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mackdaddy's JournalTrump's infection was SELF INFLICTED!
He has gone to great lengths to do and encourage his followers to do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what the infectious disease professionals have said to do.
Everyone wears a mask
and social distancing.
Trump has been pushing groups of tightly packed people and mocked anyone wearing a mask. A single infected person (even without symptoms) could be spewing billions of virus particles into the air with ever breath. Trump is on tape as knowing this months ago. But he has insisted on having these super spreader in person events over and over.
Well, it has finally caught up with him. Now his family, white house staff and advisers and several US senators all have tested positive for this virus as well as Trump himself. With the best medical care in the world (literally) he will probably recover, but he still has a 1 in 10 chance of dying from this.
The United States has the largest number of infections and the largest number of deaths per population of any industrialized country in the world by a wide margin. Much if not most of this is due to Trump's mis-information and mis-leading his followers to NOT do the simple things needed to get this pandemic down to a manageable level like so many other countries have been able to do.
Make no mistake about it. Trump had done this to himself, and he has made this worse for ALL of us.
On November 3rd, I get to tell Trump to "SHUT THE FUCK UP"!!!!!!
I can't wait.
Actually In Ohio we have early voting starting October 6th, so I do not have to, and I will be in line with my mask.
Trump RONA RALLY 2020!!
Trump RONA RALLY 2020!!The Super Spreader Event of the Century!
PWN the Libs!
Masks are OPTIONAL! But REAL MAGA don't need no Stinkin Masks!
19,000 screaming MAGAs, packed indoors during a Pandemic, What do you have to Loose!
It's going to be INSANE!
(Please note that all attendees must sign a waiver holding the Trump re-election campaign harmless for any pandemic diseases you might contract, and the protracted disease ICU treatment or death that might result from you attendance. )
“I heard that Trumpie's rallies are so GREAT that they are to just die for... “
WP: After nights of violence in Minneapolis, locals take up arms to defend their community
From Washington Post:
So Steele was INVESTIGATING the Russians, Trump's team was COLLUDING with the Russians.
A little different I think....
More American citizens live in Puerto Rico than:
Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming..
COMBINED!
Another new weather disaster: a "Flash Drought" in Montana and the Dakotas.
Now we can add a quick acting (3 Months) drought to the new weather disasters like "Rain Bomb" storms and "derecho" wind storms. This is what is being blamed on the Wheat crop losses there.
The drought already has far-reaching effects. In eastern Montana, America’s current-largest wildfire continues to smolder; the 422-square-mile Lodgepole complex fire is one-third the size of Rhode Island. It’s Montana’s largest fire since 1910.
Across the state, 17 other large fires are also spreading. “We haven’t even hit our normal peak fire season yet,” Fransen says.
Recently, as the climate has warmed and crop suitability has shifted, the Dakotas and Montana have surpassed Kansas as the most important wheat-growing region in the country. The High Plains is now a supplier of staple grain for the entire world. According to recent field surveys, more than half of this year’s harvest may already be lost.
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But this drought is an anomaly, a “flash drought.” It essentially came from nowhere. It didn’t exist just three months ago.
The frequency of these rapid-onset droughts is expected to increase as the planet warms. A recent study focusing on China found that flash droughts more than doubled in frequency there between 1979 and 2010.
http://grist.org/food/flash-drought-could-devastate-half-the-high-plains-wheat-harvest/
The Trump administration wants to kill the ... Energy Star program because it combats climate change
Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency is on the chopping block. Both the president’s proposed budget and his executive orders on cutting regulations would shrink the EPA. But of the 38 EPA programs that the Trump administration has proposed cutting, at least one is quite surprising: the popular — and voluntary — Energy Star program. It’s not a mandatory regulation, nor a “job killer.” We can only assume that it’s on the list because its strong connection with climate change mitigation. Let us explain.
Here’s what Energy Star does
Launched in 1992, Energy Star sets energy efficiency standards for appliances, electronics, and houses and buildings. But it’s not exactly a regulation. Businesses decide on their own whether to design products that comply with these standards.
The EPA claims that Energy Star has lowered consumers’ electricity bills by $430 billion (contrast this with the annual administrative cost of the program of about $57 million). This lower energy consumption has prevented 2.7 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
Wait, did you say “voluntary regulations”?
Why has the EPA created voluntary programs in the first place? Since its inception in 1970, the EPA’s task has been enforcing key federal environmental laws. Business and some labor groups have accused these laws — and the EPA’s enforcement of them — of being heavy-handed and overly rigid. Opponents allege that EPA regulations make U.S. firms uncompetitive, giving them incentives to relocate to countries with less stringent regulations. In this job-versus-environment narrative, federal regulations are blamed for the decline of U.S. manufacturing and the emergence of the Rust Belt.
Continued....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/23/the-trump-administration-wants-to-kill-the-popular-energy-star-program-because-it-combats-climate-change/?utm_term=.b7912b3caf6d
New Labor Sec Candidate was Federal Prosecutor who gave sweetheart deal to Lolita Express guy!
Epstein had an entire group recruiting underage girls into prostitution from NY and FL and the would fly other rich and famous to his personal island on his own jet airliner. The woman who dropped the charges against Trump accusing him of having sex with her when she was a minor was part of this.
Why no federal charges?
Acosta has strong backing from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) In a statement, Rubio said: “I know Alex Acosta well, and he is a phenomenal choice to lead the Department of Labor."
But he could receive scrutiny over the plea deal he cut with wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta’s prosecutors agreed not to file any federal charges against Epstein if he pleaded guilty to state charges involving soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Epstein ultimately received an 18-month sentence in county jail and served about 13 months. Soon after the deal was cut in 2008, two women filed suit claiming that the decision to forgo federal prosecution violated a federal law — the Crime Victims Rights Act — because they and other teenagers Epstein paid for sex were never adequately consulted about the plea deal or given an opportunity to object to it.
Acosta is not a party in the suit, which names only the federal government as a defendant. In 2015, lawyers for the women demanded Acosta submit to a deposition in the case. The motion was withdrawn last year as settlement talks in the case went forward, but the case remains pending.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-to-announce-alexander-acosta-as-labor-secretary-nominee-235089
I think the number one problem is Valid Voters who are not allowed to vote, or vote is never counted
This voter roll manipulation has been going on at least since 2000, and the Democrats will not do anything about it.
Every election hundreds of thousands of valid registered voters have been prevented from voting using these massive invalidation lists. This year it is the "Interstate CrossCheck" list. These are almost always ginned up by the Republicans, and target minority sounding surnames. If the voter actually complains when they go to vote they are given "provisional" ballots, but there does not seem to be any real standards in checking if these are valid, and seem to often just be chucked in to piles never opened or counted. And no one ever goes back to see why the voter was removed from the rolls, or if they are put back on them. How many provisional ballots are out there.
Making it hard for especially Democratic voters to vote it also a favorite Election manipulation technique of the Right. Extreme voter ID laws, shorter early voting periods, and fewer, harder to find precincts, or just moving the voting locations, and under-staffing/provisioning the locations to cause longer lines all discourage the "wrong people" from voting.
Also there never seems to be any kind of random spot check on vote counting machines. There is no way to check full electronic ones. But ones that are optic scanners of paper ballots, or like in Ohio where the machine prints out a paper roll record could be spot checked at least. Hand count the ballots run through the machine and check it against the machine total. I have never heard of this being done anywhere. But every gas pump or deli scale is checked for accuracy in this state (OH) on a regular basis. Not so much the voting machines.
Another simple check that does not seem to be done is to check the counts from each machine added up for each precinct, which is added up for each county, which then is added up for statewide totals. In 2004 and 2008 this totaling function was done on the same RNC computers in Tenn that ran the private email for the Whitehouse that lost 22million votes. And the guy who programmed it all died in a small plane crash.
There is also the simple crosscheck of the number of votes check off in the precinct registration desk vs the total votes shown on the machines. This was way off in Detroit this year and was used as a reason to not examine/recount the precinct!
It is supposedly possible for private citizens to ask to examine the actual ballots for a period of time after the election is finalized. This never seems to happen.
The other thing that always pisses me off is the actual major candidates (or at least democrats) will never do a recount/audit like what the Green party was auditing? Our candidate had standing so the recounts could not have been thrown out or stopped. How could this have possible hurt her, or us more than this result?
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