Friday August 7 2020
Rep. Steve Watkins loses Kansas primary after voter fraud charges
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/510603-rep-steve-watkins-loses-kansas-gop-house-primary
The lawmaker was charged in July with interference with law enforcement, providing false information, voting without being qualified, unlawful advance voting and failing to notify the DMV of change of address.
Judge rules woman who accused Trump of rape can proceed with defamation suit
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/511010-judge-rules-woman-who-accused-trump-of-rape-can-proceed-with
A New York State Supreme Court justice on Thursday denied a motion by President Trump asserting absolute immunity in a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA5XphSA_wc Trump Carries Newspapers to Pretend He Reads
Swan interview excerpts in re does Trump read.
Trump bruise on hand explained? Went to Walter Reed? Probably not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJy3FM_sLqM Don Winslow Films - #AmericasGreatestMistake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5D3iT4BhbQ BREAKING: Midnight In Washington #MidnightInWashington Eleven Films
Adam Shiff making the case at the podium in the Senate.
New labels for government and state-affiliated media accounts (Twitter) https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2020/new-labels-for-government-and-state-affiliated-media-accounts.html
Statement on the Administration's Executive Order
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-responds
We are shocked by the recent Executive Order, which was issued without any due process. For nearly a year, we have sought to engage with the US government in good faith to provide a constructive solution to the concerns that have been expressed. What we encountered instead was that the Administration paid no attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses.
Bloomberg column expects collateral damage.
Pence interview on CBN where he talks about Roberts (not a reliable vote)
paterson new jersey ballots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFqNTdLt0Y4 Shock Claim: Trump Planning "Emergency" to Stay in Office
--Congressman James Clyburn (D-SC) claims that Donald Trump is planning an "emergency" to stay in office after losing the upcoming presidential election in November
Trump DEATHLY AFRAID People Are Planning to Vote https://youtu.be/mX9P84sP8JQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h3N7v1xAUA Donald Trump Family Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp_Uuz9k7Os He Predicted a Trump Win in 2016. What's His Forecast For 2020? | NYT Opinion
Right now, polls say Joe Biden has a healthy lead over President Trump. But we’ve been here before (cue 2016), and the polls were, frankly, wrong. One man, however, was not. The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s record goes much deeper. In 1980, he developed a presidential prediction model that retrospectively accounted for 120 years of U.S. election history. Over the past four decades, his system has accurately called presidential victors, from Ronald Reagan in ’84 to, well, Mr. Trump in 2016.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqIiCkAYLT8 Susan Collins, The Lincoln Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxt7gUCgKY Secretary Of Failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOubhy4Ss3c One Day (coronavirus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFyemKp-kk Steve Daines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R_qDYKIaaI Donald Trump Rally in Tulsa June 19, J-L Cauvin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vux-sBsCQMs Parodies In The Time Of Coronavirus | The Daily Social Distancing Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0BX2B-lHso Breaking Down Trump's Recent Virus Remarks | Morning Joe | MSNBC
Elliott Abrams, convicted of lying about Iran-Contra, named special representative for Iran
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elliott-abrams-iran-contra-named-special-representative-iran/Brian Hook, the administration's special representative for Iran, is leaving and will be replaced by Elliott Abrams, convicted of misleading Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. Abrams, who has been serving as the special representative for Venezuela, will continue in that position in addition to his new role.
The case against American truck bloat
This behemoth design trend — particularly the very tall, square front end seen in so many SUVs and trucks today — is both pointless and dangerous. Manufacturers have known for years that this style of vehicle is much more dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, yet they keep making them bigger, taller, and heavier. Trucks and SUVs now make up fully 70 percent of all new cars sold in the U.S. Their bloated design is killing people, especially pedestrians.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1291730043404615682 India's Serum Institute pledges to sell 100m doses of a possible COVID-19 vaccine for $3 each
The world's largest vaccine manufacturer has partnered with Gavi and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to make 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine for low and middle-income countries in 2021. The Serum Institute currently has a partnership with the UK's Oxford University-AstraZeneca trial and the US' Novavax trial.
The partnership is between India's Serum Institute, The Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
https://twitter.com/NormEisen/status/1291746959888453639 BREAKING: @HouseJudiciary won McGahn case!
I was proud to help conceive this litigation with @BarryBerke, all our @HouseJudiciary & House counsel colleagues.
If you want to know the whole story behind it:
A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump Hardcover – July 28, 2020https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593238435
The Democrats’ special impeachment counsel on the House Judiciary Committee lays out President Trump’s shocking pattern of betrayals, lies, and high crimes, arguing articles of impeachment to the ultimate judges: the American people.
Since taking the oath of office, Donald Trump has been on a spree of high crimes and misdemeanors, using the awesome power of the presidency for his own personal gain, at the expense of the American people. He has inflamed our divisions for his electoral benefit, with flagrant disregard for the Constitution that makes us America. Each step of the way, he has lied incessantly, including to cover up his crimes. And yet he remains in the country’s highest office.
https://twitter.com/search?q=lichtman%20prediction&src=typeahead_click
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDnH0NkWH_s Tim Miller on Bulwark Podcast (August 6, 2020)
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1290980695872086017 Remember when everyone thought they knew who the next president would be in 2016? Well, unlike most of us, Professor @allanlichtman
made the right call. Can he do it again in 2020? https://nyti.ms/3gwypTh
Released from jail at height of pandemic, Virginia rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser
Ibrahim Bouaichi then shot himself as police closed in Wednesday, leaving him in critical condition
Bouaichi was charged with six felonies — rape, sodomy, strangulation, abduction, burglary and malicious wounding — and turned himself in on Oct. 21.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDAUXwJ8l74 GOP lawmaker calls on Falwell Jr. to resign over photo
Rep. Mark Waller (R-NC) is calling on Jerry Falwell Jr. to resign as president of Liberty University, saying a now-deleted Instagram post showing Falwell with his pants unzipped and arm around a woman was part of a patter making him unfit to lead the evangelical Christian institution.
This isn't the first time Falwell has had to apologize for a photo he posted on social media. In June 2020, he deleted a tweet that showed one person in black face and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe after black alumni and religious leaders spoke out against it and his "incendiary rhetoric" over the last several years.
Falwell was also roundly criticized in May for posting the photo with the racist figures, which was taken from Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook.
In the offending tweet, which criticized Northam's policy to require masks in public, the image was made to appear as though it was the design on a face mask.
That tweet, Falwell said, was intended to "remind all of the governor's racist past."
Exclusive: NRA Plans to Spend ‘Tens of Millions’ in Battleground States
August 6
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/exclusive-nra-plans-to-spend-tens-of-millions-in-battleground-states/Jason Ouimet, who runs the NRA's lobbying arm and political action committee, spoke exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon in his first in-depth interview on the gun-rights behemoth's 2020 electoral strategy. He said the group plans to spend heavily in battleground states to help reelect President Donald Trump over presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, whom he described as "100 percent anti-gun." The group plans to focus much of its attention on Arizona, Colorado, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin—swing states with traditionally strong support for gun rights.
how RVAT gathered videos for their edit and presentation process.
Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump
Facebook also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times.
A separate troll operation, tied to pro-Trump media organization Epoch Media Group, featured 303 Facebook accounts, 181 pages, 44 Facebook groups and 31 Instagram accounts, which were followed by more than 2 million people across both services. Epoch Media Group is the parent company of the newspaper The Epoch Times. The accounts were tied to a digital media outlet called TruthMedia, which Facebook says it has banned from its services.
Facebook has twice taken action against Epoch Times-related content, most recently for its use of AI-generated, deepfake-style profile pictures on fake accounts that pushed Epoch Times stories and talking points. Gleicher said that the news Epoch Media Group-related fake accounts primarily used stock photos and not AI-generated photos for profile pictures.
Facebook banned The Epoch Times from advertising on its platform last year after it purchased ads under account names like “Honest Paper” and “Pure Honest Journalism” to get around the social network’s ad review systems. At the time, The Epoch Times was the largest buyer of pro-Trump ads on Facebook outside of the Trump campaign.
An example of the new Epoch Media-related takedown provided by Facebook showed an account called “Truth14” pushing a meme about a baseball player who didn’t kneel during the national anthem, part of the accounts’ strategy to push pro-Trump culture war messaging.“This guy is going to need a lot of support because the mob is coming for him and his family,” the post reads. “‘MLB’ is ‘BLM’ spelled backwards.”
Families see a looming catastrophe. Private equity firms see dollar signs.
Elizabeth Warren
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that investors are “preparing for what they believe could be a once-in-a generation opportunity to buy distressed real-estate assets at bargain prices.” This profiteering is far from “once-in-a-generation” though: It’s straight out of private equity’s playbook during the 2008 financial crisis.
What should lawmakers do? First, pass strong federal legislation to guard against the coming wave of evictions and foreclosures, including emergency rental assistance. Sen. Warren and Reps. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Ill.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) recently introduced the Protecting Renters from Evictions and Fees Act to establish a federal eviction moratorium for all renters through March 2021.
Anti-maskers explain themselves
“If I’m going to get Covid and die from it, then so be it”: What it’s like to be against masks.
In recent weeks, I spoke with nearly a dozen people who consider themselves anti-mask to find out just that. What I discovered is that there is certainly a broad spectrum of reasons — some find wearing a mask annoying or just aren’t convinced they work, and others have gone down a rabbit hole of conspiracies that often involve vaccines, Big Pharma, YouTube, and Bill Gates. One man told me he wears a mask when he goes to the store to be polite. A woman got kicked out of a Menards store for refusing to wear a mask amid what she calls the “Covid scam garbage.”
HBO’s I May Destroy You might be the best TV show of the year
The British import brings searing emotion and dry wit to a story about sexual assault.
A mask mandate
U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users
The Great Escape: Donald John Trump’s Exit Strategy
Where does the President go from here?
Greg Olear
A thousand Americans are dying of the novel coronavirus every day. Volume Five of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report is due for release any day now. Senators, Congressmen, and emeritus members of the intelligence community have stopped pulling punches and are sounding the alarms. Cy Vance announced that his investigation is wider than originally thought, and likely includes tax fraud; the New York Times reported that Deutsche Bank has already turned over Trump’s financial documents to prosecutors. The vaunted economy is falling along with the president’s poll numbers. And the presumptive guy in charge gave the most unflattering interview of all time ever, unequivocally exposing himself as a complete and total moron:
Even the Trump people know they can’t win the election without banana-republic-level fuckery, as the indefatigable historian Heather Cox Richardson writes:
No one is pretending that Trump is going to win the popular vote. He’s not even trying to. He’s doubling down on the culture wars that excite his base in the hopes of getting them to turn out in strong numbers, most recently by sending federal law enforcement officers into cities led by Democrats in order to create images of what looks like rioting, to enable him to set himself up as defending “law and order.”
At the same time, he and his supporters in the Republican Party are working to guarantee an undercount of votes for his opponent by attacking mail-in voting, shutting down polling places, kicking people off voter rolls, undercutting the United States Postal Service, and even, perhaps, by permitting a wave of evictions that will make it significantly harder for displaced people to vote.
It is notable that, as a country, we are not talking about policies or winning majorities. We are talking about how Trump can win by gaming the Electoral College, or by cheating.
https://twitter.com/LincolnsBible/status/1288234314082091008 Watching some of Barr’s emotional exchanges again.
He’s a terrible attorney who thinks he’s the world’s most brilliant one. Very fragile ego around his legal prowess.
This is a weakness that can be exploited.
Right-wing media defanged as anti-Biden storylines disintegrate
https://www.newswhip.com/
By contrast, the drip-drip of information about Hillary Clinton's email server and the DNC leak fueled news cycles for months during the 2016 campaign.
Axios-NewsWhip 2020 attention tracker library
American Bridge posts 1,043-page Trump oppo book online
The Great Escape: Donald John Trump’s Exit Strategy
Where does the President go from here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsm4poTWjMs Cardi B - WAP feat. Megan Thee Stallion [Official Music Video]
The WAP stands for Wet-Ass Pussy. Kylie Jenner appears in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyQlU9zDr3E Top Trump adviser FINALLY called out for being wrong EVERY TIME on outbreak
in re Kudlow
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What will Trump do after January? Trump TV? Escape to Dubai or Bali?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQUXSbIz0U Trump TV Network Is Here PAY ATTENTION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XINrLuUuS_I WATCH: Triggered hosted by Donald Trump Jr and special guest President Donald Trump!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAql2DyGU2un1Ei2nMYsqOA Donald J Trump, This is the official YouTube Channel for Donald J. Trump.
Trump gets an all-Trump channel. It could be his future
June 19, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQUXSbIz0U Trump TV Network Is Here PAY ATTENTION
My Weekend at the Falwells’ South Beach Flophouse
Liberty University presents itself as a temple of virtue. But its founding family’s secret Miami hostel is a cesspool of vice.
By BRANDON AMBROSINO August 25, 2017
Falwell voices his political opinions freely, while faculty members—all of whom work without the protections of tenure—are unable to do so. Far from protecting Liberty’s reputation as a nonpartisan institution, the lack of public dissenting voices from faculty members means that when Falwell makes a political comment, he is seen to be speaking on behalf of the university, as if the two are one and the same.
NYT found the ship that carried the ammonium nitrate to Beirut
The Rhosus was loaded with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, The former captain of the ship, Boris Prokoshev, The Rhosus left for its last journey from Batumi, Georgia, in September 2013. Its cargo was destined for Mozambique, but the captain was ordered to make an unscheduled stop in Beirut to take on additional freight. Captain Prokoshev said they needed to make extra cash to pay for their passage through the Suez Canal. Lawyers for the ship’s creditors said the additional cargo was supposed to be transported to Jordan.
Article embeds photo showing bags. Each bag has 1000 kg of Ammonium Nitrate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d54Ovb_3Efo Sam Seder: Trump Flails For Reelection Strategy After Plan A Falls Apart | All In | MSNBC
Trump Saying Biden Would ‘Hurt the Bible’ and ‘Hurt God’ is the Height of Hypocrisy
From his personal life to his business career to his preaching hatred, it’s Trump who has an un-Christian message.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former Trump aide and an ordained Baptist minister, put it this way: “Donald Trump has no knowledge of the Bible at all. It might as well be a paper brick to him.” After Trump said that public schools should offer the “option” of Bible study, a pastor tweeted:
Sensitive to claims of bias, Facebook relaxed misinformation rules for conservative pages
According to internal discussions, Facebook removed "strikes" so that conservative pages were not penalized for violations of misinformation policies.
According to internal discussions from the last six months, Facebook has relaxed its rules so that conservative pages, including those run by Breitbart, former Fox News personalities Diamond and Silk, the nonprofit media outlet PragerU and the pundit Charlie Kirk, were not penalized for violations of the company’s misinformation policies.
‘I can say anything I want’: Michigan official defends using racist slur while refusing to wear a mask
“I don’t regret calling it a n----r,” Eckerle told Interlochen Public Radio. “A n----r is a n----r is a n----r. That’s not a person whatsoever.”
The racist remark spurred widespread condemnation of Eckerle, who is a Republican, and calls to resign from party officials. Despite the backlash, Eckerle doubled down on his comments Thursday, defending his position and using the slur repeatedly in an interview with the local public radio station.
Trump Has Launched a Three-Pronged Attack on the Election
And it starts with undermining the U.S. Postal Service.
At the Census Bureau, a Technical Memo Raises Alarms Over Politics
A directive orders experts to find ways to tally undocumented residents. Some fear the end result will be a skewed allotment of seats in the House of Representatives.
Editor's Note on Mercedes Schlapp Column About Brianna Keilar
This is where it gets complicated. All the provisions of the hurriedly passed Nevada law are not clear, but what Republicans are saying is that the new statute gives voters three days’ grace period to get their ballots in. They are supposed to be postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3, but pre-paid postage markers on the Nevada envelopes means that there may not be any postmark to go by. If it appeared the night of Nov. 3 that Trump had won, Republicans are saying, Democrats could use the “vote harvesting” feature of the new law to round up uncast ballots and quickly get them in the mail. Keilar pooh-poohed this concern; Schlapp obsessed on it. This is a difference of perspective, however, not a lie.
Future is Bright for House Democrats
http://www.insideelections.com/news/article/future-is-bright-for-house-democratssubscriber only
Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressed to reopen classrooms
subscriber onlyhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/i5px5c/health_directors_told_to_keep_quiet_as_florida/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/07/florida-health-directors-told-not-give-schools-advice-reopening/3317014001/
PALM BEACH, Fla. - As Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed this summer for schools to reopen, state leaders told school boards they would need Health Department approval if they wanted to keep classrooms closed.
Then they instructed health directors not to give it.
Following a directive from DeSantis’ administration, county health directors across Florida refused to give school boards advice about one of the most wrenching public health decisions in modern history: whether to reopen schools in a worsening pandemic, a Gannett USA TODAY NETWORK review found.
In county after county the health directors’ refrain to school leaders was the same: Their role was to provide information, not recommendations.
They could not tell school boards whether they believed the risks of opening campuses were too great, they said. They could only provide suggestions on how to reopen safely.
Ethics Committee orders Tlaib to refund campaign $10,800 for salary payments
The Trump fiasco just got worse. That gives Biden a hidden opening.
Two new developments — the release of a comprehensive blueprint on our economic future from the Roosevelt Institute, and the increasing odds that Congress’ economic rescue package will fall far short — provide an occasion to look at those questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySt7pkqCQBw 'He's A Psychopath': Trump Insider Says Military Will Haul Trump Out Of The White House | MSNBC
Trump’s “Art of the Deal” co-author Tony Schwartz argues “anything goes” for “psychopath” President Trump, and believes Trump will not leave the White House if he loses the election because giving up is “unthinkable” for him. This comes as Joe Biden says his “greatest concern” is that Trump would look to “steal” the 2020 election, and is “absolutely convinced” the military “will escort” Trump “from The White House with great dispatch.” Schwartz argues he has “no doubt that Trump will do everything he possibly can,” to “try to steal this election.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC.
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