Here is looking at you, kid:
Only one candidate looked into the camera and spoke to ‘you’ in the vice presidential debate
That's is a flat-out falsehood from the few clips I saw of the VIP debate.
Today's above-the-fold, top-righthand corner lead:"
Campaigns spar over debate plan after Trump rejects virtual faceoff
The report is by Maggie Haberman and Michael M. Grynbaum of the New York Times, so don't wast your time.
Flipping below the belt, 'er, fold we find this low blow:
"The yin to Trump’s yang, Pence hits the road to pinch-hit for the president" by Jazmine Ulloa Globe Staff, October 8, 2020
PEORIA, Ariz. — Vice President Mike Pence hit the road this week to pinch-hit for the COVID-stricken commander in chief, drawing much smaller crowds and delivering much less inflammatory remarks. He is the yin to President Trump’s yang — “the balance” — who comforts and explains, as Trump energizes and excites.
Laurie Hartgrove, 51, and her friends said as they waited for Pence to speak in a sweltering parking lot of a tactical equipment company.
“He has a deep-seated love for his country,” she said. “You never hear it mixed with money or dollars. It’s just a pure love for his country and the citizens who live here.”
Zubair Zulfiqur, 31, an independent contractor who drove from nearby Tempe, put it another way: Trump is the tsunami — in a good way, he added — and “Pence is the soothing wind after the storm.”
Fresh off the debate stage, Pence on Thursday made stops in Arizona and Nevada as he attempted to shore up support among wavering Republicans.
AOf course, he is visiting a "small, liberal-leaning desert suburb at the edge of Phoenix," according to the Globe, as he is shoring up support.
Is there nothing on this Earth that they do not either distort or outright lie about?
With less than a month before Election Day, the vice president is taking a rare star turn as the Republican ticket’s main attraction at campaign rallies. It’s an unusual situation for a reserved politician and loyal lieutenant often relegated to the background of the Trump administration, but that is not why Pence was deployed, nor what the crowd was expecting from him.
I guess leading the coronavirus task force is being relegated to the background.
SIGH!
Elsewhere around Phoenix and across Arizona, where Democratic nominee Joe Biden has held a solid polling lead for months, support for Trump has not appeared to be as strong as it was in 2016. Many Republicans have soured over his racist remarks and chaotic federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I just think there are a lot of traditional conservatives who are weary of Trump,” said Alex Conant, a Republican strategist who worked on Senator Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential run. “It is Pence’s job to make sure they get out to vote,” but it’s a tough task when a tweet from Trump could upend or undermine his message at any moment, political analysts said.
Well, this particular voter has never voted for a Republican for president and I didn't vote last time, but given the Globe's fare day after day I am considering voting for Trump on November 3rd -- if for no other reason than to shove it up there you-know.
“He is a far more conventional politician than Trump,” said Ryan Williams, who served as the spokesman during Mitt Romney’s 2016 presidential campaign, “but he is number two on the ticket, and at the end of the day, he is tied to every outlandish statement and action that Trump takes over the course of this campaign.”
Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris were praised for solid performances in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City. Although they frequently clashed on policy, they did so civilly, a marked difference from the chaos triggered by Trump’s belligerence at the first presidential debate last week.
She was a disaster by far and wide acclimation except for the delusional circles of Democrats like the Globe, and
“This was the most consequential vice president debate in American history, but it still didn’t do anything to change the overall nature of the campaign,” said Dan Schnur, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communications who was communications director for Senator John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign.
Pence didn’t even get a day to bask in the aftermath of his performance. Trump was up early Thursday morning, telling Fox Business News he would not participate in the next debate against Biden after organizers announced it would take place virtually because of the president’s bout with the virus, but in Peoria, Pence was the main attraction.
To about 150 people anyway.
Hartgrove, a human resources manager at TYR Tactical, where the event was held, said she was grateful to Trump and Pence for leading a quick economic recovery in Arizona that allowed her to find a job in a week after she was laid off from another company as the pandemic tore through Arizona and she fell ill with the virus herself.
The stakes in Arizona for Pence were high after his last visit here in August went awry after he touted Trump as a defender of religious freedom at a Mesa rally. More than 200 members and high-profile leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints signed a letter blasting the president, and calling the event “out of bounds for co-opting the church’s name to give the impression that Donald Trump is supported by the church as an entity.”
It certainly isn't Democrats or RINO Republicans, for whatever it is worth.
Won't even matter given the coming Holocaust™.
Arizona became an epicenter of the pandemic in the early summer, with Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, at one point tallying up to 2,000 cases a day, more than some of the hardest-hit places in New York City. A CDC study this month found the state’s cases dropped 75 percent after many cities required people to wear masks.
I'm tired of their devilish lies.
“The level of uncertainty in Arizona is palpable, and if he does not articulate a plan to contain the outbreak and stir economic recovery, he is not going to set a course for success for Trump-Pence in Arizona,” said Stacy Pearson, a Democratic strategist based in Phoenix, but supporters at the Peoria rally said they approved of all the measures they took.
A new Donald J. Trump magnet clipped to her chest, Judy Bee, 74, a retiree who once worked in the insurance industry, said she believed the president contracting COVID-19 showed that people with it can recover. As for Pence, she hoped to see him again on the campaign trail in four years.
“He will be at the top of the ticket in 2024, and he will win,” Bee said. “He is a humane person. You can feel that he really cares about you.”
Then he has fooled you.
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Gotta love the guy, right?
"Friends Recall Hearing Trump Accuser’s Claims in 1997" by Jodi Kantor, New York Times | Oct. 8, 2020
PFFFFT!
Three weeks ago, a news story caught the attention of Dawn Capp, a Texas math teacher. A former model had accused President Trump of assault, the latest in a long line of sexual misconduct complaints against him. At the United States Open tennis tournament in 1997, the woman told The Guardian, he groped and forcibly kissed her.
Ms. Capp voted for Mr. Trump in 2016, but she immediately believed the story, she said in a telephone interview, because she had heard it more than two decades ago from Amy Dorris, the woman making the allegation and one of Ms. Capp’s oldest friends.
(Blog author can only his shake his head at this current piece of crap. It never ends)
The Trump campaign has called Ms. Dorris’s account “totally false.” “This is just another pathetic attempt to attack President Trump right before the election,” Jenna Ellis, a legal adviser to the Trump campaign, said in a statement.
In phone interviews, Ms. Dorris recounted meeting Mr. Trump during a strange, star-filled long weekend nearly a quarter-century ago. At the time, she was 24 years old, a Florida-based model and aspiring actress who was also working as a bartender to make rent. One night in Miami, she met Jason Binn, who was just a few years older but already had a magazine and a network of celebrity friends. After they had dated for two weeks, he whisked her off to New York.
EPSTEIN!
Trump is up to his neck in that stuff as well as so many other rich-and-powerful $cum, and yet the ma$$ media never goes there. That's why this is really a non-story and likely fiction. It's a Kavanaughing as the October surprises keep on coming. Will be one a day now, if not more.
The days were a blur of splashy events and celebrity encounters. Ms. Dorris met Leonardo DiCaprio and attended a memorial for the fashion designer Gianni Versace. Mr. Binn and Mr. Trump, then 51, seemed especially close, but as the new couple spent time with the real estate developer in his box at the U.S. Open, at Trump Tower and in limousines, he wouldn’t leave her alone, she said. He told her to picture herself living with him in Trump Tower. He tried to impress her with Trump-branded water and other gear. His hands wandered repeatedly to her waist and her legs, she said. “It was like he claimed me — that’s how it felt,” she said.
On a Friday afternoon, he crossed a more serious physical line, Ms. Dorris said. During the tennis matches, Ms. Dorris excused herself to use a bathroom behind the box’s private seating area. When she emerged, Mr. Trump was waiting. He told her that she belonged with him and moved toward her, she said.
The metaphor being this is complete shit like the pee dossier!
Of course, the NYT is ignoring the Brennan bombshells that implicate Clinton, Obama, and Biden et al, that indicate a planned effort to spy on the Trump campaign.
The fact that this story wasn't fabricated, 'er, leaked, 'er, reported four years ago also makes it stale shit.
“It started as him trying to kiss me,” Ms. Dorris said. She said she had told him to stop, first with giggles, and then in a more serious tone. He had “a tiger grip — he wasn’t letting me go,” she said. Mr. Trump was shoving his tongue into her mouth, she said. “I couldn’t get loose from him,” she said. “His hands were all over me.” As she extracted herself, she pushed against his chest in protest, she said.
Joe Biden is alleged to have done the same thing and the pro-women liberal-left media memory holed it!
She returned to her seat, embarrassed, and pretended nothing had happened, but soon phoned her mother and a friend for counsel. (In phone interviews, both confirmed Ms. Dorris’s account of the calls.) Ms. Dorris said she had asked Mr. Binn for help in fending off Mr. Trump, but she doubts that she told him about the specifics of the encounter. “I didn’t process what was going on,” she said. “I don’t think I even understood it.”
The next day, as she and Mr. Binn sat with Mr. Trump in a limousine, her new boyfriend told the future president to back off from making advances to her, she said. Mr. Trump replied by laughing and telling Mr. Binn that Ms. Dorris was out of his league, she said.
Ms. Capp, the math teacher, said that soon afterward, her friend had told her the same story about Mr. Trump that she later told publicly. Kerri Whitfield, another friend, echoed those recollections, saying that Ms. Dorris had shared the story privately in the autumn of 1997. Neither friend has previously spoken publicly; both say they are confident of Ms. Dorris’s truthfulness.
What you realize after that paragraph is there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER for this alleged incident!
Mr. Binn said that while he remembered the weekend, he had no recollection of Mr. Trump’s making any advances toward Ms. Dorris. The publication of the Guardian article was the “first time I heard or saw anything,” he said in a phone interview.
SIGH!
Over the years, Ms. Dorris held on to traces of that weekend: ticket stubs, photographs of her with Mr. Trump. She encountered Mr. Trump a few times, once at Mar-a-Lago, but moved on with her life, taking small acting roles, working in marketing and rearing twin daughters.
(Blog author throws hands in air)
In 2016, other women began to publicly tell stories about Mr. Trump, some of them similar to hers. The disclosure of the “Access Hollywood” tape, which captured Mr. Trump making crude remarks about sexually assaulting women, provoked widespread outrage, and recognition among Ms. Dorris and the friends in whom she had confided, but she stayed silent then, she said, in part out of fear that her daughters could face a backlash, and because her husband was reluctant.
Blame it on the man, of course, as the NYT is running the same failed playbook from 2016!
After more than a year of speaking privately with The Guardian, Ms. Dorris said, she decided to share her account.
What a coincidence, huh?!!
She is in the process of getting divorced, making her husband’s reservations less of a factor. She hopes to feel relief in going public. A registered independent who once served as a campaign volunteer for Jeb Bush, the Republican former Florida governor, she said she wanted to speak out about Mr. Trump’s character.
“It’s the person, not the party,” she said. “This man should not be the president.”
OMFG!
Well, at last Trump didn't lie us into Iraq with WMD falsehoods that were blared from the front-page of the New York Times, among others.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to go take a shower to get this New York Times filth off me.
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"Trump suggests Gold Star families may be to blame for his COVID-19 infection" by Jennifer Steinhauer New York Times, October 8, 2020
WASHINGTON — Even as he scrambles to shore up support from his base, President Donald Trump on Thursday again suggested that veterans and their families had spread the coronavirus at the White House, floating the idea that a meeting with the loved ones of fallen military members might have been the source of his own infection.
It could have been, could it not?
The reporting up until now is they don't know how he caught it, and the fact that he is all better now indicates he never had it at all or simply had a cold.
This is more New York Times bullshit, and they are working 24/7 to shovel it now.
In an interview on Fox Business, Trump described an event at the White House on Sept. 27 with a group of Gold Star families — those whose relatives have died in military conflicts — and said he had “figured there would be a chance” he would become infected there, because the family members “come within an inch of my face sometimes.”
“They want to hug me and they want to kiss me,” he added, “and they do, and frankly, I’m not telling them to back up. I’m not doing it, but I did say it’s obviously dangerous.”
Last week, Trump suggested that Marines and other service members, as well as police officers, might have infected one of his top advisers, Hope Hicks.
The remarks came weeks after a report in The Atlantic that Trump — whose relationship with military leaders and prominent veterans has been a complex political brew of admiration and disdain — had disparaged U.S. troops who died in wars as “losers” and “suckers.”
Except he never said that!
How many times is the New York Times going to repeat falsehoods as fact, and why would anyone ever believe them regarding anything?
Trump has counted on veterans as well as active-duty service members as a key slice of his political base; in 2016, about 60% voted for him, according to exit polls, and swing-state counties with especially high numbers of veterans helped him win, but that support appears to have slipped; moreover, a large group of Republican former national security officials, including several retired generals, have thrown their support behind the president’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, as have a large number of former Cabinet officials from both Bush administrations; Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain; and many other prominent veterans.
Same in 2016, so what?
He's even more popular now with more support, and the purpose of the above item and this one is to undermine his support amongst women and veterans.
It's so pathetic and obvious at this point it's not even worth commenting.
The decline in military support, which mirrors that among other voters once loyal to the president, stems from a variety of factors, including increasing disenchantment with his attempts to insert the armed forces into his domestic political battles.
Then there are the people like me and the newly-registered Republicans who will likely be voting for him come hell or high water -- if for no other reason than to piss off the Globe.
Groups associated with veterans and disillusioned Republican voters have raised millions of dollars to attack Trump since the Atlantic report early last month, which cited anonymous people who said the president had rejected a visit to a World War I military cemetery in northern France in part because it was “filled with losers.”
Never said that, and yet they flogged it again.
They are SWIFT-BOATING HIM!
The group VoteVets alone raised $3.3 million in the last quarter, $1.5 million of it in September after it released an online ad critical of Trump that featured the parents of troops slain in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We will get to Afghanistan a little later, and he is trying to get out of Iraq.
The president’s remarks on Thursday drew rebukes from liberal veterans and their political groups, as well as from elected Democrats, including the usually circumspect Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Whether he intended it or not, the president has blamed an event with families who lost their loved ones in battle for giving him COVID,” he said in a statement.
Reed added: “Instead of casting aspersions on the families of the fallen for infecting him, President Trump should be transparent about his own actions, who he met with and when, and release detailed medical information including a timeline and do some real contact tracing to help stop the spread. Instead, President Trump is continuing his pattern of irresponsible behavior.”
BRAVO, Mr. President!
Alyssa Farah, a White House spokeswoman, said Trump had not been implicating the families. “His point was merely that in the time frame that he was potentially exposed,” she said, “there were a number of different venues he’d been at and individuals that he had interacted with that it could have come from.”
Right.
He is doing contact tracing after all, and he is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't when it comes to the hateful, one-sided pre$$.
That doesn't make him an angel, saint, or savior, it's just a recognition of the in$ide ba$eball $hit and the lesser of two evils.
Many senior Pentagon leaders attended the event for military families late last month, and several guests there have since tested positive for the coronavirus, including Adm. Charles Ray, the vice commandant of the Coast Guard. The first lady, Melania Trump, was there and has also tested positive. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and several other senior uniformed leaders at the Pentagon are quarantining after interacting with Ray.
Does that mean the wars are on pause?
Scrutiny has also surrounded a White House gathering on Sept. 26, a day before the military event, which was held to honor Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
Now that the pre$$ has fingered the Gold Star meeting as well as the Rose Garden, they have basically confirmed that Trump must have been infected at the DEBATE!
You need to LOOK for what is NOT THERE when it comes to my pre$$!
Numerous Trump aides and several Republican senators who were there have since tested positive, and the White House has done little to track the contacts of attendees. In an email Thursday, Timothy Davis, president of the Greatest Generations Foundation, a veterans organization involved in organizing the Gold Star event on Sept. 27, said that all attendees had tested negative beforehand and that all were “doing well and exhibit no symptoms of COVID-19.” Davis said the group had been told late on Oct. 1 that Trump had tested positive, and the families in attendance were notified the next morning.
Tests, especially the rapid tests used by the White House for screening staff members and visitors, are not always accurate. For months, experts have emphasized the need to combine testing with other disease containment strategies, like mask-wearing and physical distancing.....
I'm sorry, SAY WHAT?!!!
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You know it is the End Times when only the Taliban believe Trump:
They may have welcomed them, but it is clear the MIC and Deep State will not allow him to do this.
He reinforced early withdrawal plans Thursday morning, in a Fox Business Channel interview that understated the number of troops currently in Afghanistan. “We’re down to 4,000 troops in Afghanistan. I’ll have them home by the end of the year. They’re coming home, you know, as we speak. Nineteen years is enough. They’re acting as policemen, OK? They’re not acting as troops,” Trump said. Multiple U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive troop details, said they know of no plan for either new deadline. Instead, they pointed to comments Wednesday by National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, who told an audience in Las Vegas that “as of today, there are under 5,000 and that will go to 2,500 by early next year.” U.S. officials and the military has also consistently said that counterterrorism troops would remain in Afghanistan for some time to deal with al-Qaida and Islamic State threats. A senior Trump administration official said Trump, with his tweet, laid down a marker Wednesday on U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and since he is the commander in chief, the rest of the administration will follow his lead.
HA-HA-HA-HA!
That last part is funny!
They have fought him at every turn!
The official also spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of troop withdrawals. This is not the first time, however, that Trump has upended military policies or troop withdrawal plans with an abrupt tweet, only to be persuaded to adjust his thinking or give the military more time to execute a more deliberate approach. Trump’s demand to pull all troops out of Syria, for example, was eventually changed, and there are still less than 1,000 forces there.
What did I just say?
Even before Trump’s latest pronouncement, the White House has refused to allow U.S. negotiators to base troop withdrawals on the signing of a peace deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Instead, American diplomats and military officials were able to say only that withdrawals would be based on conditions on the ground, meaning a measurable reduction in Taliban attacks, rather than any resolution to the country’s long-running internal conflicts. “What we need to see is that they’re not going to allow al-Qaida to base there,” said Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, in a September interview with NBC News, “and that has just not yet been demonstrated to my satisfaction.” McKenzie and other military officials have also said that the drawdown must be done responsibly, and that moving faster will make it more difficult to get sensitive and critical American military equipment out of Afghanistan. “We’re not going to leave anything behind that somebody could use against us in another time and another place. So that’s actually a huge logistics effort and it is continuing now,” McKenzie said last month.
It is the SAME BS we have been getting since the BUSH ADMINISTRATION!
Conditions on the ground = never leaving!
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, asked about Trump’s comments Thursday, did not say whether he had been alerted to the new deadlines. Instead, he said NATO and all allies will coordinate their efforts and “make decisions based on the conditions on the ground, because we think it is extremely important to continue to be committed to the future of Afghanistan.”
Aren't you Europeans sick of being there, too?
America’s exit from Afghanistan after 19 years was laid out in a February agreement Washington reached with the Taliban. That agreement said U.S. troops would be out of Afghanistan in 18 months, provided the Taliban honored a commitment to fight terrorist groups, with most attention seemingly focused on the Islamic State group’s affiliate in the country. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed welcomed Trump’s tweet as a positive step for the implementation of the U.S.-Taliban agreement. The Taliban, he said, are “committed to the contents of the agreement and hope for good and positive relations with all countries, including the U.S., in the future.”
Bless 'em for being so naive while Washington’s peace envoy and Bush neocon Zalmay Khalilzad is in Pakistan seeking the help of Pakistan’s powerful military.
So what is Biden's position on Afghanistan, Globe?
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There will be no asylum in Europe.
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"President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that he is ready to resume campaign rallies and feels “perfect” one week after his diagnosis with the coronavirus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans, as his doctor said the president had “completed his course of therapy” for the disease. The president has not been seen in public — other than in White House-produced videos — since his Monday return from the military hospital where he received experimental treatments for the virus, as the president tries to shift his focus to the election that’s less than four weeks away, with millions of Americans already casting ballots. While Trump said he believes he’s no longer contagious, concerns about infection appeared to scuttle plans for next week’s presidential debate....."
I'm told most skeptics are converted to believers when they get sick themselves by the frustrated criminals, 'er, doctors and nurses who are opposed to compassionate release to prisoners on their deathbeds.
Sloth says Trump’s lies matter because they threaten our lives, our planet, and our democracy despite the land of ever-moving goal posts in which they exist.
The Globe tells you what you need to know about the president's treatment, the and where he got them as his recovery drives some crazy:
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) plan to introduce legislation Friday that would create a commission to “help ensure effective and uninterrupted leadership” in the presidency. The panel would be called the Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office, “the body and process called for in the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” the offices of Pelosi and Raskin said in a statement announcing the move. The 25th Amendment formalizes that the vice president takes over the duties of the presidency in the event of a president’s death, inability to perform his duties or resignation from office. It also lays out a process by which a sitting president may be removed from office. Congress’s role in this, however, is limited. President Trump’s four-day hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after contracting the novel coronavirus forced the administration to answer questions about the 25th Amendment and succession. Administration officials said Trump remained on the job despite his hospitalization for covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, and there were no plans for Vice President Pence to assume even temporary authority as president. Trump returned to the White House on Monday evening. Pelosi, who as speaker is second in line to the presidency, previewed the move on Thursday, telling reporters that she would discuss the 25th Amendment on Friday. She did not elaborate....."
Wacompo did as they intend to remove Trump if he miraculously prevails in November:
“Tomorrow, by the way, tomorrow, come here tomorrow,” Pelosi abruptly told reporters at her weekly news conference, during which she mainly spoke about the need for a new round of coronavirus economic relief. “We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment.” Asked toward the end of her news conference whether she could give more details, Pelosi only reiterated her call for reporters to return Friday. Raskin introduced a similar measure in 2017 that would establish a congressionally appointed commission of physicians and top leaders who could evaluate the president’s health — both mental and physical — and work with the vice president on a transfer of power. Since Trump’s discharge Monday, some Democrats have voiced concern about the potential side effects of his medical treatment. During an interview Wednesday on ABC News’s “The View,” Pelosi suggested that Trump’s covid-19 medications, which include steroids, may be having an effect on his mental capabilities. “I said yesterday to my colleagues, I said there are those who say that the steroids had an impact on people’s thinking. I don’t know, but there are those health-care providers who say that,” Pelosi said. “Also, if you have the coronavirus, it has an impact, as well.”
What about her mental capacity, especially after her wink out on CNN where she co0mpletely lost it and said Good morning, good morning?
Has anyone checked her medications for side effects or given her a breathalyzer?
What a detestable creature, and nothing would make me happier than a Republican House this fall!
No sense asking a doctor, either:
"In more than two centuries of publishing, the New England Journal of Medicine has never weighed in on a U.S. presidential election. That changed this week. On Wednesday, alongside its usual peer-reviewed scientific studies and analysis, the journal published a blistering editorial taking President Trump and his administration to task over their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The respected journal broke the nonpartisan position it has held since 1812 with an editorial titled, “Dying in a Leadership Vacuum,” which urged voters to oust Trump over his administration’s failures....."
The applause you hear is from the New York Times, and the NEJM has just been outed as a partisan police outfit under the control of the pharmaceuticals.
What happens if Trump miraculously wins:
"Riot police officers fired tear gas and water cannons in Indonesia’s capital on Thursday as they tried to disperse large crowds of people protesting a sweeping new law that slashes protections for workers and the environment. In cities and towns throughout Indonesia’s vast archipelago, tens of thousands of workers took part in the third day of a national strike against the deregulation law. Workers marched on foot and rode in motorbike parades as sound trucks blared protest messages. Union leaders denounced Parliament and President Joko Widodo for pushing the measure through. In the center of Jakarta, the capital, protesters assembled in defiance of a city ban on gathering during the pandemic and tried to march to the presidential palace. Some threw rocks at the police and set fires in the city center, burning a police post and two transit stops. The police said officers had detained more than 800 people in Jakarta, while leaders of the national strike distanced themselves from the violence and said that the city’s protests were not affiliated with the labor action. Around the country, the strike has been largely peaceful, although protesters clashed with the police in some cities. Organizers said protests were held in more than 60 locations, stretching from Aceh Province in the west to Papua Province more than 3,000 miles east. They estimated that about one million people joined the walkouts each day, though that figure could not be verified....."
I'm told the “president is paying back the financiers who helped him win the election, not ordinary people who voted for him” and that it is the end of the Republic.
Trump is going to be torn to pieces even though there are problems with the mail-in ballots (the Globe is ignoring the batches of Trump votes that appeared in dumpsters in Pennsylvania and New Jersey):
"The string of thefts in and around Somerville’s Winter Hill and Gilman Square neighborhoods bloomed in the early spring, as the mysterious bandit dug up expensive flowers, swiped plants from ceramic pots and hoisted hangers full of daffodils from porches and backyards. By the time Stacy Kissel’s sunflowers were decapitated over the summer, the police were involved. Soon, they’d narrowed in on a suspect, but before the announcement about the alleged culprit became the latest Internet fodder for wary gardeners last month, the series of crimes had sent ripples of fear and frustration through the niche community. The acts of thievery felt deeply personal, some victims said. “It’s upsetting whenever you take up a hobby to relieve stress and forget about the world, and someone comes and destroys it,” Kissel said....."
Imagine starting a business like a bar or restaurant and watching the billionaires clear $10.2 trillion from this $camdemic between April and July!
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Right next to that brief are these items:
One man was killed, a golf pro, and there is no drought. It is simply an excuse for criminal state to eventually control precious water!
I hope it heads this way after making landfall since we need the rain.
It's the economy that will haunt Trump in the final weeks:
"Trump’s tweets may move Wall Street, but Main Street has bigger-picture worries; Small businesses, impatient for progress against the coronavirus, worry there’ll be more shutdowns" by Shirley Leung and Larry Edelman Globe Columnist and Globe Staff, October 8, 2020
Wall Street markets may twitch on every tweet from President Trump, from his COVID-19 diagnosis to his hot-and-cold stance on a stimulus package, but small businesses on Main Street aren’t so moved by the overnight ramblings of a social-media president.
Instead, they’re thinking about how soon a vaccine can arrive, whether the rising infection rate may trigger another shutdown, and how to get consumers to open up their wallets and spend.
It's called predictive programming, and it's an agenda-pushing exercise to manipulate the collective mind.
“What worries me the most is not seeing an end to this pandemic,” said Herby Duverné, chief executive of Windwalker Group, a Boston online training company.
The World Bank says the genocidal project will be completed by 31-March-2025.
Duverné said his company, with 140 employees, has been able to get through the pandemic by cutting expenses and freezing job openings, but if the virus maintains its stranglehold on the economy well into next year, it will be hard to grow his business, and he may need to make some tough decisions.
“If we don’t have a solution by March or April with a vaccine that is being distributed and effective, wow, that worries me a lot,” he said. “You don’t want to feel uncertainty for a long time.”
That is not the solution at all for this COVID HOAX that is "maintaining its stronghold" thanks to criminal politicians and their collaborators in the pre$$ pushing an agenda based on unholy lies.
For Curt Carpenter, principal of Lekker Home in Boston, what matters most is a stable stock market and low interest rates. That’s what makes the clientele of his modern furniture and home decor store in the South End comfortable spending money, and that’s what happened this summer after stocks largely recovered from their lows in March, when the economy first shut down. The Federal Reserve’s rock-bottom interest rates have encouraged home buyers to seek more space now that many are working remotely.
Yeah, the $hutdowns have benefited a certain cho$en cla$$ of people the Globe has cho$en to highlight.
Carpenter said the need to furnish new homes, coupled with a work-from-home trend that spurred people to upgrade their furniture, has pushed his business up 25 percent since last year. He has been able to bring back all workers who were laid off in the spring and is hiring two more people.
Oh, that will fix the massive unemployment problem!
“The president,” Carpenter said, “doesn’t make that much of a direct impact on the economy. He shapes the policy. That’s it.”
Then WHY is the GLOBE blaming HIM for EVERYTHING?
Not all small businesses have been as fortunate as Lekker Home.
OH!?!
The fact that the Globe waited until now to mention them shows you they don't care or that their job is the shine up a turd for your con$umption as they try to "encourage early Christmas shopping!"
Shop and restaurant owners worry about another round of government restrictions that could jeopardize the critical holiday season.
Back on Wall Street, economists warn the nascent recovery could peter out without another aid package that puts stimulus checks in the hands of Americans and provides billions of relief to local governments.
Wall Street has also been fixated on former vice president Joe Biden’s growing lead in the national polls, which could be at least a short-term positive for the economy, since he would probably be more aggressive about containing the pandemic than Trump and would immediately push for a big financial rescue bill.
Biden’s widening lead also may ease fears of a contested election, even if investors are concerned the Democrat’s vows to raise taxes and increase regulation are less business-friendly than Trump’s positions.
They aren't going to allow another 2016, folks.
“A contested election and extended period of uncertainty is the worst-case scenario for markets,” said Dan Kern, chief investment officer at TFC Financial in Boston. “The market didn’t do well during the period of uncertainty after the disputed Bush-Gore election; it would be far worse if this election became the subject of one or more court battles.”
While Sandrine Rossi, owner of Frenchie in the South End and Colette Wine Bistro in Cambridge, follows the machinations of Washington politics closely, she said the decisions Governor Charlie Baker makes about the pandemic have more of an impact on her restaurants.
Finally, SOMEONE who sees the REALITY of the situation, and I'm going to eat it up!
More than federal relief, Rossi said, what has helped her manage uncertain times is the compassion of her landlords and creditors who have been willing to work with her. When Baker restricted restaurants to take-out only in the spring, Rossi had to lay off all 65 employees. She has since reopened for sit-down dining and brought back about 45 employees. Under state rules, restaurants can’t yet operate at full capacity.
Yes, our kind overlords who have $et up this whole $ituation to push the Great Re$et, thank you!
Rossi said outdoor dining has been boon, but as winter nears, she worries about whether customers will keep coming if they can only eat indoors. She also is concerned about another shutdown, given that parts of Europe have again begun to restrict commerce.
“It is possible,” Rossi said of another local shutdown. “There is real no clear answer . . . just wait and see.”
I think another shutdown is a lead-pipe cinch even if it is completely unwarranted and a damnable lie.
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"The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell for a second week while remaining elevated, as the labor market makes scant progress amid risks of further weakness without additional federal stimulus. Seven months into the pandemic, initial claims nationally are still about four times the pre-virus level, and higher than the peak of the 2007-09 recession. The report came with the same major caveat as last week: The figures from California, the most populous state, used numbers identical to the previous week because the state temporarily halted acceptance of new applications for two weeks to improve its systems and address a backlog of filings. The slight drop in new claims underscores the gradual improvement that the labor market has seen since the initial lockdowns of the pandemic eased. Even so, recent layoff announcements from companies including Walt Disney Co. and Allstate Corp. as well as multiple airlines could start showing up in the numbers in the coming weeks. At the same time, President Trump’s mixed messages on additional federal stimulus have fueled more uncertainty across the world’s largest economy as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warns it will face longer-lasting scars and a weak recovery without sufficient aid....."
He won't be the main attraction much longer even as U.S. stocks rose to almost five-week highs because traders speculated that lawmakers will eventually provide more stimulus and Facebooks ban on political ads raises alarm over election that is a crap shoot at best.
