"Biden’s running mate is Kamala Harris, first woman of color on major party’s ticket" by Liz Goodwin, Jazmine Ulloa and Jess Bidgood Globe Staff, August 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden made history Tuesday by tapping Senator Kamala Harris of California to be his running mate, elevating the first Black and Asian Pacific American ever to that role ahead of next week’s party convention.
Biden announced the long-awaited decision via Twitter, calling Harris “a fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the country’s finest public servants.” His campaign said the two will deliver remarks together Wednesday in Wilmington, Del., then attend a virtual fund-raiser.
Harris said in a tweet that she was “honored” to join Biden’s ticket, declaring he “can unify the American people because he’s spent his life fighting for us, and as president, he’ll build an America that lives up to our ideals.”
She sold out after the desegregated bus ride.
Harris, 55, the former attorney general of California and the only Black woman in the US Senate, clashed with Biden on the issue of race during her short-lived presidential run last year, but she later shot to the top of his vice presidential list as he vowed to pick a woman and underscored the importance of experience.
Meaning she had the least baggage.
Only two other women have been major party vice presidential nominees, Geraldine Ferraro for the Democrats in 1984 and Sarah Palin for the Republicans in 2008, and neither won.....
If not now, when, right?
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This was straddling the front page:
"In Kamala Harris, a Choice at Once Safe and Energizing" by Jonathan Martin and Astead W. Herndon New York Times, August 11, 2020
WASHINGTON — In naming Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden made a groundbreaking decision, picking a woman of color to be vice president and, possibly, a successor in the White House someday, yet in some ways, Biden made a conventional choice: elevating a senator who brings generational and coastal balance to the Democratic ticket and shares his center-left politics at a time of progressive change in the party.
Unlike Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who selected veteran Washington hands as their vice presidents, Biden, 77, is opting for a time-honored model in which running mates are not just governing partners but political understudies of sorts. Pegged as a rising star for a decade, but with less than four years of experience in the Senate — she was 8 years old when Biden was first elected to the chamber — Harris, 55, reflects a traditional archetype in an election year that has been anything but normal.
She is also a thoroughly establishment-friendly figure, as is Biden: Both have hewed closely to their party’s mainstream for years, shifting left with the times but always with an eye on the broader electorate and higher office. He long said he wanted someone “simpatico” with him and, in Harris, he found that person, at least when it comes to ideology.
Progressive Democrats now find themselves led by two moderates with relatively cautious political instincts, even as activist energy courses through the party and left-wing challengers unseat some incumbents. The mostly young protesters filling the streets of nearly every US city to decry police brutality and President Trump are represented by two figures who have offered sympathetic words and proposals but whose careers have been shaped by their relationship with law enforcement.
Did the New York Times just tie them to the rioters or what?
“She’s not of the far-left of the party; she’s a former prosecutor,” Janet Napolitano, the former Arizona governor and Homeland Security secretary, said of Harris, “and when you’re a prosecutor you have to make some tough calls.”
While it may repel some younger liberals, Harris’s history as San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general may be more asset than liability for more moderate voters, as it has been for Napolitano and so many women in politics who began their ascent as prosecutors.
You know where to go.
Biden spurned those progressives who wanted their consensus-oriented standard-bearer to elevate a liberal like Senator Elizabeth Warren, instead picking a prominent leader from the demographic that resurrected his campaign in the Democratic primary. By doing what Hillary Clinton did not do four years ago and choosing a Black running mate, he may give the party’s most loyal voters a reason, beyond animus toward Trump, to work for and elect the ticket.
Warren could still be a key player in a Biden administration, and I say stick her at the CFPB where she can't do any harm.
Most consequentially of all, though, is what Biden’s decision may mean to the future of his party. Even though some of his own advisers expressed unease about any running mate who might quickly begin eyeing a future presidential bid, even in 2024 if he does not run again, Biden decided to give Harris a head start on becoming the country’s first female president.
I think Biden turns the reigns over in six months tops if they manage to steal this election.
Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, said Biden’s selection proved that he is prioritizing the Black electorate in the general election, and rewarding them for supporting him in the primary. “It will energize Black voters because they can now see themselves in the ticket,” Johnson said.....
Can we at least examine her record before monolithically marching in lockstep behind the facade?
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The Globe's Michael Cohen says Harris is the safe, smart pick and the selection brings excitement to a ticket that is not overflowing with energy as Trump is preparing to sabotage the election, and I think Biden missed the mark with the insult.
Related:
"Welcome to the party, Kamala Harris. The white smoke finally rose Tuesday, as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden picked the California senator as his running mate....."
Look at Walker make like she's a Pope, and how much you want to bet gun control will be a big issue and not foreign policy or the wars?
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Now to the task at hand:
"Chicago Police Arrest More Than 100 People After Looting Batters Downtown" by Julie Bosman, Christine Hauser and Johnny Diaz, New York Times | Aug. 10, 2020
CHICAGO — All summer, demonstrators have marched through Chicago to protest police misconduct. In many neighborhoods, gun violence has been unrelenting, soaring to levels not seen in decades. The coronavirus pandemic is resurging, now sickening hundreds of people each day.
Then early Monday morning, hundreds of people, spurred by a police shooting and by calls on social media to take action in the gleaming heart of the city, converged on the Magnificent Mile, Chicago’s most famous shopping district. They broke windows, looted stores and clashed with the police, a chaotic and confusing scene that prompted city officials to briefly raise bridges downtown and halt nearby public transit to stem the unrest. Two people were shot and at least 13 police officers were injured.
The events instantly played into the broader political dynamics of this season, in which President Trump has regularly portrayed Chicago as a poorly governed hotbed of violent crime. Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a Democrat, expressed fury over the violence and ordered limited access to downtown starting Monday evening, but with a debate still fresh over federal agents sent to Portland, Ore., Lightfoot made it clear that she did not want military troops brought in, despite a call for help from the National Guard from at least one Republican leader in the Illinois House.
“No, we do not need federal troops in Chicago, period, full stop,” Lightfoot said. She drew a distinction between the unrest overnight and what she described as a “righteous uprising” after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May. “We are waking up in shock this morning,” Lightfoot said at a news conference. “What occurred downtown and in surrounding communities was abject criminal behavior, pure and simple.”
She is without a doubt the worst mayor in the country, and that is saying a lot!
She is shocked, huh?
How naive!
Lightfoot condemned the violence in Chicago after hundreds of people converged for a night of unrest, which led to the looting of stores and clashes with the police: “What occurred in our downtown and surrounding communities was abject criminal behavior, pure and simple, and there cannot be any excuse for it, period. This is not a legitimate First Amendment protected speech. These were not poor people engaged in petty theft to feed themselves and their families. This was straight-up felony criminal conduct, and to those who engaged in this criminal behavior let’s be clear, we are coming for you. We are already at work on finding you, and we will intend to hold you accountable for your actions. I don’t care, I do not care whatever justification was given for this. There is no justification for criminal behavior ever.”
The reason the damn Democrats are turning against the $oro$-in$pired monsters are because the criminal "unrest" is helping Trump!
More than 400 officers responded to the unrest downtown and arrested more than 100 people on charges of disorderly conduct, looting and battery against the police.
The events left Chicagoans shaken and wondering what had sparked the burst of vandalism that destroyed storefronts and littered sidewalks with debris on one of the most recognizable avenues in the city. Since spring, downtown Chicago has often had a quiet, eerie feel, without the hordes of tourists and commuters that usually fill the sidewalks, theaters, restaurants and bars. Office vacancies remain high because of fears over the coronavirus, and previous bouts of civil unrest earlier this summer have also kept crowds low.
The looting and shutdown came as many businesses were struggling to get back on their feet after coronavirus-related closures. In the light of day, there were many questions over whether the violence had resulted because of differing versions of what had happened in the police shooting.
You won't be allowed to reopen, ever.
Superintendent David Brown of the Chicago Police Department, who was sworn into office in April, offered one explanation for what had happened. He said that the chaos that had unfolded downtown overnight had grown out of a shooting that took place on the South Side on Sunday afternoon, when police officers and a man shot at one another in the city’s Englewood neighborhood.
So much for the $y$temic raci$m, huh?
After the shooting, neighbors confronted officers in Englewood in a tense standoff. A false rumor spread that the man who had been shot was actually 15 years old and unarmed. “Tempers flared, fueled by misinformation as the afternoon turned into evening,” Brown said. “That grew and grew into the late-night hours.”
Who would want to stir things up with false rumors, pre$$?
Isn't that your job?
Then the police learned of a social media post about potential looting downtown, miles from where the shooting had taken place. Hundreds of officers were sent to Michigan Avenue and the surrounding area, where they encountered people entering upscale shops, vandalizing storefronts and smashing windows. In one widely viewed recording, police officers could be seen confronting a group of people in the street when someone hurled an object at one of the officers, striking him in the face. He and other officers then charged the people, who fled.
So the misinformation and false rumor was an excu$e to burn and loot, huh?
Cui bono?
A special team of investigators was looking through surveillance video to try to arrest more people who had taken part in the looting. The city briefly raised most of the bridges to the main shopping and business district. Mayor Lori Lightfoot condemned the crowd’s actions as “abject criminal behavior.”
Kim Foxx, the county’s top prosecutor, responded to criticism that her office had dropped felony charges at a higher rate than her predecessor, and promised that people who broke the law would be held to account. “Last night was a blatant display of criminal behavior,” Foxx said. “It is not the people for whom we’ve chosen not to use our resources to prosecute.”
Alderman Raymond Lopez, whose ward is on the South Side, said he saw no connection between anger over police shootings and the widespread looting downtown. “There is no social justice component to the criminal activity that we saw last night,” Lopez said. “This is simply about criminal actions by individuals who are hellbent to cause anarchy and chaos in the city of Chicago.”
That is what we call willful blindness.
At least one organization promised that it had planned a demonstration in Chicago on Monday evening, in part to protest the police shooting in Englewood on Sunday. Aislinn Pulley, a founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago, condemned the shooting and pushed Lightfoot to allow more civilian control of the police department. “We will remain in the streets until our demands are met,” she said in a statement.
Good thing they have the $¢ienti$t's seal of approval!
Bus and train service that had been briefly shut down resumed later on Monday morning, and the city lowered the bridges over the Chicago River. The city has raised the bridges several times this summer, in an effort to limit access to the city’s main business and shopping district during protests against racism and police violence.
Business owners began to pick through the damage: cash registers overturned in a pharmacy, windows broken at high-end stores, empty boxes scattered outside a jewelry store.
Their hearts must be broken.
City officials imposed new restrictions on the downtown area that would go into effect on Monday evening, keeping access mostly limited to residents, employees and people with essential business in the area.....
Is there anyone who would want to go into the worst city in America?
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Baltimore is also blowing up.
Related:
It's been available for three weeks now, so what took you so long, Globe?
"Nearly two weeks after Democrats grilled Attorney General William P. Barr over the Justice Department’s crackdowns on racial justice protests, Barr on Sunday evening lashed out at the opposition party and the Black Lives Matter movement. Speaking to Fox News host Mark Levin, Barr said liberals are intent on “tearing down the system” and called protesters’ tactics “fascistic.” “They are a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism,” Barr said of Black Lives Matter. “They’re essentially Bolsheviks.” Barr’s comments in the hour-long interview on “Life, Liberty & Levin” represent some of his harshest critiques yet of the protest movement, which he equated with antifa and compared to guerrilla warfare, and of the Democratic politicians who have accused the attorney general of subverting the Justice Department to do President Trump’s bidding. Trump has also regularly expressed his disapproval of Black Lives Matter, accusing one of its members of “treason” and called the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower in New York “a symbol of hate.” On Sunday, Barr accused Black Lives Matter of being an anti-government operation that has been co-opted by violent antifa members."
I don't often agree with Barr, who is there to protect secrets, and don't like the ultra-Zioni$t Levin, but in this case he is correct and here is why:
I don't often agree with Barr, who is there to protect secrets, and don't like the ultra-Zioni$t Levin, but in this case he is correct and here is why:
"Barr argued the group is part of a coordinated effort to push Trump out of office. “The left wants power because that is essentially their state of grace in their secular religion,” he said. “They want to run peoples’ lives so they can design utopia for all of us and that’s what turns them on, and it’s the lust for power and they weren’t expecting Trump’s victory and it outrages them.” The attorney general also accused Democrats of abandoning their traditional values. “They’re not interested in compromise, they’re not interested in dialectic exchange of views. They’re interested in total victory,” Barr said. “It’s a secular religion. It’s a substitute for a religion.” Barr went on to call antifa a “new form of guerrilla warfare,” arguing the group, which he said is “highly organized,” hides among peaceful protesters for protection. “What they do is, they are essentially shielding themselves or shrouding themselves in First Amendment activity,” Barr said. “They hijack these demonstrations and they provoke violence, and they have various tiers of people from the sort of top provocateurs down to people who are their minions and run the violent missions.” Despite Barr’s claims, there have been no arrests or solid proof connecting antifa to violence at Black Lives Matter protests, The Washington Post’s Fact Checker reported in June. The far-right boogaloo movement, meanwhile, has been tied to a murder and several bomb plots aimed at escalating violence. As Trump warns of leftist violence, a dangerous threat emerges from the right-wing boogaloo movement Barr also accused the media of willfully ignoring any coverage of alleged antifa violence at protests. “Of course the media doesn’t take footage of what’s happening,” Barr said. “They don’t take footage of the rocks being thrown.” "
They are terrorists, and the pre$$ is defending them while throwing up the right-wing straw men.
Those guys are sitting on their powder, waiting for the antics thugs to show up. They are not initiating anything.
They are terrorists, and the pre$$ is defending them while throwing up the right-wing straw men.
Those guys are sitting on their powder, waiting for the antics thugs to show up. They are not initiating anything.
"Protesters rampaging for yet another night outside a Portland police union building used a mortar to launch commercial grade fireworks at police, and officials said Monday that two officers were injured and 16 demonstrators were arrested. A day after demonstrators managed to get inside the union building and set a fire, the protesters on Sunday night blocked a road and set dumpster fires outside it, police said in a statement. The fireworks were launched at police as they tried to clear out the demonstrators and one of the two officers treated at the scene suffered a burn on her neck. The demonstrators who were arrested face misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct or interfering with a peace officer. Their detentions came after nine protesters were arrested Saturday night and 24 Friday night. Sunday night's demonstration came after demonstrators marched to the building from a nearby park. As police moved to break up the gathering, the commercial-grade fireworks were thrown at officers, police said. The protests in Portland have happened nightly for 70 days since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, and on Friday night, demonstrators defied orders to disperse and hurled rocks, frozen or hard-boiled eggs and commercial-grade fireworks at officers. Some filled pool noodles with nails and put them on the road, causing extensive damage to a patrol vehicle, police said. While violent, the gatherings over the last week have been much smaller than the events in front of the federal courthouse that drew thousands who turned out nightly to protest the presence of the U.S. agents, who were sent by the Trump administration to protect the federal courthouse downtown."
That's not the alleged flower power from 60 years ago, and it is attempted murder.
Now about those right-wing boogaloos:
That's not the alleged flower power from 60 years ago, and it is attempted murder.
Now about those right-wing boogaloos:
"Several dozen Black Lives Matter demonstrators at a weekend protest in rural Nevada were greeted by a far larger group of counter-demonstrators, including some bearing military-style weapons and tactical gear, but a sheriff who had made controversial remarks earlier about the racial injustice movement reported no arrests or serious incidents. The clash of rallies Saturday came days after Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley attracted national attention for telling the local library not to bother calling 911 for help after board members publicly considered a statement opposing “all forms of racism, hatred, inequality and injustice” and the line “We support #Black Lives Matter.” The library abandoned plans to issue the diversity statement and the sheriff backed off, saying deputies would continue to respond to all 911 calls. Plans to organize a demonstration against racial injustice that spread on social media spawned competing campaigns supporting Coverley and inviting supporters to back sheriff’s deputies. Coverley did not immediately respond Monday to messages about the events that a county and sheriff’s office statement characterized as “a handful of small arguments ... between BLM protesters and counter protesters.” “No active police reports have been filed at this time in regards to any altercations occurring during the protest,” the statement said. Social media posts cast some confrontations as competitively loud, sometimes tense and briefly violent before demonstrators on both sides urged nonviolence."
The antifa thugs ran away because they didn't want to get their asses kicked like in Fort Collins.
The antifa thugs ran away because they didn't want to get their asses kicked like in Fort Collins.
"As protesters chanted “Black Lives Matter,” sheriff supporters across the street chanted “U.S.A.” and recited the Pledge of Allegiance, the Reno Gazette Journal reported . “When I turned around in the big crowd of people chasing me out of their town, I was reminded of the 1960s civil rights movements,” Jerome Silas, a Carson City resident who helped organize the Black Lives Matter protest, told the newspaper. Coverley told reporters Saturday he felt unfairly drawn into a national debate about policing and racial bias following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “I think law enforcement is under a ton of unfair scrutiny based on the events ... thousands of miles away from here that my office had nothing to do with," he said. “We strive every day to do the best job that we can." State Assemblyman Jim Wheeler estimated as many as 2,000 people cheered Coverley after fewer than 40 Black Lives Matter demonstrators arrived on Main Street in Minden. “There were some rude comments, from both sides. Some swear words,” said Wheeler, who was seen in a white short-sleeve shirt and Western hat calming a crowd gathered around a vehicle containing two protesters. “I heard of other incidents with a lot of foul language,” said Wheeler, a four-term Republican who supports Coverley. “I certainly didn’t see everything, but I didn’t see anything illegal out there. People need to talk to each other rather than yell at each other,” said Wheeler. “I think people are afraid of what’s going to happen next. We’re seeing people start to stand up to protect themselves and stand up for police. Things are just going too far.”
Time to secede as a flip below the fold:
Boston police fired 31 rounds in 3 seconds, killing man after wild chase from hospital, lawsuit claims
It was an execution-style barrage, and it doesn't matter because he was a white boy.
Case closed, and besides:
"The onset of warm weather nearly always brings with it a spike in violent crime, but with much of the country emerging from weeks of lockdown from the coronavirus, the increase this year has been much steeper than usual, according to Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri St. Louis. In few places has the bloodshed been more devastating than in Kansas City. Much of it has involved incidents of random, angry violence like the conflict at the gas station — disputes between strangers that left someone dead, or killings that simply cannot be explained. They have claimed the lives of a pregnant woman pushing a stroller, a 4-year-old boy asleep in his grandmother’s home, and a teenage girl sitting in a car. They have also prompted a much-debated intervention from the federal government, an operation named after the 4-year-old Kansas City boy, LeGend Taliferro, that has sent federal law enforcement agents to at least six cities in an attempt to intervene. Nationally, crime remains at or near a generational low, and experts caution against drawing conclusions from just a few months...."
What's with the mixed messages?
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Look who got bailed out:
"Supporters pull back after Massachusetts Bail Fund posts bond for registered sex offender who had pending rape charge; AG Healey calls group's actions "dangerous and irresponsible"" by Andrea Estes Globe Staff, August 11, 2020
This has been a banner year for the Massachusetts Bail Fund, a charity that pays the bail for prisoners who can’t afford it. The nationwide protest movement spurred by the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota has brought a flood of donations, empowering fund officials to pay much higher bails than they ever could before, but the group is facing backlash from its own supporters after it posted $15,000 bail to release a Level 3 sex offender who then allegedly raped and tried to strangle a Quincy woman within three weeks. Shawn McClinton had two previous convictions and a pending rape charge when the group freed him from the Nashua Street jail in July.
On Friday, a student group at Boston University canceled a fund-raising concert for the Bail Fund scheduled for Aug. 7, saying they did not realize that the charity was freeing people accused of serious crimes. “We apologize for our ignorance about the Mass. Bail Fund and for triggering any trauma while recently supporting the fund,” said the school’s radio station, WTBU.
Some Bail Fund donors reported online that they believed they were helping raise bail for peaceful protesters, or people charged with low-level offenses and being held on low, or relatively low bail. In fact, the group has paid up to $85,000 to bail out one suspect charged with attempted murder.
We were called racist conspiracy theorists by the pre$$ for suggesting that this would be the result, the two-faced bastards!
Attorney General Maura Healey criticized the Bail Fund and said people from her office would contact leaders to discuss how the group is spending donors’ money, in a statement.
But don't snitch on them!
Officials at the Bail Fund have not been answering questions. Atara Rich-Shea, the fund’s unpaid executive director, has been on vacation and unavailable since early July. Her sister, Amanda Loring, who has raised money for the Bail Fund, declined comment.
The Bail Fund, which has a motto of “Free Them All,” argues that cash bail should be eliminated entirely because it discriminates against the poor, forcing them to remain in jail even before they are convicted.
If prosecutors believe someone is dangerous, fund officials argue, they should ask a judge to declare them dangerous and order them held for a period of time, but, in practice, prosecutors often seek high bail for the release of people charged with the most serious crimes or with long histories of defaults.
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said her office did not seek a dangerousness hearing to hold McClinton without bail in part because prosecutors feared the hearing itself could traumatize the victim.
WEAK!
As recently as January, the fund was posting bails of no more than $500, but a large influx of donations this year allowed the group to pay more. On Twitter, the Bail Fund told potential donors that it would post bail of up to $5,000, but, in recent weeks, the fund routinely exceeded that figure.
The Boston Globe reported last month that the Bail Fund put up $85,000 to free Karmau Cotton-Landers, a man accused of shooting someone in broad daylight on Boston Common in April. Other defendants recently freed by the Bail Fund include Walker Browning, accused of robbing five women, two at knifepoint; David Privette, facing charges of holding up a gas station at gunpoint; and Otis Walker, who had been held since late 2018 on three counts of child rape. The three were being held on bails ranging from $5,000 to $50,000, but the new rape and assault charges against McClinton, 39, last week sparked immediate criticism of the Bail Fund, which had paid his bail in July.....
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Order in the court:
"Hours after the Seattle City Council voted to strip about $3 million from the police department and reduce its size by up to 100 officers as part of a push to fundamentally change policing in the city, Police Chief Carmen Best announced her retirement. Best, the city’s first Black police chief, leaves after months of turmoil that made Seattle a focal point for national protests against police brutality and racial injustice. In a letter to Seattle police officers, Best, 55, called the decision “difficult” but said: “When it’s time, it’s time.” Best is the latest high-profile police chief to leave her post amid the mass protests that have roiled the nation since George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May, joining at least a half dozen other leaders from cities including Louisville, Portland, Ore., Nashville and Atlanta. Unlike many of those other chiefs, she wasn’t forced out by her mayor or city council....."
She deserted like a rat on a sinking ship.
"Protesters in a Milwaukee-area community attacked a Black police officer who is on leave after he fatally shot a teenager in February, vandalizing his home and discharging a shotgun at his back door, according to police and the city’s mayor. Police said a group of 50 to 60 people gathered outside a home where Joseph Mensah, an officer with the Wauwatosa Police Department, was staying over the weekend. Police said Mensah tried to establish a dialogue with the group “but was ultimately physically assaulted outside of his home.” After going back inside, armed protesters went to the back door, and one shot a round at the house shortly after 8 p.m. on Saturday. Police arrived and dispersed the crowd, according to a department statement. On a Facebook page attributed to Mensah, there was what appeared to be an account of the incident, saying that protesters came to his girlfriend’s home on Saturday night and attacked him while he was unarmed. “We were both assaulted, punched and ultimately shot at several times,” the Facebook post says. “A shotgun round missed me by inches. … The irony in all of this is that they chanted Black Lives Matter the entire time, but had zero regard for any of the black children that live there or me a black man.”
They have not clue what they are doing, nor do they care, and the print copy capitalized that last Black as police face new lawsuit and probes after the death of Elijah McClain, who was killed by a white man:
"A self-proclaimed Ku Klux Klan president in Virginia was found guilty of intentionally driving into a racial justice protest but not of the hate crimes that were later added by the Henrico County, Va., commonwealth’s attorney. A Henrico General District Court judge on Monday found Harry H. Rogers guilty of four misdemeanor assault charges and two additional property crimes in the incident at the protest outside Richmond in June. The judge sentenced Rogers to 12 months each on the six misdemeanor charges. Hate crimes were added to the charges after a lead investigator in the case said KKK paraphernalia, including a robe and a Klan bible, was found inside Rogers’s residence and in his car. Prosecutors used cellphone data to show the suspect stalked the Lakeside Avenue site before the scheduled protest, said Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor. They played a Facebook Live video where Rogers said he was proud of driving through the group. Rogers hit three people and damaged a bike, local news teams reported. “We want to be very sensitive to the types of crimes we’re dealing with and when we truly believe that a sentencing enhancement should in fact be imposed,” Taylor said. “I would like to think that for the citizens of the commonwealth, and certainly the citizens of Henrico, that any time anybody is acting in a hateful and vengeful manner that the sentencing enhancement would be appropriate.”
I wonder if he knew Robert Byrd.
Also see:
"Puerto Rico officials Monday were struggling to reschedule a chaotic primary election that was partially suspended over the weekend when paper ballots failed to reach voting precincts across the island, making it impossible for many people to vote. Some voters waited for hours Sunday in the sweltering August heat, risking exposure to the coronavirus, which has surged in Puerto Rico. Trucks intended to bring ballots to far-flung corners of the island remained idle in San Juan, the capital....."
Related:
Republican Voter Registration Mailer Goes Out With Wrong Addresses
They are already screwing Trump before any votes have been cast!
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Now on to the convention:
"How the Democrats are lining up their convention speakers" by Glenn Thrush and Michael M. Grynbaum New York Times, August 11, 2020
The Democratic National Convention will play out like a star-studded Zoom call next week, anchored by nightly prime-time keynote speeches, with Michelle Obama on Monday, Jill Biden on Tuesday, Barack Obama on Wednesday, and Joe Biden’s acceptance speech on Thursday, according to a schedule of events.
Ah, the preferred communication tool of perverts and pedophiles, of which this party is rife.
The convention, originally planned for Milwaukee, then forced into a cramped virtual format by the coronavirus pandemic, has been a logistical nightmare for planners who have had to grapple with wary television networks, daunting technical challenges, and the omnipresent, low-grade threat of a disruption by President Trump.
The schedule, provided by Democratic officials involved in the planning, above all else reflects Biden’s chief political goal: uniting the jostling progressive and establishment wings of the Democratic Party behind an elder statesman who has spent the last several months courting skeptical progressives.
The first-night schedule reflects that big-tent objective. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Biden’s main rival for the nomination — and still the independent standard-bearer of the populist left — has been given a keynote slot. He’ll speak just before Michelle Obama and after Andrew Cuomo, the moderate governor of New York, delivers what is expected to be a scathing attack on Trump’s handling of the health crisis.
After what happened in New York and with Cuomo begging the rich to return, the first night sandwich is a real turn off.
After the formality of a virtual delegate vote Tuesday, Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris of California, will address the convention Wednesday. Planners have scheduled speaking times for some top vice presidential contenders that were not picked, including Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Bill Clinton will speak Tuesday, after Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general who briefly oversaw the investigation into potential ties between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. Hillary Clinton is set to appear Wednesday, the same night as Gabrielle Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was severely wounded by a gunman in 2011.
I think I'm going to barf.
Entertainers and pop-culture stars are also expected to appear, but the party has been more tight-lipped on its Hollywood talent than on the Washington lineup.
It's the party of sexual deviants or worse!
For viewers at home, the usual tableau of cheering delegates and supersize balloon drops will be replaced by green screens and about three dozen politicians speaking remotely over satellite feeds that — if the event coordinators are lucky — don’t freeze, drop audio, or disintegrate into pixels as millions of Americans look on from the isolation of their homes.
Can you ever believe what you see on TV?
To minimize risk, the convention’s planning team — led by Stephanie Cutter, a veteran Democratic operative, and Ricky Kirshner, a producer of the Super Bowl halftime show — plan to weave in taped segments with live speeches to avoid embarrassing electronic faceplants.
The address by Michelle Obama, who officials believe could attract the widest viewership of the week aside from Biden, was being filmed this week at her family’s vacation house on Martha’s Vineyard, in part to ensure that the first night ends on an emphatic — and technologically predictable — high note, according to several people with direct knowledge of the situation.
I wonder which body double they are sending out to impersonate Joe, and what a juxtapo$ition with the party platform and his legacy!
Biden, a people pleaser by personal inclination and political design, is trying to build a frictionless launching pad for his fall campaign, in contrast to the rancorous party confab in Philadelphia four years ago when bitter infighting culminated with a brief chorus of boos at the start of Clinton’s acceptance speech.
Enjoy the illu$ionary imagery, suckers!
To do so, Biden’s team is devoting much of its prime-time space to two political power couples, the Clintons and the Obamas, who embody the party’s recent past, while providing a platform to progressives, represented by Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a democratic socialist who once groaned when asked how she would respond to a Biden nomination.
Are Democrats TRYING to LOSE this election?
Showcasing those two corrupt criminal families from the past can do nothing but hurt their chances!
No one wants them back in any form, and yet that is what we will get if Biden prevails, and the progs are only going to scare Middle America and swing swing-state independents in the other direction.
In a nod to a big-tent approach, the party placed Republican John Kasich, a former Ohio governor who sought the GOP presidential nomination four years ago, into a Monday evening slot.
Well, he's the Democrats version of McCain-lover Joe Lieberman, and was a well known RINO before now (just like the governor of Ma$$achu$etts).
Biden is scheduled to accept the nomination Thursday, the convention’s final night, near his home in Delaware, but the exact location, and the form and fashion in which he will speak, has yet to be announced.
Plans for the Republican National Convention, taking place a week later, are even more uncertain, to the consternation of network executives scrambling to plan coverage for an event that is typically months in the making.
Trump abandoned Charlotte, N.C., for Jacksonville, Fla., only to reverse course because of the coronavirus. On Monday, he said he was deciding between an acceptance speech at the White House or the battlefield at Gettysburg, though aides say he is leaning toward staying in Washington.
He still hasn't made up his mind.
Either way, the convention is expected to be a family affair. The president’s children, including Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka Trump, are likely to be featured prime-time speakers. The first lady, Melania Trump, is also expected to speak, along with Vice President Mike Pence, according to several Republican officials involved in the planning.....
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Trump denies that White House asked about adding him to Mount Rushmore
Is there ever a moment when the New York Times is not lying?
Also see:
"Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday that he has subpoenaed the FBI to produce documents to his committee related to the Trump-Russia investigation. The Wisconsin senator also defended a separate investigation he is leading into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Ukraine, even as Democrats say the probe has the effect of amplifying Russian propaganda and as U.S. intelligence officials say they have assessed that Russia is working to denigrate Biden ahead of the November election. Johnson's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is one of multiple Republican-led Senate panels scrutinizing the FBI's investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Another, the Judiciary Committee, has released a series of documents in recent weeks aimed at discrediting the probe, including material on Sunday that the chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, said raised questions about whether the FBI had misled Congress about the accuracy of information it received during the investigation....."
Well, there is election interference and then there is election interference, and the opposite of what the pre$$ says is usually the truth. It was the dirty Clintons and their Steele dossier that enabled the Obamagate spying scandal and unmasking crimes. The pre$$ runs cover for that crap rather than investigate. Then they denigrate those that do with the played-out term "conspiracy theorists."
Related:
Trump led from briefing room after shooting outside White House
That was a warning to him, and we all know the election will once again end up in the Supreme Court:
Related:
Trump denies that White House asked about adding him to Mount Rushmore
Is there ever a moment when the New York Times is not lying?
Also see:
"Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said Monday that he has subpoenaed the FBI to produce documents to his committee related to the Trump-Russia investigation. The Wisconsin senator also defended a separate investigation he is leading into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Ukraine, even as Democrats say the probe has the effect of amplifying Russian propaganda and as U.S. intelligence officials say they have assessed that Russia is working to denigrate Biden ahead of the November election. Johnson's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is one of multiple Republican-led Senate panels scrutinizing the FBI's investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Another, the Judiciary Committee, has released a series of documents in recent weeks aimed at discrediting the probe, including material on Sunday that the chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, said raised questions about whether the FBI had misled Congress about the accuracy of information it received during the investigation....."
Well, there is election interference and then there is election interference, and the opposite of what the pre$$ says is usually the truth. It was the dirty Clintons and their Steele dossier that enabled the Obamagate spying scandal and unmasking crimes. The pre$$ runs cover for that crap rather than investigate. Then they denigrate those that do with the played-out term "conspiracy theorists."
Related:
Trump led from briefing room after shooting outside White House
That was a warning to him, and we all know the election will once again end up in the Supreme Court:
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday once again put on hold a judge’s order that relaxed election procedures because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the result will keep a referendum on partisan gerrymandering off the November ballot in Oregon. The court’s brief order provided no reasoning, and the vote was not announced. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor noted their dissent, but the action was largely in line with similar cases from Alabama, Idaho, Wisconsin, and elsewhere in which the court has put on hold court orders that provided pandemic-related relief over the objections of state election officials. The court has said it disfavors judicial action that comes too close to an election and defers to local control....."
It's supposed to be above all that per pervert Roberts and the Constitution, and yet they just admitted they are totally political (save for Alito and Thomas, the polar opposites of the ladies above), and lurking behind it all:
"State and local government officials across the country have been on edge for months about how to keep basic services running while covering rising costs related to the coronavirus outbreak as tax revenue plummeted. It’s now clear that anxiety will last a lot longer. Congressional talks over another coronavirus relief package have failed, with no immediate prospects for a restart. The negotiation meltdown raises the prospect of more layoffs and furloughs of government workers and cuts to health care, social services, infrastructure, and other core programs. Lack of money to boost school safety measures also will make it harder for districts to send students back to the classroom. On Monday, governors, lawmakers, mayors, teachers, and others said they were going to keep pushing members of Congress to revive talks on another rescue package. “Congress and the White House made a commitment to the governors that there would be a second round of relief for states — we are going to hold their feet to the fire until they uphold that commitment,” New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, said in a statement. How soon that might happen is anyone’s guess. Congress has gone home. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, urged Congress to restart negotiations, boost the jobless benefit back to $600, and immediately provide more aid to state and local governments......"
He's the jerk that shutdown the gyms, and the kids won't be going back to $chul.
The negotiations were meant to fail because it's all politics.
"A team of federal scientists arrived Monday at an immigration detention center in Farmville, Va., to begin addressing the worst outbreak of the coronavirus at any such facility in the country, according to the office of Governor Ralph Northam. The 10-person team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will work with the local health department to assess and manage the crisis, Northam’s office said Monday. One detainee at the privately run facility who had COVID-19 died last week. Nearly all of the 298 detainees are being monitored for infection, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Northam, a Democrat, and both of Virginia’s US senators had appealed to President Trump for federal help last month, saying state officials had little authority to intervene because the center is operated under a federal contract. On Monday, the CDC sent a team of clinicians, epidemiologists, and laboratory scientists to assess the situation. Officials at the CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
I find it amazing that Northam completely wiped off that Blackface, as well as the fact that his LT. Gov. managed to shed the #MeToo movement.
Why do they care more about illegal undocumented than citizens of the nation?
Why do they hate us?
"A day after announcing that California’s public health director suddenly resigned, Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday dodged questions about her departure even as he stressed the importance of transparency and accountability. “Decisions were made, and we’re moving forward,’’ he said of the Sunday night resignation by Dr. Sonia Angell. “No one’s trying to hide that, no one’s trying to mask that. We’re owning that.’’ The remarks came during Newsom’s first news conference since county and state health officials revealed a data error that led to a lag in the reporting of nearly 300,000 coronavirus test results. He last spoke to the public one week earlier. Angell said in a resignation letter made public that she’s departing from her role as director and state public health officer at the California Department of Public Health. Her letter to staff, released by the California Health and Human Services Agency, did not give a specific reason for her departure. Pressed repeatedly by reporters, Newsom would not answer whether he asked her to resign. But he said that he and Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, made “changes’’ and “adjustments’’ to the state’s leadership team. Angell could not be reached for comment."
"State and local government officials across the country have been on edge for months about how to keep basic services running while covering rising costs related to the coronavirus outbreak as tax revenue plummeted. It’s now clear that anxiety will last a lot longer. Congressional talks over another coronavirus relief package have failed, with no immediate prospects for a restart. The negotiation meltdown raises the prospect of more layoffs and furloughs of government workers and cuts to health care, social services, infrastructure, and other core programs. Lack of money to boost school safety measures also will make it harder for districts to send students back to the classroom. On Monday, governors, lawmakers, mayors, teachers, and others said they were going to keep pushing members of Congress to revive talks on another rescue package. “Congress and the White House made a commitment to the governors that there would be a second round of relief for states — we are going to hold their feet to the fire until they uphold that commitment,” New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, said in a statement. How soon that might happen is anyone’s guess. Congress has gone home. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, urged Congress to restart negotiations, boost the jobless benefit back to $600, and immediately provide more aid to state and local governments......"
He's the jerk that shutdown the gyms, and the kids won't be going back to $chul.
The negotiations were meant to fail because it's all politics.
"A team of federal scientists arrived Monday at an immigration detention center in Farmville, Va., to begin addressing the worst outbreak of the coronavirus at any such facility in the country, according to the office of Governor Ralph Northam. The 10-person team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will work with the local health department to assess and manage the crisis, Northam’s office said Monday. One detainee at the privately run facility who had COVID-19 died last week. Nearly all of the 298 detainees are being monitored for infection, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Northam, a Democrat, and both of Virginia’s US senators had appealed to President Trump for federal help last month, saying state officials had little authority to intervene because the center is operated under a federal contract. On Monday, the CDC sent a team of clinicians, epidemiologists, and laboratory scientists to assess the situation. Officials at the CDC did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
I find it amazing that Northam completely wiped off that Blackface, as well as the fact that his LT. Gov. managed to shed the #MeToo movement.
Why do they care more about illegal undocumented than citizens of the nation?
Why do they hate us?
"A day after announcing that California’s public health director suddenly resigned, Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday dodged questions about her departure even as he stressed the importance of transparency and accountability. “Decisions were made, and we’re moving forward,’’ he said of the Sunday night resignation by Dr. Sonia Angell. “No one’s trying to hide that, no one’s trying to mask that. We’re owning that.’’ The remarks came during Newsom’s first news conference since county and state health officials revealed a data error that led to a lag in the reporting of nearly 300,000 coronavirus test results. He last spoke to the public one week earlier. Angell said in a resignation letter made public that she’s departing from her role as director and state public health officer at the California Department of Public Health. Her letter to staff, released by the California Health and Human Services Agency, did not give a specific reason for her departure. Pressed repeatedly by reporters, Newsom would not answer whether he asked her to resign. But he said that he and Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, made “changes’’ and “adjustments’’ to the state’s leadership team. Angell could not be reached for comment."
Dr. Sonia Angell, director of the California Department of Public Health, discusses the state's efforts concerning the coronavirus during a news conference at the Governor's Office of Emergency Services in Rancho Cordova (April 14, 2020)
Yeah, remember months ago last spring when this was all about flattening the curve to $ave the dancing heroes of our health $y$tem and not about cases, and isn't Harris from California?
Yeah, remember months ago last spring when this was all about flattening the curve to $ave the dancing heroes of our health $y$tem and not about cases, and isn't Harris from California?
