justthenews | Giuliani dismissed suggestions that filing a police report as Trump's
private attorney two weeks before Election Day should be deemed
political.
"The conduct falls under the mandatory reporting requirements for
child endangerment," Giuliani said. "If I was the U.S. attorney or the
mayor or Bernie was still the commissioner, it would have been a crime
for us not to report what we had."
The police report is the latest drama to unfold from the week-old
Biden laptop revelations, news about which influential social media
sites choose to block from public view, including stories from The New
York Post, purportedly because of "potential harm." Facebook and Twitter
did not disclose any details of the "potential harm." Conservatives
have pointed out that the FBI has possessed the computer materials for a
year. Giuliani said the FBI's apparent inaction factored into his
decision to report the matter to local police.
"The FBI has had this for a long time," Giuliani said. "No indication
they did anything about this, so I went to the local police and said,
'What are you going to do about this?'"
Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings
was a protege of the vice president’s late son Beau Biden, who served
as the state's attorney general from 2007-2015. She began her tenure as
state prosecutor in 2011 and was named Delaware's top law enforcement
officer in January 2019. Jennings' Chief Deputy Attorney General is Alexander S. Mackler, who was Vice President Biden's deputy legal counsel.
tomluongo | Back during the early days of the Democratic primaries I told you
that the real story behind the scenes was a three-sided civil war for
control of the DNC.
Not quite an equilateral triangle, the two major factions were the
Clintons and the Obamas with the Soros-backed squad pushing them both
farther and farther left, through the fake Progressivism of Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
And with the ascension of Joe Biden as the candidate, triumphing over
the inept Hillary-backed challenge from Mini Mike Bloomberg, it was
clear that the Obamas won the internal battle.
Hillary eventually bent the knee and endorsed Biden along with everyone else.
After her failure to beat Trump in 2016 it became clear that Obama was the choice by The Davos Crowd to deliver the U.S. into their hands weak, divided, literally on fire and close to irretrievably insane.
In the words of Bush the Lesser, “Mission Accomplished.”
But what’s been sticking in the back of my mind for months was Trump’s tweet from May:
dailywire | A bombshell report from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) and the Committee on Finance makes a
series of damning new allegations against Hunter Biden, the son of
Democrat presidential nominee.
The investigation launched after
Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) publicly raised
conflict-of-interest concerns about the sale of a U.S. company to a
Chinese firm with ties to Hunter Biden a month before Congress
was notified about a whistleblower complaint that was the catalyst for
Democrats’ impeachment of President Donald Trump. The Senate’s
investigation relied on records from the U.S. government, Democrat
lobbying groups, and interviews of numerous current and former
officials.
The report also stated that the investigation found that the Obama
administration “knew that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board was
problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with
respect to Ukraine.”
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REGISTER TO VOTE.
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Vote Early.
Most states have early voting. Vote early and avoid the lines. And yeah, you still get the sticker. There is some shady mess happening with the post office, so if you don’t have a completed mail-in ballot mailed by Oct 3rd, just plan to vote in person. Check how early you can vote in your state here: Early Voting Calendar
theautomaticearth | I was going to make this the shortest essay I’ve ever written. “Trump
Will Win Because of Energy. Period.” But wouldn’t you know, things
start popping up on exactly the topic it was going to be about… The
difference in energy between Donald Trump and Joe Biden should be
obvious to everyone, including Biden supporters, though they will try to
ignore it, as well as the role energy plays in a campaign, as it does
in life in general -not just human life either-.
People recognize energy, they feel it. it’s a primal thing, directly
linked to survival. It doesn’t get recognized at a rational level, but
somewhere much deeper. And it’s not even so much that Trump’s energy
levels are above average, for a 74-year old (though they appear to be),
but that Biden’s are so far below average – or perhaps exactly what you
would expect for a 77-year old, which is why so few of them are running
for president of the United States, a job that I think we would all
agree requires a lot of energy.
When you take out of the equation which person you like or not, when
you disregard their policy proposals, and you only look at energy
levels, the difference is vast. And people will catch on to this. The
first debate is in 9 days, September 29, and how do you prepare Biden
for that? Trump last night suggested his handlers do it by applying
‘big, fat shots in the ass’, but even that wouldn’t do it.
Trump doesn’t need to hammer this point home too hard, it will be
obvious no matter what. It may even be better for him to show compassion
for Biden. One of the main instructions from his team will undoubtedly
be to NOT go after Joe Biden so hard it will make him stutter. Because
that would make Trump look like a bully, and give Biden points on
compassion from the audience.
But I doubt Trump will be able to help himself. And perhaps, at least
from his point of view, he should just be and remain who he is. Because
that worked four years ago. Will these be the best-watched debates in
history? Quite possibly. Meanwhile, as Trump yesterday worked all day
-if we are to believe the reports- and then campaigned all night in
Fayetteville NC, Biden was MIA.
That by now is a pattern. As is the mysterious lack of door-to-door
campaigning by the Biden team. It may not be impossible to win that way,
but it certainly would be a first. And it makes the team look like they
have a similar energy level to Biden himself (In another mystery, we
see people talk about finding it hard to get yard signs for the Biden
campaign).
That leaves you with the impression that the Biden team really has
just one message: Orange Man Bad. Not: vote *for* me, but vote *against*
the other guy. the racist/rapist who killed 200,000 Americans and
offends “our” troops”. That in turn appears to signal that what energy
there is, is negative energy. Doesn’t look like a winning formula.
thehill |The campaign group Latinos for Trump on Wednesday tweeted an ad bringing attention to previous claims of inappropriate touching by Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden using the Spanish-language pop song “Despacito,” referencing a Tuesday address the nominee gave at a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration in Florida.
“Actually,
‘Despacito’ is the perfect song for Joe Biden,” the group said in a
tweet, along with a video that begins with Biden playing the hit song
from his phone after being introduced at the campaign event by the
song’s singer, Luis Fonsi.
The
video then includes footage of Biden putting his arms over women at
public events, along with lyrics of the song translated into English: “I
want to breathe slowly on your neck” and “let me whisper in your ear.”
In
the interview, Flores said that at the event, she could “feel Joe Biden
put his hands on my shoulders, get up very close to me from behind,
lean in, smell my hair and then plant a slow kiss on the top of my
head.”
After more women came forward with similar claims in 2019, Biden released a video in which he did not directly apologize for his past behavior, but said he would be more mindful of women’s personal space.
“Social
norms have begun to change, they’ve shifted, and the boundaries of
protecting personal space have been reset, and I get it,” he said in the
video. “I hear what they’re saying. I understand it. I’ll be much more
mindful. That’s my responsibility, and I’ll meet it.”
nypost | President Trump on Sunday made his case to Hispanic voters at a
“Latinos for Trump” roundtable in Las Vegas — often at the expense of
his Democratic challenger.
“While Joe Biden failed Hispanic-Americans, I’ve delivered for
Hispanic-Americans more than any other president,” Trump said. “I’m
fighting for you every single day, and you understand that better than
anybody.”
Touting his “unwavering devotion” to the Latino community, Trump
specifically cited his administration’s cuts of taxes and regulations,
and the speed with which the economy has bounced back following the
worst of the coronavirus shutdown.
But Trump also picked up where he left off at a Saturday night rally in Reno, Nev., slamming the record of former Vice President Biden.
“Joe Biden has spent 47 years betrayed the Hispanic-American
community totally, sending their jobs to China, raising taxes on their
family and small businesses, making their communities less safe,
attacking their values and trapping their children in failing government
schools,” Trump charged.
“He’s in his basement right now and he’s saying, ‘What do I do?'”
metrotimes | Since he left office in 2019, former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has
largely kept a low profile. But on Thursday, the Republican broke his
silence to to announce in a USA Today op-ed that he was bucking his party and endorsing Democratic candidate Joe Biden for president.
In the op-ed, Snyder called President Donald Trump a "bully" who "lacks a moral compass" and "ignores the truth."
"As a proud nerd, I had to deal with bullies over many years; it
is tragedy watching our world suffer from one," Snyder wrote.
The thing about tragedies, though, is that they can be wrought even by nerds like Snyder.
His greatest claim to infamy, of course, is his administration's
handling of the Flint water crisis, which was a direct result of
Michigan's emergency manager law. The people of Michigan rejected a
similar law at the ballot in 2012; when that happened, Snyder and the
Republican-led Congress just rammed through a new version that couldn't
be rejected by voters. Then, while under emergency management, the city
of Flint made the disastrous decision to switch its water supply — which
led to its drinking water being poisoned with lead, harming thousands.
Even worse, a bombshell VICE report
published earlier this year suggests a coordinated, years-long cover-up
of the crisis that goes all the way up to Snyder, who may have known
about the crisis much earlier than he testified.
Unsurprisingly, as Snyder's public profile was soured in the wake of the crisis, he has called for a return to "civility" in political discourse. But as the statute of limitations for criminal charges in the Flint crisis passed in April, followed by Michigan announcing a massive $600 million settlement for the victims in August, Snyder remained off the hook.
Counterpunch | It is September 2020. Americans are focused on an election between an
Orange Fascist criminal and an old-school right-wing Democrat war
criminal. Where Donald Trump projects chaos and disorder, Biden projects
stability, order, and a return to normalcy. If Trump is the virus, then
surely Biden is the cure.
It is September 2020. Libya prepares to enter its eighth year of
civil war. Slave markets like the one in Bani Walid are as common as
youth literacy centers were in Gaddafi’s Libya. Armed gangs and militias
wield power even in areas nominally under government control. A warlord
regroups in the East as he looks to Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and
the United Arab Emirates for support.
It is September 2020 and the US-NATO war on Libya has faded to a
distant memory as other issues like Black Lives Matter and police murder
of Black youth have captured the public imagination and discourse.
But these issues are, in fact, united by the bond of white supremacy
and anti-Blackness. The Libya once known as the “Jewel of Africa,” a
country that provided refuge for many sub-Saharan African migrant
workers while maintaining independence from the US and the former
colonial powers of Europe, is no more. In its place is a failed state
that now reflects the kind of vicious anti-Black racism forcefully
suppressed by the Gaddafi government.
Libya as the global exemplar of the exploitation and disposability of the black body.
Squint a little and you can see President Joe Biden getting the old
band back together. Hillary Clinton welcomed into the Oval Office as an
influential voice, someone to give words to the demented thoughts of the
living corpse serving as Commander-in-Chief. Derek Chollet and Ben
Rhodes laughing together as they buy another round at their favorite DC
hangout, toasting to the re-establishment of order in Washington. Barack
Obama as the éminence grise behind the political resurgence of the liberal-conservative dominant structure.
But in Libya, there is no going back, no fixing the past to escape the present.
Perhaps the same might be true of the United States.
thehill | President Trump’s reelection campaign in a new ad is attacking
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s mental acuity, a
frequent target of the president’s.
The
ad, timed to coincide with the virtual Democratic National Convention,
contrasts footage of Biden speaking in 2015 and 2016 with clips of him
seemingly losing his train of thought in 2020.
"Did something
happen to Joe Biden?" reads the opening text of the ad, which then
juxtaposes Biden in 2015 saying in a speech that “he went and became
president, I didn’t go and I’m still vice president” and Biden in 2020
stuttering and repeating “in addition to that” in an interview.
“You
know there’s a, during World War II, uh, you know, Roosevelt came up
with a thing that, uh, you know, was totally different than a, than the,
he called it a, you know...” Biden says in a later clip from a 2020
interview.
Trump himself has repeatedly suggested Biden is in cognitive decline and touted his own performance on a neurological test in contrast. However, some within the Trump campaign were reportedly hesitant to incorporate the attack into campaign messaging, according to Axios. Several campaign advisers reportedly warned the line of attack could offend senior citizens, a demographic with which most polling shows Biden in the lead.
Ultimately, however, those in favor of the attack won out. "We think it's very important that voters fully assess Joe Biden's qualifications and fitness to be president," a senior campaign official told Axios. “Our data show that people are concerned about his ability to do the job.”
The official declined to provide the data in question to Axios.
"Donald Trump is spectacularly failing every conceivable strategic test by ramping up mentions of this subject at all," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in response to the ad.nbsp;
thehill | Biden broke the cardinal rule in selecting Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate.
The selection first and foremost should “do no harm.”
Harris is not able from day one to be President of the United States.
She barely got to the U.S. Senate in 2017 when she began running for
president. Before serving in the Senate, she was the attorney general of
California, and before that district attorney in San Francisco.
She has
zero foreign policy experience and no economic gravitas.
At a
time when even some Democrats are questioning Biden’s competence to be
president in light of his advanced age and cognitive abilities — the
vice-presidential running mate becomes even more important to voters.
Before you even get to her policies, Harris doesn’t pass the
qualifications test.
The other rule Biden violated was that a
running mate should bring something to the table other than gender, race
or ethnicity. The running mate should bring Electoral College appeal.
Harris is from the bluest of blue states: California — a state that
Trump has no shot of winning. Harris will not appeal to swing states
because she is from California, and her record — and those of California
Democrats generally — is abysmal on taxes, immigration, law and order,
climate, energy… and the list goes on.
California is a liberal laboratory of bad governance and incompetence.
A
Biden-Harris ticket is very good news for the Trump-Pence campaign. The
contrast between Pence and Harris will be stark in resume, ability and
record.
jacobinmag | Defund the police” has become a nationwide mantra, and for good
reason: budget data from across the country show that spending on police
has far outpaced population growth and drained resources from other
public priorities.
Basically, our cities have been siphoning money from stuff like
education and social services and funneling the cash into ever-larger
militarized security forces.
Nationally, the numbers are stark: between 1977 and 2017, America’s
population grew by about 50 percent, while state and local spending on
police grew by a whopping 173 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars,
according to data from the Urban Institute. In other words, the rate of police-spending growth was triple the rate of population growth.
In New York, it’s a similar story. Back in 2008, the city spent $4.1 billion on its police force, according to City Council documents.
Twelve years later, the city is spending $6 billion on its police
force. That’s a 46 percent increase during a period in which the city’s population growth was essentially flat. A new report
by New York City comptroller Scott Stringer notes that in the last five
years alone, spending on police rose by 22 percent, driven by a 6
percent increase in the number of officers on the force.
All this happened during a period when the city experienced many years of budget cuts to social servicesandschools. Indeed, as Public Citizen
points out, New York’s police budget is now “more than the city spends
on health, homelessness, youth development and workforce development
combined.”
These are hardly anomalies, as illustrated by a Center for Popular Democracy report
looking at twelve major cities. That analysis concluded that
“governments have dramatically increased their spending on
criminalization, policing, and mass incarceration while drastically
cutting investments in basic infrastructure and slowing investment in
social safety net programs” to the point where today, “police spending
vastly outpaces expenditures in vital community resources and services.”
thehill | Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden's
campaign said on Monday that the former vice president does not support
calls to defund the police amid growing calls to do so by activists
across the country.
“As his criminal justice proposal made clear
months ago, Vice President Biden does not believe that police should be
defunded," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates told reporters.
"He
hears and shares the deep grief and frustration of those calling out
for change, and is driven to ensure that justice is done and that we put
a stop to this terrible pain," Bates added. "Biden supports the urgent
need for reform — including funding for public schools, summer programs,
and mental health and substance abuse treatment separate from funding
for policing — so that officers can focus on the job of policing."
Calls to defund police have grown amid nationwide protests over the
death last month of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police
officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest. A
majority of the Minneapolis City Council voted to disband the local
police department and replace the office with what members have said
will be a new model of public safety.
Democrats have largely
embraced calls to reform police departments, but have stopped short of
endorsing calls to defund police. Republicans have seized on the issue
to argue Democrats are going too far with their calls for reforms.
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eel ...
April Three
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
March = 43
What day?
4 to the power of 3 is 64
64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
4 x 3 = 12
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the earth.I can feel it bubbling up, effervescing and evaporating around
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sciencemag | This spring, after days of flulike symptoms and fever, a man
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