Related: A COVID-19 Coup
The Boston Globe is by his bedside, as this is today's front-page, above-the-fold, upper-right corner lead:
"Conflicting messages reign over update to Trump’s health" by Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman New York Times, October 3, 2020
WASHINGTON — The White House offered a barrage of conflicting messages and contradictory accounts about President Trump’s health Saturday as he remained hospitalized with the coronavirus for a second night and the outbreak spread to a wider swath of his political allies.
Sort of like reading the American pre$$ every morning.
Just minutes after the president’s doctors painted a rosy picture of his condition on television, Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, gave reporters outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center a far more sober assessment off camera, calling Trump’s vital signs worrisome and warning that the next two days would be pivotal to the outcome of the illness.
A video posted online captured Meadows approaching the pool reporters outside Walter Reed after the doctors' televised briefing and asking to speak off the record, making it clear who the unnamed source was.
The comments infuriated the president, according to people close to the situation, and he intervened to counter the perception he was sicker than the White House had admitted. He released a four-minute video Saturday evening on Twitter, showing him sitting at a conference table at the hospital and wearing a suit jacket but no tie. He looked wan and sounded less energetic than usual.
He acknowledged he “wasn’t feeling so well,” adding that he felt “much better now. I think I’ll be back soon, and I look forward to finishing up the campaign the way we started,” he said, although he acknowledged, like Meadows, that the next few days would be the real test.
He is dying, folks. They are killing him.
His explanation for why he had gone to the hospital was muddled and unclear. “I had no choice,” he said. “I just didn’t want to stay in the White House.” He said he had been given that option but framed the decision to go to the hospital as an act of boldness rather than weakness. “I can’t be locked up in a room upstairs and totally safe and just say, ‘Hey, whatever happens happens,’” Trump said. “I can’t do that. We have to confront problems.”
He is non compos mentis.
The mixed messages only exacerbated the confusion surrounding the president’s situation. During their televised briefing, the doctors refused to provide important details and gave timelines that conflicted with earlier White House accounts, leaving the impression the president had begun treatment earlier than officially reported. The White House physician later released a statement claiming he and his colleagues misspoke.
The inconsistencies may presage an unsettling period for the president and the country. As the doctors indicated, it may be a week to 10 days before the course of Trump’s illness becomes clear, leaving America, as well as its allies and adversaries, guessing as to the state of leadership in the final days of a momentous election campaign.
White House officials sought to project as much of a business-as-usual image as possible, insisting that the president could govern from his hospital bed and that there was no need to transfer power to Vice President Mike Pence.
In reality, Trump has had difficult, even scary moments since being diagnosed with the virus. Two people close to the White House said in interviews that the president had trouble breathing Friday and that his oxygen level had dropped, prompting his doctors to give him supplemental oxygen while he was at the White House and then transferring him to the hospital.....
After that, the Times article turns into a polemic as to why Barrett shouldn't go through to the Supreme Court.
The political propaganda is so blatantly obvious these days it is literally sickening.
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Did you see who is coming to the rescue?
Supporters of President Trump participated in a boat rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Saturday (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images).
Companion piece to the left is the Globe's diagnosis:
"Confusion about Trump’s COVID-19 infection fits a long pattern of skimpy details about presidential health; The president may have been diagnosed earlier, in worse condition than aides had let on so far" by David Abel Globe Staff, October 3, 2020
The whipsaw of conflicting statements and unanswered questions about the status of President Trump’s fight against COVID-19 Saturday fits a pattern of the administration distorting the truth about his health, a line of deception with a long precedent in US politics.
In newspapers, too, you four-flushing sacks of hypocritical $hit.
As the president’s doctor and aides created vast confusion about his condition and treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, bioethicists and historians said the mistruths and dubious claims that have characterized Trump’s health disclosures over the years made the current uncertainty all too predictable.
They are not only kicking him into the grave, they are spitting all over him.
This is the most sickening "journali$m" I have ever read.
The Globe is an abomination these days, and unreadable.
“Clearly, transparency is completely out the door,” said Dr. Kavita Patel, a primary care physician and scholar of health policy at the Brookings Institution, after the president’s physician spoke to the press on Saturday morning. “This is just so bizarre. I’ve never seen anything like it. We’re talking about conflicting statements about something that is not subjective.”
In the space of just a few hours on Saturday, a briefing by the president’s doctors that promised to clarify Trump’s health instead only further fueled doubts about how the administration has managed this blockbuster development just weeks before the election.
The revelation that Trump had been diagnosed with COVID-19 comes after years of misinformation about the 74-year-old’s health, and many worry the public will continue to be left in the dark about his condition.
That's why the pre$$ hates him. He is encroaching on their turf!
“The truth is that nobody other than the president, his physicians, and those in his inner circle know the full truth,” said Dr. Jacob Appel, a Mount Sinai School of Medicine psychiatrist who has studied the health of politicians and presidents. “If history is any guide, we will not know the extent and details of President Trump’s illness until long after he has left office.”
Those concerns intensified Saturday when Navy Commander Dr. Sean Conley, Trump’s physician, failed to answer basic questions about the president’s health.
Appel and others said that complete disclosure about the president’s health has never been more needed than now, given that the nation is a month away from a presidential election and Trump has been infected with a virus that has killed more than 208,000 Americans and infected 7.3 million others.
Others argued that the nation’s long history of obscurity surrounding presidents’ health — from the lack of disclosure about the severity of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s polio to Ronald Reagan’s condition after being shot — has changed in the era of social media and a nonstop news cycle.
“We live in a much more transparent time,” said Roger Porter, a government professor who for years has taught a course on the American presidency at Harvard University. “There is little likelihood that, even if they wanted to, presidents today could conceal much for long about their health circumstances,” but Arthur Caplan, director of medical ethics at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, wasn’t optimistic the public will be better informed as Trump copes with the coronavirus.
He noted that Trump’s doctors can only speak about the president’s health if he authorizes them to do so.
“Politics drives what we learn about ailing presidents,” he said. “I expect nothing different now, given that everyone working inside the White House understands that the political arm controls the messaging.”
Just rhetorically wondering why the criminal Bill Clinton floats above it all while being applauded.
There will be many questions in the coming days, such as: Will the president’s health permit him to take part in future debates, even if virtual? Is he healthy enough to manage the country, and stand for reelection? Will the disease impair his cognition or affect his long-term health? Is the president really in charge of the country, or is someone else overseeing his duties?
“There are many, many reasons for transparency to be pushed to the forefront,” Caplan said. “The American people need to know the health status and prospects of a presidential candidate 30 days to the election. The administration has a duty to inform the public.”
Unless it is Biden's dementia!
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More importantly and also above the fold, Cam Newton is out for the Patriots game.
I flip below the fold and find the Trump voter, and I'm sure there is a subtle message in there somewhere.
"Now that his COVID-19 diagnosis has made Trump the face of the global pandemic a month before Election Day, some of his most ardent supporters said he has handled the crisis as well as could be expected, and they are not abandoning their candidate at his hour of reckoning....."
Ooooh.
HOW OMINOUS!
It must be the final chapter in Trump’s presidency, and fittingly so!
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Flipping through the rest of the paper I find:
"Covid-19 has proved itself an unpredictable and ever-changing threat. As President Trump and some of his allies and associates test positive for the coronavirus, the number of new cases reported each day across the United States has been slowly rising. The U.S. is at a key moment in the pandemic. Spread of the virus could worsen significantly through the autumn, experts fear, as colder weather forces people indoors. Winter, paired with a new flu season, could make the precarious situation of today even worse. Every day, some 43,000 new cases are being reported — far fewer than were being identified during the surge in the summer, but still an uncomfortably large number, but the pace has been ticking upward slowly since the middle of September as the virus reached parts of the country that hadn’t been hit hard before. By this weekend, 7.3 million people in the United States — some of them at the highest reaches of the federal government — were known to have been infected. More than 208,000 people have died. Some of the country’s least populous states are now seeing its highest infection rates. When coastal cities suffered in the spring, cases remained relatively scarce across most of the Northern Plains and rural West, but since late summer, North Dakota and South Dakota have added more cases per capita than any other state. Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana have set troubling new records as well. In North Dakota, state officials met with hospital executives recently to ensure there would be enough space in hospitals as cases surged around Bismarck, and health care workers said they were working overtime to meet the sudden rise. Leaders in Montana urged residents to take precautions as they warned of an uncertain new phase. Northeastern Wisconsin, a politically mixed region that also happens to be crucial to both parties’ hopes of winning the presidency, is facing one of the country’s most widespread, uncontrolled outbreaks right now....."
That's the New York Times, which knows about the false positives and inflated death totals but they act as if they never reported such things.
"Misery in the Sun Belt has receded, helping to hold down the nation’s new case growth despite increases in the Midwest and West. Florida is now averaging about 2,300 new cases a day, roughly one-fifth of what it was seeing at its worst. In Arizona, where overtaxed hospital capacity was once a concern, intensive care beds are now plentiful, and daily case reports have dropped to about 500 on average, down from more than 3,600. New infections have also plunged in California, Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina. Mississippi, Texas and Alabama have made significant progress since midsummer as well, though case numbers there remain persistently high....."
Keep Arizona in mind, and God bless Florida.
Time to call out this FRAUD, folks, and open up with no restrictions.
Sweden got it right, our criminal leaders got it wrong (with intent).
"Doctors marched with their families and a few friends in Greece’s second-largest city Saturday not to protest, but to debunk misinformation about face masks circulating during the coronavirus pandemic. A few dozen people fast-walked and ran 2 kilometers (1.25 miles) through central Thessaloniki while wearing face masks and then measured their oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, finding them all normal. Opponents of mandatory face mask use have spread the claim that wearing face coverings makes people short of breath and actually is bad for their health. Doctors specializing in respiratory medicine wanted to prove them wrong....."
Criminal doctors promoting something that will harm you!
They should be ashamed of themselves, as should this pedophile pervert:
"Pope Francis travelled to the tomb of his nature-loving namesake and signed an encyclical Saturday laying out his vision of a post-COVID world built on solidarity, fraternity and care for the environment. For Francis, the coronavirus pandemic has only confirmed his beliefs on the interconnectedness of the health of the planet and the people who live on it. For weeks, he has preached of the need to use the pandemic as an opportunity to reform global economic, political and social structures to ensure that the world’s most marginalized people aren’t left even farther behind after the coronavirus passes....."
That sick f**k is right out front when it comes to pitching the WEF's Great Re$et, and it is no longer any surprise that the Catholic Church is pure evil and in league with Satan.
Related: Pope Benedict XVI approved bishop accord with China
Everyone has their place in the Jew World Order hierarchy.
India’s COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000
That's according to the New York Times, and what are they doing to that kid in the photograph?
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Indian man carries on cremating virus dead
He is shunned by many but not the Associated Press.
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Slow, basic science may pay off
Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press lets you know who the front-runners are for the self-adulating, self-$erving Nobel Prizes in COVID-19.
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"Contact tracing, key to reining in the coronavirus, falls flat in US, Europe" by Benjamin Mueller New York Times, October 4, 2020
Yeah, right, the contact tracing isn't working here or in Europe.
Talk about misdirection and misinformation.
This is published to make you think the current tyranny is weak and must be toughened up.
LONDON — As the coronavirus stampeded across Europe and the United States this spring, governments made their depleted citizens a tantalizing promise: Soon, legions of disease detectives would hunt down anyone exposed to the virus, confining them to their homes and letting everyone else get on with their lives.
Yeah, the tantalizing(!) government promises of tyranny that would make us safe.
This rot is really f**king sickening, folks.
Nearly eight months on, as a web of new infections spreads across Europe and the United States, that promise has nearly evaporated.
Despite repeated vows by Western nations to develop “world-beating” testing and tracing operations, those systems have been undone by a failure of governments to support citizens through onerous quarantines or to draw out intimate details of their whereabouts. That has shattered the hope of pinpoint measures replacing lockdowns and undermined flagging confidence in governments.
I went pffft at the end of this paragraph.
Beholden to privacy rules, Western officials largely trusted people to hand over names to contact tracers, but that trust was not repaid, in large part because governments neglected services that were crucial to winning people’s cooperation: a fast and accurate testing system and guarantees that people would be housed, fed and paid while they isolated.
Look at the stinking elitist New York Times roll out the guilt trip on people who are legitimately distrustful of lying, tyrannical governments and the pre$$ mouthpieces that bullhorn their bull$hit.
You have to earn trust, a$$holes, and as it stands you and governments have totally forfeited that and will never be believed again unless you expose and end this COVID hoax and halt the Great Re$et.
They won't, of cour$e, and beyond that, you are worthless and despite thinking you will be part of the New Order, you will be dispatched when there is no longer a need for newspapers or pre$$ at all. Enjoy participating in your own destruction.
Crucially, many Western governments have failed to cushion the financial and psychological blow of self-isolation by guaranteeing people tests or giving them enough money to weather two weeks without work.
Why would they want to cushion something they imposed, especially when we all got rich?
“Public health leaders fell in love with the idea of contact tracing as an important tactic — and it is — but that’d be like if you’re going into war and were just talking about the tanks,” said Brian Castrucci, president of the de Beaumont Foundation, a public health charity in Maryland.
The WAR is ON YOU and ME, readers!
Just as important, officials overlooked the impact of raging mistrust in government and a thicket of conspiracy theories about the virus’s spread. Fearful of plunging themselves or their friends into a painful period off work, infected patients have handed over a paltry number of contacts and often flouted self-isolation rules. Contact tracers are struggling to reach people who test positive and being rebuffed once they do.
Good. There is still hope for us all then.
In theory, countries were to build mass testing programs that would provide quick diagnoses. Then a group of tracers would find others who had crossed paths with the infected person and tell them to stay home.
90% of those would be non-infectious, but don't let that stop the pre$$ lies from continuing.
Elected officials presented the system as a critical bridge between lockdown and a vaccine, allowing them to contain small outbreaks without shutting down large parts of society, but construction of that bridge has been rocky, at best.
The West’s public health systems have not matched the success in parts of East Asia where the fear of epidemics became more ingrained after outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
Following those outbreaks, places like Taiwan and South Korea built robust tracing systems and legal frameworks for limiting civil liberties during an epidemic. Some contact tracers have used cellphone and credit card data to identify people who were potentially exposed, but in Europe and the United States, which have largely relied on the public to provide information and follow quarantine rules voluntarily, the response has been spotty.
POTENTIALLY EXPOSED?
The argument from the NYT here seems to be that Western governments need to get rid of those pesky constitutional civil liberties, huh?
The West also ran up against the blunt fact that contact tracing, while useful in containing limited cases, has become overwhelmed by a new explosion of infections.....
It's based on “bad math,” but whatever.
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"This past week, a White House long in denial confronted reality after Trump and the first lady both tested positive for the virus, but behind the White House gates, Trump and his aides relied heavily on the daily rapid testing available to them. At times Trump took numerous rapid tests throughout the day. Aides were divided on the risks. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, and Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, were among the least concerned, colleagues said. They viewed themselves as protected because of the testing available to them and maintained that getting the virus was not a death sentence......"
The article came from Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, and as with the protesters in Israel, I now find myself in the boat with the Chabadnik Kushner. The times in which we live are delivering strange bedfellows indeed!
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"They Cheered Trump in Minnesota, at the Last Big Rally Before His Virus Test; After President Trump tested positive, some Minnesota Republicans were undergoing tests, while others said they were unconcerned about potential risks" by Julie Bosman, New York Times | Oct. 3, 2020
The scene at the airport in Duluth, Minn., on Wednesday night was jubilant and carefree, despite the 40-degree temperatures, pelting rain and blustery wind blowing toward Lake Superior. A 3,000-person audience cheered for President Trump, who spoke for 45 minutes and tossed hats into the approving crowd.
Two days later, the Minnesotans who were there are replaying the event in their heads with one new and gut-wrenching piece of information: Mr. Trump is infected with the coronavirus.
The people who attended the rally in Duluth, many wearing the red-and-black plaid that is an unofficial uniform of the logging industry, made up the last crowd of that scale to see Mr. Trump before the coronavirus diagnosis that shocked the world early Friday morning. They are feeling the reverberations in Minnesota, where Mr. Trump had attended a private fund-raiser near the Twin Cities, followed by the large rally in Duluth, before heading back to Washington.
In the front row of the event in Duluth, Cal Warwas, 44, an employee at a Minnesota mine, watched Mr. Trump with a group of friends. Mr. Trump seemed happy to be there, he recalled, unbothered by the cold temperatures in his navy overcoat, even as Mr. Warwas — a hardy resident of the state’s northern Iron Range — felt his own teeth chattering.
Why would it be so cold in this age of climate change and global warming?
Maybe Trump caught a cold and they called it COVID?
“I was fortunate,” Mr. Warwas said, adding that he was especially lucky to have seen Mr. Trump before his campaign was sidelined by the coronavirus. “I look at it more fondly now.”
Mr. Warwas said he was not worried that he could have contracted the virus from the event or the president, who he believed would make a full recovery, but elected officials who recently met with Mr. Trump are now taking precautions. People at the rally said that though they felt relatively safe from the virus in Duluth, they were still thinking back on how tightly the crowd was spaced, whom they might have spoken to, and whether the coronavirus precautions that organizers had arranged were sufficient.
Big rallies are Mr. Trump’s campaign signature, and he had for months been pushing to bring them back, even as cases of the coronavirus remained persistently high across the country and as critics questioned the wisdom of bringing large groups of people together in places like Tulsa, Okla. In recent weeks, he staged a series of such rallies in outdoor airport hangars in battleground states like North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona, New Hampshire and — on Wednesday night — Minnesota.
So they say, as the death rate plummets.
Can't have it both ways, unless the PTB are planning to release a far deadlier pathogen soon.
In Duluth, many said that they felt safe in the outdoor environment of the airport and that seeing the president was worth any small risk. Attendees were screened at the entrance and submitted to temperature checks. Hand sanitizer stations had been set up. Volunteers offered masks at entrances, and attempted to space people away from one another, said Laurio Brown, a realtor in Hibbing who drove down to Duluth with his son.
They should have been given the $cientific approval of protests!
Mr. Trump’s speech was funny, sprinkled with one-liners, and full of promises to open up more mines and create jobs in northern Minnesota, he said.
“I think the president looked a little tired at the time, but it was after 8 at night when he landed,” Mr. Brown, 61, said. “I have no regrets, no qualms. I would do it again. The opportunity for me and my son to see our president 25 feet away from us was an amazing experience that I’ll never forget.”
Mike Schulz, 59, of Maple Lake, went to the Duluth rally with his girlfriend, her sister and her sister’s boyfriend. They took their places up front, less than 20 feet from Mr. Trump. “I was dead center, right in front of him,” he recalled.
Mr. Schulz dressed warmly in a red, white and blue windbreaker and a “Make America Great Again” hat. He did not bring a face covering.
“We’re not mask-wearers,” he said.
You soon will be, mandated by the state.
Reports of new cases have spiked recently in Minnesota, reaching an average of more than 1,000 per day for the first time. Rural areas of the state are faring the worst right now on a per capita basis, with especially worrisome trends in southern and southwestern counties, and the Duluth metro area has averaged more than 60 cases per day over the last week, the most of any point in the pandemic.
State health officials on Friday issued guidance about the president’s visit.
“Anyone who was in direct contact with President Trump or known Covid-19 cases needs to quarantine and should get tested,” said Kris Ehresmann, director of the Minnesota Department of Health’s Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Division.
“There is a potential risk that transmission occurred at the Duluth rally and other events associated with President Trump’s visit,” she said.
But not in Minneapolis, right?
Community transmission of the coronavirus was high in the county before the rally, and people at the rally may have been infectious without knowing it, Ms. Ehresmann said, so the department is focusing on limiting the ripple effects and slowing secondary transmission that may result.
Then HOW FATAL can it BE?
So SICK they DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT!
By Friday evening, the Trump campaign said that two rallies set for the weekend in Green Bay and Janesville, Wis., had been canceled, as Mr. Trump focused on recovering from the virus at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.....
Pretty hard to campaign from there.
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"The President’s Illness Is Yet Another Dividing Line in the Trump Era; In a different moment, a stricken leader might have rallied people behind him, but President Trump’s health crisis is filtered through the partisan lenses that divide Americans on seemingly every issue" by Jennifer Medina and Trip Gabriel, New York Times | Oct. 3, 2020
It's the New York Times and the rest of the pre$$ gaggle that is the most divisive force in this country, period!
PHOENIX —The pandemic could have been a great unifier — a widespread and life-altering tragedy that inspired a notion of shared national purpose, as at other moments of crisis in the country’s past, and perhaps in another moment, in another place, a president falling ill would have seen citizens keeping vigil regardless of political affiliation, but the coronavirus, which has sickened more than seven million Americans, including the president, the first lady and a growing number of people in his inner circle, has deepened divisions rather than united the country.
Related: The COVID-19 Virus Has Finally Been Isolated
Now, a month before Election Day and with the president in the hospital, interviews with voters in some of the most contested battleground states make clear that the divisions that the president himself has stoked in the country are being reflected back at him, with his supporters defiantly insisting he will hold rallies again before Nov. 3 and Democrats, if not wishing him a turn for the worse, certainly not shedding any tears.
That's odd because yesterday I was told different story!
There are few places in the country where difference in partisan perspectives is so obvious as it is in Phoenix, one of the nation’s biggest cities within a battleground state that has had some of the highest infection rates in the country. The alternate realities can be seen in the basic approach to the campaign field offices: The Trump operation has held in-person events for weeks, with temperature screenings but no mask requirements. The Biden team opened two local offices last week, requiring supporters to wait six feet apart outside, under stifling triple-digit heat, before quickly picking up yard signs.
There is only one true reality.
SIGH!
Concern over the virus in Phoenix lined up as neatly along partisan lines.
Remember what the brief above said above about Arizona?
The case levels are dropping and hospitals are empty.
In other battleground states around the country, the voters each campaign is working hardest to win over churned with a chaotic mix of thoughts and feelings on Friday, including concern for the country if Mr. Trump’s health worsens, private (and not so private) gloating, and resignation that what might have been a unifying national moment, most likely will not be.
They are not only pushing him to resign, they are trying to kick him into the grave.
Mostly, responses were filtered through the partisan lenses that have divided Americans on seemingly every issue during the Trump years, both consequential and trivial.
Like my new$paper!
Many Biden supporters expressed varying degrees of satisfaction that Mr. Trump was experiencing a karmic shock after half a year of playing down the pandemic, which has claimed more than 205,000 Americans. In Philadelphia, Eric Johnson, a roofer who supports Mr. Biden, hoped the illness might lead to change in the president’s attitude. “It will open his eyes now,’’ he said.
Oh, man, what EVIL on that side of the aisle!
I'm sure his EYES are WIDE OPEN NOW, and the Biden supporters better beware of their own karmic rebound!
I would like to add for the record that I never wished harm to come on Bush or Obama, both of whom I loathe. I'm not going to go back and find the links, but maybe you can search for them. They are there.
Joyce Brodsky, a retired art teacher in Kewadin, Mich., noting how Mr. Biden and his wife, Jill, extended sympathy to the Trumps, said she was unable to feel so selfless. “I’m more of a ‘serves you right’ type of person,’’ she said.
While some Biden supporters spoke of the president’s illness as payback — for holding rallies, mocking Mr. Biden for wearing masks, generally refusing to wear a mask himself — Cliff Canaan, in Philadelphia, had only one comeuppance in mind: being able to vote Mr. Trump out on Nov. 3.
He may rob you of that revenge by dying or withdrawing due to health reasons, HA!
Many Biden supporters expressed the hope that Mr. Trump and his ardent base would stop turning health experts’ guidance into cause for partisan warfare, but that seemed unlikely. Mr. Trump’s supporters, for their part, were eager to wish him well, and move forward.....
His supporters are an afterthought to the NYT, and I'm going to move forward as well and as I do I am going to pray for the President of the United States.
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"So great was the threat posed by COVID-19 that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called off floor proceedings but not Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s hearings, slated to begin Oct. 12....."
Her first case could be whether the abortion pill can be prescribed via telehealth.
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"Shortly after Sen. Kamala D. Harris became Joe Biden’s running mate, the Democratic National Committee began receiving thousands of donations in the precise amount of $19.08, without any obvious explanation. Soon, it became clear that the donations were a tribute to Harris (Calif.) from fellow members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, a Black women’s organization founded in 1908. As of Friday, the DNC had received 14,408 donations in that amount, for a total approaching $275,000, and they continue to arrive. The contributions are a sign of how AKA, a close-knit network of Black women nationwide, has mobilized behind Harris. AKA cannot make official endorsements, so the work is less overt — members show up at Harris events, give money, organize get-out-the-vote efforts, network on how best to support the cause. To some members, this is a version of the informal but powerful networks that have long supported White men: alumni groups, fraternal organizations, business associations. Harris was initiated into AKA at Howard University in Washington in 1986, and many members speak of being deeply moved by finally seeing one of their own on a major-party ticket....."
The Globe is of the idea that to save our democracy (and our sanity), we must blow up the two-party system (they are for Nader now?), and they have a plan on how to do it without squandering your vote, you perplexing — and vexing — undecided voter who still can’t choose between Trump and Biden.
Also see:
Trump urges stimulus deal from Walter Reed
Big obstacles remain according to Jeff Stein of the Washington Post.
Recordings reveal confusion behind Breonna Taylor’s death
In this Sept. 25, 2020, file photo, Black Lives Matter protesters march in Louisville (Darron Cummings/Associated Press).
I see a few masks down and some that do not cover the nose, so it's a good thing agenda-pushing protests are immune to COVID!
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Start of second half of A-section:
Germany’s Far Right Reunified, Too, Making It Much Stronger
And you “thought democracy had won” the second World War!
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"Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, in the twilight of her long tenure, has her eye firmly on securing her legacy as the de facto leader of Europe....."
Related: Europe still awaits the unity heralded by German reunification
It's a reminder to keep your expectations realistic — and never trust a pinky promise from a dictator.
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Floodgates in Venice Work in First Major Test
The New York Times opens the floodgates there in service to the climate agenda with no mention at all of COVID.
Mountain flooding kills 2 in Italy, traps dozens in France
Same with that deluge from the AP.
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"The event began as Fat Bear Tuesday in 2014, and expanded into a weeklong contest a year later to raise awareness about the wildlife in the park and preserve, the home to about 2,200 brown bears. “People love bears and they love a good competition,” said Amber Kraft, a spokeswoman for the park, which stretches about 4.1 million acres southwest of Anchorage. “This year, in particular, Fat Bear Week is a nice break from everything else going on,” she added. Last year’s contest drew more than 200,000 votes, Ms. Kraft said. This year’s tournament began on Sept. 30 and runs through Oct. 6 and features 12 contestants. May the plumpest bear win. Park rangers have created a March Madness-like game out of the contest by pitting pairs of bears against each other — for votes — and asking the public to choose their favorite heavyweights. This year, to allow more people to take part, voting moved off Facebook and onto a website hosted by explore.org, a network that includes more than 150 live nature webcams. The bear with the most votes advances to the next round. (The losers can, well, go back to eating.) The finals take place Oct. 6, when one bear will be crowned the big champ. What does the bear win? A moment of social media fame, also the likelihood of surviving winter. To show the bears’ drastic weight gains, the park shows photos of them before and after they began packing on the pounds this summer....."
No COVID in Alaska, either, and let's hope there are enough salmon for them to eat.
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Washington State Officials Hunt for Colony of ‘Murder Hornets’
I'm told the search has taken on particular urgency as the Asian giant hornets are about to enter their “slaughter phase,” during which they kill bees by decapitating them.
FLASHBACK:
‘Murder hornets’ arrive in US for first time
It's New York Times buzz that completely ignores colony collapse disorder and the alleged pesticides that caused it (meaning the likely culprit is the GMOs) and instead we get a story that an Asian (Chinese) super-hornet is genociding the bees.
As I was setting up this post it occurred to me that the destruction of bees could also be due to 5G.
The New York Times was in a rush to stop the murder hornets in the U.S. back in July, and it just occurred to me that the hornets are another "gift" from China, right?
I suppose it is no coincidence that the section ends with 10 pages of obituaries.
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The $elf-$erving Globe Santa appeal is the lead story in the Metro section, with columnist Yvonne Abraham opining on Trump’s dangerous beliefs — and those of his party!
He's dangerous because he is running a fever, and if only kids in Bo$ton could belonging and escape in $ports, huh?
Of course, COVID is now haunting the $ports world.
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Shattuck Awards to honor a dozen city workers and civic leaders
Ten city employees will receive Public Service awards and two City of Champion awards will be presented to a business and to a nonprofit leader during a celebration that will be held virtually Tuesday due to COVID-19 restrictions.
It should be a brief ceremony then:
One dead, one injured in high-speed crash
Explosive devices seized from home
No trick-or-treating at houses
That is in Worcester, per guidance from the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Then it is no fair at all, is it?
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Nearly one-third of patients at Plymouth DOC facility test positive for COVID-19
They can release more murderers, rapist, and robbers to make way for all the social distance and mask violators, and....
"The reports come as the nation’s attention was on President Trump, who tested positive for coronavirus and on Friday afternoon was transported to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. As of Saturday, there were more than 1 million global deaths due to COVID-19, and more than 34.7 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the US, there have been about 209,000 deaths and more than 7.3 million cases. A total of 9,292 deaths have occurred in Massachusetts among people with confirmed cases of the disease, the state reported Saturday. There have been 131,814 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state. Also on Saturday, the state’s Department of Correction reported 28 male patients at the Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center in Plymouth have tested positive for the coronavirus. Eleven employees with Wellpath, the company that handles inmate health care for the Department of Correction, also tested positive for the disease, according to a statement Saturday....."
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Marchers in Chelsea decry Breonna Taylor death, decision
It was a march of about 60 people, and COVID was no where in sight!
I suppose it is impossible to meet halfway at this point, so.....
Art shows beckon us to visit in person this fall
I'll pass, especially since we can't attend outdoor sporting events!
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At this point, I am of the opinion that I am out of Ideas:
Expand American influence around the world
The argument is increase the militaristic Empire or else China will fill our shoes.
For our own sake and the world’s, America must pull back
It looks good, but the author is part of a George Soros and Charles Koch team up to end US ‘forever war’ policy, with the group's mission to put an end to endless wars.
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On a final note, I will be visiting a friend I have not seen in a long time and will be watching football because I want to share last few moments of "normalcy" I'll ever have again with someone I love.
I won't be making things insufferable for him with commentary concerning this blog, either, and what is amazing is just the other day he texted me that he thinks they infected Trump at the debate -- something I had not considered as the pre$$ claims it was in the Rose Garden -- and he doesn't follow things closely like I do!
More and more people are becoming aware and sensing the evil machinations that are occurring in the dark shadows and out of sight, folks, and I pray the deathbed that is being prepared is for the Great Re$et and that crowd.
Have a good Sunday, dear readers, and pray for the President of the United States.
Thank you.
Oddly, as I finished this post for publishing, four huge military cargo and transport craft flew directly over my house at near tree top level!
I have no idea what is going on, but such a thing is a rare occurrence indeed.
