June 9, 2020

Protesters across US attacked by cars driven into crowds and men with guns

The Movement for Equality is driving the Extreme White Crazy. They want to kill us all.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/protests-us-america-cars-weapons?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlVUy0yMDA2MDk%3D&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS

June 9, 2020

Labor Unions Endorsing Biden - Scroll Down to see the One Endorsing Trump. Surprised? Nope

Biden Labor Union Support
AFL–CIO, representing 13 million
Amalgamated Transit Union, representing 200,000
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, representing 1.3 million
American Federation of Teachers, representing 1.7 million
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, representing over 140,000
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers, representing 130,000
International Association of Fire Fighters, representing 313,000
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, representing 570,000
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, representing 725,000
International Longshoremen's Association, representing 65,000
National Association of Government Employees, representing over 100,000
National Education Association, representing 3 million
Transport Workers Union of America, representing 151,000
United Autoworkers, representing 390,000
United Food and Commercial Workers, representing 1.3 million
United Steelworkers, representing 1,200,000
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, representing 20,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joe_Biden_2020_presidential_campaign_endorsements#Labor_unions

The Only Labor Union Supporting Trump
International Union of Police Associations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_2020_presidential_campaign_endorsements#Organizations

June 8, 2020

White House is considering a Trump speech to the nation on race and unity

I can see it now. Trump at the podium with a flame thrower instead of a microphone.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-is-considering-a-trump-speech-to-the-nation-on-race-and-unity/ar-BB15auMN?ocid=msedgntp

June 8, 2020

"On Monday, June 8th, two weeks after the the murder of George Floyd,

the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is calling for a Moral Monday National Day of Fasting and Focus, which will culminate at 5:00 PM ET when we are asking people to stop where you are for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in silence in honor of the time George Floyd had the literal knee of the state on his neck."

Please join us if you can.

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/national-day-of-fasting-and-focus/

June 1, 2020

Trump says invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act, which permits a president to deploy military inside

"As we speak, I am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property," he said. "We will end it now."

He called on governors to use their National Guard units to "dominate the streets" and said he would deploy the active duty military if governors failed to use the National Guard more forcefully.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/national-guard-troops-deployed-white-house-trump-calls/story?id=71004151

May 31, 2020

Trump Justice Department Killed Police Reform Programs That Could Have Helped Minneapolis

Snip

"Since President Donald Trump took office, his appointees at the Justice Department have all but eliminated the federal government’s police reform work.

The Civil Rights Division’s police practices group has shrunk by half, and it hasn’t opened any major pattern-or-practice investigations that could rein in police departments that regularly violate constitutional rights. "

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-doj-police-reform-minneapolis-protests_n_5ed11aa0c5b6228cdfe1b4cf?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&utm_source=politics_fb&section=politics&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&fbclid=IwAR2-IGNv0WQXYOBp6LO4mUiJgcr6suG6nOnkpYgL--ilFSm6npEPdFfjzJQ

May 28, 2020

Trump to sign executive order on social-media companies on Thursday

Source: MarketWatch

President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on social-media companies Thursday, escalating his war on Twitter Inc., although it remains unclear what it will entail.

A White House spokesperson confirmed the order late Wednesday, a day after Twitter TWTR, -2.76% issued its first fact-checking warning label to some of his tweets.

In a series of tweets Wednesday, Trump threatened to “regulate” or even “close” social-media platforms. Legal experts scoffed at the president’s ability to moderate f social-media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook Inc. FB, -1.31% and Snap Inc. SNAP, -2.35% .

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Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-companies-on-thursday-2020-05-27?mod=newsviewer_click

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What are your thoughts? First Twitter....then all of media? What?

May 22, 2020

Montgomery, Alabama hit hard by Covid19 after being open for the last 10 days.

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Major hospitals in the Montgomery area have run out of ICU beds, Mayor Steven Reed said at a news conference Wednesday, while others only one or two beds left.
Patients in need of care are now instead being sent 90 miles away to Birmingham, Alabama, the mayor said, a step the city hasn’t had to take until now.

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May 21, 2020

The United States has fallen to 25th place in the Democracy Index

SNIP

"The highly partisan nature of Washington politics has contributed to this trend. Republicans and Democrats are increasingly seen as being focused on blocking each other’s agenda, to the detriment of policymaking. This trend has worsened under the current administration. Rising partisan tensions have left Congress in a stalemate: the passage of the revised US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was the only piece of major legislation to get through the divided legislature in 2019. Mr Trump has not been the dealmaker he had boasted he would be, at least not on the domestic front. His response to the consistent hostility of the opposition to his presidency from day one has been to go on the offensive and up the ante. He has been deliberately provocative in an effort to rally his political and voter base, particularly on issues such as immigration and security."

Here's a link to the white paper by The Economist
www.eiu.com/Handlers/WhitepaperHandler.ashx?fi=Democracy-Index-2019.pdf&mode=wp&campaignid=democracyindex2019

May 20, 2020

Whatever happened to First, Do No Harm? "Trump Allies Lining Up Doctors to Prescribe Rapid Opening"

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“Anybody who joins one of our coalitions is vetted,” Murtaugh said Monday. “And so quite obviously, all of our coalitions espouse policies and say things that are, of course, exactly simpatico with what the president believes. ... The president has been outspoken about the fact that he wants to get the country back open as soon as possible.”

https://apnews.com/4ee1a3a8d631b454f645b2a8d9597de7

So now he's got members of the medical profession going against medical advice?