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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

The Trumpster is still packing some weight




Alabama used to love Jeff Sessions! There is no way he could lose his old senate seat unless Trump wanted Tuberville to win... and win he did! 

From 1981 to 1993, Sessions served as the United States attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.

He served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018. Sessions previously served as United States senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as Trump's attorney general. 

Then the shit hit the fan. In a way I feel bad for Sessions. He was one of the few who stuck by Trump from the very beginning. It all went sour when Sessions (under pressure from the Democrats) recused himself from investigations into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.





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Monday, July 13, 2020

My God...does this woman even have an inkling of how stupid she is?





Pelosi Plans Bill to Limit Pardons in Wake of Trump's Roger Stone Commutation



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that in the wake of President Donald Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s criminal sentence, she plans to support a bill limiting the ability of presidents to take such actions.




“President Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of top campaign adviser Roger Stone, who could directly implicate him in criminal misconduct, is an act of staggering corruption,” Pelosi said in a statement on Saturday.

Stone had been sentenced to more than three years in prison for witness tampering and lying to Congress. He’d openly lobbied for a pardon or commutation from Trump by touting that he had refused to cooperate with investigators looking into possible wrongdoing by the president.

“Congress will take action to prevent this type of brazen wrongdoing. Legislation is needed to ensure that no president can pardon or commute the sentence of an individual who is engaged in a cover-up campaign to shield that President from criminal prosecution,” Pelosi said.

A bill limiting the president’s powers of pardon and commutation would have no chance of becoming law as long as Republicans control the Senate and Trump remains in the White House. 

The bill would also likely face legal challenges were it to become law. 


Speaker Pelosi at the press conference. 























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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Here we go again



Black Americans dying of Covid-19 at three times the rate of white people




I wonder why...?




The racial wound at the center of the coronavirus pandemic in the US continues to fester, with latest data showing that African Americans have died from the disease at almost three times the rate of white people.

New figures compiled by the non-partisan APM Research Lab and released on Wednesday under the title Color of Coronavirus provide further evidence of the staggering divide in the Covid-19 death rate between black Americans and the rest of the nation.

Across the country, African Americans have died at a rate of 50.3 per 100,000 people, compared with 20.7 for whites, 22.9 for Latinos and 22.7 for Asian Americans.

More than 20,000 African Americans – about one in 2,000 of the entire black population in the US – have died from the disease.

At the level of individual states, the statistics are all the more shocking. Bottom of the league table in terms of racial disparities is Kansas, where black residents are dying at seven times the rate of whites.

“This is a call to action for our county commissioners, our state and our city officials,” the Kansas state representative Gail Finney told local TV channel KWCH12 recently.

In other states, the gulf is almost as extreme. In the nation’s capital, Washington, the disparity in death rate between blacks and whites is six times, in Michigan and Missouri five, and in major hotspots of the disease – New York, Illinois and Louisiana – three.

(What to do? Blame Trump)

Despite the glaring gulf, the Trump administration continues to be sluggish in responding to the crisis. Uché Blackstock, an urgent care physician and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, said that the federal reaction had been anemic.

“The disparities are continuing to be reflected in the data, yet we still have a complete lack of guidance from the federal government about how to mitigate these divisions. There is no real plan how to deal with it,” Blackstock said.

Senior Trump administration officials have blamed the disparities on the high incidence among black people of underlying health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity. On Sunday the health secretary, Alex Azar, pointed to their “greater risk profiles”, and was criticized for blaming the victims of the virus.


I completely forgot about when Trump issued the executive order barring BLM protesters from wearing masks.



While co-morbidities are a factor, there is mounting evidence that black Americans are disadvantaged in terms of access to diagnostic testing and treatment for the disease.

(Blacks are refused medical care... but illegals get it free?)


Gathering data on the racial gulf in deaths has itself been hampered by an absence of federal action, compounded by slow and in some cases non-existent reporting by many states. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only produced its first set of death statistics by race this week, despite mounting calls for basic information.

In the absence of government data, APM Research Lab has stepped into the breach. It now gathers statistics from 40 states, covering almost 90% of the total of 92,128 deaths in the US recorded by Johns Hopkins.

Andi Egbert, senior researcher at APM Research Lab, said she was astonished that it was left to an independent organization to produce nationwide statistics that should be coming from the federal government. “I won’t speculate about motive, but I can’t believe in a modern economy that we don’t have a mandated, uniform way of reporting the data across states. We are in the midst of this tremendous crisis, and data is the best way of knowing who is suffering and how.”

Among the states that are still failing to produce any data on deaths by racial group are Montana, Nebraska, Utah and North and South Dakota.

What percentage of blacks do you suppose live in these states?

The racial disparities in the US death figures became apparent relatively early on in the pandemic, particularly in large cities where black neighborhoods were hit much harder than wealthier white areas. When New York City produced its first racial breakdown of Covid-19 deaths in April it showed that Latino and black New Yorkers, especially in the outer boroughs including Queens and the Bronx, were experiencing death rates that were at least twice those of whites and Asians.

New figures from the city’s health department released this week and reviewed by the New York Times found that when death rates are ranked by zip code, eight out of the top 10 have majority black or Latino populations.

The same could be said about the crime rate. People that live in high crime areas have a propensity of not following the rules. See anyone wearing a mask?

As the pandemic unfolds, some states including Michigan and New York have begun to convene specialist task forces to grapple with the disproportionate suffering in black communities. But Blackstock said that there remained no sign of the Trump administration stepping up to tackle the crisis.

“At this point we have to assume that the clear lack of guidance from the federal government is going to continue, and that states are going to have to do it for themselves,” she said.

At no point in this article was the slightest suggestion made the spread of C-19 may have been caused by the irresponsibility of the people infected. 

It's just so much easier to blame Trump.







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Friday, July 10, 2020

Pelosi on Christopher Columbus statue destruction: 'People will do what they do'



Rioting, looting, tearing down statues, Aunt Jemima soon to become a fond memory, your favorite sport teams to be renamed, demanding to do away with the cops, and all brought to you with the blessing of the Democrats.


Protesters in Baltimore threw Columbus statue in harbor




(She's talking about the 15% of the population who don't want it. Screw the 85% that do)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responds to the toppling of the Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore during her press briefing.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday declined to admonish protesters in her native city of Baltimore who pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and then tossed the monument into the city’s Inner Harbor.

"People will do what they do," Pelosi, D-Calif., said at a news conference Thursday at the Capitol.

Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, however, had harsh words for the protesters who destroyed the statue near Little Italy over the Fourth of July, saying he wouldn't tolerate the destruction of property. Young said the toppling was unacceptable and the perpetrators, if identified, "will be brought to justice," the Baltimore Sun reported.

Pelosi, an Italian American, was born and raised in Baltimore. Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., was mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959 and her brother Thomas D'Alesandro III also led the city from 1967 to 1971.

Pelosi said "it's up to the communities to decide what statues they want to see" and taking down the Columbus monument "doesn't diminish my pride in my Italian American heritage."

But asked whether a commission should decide what statues go rather than a mob of protesters, Pelosi said people will do what they do.

"I do think that from a safety standpoint it would be a good idea to have it taken down if the community doesn't want it," Pelosi said of a more organized process to remove statues. "I don't know that has to be a commission but it could be a community view."

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pounced on Pelosi's comments as another example of Democrats defending the "radical left-wing mob."

"Her job is to write laws. Instead, she encourages mobs to break them. She is complicit with criminal activity, plain and simple," McCarthy said.

Pelosi has spearheaded an effort to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol but has drawn a distinction between targeting those who committed treason against the United States and past presidents who owned enslaved people.

Pelosi said Thursday she's most concerned about looking forward and she's not wedded to physical monuments and tokens of the past. "I don't even have my grandmother's earrings," Pelosi said.

Former President Ronald Reagan helped unveil the Columbus statue in Baltimore in 1984. Rioters Saturday night pulled down the monument and then tossed it into the city’s Inner Harbor.

The statue had stood at the entrance to the city’s Little Italy neighborhood for 36 years, FOX 45 of Baltimore reported.


The attack came hours after rioters in Connecticut beheaded a Columbus statue there.

The Baltimore demonstrators had threatened to remove the statue for weeks, according to the station.

The destruction came after a Little Italy group hired private, unarmed security personnel to guard the statue around the clock – but it was unclear if anyone was trying to guard it Saturday, FOX 45 reported.

Video posted to social media showed people pulling chains that had been tied around the statue, with one black-clad rioter giving the statue a final push as a crowd cheered.

The toppling of the Columbus statue continued a wave of vandalism targeting statues and monuments across the nation after George Floyd's death – mostly targeting historical figures who critics regard as racists. Statues vandalized or destroyed in other cities have included those of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, two American founding fathers who owned slaves.

While many Italian-Americans regard Columbus as personifying their history and heritage in the Western hemisphere, others see Columbus as a conqueror who brought death and oppression to the indigenous population after he first arrived in 1492.


Meanwhile, in NYC the BLM painters are busy in front of Trump Tower...








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Monday, July 6, 2020

Someone explain this to me



Gun violence unfolds across the US over July 4 weekend 


New York City: 37 injured, 6 killed

Chicago: 63 injured, 17 killed

Philadelphia: 14 injured, 5 dead

Baltimore: 8 injured, 1 killed

Detroit: 5 injured, 2 killed

Memphis: 4 injured, 1 killed

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I have no proof but I am willing to bet 98% of the dead and injured are black and were shot by other blacks. Every one of these cities are run by gun hating Democratic mayors yet blacks keeping dropping like flies. These were two of the victims.



In Atlanta Secoriea Turneran an 8-year-old black girl was shot and killed over the weekend.



Seven-year-old Natalie Wallace (pictured) was among the 17 people killed in shootings in Chicago on Saturday

Where is all the sound, the fury, the rage, for these two little murdered black girls?



What asshole would shoot a 7 and a 8 year old little girl?

(It damn sure wasn't white cops)


So 32 people killed over the weekend and BLM doesn't say boo. Meanwhile, these two worthless Ex-Cons lived on borrowed time before their next incarnation, one of whom was charged with Cruelty to Children, are idolized as if they were saints. And why is that? BLM only when they're shot by white cops. That's when it's a big deal... and the only time it's a big deal!

The truth be told had the judicial system not be so lenient they would still be behind bars and alive today.







They got it right.




As usual Kayleigh McEnany has to straighten out the Press.







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