Jerking UP tensions ...

[Sociopath-in-Chief] Isn’t Here to Serve the People: He has shown that we need new laws to constrain an executive who seeks unchecked power.

[Names modified for accuracy] Desperate to salvage his presidency, Thug-in-Chief is inciting racial violence by encouraging armed vigilantes to confront protesters angry over the killing and maiming of unarmed Black people by the police. The UNpresident is stoking civil conflict to distract voters from his failed leadership and strengthen his electoral prospects.

Deadly as it is, Putin's Puppet’s latest tactic reflects his view of the presidency as the tool of one man. Rather than serve the people, Agent Orange is trying to extend his time in office while undermining any constraints on his power.

Across the executive branch, Crook-in-Chief and his appointees have flouted long-honored norms and violated laws with relative impunity. They have succeeded largely because Senate RepuGNicans have sacrificed oversight and accountability on the altar of subservience to this UNpresident so long as it preserves their majority control.

Under Wanna-be-Dicktator, the abuses have touched almost every corner of government, suggesting the UNpresident views democracy itself as his opponent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/opinion/trump-corruption-democracy.html .


Kenosha: fears rise that Racist-in-Chief visit could inflame tensions amid protests: Concern grows that UNpresident’s planned visit could [is intended TO] agitate largely peaceful protests after the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

"Concern was growing on 20-8-30 that a tense but peaceful situation prevailing in Kenosha for the last four days and nights could be inflamed by a planned visit from Agitator-in-Chief this week, in the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the city last Sunday.

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A white teenager, Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, has been charged with intentional homicide after the alleged shooting death[s] of two white men [the deaths were not "alleged", the deaths actually occurred], and other charges relating to the assault rifle he was carrying, and another shooting where a man’s arm was severely injured. 

[Since Rittenhouse killed white men, there have been no protests about armed-vigilante brutality.]

Authoritarian-in-Chief has been increasingly positioning himself in terms of for an election campaign centered on cracking down on [essential to RepuGNican rhetoric] unrest, even as he appeared to egg on Thug-in-Chief supporters who drove in a huge procession into Portland, Oregon, on 20-8-29 night and shot paintballs and pepper spray at protesters, buy by retweeting video of the incident. [Addendum: a wrong-wing pro-racism protester was killed during the Portland protests: UnCivil War]

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The UNpresident has been critical of the wave of [RepuGNican-blessing-in-disguise] protests against police brutality and systemic racism that have swept the US since the police [public torture and] killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May.

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Miles Taylor, former chief of staff to Kirstjen Nielsen, then homeland security secretary, and now adviser to an anti-tRUMP group, the Republican Political Alliance for Integrity and Reform (Repair), said that while presidential visits can “cool down the rhetoric”, he was [justifiably] concerned." [Implicitly that the UNpresident hopes to stoke further violence.]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/30/jacob-blake-kenosha-protests-trump-plans-visit

UnCivil War

A man affiliated with a right-wing wrong-wing group was shot and killed 20-8-29 as a large group of supporters of UNpresident Racist-in-Chief traveled in a caravan through downtown Portland, Ore., which has had nightly protests for three consecutive months.

The pro-Trump pro-Racist rally drew hundreds of trucks full of supporters into the city. At times, Racist-in-Chief  supporters and counterprotesters clashed on the streets, with people shooting paintball guns from the beds of pickup trucks and protesters throwing objects back at them.
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The man who was shot and killed was wearing a hat with the insignia of Patriot Prayer Nationalist Pseudo-Christianity, a far-right far wrong group based in the Portland area that has clashed with protesters in the past. Joey Gibson, the head of the group, said Sunday he could not share many details but could confirm the man was a good friend and supporter of Patriot Prayer Nationalist Pseudo-Christianity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/us/portland-trump-rally-shooting.html .

Easy to say ...

‘I would crawl through broken glass to vote for tRUMP'

Easily said, vanishingly unlikely that the bragging zealot would actually do something so foolish in order to do something even more foolish.

The Ugly Fledgling

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-53905897 .

2 weeks vs 6 months?

She chose unwisely ....

COVID: Woman in Australia jailed for six months over quarantine breach:

A woman has been jailed for six months in Australia for breaching coronavirus quarantine rules.

Asher Faye Vander Sanden, 28, had spent a month in the state of Victoria, which has been hit heavily by COVID-19. She was permitted to fly home to Perth, Western Australia, and quarantine in a hotel for 14 days at her own expense. But she instead arrived secretly in the state in a truck and stayed at her partner's home, where she was later arrested.

In Western Australia, people found to have broken quarantine laws face a maximum penalty of 12 months' imprisonment or a $50,000 (£27,000) fine.

Miffed? Awwww

The cool reception is the natural consequence of years of strutting and LYING ....

Russia, Expecting Plaudits for Vaccine, Is Miffed by Its Cool Reception: Russian officials and scientists dismiss warnings about safety as Western jealousy and sour grapes. But only 24 percent of Russian doctors would take the vaccine, one survey shows.

[Presumably, Putin expected the West to be as gullible as his state-media CONned audience. Instead, after exposure of election interference and years of LIES from Putin's inept puppet, we recognize indecent haste and braggadocio when we see it.]

More likely 1 million

Given that many nations have under-reported the toll of COVID-19, I expect that 800,000 is an underestimate ...

COVID-19 Live Updates: Global Death Toll Surpasses 800,000: The pandemic is increasingly lethal in South America. Three U.S. states find cases linked to the Sturgis motorcycle rally. A judge blocks a couple’s 175-guest wedding in New York.

Only FOOLS book overseas holidays during an active pandemic ....

Coronavirus: Thousands return to UK to beat France quarantine:

Thousands of holidaymakers are racing to return to the UK, with quarantine restrictions imposed on France coming into force from Saturday. The 14-day isolation requirement from 04:00 BST also applies to people arriving from the Netherlands, Monaco, Malta, Turks and Caicos, and Aruba.

Extra ferry services have been added, but Eurotunnel trains are booked up and air travellers face steep prices.

France warned it would take "reciprocal measures".

The Netherlands will warn against all but essential travel to the UK once the restrictions come into force on Saturday, but it said it will not introduce reciprocal measures.

Another Superspreader Event Planned

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally: South Dakota town ready to welcome 250,000 bikers: This is the 80th year of the South Dakota rally. It could be one of the largest public gatherings since the start of the pandemic. Some worry it could be a "super-spreader" event.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-53703164/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-south-dakota-town-ready-to-welcome-250000-bikers .

[Giving natural selection another chance to select.]

As predicted: 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/south-dakota-coronavirus-cases.html 

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/north-dakota-coronavirus-cases.html .

Further Election Rigging

[I suspect that (knowing that Dicktator-in-Chief's mega-deluded base will swallow any LIE delivered by FAUX Lies) the Grim Reaper's pet RepuGNicans sabotaged Congress' aid package so that LIAR-in-Chief could make a "grand gesture" executive order supposedly intended to "support the unemployed, suspend payroll tax and extend student loans".]


"Some of them are likely to face legal challenges given that Congress controls federal spending, not the [UN]president." [After 4 years of ineptitude, Idiot-in-Chief still thinks that the law does not apply to him.]

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"The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives had approved a $3.5 trillion package which was rejected by the Republican-RepuGNican-held Senate.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful elected Democrat, said they lowered the figure in talks to $2tn but Republicans RepuGNicans had proposed a $1tn plan.

Mrs Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer dismissed the UNpresident's actions as "meagre", saying they were "unworkable, weak and narrow policy announcements" in the face of the economic and health crises.

Joe Biden, Kleptocrat-in-Chief's rival in the November election, accused him of putting Social Security "at grave risk" by delaying the collection of payroll taxes, and called the measures "another cynical ploy designed to deflect responsibility".

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"The USA's death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 160,000. The US has far more COVID-19 cases by volume than any other country - nearly five million - and [thanks to the premature rush to re-open despite lack of effective testing] its rate of infection has risen steadily throughout the summer. [Judging by Australia's experience, the winter is likely to be even worse.]

Congress has already allocated some $3tn for pandemic relief so far. Some Republicans RepuGNicans in Congress do not wish to spend any more, and nearly half of Republicans RepuGNicans senators say they would oppose any new relief bill at all."

[Onlookers are aware that RepuGNicans care nothing for the electorate, presumably planning instead to rig the election yet again. Make America Sh*tholier Again.]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53712328 .


[Self-Server-in-Chief]'s moves on economic aid draw fire on the Sunday news shows.

Administration officials struggled in television appearances on Sunday to explain UNpresident Narcissist’s attempts to circumvent Congress in the absence of an agreement on a coronavirus aid package, sowing further confusion over whether tens of millions of Americans will receive the promised relief.

The UNpresident announced executive steps on Saturday that he said LIED were intended to address lapsed unemployment benefits, reinstate an eviction ban, provide relief for student borrowers and suspend collection of payroll taxes. They came after crucial benefits provided under earlier aid bills had lapsed, and after two weeks of talks between congressional Democrats and administration officials failed to yield an agreement on a broader relief package.

But DUHnocchio’s steps appeared unlikely to have a meaningful impact on the sputtering economy, raising questions about whether Dicktator-in-Chief had taken them mainly to gain more leverage in his face-off with Congress.

2020 - Worse & Worse

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