{"id":41419,"date":"2020-10-09T03:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T10:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41419"},"modified":"2020-10-09T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:22:17","slug":"squatchs-open-thread-09-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/09\/squatchs-open-thread-09-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch’s Open Thread 09 October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been quite awhile since I did an Open Thread but there is just so much going on that I could not keep quiet.\u00a0 I am not American and I get frustrated with all the BS I see coming out of the White House and Senate.\u00a0 I certainly can appreciate that Americans will be a hundred times more frustrated than me.\u00a0 The late John Turner, the 17th Prime Minister of Canada and a Liberal, who died two weeks ago at age 91 said \u201cDemocracy does not happen by accident.\u00a0 Become involved!\u00a0 Get out there!\u00a0 Give something back!\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0 That is the only way Trump and Republicans will be defeated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Vote like your life depends on it, because it does!<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

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From Common Dreams<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just send my royalties to the Biden Harris Campaign!!!\u00a0 I am ready for my closeup now, Mr DeMille!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Guardian<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that relatives of fallen soldiers could have given him coronavirus after they visited the White House ,..<\/p>\r\n

In a phone interview with the Fox Business TV channel on Thursday morning, Trump complained about coming into close contact with the veterans\u2019 families in a gathering one day after an event at the White House where Trump nominated a new supreme court judge. Many senior figures in attendance later tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\r\n

Of the Gold Star families event at the White House on Sunday 27 September, Trump told Fox he \u201cwent through, like 35 people\u201d whose family members had died, \u201cand everyone had a different story\u201d, adding: \u201cI can\u2019t back up and say: \u2018Give me room. I want room. Give me 12 feet. Stay 12 feet away when you talk,\u2019\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Of course it was the Gold Star families that gave Trump the corona virus.\u00a0 Give me a break!\u00a0 <\/strong>After the better part of a year downplaying the virus and not wearing a mask, even at packed rallies, the idiot Trump (I know, that is an insult to real idiots) has the temerity to try to blame Gold Star families who likely had to be tested before entering the WH.\u00a0 The super spreader event the day before to introduce Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his SCOTUS nominee to replace the deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, after which multiple people have since tested positive, were not at the reception for the Gold Star families.\u00a0 This is classic Trump modus operandi, blame someone else and do not accept responsibility for anything!\u00a0 There is additional information at Slate<\/a> <\/strong>about the two events.\u00a0 I wonder why the Gold Star families were not wearing masks and if any of them have developed COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

CNN<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — President Donald Trump has been celebrating the dose of experimental monoclonal antibodies he was given last Friday, saying he thinks it helped him vanquish his coronavirus infection in record time.<\/p>\r\n

“It was incredible the impact it had,” he said in a video he tweeted Thursday.<\/p>\r\n

What he didn’t say is that the treatment was developed using technology his administration has worked for four years to ban.<\/p>\r\n

It has to do with abortion politics, and the science of using human tissue to test and to make medicines. Regeneron’s therapy indirectly relied on tissue taken from an abortion.<\/p>\r\n

Trump’s base, of course, is strongly against abortion rights and his administration acted quickly to reverse many Obama era policies — including policies that moved forward scientific research involving human fetal tissue. …<\/p>\r\n

People against abortion rights oppose both uses, as does the Trump administration. The US Department of Health and Human Services\u00a0has stopped\u00a0the National Institutes of Health from obtaining any more fetal tissue for research and has set up a board that has virtually stopped it from funding any academic groups that use it.<\/p>\r\n

How do you spell HYPOCRISY?\u00a0\u00a0T-R-U-M-P and R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S!\u00a0 <\/strong>The only good Republican is an unemployed Republican!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Common Dreams<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>— Law enforcement officials\u00a0announced\u00a0Thursday they had charged 13 suspects with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and terrorism crimes, after an investigation revealed the right-wing plotters had planned to overthrow the state government of Michigan and take Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hostage.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel\u00a0announced\u00a0Thursday afternoon that while six men\u2014all of whom were arrested by agents on Wednesday night\u2014were being charged in federal court related to the kidnapping plot, another seven men, all linked to a group called Wolverine Watchmen and allegedly planning an attack on the Michigan State Capitol, are being charged in state court.<\/p>\r\n

According\u00a0to\u00a0an affidavit filed as part of a federal criminal complaint on Thursday, hours after FBI agents raided one of the suspects’ homes in Hartland Township, Michigan, the men began plotting a coup earlier this year and had been making preparations for a violent takeover since the summer.\u00a0 …<\/p>\r\n

“This is a pattern: Trump paints a target. An attack or plot follows,” tweeted\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0national security correspondent Greg Miller\u2014one of several observers who connected the president’s rhetoric to the violent plot.\u00a0 <\/strong>[emphasis added]<\/p>\r\n

Do you remember this picture?\u00a0 Right-wing protestors tried to storm the Michigan Capitol in April 2020 with the intent to gain access to the Assembly floor after Trump tweeted “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” ON 17\/04\/2020.\u00a0 They were confined to the rotunda but that was not the end of the story.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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As we see today, the FBI have made arrests — 6 who face federal charges and 7 who face state charges.\u00a0 This is not a spur of the moment action, but an organised action, well planned and about to be unleashed by these domestic terrorists.\u00a0 In some ways, there is little difference between the actions of Sarah Palin when Gabby Giffords and 17 others were shot or killed by Jared Loughner in Tucson, Arizona in 2011.\u00a0 Palin put a bullseye on Gifford and Loughner reacted.\u00a0 This time it was Trump who put a bullseye on Gov Gretchen Witmer and stoked the flames with his rhetoric.\u00a0 Words have power!\u00a0 Is this what “the American experiment” now means?\u00a0 Trump golfs while the nation burns because of his demagoguery, stupidity, narcissism and lust for power!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As\u00a0 follow-up to these arrests and Witmer’s comments about Trump’s rhetoric (CNN<\/strong><\/a>), the “<\/span>Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller lambasted the governor, who had tied Trump’s rhetoric to the plot in earlier televised remarks,”\u00a0 \u00a0Later, in an interview with CNN, Witmer said:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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“”I think that tells you everything that’s at stake in this election,” she said. “It tells you everything you need to know about the character of the two people on this ballot that we have to choose from in a few weeks.”” <\/strong>[emphasis added]<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

For his part, Trump responded with a series of tweets:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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“Governor Whitmer of Michigan has done a terrible job. She locked down her state for everyone, except her husband’s boating activities,” he wrote, urging her in another tweet to “open up your state, open up your schools, and open up your churches!”<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Nancy Pelosi. as noted in The Guardian<\/a><\/strong>, is setting up a commission in Congress to determine whether Trump can be removed from office under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.\u00a0 While the House can do this, it would be up to the Vice President and members of the cabinet to carry it out.\u00a0 That will never happen.\u00a0 Pence has his nose so far up Trump’s ass, I am surprised he can even breathe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Good luck America!\u00a0 You’re going to need it until the Squatter in the White House is gone!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n

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Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n

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