The Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to compete for the presidency of Latin America’s most important development bank surprised even close allies, exploiting growing political divisions in a region that’s struggling to contain the coronavirus.
The United States on Tuesday launched Mauricio Claver-Carone, a senior adviser to President Trump, as a candidate to head the Washington-based Inter-American Development Bank. While Claver-Carone portrays himself as a breath of fresh air for an institution that has had just four chiefs in six decades, his eventual presidency would also mean breaking a non-written tradition where this key bank is headed by a Latin American.
The Cuban-American’s election is poised to plant a Trump ally in the IDB for the next half decade, even if Trump loses his re-election bid in November. The United States seized the opportunity after Latin America’s three largest economies were unable to agree on a candidate. While Argentina secured the support of Mexico for Gustavo Beliz, an adviser to President Alberto Fernandez, Brazil planned to present its own candidate, former UBS AG and Bank of America executive Rodrigo Xavier.
Despite having a combined 23 percent voting stake in the bank and being historic allies, relations between Brazil and Argentina have deteriorated in recent months amid an ideological clash between Fernandez’s left-wing coalition and the hard-right administration of President Jair Bolsonaro. Fernandez, who assumed power in December, still hasn’t had a single known phone conversation with his Brazilian counterpart.
“There’s a lack of union within Latin America,” said Veronica Ortiz, chief executive officer of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations in Mexico City. “That makes consensus difficult and created a window of opportunity for Trump. We’ve seen Trump, who is a big skeptic of multilateral organizations, trying to get people ideologically closer to him into some of these spaces.”
That $liver of a crack is going to $wiftly clo$e.
After the Treasury Department nominated Claver-Carone, Ecuador and Paraguay announced their support on Tuesday night, and were followed by Colombia, Honduras, and Uruguay on Wednesday. Argentina and Mexico stand by their plan to back Beliz, according to people familiar with their plans, yet Beliz’s candidacy now looks unlikely to take off. America’s 30 percent voting power at the bank and a stipulation that the president must be elected with the participation of at least 75 percent of shareholders gives the United States a de facto veto over the process.
The governments of Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina didn’t know in advance about the US plan to nominate Claver-Carone, according to people familiar with the process.
In a terse joint statement, Brazil’s economy and foreign affairs ministries said Wednesday the country received positively the announcement of a US candidacy, which shows the US government is “firmly committed with the future of the IDB,” but the country was expecting to get US backing for Xavier, according to two people familiar with the matter. Brazil’s statement didn’t explicitly state whether the nation will support Claver-Carone.
Oliver Stuenkel, a professor of international relations at Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo, wrote in a tweet that Trump’s decision was a “slap in the face” for Bolsonaro, showing that Brazil’s candidacy wasn’t taken seriously.....
He hit one of the world's heroes, huh?
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Related:
"European countries are slamming the Trump administration’s withdrawal from negotiations over a major tax on big tech companies. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, speaking on France Inter, said, “This letter is a provocation. It is a provocation against all the partners at the OECD (the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).” In a statement, Treasury Department spokeswoman Monica Crowley said the United States “has suggested a pause″ in the talks as countries focus on fighting COVID-19 and reopening their economies. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has dismissed the OECD efforts so far, saying the countries involved were trying to harm American companies and telling a congressional committee Wednesday “that’s not something we’re ever going to be a part of.”
Click on the link to see a technocrat personified, and after that they muzzled Lighthizer.
Also see:
"Wall Street held at a near standstill on Thursday, with indexes split as caution about rising coronavirus infections in hot spots around the world washed over hopes for a coming economic recovery. Surprisingly strong reports on retail sales and employment have built hopes recently that the economy can pull out of its recession relatively quickly as governments ease up on lockdown orders, but discouraging numbers on the coronavirus in various US states and elsewhere in the world have dented the optimism. Even if authorities don’t reimpose widespread lockdowns to slow the spread of the virus, the fear is that consumers and businesses could get frightened and pull back on spending. That would damage the fragile improvements that the economy seems to be developing....."
Looks like something is ready to pop as I turn the page to see this:
Don’t let Dr. Anthony Fauci burst your bubble
The football writer is saying it's a false alarm; however, Fauci has proved right in the past and they have yet to set foot on a field.
Speaking of bubbles that have bur$t:
"Another 1.5 million Americans sought jobless aid last week" by Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press, June 18, 2020
About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some people back to work.
The total number of people receiving unemployment aid also fell slightly, reflecting the return of many to their old jobs. Analysts had expected a bigger decline in US weekly applications, and some expressed disappointment that so many people are still seeking unemployment benefits even as restaurants, gyms, and many categories of retail shops are reopening across the country.
They are reopening at 50% or less of capacity, and those are already shutting down due to spikes in cases caused by increased testing and the simulation narrative.
“It does seem like there are many new people filing for unemployment, and this is worrisome when we are three months into the crisis and you are starting to see reopenings across the nation,‘' said Gregory Daco, chief US economist at Oxford Economics.
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The claims report generally tracks the pace of layoffs, but it provides little information about how much hiring is occurring that would offset those job losses.
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Daco said he expects the June jobs report, due in early July, to show another increase in hiring, but the June figures will be particularly hard to forecast, he said.
Millions of people, Daco noted, have probably been rehired, thanks to the government’s small-business lending program, which has made about 5 million loans to employers, but the actual number of recovered jobs depends on how many people those businesses actually rehired, and some companies may resort to layoffs again once they spend all of their loan money.
Like the Peabody!
Such a huge flow of people into and out of the workforce, and the uncertainty surrounding it, make it hard to track where the job market is headed, Daco said.
The jobs report for May had suggested the damage might have bottomed out.
I can't take the furious shoveling of $**t by the pre$$ anymore, sorry.
Even so, other recent reports have been more encouraging and suggest that the lifting of shutdown orders has sparked some pent-up demand from consumers, whose spending largely drives the economy. Most economic gauges remain far below their pre-pandemic levels, though, and some analysts question whether the recent gains can be sustained, especially if the coronavirus were to surge back.
Even so, even as, even if, but, but, but, still, yet, nonetheless, to be sure, etc, etc.
Last month, retail and restaurant sales jumped nearly 18 percent, the government said Tuesday, retracing some of the record plunges of the previous two months. Even so, retail purchases remain a sizable 6 percent below their year-earlier levels. Furniture store sales nearly doubled, and clothing sales nearly tripled, though both remain far below their levels before the coronavirus struck. Clothing store sales are still down 60 percent, compared with a year earlier.
Those are absolutely abysmal numbers.
With nearly record-low mortgage rates, applications for home loans reached an 11-year high last week, but even though the number of homes under construction rose in May, it remains substantially below last year’s pace.
The construction activity remains 23.2 percent below last year’s pace, and you hit bottom at free fall speed, you are going to get bounce.
The economy and the job market face a raft of uncertainties that could slow or even derail a recovery. Business reopenings have caused spikes of viral infections in nearly half of states, a trend that could lead consumers to pull back again on shopping and dining out and reverse any economic gains.
Oh, I think they would have anyway given the money running out and no job returning.
Restaurants, bars, gyms, and movie theaters are likely to rehire only a portion of their workforces. Many consumers won’t fully resume their previous habits of shopping, traveling, and going out until a vaccine is available.
There they go again, jabbing you with a lie, and it will reach a point where the consumer will no longer be allowed to do those things without Gates' mark of the beast.
One key reason why consumer spending has rebounded is that government aid programs, from one-time $1,200 stimulus checks to $600 a week in supplemental federal unemployment aid, have helped offset the loss of income for laid-off Americans, yet nearly all the stimulus checks have been issued and the supplemental federal jobless aid is set to expire July 31.
The stuff reaches the point of insulting offensiveness, does it not?
The government and private entities that did all this and destroyed lives was such a help even if that is running out, sigh.
“Recently, some indicators have pointed to a stabilization, and in some areas a modest rebound, in economic activity,” Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday in testimony to a Senate committee. Yet “until the public is confident that the disease is contained, a full recovery is unlikely.”
The web version cracked the article open a bit more:
Corinne Cook, of Kissimmee, Fla., near Orlando, felt huge relief to receive unemployment benefits last week after a month and a half of battling Florida’s bureaucracy.
Cook, 28, had moved to the area in September for an 18-month contract position as a 3-D modeler for Walt Disney, a job involving sculpting character prototypes that were printed on 3-D printers, but she was laid off in mid-April after the parks closed down.
I was reported that they were back open, or were going to open up again.
She is receiving the minimum state unemployment benefit from Florida, $125 a week, because the state has no record of her prior earnings in New Jersey, even though she said she has uploaded, mailed, and faxed the documents from her job there. If her previous earnings were properly credited, her state benefits would more than double. She is grateful, though, for the extra $600 in federal aid, which has allowed her to pay off some bills.
“It was very stressful,” she said.....
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Related:
"Florida has shattered its previous record for the number of coronavirus cases recorded in a day. At least some of the increase reflects expanded testing especially among people who are younger and without symptoms, but....."
But what?!
Yeah, they shut us down because not enough tests were being done and told us once we get more testing done we will open up. Now that they are doing more testing and the alleged cases are spiking (as we knew they would), we are being told we have to shut down again because we are still in the first wave and a second surge is coming.
STINK!
Also see:
Assembly lines at auto factories to halt to commemorate end of slavery
How many more work stoppages can Trump endure, and why isn't he being compared to Truman when you get to the meat of it?
Walmart’s share of Black executives and managers has dropped since 2015
Gotta love Southern hypocrites, right?
Related:
"A judge has extended indefinitely an injunction that prevents the governor from removing the Robert E. Lee statue from state property on Monument Avenue. Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, announced on June 4 that he would remove the statue, which towers 60 feet over Richmond’s grandest residential boulevard, and put it in storage. The action was partly in response to ongoing demonstrations over police brutality against Blacks nationwide, but Richmond has struggled for years over its Confederate iconography....."
Bravo, brave judge. Now don't open any letters or packages, please.
"A Confederate monument will be moved from a prominent spot at the University of Mississippi to a Civil War cemetery in a secluded part of the campus. The state college board met Thursday and approved a proposal to move the monument. No timeline was given. The estimated cost of the move is $1.2 million, which will be paid with private donations, the board said."
Yeah, some things have to be put in the closet while others emerge.
Warner Bros. to launch podcasts based on comic book heroes
Warner Bros Pictures via AP
She looks like she has lost some weight before hooking up with Warner Brothers.
Black YouTube creators sue over content removal
Amazon to add 3,000 jobs in South Africa
They are celebrating like it's Juneteenth:
"A growing number of banks have announced they will close early on Friday in observance of Juneteenth. It’s the latest example of corporate America moving toward recognizing the unofficial holiday. JPMorgan Chase, along with PNC, Santander, and others, will close their branches and call centers to observe the holiday. Employees at the bank will be paid in full for the half-day off."
Hey, lefti$ts, why you lining up with tho$e guy.... oh, yeah.
Wanna go to the mall?
Taubman says Simon should follow through with merger
Let me get you a car to take you to the airport:
Hertz drops sale of potentially worthless stock after SEC raises concerns
Delta expects to break even by next spring
They are diving to the ground with cabin alarms going off all over the place.
JetBlue adds 30 routes, revives service to Nantucket, the Vineyard
Look where they landed:
"Facebook pledges $1.1 billion for racial justice; The social media giant said it will support minority-run businesses through purchases and advertising, and provide free digital training to people of color" by Hiawatha Bray Globe Staff, June 18, 2020
Social network Facebook on Thursday became the latest US corporation to pledge big money to boost economic development among Black Americans in the wake of violent unrest spawned by the killing of George Floyd.
Not only is it a $hakedown, it's looking more and more like a collaborative effort. Either that, or the power of the global mafia is near absolute. Industries have destroyed themselves, so the entire ruling cla$$ must be in on this.
Facebook said it will invest $1.1 billion this year in efforts to assist Black- and minority-owned businesses, including $100 million in grants and advertising credits aimed at Black-owned businesses, creators of digital content, and nonprofit organizations. The company also vowed to spend at least $1 billion per year with diverse suppliers of products and services, ranging from marketing to construction services. At least $100 million will go specifically to Black-owned suppliers.
Fine goals, but what if the supply chain is simply not there and where is Facebook going to get all this loot after the "new normal" of a moribund economy?
Facebook also plans to provide free digital skills training to 1 million Black and 1 million Latinx people. The company will provide 100,000 scholarships to Black students entering its Facebook Blueprint digital skills certification program, and will donate $5 million to Facebook fundraisers for the Equal Justice Initiative, Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the Innocence Project.
Going to hook 'em into the NWO good.
Segun Idowu, executive director of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, welcomed Facebook’s pledges, but questioned the company’s commitment.
A host of US companies have made big financial pledges and vowed sweeping changes in management in a bid to address the nation’s racial inequalities. Bank of America has promised $1 billion over four years in loans to small, minority-owned businesses, and to support health clinics and recruit new employees in minority neighborhoods. Athletic wear company Nike has promised $40 million over four years; telecom company Comcast has pledged $100 million over four years; and retailer Walmart will put up $100 million over five years.
Betty Francisco, co-founder of Amplify Latinx, a nonprofit that works with Latinx-owned businesses, said grants from Facebook could toss a lifeline to small companies which haven’t been able to secure help through the federal Paycheck Protection Program. “Cash grants are really what businesses need right now as they move to reopen,” Francisco said.....
Was told everything was fine now, so WTF?
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That gets us the front-page garbage and distraction:
"Civil rights groups and immigrant rights advocates on Thursday rejoiced at the news. On the anniversary of DACA’s creation on Monday, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden called on Trump and Republicans to stop treating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which President Obama created more than eight years ago through an executive order, recipients as a bargaining chip. If elected, Biden pledged to send Congress a bill “outlining a clear roadmap to citizenship” for some 11 million people living in the country without legal status, but Biden has faced questions over his role in the huge spike in deportations under the Obama administration. He has since sought to make a clear distinction between the enforcement approach to immigration under Obama and the even more aggressive actions by the Trump administration. A broader overhaul of the nation’s immigration system has failed for two decades under both Republican and Democratic presidents, but termination of the DACA program could pose challenges for Trump as polls have consistently shown most Americans, Democrats and Republicans, support protections for hundreds of thousands of people who have lived in the United States for most of their lives. The pandemic further raised the stakes for the Supreme Court’s decision...."
They are supposed to be above political, and yet they have just ruled on an ORDER, NOT a LAW!
Related:
Biden campaign launches $15 million ad buy
The Washington Compost says the ads herald a new phase in what is expected to be an expensive ad war between Biden and Trump.
I'm sure they will find a way to blame Trump for the death of the veteran, too.
"Bolton book and Supreme Court ruling on ‘dreamers’ amount to twin defeats to Trump" by Philip Rucker Washington Post, June 18, 2020
WASHINGTON — In a span of less than 24 hours this week, President Trump twice had the whistle blown on his moves to bust through the boundaries of law — twin defeats that forced him to the political defensive at the very moment he is trying to generate momentum for his floundering reelection campaign.
The guy is facing enemies on all sides now, and he has kind of brought it on himself. He never drained the swamp, and maybe at this point that is impossible.
The first whistle came in the form of John Bolton’s explosive memoir. The second whistle came from the Supreme Court, which in a stunning ruling on Thursday morning blocked a signature Trump administration policy of ending the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, even though Trump proudly shifted its ideological orientation to the right with his nominations of two conservative justices, the court provided no accommodation for the president. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., who joined with the court’s four liberals, wrote in the majority opinion that the administration’s attempts to terminate DACA violated federal law and were ‘‘arbitrary and capricious.’’
They look like Deep $tate dog whistles to me.
Taken together, Bolton’s revelations coupled with the Supreme Court’s rejection of a Trump policy that had been a central campaign promise amount to a stinging rebuke of Trump’s use of executive power.
‘‘It’s part of a pattern of lawless activity,’’ Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, said in an interview Thursday. ‘‘The firings of inspectors general, the breaking of norms, rules, laws, constitutional oaths, American values — it’s a persistent and pernicious theme of this administration.’’
Look what crawled out of the woodwork.
Abuse of power was at the heart of House Democrats’ case to impeach Trump. Although Senate Republicans acquitted the president at trial, supporters of his impeachment said Thursday that he is getting his just deserts now, less than five months before the election.
OMG!
Trump used his familiar arsenal to mount his defense. In a series of late-night and early-morning tweets, he asked, ‘‘Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?’’
Yup.
The answer, according to former Nixon White House counsel John Dean III, is no.
‘‘Justices watch what’s going on in the world. They know we have an unstable leader. They see he’s not a force for stability in democracy,’’ said Dean, who famously testified against then-president Richard Nixon in the congressional Watergate inquiry.
That is not something they are supposed to be bringing into a court of law!
America, as we knew here is finished. The USSC is now a PARTY MEMBER as well.
Assessing the fallout of the court’s DACA ruling and Bolton’s memoir, Dean argued, ‘‘This is a blow against Trump that has existential implications for his presidency, but it’s of the time . . . Trump is becoming what he hates most, which is being a loser.’’
Trump’s polling deficit to former vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, has grown in recent weeks in national and battleground-state polls. Trump and his campaign team hope to begin reversing that trend on Saturday in Tulsa, Okla., where the president will return to the campaign trail to resume his mega-rallies that had been on pause because of the coronavirus pandemic.....
Oh, yeah, that, and I thought Biden sewed up the nomination a couple of Tuesdays back.
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The Globe throws the book at him after that:
"Trump donor’s book used racist language" by Michelle Ye Hee Lee Washington Post, June 18, 2020
The top donor supporting President Trump’s reelection and GOP congressional lawmakers is a reclusive heir to the wealthy Mellon family fortune who used racial stereotypes to describe Black people in an autobiography.
Timothy Mellon, the 77-year-old founder of a rail and freight company, who poured $30 million into three GOP super PACs in five months, wrote that Black people were ‘‘even more belligerent’’ after the expansion of social programs in the 1960s and 1970s and that Americans who rely on government assistance were ‘‘slaves of a new Master, Uncle Sam.’’
In a self-published 2015 autobiography, Mellon called social safety net programs ‘‘Slavery Redux,’’ adding: ‘‘For delivering their votes in the Federal Elections, they are awarded with yet more and more freebies: food stamps, cell phones, WIC payments, Obamacare, and on, and on, and on. The largess is funded by the hardworking folks, fewer and fewer in number, who are too honest or too proud to allow themselves to sink into this morass.’’
He has a point to a degree. The Democratic Party has used such things to ensure near blanket support, and thus would have no motive to actually solve the ills lest they lose a voting bloc.
Mellon declined to comment.
The Wyoming-based donor, whose family fortune dates to the Gilded Age.
To atone he should give it all to BLM!
Mellon, who is the great-grandson of Mellon family patriarch and banker Thomas Mellon, and grandson of Andrew W. Mellon, a former Treasury Department secretary, had given smaller amounts to state and federal GOP candidates for years, but increased his giving in the Trump era, campaign finance records show.
If there are any statues or if the name is on any buildings, they must come down and come off, scrub-a-dub-dub.
He now rivals other prominent donors who have increased their political giving during Trump’s political career, such as shipping supplies magnate Richard Uihlein and Stephen Schwarzman, the Blackstone chairman and chief executive.
In his autobiography, Mellon wrote that while his family had been Republicans for generations, it wasn’t until the presidency of Ronald Reagan that he fully considered himself a Republican.....
Then Reagan must have been a racist.
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I suppose there are worse things you could be:
"Facebook removes Trump ads displaying symbol used by Nazis" by Annie Karni New York Times ,June 18, 2020
WASHINGTON — Facebook on Thursday removed advertisements posted on its platform by the Trump campaign that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis to classify political prisoners in concentration camps during World War II, saying the imagery violated company policy.
The Trump campaign had used the ads, with a picture of a large red triangle, to inveigh against antifa, a loose collective of anti-fascist protesters that President Trump has blamed for stirring violence and vandalism during the nationwide protests against racial injustice. There is scant evidence that antifa has been involved in any coordinated campaigns during the demonstrations.
Antifa is funded by globalists to aid in the destruction of society, and they themselves are fascist based on their beliefs that “violence is actually a pretty good tool to use against people who don’t agree with their worldview.”
It was not clear if the Trump campaign was familiar with the origin of the symbol, which was reclaimed after World War II by some anti-fascists in Britain and Germany, in the same way that various political groups over the years have reclaimed words and symbols used to oppress them.
The triangle is also a standard emoji that is not listed in the database of hate symbols maintained by the Anti-Defamation League, but the Anti-Defamation League said its database is not used to keep track of historical Nazi symbols.
SINCE WHEN?
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum also weighed in on Twitter.
Mark Bray, a historian at Rutgers and the author of “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” said that “the origin of the symbol is universally agreed to be with the Nazis and the concentration camps.” He added that it was not part of the symbolism of antifa in the United States.
The odd thing is the swastika was not of Nazi origin. They co-opted it from Hinduism, then gave it a half spin.
The fact that the triangle has been reclaimed by some anti-fascists, Bray said, does not give the Trump campaign license to use the same symbol to attack antifa. “This is a symbol that represented the extermination of leftists,” he said. “It is a death threat against leftists. There’s no way around what that means historically.”
Of course, it was leftists that committed the greatest mass-murder of all time, and the world and pre$$ is generally silent about it.
Of course, that could never happen here.
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Related:
"The largest labor group in the Seattle area has expelled the city’s police union, saying the guild representing officers failed to address racism within its ranks. The vote Wednesday night by the King County Labor Council to exclude the Seattle Police Officers Guild was made after weeks of protests in the city over police brutality and racism following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It’s also significant as the labor council is politically influential....."
That is what they had in the Stalin's Soviet Union, Americans. Labor councils that carried out purges.
"Police say they cleared an area in the city’s Pearl District early Thursday when demonstrators tried to set up an “autonomous zone” similar to what protesters have erected in Seattle....."
That is not surprising given that Portland and Oregon have long had been reputed to be a hotspot of Aryan white supremacy.
They can then start moving south:
"California on Thursday started requiring people throughout the state to wear masks in most indoor settings and outdoors when distancing isn’t possible as the coronavirus continues to spread. “Science shows that face coverings and masks work,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement about the new order. “They are critical to keeping those who are around you safe, keeping businesses open and restarting our economy.” The order came as California broadly reopens its economy. In most counties, people can now shop, dine in at restaurants, get their hair done and go to church, among other things....."
The Science says the EXACT OPPOSITE!
Health Issues Associated with Masks
Before COVID, only surgeons wore masks so they would not infect patients who had been cut open, and you can't take them off in the heat of the desert?
"Arizona’s count of known COVID-19 cases jumped again Thursday, a day after Gov. Doug Ducey reversed himself by saying local governments could make wearing face masks mandatory. Ducey faced pressure as the state became a national virus hotspot, and he said Wednesday that Arizona cities and counties can make wearing face masks mandatory to slow the spread of coronavirus. The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 2,519 additional cases as of June 18 and 32 new deaths. That raised the state’s total to 43,443 with 1,271 deaths....."
What is it that makes all world leaders toe the line?
Related: Arizona sheriff who vowed not to enforce stay-at-home orders tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of Trump meeting
Of course. Anyone in any position of authority or celebrity who doubts the simulated narrative comes down with COVID.
That's why the police chief in Nashville is retiring.
"Hours after the Fulton County district attorney announced felony murder and other charges against the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks, a number of Atlanta police officers called in sick just before a shift change Wednesday evening. The city was left scrambling to cover absences as the Atlanta Police Department tried to tamp down rumors of a mass police walkout that spread widely on social media. It’s unclear how many officers didn’t show up. The department declined to answer specific questions about the no-shows, and the mayor did not release specific numbers. As officers began canceling their shifts, President Trump joined the fray to criticize the district attorney’s decision....."
Trump said ‘‘can’t resist a police officer’’ -- (hug one if you can) -- on Sean Hannity’s show, and they call-ins are what is commonly known as the BLUE FLU!
Speaking of Blue flu $ickne$$:
"A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump’s recent handling of racial tensions across the country — saying that the president’s actions “cut sharply against my core values and convictions.” Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation Thursday. Taylor’s five-paragraph resignation letter, obtained by The Washington Post, serves as an indictment of Trump’s stewardship at a time of national unrest from one of the administration’s highest-ranking Black Americans and an aide who was viewed as both loyal and effective in serving his presidency. “Moments of upheaval can change you, shift the trajectory of your life, and mold your character. The President’s comments and actions surrounding racial injustice and Black Americans cut sharply against my core values and convictions,” Taylor wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “I must follow the dictates of my conscience and resign as Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs.”
Notice that no one in the bureaucracy ever resigned in protest over the wars based on lies that have killed hundreds of thousands if not millions of Black and Brown lives?
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, on Thursday ordered the removal of the portraits of four of her predecessors who served in the Confederacy, a gesture made during a national reckoning on issues of racial injustice and police brutality. Pelosi announced the move during a morning news conference. The last speaker to have his portrait removed from that hallowed historical area was J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, who in 2015 pleaded guilty to laundering money to pay off a man he had sexually molested....."
Yeah, the perverted politicians who were compromised are quietly banished while the hypocritical House Speaker -- Southern segregationists were Democrats -- spews her bile.
It's a poisonous environment for Trump:
EPA drops regulation for contaminant harming babies’ brains
The widespread contaminant in drinking water linked to brain damage in infants, and the agency rejected warnings that the move will mean lower IQs for an unknown number of American newborns in the the latest in a series of Trump administration rollbacks or eliminations of existing or pending public health and environmental protections.
Water is the “most important policy challenge” for any government, and I gue$$ they are telling him to go fish in $hark-infe$ted waters (if he is not careful he will end up like JFK).
The twin crises have opened up space for reinvention as the heat is turned up and the public suffers a “classic case of buyer’s remorse,” as the hated president puts himself on the path to defeat.
