
Fucking traitorous shitstain.
May he die slowly in a fire.
I tell you,
if this thing breaks out badly
in unmasked schools,
the GOP will have sailed up s creek.
Some more sensible Republicans
are already losing sleep over this.
Al Capone would be cheering for rrb.
They kill CI agents
the paid FBI informant managed to identify a man who:
Michael Aaron Carico stands accused of four relatively minor federal crimes: (1) entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; (2) disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; (3) disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and (4) parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building
What was the FBI involvement from before to after
How many were inside the Capitol "
Who murdered Babbitt and why no transparency
fake "insurrection"
real cover-up and travesty of "justice"
WORTH READING AGAIN:
“Still, some within the GOP’s own ranks have begun to warn of the safety and political risks involved in making schools — and children’s health — the chief battleground for an ideological fight.”
Reality is in that last post of mine.
You mean that President Biden's fool proof plan didn't work?
And now he's got nothing up his sleeve other than to blame?
Or some other reality that you are talking about?
* ?
didn't want to upset the punctuation Nazi even though he can go fuck himself
Another one of your heroes has been arrested!
An Ohio man who was identified by online investigators in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack was arrested by the FBI on Thursday and charged with attacking law enforcement during a brutal siege on the western side of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Dave Mehaffie of Dayton, Ohio, was known to online investigators as #TunnelCommander because he was issuing orders to members of the mob who were attacking officers during a brutal battle at the lower western terrace entrance to the Capitol. Mehaffie was 86-AFO on the FBI’s Capitol wanted list, meaning he was wanted for assault on a federal officer.
A judge signed an arrest warrant for Mehaffie on Aug. 4 after he was indicted by a grand jury as part of an existing case.
Mehaffie was involved in one of the toughest battles of the Capitol siege. Members of the mob had stormed past police barriers and ascended the scaffolding set up for President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, and were attempting to break into the building. During the “medieval” battle, members of the pro-Trump mob kidnapped D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was repeatedly electroshocked. Rosanne Boyland, a pro-Trump member of the mob, was trampled during the brutal clash. The woman’s brother-in-law said that former President Donald Trump “incited a riot” that killed one of his “biggest fans.”
The arrest of #TunnelCommander is yet another boost for online “Sedition Hunters” who have used open-source information to identify the rioters who took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The open-source work of the online community is a constant presence in court filings, and prosecutors have recently been more explicit about citing their work.
Online people found this asshole like kputz and rrb...
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Al Capone would be cheering for rrb.
Our federal law enforcement was (and still is) such a fucking joke, they had to nail Capone on 'tax evasion.'
LOL.
Watch this alky:
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2021/aug/06/frontline-shadow-911/
It's the story of how the FBI coerced 7 not too bright guys in Miami in a sting operation. Railroaded them.
This August, as the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, approaches, FRONTLINE presents “In The Shadow Of 9/11,” the latest documentary from award-winning director Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”) chronicling a pivotal but often forgotten landmark case from the post-9/11 “War on Terror” for the first time on television as a documentary feature.
Following its world premiere at Sheffield DocFest in June, Reed’s five-years-in-the making documentary examines the domestic terrorism case of the “Liberty City Seven” — a group of Black men from Miami accused of planning an al Qaeda plot to blow up U.S. buildings, including Chicago’s Sears Tower.
Their trial marked the U.S. government’s first major post-9/11 domestic counter-terrorism sting. Yet the men had no weapons and never communicated with anyone from al Qaeda.
The documentary goes inside the case and examines this under-reported chapter of 9/11’s legacy — raising questions about the FBI’s tactics, and whether the men posed a legitimate threat to national security.
“This is a cautionary tale… be careful as to how far your undercover agents or your informants push,” says former Department of Justice Counter-Terror chief Mike Mullaney. “The goal is not to take somebody that is not a terrorist and make them a terrorist.”
The FBI are the fucking criminals.
Yossi Gestetner
https://mobile.twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1425546714610499588
The Biden DOJ wants to drag out the clock so that defendants take time-served plea deal or other type of plea deals.
Cernovich
“You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.”
That’s how prosecutors operate. Indict innocent people or overcharge them.
Drag it out, make them bankrupt, maybe “accidentally” kill one of their children in a raid.
Then get a plea deal out of a beaten and broken person.
third world countries do this
and the Biden DOJ and "justice" department
Biden's fool proof plan will work when people do what is sensible and stop doing what makes no sense at all by resisting vaccination and by GOP governors defying local governments by forbidding them to try to protect their precious children by requiring masking in schools.
If children and/or teachers start getting sick in large numbers -- and perhaps some even dying -- there's going to be real political hell to pay, and that is probably a fool proof prediction.
“You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.”
It's ironic really.
The more dangerous domestic terror threat we face in this country is our very own FBI. The Democrat's STASI.
there's going to be real political hell to pay
And there it is. The pederast said the quiet part out loud. From day fucking 1 the left has politicized covid. Thanks for the confirmation, pederast.
Jim Geraghty
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1425464390246146051
This is an ominous indicator for northern states, because as autumn advances, outdoor temperatures will get colder, and people will spend more time indoors where it’s warmer.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-air-conditioning-covid-19-wave/
John Hayward
Months after destroying our society and economy with lockdowns, we finally admit they were the absolutely worst thing that could possibly have been done with a virus that spreads like Covid does. Who could have guessed fresh air, sunshine, and exercise were healthy?
Thanks Fauci and Birx
this is on you idiots
and now on Biden
It's ironic really.
The more dangerous domestic terror threat we face in this country is our very own FBI. The Democrat's STASI.
And evident from what they did to Trump from the moment he went down the escalator
And now they are diverting to "white supremacists"
While they are the greatest threat, aided by the state media
If there ever was an individual who sought to politicize Covid above all else, it is Donald Jackass Trump.
In regards to the pandemic...
2. Next
But then what? Delta is transmissible enough that once precautions are lifted, most countries “will have a big exit wave,” Adam Kucharski, an infectious-disease modeler at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told me. As vaccination rates rise, those waves will become smaller and more manageable. But herd immunity—the point where enough people are immune that outbreaks automatically fizzle out—likely cannot be reached through vaccination alone. Even at the low end of the CDC’s estimated range for Delta’s R0, achieving herd immunity would require vaccinating more than 90 percent of people, which is highly implausible. At the high end, herd immunity is mathematically impossible with the vaccines we have now.
This means that the “zero COVID” dream of fully stamping out the virus is a fantasy. Instead, the pandemic ends when almost everyone has immunity, preferably because they were vaccinated or alternatively because they were infected and survived. When that happens, the cycle of surges will stop and the pandemic will peter out. The new coronavirus will become endemic—a recurring part of our lives like its four cousins that cause common colds. It will be less of a problem, not because it has changed but because it is no longer novel and people are no longer immunologically vulnerable. Endemicity was always the likely outcome—I wrote as much in March 2020. But likely is now unavoidable. “Before, it still felt possible that a really concerted effort could get us to a place where COVID-19 almost didn’t exist anymore,” Murray told me. “But Delta has changed the game.”
The President Biden probably promised more than he can achieve because the vaccines have become Delta variance and maybe worse.
But getting people vaccinated can save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Debate James?
Why did the PPI go up 1% last month to a "20 year high" and the move by Biden to ask OPEC for more Oil production was interesting.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/delta-has-changed-pandemic-endgame/619726/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Damn, can you imagine having Roger as an employee, excuses is what he does.
🚨(Bloomberg) -- A measure of U.S. financial liquidity whose declines foreshadowed two of the decade’s worst equity routs is flashing alarms even before the Federal Reserve embarks on its planned winding down of asset purchases.🚨
Fun times
U.S. stocks traded mostly flat on Thursday, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 managed to notch intraday records as investors weighed hot inflation readings but improved jobless claims data. Because higher wages will balance inflation rates.
Roger Failed out of College , the reason is clear.
"Because higher wages will balance inflation rates." Roger.
Higher wages drive up ⬆️ inflation.
We have taught you this repeatedly.
The census.
The growth in the American population over the last decade was driven entirely by minority communities, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, as the number of white Americans declined for the first time since the nation's founding.
Non-Hispanic whites make up just under 58 percent of the American population, the first time since the Census was first conducted that they have fallen under the 60 percent mark. By contrast, the 2000 Census showed non-Hispanic whites made up just over 69 percent of the population, and 63.7 percent in 2010.
Hispanic or Latino Americans have grown steadily to 62.1 million, or 18.7 percent of the population, up from 12.6 percent in 2000 and 16.4 percent in the 2010 count. Asian Americans grew faster than any other minority group in the last decade, to 24 million, up about 20 percent since 2010.
The breakup by others said that it's not bad for the Democrats.
The sunburn population density up.
Even though a lot of the Hispanic voters have voted for Republicans, but the Asian population has increased significantly.
And because Trump called it the Chinese virus it's going to hurt the Republicans, mainly they turnout in high percentages
Because higher wages will balance inflation rates.
LOL.
You dumb fuck.
Inflation is the CAUSE of higher wages. That, and the fact that Uncle Sugar is paying people to stay home and jerk off.
Run Forrest Roger.
"Companies charge more for their goods to pay higher wages, and the higher wages also increase the price of goods in the broader market. ... The percentage increase of the wages and prices and their overall effect on the market are key factors driving inflation in the economy.
https://www.investopedia.com › terms
Wage Push Inflation - Investopedia"
Roger clocks in again a spectacular fail.
He didn't lie, he just simply does not know.
Higher wages are a small factor.
If the Fed does the right thing the wage increase will get this!
This may be the Democrats' last chance to recover working-class Whites
Analysis by Ronald Brownstein
Aug 9, 2021
(CNN) - The blue-collar barricade looms as the most stubborn obstacle to President Joe Biden enlarging his base of support.
As both candidate and president, Biden has devoted enormous effort to regaining ground with working-class voters, particularly the White voters without college degrees who have drifted away from the Democrats since the 1970s.
But in the campaign, he improved on Hillary Clinton's anemic 2016 performance with those voters only modestly. And in office, an array of recent polls show he's failed to increase his approval rating with those non-college-educated White voters much, if at all, beyond the roughly one-third of them who he attracted last November -- even though he's aimed much of his rhetoric and presidential travel at them and formulated an agenda that would shower them with new government benefits.
Biden's small gains with these voters last fall still helped him tip the critical Rust Belt battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and many Democrats say that any progress with them will be critical to the party's electoral fortunes in 2022 and 2024.
"The key is you have a president who is speaking to them and fighting for them, non-college-educated voters of all races," says John Anzalone, who served as a lead pollster for Biden during the campaign. "I think he has their attention, and that's what is really important for the future, whether the 2022 election or 2024."
But the continuing resistance confronting even Biden -- a 78-year-old White Catholic who highlights his working-class roots at every turn -- underscores the challenge an increasingly diverse and culturally liberal Democratic Party will face in recovering as much support as it attracted from these voters as recently as in Barack Obama's two campaigns.
It may be too strong to say Biden represents the Democrats' last chance to restore their competitiveness with working-class White voters. But it seems likely that if he can't do so, there are few others in the Democrats' next generation of emerging leaders who have a better chance.
"I don't see people on the horizon" who could do better for Democrats, says David Kochel, a Republican consultant based in Iowa, one of the heartland states where the rightward shift of working-class Whites, especially those in rural and exurban communities, has decisively tipped the partisan balance toward the GOP.
Losing blue-collar Whites
Working-class White voters constituted the bedrock of the Democratic coalition from the 1930s to the 1960s but the party has lost ground among them, largely because of issues relating to race and culture, in the half century since. For almost as long, the party has debated how much emphasis to place on recapturing those voters.
Biden routinely calls his economic agenda a "blue-collar blueprint to build America" and his proposals would shower working-class voters of all races with a wide array of new government benefits. The $1.9 trillion stimulus plan included direct $1,400 payments and a vastly expanded tax credit for families with children that benefited almost all voters without a college education. The bipartisan infrastructure plan expected to receive Senate approval Tuesday is centered on blue-collar jobs rebuilding roads, bridges and water systems. The follow-on $3.5 trillion human capital budget bill Democrats plan to advance this week offers working-class families increased subsidies for health insurance and child care, guaranteed paid family leave, expanded Medicare benefits and, for their children, access to universal preschool and two years of free community college. Some experts have described the cumulative package as the largest expansion of direct government assistance to working families since Social Security during the New Deal.
But so far, Biden has very little to show for it in terms of improved approval among White working-class voters. In the latest Gallup Poll for July, his approval rating among Whites without college degrees stood at 34%; he's exceeded 38% among them in only one of Gallup's monthly surveys. Surveys released over the last few weeks by Monmouth and Quinnipiac universities, as well as an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, likewise put his approval with those voters at just 32-34%. (Another Marist poll showed him at 37%.) In each case, his approval rating among those non-college-educated White voters was about 20 percentage points less than his standing among White voters with college degrees.
With approval from roughly one-third of working-class Whites, Biden's support now remains essentially unchanged from his vote among them last November: The major data sources (including the network exit polls conducted by Edison Research, the academic Cooperative Election Study and the Pew Research Center's validated voters study) all showed him winning almost exactly one-third of them. In each case, that was only slightly better than Clinton's performance in 2016, when most of the data sources showed her winning just under 3 in 10 of those voters. Biden's performance also remained well below the roughly 40% of these voters that Democrats won in each presidential race from 1988 to 2008, according to the exit polls.
Previously unpublished details on the 2020 results provided to me by each of those sources offer a more nuanced picture of Biden's performance. Democratic analysts who believe the party must continue emphasizing blue-collar White voters often argue that the Democrats' weakness with them is exaggerated by the large number of culturally conservative evangelical Christians in their ranks. And indeed, the previously unpublished results provided to me from the exit polls, the Cooperative Election Study and Pew all show that Biden lost non-college-educated White voters who identify as evangelical Christians by an even larger margin than Clinton did: All three of those sources showed Donald Trump winning about 85% or more of those voters, up from around 80% in 2016. Trump's support among White non-college evangelicals reached about 90% in Southern states such as Georgia, Texas and North Carolina, according to the exit polls.
By contrast, each of those three studies showed Biden improving over Clinton among the non-college White voters who are not evangelical Christians. Even so, all three studies still showed him losing those non-evangelical blue-collar Whites to Trump and winning only 42% to 47% of them. Comparing each study with its own 2016 results, only in Pew's did Biden significantly improve over Clinton's performance with them.
How crucial are they for Democrats?
For many liberal analysts, the big takeaway in these results is that Biden has made such marginal gains with blue-collar Whites as a candidate and as President.
"
All of the obsessing over a 3% uptick in White non-college polling numbers [for Biden] misses the larger and more important reality: There is a ceiling for Democrats [with them] so long as they are seen as the party affiliated with people of color. Are we really supposed to get excited over 32% support instead of Clinton's 29%?" says Phillips, author of the upcoming book "How We Win the Civil War." "Isn't the dominant, and consistent, reality the nonsupport?"
While Biden has framed his public identity around courting blue-collar Whites, Phillips says, the party would be better served by investing more "in efforts to increase turnout of people of color" especially across the Sun Belt; focusing more on causes that energize young people (including racial justice and climate change); and redirecting "some of the millions of dollars spent on research and data analysis on trying to better understand how to increase White support for racial justice instead of the current practice of seeking magic words for Democratic candidates by downplaying any connection to people of color."
Prices are declining as the economy grows more rapidly than in history, won't matter
"Roger AmickAugust 12, 2021 at 2:12 PM
Prices are declining as the economy grows more rapidly than in history, won't matter"
Wrong, thing is you know you are wrong.
ppi is up 1% and to the highest point in 20 years.
Genève Campbell
https://twitter.com/bergerbell/status/1425465136672919552
The US panic about covid and kids—something unique, unfolding here unlike anywhere else in the world—is a mass hysteria.
I’m sorry, but the Democratic Party is the party of delusional mass hysteria right now. Full stop, that’s what it is. It’s QAnon-level alternative reality.
I say this as a lifelong progressive Democrat who has never voted for a Republican in my life.
Fuck, this was my Facebook profile picture throughout the primaries:
(image)
The Discourse, the media, the opinions, the emotion. This is culture-bound, this hyper-dichotomized reaction. We are the outliers here, and it’s not because everyone else on the planet is deluded.
Getting a lot of “erm this is uh Bad Take” or “child killer Karen says wat???” or “siding with the fascists now are we lady!” so if you’re here by means of one of those, please know you’re far from alone here. It just feels that way amidst the endless shame-y emotional appeals.
________________________
Democrat women are getting it
especially those with families
huge potential Republican pickups
the California recall could be a real eye-opener
or not
they run fake elections...
It's not like the end of the Vietnam war and the helicopters flying people out of Saigon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending in an additional 3,000 troops to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, officials said Thursday.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the Army and Marine forces will enter Afghanistan within the next two days to assist at the Kabul airport with the partial embassy evacuation.
The decision to reduce staffing levels at the embassy was announced by State Department spokesman Ned Price, who said diplomatic work will continue at the embassy.
Biden FUBAR.
Thanks Roger.
Republicans Are Fast Becoming the Face of Delta Surge
August 12, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Washington Post:
“In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott
has banned local governments from implementing mask requirements even as he pleads for emergency medical help in combating a surge in coronavirus cases from the delta variant.
"In South Dakota, Gov. Kristi L. Noem
welcomed hundreds of thousands of revelers to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally that last year bore characteristics of a superspreader event for the virus.
“And in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis
is waging war on school districts seeking to defy his executive order prohibiting mask mandates for students — while the state sees its rates of hospitalization from covid surge past the worst levels of 2020.
“The three Republican governors
— all frequently mentioned as potential presidential candidates in 2024
— are at the vanguard of GOP resistance to public-health mandates aimed at stemming the tide of the delta variant,
which has caused a new spike in coronavirus cases as the country attempts to reopen schools, restaurants and other businesses.”
FLIP OPEN THE HEAD OF TODAY'S GOP. LOOK INSIDE.
CAN YOU FIND A BRAIN ANYWHERE IN THERE?
I have to confess, James New Leaf's posts are intellectually far superior and cleverer than mine. He sets a bar impossible for me to beat.
I have to confess, James New Leaf's posts are intellectually far superior and cleverer than mine. He sets a bar impossible for me to beat.
Thank you, F'n.
Judges Block Arrests of Texas House Democrats
August 12, 2021 at 3:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Texas Tribune:
“Three state district judges in Houston have signed orders to temporarily protect more than 40 Texas Democrats from civil arrest for being absent from the state House.”
Donald’s Plot Against America
August 12, 2021 at 3:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Mary Trump:
“The Republicans haven’t lost their way. They have, instead, found it. And it has led them straight toward unabashed white supremacy and fascism.”
Fascism:
Rule by wealthy and powerful oligarchs who give lip service to democratic values but practice deceit and dictatorship.
Blogger JamesNewLeaf said...
Fascism:
Rule by wealthy and powerful oligarchs who give lip service to democratic values but practice deceit and dictatorship.
So... Facebook, Twitter and Google.
What about them pederast?
Not the same.
And if you really believed I was a pederast,
you'd initiate court action against me.
Bill Gates Pledges $1.5 Billion Towards Infrastructure
August 12, 2021 at 4:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Bill Gates
told the Wall Street Journal he would spend $1.5 billion over three years on infrastructure projects aimed at slowing the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change.
However, he will likely shift funding for the biggest projects to Europe and Asia instead if the bipartisan infrastructure package doesn’t become law.
U.S. Jobless Claims Near Pandemic Low
August 12, 2021 at 4:07 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Associated Press:
“The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell for a third straight time last week, the latest sign that employers are laying off fewer people as they struggle to fill a record number of open jobs and meet a surge in consumer demand. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
“A total of about 12 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, down sharply from the previous week’s figure of nearly 13 million… So far at least, there has been little sign that the delta variant has depressed hiring or prompted layoffs.”
The Case Against Crisis-Mongering
August 12, 2021 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Matt Yglesias:
“A lot of liberals look at the crisis-mongering insanity from the left and right and say to themselves that we are living through a crisis of liberalism, but I don’t think that’s really true either.
“I would say that we are living through some problems that are both serious and difficult, but not necessarily any more serious or more difficult than the problems of the past, and certainly not serious in a way that should cause one to doubt the basic tenets of liberalism.
"And then on top of that, we are living through some pretty ordinary political contestation that, as is inevitable in the course of things, involves some people going overboard at times.”
Judges Block Arrests of Texas House Democrats
August 12, 2021 at 3:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 28
Texas Tribune:
“Three state district judges in Houston have signed orders to temporarily protect more than 40 Texas Democrats from civil arrest for being absent from the state House.”
I see the lying POS "pastor" James Boswell of Normal Illinois is real proud he hasn't been officially caught being a pedophile.
No one has charged him yet and he has not been convicted
But his actions here are sure not of an innocent "pastor"
He thinks he is clever
Just a piece of shit
as to him being a "pastor"
*spit*
Go fuck yourself "reverend" as CHT like to call you
you are a piece of shit
turd to be exact
Revolver One Ups New York Times With Accurate Jan 6th Reporting On George Tanios — He’s Now Out on Bond
Earlier this week an appeals court overturned the district court’s ruling that 1/6 defendant George Tanios be detained without bond, noting that the D.C. district court “clearly erred” in its assessment that Tanios posed a danger to the community.
A West Virginia man charged in the assault of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after defending the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, can be released on bond while he awaits trial, a federal appeals court ruled.
The district court erred in assessing the danger posed by George Tanios, according to the appellate ruling issued Monday.
“The record reflects that Tanios has no past felony convictions, no ties to any extremist organizations, and no post-January 6 criminal behavior that would otherwise show him to pose a danger to the community within the meaning of the Bail Reform Act,” the ruling said. [WTAE]
Revolver News has been following George Tanios’ tragic and shameful mistreatment for months now. Tanios, a 39 year old sandwich shop owner from West Virginia, attended the January 6 protests along with a childhood friend Julian Khater, who runs a smoothie shop. Tanios allegedly was carrying bear spray in his backpack to protect against Antifa and other elements. When a melee involving Capitol Police officers erupted, Khater allegedly asked Tanios for “that bear sh*t” to which Tanios replied “no, no, not yet, it’s too early.” At a later time, Khater allegedly took the bear spray out of Tanios’ bag, used the spray, and the spray allegedly hit a few Capitol officers.
For responding “No, no, not yet, it’s too early” when Khater asked him for the spray, Tanios was charged mid-March with multiple counts of assault on an officer with a dangerous weapon and faces up to 60 years in prison. If 60 years — more than most people get for first degree murder — seems like a ridiculous sentence for Tanios, it gets even more outrageous when we recall the full context of these charges.
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While Revolver is glad that Tanios is finally allowed out on bond, the charges filed against him remain unspeakably absurd and unconscionably unjust. He faces 60 years in prison for saying “no, no, not yet” when his friend reached into his bag to grab bear spray. And it turns out Officer Sicknick wasn’t even sprayed with bear spray, and there is no evidence whatsoever of Khater using any spray of any kind.
Apart from the utter injustice of Tanios’ detention and indictment, the above analysis ought to remove any doubt as to the acuteness and accuracy of Revolver News’ investigative capacity. There’s a reason the Regime Media and its allies in the Biden Administration would do anything to stop our reporting, in particular our ongoing investigation into possible Federal foreknowledge and involvement in the 1/6 operation.
We take pride in their scorn and draw motivation from their endless efforts to silence us. Our investigation into the full truth behind the events of 1/6 is just beginning.
With vindication after vindication, our biggest investigative work is yet to come. Stay tuned.
full story
https://www.revolver.news/2021/08/revolver-jan-6-george-tanios-appeal/
So a biggie gets out
Everyone should
Fake insurrection
Fake justice
Fake president
Fake "pastor"
Darren J. Beattie
https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1425824426885455884
It's great that 1/6 defendant George Tanios is finally allowed bond, but the case against him should be tossed entirely
Revolver News utterly humiliates New York Times unravelling this tangle of thorns
FAKE NEWS NYT
I remember not too long ago in which the GOP was actually conservative and cared about the nation......!!!!!!! Fucking Daddy is the new norm of the right....moronic idiots with my shit don't stink attitude and hating everything but old white men!!!!!!! Wasn't the Charlottesville anniversary on this date or you white boys forgot about that riot for bigotry???
Insider Paper
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1425923875548897283
JUST IN - Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has been asked to resign by US Sec of State Blinken and Secretary of Defense Austin (via: @CameliaFard)
WTF could the Biden administration get any more fucked up ???
Brit Hume
https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1425885893706063877
The Biden administration is threatening to deny the Taliban diplomatic recognition as a way to halt the rout in Afghanistan. State Dept. says the "international community" won't recognize them either. Boy, that ought to stop the Taliban in its tracks.
Who the fuck is running our foreign policy
some WOKE idiot
or are they all out attending some new propaganda class ???
RNC Research
VIDEO of BIDEN LYING:
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1425915220720029702
Does the border crisis sound “under control” like Biden said?
*Border apprehensions at 21-year high
*Inhumane conditions in overcrowded facilities
*A spike in COVID cases
*Unaccompanied minor apprehensions at all-time high
It's skyrocketed since then
a crisis on steroids
Bill Melugin
https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1425878229353594882
BREAKING: 212,672 migrants were encountered at our Southern border during the month of July, a 13% increase over June (188,829) which was a 20 year record in itself. The numbers have gone up every single month President Biden has been in office. July is new 20 year record.
Biden said it was under control
Forty percent of migrants released in Texas border city test positive for COVID-19, officials say
AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Laredo, Texas, has refused to take in migrants who have been bused in from elsewhere on the border after discovering 40% of them tested positive for the coronavirus, according to two local government officials.
“That was very high,” Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz said in an interview, referring to the infection rate among migrants dropped off by the Border Patrol last week. Laredo health authority, Dr. Victor Trevino, confirmed the numbers.
The 40% infection rate is the highest known positivity rate along the U.S.-Mexico border. Last week, McAllen, Texas, reported a 15% positivity rate among migrants released from custody.
Concerned that migrants arriving in Laredo would further strain hospital resources, Laredo officials contracted private bus companies to transport migrants arriving from the Rio Grande Valley to larger cities across the state. By not admitting migrants on the McAllen buses, the city is not required to test them for the coronavirus and could forward the families elsewhere. Those who test positive cannot travel and must be quarantined for 10 days, a situation Saenz wanted to evade to avoid migrant overflow.
TEXAS BORDER TOWN STRUGGLES UNDER SURGE OF MIGRANT FAMILIES AND COVID-19
Since late spring, Border Patrol officials in the Rio Grande Valley region have transported thousands of migrant families to Laredo because shelters were less inundated than those in McAllen. Migrants were immediately tested at the shelter upon being admitted. In that time, coronavirus positivity rates among migrants arriving in Laredo rose from 4% in April to 40% in August.
Laredo does not have a pediatric intensive care unit. With several families arriving in Laredo recently, city officials worried young children would not get emergency care if they were forced to quarantine.
This past week, the city began busing migrants on to Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Laredo selected those three cities because they were among the top places migrants planned to go after crossing the border.
The extended bus rides are free to migrants, and the city is picking up the cost, up to $10,000 per day. Saenz expects to be reimbursed by the federal government.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/texas-city-officials-40-of-migrants-test-positive-for-covid-19
Covid, the border, inflation, debt, Afghanistan, China, etc etc etc
we are fucked
thanks Biden
Exactly what I have been saying for a long time......as the GOP does everything they can to stay in power with voter suppression and new impediments!!!!!
Caitlin Dickson·Reporter
Thu, August 12, 2021, 3:43 PM
Newly released census data shows that the United States has become more diverse over the last decade, while the white population is on the decline.
The 2020 census found that white people still make up the country’s largest racial or ethnic group, with a total of 235.4 million identifying either as white alone or in combination with another group. However, the population of people who identify as white alone has decreased by 8.6 percent since 2010.
Great leadership by the GOP of the deniers south!!!!!
Yahoo News
Florida and Texas account for nearly 40% of new coronavirus hospitalizations
Alexander Nazaryan
Alexander Nazaryan·National Correspondent
Thu, August 12, 2021, 2:30 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Of new hospitalizations for coronavirus-related illness, nearly 40 percent are in Florida and Texas, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients revealed during a Thursday press briefing.
Cases have been rising in both states, and the attendant rise in hospitalizations is not a surprise. But it is concerning, because only people with serious and potentially life-threatening illness require hospitalization. Hospitals in central Florida are reporting 30 children hospitalized, six of them requiring intensive care. And in Houston, a public health official warned earlier this week that if the current surge continues, “there is no way my hospital is going to be able to handle this.”
Zients said that the situation in Florida was especially dire, with that state alone accounting for more cases than the 30 states with the lowest infection rates combined. Public health officials have called the new coronavirus surge, driven by the hypercontagious Delta variant, a “pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
Texas and Florida both have vaccination rates (44.7 percent and 49.8 percent, respectively) that are far too low to halt community transmission of the virus. For that to occur, some 80 percent of a population would have to be vaccinated.
I just looked at the short video provided above for the thread article. I didn't see anyone breaking out windows or pushing through doors or throwing objects at police.
Just shouting and chanting and waving signs.
Seems like a pretty good example of a peaceful protest.
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CORONAVIRUS
Higher vaccination rates in Texas and Florida could've saved 4,700 lives, study finds
Epidemiologists used hospitalization rates from highly vaccinated states like Connecticut and Vermont to calculate excess deaths in Texas and Florida.
Medical staff members zip up a body bag containing a deceased patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on Dec. 6, in Houston.Go Nakamura / Getty Images file
Aug. 12, 2021, 2:21 PM PDT / Updated Aug. 12, 2021, 5:04 PM PDT
By Tim Fitzsimons
More than 4,700 lives lost to Covid-19 in Florida and Texas could have been saved if those states had higher vaccination rates, according to a study released on Thursday.
The study from the Commonwealth Fund, a private health care endowment, was conducted by an international team of epidemiologists and data scientists. The analysis compared the Covid hospitalization and death rates of a group of states like Vermont and Connecticut, which had fully vaccinated roughly 3 in 4 adults on average, with those of Florida and Texas, where roughly 1 in 2 adults are fully vaccinated.
Houston hospitals need more staff as number of Covid patients grows
"Outbreaks are predominantly affecting states that have relatively low vaccination coverage, with nearly a third of recent cases occurring in Florida and Texas," the researchers wrote, warning that the highly infectious delta variant would only worsen matters.
The estimated toll: Higher vaccination rates in these two states could have prevented more than 70,000 hospitalizations and 4,700 deaths by the end of July.
"We found that enhanced vaccination would have markedly curbed the rise of cases in Florida and Texas — averting more than 460,000 cases. Since the start of vaccination on Dec. 12, 2020, until July 31, 2021, Florida and Texas have reported more than 1.5 million and 1.7 million cases, respectively," the researchers wrote. "Achieving 74 percent vaccination coverage by July 31, 2021, could have reduced the case count to approximately 1.3 million cases in Florida and 1.5 million cases in Texas."
The study said more than 7 million Florida residents and 9 million Texas residents who are eligible for the vaccination remain unvaccinated, and many of them are in danger.
"If estimates through the end of July hold true, many of these people will suffer through hospitalizations, and some will likely die — making more rigorous vaccination campaigns in those states all the more imperative," they concluded.
Pratha Sah, a Yale researcher who contributed to the study, told NBC News in a statement "the U.S. has entered another wave of COVID-19 pandemic driven by the Delta variant."
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"The vaccines authorized in the US are effective at preventing severe disease and hospitalizations against the Delta variant. It is therefore not surprising that there is a clear correlation between vaccination coverage and viral transmission level across the states in the US," Sah wrote.
"Accelerating vaccination coverage is critical to combat the current COVID-19 wave driven by the Delta variant and potentially other looming variants in the future," she continued.
As cases surge across the country, experts told NBC News this delta-variant-driven rise was "completely preventable" and warned it will get worse before it gets better, with the return of long testing lines and dwindling intensive care unit beds in hard-hit Southern states.
In Florida, amid heated debate over requiring masks for children as classes are set to resume within days, the federal government this week sent hundreds of ventilators to help the state respond to its record number of Covid hospitalizations.
Covid Kills 4 Teachers In One Day In Same School District
August 13, 2021 at 7:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Four Florida teachers
working in the same school district died of COVID-19 within one day of each other this week, CBS Miami reports.
Three of the teachers were unvaccinated and the vaccination status of the fourth was unknown.
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