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StrictlyRockers's JournalUSPS Board Chairman Revealed as Director of Mitch McConnell, Trump-Linked Super PACs
Source: TruthOut
USPS Board Chairman Revealed as Director of Mitch McConnell, Trump-Linked Super PACs
The United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors Chairman, Robert M. Duncan, is a director of the Mitch McConnell-allied Senate Leadership Fund Super PAC, as paperwork filed Monday confirmed. The ties between Duncan and McConnell deepen concerns about the integrity of what will likely be an election largely conducted with mail-in ballots, which has also been complicated by issues with a Republican-led gutting of the USPS.
Duncan’s ties to the $130 million Senate Leadership Fund is just one of the chairman’s ties to prominent Republicans. Moreover, nearly all of the people on the Trump-nominated USPS board of governors have ties to the Trump administration.
The Postal Services’ board of governors is tasked with overseeing the USPS and “directs the exercise of the powers of the Postal Service, directs and controls its expenditures, reviews its practices, conducts long-range planning, approves officer compensation and sets policies on all postal matters,” according to the USPS website. <...>
Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/usps-board-chairman-revealed-as-director-of-mcconnell-trump-linked-super-pacs/
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300581052314824705?s=20
Trump Is an Arsonist Masquerading As a Firefighter
Trump Is an Arsonist Masquerading As a FirefighterPresident Trump’s fingerprints are all over the wave of deadly escalation that has gripped cities already coping with unrest. From Portland to Kenosha, Wisconsin, the White House has come to a cynical conclusion: violence in the streets is good for Trump’s reelection odds, allowing him to cast Democrat-governed cities as incubators of chaos and harbingers of what a Biden victory would bring. Whether this is true remains unsettled; that these clashes are happening while Trump himself is president would seem to pose a messaging dilemma for the campaign. But the perverse incentive structure induced by his campaign’s calculation means that there’s little reason to actually attempt to ease tensions. Now, the president plans to travel to Kenosha on Tuesday, despite the recent killings committed by one of his supporters there and a body of evidence that his politicization of the clashes makes matters more contentious on the ground, not less.
On August 25, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha from his home in Antioch, Illinois, and shot three people, killing two. The precise circumstances surrounding the shootings are still being determined, but Rittenhouse appears to have joined a loose agglomeration of armed militia members who took it on themselves to patrol the streets that night — the third following the August 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black local, by Kenosha police. Video footage and eyewitness accounts suggest that Rittenhouse shot one protester and then two more who tried to subdue him. His presence had been welcomed by local law enforcement: officers were seen handing Rittenhouse and other militia members bottles of water and thanking them for their presence shortly before the teenager opened fire. Police Chief Daniel Miskinis blamed the protesters’ deaths on their disregard for his curfew, an assertion he later walked back.
But perhaps the most remarkable response came from conservative media and the president himself, at whose January 30 Des Moines rally Rittenhouse was spotted. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson remarked, “How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?” On August 28, Trump liked a tweet thread by journalist Tim Pool lamenting the unrest in Wisconsin and subsequent demonization of Rittenhouse — ”[Some] kid from a nearby town … decides to go up and protect businesses and offer medical support o [sic] people, even the rioters. He was threatened and shot at. Now the media is saying … the extremists are the good guys” — and citing them as reasons why he voted for Trump.
These responses preceded an intense social media blitz from the president this weekend against the mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler. “Portland is a mess, and it has been for many years,” Trump added on Monday morning. “If this joke of a mayor doesn’t clean it up, we will go in and do it for them!” In fact, the previous iteration of this threat is why Portland’s protests have intensified. After George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police in May, Portland joined hundreds of other American cities in hosting demonstrations, which stretched into the weeks that followed. Though the protests had mellowed by July, Trump saw his polling numbers in a tailspin and “seized a chance to appear as a field general in a wider American cultural conflict,” according to the Washington Post. He deployed fatigue-clad federal agents to the city to snatch protesters off the streets and blanket them with teargas, against the stated wishes of local officials, who were already doing much of the same using local police. The president’s incursion had a greater escalating effect, though, causing the protests to explode in size, expand to other cities, and prompt renewed clashes between police and dissidents, which remain ongoing. It culminated in a deadly shootout during a pro-Trump rally on Saturday. A caravan of trucks waving flags bearing the president’s name, the protofascist “thin blue line” banner, and, in at least once instance, the navy jack that has become today’s most recognizable Confederate emblem, plowed through the city firing paintball pellets at protesters. Real gunfire erupted and a member of Patriot Prayer, a far-right group characterized by its brutal extremism and participation in street brawls, was killed. Trump once again rationalized the violence. “The big backlash going on in Portland cannot be unexpected after 95 days of watching and incompetent Mayor admit that he has no idea what he is doing,” he tweeted on August 30, alongside a video of his supporters shooting pellets at protesters.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/trump-kenosha-visit-heightened-tensions.html
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300578694092615680
Trump hates questions from women!
Wow! The first two questions from women reporters and it's a wrap for that press conference! What an easily triggered snowflake! Trump hates questions from women!
Triggered snowflake alert! He ran so fast! 
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300557773709570048
Trump Calls Armed Terrorists Who Stormed Portland 'Great Patriots,' Completely Ignores Violence
Trump Calls Armed American Terrorists Who Stormed Portland ‘Great Patriots,’ Completely Ignores Their Violent ActionsThe president of American terrorists is doing that thing in which he celebrates violence against American protesters.
On Sunday, the president of people who believe that pajamas are appropriate to wear to Walmart called for federal forces to quell protests in American cities while a group of pickup-driving Trump loyalists, deputized by their whiteness, were captured firing paint and pellet guns at protesters in Portland, Ore. The violence, perpetrated by those who came to a protest armed with pellet and paint guns, ended with one person being shot and killed. “The victim appeared to be a white man who was bearing the insignia of Patriot Prayer, a far-right group in Portland that has regularly been getting in fisticuffs with protestors on the streets.”
Literally a band of white folks went on a “Trump cruise rally” (and no, this was not a normal Trump cruise rally in which old white men go to the Miss Slovakian beauty pageant) where they drove into liberal downtown Portland to incite violence. For weeks, downtown Portland has been the home of protesters against police violence and Trump. The Trumpians came for violence, and in the end, they were applauded by their lord and savior, who called the caravan of haters “GREAT PATRIOTS!” in a tweet.
For the record, the president of people who own pellet and paint guns had nothing to say about the peaceful March on Washington, which happened just days before, because that was calling for his removal from office.
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https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300573844416032773
Trump's popularity slips in latest Military Times poll -- and more troops say they'll vote for Biden
Source: Military Times
The latest Military Times poll shows a continued decline in active-duty service members’ views of President Donald Trump and a slight but significant preference for former Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming November election among troops surveyed.
The results, collected before the political conventions earlier this month, appear to undercut claims from the president that his support among military members is strong thanks to big defense budget increases in recent years and promised moves to draw down troops from overseas conflict zones.
But the Military Times Polls, surveying active-duty troops in partnership with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, have seen a steady drop in troops’ opinion of the commander in chief since his election four years ago.
In the latest results — based on 1,018 active-duty troops surveyed in late July and early August — nearly half of respondents (49.9 percent) had an unfavorable view of the president, compared to about 38 percent who had a favorable view. Questions in the poll had a margin of error of up to 2 percent.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08/31/as-trumps-popularity-slips-in-latest-military-times-poll-more-troops-say-theyll-vote-for-biden/
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300567976358240257
Read more: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/08/31/as-trumps-popularity-slips-in-latest-military-times-poll-more-troops-say-theyll-vote-for-biden/
Trump sounded completely lost today. Like, there's something wrong with the guy..
He seems genuinely lost and confused. Like, seriously. WTF is wrong with him?
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1300554676136411138
Trump defends a man who traveled 30 minutes away with an assault rifle to confront protestors
Donald Trump publicly defends a man who traveled 30 minutes away with an assault rifle to confront protestors.
He killed two people and is charged with first-degree murder. Trump defends him, and his supporters won’t care.
Do you have any shame at all?
https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti/status/1300560594056208388
Antifa isn't killing unarmed black men. They're not the problem.
Why is Trump talking about Antifa nonstop? Antifa isn't killing unarmed black men. They're not the problem. 
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300554109758521346
Trump has to be the whiniest little bitch on the face of the earth.
Are you listening to this psychotic press conference?
He won't stop lying.
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300551965982613505
With Canada and Mexico borders closed, Americans are trapped in their own health care system
With Canada and Mexico borders closed, Americans are trapped in their own health care system(CNN)"Want to hear the joke about insulin?" goes the bleak gag about America's drug prices. "You have to go to Canada to get it."
But even that's not an option anymore.
Pandemic travel restrictions have made Americans prisoners of their country. Even within North America, Mexico and Canada have closed thousands of miles of border to all but essential travel, roiling plans for vacation, work, and school. For cash-strapped Americans, it has also cut off access to medicines and health care services that they can't afford at home -- at a time when money is tighter than ever.
Stephanie Boland's nine-year-old son was diagnosed with diabetes in December. Traveling to Canada to fill his insulin prescription took a half-day's drive from where they live in Brainerd, Minnesota, but it was worth it -- the purchase was a simple, over-the-counter affair. One pack of injection pens, which would last several months, cost less than a hundred dollars, she says, compared to a list price of $530 at home.
As their son's disease began to rewrite the routines of daily life, the Bolands planned to cross into Canada again to restock. Then the pandemic hit.
Boland, a masseuse, was forced to stop working. Her husband, a self-employed financial adviser, found his income hit by pandemic-related turbulence in the markets, too. Then their source for affordable insulin vanished behind a border that had never been closed before in the history of US-Canada relations.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/americas/canada-mexico-borders-insulin-intl/index.html
https://twitter.com/christoq/status/1300535161973387266
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