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June 9, 2020

NY Police Union Boss Rages: 'Stop Treating Us Like Animals and Thugs, and Start Treating Us With Res

Source: Mediaite

The head of New York state’s Police Benevolent Association raged at a Tuesday press conference that the media and state legislators were “vilifying” police “like animals and thugs,” despite police interactions around the country being “overwhelmingly positive.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/news/ny-police-union-boss-rages-stop-treating-us-like-animals-and-thugs-and-start-treating-us-with-respect/



Pressure. Now they know what it feels like to be on the other end. Clean up your house! no one expects cops to be perfect they are human beings. But the bad cops are really rotting all cops. Hospitals do not put up with a few bad surgeons or people die. Same with the police. Weed out the bad apples...all of them. Don't tolerate any. Surgeons have life and death in their hands. So do cops. If surgeons can't get away with being a bad surgeon then neither should a cop!
June 3, 2020

Protesters Take Guillotine to Puerto Rico Governor's Mansion Amid Anger Over Unused Aid

Source: News.com.au

Thousands of protesters rallied in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on January 23 against a government that had allegedly left emergency aid supplies unused despite the deadly earthquake that recently struck the region. This video shows the protesters carrying a full-sized guillotine to the governor’s mansion, also known as La Fortaleza or ‘the fortress’.

Read more: https://www.news.com.au/national/protesters-take-guillotine-to-puerto-rico-governors-mansion-amid-anger-over-unused-aid/video/eb2b315a90d2d1fda6186922a5bfd68d



WHOA! Can you imagine if the marchers set up a guillotine in front of the White House!!! LOL. Trump would crap from here to election day!
June 2, 2020

Sasse Slams Clearing of Protesters for Trump's Church Photo Opportunity

Source: National Review

Sasse said. “Every public servant in America should be lowering the temperature and that means saying two basic truths over and over: (1) police injustice — like the evil murder of George Floyd — is repugnant and merits peaceful protest aimed at change; (2) riots are abhorrent acts of violence that hurt the innocent.

Read more: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/sasse-slams-clearing-of-protesters-for-trumps-church-photo-opportunity/



Trump keeps pushing Republicans. Testing them and their support. Nebraska is as Red State as it gets. That collapsing creaking sound on Trump's base is getting louder by the day.
June 1, 2020

Just an awful devastating ad using Trump's own words

This is so vicious it's way pass Karma

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May 28, 2020

Virus, Heat Wave and Locusts Form Perfect Storm in India

Source: US News and World Reports

As if the coronavirus wasn't enough, India grappled with scorching temperatures and the worst locust invasion in decades as authorities prepared for the end of a monthslong lockdown despite recording thousands of new infections every day.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-05-28/virus-heat-wave-and-locusts-form-perfect-storm-in-india



If Trump and the Republicans were depending on the summer weather to help their election campaigns against the virus, this article will make that thread of hope go bye bye. Record heat in India. virus exploding. oh my.
May 21, 2020

Montgomery hospitals are down to 1 ICU bed and sending patients to Birmingham

Source: Montgomery Advertiser

Hospitals in Montgomery and Prattville have a total of one ICU bed remaining and are now being forced to send acute care patients to Birmingham for treatment.

Read more: https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2020/05/20/montgomery-down-one-icu-bed-sending-virus-patients-birmingham/5227449002/



Deny and deny and deny. Waste the time given to prepare. Scream Hoax!! Until the enemy comes into the backyard and grabs by the throat. So many Trump voters in Alabama. Are they willing to die for Trump and rush out opening??, or wake up. We will see.
May 15, 2020

Large majority of Americans say country lags in testing availability: POLL

Source: ABC News

As more and more states and communities ease restrictions to jumpstart the reopening process, strong majorities believe the country lacks sufficient testing and are also skeptical about returning to pre-pandemic activities, including sending kids back to school, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday finds.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/large-majority-americans-country-lags-testing-availability-poll/story?id=70665319



This poll shows clearly that these states rushing to open up or opening up under court order will not bring back the economy. Democrats almost close to 80% are not willing to participate in day to day activities. Even Republicans even though far less but still over 50% not wanting to proceed back to pre-covid19 activities.

Trump Republicans and his supporters are fighting a losing battle. Only IF or when a vaccine is found the world of May 2019 will never come back. After Trump, pain, mental biological spiritual and physical will be the condition for most of the world billions for many months or many years to come. That reality is starting to sink in on me and it's very sobering.
May 13, 2020

15 states now investigating child illness possibly linked to coronavirus, Cuomo says

Source: CBS News

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that 14 other states are now investigating cases of a mysterious illness appearing in children that is potentially related to the coronavirus. The governor urged parents to "be aware" of the inflammatory syndrome believed to be connected to COVID-19

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kawasaki-disease-16-states-child-illness-coronavirus-cuomo/



This virus is coming after the children now. The virus isn't a person, but it's attacks are vicious cruel and brutal. Truly disturbing developments.
May 12, 2020

American Travelers Are About to Be Pariahs in This New World

Source: Daily Beast

One thing is sure: Gone are the days of the American abroad, at least for those hoping to summer in Europe this year. The new models on how to reopen European travel do not have room for the American tourist for the foreseeable future.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/with-coronavirus-american-travelers-are-about-to-find-out-what-its-like-to-be-the-pariah?ref=scroll



Trump has managed to turn the United States into one of the sh*thole countries he so crassly called African Countries. Americans can't even visit Europe now because of his imbecile incompetence in managing the corona virus. Worst. President. EVER!
May 11, 2020

The dark decade ahead

Source: THE WEEK

The churches all closed. Jets flying overhead. Lunatics banging pots and pans. Masked joggers, masked pizza men, masked dogs awaiting testing; everyone in the park wearing masks; no one masked in a crowd of 30 watching the armored van roll over the discarded grass clippings. A woman beaten by a police officer (off duty, of course) for refusing to wear a mask in a warehouse store. A man spits in the face of a clerk. Alcohol sales increasing by 70 percent or more, and legal dope available for curbside pickup. Standoffs, the stockpiling of weapons, protests and counter-protests with assault rifles in state capitols. The hospitals not overwhelmed but empty and staff let go. Yellow murder tape across merry-go-rounds. Children, neighbors objects of medium-level suspicion at best. Technology not a stopgap or a substitute but a condition for a new conception of bare life. Packages on doorsteps, dropped by unseen and poorly remunerated agents of the world's richest man. Children raped on camera. Domestic assault. A hundred thousand defaults piling up in the portfolio of a single regional bank. Suicide. The end of education. The end of employment. Prophets, of course, everywhere.

Read more: https://theweek.com/articles/913411/dark-decade-ahead



I have been telling everyone that I can talk to for yrs that a country where the foundation is 70% consumer spending is a foundation as flimsy as straw and hay. This pandemic has set the foundation on fire. And I like this writer hope his analysis is wrong. Wow!

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