Even if both Trump and McConnell lose in November (the latter seems less likely), they could get another Supreme Court justice during the lame duck. Latest @DowJones@MarketWatch column from Paul Brandus https://t.co/Sbeu2JXnHA
Joy Reid:
“Trump…using that trumped up charge to justify what in any other country, particularly an authoritarian one,
would be called the secret police only responsive to the dear leader…this is a new distraction… and also a campaign ploy intended to stoke irrational fears of lawlessness among white suburban voters ahead of the November election.”
Former AG Eric Holder, 82nd Attorney General of the United States, Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee talks to Joy Reid:
Holder:
“I would say that with regard to the use of these forces, you’re right.
In the past my sister-in-law was escorted into the University of Alabama as a result of federal forces directed by President John Kennedy. That’s the way in which these forces should appropriately be used.
To deploy these forces without any kind of co-ordination with local authorities, without any kind of indication that there is a request by local authorities for this to be done, I think puts us in a very dangerous place. You can’t have an administration in Washington D.C. using federal resources, federal forces, to simply enforce the law in states or in cities where it thinks it wants to project force. Especially this administration that is making determinations based on things other than the needs of those local communities. And so I think that Mayor Lightfoot, when she said that she’ll accept help if it’s done in an appropriate way, but if it’s not, she will fight the deployment of those forces. I think that’s an appropriate thing for a mayor to do.”
Reid: “You sort of have to use your lurid imagination to imagine what might someone in an autocratic country do…unfortunately he has slid out of the realm of what happens in democracy. Trump tweeted: “Mail-in voting…will lead to the most corrupt election in our nation’s history” with the hashtag “rigged election”. He keeps on talking about mail-in voting potentially being the seeds of a rigged election.”
Quote fromJohn Heilemann:
“He is talking about sending these unmarked paramilitary guards to places with blue states with very blue cities run by democratic mayors. I think we should all take very seriously the prospect that this, as they say, a dress rehearsal, a trial run, for first an attempt at voter intimidation on election. Are these unmarked paramilitary units going to be doing ‘security’ at the polls in battleground states? I think that’s a question we’d like to have answered.”
Reid: “Are you concerned about that? That these paramilitary forces will be used to suppress the vote using intimidation and fear?”
Holder:
“If you’d asked me that question about any other president, I would say “of course not”.
That’s a script from a very bad movie. But this administration’s president has demonstrated that they have a capacity to go lower than we can even possibly imagine. So yes I think we have to be concerned about that. His attempt to talk about mail-in voting and “all the fraud” associated with it is factually incorrect. He is just trying to set up a situation where he has the ability to delegitimize a vote that he might lose. If he loses, and I expect that he will, then we have to be prepared for what he is about to do in the aftermath of such a loss. And what he’ll do for the country between the election and the inauguration of the next president. We have to be prepared for things that this nation has never faced before. And unfortunately, it could involved the use of these forces. Who knows what he’ll do and what the people who are part of his administration will support him in doing?”
Reid: “Donald Trump has joked about canceling the election. He has signed a memo attempting to exclude immigrants from the Census, which is completely averse to the Constitution. He’s done other things that make one wonder whether he will actually leave if he loses the election. Are you concerned that even if he loses, will attempt to remain in office?”
Holder:
“There are these nightmare scenarios and we can wind them out. But I don’t think that should take us away from what our focus has to be. He’s got to be beat. And he has to be beaten badly. People need to get out and vote. We need to fight for giving people the ability to vote at home. People call it vote by mail. I like to call it Vote At Home. For people who want to get to the polls, we have to make sure that they have a healthy environment so that poll workers and voters are going to be safe there as well. And make sure that people don’t have to decide between keeping themselves healthy and engaging in their civic responsibility. That’s the primary thing we have to focus on. I think we can handle anything he might try to do after a devastating loss.”
🚨 DETROIT FEDS ON THE GROUND 🚨 Several armed DEA, CBP and FBI agents were spotted in unmarked vans on Seven Mile and Evergreen this morning. #Detroit [📸 IG:detroitwillbreathe] pic.twitter.com/Mrcrz0NaDD
“Well I’m going to do something, that I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and all of these – Oakland is a mess – we’re not going to let this happen in our country. All run by liberal democrats. For Portland they’ve done a fantastic job. They’ve been there 3 days and they really have done a fantastic job in a very short period of time. No problem. They grab them, a lot of people in jail. These are anarchists, these are not protestors.” (signed, Donald Bleach)
Good!! These thugs need to be held accountable to the public that they are terrorizing. They’re literally beating up peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.
“Trump’s Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/world/europe/trump-british-open.html)
–Donald Trump acting to get a foreign entity to provide him with personal profit, misusing the State Department, and hurting our diplomatic relationship to do that.
Donald Trump’s umpteenth move to use the powers and resources of the United States government
to put money into his pockets. Trying to get the British Open moved (via his ambassador-donor) to his
failing Scottish golf club.
Love this idea! If you do, too, please sign and retweet. Make Election Day a national holiday in honor of John Lewis! #JohnLewisDayhttps://t.co/0B437lnS6C
Don’t have a link to the latest c/o the University of Washington research group,
upon whom the White House has been relying to make their ‘happy covid predictions’.
However Rachel Maddow received a publicly released non-peer evaluated copy of their latest projections.
= 3 different projections for how many Americans will die by the end of 2020.
Ready?
Here t’is…
1)
If 95% of the U.S. wear masks the death toll by the end of 2020:
= 175,000 to 123,000 dead.
2)
If mask wearing is not imposed but states reimpose social distancing the death toll by the end of 2020:
= 234,000 to 398,000 dead.
3)
If states keep on opening up (the mandates easing scenario) the death toll by the end of 2020:
= Low end 288,000 dead.
= High end 650,000 dead.
Now that we’re dying at a rate of 1,000 a day (per John Hopkins):
Donald Bleach said yesterday “I think we’ve really started it up successfully…it will disappear.”
President Obama: "You know what it's like, and how lonely it can be, to make tough decisions — where not every decision is going to be perfect, but you gotta make them and take responsibility for it … the thing I've got confidence in Joe is, is your heart and your character." pic.twitter.com/ICVGQEqi1N
If you think voluntarily wearing a mask to save others is an infringement on your liberty, you're a shitty libertarian. And if you can't be bothered voluntarily wearing a mask to save others, you're a shitty person.
This important legislation will face challenges but should be upheld as fully within Congress’ power and not a forbidden restriction on the Pardon Power of the President. https://t.co/k0tpW2Sb6X
BREAKING: Trump’s holding a propaganda press conference at 5:30. Don’t worry, I’ll watch so you don’t have to. All he’s gonna do is lie about his catastrophic failures. You’re missing nothing.
Trump has wanted to send Troops into Chicago for a long time….he gets to play with his deadly toy soldiers…What can #WEThePeople do!!…This cannot be allowed to stand….and the press has to call it out for what it is…”The Lawless Occupation of an American City”
After Trump said he would send officers to more cities, Philly’s top prosecutor lays out how he might criminally charge federal agents https://t.co/J6B78jClOA via @citylab
Enjoyed tonight's Instagram Live? I’ll be back tomorrow at 6:30pm ET with @JulianCastro to discuss my bill to stop evictions, rent increases, and utility shutoffs throughout this crisis. pic.twitter.com/gbK6j2AIn6
These will not be police, though I'm sure they'll claim that name and a public mandate. These will be Trump's version of the Tonton Macoutes, the Red Guard, the Brownshirts. If they're hired now, these guys should be all trained up right around the time of the election. https://t.co/KtMqWIm9FM
I vividly remember the Tonton Macoutes seeing as Haiti is about 6oo miles away from Miami and we had a Haitian community the grew in size and political power. Where is the states rights crowd, nowhere to be seen. During the Obama administration you couldn’t walk ten feet without tripping over one the these motherfuckers. And now when states are actually being threatened by the federal government, the states rights crew is nowhere to be found.
No one will be voting on 3 Nov if what is now an absolutely obvious plan to use the entire Hitler/Stalin playbook to establish a brutal authoritarian regime in the USA isn’t confronted with more than tweets, videos, tiktoks, and other forms of mockery and ‘stern’ rhetoric.
Trump has ZERO intention of exiting the “presidency” and he has a deeply entrenched set of co-conspirators and goons to assist him in doing what has happened countless times in recorded history.
‘Where is the bottom here? Where is the bottom?’ — Chicago Mayor Lightfoot went off on Pres. Trump for using her and her city as punching bags for political gain pic.twitter.com/g9N6kcAMeP
“The 33-year-old is the youngest Black woman ever elected to Congress and a registered nurse with master’s degrees in nursing and public health…. Underwood sees racism as a public-health issue. Her work reflects the interconnectedness of oppressions.”https://t.co/mvwVCiJdaM
Welp, I looked it up. In the middle of a once in a century pandemic where the US has far more deaths than any other country and unemployment is sky high, POTUS decides the states are just fine dealing with the pandemic, but need the feds policing black neighborhoods https://t.co/8NcP31QK0m
Let me be clear: If vote-by-mail is good enough for Donald Trump and his administration, then it's good enough for all of us. pic.twitter.com/0qQW9ff0eG
Trump’s America. We’re going to break his track record, though. We’re going to survive and thrive after he’s beaten in November. pic.twitter.com/tOhCqclTzX
Trump's America: traitors writing foreign policy, racists writing immigration policy, thieves writing economic policy, polluters writing environmental policy, ignoramuses writing science policy, a hired goon heading the department of justice and One Fucking Moron to Rule Them All
What gets me is she’s so dead inside that instead of wearing a mask, she gave up her seat, the cost of her ticket, her travel plans, etc. Stupid is as stupid does.
This alone should defeat her. She is saying if the people speak and remove Trump and the Republican majority in the Senate it would still be ok to spit in voter’s faces. Unreal. https://t.co/xrTzXvzQer
Every day I hear from folks who tell me how important health care is to their families — well, it's deeply personal for President @BarackObama and me, too. I'll fight to protect and build on Obamacare and make sure everyone gets the care they need.
Georgia @GovKemp and Atlanta Mayor @KeishaBottoms are discussing a possible settlement in the state's lawsuit that seeks to block the city's mask mandate and other coronavirus restrictions. #gapolhttps://t.co/4azvTPldNw
“At the end of the day, we want the same thing. We want people to be safe. We want to stop the spread of COVID-19. And it certainly doesn’t help when we’re having to fight one another.”
Kemp’s office said Thursday that the conversation was “productive” but declined further comment.
Bottoms had previously said she was prepared for a lengthy legal battle to defend the city’s order…And this week, the city was joined by the Georgia Municipal Association, which filed court papers that accused Kemp of attempting to “usurp local control and Home Rule authority” by seeking to block cities from taking additional steps. Atlanta is among more than a dozen Georgia cities with mask mandates, but the only to also institute “phase one” restrictions.
Wow. Barr says today there have been 200 arrests in the past two weeks. KC says the real number is more like one. Then DOJ backtracks and says 200 is since December and includes local arrests. What the hell is going on at DOJ? https://t.co/tSsHEGMi5I
Jared Kushner called the CEOs of AT&T, Verizon, & T-Mobile to complain after the Trump campaign was blocked from sending text messages to people who hadn’t signed up for them. by @tomlobianco in @Politicsinsider ($) https://t.co/MT9j97yJ47
Trump’s campaign is locked in a battle with the biggest US cellphone carriers over an effort to blast millions of cell users with often annoying texts coaxing them to contribute or vote.
The showdown got serious at the start of July when Trump’s team sent a blast of texts to people who hadn’t signed up for them.
A third-party firm hired to screen such messages for the major cellphone companies blocked the texts.
The cellphone companies viewed the texts as a possible violation of federal anti-robocall laws and Federal Communications Commission rules that come with hefty fines, the two Republicans told Insider.
The Trump campaign countered that the cellphone companies were stifling its ability to reach voters. It said the texts did not violate a 1991 law, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which set strict limits on telemarketing and robocalling and formed the basis of anti-spamming measures ruled on by the FCC.
JC: “Do you have the kind of relationship w Biden where you could cuss each other out behind closed doors at 9, and then be on the same page before the cameras at 9:15?”@AmbassadorRice: “Yes, but it would end with a hug, because that's who he is” LISTEN https://t.co/144jLG3Cs8pic.twitter.com/vtRBJx4dsq
The Obama Diary 
Made me smile. Like a Biiiiiiiiiig smile 😀
ready for the dynamic duo!
From deep, deep inside! 😃
Increase The Court!!!!
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Joy Reid:
“Trump…using that trumped up charge to justify what in any other country, particularly an authoritarian one,
would be called the secret police only responsive to the dear leader…this is a new distraction… and also a campaign ploy intended to stoke irrational fears of lawlessness among white suburban voters ahead of the November election.”
Former AG Eric Holder, 82nd Attorney General of the United States, Chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee talks to Joy Reid:
Holder:
“I would say that with regard to the use of these forces, you’re right.
In the past my sister-in-law was escorted into the University of Alabama as a result of federal forces directed by President John Kennedy. That’s the way in which these forces should appropriately be used.
To deploy these forces without any kind of co-ordination with local authorities, without any kind of indication that there is a request by local authorities for this to be done, I think puts us in a very dangerous place. You can’t have an administration in Washington D.C. using federal resources, federal forces, to simply enforce the law in states or in cities where it thinks it wants to project force. Especially this administration that is making determinations based on things other than the needs of those local communities. And so I think that Mayor Lightfoot, when she said that she’ll accept help if it’s done in an appropriate way, but if it’s not, she will fight the deployment of those forces. I think that’s an appropriate thing for a mayor to do.”
Reid: “You sort of have to use your lurid imagination to imagine what might someone in an autocratic country do…unfortunately he has slid out of the realm of what happens in democracy. Trump tweeted: “Mail-in voting…will lead to the most corrupt election in our nation’s history” with the hashtag “rigged election”. He keeps on talking about mail-in voting potentially being the seeds of a rigged election.”
Quote fromJohn Heilemann:
“He is talking about sending these unmarked paramilitary guards to places with blue states with very blue cities run by democratic mayors. I think we should all take very seriously the prospect that this, as they say, a dress rehearsal, a trial run, for first an attempt at voter intimidation on election. Are these unmarked paramilitary units going to be doing ‘security’ at the polls in battleground states? I think that’s a question we’d like to have answered.”
Reid: “Are you concerned about that? That these paramilitary forces will be used to suppress the vote using intimidation and fear?”
Holder:
“If you’d asked me that question about any other president, I would say “of course not”.
That’s a script from a very bad movie. But this administration’s president has demonstrated that they have a capacity to go lower than we can even possibly imagine. So yes I think we have to be concerned about that. His attempt to talk about mail-in voting and “all the fraud” associated with it is factually incorrect. He is just trying to set up a situation where he has the ability to delegitimize a vote that he might lose. If he loses, and I expect that he will, then we have to be prepared for what he is about to do in the aftermath of such a loss. And what he’ll do for the country between the election and the inauguration of the next president. We have to be prepared for things that this nation has never faced before. And unfortunately, it could involved the use of these forces. Who knows what he’ll do and what the people who are part of his administration will support him in doing?”
Reid: “Donald Trump has joked about canceling the election. He has signed a memo attempting to exclude immigrants from the Census, which is completely averse to the Constitution. He’s done other things that make one wonder whether he will actually leave if he loses the election. Are you concerned that even if he loses, will attempt to remain in office?”
Holder:
“There are these nightmare scenarios and we can wind them out. But I don’t think that should take us away from what our focus has to be. He’s got to be beat. And he has to be beaten badly. People need to get out and vote. We need to fight for giving people the ability to vote at home. People call it vote by mail. I like to call it Vote At Home. For people who want to get to the polls, we have to make sure that they have a healthy environment so that poll workers and voters are going to be safe there as well. And make sure that people don’t have to decide between keeping themselves healthy and engaging in their civic responsibility. That’s the primary thing we have to focus on. I think we can handle anything he might try to do after a devastating loss.”
From yesterday it appears
Grrrr.
Why? This is fascism. We all should be alarmed.
“Anyone, including federal law enforcement, who unlawfully assaults and kidnaps people will face criminal charges from my office,” said the district attorney, Larry Krasner. “At trial, they will face a Philadelphia jury.”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/us/politics/trump-chicago-portland-federal-agents.html)
“Well I’m going to do something, that I can tell you. Because we’re not going to let New York and Chicago and Philadelphia and Detroit and all of these – Oakland is a mess – we’re not going to let this happen in our country. All run by liberal democrats. For Portland they’ve done a fantastic job. They’ve been there 3 days and they really have done a fantastic job in a very short period of time. No problem. They grab them, a lot of people in jail. These are anarchists, these are not protestors.” (signed, Donald Bleach)
Good!! These thugs need to be held accountable to the public that they are terrorizing. They’re literally beating up peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.
A 9 year old from Putnam County in NE Fla. died recently from Covid-19. Schools in the area should not be opening.
“Trump’s Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me”
(https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/world/europe/trump-british-open.html)
–Donald Trump acting to get a foreign entity to provide him with personal profit, misusing the State Department, and hurting our diplomatic relationship to do that.
“Mark Landler, London bureau chief for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow
about new reporting that Donald Trump pressed the U.S. ambassador to Britain to try to get the British Open golf tournament to be held at his Scottish golf resort.”
(https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-pushed-diplomat-to-boost-golf-club-at-expense-of-us-stature-nyt-88105541640)
Donald Trump’s umpteenth move to use the powers and resources of the United States government
to put money into his pockets. Trying to get the British Open moved (via his ambassador-donor) to his
failing Scottish golf club.
And Trump’s Ambassador-donor to Britain, Woody Johnson, did bring this up with the British Government via Secretary of State for Scotland.
Under what Authority sd Trump using unnamed storrn troopers in Portland….
And reinstate the VRA while they’re at it
🎵🎵🎵
LOL!
Don’t have a link to the latest c/o the University of Washington research group,
upon whom the White House has been relying to make their ‘happy covid predictions’.
However Rachel Maddow received a publicly released non-peer evaluated copy of their latest projections.
= 3 different projections for how many Americans will die by the end of 2020.
Ready?
Here t’is…
1)
If 95% of the U.S. wear masks the death toll by the end of 2020:
= 175,000 to 123,000 dead.
2)
If mask wearing is not imposed but states reimpose social distancing the death toll by the end of 2020:
= 234,000 to 398,000 dead.
3)
If states keep on opening up (the mandates easing scenario) the death toll by the end of 2020:
= Low end 288,000 dead.
= High end 650,000 dead.
correction:
Scenario #1 = 175,000 to 223,000 dead.
Now that we’re dying at a rate of 1,000 a day (per John Hopkins):
Donald Bleach said yesterday “I think we’ve really started it up successfully…it will disappear.”
Good Afternoon, TODville Community.
Thank you, NW for all you do for us.😍🤗❤💚💛🧡🤎💜🖤💙🤗😍🥂☕
I’m there! 👍🏾
This
I have an idea. Appoint enough SC justices to fill a stadium. I’m done with their bullshit.
Outstanding!
Trump has wanted to send Troops into Chicago for a long time….he gets to play with his deadly toy soldiers…What can #WEThePeople do!!…This cannot be allowed to stand….and the press has to call it out for what it is…”The Lawless Occupation of an American City”
Beauty Break 🎼🎹🎤🥁🎷🎺🎸🪕🎻💔🎵🎶
Bonus 1:
Bonus 2:
In case you missed Senator Harris’ Instagram Live talk with Sarah Cooper, here it is.
Sarah Cooper is such a lovely person!!
I vividly remember the Tonton Macoutes seeing as Haiti is about 6oo miles away from Miami and we had a Haitian community the grew in size and political power. Where is the states rights crowd, nowhere to be seen. During the Obama administration you couldn’t walk ten feet without tripping over one the these motherfuckers. And now when states are actually being threatened by the federal government, the states rights crew is nowhere to be found.
They’re okay with liberals and people of color being terrorized.
Where will he get the money…only the HOUSE can allocate funds
Thread:
Call to ACTION:
No one will be voting on 3 Nov if what is now an absolutely obvious plan to use the entire Hitler/Stalin playbook to establish a brutal authoritarian regime in the USA isn’t confronted with more than tweets, videos, tiktoks, and other forms of mockery and ‘stern’ rhetoric.
Trump has ZERO intention of exiting the “presidency” and he has a deeply entrenched set of co-conspirators and goons to assist him in doing what has happened countless times in recorded history.
ZERO.
This is what I intended to post.
In case you think what I wrote above then you have missed Trump declaring a few hours ago that he is going to ‘surge’ Feds into Cities like Chicago.
For real.
Who can stop this………How can we stop this
About covers it
He nailed it. But, of course, he could go on.
Yes he could
#TrumpsTerroristSURGE
Goodnight TOD.
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She shouldn’t have even made it on to the plane. Why wouldn’t they have stopped her at the boarding gate?
Do these Karens wear the masks long enough to board plans, enter stores, etc. to gain access and then take them off to cause a scene?
What gets me is she’s so dead inside that instead of wearing a mask, she gave up her seat, the cost of her ticket, her travel plans, etc. Stupid is as stupid does.
Our government is being run by GOPers who couldn’t even be considered mediocre.
44 and 46 on healthcare
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“At the end of the day, we want the same thing. We want people to be safe. We want to stop the spread of COVID-19. And it certainly doesn’t help when we’re having to fight one another.”
Kemp’s office said Thursday that the conversation was “productive” but declined further comment.
Bottoms had previously said she was prepared for a lengthy legal battle to defend the city’s order…And this week, the city was joined by the Georgia Municipal Association, which filed court papers that accused Kemp of attempting to “usurp local control and Home Rule authority” by seeking to block cities from taking additional steps. Atlanta is among more than a dozen Georgia cities with mask mandates, but the only to also institute “phase one” restrictions.
There is NO DOJ
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/07/23/keep-fighting-for-breonna/
Trump’s campaign is locked in a battle with the biggest US cellphone carriers over an effort to blast millions of cell users with often annoying texts coaxing them to contribute or vote.
The showdown got serious at the start of July when Trump’s team sent a blast of texts to people who hadn’t signed up for them.
A third-party firm hired to screen such messages for the major cellphone companies blocked the texts.
The cellphone companies viewed the texts as a possible violation of federal anti-robocall laws and Federal Communications Commission rules that come with hefty fines, the two Republicans told Insider.
The Trump campaign countered that the cellphone companies were stifling its ability to reach voters. It said the texts did not violate a 1991 law, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which set strict limits on telemarketing and robocalling and formed the basis of anti-spamming measures ruled on by the FCC.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Ciqu95jwg)
test only