Introducing the next President and VP of the United States of America!
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Hold First Joint 2020 Campaign Event
Magnificent! Isn’t time we had an Administration instead of a Reich?
It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. Store to Door should come with my groceries between 11 and 12:30. WWWendy will be coming at around 5:00 to destink the gross TomCat, change my pain patch, goop, and help with chores. My first Pembrolizumab treatment is scheduled next Wednesday. Because of WWWendy’s work schedule, I have to take the TriMet Lift bus there, but I timed it to finish at 4:30 PM so WWWendy can pick me up. Thank you all for your prayers and support. Have a great day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:41 (average 5:27). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 5,361,269
US Deaths: 169,161
Plus the many dead Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From Politico (June): The House’s highest-ranking Republicans are racing to distance themselves from a leading GOP congressional candidate in Georgia after POLITICO uncovered hours of Facebook videos in which she expresses racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views.
The candidate, Marjorie Taylor Greene, suggested that Muslims do not belong in government; thinks black people “are held slaves to the Democratic Party”; called George Soros, a Jewish Democratic megadonor, a Nazi; and said she would feel “proud” to see a Confederate monument if she were black because it symbolizes progress made since the Civil War.
Greene finished first in a primary for a deep-red, northwest Georgia seat last week by a nearly 2-to-1 margin over the second-place candidate. She is entering an August runoff as the favorite to secure the Republican nomination for a district where that is tantamount to winning the general election in November. Her initial victory — which has sparked panic in GOP circles — comes as Republicans are grappling with a national reckoning over racial injustice and police brutality after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last month.
Barf Bag Alert!!
Greene, who is also a member of the QAnon Republican conspiracy cult, just won the runoff, so I predict several Parades for this Republican ding bat after January. If I’m dead, someone else will have to take over Parade duty. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Joe: There Is Nothing Radical, Left-Wing About Funding The USPS
Republicans have wanted to defund the post office long before they made Trump* their Fuhrer. UPS and FedEx have contributed BIG bucks for the oligopoly. But criminal Fuhrer Trump* has other reasons. He can’t win without stealing the election or staging a coup through the Gestapo we saw in Portland! Killing USPS serves both crimes. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): DEAR DONALD TRUMP Song
Amen! Kudos to left wing protestors! RESIST!!
Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he has selected Kamala Harris to be his running mate against Resident Donald Trump, criminal Fuhrer of the Nazi Republican Fifth Reich, and Vice-Resident Mike Pence, homophobic, misogynous, pseudo-Christian Hate Monger. I’m sure we’ll have much more about her as time passes.
Who is Kamala Harris?
55 years old
Born in Oakland, Calif.; lives in San Francisco and Washington
Elected to the Senate in 2016
Former attorney general of California; former San Francisco district attorney
Harris’s signature issues
In her presidential campaign last year, Kamala Harris pitched herself as a history-making candidate who could appeal to both progressives and moderates. Rather than trying to upend the economy, her policies sought incremental, targeted results, particularly focusing on historically marginalized groups like women, people of color and low-income Americans. Her sharp debate skills and affable personality made her a top-tier contender in the early stages of the primary race. But her oscillations between policy positions resulted in damaging news cycles, and she dropped out of the race as her campaign ran out of money. In naming Ms. Harris as his running mate, Joseph R. Biden Jr. made a groundbreaking decision, picking a woman of color to be vice president. But he was also elevating a senator who shares his center-left politics at a time of progressive change in the party…
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Click through for more information and links that provide more detailed analysis. Personally, I think that she is flexible enough to accommodate progressives on most issues, and her retail campaigning skills are fantastic.
Trump Now Headed For 2020 Loss With Kamala Harris On Ticket, Dems Say
Wow! I almost feel sorry for that hateful pseudo-Christian hypocrite, Pence. At the VP debate Kamala is going to beat him up, take his lunch money, chew him up, spit him out, and make him cry for his mama!
Congrats and Kudos to Kamala!
It’s a relatively comfortable day, here in the CatBox with two days in the 70°s, before the next heat wave builds to a 100°+ weekend. WWWendy and WWKristin returned safely and happy, albeit sunburned. They return your greetings and kind wishes. Tomorrow I may have no more than as Personal Update or an Open Thread. It’s a WWWendy day, but I won’t know when she’s coming until after she gets her work schedule later today. It’s also a grocery delivery day. Happy Hump Day to all!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:04 (average 5:15). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 5,309,622
US Deaths: 167,789
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: In a rare instance of praising one of his White House predecessors, Donald J. Trump on Tuesday hailed Woodrow Wilson for opposing efforts to institute online learning during the 1918 pandemic.
“There were a lot of crybabies in 1918 saying, ‘The schools aren’t safe—let the kids learn on their computers,’ ” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Woody wouldn’t hear of it.”
Instead, Trump said, “Kids went to school and the influenza just kind of disappeared eventually. Woody did a fantastic job.”
Dang, Andy! Are you sure he didn’t praise Wilson because of his overt racism and KKK support? RESIST!!
From Alternet: Remember when political reporters crowed about what a masterful play Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had made when he lined up his caucus to acquit Donald Trump without hearing from a single witness? Yeah, that acquittal came on February 6 when U.S. senators were already getting briefed on the seriousness of the coronavirus’ spread abroad.
But Senate Republicans, led by McConnell, fell all over themselves to make sure Trump was at the helm when the pandemic hit U.S. shores. Now, what once looked like a promising cycle for Senate Republicans has turned entirely treacherous precisely because the caucus is saddled with Trump as their standard bearer.
Politico reports the party is directing nearly its entire $100 million war chest at saving the seats of eight incumbent senators while the few GOP candidates aiming to defeat a Democrat have been left almost entirely to their own devices. With the exception of funneling a little money into the effort to defeat Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama, they simply don’t have the resources to play offense.
The seat of Democratic Sen. Gary Peters from Michigan, for instance, once seemed like a flippable seat. But as Trump has tanked in the state and Joe Biden is presently positioned very well there, Senate Republicans have left Republican candidate John James to fend for himself.
Instead, GOP groups, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund have been trying to bolster their defenses in Georgia, Iowa, and Montana—three states that weren’t even on the radar as potential Democratic pick ups when the cycle started.
I wonder how much of that money is going to help Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch. This shows how desperate the Republican Reich has become. May all their efforts fail! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Noodle Muffin’s “Morning in America” Music Video
Under Trump*, we are mourning in America! Kudos to left-wing protestors! RESIST!!
The more time that goes on, the more obvious it becomes that Resident Donald Trump*, traitor, criminal, and Fuhrer of the Republican Fifth Reich, cannot win the November 2020 election. That leaves him two ways to try to cling to power. Will he try to steal the election? Failing that, will he ignore it?
CNN reporter April Ryan believes if President Trump loses the 2020 presidential election, he will have to be removed from the oval office by force.
Many have wondered whether Trump will leave willingly if he loses the election and what would happen if he refuses to concede to Joe Biden. Trump didn’t calm fears when he refused to give a straight answer about accepting a Democratic win on November 3.
During a Sunday appearance on CNN Newsroom with host Ana Cabrera, Cabrera asked Ryan and guest Bill Kristol about the president downplaying mail-in ballots and attempting to delay mid-term elections. Ryan responded calling Trump a hypocrite for using mail-in ballots himself and said he’s trying to suppress votes… [emphasis added]
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Trump Wielding Presidency Like An Autocrat: To Preserve His Power
Trump* is the symptom, not the disease. Long before Trump* became Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, I have warned you over and over again. Republicans will do whatever they can to establish a permanent, National Socialist, plutocratic Republican Reich. They want elections to exist for show only, as they decide who gets to vote, and they count the votes. Right now they have never been closer to achieving that goal. We must stop them at all costs!
It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox. Providence already approved the Pembrolizumab treatments. WWWendy will get her schedule tomorrow from school, and I’ll be scheduling treatments as soon as I know what’s best for her. The 25 µg Fentanyl patch is giving me much better pain relief. For the first time in months, my pain level has been zero all day, except for when I Republicated a brick that made my hemorrhoids bleed. May all your Republicans be softer.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 5,254,561
US Deaths: 166,295
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Donald Trump has repeatedly and far-too-publicly mused over wanting his own face carved into Mount Rushmore. This we knew. Over the weekend, however, we learned that it has gone a bit farther than mere public desire: On Saturday, The New York Times reported that an unnamed Trump White House aide “reached out” to the office of South Dakota’s Republican governor to inquire as to what the process of adding new heads to Mount Rushmore might actually be.
Mt. Rushmore is on sacred Native American land. Can you imagine anything more sacrilegious than carving the head of criminal Fuhrer Trump* in a sacred place? RESIST!!
From NY Times: President Trump is considering new immigration rules that would allow border officials to temporarily block an American citizen or legal permanent resident from returning to the United States from abroad if the authorities have reason to believe the person may be infected with the coronavirus.
In recent months, Mr. Trump has imposed sweeping rules that ban entry by foreigners into the United States, citing the risk of allowing the virus to spread from hot spots abroad. But those rules have exempted two categories of people trying to return: American citizens and foreigners who have already established legal residence.
Worrying about spreading Trump* virus from Mexico to the US is bass ackwards. Mexico should be worried, not the US. Being Black or Latino will be “reason to believe the person may be infected” with Trump* virus, especially before election day. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Donald Trump Anti-Wall Protest Song<.p>
Amen! Kudos to left wing protestors! RESIST!!
Last weekend, Resident Donald Trump*, Fuhrer of the Nazi Republican Reich, promised a press conference in which he would explain how he would provide his own relief plan for the American People. It was really a campaign rally, delivered at taxpayer expense from his own Bedminster, NJ country club, while greedy Republican billionaires cheered him on. Everything he said and everything his supporters, like Larry Kudlow, said later were lies.
According to the Washington Post, his so-called unemployment relief created a whole new program that would take months to set up. States would have to pay $100 of the $400 per person per month payments, and pay for the administration of the program. Trump also said he would suspend payroll taxes. These are not taxes at all, but the entitlement payments that fund Social Security and Medicare. He said he will terminate those “taxes”, if reelected. The so-called rent relief provides for studies, but no relief at all. The measure on student loans is just a two month extension of the relief Democrats passed in March.
According to the NY Times, the Trump* plan included no relief for small businesses, schools, or state and local governments.
According to Market Watch, workers would still be on the hook to repay the payroll tax relief by April 15. Unless governors request the unemployment relief and can afford to pay their share, workers will receive nothing. Since Republicans are funding the program with money repurposed from from disaster relief funds, the program will run out of money in two months and leave nothing for disaster relief during hurricane season.
On the other hand, if Trump steals the White House again, and eliminates the “payroll taxes” permanently, Republicans will have an excuse to cut Social Security and Medicare, as they have wanted to do for years.
In short, this is nothing but a dog and pony show, intended to make Trump* look good before the election, but providing virtually no relief.
I’ll leave you with wise words from Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi calls Trump’s executive actions ‘absurdly unconstitutional’
It’s a hot, busy day here in the CatBox. I’m waiting for Diana, my palliative care nurse, to come change my patch, hopefully at about 9:30 AM. I’m already running late, because I overslept. Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but it will not affect my publishing as she won’t be back from Eastern Oregon until mid-afternoon tomorrow. I texted WWKristen, who is with her and promised they will both stay safe and naughty. Oh God, it’s Monday! Update: Diana came and changed my patch.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:12 (average 4:49). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 5,201,873
US Deaths: 165,626
Short Takes:
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Georgia teen says school used students as guinea pigs
The school administrators were goose-stepping behind their beloved Nazi leader, criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Now that her suspension has been lifted, nine students have already tested positive for Trump* virus, and this GOP crime has been exposed, threats of physical violence are SOP for the Republican Reich! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Biden Leads In 2020 Battleground Map
May God protect the truth of his projection from the Republican Reich collusion with Trump’s* boss, Putin [R-RU]. Help God with your vote! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): “Nasty Man” by Joan Baez
Joan is seven years older than I am. I’m so glad she’s still with is. Kudos to left-wing protestors! RESIST!!
