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August 29, 2020
The digital divide in one picture
https://twitter.com/kdeleon/status/1299386969873461248
August 29, 2020
NYC tenants say they were misled into RNC video appearance
NEW YORK (AP) — Three of the four residents of New York City public housing whose criticisms of Mayor Bill de Blasio were used in a video at the Republican National Convention said they were never told their comments were to be showcased in that manner.
The New York Times reported Friday that Claudia Perez, Carmen Quinones and Manny Martinez didn't know that their comments from an interview with Lynne Patton were going to be used in support of President Donald Trump.
Quinones, a Democrat, told the Times that Patton — a Trump administration appointee with the Department of Housing and Urban Development — had called her and asked her to bring together some people to speak about the city's housing authority and their concerns, but that she was never told it would be part of the convention.
In the almost 2 1/2-minute video, four tenants are interspersed with clips of Trump and de Blasio. The tenants are heard criticizing the New York City mayor and praising the Trump administration's efforts.
Perez told the Times she meant what she said about the New York City Housing Authority, but was angry about being tricked into appearing in a convention video.
“I am not a Trump supporter,” she said. “I am not a supporter of his racist policies on immigration. I am a first-generation Honduran. It was my people he was sending back.”
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/aug/29/nyc-tenants-say-they-were-misled-into-rnc-video-ap/
August 29, 2020
CNN)The billboards began popping up along a desert stretch of highway in Arizona and California in early August — plastered with "Make America Great Again!" in large capital letters or an image of President Donald Trump looking up to the sky and giving a big thumbs up.
The small company that funded the large billboards had just months earlier received a large cash infusion backed by the same administration now being celebrated, public records show.
Jones 1 Inc. was approved for a loan of between $150,000 and $350,000 at the end of April through the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was set up to help struggling small businesses save jobs during the pandemic.
The company, which owns a small Shell gas station and travel center in Needles, California, went on to lease "six beautiful Trump billboards" near the border of California and Arizona, which a local group of Lake Havasu Republicans heralded — thanking "a generous Trump supporter."
Six political billboards could cost anywhere from around $10,000 for four weeks to nearly $30,000 depending on the location, according to average price estimates provided by Lamar Advertising, which leased the space to Jones 1 Inc. It declined to provide the pricing of the specific billboards. But if they stay up through the election, which the local Republican group that inspired the billboards said is the plan, the costs could range from around $30,000 to around $120,000.
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Whether or not the money Jones 1 Inc. received through the Small Business Administration loan program was directly used to pay for the Trump billboards, business ethics professors and legal experts said non-essential spending like this violates the spirit of the program, which was meant for small businesses that desperately needed the assistance to keep paying workers
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"If you have enough capital to spend it on billboards, maybe you shouldn't have been one of the companies to receive this loan," said Liz Hempowicz, director of public policy at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), a nonprofit watchdog group. "The responsibility really rested with the SBA and the administration to make sure they were spending these taxpayer dollars in a way that Congress intended."
Gas station secured small business bailout money, then paid for big expensive Trump billboards
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/politics/trump-billboards-ppp-loan-invs/index.htmlCNN)The billboards began popping up along a desert stretch of highway in Arizona and California in early August — plastered with "Make America Great Again!" in large capital letters or an image of President Donald Trump looking up to the sky and giving a big thumbs up.
The small company that funded the large billboards had just months earlier received a large cash infusion backed by the same administration now being celebrated, public records show.
Jones 1 Inc. was approved for a loan of between $150,000 and $350,000 at the end of April through the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was set up to help struggling small businesses save jobs during the pandemic.
The company, which owns a small Shell gas station and travel center in Needles, California, went on to lease "six beautiful Trump billboards" near the border of California and Arizona, which a local group of Lake Havasu Republicans heralded — thanking "a generous Trump supporter."
Six political billboards could cost anywhere from around $10,000 for four weeks to nearly $30,000 depending on the location, according to average price estimates provided by Lamar Advertising, which leased the space to Jones 1 Inc. It declined to provide the pricing of the specific billboards. But if they stay up through the election, which the local Republican group that inspired the billboards said is the plan, the costs could range from around $30,000 to around $120,000.
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Whether or not the money Jones 1 Inc. received through the Small Business Administration loan program was directly used to pay for the Trump billboards, business ethics professors and legal experts said non-essential spending like this violates the spirit of the program, which was meant for small businesses that desperately needed the assistance to keep paying workers
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"If you have enough capital to spend it on billboards, maybe you shouldn't have been one of the companies to receive this loan," said Liz Hempowicz, director of public policy at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), a nonprofit watchdog group. "The responsibility really rested with the SBA and the administration to make sure they were spending these taxpayer dollars in a way that Congress intended."
August 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1299170152488087552
But if one really wanted to catch Ivanka pushing an agenda, one need only have paid attention to how she framed “Trump’s” accomplishments. Trump had help, doncha know?
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/ivanka-trump-2020-rnc-speech-transcript
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Ivanka Trump: (11:46)
Four years ago I told you my father would focus on making child care affordable and accessible. In President Trump’s first term, we secured the largest ever increase for child care funding, giving more than 800,000 low income families great child care at a cost they can afford. As part of Republican tax cuts in 2019 alone, our child tax credit put over $2,000.00 into the pockets of 40 million American families.
Ivanka Trump: (12:20)
Democrat politicians recently introduced a plan to increase the child tax credit, yet when I was fighting less than three years ago at the president’s direction to get Congress to double the child tax credit, not a single Democrat voted to pass the law. We got it done anyway.
Ivanka Trump: (12:42)
Four years ago I promised that President Trump would support mothers in the workforce. In his first year in office, he signed into law the first ever national paid leave tax credit. Today, eight million more Americans have access to this benefit.
Ivanka Trump: (13:03)
Four years ago I said that Americans needed an economy that permits people to rise again. During President Trump’s first three years in office, 72% of all new jobs went to Americans who had been outside of the workforce.
Ivanka Trump: (13:22)
Four years ago I told you I would fight alongside my father and four years later, here I am.
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Ivanka Trump: (14:31)
This spring, our president saw that American crops were going to waste because food supply chains were disrupted by the virus. He directed Secretary Perdue and me to find a way to get this nutritious food, fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy, to families most in need. Within a matter of days, we launched the Farmers to Family Food Box Program, which has now delivered over 100 million meals into the hands of American families.
Ivanka Trump: (15:05)
To protect the most vulnerable among us, I’ve worked alongside the president as he signed into law nine pieces of legislation to combat the evil of human trafficking.
Ivanka Trump: (15:24)
I’ve stood by my father’s side at Dover Air Force Base as he has received our fallen heroes and each time it has steeled his resolve to finally stop, finally stop, the endless foreign wars.
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/ivanka-trump-2020-rnc-speech-transcript
Ivanka's convention speech introducing Trump was really about her
https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/08/people-believe-ivankas-speech-dropped-some-major-hints-that-shes-going-to-run-for-president-some-day/https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1299170152488087552
But if one really wanted to catch Ivanka pushing an agenda, one need only have paid attention to how she framed “Trump’s” accomplishments. Trump had help, doncha know?
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/ivanka-trump-2020-rnc-speech-transcript
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Ivanka Trump: (11:46)
Four years ago I told you my father would focus on making child care affordable and accessible. In President Trump’s first term, we secured the largest ever increase for child care funding, giving more than 800,000 low income families great child care at a cost they can afford. As part of Republican tax cuts in 2019 alone, our child tax credit put over $2,000.00 into the pockets of 40 million American families.
Ivanka Trump: (12:20)
Democrat politicians recently introduced a plan to increase the child tax credit, yet when I was fighting less than three years ago at the president’s direction to get Congress to double the child tax credit, not a single Democrat voted to pass the law. We got it done anyway.
Ivanka Trump: (12:42)
Four years ago I promised that President Trump would support mothers in the workforce. In his first year in office, he signed into law the first ever national paid leave tax credit. Today, eight million more Americans have access to this benefit.
Ivanka Trump: (13:03)
Four years ago I said that Americans needed an economy that permits people to rise again. During President Trump’s first three years in office, 72% of all new jobs went to Americans who had been outside of the workforce.
Ivanka Trump: (13:22)
Four years ago I told you I would fight alongside my father and four years later, here I am.
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Ivanka Trump: (14:31)
This spring, our president saw that American crops were going to waste because food supply chains were disrupted by the virus. He directed Secretary Perdue and me to find a way to get this nutritious food, fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy, to families most in need. Within a matter of days, we launched the Farmers to Family Food Box Program, which has now delivered over 100 million meals into the hands of American families.
Ivanka Trump: (15:05)
To protect the most vulnerable among us, I’ve worked alongside the president as he signed into law nine pieces of legislation to combat the evil of human trafficking.
Ivanka Trump: (15:24)
I’ve stood by my father’s side at Dover Air Force Base as he has received our fallen heroes and each time it has steeled his resolve to finally stop, finally stop, the endless foreign wars.
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/ivanka-trump-2020-rnc-speech-transcript
August 29, 2020
A Black man in San Antonio was stopped and detained by police Tuesday while he was jogging, witnesses said, as officers searched for a suspect in a nearby domestic violence call.
Video of the incident posted to social media shows officers forcefully shoving the man into a police vehicle as he screams.
The arrested man, identified in a police report as Mathias Ometu, 33, was seen walking out of an apartment complex as officers arrived in response to a call about a domestic violence assault, according to a police report from the incident.
Officers stopped Ometu and told him they had "reasonable suspicion to believe" he "matched the description of an alleged strangulation family violence incident," the report said.
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The police report said Ometu refused to give his name and date of birth after several requests and his "demeanor became aggressive." Ometu refused to get in the patrol vehicle and was then "placed in the patrol vehicle" after a "long struggle," the report said, "using only open hand techniques."
During the incident, Ometu allegedly kicked two officers, striking one in the face, the police report said.
The victim of the family violence incident met officers and said Ometu was not the suspect, but Ometu still would not give officers his information, the report said.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of assault on a peace officer, a statement from the San Antonio Police Department said.
Jenny Rodriguez and Victor Maas, who witnessed the arrest and filmed the interaction between Ometu and police, told CNN by phone Friday that Ometu did not seem aggressive or confrontational toward the officers.
Their videos show Ometu handcuffed standing next to a police vehicle calmly for what appears to be about six minutes before two officers start to push Ometu into the vehicle. One witness noted in a video that at least one of the officers was also Black.
The video shows officers struggling with Ometu to push him into the back of a police vehicle and he is heard yelling, "You're choking me!" several times as the struggle continues for over a minute.
Video shows forceful arrest of Black man stopped while jogging in San Antonio
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/us/san-antonio-black-man-arrested-trnd/index.htmlA Black man in San Antonio was stopped and detained by police Tuesday while he was jogging, witnesses said, as officers searched for a suspect in a nearby domestic violence call.
Video of the incident posted to social media shows officers forcefully shoving the man into a police vehicle as he screams.
The arrested man, identified in a police report as Mathias Ometu, 33, was seen walking out of an apartment complex as officers arrived in response to a call about a domestic violence assault, according to a police report from the incident.
Officers stopped Ometu and told him they had "reasonable suspicion to believe" he "matched the description of an alleged strangulation family violence incident," the report said.
r.
The police report said Ometu refused to give his name and date of birth after several requests and his "demeanor became aggressive." Ometu refused to get in the patrol vehicle and was then "placed in the patrol vehicle" after a "long struggle," the report said, "using only open hand techniques."
During the incident, Ometu allegedly kicked two officers, striking one in the face, the police report said.
The victim of the family violence incident met officers and said Ometu was not the suspect, but Ometu still would not give officers his information, the report said.
He was arrested and charged with two counts of assault on a peace officer, a statement from the San Antonio Police Department said.
Jenny Rodriguez and Victor Maas, who witnessed the arrest and filmed the interaction between Ometu and police, told CNN by phone Friday that Ometu did not seem aggressive or confrontational toward the officers.
Their videos show Ometu handcuffed standing next to a police vehicle calmly for what appears to be about six minutes before two officers start to push Ometu into the vehicle. One witness noted in a video that at least one of the officers was also Black.
The video shows officers struggling with Ometu to push him into the back of a police vehicle and he is heard yelling, "You're choking me!" several times as the struggle continues for over a minute.
August 28, 2020
Drudge hitting Trump hard
Today's Headline: https://www.drudgereport.com/
BAM! POW! BOOM! WHAM!
BIDEN BIGGER TV AUDIENCE
TRUMP SPEECH -25% FROM '16
August 28, 2020
The move follows the Las Vegas casino operator failing to rebound fully after furloughing its workforce amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
MGM Resorts International is set to lay off 18,000 furloughed workers in the U.S. as its casino and hotel reopening faces continuing impact from the global COVID-19 spread.
The holding company for the Las Vegas casino and hotel operator in an Aug. 28 letter to employees obtained by The Hollywood Reporter said MGM Resorts had not yet "returned to full operating capacity" after furloughing its U.S. workforce six months ago as the virus crisis gathered pace.
MGM Resorts added that federal law required the company to offer a separation date for furloughed workers, which would be Aug. 31.
The gambling giant, which emerged from a months-long shutdown of its U.S. entertainment properties amid the virus crisis, was careful to note that it intended to recall former workers as the economic climate brightened post-pandemic.
MGM Resorts to Lay Off 18,000 Employees
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mgm-resorts-to-lay-off-18000-employeesThe move follows the Las Vegas casino operator failing to rebound fully after furloughing its workforce amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
MGM Resorts International is set to lay off 18,000 furloughed workers in the U.S. as its casino and hotel reopening faces continuing impact from the global COVID-19 spread.
The holding company for the Las Vegas casino and hotel operator in an Aug. 28 letter to employees obtained by The Hollywood Reporter said MGM Resorts had not yet "returned to full operating capacity" after furloughing its U.S. workforce six months ago as the virus crisis gathered pace.
MGM Resorts added that federal law required the company to offer a separation date for furloughed workers, which would be Aug. 31.
The gambling giant, which emerged from a months-long shutdown of its U.S. entertainment properties amid the virus crisis, was careful to note that it intended to recall former workers as the economic climate brightened post-pandemic.
August 28, 2020
Trump over the top 2 plus minute commercial... "Done more for US than anyone in history"
when BIden, Schumer and Pelosi shown.. they heads are made to appear swollen
https://twitter.com/CLITCom03762484/status/1299230259817177090
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