"The Great Divide: Teachers at high risk for coronavirus still don’t know whether they’ll be allowed to work remotely; Virus’ disproportionate impact on Black and Latino communities could have implications for teacher diversity" by Naomi Martin Globe Staff, September 14, 2020
The week before school starts is usually a joyous, if frantic, time of year for Boston teacher Katie Caster, but these days she mostly just feels scared.
As someone with diabetes and a compromised immune system, the middle school science teacher is worried she may have to leave teaching to protect her health — since she is at such high risk for severe complications from COVID-19. Caster, 37, who has taught for 14 years, is still waiting to learn if her request to teach remotely has been granted.
I don't want to downplay illness with underlying conditions; however, the fear is being blown up all out of proportion.
Related: First Day of School
Yes, it was only yesterday that they told us in a front-page feature that risk of transmission is schools was very low, but today is a new day and the propaganda chalkboard always gets wiped clean at the end of the day.
Nicole Mullen is one of many teachers asking to continue working remotely, during the continuing coronavirus pandemic (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff).
Educators and advocates say they are worried about the long-term impacts of COVID on teacher diversity. Due to racial wealth gaps and a variety of other social and health factors, Black and Latino people are more likely to have many of the preexisting conditions associated with higher morbidity from COVID: including heart disease, diabetes, and asthma. They are also more likely to teach at schools in communities with high coronavirus rates.
They turn it into a race issue, and yet COVID doesn't seem to attack and spread during city-sacking riots; however, it certainly does like to PARTY:
"A county on Monday ordered a two-week quarantine for 23 fraternities and sororities and seven large rental houses near Michigan State University following a coronavirus outbreak that a local health official said was turning into a “crisis.” The quarantine, which is mandatory, means students or others living in the buildings cannot leave except for medical care or necessities that cannot be delivered. The houses have known cases or exposure to COVID-19. Ingham County Heath Officer Linda Vail acted two days after she urged all MSU students living locally to voluntarily self-quarantine for two weeks, citing at least 342 cases among people affiliated with the university during the previous 16 days. She said the outbreak was being fueled by a lack of cooperation and compliance from some students at the school, which is offering online-only instruction after encouraging students to not live in dorms and instead stay home. People who willfully violate the order could face six months in jail, a $200 fine or both. Since Aug. 24, two days before the start of classes, Ingham's COVID-19 case count has jumped by 52%, according to the county....."
The outrageous tuition is to pay for converting the campus into a prison, and I'm tired of kids being scapegoats while society-destroying "protesters" are ignored.
Although state teachers union officials say they haven’t yet compiled the racial breakdowns of teachers requesting work-at-home accommodations, “we could lose our most senior teachers and our teachers of color, who are most likely to be the most vulnerable,” said Sarah Iddrissu, executive director of the advocacy group Educators for Excellence. "I’m concerned about the long-term brain drain — teacher experience and teacher diversity are two things that affect student outcomes.”
Given what the data shows about the disproportionate impacts of COVID on Latino and Black communities, “I think we can safely assume our educators of color have experienced a disproportionate impact in their lives," said Mariel Novas, a former Boston teacher who oversees partnerships in Massachusetts for The Education Trust, a national nonprofit.
No evidence, but that's okay.
At least that is one thing we can safely do these days is assume!
In Boston, where schools reopen remotely districtwide next Monday, 42 percent of teachers are people of color, more than any other district in the state. Boston school officials refused to say how many teachers have asked to work remotely, but Jessica Tang, the president of the Boston Teachers Union, estimated that 10 to 15 percent of teachers — or between 420 and 630 — will need remote accommodations. Many teachers' decisions hinge on evolving district safety efforts.
District officials say they are currently sifting through the requests to work from home, and plan to notify employees this week whether they will be approved. A memorandum of understanding signed with the union last week suggests that first priority for remote teaching requests will likely fall to a high-risk group defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which includes pregnancy, cancer, diabetes, and asthma.
The second priority will likely be educators with a household member who is high risk; third priority is those with child-care issues. The district plans to start the year remotely, bringing back students with the highest needs Oct. 1. Under the current plan, as many students as possible will be given the option to return at least two days a week by late November.
Caster, who is Latinx, said she dreads the possibility of requesting a leave. “Being a woman of color and being immuno-compromised, I’d like to think that I am valuable enough and that I’ve taught enough to be wanted,” she said. “I don’t want to take a leave. I want to be there for the kids."
Boston teachers say they are hoping that with half the kids in the district having expressed a preference to stay online this fall, at least, the district will be able to accommodate all of the educators who asked to work at home.
“We could very easily rework how we organize students,” said Nicole Mullen, a special education teacher at Boston Arts Academy. She has a respiratory condition that her doctor told her makes her high-risk for COVID complications. Mullen submitted a request to work remotely in mid-August, and is now anxiously waiting.
Federal guidance suggests employers should try to accommodate workers who are high-risk themselves, unless the accommodation would cause significant difficulty or expense. It does not require employers to accommodate workers with high-risk family members.
In an e-mailed statement, district officials wrote such workers could consider other options if requests to work remotely aren’t approved; those include “safe social distancing, consistent use of personal protective equipment, or requesting a leave of absence.”
Both returning to a school building or requesting a leave are terrifying prospects for Ross Kochman, a fifth-grade teacher at Henderson Inclusion School in Dorchester; Kochman’s wife has an auto-immune disease.
“I don’t want to take a leave of absence — I love teaching, I want to see my students,” Kochman said, his voice shaking, “but right now it doesn’t seem like that’s an option and ultimately I can’t put my wife’s life at risk.”
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Well, they don’t call him ‘The Boss’ for nothing, and the first-year class at Boston College has had a rough start to their academic careers, but as COVID-19 stalks the Chestnut Hill campus they will need to draw on some heartfelt advice from Bruce Springsteen.
His latest is a dirge for the homeless on Mass-Cass Avenue:
"Boston city councilors mull creating a commission to tackle family homelessness" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff, September 14, 2020
The Boston City Council is considering whether to create a special commission to combat family homelessness in the city, which some local authorities have called a burgeoning crisis, with thousands of children and parents staying in shelters, cars, and hospitals each night. It’s also a problem that has taken on new urgency amid the economic upheaval caused by the pandemic.
Not only that, it is going to get way, way worse this winter as foreclosures begin to soar to to terminal joblessness.
Don't worry. Government will move you into a camp, 'er, shelter and take good care of you.
Meanwhile, the politicians diddle with a commission so they can keep looting.
The commission would include the mayor, a city councilor, a pair of City Hall cabinet chiefs, the schools superintendent, and the governor, among others. It would exist, according to the proposed ordinance, for “as long as it takes to develop a comprehensive, actionable plan to end family homelessness, up to 5 years from the founding.”
The panel would work to identify gaps in resources for homeless families, conduct a cost analysis of the problem, and generate a thorough plan that would unite city resources in a coordinated effort that would lead to the end of family homelessness.
At a Monday afternoon council hearing conducted via Zoom, Danielle Ferrier, the CEO of Heading Home, a housing and shelter provider, said that both the city and state lack a strategic and systemic approach to preventing and addressing family homelessness. Services, she said, are hard to access and limited, and there are inconsistent data regarding the problem.
“The goal is for the city and the state and the feds, ideally, for all of those to coordinate,” she said.
The Globe reported in January that Massachusetts had the highest percentage increase in family homelessness of any state since 2007, according to federal data.....
Once again, Ma$$achu$etts is #1 in something in which you don't want to be number #1 -- especially when it so blatantly refutes the self-adulating illusion everyone has about this pos state.
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Yeah, it was kind of a smack in the face to see that on the A1 front page, especially after I was told how wonderful things were in the spring and as the summer market was hot, hot, hot!
You won't be able to look for a place on Nantucket, but you might be able to find a lot on Venus.
Related:
MBTA will boost commuter rail service to Lynn, Brockton
So much for the budget crunch as the Great Re$et is funded!
Also see:
"US News & World Report on Monday solidified a widely embraced local distinction: Massachusetts schools are wicked smart. In its annual ranking of top colleges and universities, US News slotted seven Mass. schools in the top 50 for the category of national universities, and another six in the top 50 in the category of liberal arts colleges. Harvard University was ranked No. 2 overall on the 2021 list of top national universities, just behind Princeton University, which scored the first spot. Harvard’s neighbor, MIT, trailed closely behind at No. 4 (Columbia was third). Further down the list, Tufts University, Boston College, Boston University, and Brandeis University came in at 30th, 35th, and 42nd, respectively, with BU and Brandeis in Waltham tied at 42nd. Northeastern University was ranked 49th. UMass Amherst, ranked 66th, slipped slightly down the rankings from its 64th spot last year. The state’s flagship campus tied with Worcester Polytechnic Institute, as well as Fordham University, George Washington University, and the University of Minnesota. Here’s where Massachusetts national universities ranked....."
The smug elitist arrogance of the pre$$ amidst this time of immense suffering over a damnable lie pushed by the likes of them and the $chools made me walk out of cla$$.
See you at your own funerals, you bastards:
"Ten COVID-19 cases linked to Maine funeral and reception" by Emily Sweeney Globe Staff, September 14, 2020
At least 10 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to a funeral and reception that took place in Maine on Aug. 31, and several social clubs in the Sanford area may have also been exposed to the virus, authorities said.
MAY HAVE?
WTF is this?
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the Aug. 31 funeral took place outdoors at the Southern Maine Veterans Cemetery in Springvale and the reception was held both indoors and outdoors at the Sanford American Legion Post on Main Street in Springvale. Individuals now confirmed to have COVID-19 who attended the funeral and reception then went to several different social clubs in the area.
The latest cluster of cases was reported after the number of coronavirus cases believed to be connected to an Aug. 7 wedding in the Millinocket area had risen to 161, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said late last week.
These Satanists pushing this shit don't want us to celebrate life, even when it comes to grieving our dead.
The politicians and those above them are EVIL, folks!
PURE F**KING EVIL!
Maine CDC officials said anyone who went to the funeral, reception, or those social clubs should monitor themselves for signs and symptoms of COVID-19, and those who believe they may have been exposed to the virus or have symptoms should contact their healthcare provider.
MAY HAVE!?
Even if they were, no one knows they have this increasingly weak "virus" -- if it exists at all, which I am really beginning to doubt especially when crap like this conveniently shows up. Looks like a limited hangout to me, although I do not discount a deliberate release in the future -- and the cases are not only 90% false positive and non-infectious, the flawed tests are picking up long dead common cold viruses!
All of that is being ignored by officialdom and the whori$h pre$$, who should be doing forced labor for their treason.
“Individuals who believe they may have COVID-19 or could have been exposed to the virus, with or without symptoms, may get a test under the Department of Health and Human Services' Standing Order,” officials said in a press release. “A list of sites providing tests under the DHHS Standing Order, which includes DHHS-sponsored swab and send sites that offer testing at no charge, is available on the Keep Maine Healthy website.”
Testing sites include Promerica Health, which is located at the Maine Visitor Information Center in Kittery and operates from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, and from noon to 7 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays. Appointments can be made at covidtestforme.com. Nasson Health Care in Sanford is also offering tests and appointments can be made by calling, officials said.
“COVID-19 symptoms include cough, fever, shortness of breath, fatigue, or body aches among many others,” officials said in the press release. “Individuals who experience any symptoms of COVID-19 or who otherwise do not feel well should not go to work or attend gatherings of any size.”
Those symptoms could be caused by a myriad of things as well as the common cold, but all will undoubtedly be diagnosed as COVID so avoid hospitals or medical clinics at all costs.
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Related:
Mass. reports 235 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, 9 new deaths
It's literally shit at bottom, and look at these alien-looking goons we are supposed to trust:
A COVID-19 testing site in Framingham (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)
What is with the obesity, btw?
Nice paunch on the security guard(?) in the background, too.
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They need to put on their running shoes:
"Clarks, the footwear company, may shut 25% of its stores as it delves deeper into digital sales; Its head of US operations says the pandemic is forcing big changes" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, September 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to brick-and-mortar retail stores. Just ask Clarks Americas president Gary Champion.
The footwear executive said it’s possible as many as one-quarter of the company’s stores could be shuttered within the next year or so as Clarks puts a greater emphasis on selling shoes online.
Of the nearly 200-year-old British shoe company’s 214 stores in the United States, 210 have reopened since the pandemic hit in March, with three in New York opening last week (the company said four in California and Hawaii remain closed due to COVID-19-related regulations), but this total number isn’t expected to last. Champion said he expects that the Waltham-based division of the footwear designer will have stores numbering “somewhere in the mid-100s,” with most closings taking place by the end of next year. A spokeswoman for the company later clarified that this number reflects Champion’s personal speculation, and not a confirmed corporate plan. “We overextended our brick-and-mortar portfolio,” Champion said.
There is no backtracking now as BoJo's tyranny is tightened despite the PCR test problems exposing the $cam, and New York City threw a parade for the reopenings:
"A Macy's Thanksgiving parade reimagined for the coronavirus pandemic will feature floats, performers and giant balloons along a one-block stretch of 34th Street in front of the retailer's flagship Manhattan store, Macy's officials announced Monday. The spectacle will be broadcast as usual from 9 a.m. to noon Eastern time on NBC and will include both live and recorded elements, Macy's officials said. The giant cartoon-character balloons will be flown without the traditional 80 to 100 handlers each and will instead be tethered to specialized vehicles. Most of the parade's performers will be locally based to cut down on travel....."
Is that Woody Woodpecker telling you to suck it?
The store closings will naturally lead to more job cuts, although it’s not clear how many. The company has already begun reorganizing its corporate roles: About 900 office jobs, in Waltham and around the world, will be trimmed by the end of 2021 through a restructuring announced in May, though that will be partially offset by the creation of about 200 new roles, for a net reduction of 700 jobs (nearly 325 people are in Waltham now, though most are still working remotely).
Of course, few retail chains will emerge unscathed from the pandemic: Widespread store closings in the spring ate into cash flow, and many consumers are making more of their purchases online. Some retailers won’t make it out at all, at least not with their physical locations still intact.
Champion sees an upside to the painful disruption caused by the pandemic. It has prompted the company to further concentrate its efforts to reach its customers directly, through social media and other digital channels, and the pandemic has forced Clarks to adopt an entirely new outlook on remote work, a shift that will provide additional flexibility to employees in the long term while enabling the company to use its office space more efficiently.
He has the heart of a champion, doesn't he?
“COVID is showing us some ways to fine-tune our business," Champion said, “to better cope when we come out of this."
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Related:
Heather White (left), owner of Trillfit and Meghan Venable-Thomas, product manager, posed for a photo. The Mission Hill fitness studio asks others in the wellness industry to follow its pledge and incorporate inclusivity measures to better serve the needs of communities of color (Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff)
They are going to ‘decolonize wellness,’ and the process has already been started:
Boston Sports Clubs' parent company files for bankruptcy amid uproar from gym members
Was a white club, so good riddance.
Now exhale:
Biogen pledges to stop using fossil fuels by 2040
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That spew blows us to the front-page and the Globe's top story today:
As Trump rejects science, Biden calls him a ‘climate arsonist’
That was authored by Peter Baker, Lisa Friedman and Thomas Kaplan of New York Times while my printed article was a WaCompo pos, but either way, the pre$$ smokescreen is obscuring the antifa arsonists behind many of them.
The National Lead on page A2 is Hurricane Sally, one of four storms churning simultaneously in the Atlantic (every weapon in the arsenal is being used to dislodge Trump), with the ambush of California sheriff's deputies in their patrol car a brief on the same page. At least the Globe is reaching out to the small community destroyed by extreme wildfires set by left-wing, antifa, ISIS Al-CIA-Duh terrorists and other paid proxies brought home for a color revolution on American soil. Now we know what countries like Belarus have to go through.
Flipping to page A3 finds the New York Times claiming that the Arctic is shifting to a new climate because of global warming -- the complete opposite of what is happening at the other pole.
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SJC Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants, a fearless advocate for racial justice, dies at 65
The Globe's eulogy for the first Jewish chief justice was the above-the-bench front-page feature, and upon turning in one find that he leaves behind a legacy of championing the humanity of the justice system with a strong reputation for rooting out corruption and advocating for second chances for those convicted of crimes.
Like these guys:
State Police uncovered more trooper payroll issues last year
They covered it up by putting a mask on it, if you will:
Graduating members of the State Police 85th Recruit Training Troop marched out of Gillette Stadium in May after Governor Charlie Baker swore them in (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)
Do you see how many things they all have in common?
I'm told the Massachusetts criminal legal system needs to get serious about data before they vanish like a ghost.
Related:
"A police officer fatally shot a man with a knife after his sister said she called police to get him involuntarily committed, leading to street protests and vandalism in what the mayor of the small Pennsylvania city of Lancaster called a "heartbreaking day." Police posted the officer's body camera video on social media, showing the man chasing the officer down a sidewalk with a knife before he was fatally shot. Police eventually used tear gas early Monday to disperse hundreds of protesters who took to the streets of the diverse city of 59,000 people in the heart of Pennsylvania Amish country following the shooting death of Ricardo Munoz on Sunday afternoon. (The Associated Press corrected this story to remove references to Munoz being Black. Authorities have not identified his race.) Munoz, 27, was mentally ill - diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia - and hadn't been taking his medications, his sister told Lancaster Online. Rulennis Munoz, 33, said she had called a crisis intervention organization and a police non-emergency number to get her brother involuntarily committed. "He had an episode. He was just incoherent and acting out," she said. "I called to find out what the procedure was to get him some help." Authorities did not immediately explain why an officer was dispatched, although Munoz was facing four counts of aggravated assault after he was accused last year of stabbing four people, including a 16-year-old boy in the face, following a fight. The body camera video posted by police late Sunday showed the officer fire several shots while running away from Munoz, who then falls to the ground. Protesters gathered outside the police station and, in video posted to social media, they chanted, "Hands up, don't shoot," "No justice, no peace" and "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!" It was unclear how motivated protesters were by racism, as they have been in other cities where deaths at the hands of police have stoked protest. Court papers list Munoz's race as white. The officer who shot Munoz was placed on administrative leave, the mayor's office said in a statement, calling it "a heartbreaking day for our city."
The "protesters" don't even know who or why they are protesting, that is how brain numb they are. They are turning criminals who point guns at a pregnant women's belly and violate restraining orders to terrorize a female minor that they raped into heroes.
"A Texas police officer has been charged with assault for fatally shooting a woman after a struggle over the officer's stun gun last year, prosecutors announced Monday. A Harris County grand jury indicted Baytown Officer Juan Delacruz Monday for shooting Pamela Turner in the parking lot of an apartment complex where they both lived in May 2019. Delacruz was charged with aggravated assault by a public servant, a felony that could lead to a sentence of five years to life in prison if he's convicted. Prosecutors said he'll be given the chance to turn himself in. Delacruz shot Turner after a struggle with the 44-year-old Black woman that a bystander captured on video. The footage showed Delacruz standing over Turner and reaching down to try to grab her arms. Turner then yells, “I’m pregnant.” Moments later, something flashes as she reaches her arm out toward the officer. Suddenly, Delacruz pulls away and fires five gunshots. Police in the Houston suburb said the Hispanic officer shot Turner during an attempted arrest after she shocked him with his Taser. Court records showed three outstanding misdemeanor warrants against Turner at the time. Ben Crump, a lawyer for Turner's family, said last year that she was not pregnant but had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He said Delacruz knew his neighbor suffered from mental illness and shot her from a “safe distance” away....."
Crump is akin to an ambulance chaser when it comes to these cases.
"Federal authorities are investigating the death of a Black man during what Louisiana State Police described as a struggle to take him into custody following a rural police chase last year, officials told The Associated Press. The death of 49-year-old Ronald Greene remains shrouded in secrecy because State Police have declined to release body-camera footage related to the May 2019 chase north of Monroe, Louisiana. Troopers say it began when Greene failed to stop for an unspecified traffic violation. Greene’s death drew new attention after his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit this year alleging state troopers “brutalized” Greene and “left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest” before covering up his actual cause of death. The investigation comes amid heightened racial tensions within Louisiana State Police, an agency that has been plagued by misconduct cases in recent years....."
Looks like a conspiracy to kill him and then frame him:
"Andrew Gillum, Florida’s Democratic nominee for governor in 2018, told a television interviewer he is bisexual, responding to rumors swirling since March when he was found intoxicated in a hotel room with two men, including one who works as a male escort. “I don’t identify as gay but I do identify as as bisexual,” Gillum told Tamron Hall on her syndicated talk show, which aired Monday, “and that is something that I have never shared publicly before.” The former Tallahassee mayor, 41, appeared on the show with his wife, R. Jai. They have three young children. He did not immediately return a call Monday from The Associated Press seeking comment. He told Hall he began drinking heavily and secretly shortly after narrowly losing the election to Republican Ron DeSantis, even substituting whiskey for his morning coffee, as a way to deal with his depression. He told Hall that he wasn’t sure he wanted to live anymore after a photo got out of him in a Miami Beach hotel room unconscious, nude and lying in a pool of his own vomit....."
Thank God DeSantis squeaked through, huh?
Also see:
"Susan Sandler, a liberal philanthropist, has announced a $200 million investment in racial justice organizations, targeting areas across the South and the Southwest that are experiencing rapid demographic transformation. Sandler, who learned she had a rare form of brain cancer four years ago, unveiled the effort in a lengthy post on Medium published on Monday morning. In the post, which was shared with The New York Times before publication, Ms. Sandler said her investments would be made through a new organization, the Susan Sandler Fund, aimed at combating systemic racism and building civic power. Ms. Sandler characterized the effort as a shift in her political priorities and giving philosophy. Sandler’s announcement comes amid skyrocketing investment in racial justice organizations, fueled by the national reckoning on systemic inequities and injustice that swept the country this summer....."
What kind of return is she expecting on that "inve$tment," huh?
"The Sandler Foundation, which was started in 1991 by Sandler’s parents, the billionaires Herb and Marion Sandler, has long been a hub of left-leaning philanthropic efforts. The foundation has helped create organizations like the Center for American Progress and the Learning Policy Institute, and has supported nonprofit journalism outfits including ProPublica. Sandler, a trustee at the foundation, has supported several Democratic candidates and campaigns and has been a power broker in national and California politics for years along with her husband, Steve Phillips. She was a key supporter of former President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential run, and she backed Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California. With her new effort, Ms. Sandler will shift from the insider world of campaign donations to long-term efforts at building power."
That's all Democrats care about, power (the CAP is connected to the Clintons), and you $ee joo is funding the divisive and destructive society-wreckers that promote Marxi$t Communi$m, right?
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Speaking of the politics:
"Joe Biden’s campaign is establishing a major new legal operation, bringing in two former solicitors general and hundreds of lawyers in what the campaign billed as the largest election protection program in presidential campaign history. Legal battles are already raging over how people will vote — and how ballots will be counted — this fall during the pandemic, and senior Biden officials described the ramp-up as necessary to guard the integrity of a fall election already clouded by President Trump’s baseless accusations of widespread fraud. The new operation will be overseen by Dana Remus, who has served as Mr. Biden’s general counsel on the 2020 campaign, and Bob Bauer, a former White House counsel during the Obama administration who joined the Biden campaign full-time over the summer as a senior adviser. Inside the campaign, they are creating a “special litigation” unit, which will be led by Donald B. Verrilli Jr. and Walter Dellinger, two former solicitors general, who are joining the campaign. Hundreds of lawyers will be involved, including a team at the Democratic law firm Perkins Coie, led by Marc Elias, which will focus on the state-by-state fight over vote casting and counting rules, and Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general in the Obama administration, will serve as something of a liaison between the campaign and the many independent groups involved in the legal fight over the election, which is already raging in the courts....."
The power-mad Democraps are bringing in the most motley cue imaginable! Holder is one of the few AGs ever to be held in contempt of Congre$$ for the Fast-and Furious gunrunning, and the law firm Perkins Coie is notorious for being channel for the Clinton campaign ca$h that funded the discredited Steele dossier that was later used by the Obama administration to facilitate spying on the Trump campaign.
The dirty tricks campaign is in full flower and the President seems oblivious to it:
"Donald Trump defended holding an indoor campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Sunday despite the ongoing pandemic, telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he wasn’t personally in any danger. “I’m on a stage and it’s very far away,” Trump told the newspaper in an interview, “and so I’m not at all concerned.” Trump’s rally at a Henderson warehouse was the campaign’s first such event indoors in nearly three months. Thousands of the president’s supporters attended the event, and few of them practiced social distancing or wore masks to protect against the coronavirus....."
That last part is really the only reason to vote for Trump, and did you notice that Bloomberg said DONALD Trump, NOT PRESIDENT Trump!
Related:
"On Sept. 14, 2020, The Washington Post published an erroneous story about a purported FBI raid on the home of conservative operative Jack Burkman. After the story published, the FBI said that the raid did not take place. The story was published because The Post failed to obtain appropriate confirmation. A story about the hoax can be found here."
Do I even need to say anything about the veracity of the Wa$hington Compo$t anymore, or can I flush it?
Also see:
"Trump Health Aide Pushes Bizarre Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt" by Sharon LaFraniere, New York Times | September 14, 2020
WASHINGTON — The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus made outlandish and false accusations on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.
If the Times says the accusations are outlandish and false, they must be hitting pretty close to the mark.
Michael R. Caputo, the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump, even if that opposition bolsters the COVID-19 death toll.
Caputo, who has faced intense criticism for leading efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers. He went further, saying his physical health was in question, and his “mental health has definitely failed.”
As opposed to the distorted fear porn narrative of the pre$$.
“I don’t like being alone in Washington,” Caputo said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He also said the mounting number of COVID-19 deaths was taking a toll on him, telling his viewers, “You are not waking up every morning and talking about dead Americans.” The United States has lost more than 194,200 people to the virus. Caputo urged people to attend Trump rallies, but only with masks.
That's rather spooky, and leaves me with the feeling that he is being set up for a suicide a la Vince Foster.
To a certain extent, Caputo’s comments in a video he hosted live on his personal Facebook page were simply an amplified version of remarks that the president himself has made. Both men have singled out government scientists and health officials as disloyal, suggested that the election will not be fairly decided, and insinuated that left-wing groups are secretly plotting to incite violence across the United States, but Caputo’s attacks were more direct, and they came from one of the officials most responsible for shaping communications around the coronavirus.
Nothing secret about it!
They are doing it and openly boast about it!
Caputo charged that scientists “deep in the bowels of the C.D.C.” walked “around like they are monks” and “holy men” but engaged in “rotten science.” C.D.C. scientists “haven’t gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops” to plot “how they’re going to attack Donald Trump next,” Caputo said. “There are scientists who work for this government who do not want America to get well, not until after Joe Biden is president.”
A longtime Trump loyalist with no background in health care, Caputo, 58, was appointed by the White House to his post in April, at a time when the president’s aides suspected the health secretary, Alex M. Azar II, of protecting his public image instead of Trump’s. Caputo coordinates the messaging of an 80,000-employee department that is at the center of the pandemic response, overseeing the Food and Drug Administration, the C.D.C. and the National Institutes of Health.
“Mr. Caputo is a critical, integral part of the president’s coronavirus response, leading on public messaging as Americans need public health information to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic,” the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.
Caputo’s Facebook comments were another sign of the administration’s deep antipathy and suspicion for its own scientific experts across the bureaucracy and the growing political pressure on those experts to toe a political line favorable to Trump.
This weekend, first Politico, then The New York Times and other news media organizations published accounts of how Caputo and a top aide had routinely worked to revise, delay or even scuttle the core health bulletins of the C.D.C. to paint the administration’s pandemic response in a more positive light. The C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports had previously been so thoroughly shielded from political interference that political appointees only saw them just before they were published.
What is interesting here is the New York Times is ignoring its own reporting regarding the revised CDC death rates, and as for Trump's public image excuse, we already have formed our opinions and nothing he does will change that after the last four years.
Caputo’s 26-minute broadside on Facebook against scientists, the news media and Democrats was also another example of a senior administration official stoking public anxiety about the election and conspiracy theories about the “deep state” — the label Mr. Trump often attaches to the federal Civil Service bureaucracy.
See: New York Times Admits Deep State Exists
They claim they never did!
Caputo predicted that the president would win re-election in November, but that his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., would refuse to concede, leading to violence, “and when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he said. “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing.”
In a free and fair election, he wins in a landslide.
Over all, his tone was deeply ominous: He warned, again without evidence, that “there are hit squads being trained all over this country” to mount armed opposition to a second term for Mr. Trump. “You understand that they’re going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that’s where this is going,” Caputo added.
Trump, too, if the Globe has its way, and how rich is it for the New York Times of all people to complain about no evidence?
Some of Caputo’s most disturbing comments were centered on what he described as a left-wing plot to harm the administration’s supporters.
He must have hit a nerve because that is basically where the Globe cut him off.
He claimed baselessly that the killing of a Trump supporter in Portland, Ore., in August by an avowed supporter of the left-wing collective was merely a practice run for more violence. “Remember the Trump supporter who was shot and killed?” Mr. Caputo said. “That was a drill.” The man suspected in the shooting, Michael Forest Reinoehl, was shot dead this month by officers from a federally led fugitive task force in Washington State. He “went down fighting,” Caputo said. “Why? Because he couldn’t say what he had inside him.”
I'm sick of the NYT pot hollering kettle, aren't you?
There were no obvious signs from administration officials on Monday that Caputo’s job was in danger. On the contrary, Trump again added his voice to the administration’s science denialism. As the president visited California to show solidarity with the fire-ravaged West, he challenged the established science of climate change, declaring, “It will start getting cooler.” He added: “Just watch. I don’t think science knows, actually.”
There is another reason to vote for him.
Caputo’s remarks also dovetailed in part with those of Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime confidant of both Caputo and Trump. Mr. Stone, whose 40-month prison sentence for lying to Congress was commuted by the president in July, told the conspiracy website Infowars on Friday that Trump should consider declaring martial law if he lost re-election. Grant Smith, a lawyer for Stone, was among the followers who had joined Caputo’s talk on Sunday. Caputo has 5,000 Facebook friends, and his video was viewed more than 850 times. He has now shut down his account.
In a statement on Monday, Caputo told The Times: “Since joining the administration, my family and I have been continually threatened” and harassed by people who have later been prosecuted. “This weighs heavily on us, and we deeply appreciate the friendship and support of President Trump as we address these matters and keep our children safe.”
He insisted on Facebook that he would weather the controversies, saying, “I’m not going anywhere,” and he boasted of the importance of his role, stating that the president had personally put him in charge of a $250 million public service advertising campaign intended to help the United States return to normal.
Yeah, right.
He calling off War Speed inoculations or not?
The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to use that campaign to attract more minority volunteers for clinical trials of potential COVID-19 vaccines and to ask people who have recovered to donate their blood plasma to help other infected patients. Department officials have complained that congressional Democrats are obstructing the effort.
While Caputo characterized C.D.C. scientists in withering terms, he said the agency’s director, Dr. Robert R. Redfield, was “one of my closest friends in Washington,” adding, “He is such a good man.” Caputo is partly credited with helping choose Dr. Redfield’s new interim chief of staff. Critics say Dr. Redfield has left the Atlanta-based agency open to so much political interference that career scientists are the verge of resigning. The agency was previously seen as mostly apolitical; its reports were internationally respected for their importance and expertise.
He fiercely defended his scientific adviser, Dr. Paul Alexander, who was heavily involved in the effort to reshape the C.D.C.’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports. Caputo described Dr. Alexander, an assistant professor at McMaster University in Canada, as “a genius. To allow people to die so that you can replace the president” is a “grievous sin,” Caputo said, “and these people are all going to hell.”
A public relations specialist, Caputo has repeatedly claimed that his family and his business suffered hugely because of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Caputo was a minor figure in that inquiry, but he was of interest partly because he had once lived in Russia, had worked for Russian politicians and was contacted in 2016 by a Russian who claimed to have damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Caputo referred that person to Stone and was never charged with any wrongdoing. Caputo later wrote a book and produced a documentary, both entitled “The Ukraine Hoax,” to undermine the case for Trump’s impeachment.
Caputo worked on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign for a time but was passed over for a job early in the administration. He remained friendly with Dan Scavino, the former campaign aide who is now the deputy chief of staff for White House communications and played a role in reconnecting Trump and Caputo.....
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