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August 16, 2020

Coronavirus updates: CDC says rate of COVID cases in children 'steadily increasing'

Source: ABC

The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 768,000 people worldwide.

More than 21.3 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks.

The United States is the worst-affected country in the world, with more than 5.3 million diagnosed cases and at least 169,423 deaths.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/coronavirus-updates-cdc-rate-covid-cases-children-steadily/story?id=72402915



Go ahead and open the schools back up what could go wrong?

BTW If you make it through to the end of the video Mike Pence is really stupid.
August 14, 2020

In 2016 it was Hillary's emails and in 2020 it is the Post Office and the volume of mail in votes

The post office will not be able to deliver all the extra mail because of the mail in votes is a pure
bullshit meme. And the main stream media is helping to "give legs" to that codswallop. The USPS
has been picking up and delivering the mail for >200 years now and the idea that picking up another
1 to 4 letters per house is going to overwhelm the USPS is a bold faced lie.

Trump should be called out to his face for promoting such a lie. And just like Hillary's "email scandal"
this USPS can't handle a few extra letters per household over a period of 2 months is a straw man
fishing for a red herring.





August 11, 2020

Joe's campaign meme.

We'll get this done, together.🐶






From one of his tweets this AM about C-19.

August 10, 2020

Nearly 100,000 Children In U.S. Tested Positive For COVID-19 In Last 2 Weeks Of July

Source: Huffington Post

More than 97,000 children in the U.S. tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, underscoring the difficulty for schools considering if or how they can reopen in the fall, according to a new report.

The findings, compiled by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, included data from 49 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam. But the report didn’t include complete data from Texas — which has seen a surge in cases — or parts of New York, meaning the number of infections could be higher.

Officials have long warned that the true coronavirus toll may be much higher than reported due to insufficient testing and the lack of symptoms in many people who are infected.

snip


The data adds to growing concern for parents and students as the start of the school year approaches. Many schools and colleges have said they will operate remotely or with an in-person and online hybrid. But other districts have faced pressure from to reopen as soon as possible, including from President Donald Trump.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/97000-children-coronavirus-july_n_5f30df37c5b6e96a22b496f7



Good God in Butter. "They" still want to open schools back up.
August 10, 2020

8/9/20 Peter Navarro: Trump is 'hardest working president in history'

Navarro: Trump is 'hardest working president in history' 2:35

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/navarro-pelosi-goes-out-with-her-scarves-flying-during-relief-negotiations-89806405949

And Navarro says this gibberish as Trump finishes up a 4 day golf and campaigning weekend. I wonder if Navarro himself believes his bullshit.

Peter Navarro: 'Lord and Founding Fathers created executive orders because of partisan bickering'

August 9, 2020

We could very well have 300,000 dead by election day.

Can't Trump save us the trouble and quit now?

August 5, 2020

The Madness of King Donald of Orange: "Trump pledges lawsuit to block mail-in voting in Nevada"

President Donald Trump plans to sue to stop Nevada from issuing mailed ballots to all active voters, he announced at a White House briefing on Monday.

Trump had already threatened legal action earlier in the day, suggesting mailed ballots would make it impossible for Republicans to win there in the November general election. Nevada state lawmakers approved legislation on Sunday to automatically send mail-in ballots to voters. Gov. Stephen Sisolak of Nevada, a Democrat, is expected to sign the bill into law. Trump said he planned to have the lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The president has aggressively advocated for in-person voting in recent months even as state-level election officials move to expand mail-in voting amid the nationwide outbreak of coronavirus, which many fear could be easily spread at polling places. He stopped short of saying he would issue an executive order in response to the push for more mail-in voting, though he said: “I have the right to do it. We haven’t gotten there yet. We’ll see what happens.”

snip

But Republican political operatives have embraced vote-by-mail, and a recent study found that it does not benefit one party over another.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trump-nevada-mail-voting-lawsuit-390878

******
This suit will be laughed out of court. I'm pretty sure that voting and how people vote in Nevada has already
been covered by the state's Constitution and its laws.

August 4, 2020

He is fucking nutz. President Donald Trump has threatened to sue Nevada. Please make it stop.

He has no idea or clue about anything. Presidents can not file a civil law suit against a state as far as
I know and I have watched a lot of Sam Watterson on Law and Order too.



Trump threatens to sue Nevada to stop universal mail-in ballots.

President Donald Trump has threatened to sue Nevada after Democratic politicians passed a bill that would send mail-in ballots to every voter ahead of November's presidential election in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump, who has claimed without evidence that voting by mail will lead to rampant fraud, wrote on Twitter on Monday that the legislation approved on Sunday was an "illegal late night coup".

"Using Covid to steal the state," he added. "See you in Court!"


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/trump-threatens-sue-nevada-stop-universal-mail-ballots-200803175534662.html
August 4, 2020

OANN's Chanel Rion...what a piece of work ... we had 1,244 die yesterday and she tweets this crap?

https://twitter.com/ChanelRion/status/1290402581420945411


And she is lying about her "Harvard" education too.

Chanel's personal website makes multiple references to her "Harvard" education. As it turns out, she actually attended the Harvard Extension School, not the university. While classes are taught on campus, often by Harvard professors, the extension school is pretty much open to the public. I guess that means that the old men playing chess in Washington Square Park can say they went to NYU, since they overhear classes taught by professors who want to be fun and take their lecture outside in the spring. Love that for everyone, to be honest, although I'm sure Chanel would consider public and affordable

https://guestofaguest.com/washington-dc/media/is-trumps-favorite-reporter-the-anna-delvey-of-dc?slide=4

And her dad is a real peach too.

Well, this is definitely a reason to change your name. According to the Daily Mail, Chanel's father has gone by multiple monikers in the past, including "Christopher Preboth, Dan Ryan, Danford Nmi Dayn-Ryan, Michael David Ryan, David Michael Ryan, and most recently Dann O Ryan." He's been involved in dozens of lawsuits accusing him of defrauding investors out of millions by lying about properties, inflating their value, and then selling them dilapidated buildings. He also masqueraded as a lawyer, but uh, wasn't licensed to practice law in Texas, where he and his would-be clients were doing business.

https://guestofaguest.com/washington-dc/media/is-trumps-favorite-reporter-the-anna-delvey-of-dc?slide=2

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