Justin Amash dropped out.
Probably because he can't really take the NeverTrumpers from Biden.
Justin Amash dropped out.
Probably because he can't really take the NeverTrumpers from Biden.
@Dorobō:
Justin Amash dropped out.
Probably because he can't really take the NeverTrumpers from Biden.
I didn't even know he was officially running. Last I heard he was still thinking about it.
@The:
I didn't even know he was officially running. Last I heard he was still thinking about it.
He had an exploratory committee in the Libertarian party and I am sure had he really run they would cut out all their bozos running for him.
But he did show up in some polls that him him at 5% and 3rd party runs always overpreformin in the polls. Johnson was at 11% at one point in 2016. So he probably won't hurt either Biden or Trump much in the long run but between the two? He would have likely took more voters off Trump than Biden. So no reason to run now.
@Dorobō:
He had an exploratory committee in the Libertarian party and I am sure had he really run they would cut out all their bozos running for him.
But he did show up in some polls that him him at 5% and 3rd party runs always overpreformin in the polls. Johnson was at 11% at one point in 2016. So he probably won't hurt either Biden or Trump much in the long run but between the two? He would have likely took more voters off Trump than Biden. So no reason to run now.
5% seems fairly generous, lol. I've seen polls with biden leading most states, and I've seen polls with trumpy leading many states, so I don't really know what to expect. Seems the election could go either way to me.
@The:
5% seems fairly generous, lol. I've seen polls with biden leading most states, and I've seen polls with trumpy leading many states, so I don't really know what to expect. Seems the election could go either way to me.
Oh it is. Just like how Johnson didn't end up getting 11%, no way Amash would get 5% at all. lol
The polls keep showing Biden widening his lead. Nothing seems to be changing it. The media really just does not want to say nothing hurts Biden or bring up that the man really took charge of the whole party right now. So this election has been the same as always, leaning to a Biden win.
@Dorobō:
Oh it is. Just like how Johnson didn't end up getting 11%, no way Amash would get 5% at all. lol
The polls keep showing Biden widening his lead. Nothing seems to be changing it. The media really just does not want to say nothing hurts Biden or bring up that the man really took charge of the whole party right now. So this election has been the same as always, leaning to a Biden win.
I really hope you're right. I don't like biden, but he's far and away better than trumpy.
I saw this shared on Youtube this morning.
"… we'll be able to continue reaching millions of young people."
Ah, hell no. To hell with PragerU and all of their lies and trying to bring young people into it so we continue to be screwed with ignorant, hateful people forever.
That's great news. Dennis Prager and his propaganda are truly despicable.
It's so messed up. These rich old asholes who will be dead in at most 2 decades, most probably less, are trying to brainwash young people, an effect that will be felt for multiple generations. All that so their taxes will be lowered a bit and they can avoid being a little less rich for a bunch of years. I don't celebrate anyone's death, but honestly the death of one of the Koch brothers (who partly fund Prager iirc and climate denialism) was just a positive for the world. Hopefully the other one and rupert murdoch will follow soon.
I celebrate people's deaths all the time, as long as they're sufficiently despicable. I plan on taking a shit on trumpy's grave at least once, just cause I'm a petty asshole :)
I don't believe in dancing on people's graves, but if T-rump dies I will breathe the hugest sigh of relief.
I assume that, without proper precautions, Trump's grave will get vandalized pretty regularly. I have no idea what goes into graveyard security, but there would be too many people tempted, I assume.
I assume that, without proper precautions, Trump's grave will get vandalized pretty regularly. I have no idea what goes into graveyard security, but there would be too many people tempted, I assume.
Just like, I dunno…build a wall around it might be a solution in this case.
[https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/05/18/day-1215/
[h=1]](https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/05/18/day-1215/)Day 1215: "I seem to be okay."[/h]
1/ Trump claimed that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine “right now” and that he started taking it “a couple of weeks ago” despite the fact he continues to test negative for the coronavirus. Trump said he consulted with the White House doctor, who recommended he take the unproven treatment for COVID-19 that he has repeatedly promoted. Trump said he hadn’t been exposed, but started taking the drug because “I get a lot of positive calls about it.” Trump said he said he doesn’t know if it works, but claimed “if it doesn’t, you’re not going to get sick and die.” The FDA, however, has warned against hydroxychloroquine’s use for COVID-19 outside of a hospital setting due to a risk of serious heart problems. Trump added: “So far, I seem to be okay.” [[I]Editor’s note: This is breaking news and the blog post will be updated.] (CNBC / Politico / Wall Street Journal /
/ NBC News / Washington Post / The Guardian / CNN)
2/ After a former top vaccine official called the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic slow and chaotic, Trump took to Twitter to complain that whistleblowers like Rick Bright are “causing great injustice and harm” to the nation. Bright, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, criticized Trump for failing to have a plan in place to address the coronavirus outbreak and repeated his claim that he was retaliated against after raising concerns about hydroxychloroquine. Trump tweeted that he had never met nor heard of Bright and claimed that the former federal vaccine doctor was a “disgruntled employee.” Bright responded, saying he was not a disgruntled employee but instead “frustrated at a lack of leadership.” (CBS News / Washington Post / The Hill)
3/ Trump fired the State Department inspector general, who had opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Steve Linick was investigating whether Pompeo made a staffer run personal errands for him, including walking his dog, picking up his dry cleaning, and making dinner reservations for him and his wife. Linick was also investigating Pompeo’s decision to bypass Congress and expedite last year’s $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia by declaring an emergency. Pompeo reportedly refused to sit for an interview with Linick as part of the probe. Trump informed Congress of the move in a letter late Friday, saying that he “no longer” had full confidence in Linick. Lawmakers from both parties criticized Linick’s firing, with congressional Democrats launching an investigation to determine whether was an act of illegal retaliation intended to shield Pompeo from accountability. Pompeo, meanwhile, said he recommended that Linick be fired because the independent watchdog was “undermining” the department. Pomepo would not address specifics, except to say it was not in retaliation, because he did not know beforehand that Linick was investigating allegations that he had an aide run personal errands for him. (Politico / NBC News / CNN / New York Times / NBC News / Washington Post / CNN / CNBC / Washington Post / NBC News / Washington Post / CNN / NBC News)
4/ A $500 billion Treasury Department fund created by the CARES Act in March to help prop up large segments of the U.S. economy has barely lent any money, according to a Congressional Oversight Commission report. The commission was created by the CARES act to oversee how the taxpayer money is being used. The first report was issued even though it still doesn’t have a chairman. (Washington Post)
5/ Cellphone location data suggests that demonstrators at anti-lockdown protests may have spread coronavirus hundreds of miles after returning to all parts of their states. The anonymized location data was captured from opt-in cellphone apps and was used it to track the movements of devices present at protests in late April and early May in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado, and Florida. (The Guardian)
6/ Sen. Marco Rubio will temporarily serve as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee after Sen. Richard Burr said he would step aside as chairman while he faces an FBI investigation into his stock trades. (Politico)
7/ Attorney General William Barr dismissed Trump’s attempts to rebrand the Russia investigation as a criminal plot engineered by Barack Obama. Barr said he did not expect the prosecutor he handpicked to review the 2016 FBI investigation into Trump’s campaign would investigate Obama or Joe Biden. Barr said that John Durham was examining some aspects of the case as potential crimes but that he was focused on other people, saying “I don’t expect Mr. Durham’s work will lead to a criminal investigation of either [Obama or Biden].” (CNN / New York Times / Washington Post)
Protestors now have signs demanding Fauci and Gates be hanged. I heard they were chanting hang fauci as well, but I didn't hear it myself so take that with a grain of salt. Don't cha just love america?
I wanted to find that "protestor rally" scene from Inherit the Wind but this will do:
I doubt if you sat an alt-right asshole down and made them watch the movie they would learn anything, but sometimes I wish they would.
@The:
Protestors now have signs demanding Fauci and Gates be hanged. I heard they were chanting hang fauci as well, but I didn't hear it myself so take that with a grain of salt. Don't cha just love america?
Hey, that's got to be illegal, right?
Hey, that's got to be illegal, right?
Oh, the protesters are white so it's no big deal apparently. Can you imagine if black folks were demanding trumpy and turtle McConnell be hanged though? There'd be violence in the streets, I believe that.
I love President Supervillain but . . .
Is he also trying hard to look like Gary Cooper?
I love President Supervillain but . . .
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Is the facepalm for the quote used or the image used?
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/05/19/day-1216/ [h=1]Day 1216: "Badge of honor."[/h]
1/ Trump threatened to permanently cut off funding to the World Health Organization and revoke U.S. membership. Trump sent a letter to the WHO director-general complaining about the “repeated missteps by you and your organization,” and claiming that the WHO “ignored credible reports of the virus” and “repeatedly made claims about the coronavirus that were either grossly inaccurate or misleading.” Trump threatened that the U.S. would permanently end all U.S. financial contributions to the WHO if the organization didn’t “commit to major substantive improvements in the next 30 days.” Trump suspended U.S. funding to the WHO last month. Trump, however, offered no other details about the reforms he was seeking or what specific changes would unlock U.S. funding. Trump tweeted that his letter is “self-explanatory.” Leaders in Europe and Asia, meanwhile, stressed the importance of the WHO’s work, calling on the U.S. to “stop the blame game” because – during the global pandemic – this is “not the time for finger pointing.” (CNN / NBC News / Politico / NPR / Wall Street Journal / Bloomberg / CBS News / Axios)
2/ White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she didn’t know “the exact rationale” behind Trump’s decision to take hydroxychloroquine, but that “the president just wanted to be transparent about his personal health decision that he made in consultation with his doctor.” McEnany noted that “any use of hydroxychloroquine has to be in consultation with your doctor” and requires a prescription. Trump’s admission that he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine for a “couple of weeks” despite testing negative for the coronavirus alarmed health experts, who cautioned that people risk serious heart problems and other complications from the decades-old anti-malaria drug. Trump is part of the cohort most at risk: he has a common heart disease, with a buildup of plaque in his blood vessels, according to records the White House released after his 2018 physical exam. Trump’s physician, meanwhile, said in a statement that it was decided after “numerous discussions” that “the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks” of hydroxychloroquine. Unlike Trump, Pence said he is not taking hydroxychloroquine. Trump later criticized a hydroxychloroquine study he disagreed with, calling it a “Trump enemy statement.” (Bloomberg / ABC News / Politico / New York Times / Axios / NBC News)
3/ The Trump administration will end deployments for more than 40,000 National Guard members currently helping states with coronavirus test and trace programs one day before thousands of members become eligible for key federal benefits, including early retirement and education benefits under the Post-9/11 GI bill. Members will face a “hard stop” on their deployments on June 24. (Politico / The Hill)
4/ The Trump administration signed a $354 million contract to create the nation’s first strategic stockpile of generic medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients needed to treat COVID-19, which are currently made overseas. The goal is to enable the U.S. to manufacture essential drugs at risk of shortage and to create a reserve of active pharmaceutical ingredients in order to reduce the dependence on foreign suppliers. (NBC News / New York Times)
5/ The House Judiciary Committee told the Supreme Court they need Robert Mueller’s secret grand jury materials to determine if there is new evidence of impeachable offenses involving Trump, saying Trump “did not cease with the conclusion of the impeachment trial.” The new filing comes in response to the Justice Department’s request that the Supreme Court put aside a federal appeals court order that Congress had a “compelling need” to view the secret grand jury evidence. The Justice Department, meanwhile, is asking the Supreme Court to block the release, saying it would suffer “irreparable harm” if it had to turn over the records before the justices had decided whether to take up the appeal. (CNN / Washington Post)
6/ Sen. Bob Menendez will introduce a bill that would limit Trump’s ability to fire inspectors general within his administration. The legislation is a response to Trump’s recent firing of State Department inspector general Steve Linick, the fourth IG that Trump has fired in recent months. Menendez says his bill would “prevent a President from carrying out an unjustified—or worse, politically motivated—removal” by giving Congress a “mechanism” to review attempts by a president to remove inspectors general. The bill would only allow a president to remove an IG “for cause,” including for misusing funds, abusing their power, or breaking the law. (The Hill)
7/ The Senate Intelligence Committee approved Rep. John Ratcliffe’s nomination as the nation’s top intelligence official. Trump’s next director of national intelligence was approved in a straight party-line vote, 8 to 7. The nomination must still be confirmed by the Senate. If confirmed, Ratcliffe would take over from acting national intelligence director Richard Grenell. (Politico / Wall Street Journal)
poll/ 73% of Americans are certain that climate change is happening – matching the highest level of acceptance recorded by the survey. 54% said they are “extremely” or “very” certain that climate change is happening while 10% said climate change is not happening, and 6% said they were “extremely” or “very” sure it’s not happening. (New York Times)
Is the facepalm for the quote used or the image used?
For the fact that President Dumb-dumb head called a weapon "super-duper".
This isn't entirely politics related, but how long is the covid crisis projected to last? It could be key to defeating trumpy, but if it fades before November he could claim it as a victory.
@The:
This isn't entirely politics related, but how long is the covid crisis projected to last? It could be key to defeating trumpy, but if it fades before November he could claim it as a victory.
Up to three years.
It'll take at least a decade to recover from the resulting economic collapse.
Despite what we keep being told, Coronavirus cases in most places outside of New York are surging. This is a horrible time to reopen.
About one in five hundred New York City residents died from COVID over the last two months, so if the rest of the country was responsible and stayed closed throughout their respective regional outbreaks, forcing people to wear masks in public and taking other important precautionary measures, I'd expect the death toll from phase 1 to be about 660,000.
Since we're not doing that… it could exceed 1 million.
Those numbers don't include deaths resulting from new syndromes or permanent injuries caused by COVID, or potential deaths from COVID phase 2, 3 etc.
Despite what we keep being told, Coronavirus cases in most places outside of New York are surging. This is a horrible time to reopen.
It's almost as if opening back up weeks before you hit the actual suggested quotas was a bad idea!
The worst part is those numbers are based on people being "reasonable*, which they are not doing. And also on the virus not mutating.
Hopefully it's not as bad as Spanish Flu ended up being. Everyone went into quarantine for that, then got tired of hiding, and threw big parties and it killed 25x as many people that fall. Millions and millions.
Up to three years.
It'll take at least a decade to recover from the resulting economic collapse.Despite what we keep being told, Coronavirus cases in most places outside of New York are surging. This is a horrible time to reopen.
About one in five hundred New York City residents died from COVID over the last two months, so if the rest of the country was responsible and stayed closed throughout their respective regional outbreaks, forcing people to wear masks in public and taking other important precautionary measures, I'd expect the death toll from phase 1 to be about 660,000.
Since we're not doing that… it could exceed 1 million.Those numbers don't include deaths resulting from new syndromes or permanent injuries caused by COVID, or potential deaths from COVID phase 2, 3 etc.
I think I'll just stay holed up in my house for a few…years. Not like it's that much of a change. I'm a legitimate shut in, lol. Still I hope this helps biden kick trumpy's nuts up into his throat in November. As bad as covid is it coukd be responsible for something good.
Biden beating Trump would be the one silver lining for this whole crisis. Well, that and pollution reduction levels.
@The:
I think I'll just stay holed up in my house for a few…years. Not like it's that much of a change. I'm a legitimate shut in, lol. Still I hope this helps biden kick trumpy's nuts up into his throat in November. As bad as covid is it coukd be responsible for something good.
It's almost as if opening back up weeks before you hit the actual suggested quotas was a bad idea!
The worst part is those numbers are based on people being "reasonable*, which they are not doing. And also on the virus not mutating.
Hopefully it's not as bad as Spanish Flu ended up being. Everyone went into quarantine for that, then got tired of hiding, and threw big parties and it killed 25x as many people that fall. Millions and millions.
This is America. Apparently, there's even an idea most common in the right wing going around that wearing masks is un-American, weak, etc. That sector of America screwed us over with the election of Trump, and they'll do it again with stupidly spreading COVID.
[https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/05/20/day-1217/
[h=1]](https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/05/20/day-1217/)Day 1217: "We still have a long way to go."[/h]
1/ Trump threatened to “hold up” federal funds for Michigan and Nevada because they are expanding mail-in voting to make it easier to vote during the coronavirus pandemic. Trump, set off by an announcement by Michigan’s secretary of state to send absentee ballot applications to every voter in the state, tweeted that Jocelyn Benson had gone “rogue” and sent absentee ballots “illegally and without authorization […] I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!” Trump later deleted the tweet but sent a similar one that said “absentee ballot applications” without noting mistake. Trump made a similar threat to Nevada, claiming the state had created “a great Voter Fraud scenario” and adding “If they do, ‘I think’ I can hold up funds to the State.” Nevada is mailing absentee ballots to all registered voters for the state’s June 9 primary — an all-mail election — and Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, a Republican, has closed nearly all of the state’s in-person polling places for the primary. Both Michigan and Nevada have requested emergency funding from the Election Assistance Commission to prepare for holding an election during a pandemic. (Associated Press / NPR / Politico / Washington Post / New York Times / The Guardian / Reuters)
2/ The CDC released its reopening guidance that the White House had shelved. The 60-page document provides detailed guidance for schools, businesses, transit systems, and other industries to safely reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. CDC officials, meanwhile, say their early efforts to coordinate a response to the COVID-19 pandemic were sidelined by a White House driven by politics rather than science. As one current CDC official said: “We’ve been muzzled. [….] if we would have acted earlier on what we knew and recommended, we would have saved lives and money.” (New York Times / CNN)
3/ The Supreme Court blocked Congress from seeing secret grand jury material from Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump administration and Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. The court agreed with a request from the Justice Department to put on hold a lower court decision granting the House Judiciary Committee some previously undisclosed material from the investigation. The action increases the chances that the information will remain shielded through the 2020 election. (Wall Street Journal / Washington Post / NBC News / CNN)
4/ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined to be interviewed by the State Department inspector general about the Trump administration’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Pompeo instead only provided answers to written questions from Steve Linick, who was fired by Trump last week on Pompeo’s recommendation. Last year, Pompeo declared an “emergency” that allowed the Trump administration to bypass a congressional freeze on $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their war in Yemen. Today, Pompeo defended his push to have his inspector general fired, telling reporters he “should have done it some time ago,” but refused to explain his reasoning for recommending Trump remove Linick from his job. Prior to being fired, Linick had also recently completed up an investigation into two of Pompeo’s top aides, determining that they had likely failed to report allegations of workplace violence. (New York Times / Politico / CNBC / CNN / NBC News)
5/ Republican political operatives are recruiting “extremely pro-Trump” doctors to go on TV and make the case for reopening the U.S. economy as quickly as possible, according to leaked audio from a May 11 conference call with members of the Trump reelection campaign. The Trump campaign communications director confirmed that the effort to recruit doctors to support reopening the economy without waiting to meet the CDC safety benchmarks. Trump, meanwhile, has ordered his campaign to find a way to get him back on the road and restart rallies to re-energize his base. Trump’s 2020 team is keeping an eye on regional reopenings, where modified campaign activities could soon be permitted. (Associated Press / Politico)
6/ The Trump administration’s purchase of mask-cleaning machines ballooned from $60 million to $600 million after Trump pressured the FDA to waive safety and contracting rules. The machines promised to allow protective masks to be reused up to 20 times, but scientists and nurses say the treated masks begin to degrade after two or three treatments – not 20. The Pentagon put the potential cost to taxpayers at $600 million as a result of awarding the deal without an open bidding process or an actual contract. (NBC News)
7/ The Trump administration awarded a $1.3 billion contract to build 42 miles of border wall to a construction firm backed by Trump. It is the largest border wall contract ever awarded. Trump has repeatedly touted Fisher Sand and Gravel during White House meetings with border officials and military officers. The company’s first and only other federal construction contract was for $400 million and is currently under review by the Defense Department over concerns about undue influence by the White House over the procurement process. The latest contract boasts an average cost of more than $30 million per mile of border wall – more expensive than any of Trump’s other border wall contracts. (Washington Post)
Up to three years.
I seriously hope not! it's been like what, a few months, and I'm already going crazy, I want to see my friends again, go out places to eat, read books at Barnes and Noble or the library, and go to the movie theaters etc
I don't think I can take three years of Quarintine
January 2021 is the absolute earliest we could get it, but even then it probably wouldn't be a "cure all" because it wouldn't be tested well enough. And it could be like the flu where we have to make a new vaccine every year because the virus mutates.
https://jewishcurrents.org/joe-bidens-alarming-record-on-israel/
Is this site trustworthy? I know the US government has an extreme pro-Israel stance, but biden's insistence on the issue (if this is true) is rather disappointing given his other rivals take on this.
Or does it not matter given how even Obama couldn't rein Netanyahu
I don’t think it was that he couldn’t but chose not to do much of anything besides ignore him.
Biden is 78 and was on the foreign affairs committee for years, so he probably is just genuinely an Israel shill.
I seriously hope not! it's been like what, a few months, and I'm already going crazy, I want to see my friends again, go out places to eat, read books at Barnes and Noble or the library, and go to the movie theaters etc
I don't think I can take three years of Quarintine
You won't be on quarantine anywhere near that long. The virus is here to stay though for the foreseeable future and we are going to have to make collective adjustments as a society in order to live with it.
That might mean placing restrictions on restaurants, bars, schools, movie theaters, gyms and sports arenas to being filled to no more than 25%-50% capacity for the next few years. But you will return to some degree of normalcy relatively soon. Just make sure that you continue to stay mindful about things like coughing and sneezing publicly when things get back to "normal". I personally see myself continuing to wear a mask long after the CDC and WHO say we can start relaxing the practice.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/05/21/day-1218/
[h=1]Day 1218: "Social and moral responsibility."[/h]
1/ Another 2.4 million workers filed new unemployment claims last week. Since efforts to the contain coronavirus pandemic nine weeks ago, more than 38.6 million Americans have sought unemployment benefits, leading to levels of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression. An analysis of the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on the labor market estimates that 42% of recent layoffs will result in permanent job loss. (Politico / Washington Post / New York Times / Wall Street Journal /Bloomberg)
2/ Mitch McConnell promised House Republicans that enhanced unemployment benefits enacted earlier this spring “will not be in the next bill.” The $600 per week federal unemployment benefit, which adds to the sum individuals normally get from states, will expire at the end of July. House Democrats passed a $3 trillion rescue package last week that would extend the financial backstop through January, but McConnell has questioned the need for more federal spending and has said he is comfortable waiting to see how effective the nearly $3 trillion in previously approved coronavirus spending is before moving forward on the next relief legislation. (Politico / CNBC)
3/ The United States could have prevented about 36,000 deaths if social distancing had been put in place seven days earlier — about 40% of fatalities reported to date. If the U.S. imposed social distancing two weeks earlier, about 83% of the nation’s deaths would have been avoided, according to from Columbia University disease modelers. (New York Times / Washington Post)
4/ Trump warned Americans that “we are not closing our country” again if the U.S. is hit by a second wave of coronavirus infections. “People say that’s a very distinct possibility, it’s standard,” Trump said. “We are going to put out the fires. We’re not going to close the country. We can put out the fires. Whether it is an ember or a flame, we are going to put it out. But we are not closing our country.” (CNBC)
5/ Trump refused to wear a mask while touring the Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan despite recommendations from federal health officials and an executive order from the state’s governor. Michigan’s attorney general implored Trump to wear a face mask on his tour, citing a “legal responsibility” under state law, as well as a “social and moral responsibility.” Trump claimed “I had one [a mask] on before,” in an area that was not visible to reporters and that it was “not necessary,” but added: “I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.” (CNBC / Washington Post / CNN)
6/ The Trump administration will withdraw from another international major arms control treaty. The Open Skies treaty allows 35 nations, including Russia, to conduct unarmed reconnaissance flights over each other’s territory in order to assure that nations are not preparing for military action. The Trump administration argued that Russia has been violating the agreement by blocking the U.S. from flying surveillance missions. (CNBC / New York Times / Washington Post / CNN)
7/ Michael Cohen was released from prison to serve the remainder of his three-year sentence under home confinement due to the coronavirus in U.S. federal and state prisons. Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to lying to Congress, tax fraud, making false statements to a bank, and two campaign finance charges for facilitating hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal – two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump. (CNN / The Guardian)
8/ The Senate confirmed Rep. John Ratcliffe as the next director of national intelligence in a 49-to-44 vote along party lines. Ratcliffe received more votes against his confirmation than any DNI in the 15-year history of the office. (Washington Post / Politico)
9/ The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to authorize a subpoena targeting Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. The committee authorized Sen. Ron Johnson to subpoena Blue Star Strategies, a public relations firm that did consulting work for Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company where Hunter Biden served on the board. Johnson’s probe claims Blue Star tried to leverage Hunter Biden’s position on the board to influence U.S. State Department matters under the Obama administration. The subpoena is seeking documents from Blue Star Strategies and an interview with CEO Karen Tramontano. Trump has openly encouraged the Senate’s investigation. (Politico)
poll/ 51% of Americans who rely on the White House for coronavirus news believe the pandemic is overblown, 40% say the outbreak has been approached about right, and 8% say the task force has made it a smaller deal than it really is. Meanwhile, Americans who rely mainly on national news outlets, local news outlets, local and state officials, or public health officials and organizations for coronavirus news are more likely to say that the outbreak has been underplayed. (Pew Research Center)
poll/ 65% of Americans think it will take at least six months before things return to “normal” as states reopen. 32% of those surveyed think it will take less than six months. 78% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans feel the same. (NPR)
So Michael Cohen is released from prison because of "virus concerns":
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/21/860204544/michael-cohen-released-from-prison-due-to-coronavirus-concerns?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2qOi2-d0xJ2_QoHDO6iRTx2rlRT1UD-fLXPKQODWvLZzKyscDP2Tynkzw
Because, y'know, who cares about all those other prisoners? Let's just release all of Trump's cronies instead.
If anyone still cares, Tara Reade lied about her degrees so all the times she was a witness to cases that involved abuse, she was in perjury which puts all those cases in question. A harmful women to abused victims and a lesson to always vet vet vet vet vet these people and their stories before acting like they are the truth.
I'm cryin. Biden really had the nerve to say that if you have a problem figuring out if you're for him or Trump, then you're not black.
@Dorobō:
If anyone still cares, Tara Reade lied about her degrees so all the times she was a witness to cases that involved abuse, she was in perjury which puts all those cases in question. A harmful women to abused victims and a lesson to always vet vet vet vet vet these people and their stories before acting like they are the truth.
An article for this if anyone wants details: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/21/tara-reade-biden-expert-testimony-274460
Biden says he won't raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000.
95% of Americans make less than $300,000.
Would also break his promise that he would fully repeal the Trump tax cuts.
Would also break his promise that he would fully repeal the Trump tax cuts.
Unless a blue wave gives a 60% majority in both House and Senate, he's still gonna have to push things past republicans voting against. Won't be carte blanche to just undo and fix everything.
Even something as simple as "let the kids out of the damn cages" which should be an easy day 1 task, probably won't be if Guantanemo is any indication.
Unless a blue wave gives a 60% majority in both House and Senate, he's still gonna have to push things past republicans voting against. Won't be carte blanche to just undo and fix everything.
Even something as simple as "let the kids out of the damn cages" which should be an easy day 1 task, probably won't be if Guantanemo is any indication.
If it's an easy day one thing, why couldn't he just let them out anyway and let the courts tell him to stop?
Because the principle is "just let them out". But then the question arises of, where do you let them go? How do you contact their guardian? How do you appologize for the horrible things? What do you do about the countless children tat went untracked that don't know their own name or were shipped out to different states for adoption? What do you do to all the horrible assholes that were in charge of the whole operation? That's thousands and thousands of kids, most of whom are too young to actually just be let out on their own, and due to pure malice, many of them weren't properly tracked. (If the post office can track a package cross continetn down to the minute, we could track people.) .
THe principle of "just do the right thing" is easy. The administration of it might not be.
Same thing applies all the way down the chain to everything Trump has done. Like we're going to be stuck with those judges for decades. Just revert the tax code? Sure but you need it to pass a vote. And if you want to make changes to it to be at all different from the 2012 version to try and help the economy recover or work towards green new deal? What do you do to fix all the systems and checks and balances that Trump has now broken? If the post office dies in two months, what steps do you need to fix that? And so on.
"Just fix what he did" is easier said than done. Trump has basically spent his entire time just trying to undo Obama's legacy and still couldn't kill Obamacare.
I'm cryin. Biden really had the nerve to say that if you have a problem figuring out if you're for him or Trump, then you're not black.
I’m more perturbed by how they got Charlamange to interview him.
Biden literally had the easiest campaign there for him. "All the bad things happening? It's because Trump is an incompetent fool.. Vote for me, and I'll make things better".
And he couldn't even do that. Fuck me blind.