The 188th Week of Trump's Torment!

[JackLuis]

As the 188th Week begins let us recap the curent situation.

8-15-20 AM
Box Scores of Covid-19
United States
Coronavirus Cases: 5,478,009

Deaths: 171,568

Recovered: 2,876,080

Death rate of resolved cases 6% unlike the ~1% of the "Normal Flu"

Trump confessed on nation wide TV to shorting the USPS to make mail-in voting fail during the worst pandemic in 100 years! His hand picked Post Master General has blatant conflict of interests and is actively working to disrupt the functioning of one of the oldest and most necessary public institutions. Many might call this TREASON!

Implicit in this confession is the fact that Trump is conspiring with his PMG to corrupt the election process!

The result of this is that States may bring prosecutions for this voter suppression, which Billy Barr will be unable to quash and Trump will be unable to pardon.

Untold numbers of former Republicans have deserted Trump and are actively working to defeat him in November.

Congressional Republicans are shaking in their boots that Trumpisim will cause them to have to seek honest labour after the Blue Tsunami sweeps them from office.

Trump's polling numbers continue to slip and Kamala Harris looks to be the the grim reaper that Trump can not intimidate. None of Trump's lies about Joe Biden appear to be gaining any traction.

Now even the limp wristed National press is calling out Trump's minions as being wilfully incompetent!

The list goes on for Trumps Torment.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump has ‘started to sound desperate’ as election nears: Fox News politics editor

Breaking from the normal Fox News pack that lavishes praise on Donald Trump, political editor Chris Stirewalt penned an editorial for the conservative network’s website saying the president increasingly appears to be desperate as the November election nears.

As Stirewalt notes, in 2016 Trump ran like a man who didn’t care if he won or he lost and that was part of his appeal as a novice politician. Pointing out that politicians of any stripe who indulge in “the say anything, do anything, ends-justify-the-means approach to politics” is “queasy making” he adds that Trump has entered that stage of his political career.

While noting that the president seems to have learned nothing from his attempt to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden that led to his impeachment, Stirewalt said the president is at it again in his quest to remain in office.

“We’re back in that same tall grass again this week as Trump toys publicly with a threat to sabotage mail-in voting unless House Democrats agree to his demands on a coronavirus stimulus. As Trump said today, unless Nancy Pelosi agrees to cut out spending that would benefit big cities, he will refuse any measure to provide the Postal Service the money it needs for the election,” he wrote. ” As with his Ukrainian power play, Trump seems not to understand how this position might look to voters coming from the president who directs through his appointees the Postal Service: Give him what he wants, or he will precipitate election disaster that he believes would be in his benefit.”

 

[JackLuis]

Trump ripped for saying he’s making USPS great again: ‘Guys, I think the president might be lying to us’

President Donald Trump on Saturday defending the sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

At a pressconference at the president’s private, members-only Bedminster Golf Club, Trump said DeJoy was trying to make the USPS “great again.”

Question: Does Postmaster DeJoy have your backing for the actions he’s taking?
Trump: Yeah he’s a fantastic man. He wants to make the post office great again

Evidence of Trump's part of the conspiracy to wreck the election!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s polling numbers are worse than Republicans are letting on: election analyst

On Saturday, CNN election analyst Harry Enten broke down how President Donald Trump may be performing worse in competitive districts than Republicans are willing to admit.

“Look at the live interview polls (and all surveys, for that matter) taken this summer that asked about race for the presidency and the race for Congress. Counting each pollster only once in the average, former Vice President Joe Biden leads Trump by 10 points in these polls,” wrote Enten. “Democratic House candidates are ahead of the Republicans by 8 points on the generic congressional ballot in these same surveys.”

Incumbent presidents generally enjoy a significant advantage over non-incumbent presidents in elections, according to data. No incumbent president has lost re-election since George H. W. Bush in 1992. Indeed, Enten noted, in the last 80 years, “the minority party in the House has done better in the presidential race 13 of 15 times when they either control the White House or the incumbent president is not running for re-election. The vast majority of the time, it’s not even close.”

 

[JackLuis]

Pelosi may cut short congressional vacation to respond to Trump’s sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service: report

After a sharp criticism in the press this morning, Nancy responded.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives was harshly criticized on Saturday for Congress remaining on vacation while the U.S. Postal Service is under attack from the Trump administration.

However, things may be about to change.

“Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders are considering cutting short the August recess and bringing the chamber back into session to deal with the unfolding crisis at the U.S. Postal Service,” Politico reported Saturday, citing “Democratic sources.”

 

[JackLuis]

CDC says child COVID cases are ‘steadily increasing’ — despite Trump claiming kids are ‘almost immune’

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out with guidance “to reflect new evidence about COVID-19 in children.”

“The number and rate of cases in children in the United States have been steadily increasing from March to July 2020. The true incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children is not known due to lack of widespread testing and the prioritization of testing for adults and those with severe illness,” the CDC noted.

Trump is lying, again!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s campaign has plans to disrupt coverage of the Democratic convention: report

According to a report from Politico, Donald Trump will be hitting the road next week where he will visit battleground states in an effort to steal headlines while the Democrats hold their national convention to select former Vice President Joe Biden as their presidential nominee.

With the physical convention set aside due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Democrats will hold a virtual convention that will feature a host of high-profile Democrats including former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama among others, and Trump’s campaign wants to get the president out front of them and grab the limelight.

“It’s a typical Trumpian diversionary tactic: never let your rivals get all the attention,” the Politico report states. “And next week, Trump will do his best to ensure the Democratic National Convention has to compete with whatever chum he throws in the water. Just as the DNC kicks off on Monday, the president will launch a tour of battleground states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Arizona to highlight what the Trump campaign calls ‘Joe Biden’s failures.’ He’ll then punctuate the tour with his Scranton stop, going toe-to-toe with Biden from afar just as the convention hits its apex.”

 

[JackLuis]

Trump losing ground among retirees in must-win Florida

There are signs that more and more retirees in this must-win state who voted for Trump in 2016 are considering dumping him in the upcoming election.

Polls give Biden a slight edge over Trump among older voters, but that lead could be fragile — just three points in a Quinnipiac survey released on July 23.

“There is smoke that suggests some folks could turn to Biden. Particularly around his handling of COVID-19,” said Michael Binder, a professor of political science at the University of North Florida.

That’s a big problem for Trump — older voters are the demographic that gave him the win in Florida in the last election. In 2016, 57 percent of Florida voters over age 65 cast their ballots for Trump.

 

[JackLuis]

8-16-20 AM
Box Scores

United States
Coronavirus Cases: 5,531,282

Deaths: 172,630 6% of resolved cases

Recovered: 2,904,237

Assuming the %ages stay constant and no one else gets sick,(unlikely) we're looking at
331,876 total Deaths from the Trump Virus!

 

[JackLuis]

Expert explains how Trump has exploited our legal infrastructure to advance true fascism in America

The debate over whether Donald Trump is a fascist is no longer confined to a narrow segment of the far left. It is now out in the open. Even mainstream columnists like the New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg and the Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor and influential Democratic politicians, such as Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, have come to use the “F” word to describe our 45th commander in chief.

Although it is an emotionally loaded and often misused term, fascism is as real today as a political and cultural force, a set of core beliefs, and a mode of governance as it was when Benito Mussolini founded the Italian Fascist Party in 1919 and declared himself dictator six years later.

Nor is fascism a foreign phenomenon restricted to South American banana republics or failed European states. As University of London professor Sarah Churchwell explained in a June 22 essay published in the New York Review of Books, fascism has deep roots in the United States, spanning the decades from the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s to the rise of the German-American Bund in the 1930s, the ascendance of Depression-era demagogues like Huey Long, and the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

Churchwell’s article is aptly titled, “American Fascism: It Has Happened Here.” In it, she offers a working definition of fascism, noting that fascist movements, both past and present in America and abroad, are united by “conspicuous features [that] are recognizably shared.” These include:

“[N]ostalgia for a purer, mythic, often rural past; cults of tradition and cultural regeneration; paramilitary groups; the delegitimizing of political opponents and demonization of critics; the universalizing of some groups as authentically national, while dehumanizing all other groups; hostility to intellectualism and attacks on a free press; anti-modernism; fetishized patriarchal masculinity; and a distressed sense of victimhood and collective grievance. Fascist mythologies often incorporate a notion of cleansing, an exclusionary defense against racial or cultural contamination, and related eugenicist preferences for certain ‘bloodlines’ over others.”

 

[JackLuis]

Katrina hero Russell Honoré goes on epic rant accusing Trump of making America ‘look stupid’

Well...Yes We stupidly elected a ignorant conman and failed to impeach his ass, let him destroy our alliances and the fucking Post Office! SO how smart are Americans??????

 

[phrodeau]

Katrina hero Russell Honoré goes on epic rant accusing Trump of making America ‘look stupid’

Well...Yes We stupidly elected a ignorant conman and failed to impeach his ass, let him destroy our alliances and the fucking Post Office! SO how smart are Americans??????

Smart enough to know that Trump has actually been impeached.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump’s decision to block coronavirus aid to hard-hit states will cost 4 million jobs: analysis

Negotiations over the next phase of coronavirus relief have stalled as Trump attempts to circumvent Congress with unworkable and legally dubious executive orders that fall far short of the aid that would be included in any Congressional proposal. Though House Democrats already approved a $3 trillion relief bill including an extension on federal unemployment benefits and $1 trillion in aid to states and cities whose tax revenues evaporated amid coronavirus lockdowns, Trump and Senate Republicans have balked at both provisions.

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Impeached but not CONVICTED by the Trumpublicunt Senate!

 

[JackLuis]

US Postal Service leaders can’t keep Trump’s lies — or their own stories — straight

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy claims that removing nearly 700 mail processing machines nationwide is a “routine” cost-saving measure, not a brazen attempt to steal the 2020 Presidential Election by suppressing the vote.

The hobbling of the United States Postal Service to rig the November election is also causing immense collateral damage. Delays in mail delivery hurt people on medications, in need of paychecks and pension checks to pay the rent and of legions of small business owners to ship goods to customers. Many of those suffering are Trump supporters so his scheme is unlikely to win more votes..

 

[JackLuis]

It's not even 8 AM on the West Coast and already the Trump minions are lying on National TV!


Mark Meadows gets busted on-air for lying to Jake Tapper about disabling USPS sorting machines

Chris Wallace takes down Trump adviser over Kamala Harris birtherism: ‘Why not say it’s wrong?’

How many lies can they tell on a Sunday?

 

[JackLuis]

‘People are going to be shocked’: Ex-White House official hints Cohen is about to supply more dirt on Trump

Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday afternoon, former White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci backed up the early allegations made against Donald Trump in Michael Cohen’s upcoming tell-all book about the president and said worse was yet to come before the election.

Asked about the wave of books about the president that are flooding the market, Scaramucci, who has known Trump for years before briefly working in the White House, said he hasn’t read them all but Cohen’s book would have an impact on the election.

“Is that going to be enough to move them that we go back to the [former RNC head] Michael Steele question? Is their 401(k) better off with him or without him or is the world and the country better off with him or without him? I think we know the answer to that and so hopefully, he’ll be roundly defeated,” he continued. “Certainly Michael’s book will have an impact, but the volume of books makes it harder to have that big dent that we would all like.”

 

[JackLuis]

Jared Kushner gets salty with CBS host after she asks about COVID: ‘That’s a very negative framing’

White House adviser Jared Kushner appeared to be irritated with CBS host Margaret Brennan on Sunday after she asked about COVID-19 and President Donald Trump’s crusade against mail-in voting.

After several more questions about the pandemic, Kushner tried to push back.

“I came on today to talk about the historic breakthrough that the president achieved for peace in the Middle East,” the president’s adviser complained. “This has been a strategy we’ve been working on for the past three and a half years.”

Brennan, however, pressed Kushner about whether he would be sending his children back to school in person.

“Look, we have a great operation. We’re very confident. We’re in much better shape than in 2016,” Kushner shot back. “We think we have a great opportunity. Again, just like President Trump achieved the historic Middle East deal, which I hope we’ll get to talk about.”

Brennan finally turned to the subject of the Middle East, but Kushner was not happy when she observed that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians “remains unaddressed with what you just negotiated.”

“That’s a very negative framing,” he insisted.

 

[JackLuis]

FBI urged to investigate Trump’s postmaster general for potential violations of two federal laws

On Monday, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, calling for a federal investigation into the delays at the Postal Service.

“Multiple media investigations show that Postmaster DeJoy and the Board of Governors have retarded the passage of mail. If their intent in doing so was to affect mail-in balloting or was motivated by personal financial reasons, then they likely committed crimes,” said the letter. Lieu and Jeffries in particular cited 18 U.S.C. § 1701, which makes “knowingly and willfully” obstructing mail delivery a federal crime, and 18 U.S.C. § 595, which criminalizes using the power of a federal agency to influence an election.

Que Bill Barr in 3...2...1

 

[JackLuis]

Trump faces ‘humiliation and possible imprisonment’ if he won’t leave after losing: CNN legal analyst

Most polls suggest that President Donald Trump is on track to lose the 2020 presidential election — but what happens if he tries to stay in office even after being defeated?

CNN legal analyst Paul Callan writes that things could get “ugly” if the president challenges the election results and refuses to concede, although in the end he expects that the president will not be successful in his efforts to cling to power.

The Joint Chiefs will have a say, the USS will have to obey their oaths, and the Donnie boy will be dragged out kicking and screaming!!!!!

 

[JackLuis]

Biden’s advisers think Trump is trying to scare people away from voting by mail entirely: report

Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign has quietly been investigating Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to know which steps to take next in the war on the U.S. Postal Service.

Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent explained Monday that the Biden team thinks that President Donald Trump and DeJoy are conspiring to bring down the post office for more than just the election.

Trump confessed to a conspiracy to obstruct the US Mail on national TV, FACT

“The second goal behind Trump’s efforts is more subtle, but the Biden camp thinks it’s critical: By constantly (and falsely) attacking vote-by-mail as riddled with fraud, Trump and his allies are trying to dissuade people from using it at all, by persuading them their own ballots won’t be counted and by casting a pall of confusion over the whole process,” the report also said.

“Trump himself has unwittingly confirmed this,” Sargent recalled. “When Trump abruptly claimed vote-by-mail in Florida won’t be fraudulent and encouraged voters to use it, he revealed a fear that in a place where he thinks mail balloting will benefit him (senior-heavy Florida), his ongoing attacks might indeed discourage its use.”

Trump has claimed that the reason Florida will be a “safe” election is that the governor of Florida is a Republican as is the secretary of state there.

The fix is in, in Floriduh!

At the same time, at least six attorneys general were huddling this weekend to discuss a group lawsuit. Pennsylvania has already indicated that they are prepared to go after Trump for voter suppression.

Nancy has called back the House to try to counteract this treason!

 

[JackLuis]

WATCH: Trump rants about fixing the post office — then walks off as reporter asks about removal of sorting machines

President Donald Trump’s Monday morning “chopper talk” before leaving for a campaign rally, revealed that the president thinks he’s “fixing” the USPS by removing sorting machines that have slowed down the mail.

“We want to make sure that the post office runs properly, and it hasn’t run properly for many years,” said Trump. “Probably 50 years it’s run very badly. We want to make sure that the post office runs properly and doesn’t lose billions of dollars. Somebody said it lost $78 billion over a relatively short period of time. that’s over the years. $78 billion. You can’t have that, no.”

The USPS lost $2.2 billion last year, but the free cash flow was positive according to Barrons. It lost $4 billion in 2018. So it’s unclear how many “years” Trump is using to get to his $78 billion number and it’s possible he’s making it up.

Yes it is possible!

 

[JackLuis]

8-17-20 AM
Box Scores
United States
Coronavirus Cases: 5,573,154

Deaths: 173,186 so far

Recovered: 2,924,174

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Scroll down and look at the numbers by state and sort by Deaths per million Pop. Even though California has the largest number of cases ( thanks Southland) it ranks 28th in # per Million Population. I attribute this to the Northeast being struck first and the progress made to counteract the virus by the Health Care system. New York paid a heavy price for being the first state to see the virulence of the Covid-19.

 

[JackLuis]

‘An insidious lie’: Trump leaves observers stunned with new attack on ballot drop boxes

President Donald Trump on Monday attacked yet another way that states make it easier for their residents to vote.

Writing on Twitter, the president attacked secure drop boxes where voters can leave their ballots if they want to avoid voting in person while also avoiding sending in their ballots by mail.

“Some states use ‘drop boxes’ for the collection of Universal Mail-In Ballots,” the president wrote. “So who is going to ‘collect’ the Ballots, and what might be done to them prior to tabulation? A Rigged Election? So bad for our Country. Only Absentee Ballots acceptable!”

As NPR reporter Miles Parks explained, ballots are collected from drop boxes by the same election officials who collect ballots from the boxes located at polling stations on election day.

“Dropboxes, which are usually monitored 24/7 by video surveillance and weigh 600ish pounds, are actually considered a way to give the voter MORE control over their ballot,” he wrote in response to the president’s tweet. “Election officials pick them up directly, eliminating the USPS (and potential delays) from the process.”

 

[JackLuis]

‘The arsonist wants to put out the fire’: Twitter fires back at Trump’s ‘SAVE THE POST OFFICE’ tweet

‘That’s God testing me’: Trump claims economic damage of COVID-19 is personal challenge from God

Trump whines about Democrats investigating his Postal Service shenanigans during the RNC Convention



Trump’s cheating spree may finally come back to bite him

Trump claims ‘dogs are getting’ mail-in ballots in wild attack on ‘stupid people’ at the post office

Our PeeResident am fucking nutz!

 

[JackLuis]

‘I hope the Postmaster General comes prepared. I know I will,’ says Rep. Katie Porter as DeJoy agrees to testify on USPS changes

I'm guessing the threat of his arrest made up his mind?

Following demands by top congressional Democrats that he testify before the House Oversight Committee, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s office announced Monday that he will appear at a hearing August 24.