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I haven’t been allowed to visit my 93-year-old father in assisted living for 4 months but 1,500 people could cram together last night without masks or testing on the South Lawn in violation of lockal and federal guidelines?

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  1. wapo:

    President Trump celebrated his renomination Thursday with a crowded party at the White House that offered a jarring contrast with a nation that is still widely shut down over fears of the coronavirus pandemic whose spread remains uncontrolled.
    More than 1,500 supporters poured onto the South Lawn for his formal acceptance speech to cap the Republican National Convention, and most were not wearing masks, even though they were seated closely together in white folding chairs.
    […]
    Medical authorities said the White House setting offered potential dangers of community spread and set another bad example at a time when most infectious-disease experts are warning that the public must continue to wear masks, maintain social distancing and limit large gatherings.
    […]
    The setting of Trump’s convention speech was not discussed at meetings of the White House’s coronavirus task force, which is led by Vice President Pence, and federal government physicians were not involved in coordinating the event, according to a person familiar with the planning who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.
    As Trump spoke, his family was seated onstage and many Cabinet members were in the front rows. Most not wearing masks. One exception was Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
    […]
    This week, the Republican National Convention has included a speech from first lady Melania Trump before dozens of guests in the Rose Garden and a speech from Pence before more than 100 at the Fort McHenry National Memorial in Baltimore.
    Most in the crowd at both events were not wearing masks, including a number of elderly, disabled military veterans at Fort McHenry. Guests at Pence’s address were not tested for the coronavirus either, officials said, though their temperatures were taken and they were questioned about recent travel and symptoms, attendees said.
    After Pence’s remarks, he and second lady Karen Pence, along with the president and Melania Trump, approached the guests. Although the two couples attempted to remain more than six feet apart, they posed for photos and Pence offered at least one guest a fist bump.

  3. There are simply no words for the level of loathsomeness SFB displayed last night. To all the people on the globe, our sincere apologies for how far the US has fallen under this vile, little man. Every President since Washington is hanging their head in shame, and that includes even the bad ones.

     

  5. about the tweet above:

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/internet-grossed-out-as-rudy-giuliani-wipes-brow-sweat-on-rnc-companion/

    On Thursday, during the final evening of the Republican National Convention, President Donald Trump’s associate Rudy Giuliani — who was sitting in attendance on the South Lawn — was caught on camera wiping sweat from his brow, and rubbing it on the woman sitting next to him.

    The clip swiftly went viral, as the gathering had already drawn condemnation for packing people in closely and taking few safeguards to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

    [continues]

  6. Rudy – now there’s a catch for you single women out there – if you don’t throwing up a little in to your mouth from time to time.  And here’s the fact check from Glenn Kessler – (Only the first 3 of Trump’s lifest as an appetizer)

    President Trump ended the Republican National Convention on Thursday with a tidal wave of tall tales, false claims and revisionist history. Here are 25 claims by the president that caught our attention, along with seven claims by speakers earlier in the evening. As is our practice, we do not award Pinocchios for a roundup of claims made in convention events.

    “America has tested more [for the novelcoronavirus] than every country in Europe put together, and more than every nation in the Western Hemisphere combined. We have conducted 40 million more tests than the next closest nation.”

    — Trump

    Trump is talking about raw numbers, which is misleading. (And if you believe China, Beijing actually exceeds the numbers of tests, 90 million to 79 million for the United States.)

    The key indicator is tests per capita, which gives a read on the share of the population that has contracted the novel coronavirus that causes the disease covid-19. The United States still lags major countries such as Russia and is tied with Britain in terms of number of tests per million people.

    Another problem is test results are slow in the United States. “Test results for the novel coronavirus are taking so long to come back that experts say the results across the United States are often proving useless in the campaign to control the deadly disease,” The Washington Post reported in July. “ … The long testing turnaround times are making it impossible for the United States to replicate the central strategy used by other countries to effectively contain the virus — test, trace and isolate.”

    “When I took bold action to issue a travel ban on China, very early indeed,Joe Bidencalled it hysterical and xenophobic. And then I introduced a ban on Europe, very early again. If we had listened to Joe, hundreds of thousands more Americans would have died.”

    — Trump

    Trump oversells in the impact of his “travel ban” — and on Biden’s criticism.

    On Jan. 31, the president announced that effective Feb. 2, non-U.S. citizens were barred from traveling from China, but there were 11 exceptions. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens and permanent residents could still travel from China but were subject to screening and a possible 14-day quarantine. Trump’s action did not take place in a vacuum. Many airlines were canceling flights, and by our count, at least 38 countries took similar action before or at the same time the U.S. restrictions were put in place.

    The president said he took bold action that was criticized. News reports say he was reluctant to impose the ban, citing his relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, but the action was urged by his top health advisers. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on Feb. 7: “The travel restrictions that we put in place in consultation with the president were very measured and incremental. These were the uniform recommendations of the career public health officials here at HHS.”

    Any criticism was scattered and relatively muted. Trump points to a comment by former vice president Biden — “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia … and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science” — but Biden says that did not refer to the travel restrictions.
    The virus was already spreading through the United States, and there is little evidence the travel restrictions on China saved lives, especially because the Trump administration did not rapidly set up an effective testing regimen, as did many other countries.
     
    Trump also touts his restrictions on travel from some countries in Europe as effective. But a Washington Post examination found that his abrupt decision led to one final viral infusion before the country was forced to shut down. “The lapses surrounding the spread from Europe stand alongside other breakdowns — in developing diagnostic tests, securing protective gear and imposing social distancing guidelines — as reasons the United States became so overwhelmed,” The Post reported. “The travel mayhem was triggered by many of the same problems that plagued the U.S. response to the pandemic from the outset: Early warnings were missed or ignored. Coordination was chaotic or nonexistent. Key agencies fumbled their assignments. Trump’s errant statements undermined his administration’s plans and endangered the public.”
     
    “The United States has among the lowest case fatality rates of any major country in the world.”

    — Trump

    This is false. Case fatality measures how many people known to have gotten covid-19 eventually die of covid-19, and the U.S. rate is currently 3.1 percent. Johns Hopkins University says that puts the United States 11th among the 20 countries most affected by the disease; the United States ranks fourth for deaths per 100,000 population.

    Trump’s phrasing appears to turn on the phrase “major country.” Among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, for instance, the U.S. rate is lower than the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain but higher than Australia, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Israel, among others.
    (Continues with the other 22 lies from D’ump and 7 from the other republiars from last night)

     

     

  8. Only those who are hellbent in hanging on to their racist views believe a word tRUMPsky said.  If anyone else listened, it only caused them to make sure their voter registration was in order.  

    Last night’s  tire fire on the WH lawn was profoundly disturbing.  (That is how you properly use PROFOUNDLY in a sentence.). Those who don’t love America/democracy/freedom as much as they love their hatred of POC should be profoundly ashamed of themselves.  If they hang on to their racism while still calling themselves Christians, Jesus would be profoundly disappointed.

  9. The double standard.  Yeah, and who’s going to do anything about it?  He’s got the courts tied up, he owns the repube party and therefore the senate. When the senate refused to convict him in the Impeachment trial, they essentially gave him carte blanche to do whatever he wants without oversight or anyone to hold him accountable.
     
    Essentially, he’s set himself up as a dictator. 
     
    The only legal hope is to unseat the senate and him. Otherwise, as he once said, there are the second amendment people.

  11. With any luck at least half of them will get COVID 19 and die because they inject themselves with bleach

  14. My profound thanks go to Cap’n Crawford and all of you Trail Hands, who braved death by nausea, apoplectic laughter or the sudden collapse of reality pressure last night, and posted your observations for posterity. I was too sick to even call in sick. I’d been sitting harmlessly in front of a boob tube, when a ripper truth adjuster came on to say that Nebuchadrezzar had destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and Joe Biden had done NOTHING about it ! After that I had to go to bed, where Sweetie applied cold compresses to my cranium, and played soothing music on the gramophone, until my strength and mind crept warily back into me.  
     
    It was a close one.

  16. wonder if any of their contacts  were also at last night’s shindig

    TMP:

    Four people involved with the Republican National Convention events in Charlotte, North Carolina have tested positive for coronavirus, Mecklenburg County officials announced Friday morning.

    The Charlotte Observer was the first to report that two attendees and two support staff at the RNC had been infected with the virus. All of the infected individuals were told to isolate immediately. Close contacts of those who returned positive tests were also encouraged to quarantine, county officials said in a statement.

    [continues]

  17. It would have been especially dangerous for me to hear how trump freed the ungrateful slaves who are attacking now white womanhood in the suburbs. If I’d heard that, I’m sure I would have died of a ruptured actuality.

  19. I truly wish I were in DC today.  I watched the original 57 years ago (and the replay in Forrest Gump).  It would be good to be there in person.  More of the attendees need to be wearing masks.  

     

  21. RR profoundly excellent post with meme.
     
    Jamie, I could have met you at Lincoln’s left foot.
     
     

  25. craig, D’ump will profoundly claim those 2 million more that nielsen counted as biden’s are either fake, hoaxes or witch hunters.

  26. Craig, profound thanks for the posts on Nielsen’s ratings and the NBA.  You’ve lifted my spirits!!!

  28.  

    business insider:

    A self-described militia group in Kenosha, Wisconsin, used Facebook to organize a “call to arms” event hours before two people were shot and killed during protests Tuesday night.

    On Wednesday morning, hours after the shootings, Facebook removed the Kenosha Guard group as well as the event it organized, where it urged people to “take up arms and defend our city tonight from the evil thugs.”

    But a new report from The Verge on Wednesday, which Business Insider has confirmed, reveals that Facebook had been warned multiple times about the group’s violent intentions ahead of the previous evening’s shootings.

    At least two users reported Kenosha Guard, which had about 3,000 members, and the event where it aimed to organize armed counterprotesters — alerting Facebook moderators on Tuesday that the pages contained posts likely to incite violence.

    In both cases, Facebook determined that neither the group, its “call to arms” event, nor specific posts — which, according to The Verge, included threats to stick nails in the tires of protesters’ cars and discussion of which weapons to bring — violated its policies.

    [continues]

  29. the guardian:

    There is perhaps no greater example of the polarization of American media than the coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who allegedly shot and killed two protesters and injured another at Kenosha this week.

    On one side of the divide, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson defended Rittenhouse on Wednesday, due to the violence and property damage in Kenosha. “How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?” asked Carlson.

    Ridiculing Carlson’s statement on Thursday, the Daily Show host Trevor Noah replied: “No one drives to a city with guns because they love someone else’s business so much.” He continued: “They do it because they are hoping to shoot someone. That’s the only reason people like him join these gangs in the first place – yes, I said it, a gang – because this is not the battle of Yorktown, it’s a bunch of dudes threatening people with guns.”

    Rittenhouse has now been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, but it hasn’t stopped some pundits from calling for him to become president. How Rittenhouse is portrayed now will be telling – not least because Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man who was shot by police in Kenosha days before Rittenhouse’s arrest, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, has also not yet stood trial – but has already been labeled a criminal in the media.

    In the words of one Chicago journalist: “[This is] a rare moment in news media where we get to watch this dichotomy in real time … To see to whom news media gives the most compassion and consideration in telling their stories.”

    [continues]

  30. the guardian concluded with this:

    ‘A terrorist’
    Domestic terrorism is defined by the FBI as “the unlawful use, or threatened use, of violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States (or its territories) without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives”.

     

    Publications have tended not to call Rittenhouse a terrorist (Esquire did call his alleged attack “an act of what could only be called terrorist tourism”) but on Wednesday Representative Ayanna Presley did. She described Rittenhouse as a “domestic terrorist [who] drove across state lines, armed with an AR-15.”

  32. Oh, and you know that gasoline bill thing he spewed?  Well, gasoline has gone up $.29 this week at Sam’s Club.  Regular is now $2.20.9 and Premium is $2.49.9.

  34. @JoeBiden please get thee to Kenosha right now. Tour destroyed small businesses, condemn violence. Meet with victim families, condemn police brutality, vigilantes. Time to deploy the famous Biden empathy on all fronts. Wisconsin could decide the Electoral College.

  35. Craig, Have you read Andrew Sullivan and Mark Halperin’s blogs today? Biden has to be on Kenosha, et al every day. Cannot allow fear to win.

  41. Melanoma’s “Operation Block Ivanka” is priceless.

     
    No only open up NBA arenas as voting facilities, but make sure folks can get there.  AA Center in Dallas is in the middle of a sea of concrete ramps.  IDK if public transportation would get you there and back home, but it would take a lot of time.  Public transportation sucks in DFW.

  42. If you think I’ll let
    rudi giuliani 
    Wipe his nose on
    My dear Auntie,
    Ya must be crazy or somethin’,

  43. Did anyone save that BS letter from tRUMPsky, claiming the stimulus money was from him?   Just wondering how he signed it?
    Profoundly Yours,
    Donny

    (Ha!  Well, he is always  extremely  Donny. No filter.)
    It is   extremely  hot here…105, with a heat index of 114.
     
     

  45. Wisconsin is a weird place.  Lots of great people and lots of racists.   I went to the University of Wisconsin in the mid 1960s There were about 25 thousand students.   Only 25 black students mostly from the Chicago area.   The athletic department still fails to recognize some black athletes for their contributions to championship teams   The state also has the Lafollets and The Progressive Party but they also elect people like Scott Walker plus they cheated in the elections denying legally entitled votes the right to cast a ballot.   Kenosha is a pit filled with racist assholes and that is just the Police Dept
    Hope the LaFollett side wins out

  49. The Kenosha sheriff is full of BS.  A person walking with a gun visibly strapped to him is not a threat to him, so they left him alone.   Right. Not a threat IF he’s white.   There is also a pic of the domestic terrorist, Kyle Rittenhouse, with his gun in his hand…walking beside a cop.   

  50. Just heard a clip of SFB from last night. “What’s the name of that building”?   Jezaloo, it’s not the “white” house because of race, you fascist criminal. 

  54. Trump on virus just now in New Hampshire: “If you look at it it’s generally older people, older people that have heart conditions, that have diabetes, that have problems”. 

  55. Old Man – I read ( in my weekly trade bulletin) was that Bezos/Amazon  is actually negotiating for empty  Sears & JC Penny’s outlets for its grocery store.  Something other than Whole Foods, from the sound of it.
    I like your idea better.

  57. Hopefully, there a lot of silent Biden voters out there.  I ordered some merch this weekend, but honestly, where will I feel safe wearing a Biden/Harris mask around here?   
    There was high Dem turnout in the primary in my area.  I think the run-off in July did OK, considering our numbers were spiking and some may have been too afraid to show up.  
    I know one vote tRUMP lost, and that was because a mail-in ballot was allowed for an immune-compromised person, but I’m not for that person’s caretaker; both are Republicans.

  60. D’ump ignites the riots and then benefits from them.  

    look for russian money/assistance/social media efforts in firing up those militia nuts.  didn’t they send some thugs to recently to belarus (& elsewhere in europe for that matter) to stir up trouble and mess with elections?   they’ll do it here too if they haven’t already.

  65. Look how many guys paved the way for our being able to write “pussy” and not get arrested for it.

  66. KGC
    I’m with you, Bill Maher is an asshole. I won’t watch him. His ridiculous “cancel culture” nonsense. Oh, how he hates to be “Politically Correct”. Bitches and moans about people and what they eat as he smokes half his weight daily in weed. Asshole!

  67. The assholes wrote Leonard Cohen estate requesting use of  “Hallelujah” during the RNC convention.   Request was denied.  They played it anyway.  As if Laws are for Suckers.
    Cohen estate “exploring legal options”.

  73. Heard there is a clip of SFB trying to climb stairs and almost falling off.  Those must have been those slippery stairs which sneak aound to make the idiot look old and incompetent.

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