US Election 2020 - Pt 2

[yebocan]

Supreme Court strikes down restrictive Louisiana abortion law that would have closed clinics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-louisiana-abortion-law-john-roberts/2020/06/29/6f42067e-ba00-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html

 

[greg0205]

Chief Justice Roberts with the liberal justices.

Again.

So long Louisiana abortion law.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1323_c07d.pdf

EDIT: yebocan with the photo finish.

 

[yebocan]

Chief Justice Roberts with the liberal justices.

Again.

So long Louisiana abortion law.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1323_c07d.pdf

EDIT: yebocan with the photo finish.

awaiting the usual tweet barrage...lets see how long till the idea gets floated : time to expand the nine

 

[greg0205]

I think that this couple are heroes.

lumeer, Jared's just started this thread... looks like it's not done yet... but read it when you get a moment.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1277609370017239041

 

[greg0205]

awaiting the usual tweet barrage...lets see how long till the idea gets gets floated : time to expand the nine

Man, if I could smash Like more than once for this I would.

 

[lumeer]

That couple are a pure distillation of 40 years of Republican orthodoxy, backed up by twenty five years of Fox News' fear and grievance mongering.

It's a gated community, the folk marching - on the public sidewalk - are their *neighbours* in that community.

Their response to a group of BLM folk peacefully walking by their house is to grab a machine gun to threaten and intimidate them.

Their privilege allows them to brandish firearms at folk who are, in no way whatsoever, threatening them - seemingly without consequence.

Fear and grievance.

"Heroes"? Not even a bit.

It's not about Trump vs Biden anymore. It's about folks who sympathise with violent protesters who loot, vandalise, and destroy property, vs the rest. That is why the silent majority will elect Trump for another four years.

 

[SoldierMan]

Jim Carrey Paints A Morbid Picture Of Donald Trump’s MAGA Rallies
The president’s “Reckless Endangerment Tour” of pandemic campaign rallies is featured in the “Kidding” actor’s new cartoon.

Jim Carrey Paints A Morbid Picture Of Trump’s MAGA Rallies

The president's "Reckless Endangerment Tour" of pandemic campaign rallies is featured in the "Kidding" actor's new cartoon.

www.huffpost.com

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President Donald Trump delivers a rally speech to headstones in a graveyard in actor Jim Carrey’s new artwork.
The “Kidding” star joined the chorus of criticism being hurled at the president for pressing ahead with 2020 campaign events amid the coronavirus pandemic in his latest anti-Trump piece shared online Thursday.
Carrey called it the “Reckless Endangerment Tour.”


Trump, ignoring admonitions from public health experts, spoke at indoor rallies in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, and in Phoenix on Tuesday.
Multiple states this week saw record surges in confirmed cases of COVID-19 and some, including Texas and Florida, have paused plans to further loosen lockdown restrictions.

But we won't say a word, or even a peep, about all the BLM rallies where many many more people were exposed to each other. Let's just put that one out of the memory bank hey....

 

[greg0205]

It's not about Trump vs Biden anymore. It's about folks who sympathise with violent protesters who loot, vandalise, and destroy property, vs the rest. That is why the silent majority will elect Trump for another four years.

The most violent thing about that march was that couple themselves.

Start reading that twitter thread I posted for you... He's still posting. Started with the founders and he's just got to Newt and the NRA.

Jared is brilliant at this.

Read.

 

[buka001]

Supreme Court strikes down restrictive Louisiana abortion law that would have closed clinics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-louisiana-abortion-law-john-roberts/2020/06/29/6f42067e-ba00-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html

They just shut the back door that lobbyists wanted to use to overturn Roe v Wade. Good.

 

[SoldierMan]

lmao, CNN trying so hard to make Texas and Florida COVID case spike seem worse than California.
They shet on Texas and Florida, and then conveniently talk about how Californian cities are encouraging people to wear masks and so on.
That's some Grade A misleading journalism right there.

You must actually watch CNN on TV sometime, it's quite sickly actually watching how bias they are. It's like North Korean or Chinese state media. Truly amazing.

 

[SoldierMan]

They just shut the back door that lobbyists wanted to use to overturn Roe v Wade. Good.

Woohoo let's kill more babies. Awesome

 

[lumeer]

lumeer, Jared's just started this thread... looks like it's not done yet... but read it when you get a moment.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1277609370017239041

I refer you to the 9GAG post of the same video, where most comments are in support of the couple.

The couple were quite reasonable in their response considering everything that's been happening in America over the last few weeks. And some of the protesters in front of their house were white, while some happened to be black, but let's just call them racist for defending their property.

 

[SoldierMan]

Running For Reelection, Trump Talks Like He’s Running For President Of The Confederacy
Why pander to the “heritage” of a rebellion started solely to defend the right to own Black people as slaves? Critics say it’s simple: He’s a racist.

Running For Reelection, Trump Talks Like He’s Running For President Of The Confederacy

Why pander to the "heritage" of a rebellion started solely to defend the right to own Black people as slaves? Critics say it’s simple: He’s a racist.

www.huffpost.com

Donald Trump is running for a second term as president of the United States, but in recent weeks he’s spoken and written as if he wants to be the next president of the Confederacy.
Amid a national uproar over the recent killing of a Black man by a white Minneapolis police officer and an erosion in his own polling numbers, Trump has made the cornerstone of his response a vow to protect monuments and memorials to the leaders of the treasonous rebellion that cost 750,000 lives for the sole purpose of keeping Blacks enslaved.

In speeches, Trump has vowed to protect “our heritage” as protesters around the country call for the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders. He has even threatened to veto a major defense bill that includes a provision requiring renaming military bases that now honor Confederate commanders.

“These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage,” Trump wrote in a June 10 statement he posted to Twitter.

Trump has even ordered Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to restore a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike that had been torn down by protesters in Washington, D.C., according to NBC News.
“He obviously thinks it plays with his base,” said David Axelrod, the Democratic consultant who led the campaign of the first African American president, Barack Obama, in 2008.

In 2017, after neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a counterprotester was killed when one of them drove his car into a crowd, Trump defended them for wanting to protect a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and said that there had been “very fine people on both sides” of the violent rally. In 2019, Trump called Lee a “great general.”

White House officials would not respond to HuffPost queries about Trump’s interest in the Confederacy’s heritage.

And you call this journalism It's called scraping the bottom of the barrel

 

[TysonRoux]

There's so much these two dick-tators have in common.

State capture: Popo Molefe likens Jacob Zuma to Donald Trump

State capture: Popo Molefe likens Jacob Zuma to Donald Trump

Former Prasa board chair Popo Molefe has likened the tenure of former president Jacob Zuma at the Union Buildings to that of Donald Trump now at the White House

www.sowetanlive.co.za

Former Prasa board chairperson Popo Molefe has likened the tenure of former president Jacob Zuma at the Union Buildings to that of Donald Trump now at the White House.

Molefe was continuing his testimony before the commission of inquiry into state capture on Monday after a three-month break due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

According to Molefe, the manner in which Trump was allegedly flouting the US constitution and doing as he pleased with the support of the Republican party, was identical to how Zuma allowed corruption to set in with the full backing of the governing ANC. Molefe went as far as saying that, “at some point I was the only one dealing with the issue of corruption”.

The other ANC deployees, be it in government or parliament, were prepared to do anything it took to defend Zuma in his wrongdoings, he claimed.

Such was the extent of abuse of power by Zuma, with impunity, because ANC members abandoned their principles to protect their bread, said Molefe.

So bad was the situation that Zuma was willing to remove all those who were standing in his way. Molefe said that he was one such person, with Zuma dissolving the Prasa board.

“The attitude was that ‘we are going to show them that power resides here [Union Buildings] and not with them [Prasa board]'. Something similar to what is happening now in the US, where the president of the country is perceived to be doing things that are flouting the constitution,” he said.

“He [Trump] does not respect the rule of law, but because he is a powerful man with big money, people just support what he is doing and on the impeachment process, his colleagues, even though they knew he was wrong stood behind him.

 

[greg0205]

I refer you to the 9GAG post of the same video, where most comments are in support of the couple.

The couple were quite reasonable in their response considering everything that's been happening in America over the last few weeks. And some of the protesters in front of their house were white, while some happened to be black, but let's just call them racist for defending their property.

So, I write "a group of BLM folk peacefully walking by their house" and you read "racist"?

Jared's thread is done now. 32/32. Read the damn thread.

 

[greg0205]

It's been three days now and I can't help noticing that some posters here are avoiding bounties on American troops like lava.

 

[greg0205]

Something, something, drain the swamp, something...

Gilead’s coronavirus treatment remdesivir to cost $3,120 per U.S. patient with private insurance

Gilead Sciences announced Monday the much-anticipated pricing for its coronavirus treatment remdesivir, saying it will cost hospitals $3,120 for a typical U.S. patient with commercial insurance.

The company announced its pricing plans in preparation for it to begin charging for the antiviral drug in July. The company has been donating doses to the U.S. government for distribution since it received emergency use authorization in May.

The drugmaker said it will sell remdesivir for $390 per vial to governments “of developed countries” around the world, and the price for U.S. private insurance companies will stand at $520 per vial. In the U.S., that means Gilead will charge a lower price for government programs like Medicare and a higher price for private insurers.

“Whether you’re covered by a private insurer, whether you’re covered by a government insurer, whether you’re uninsured with Covid-19, there will not be an issue for access with remdesivir,” Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day said in an interview with CNBC’s Meg Tirrell on “Squawk Box.”

Uninsured individuals will be covered under provisions of the CARES Act, a senior official in the Department of Health and Human Services said on a conference call with reporters Monday. For privately insured people, out-of-pocket costs will be determined by individual insurance plans, the official added.

Every drug in the U.S. has two list prices due to the country’s health care system, O’Day told CNBC, adding that he stands by the pricing structure and that it will ensure access for those who need it. Its government price of $390 per vial was determined based on developed countries with the lowest purchasing power, O’Day said, in order to avoid negotiations with each country that could slow down access to the drug.

The company said it has entered into agreements with generic manufacturers to provide the drug at a “substantially lower cost” in developing countries.

Shares of Gilead rose more than 2% in early trading Monday.

Reminder: Taxpayers paid $70 million on Remdesivir R&D.

 

[greg0205]

Exclusive: NRA has shed 200 staffers this year as group faces financial crisis
Gun rights organization may struggle to support Trump in 2020 election amid layoffs and furloughs

Exclusive: NRA has shed 200 staffers this year as group faces financial crisis

Gun rights organization may struggle to support Trump in 2020 election amid layoffs and furloughs

www.theguardian.com

After spending over $30m to help elect Donald Trump in 2016, the National Rifle Association faces a deepening financial crisis with over 200 staff layoffs and furloughs in 2020, according to three NRA sources, gun analysts and documents.

The situation is likely to hinder efforts by the gun rights group to help Trump and other Republicans win in November’s election.

The 200-plus layoffs and furloughs, which have not previously been reported and were mainly at NRA headquarters in Virginia, were spurred by declines in revenues and fundraising, heavy legal spending, political infighting, and charges of insider self-dealing under scrutiny by attorneys general in New York and Washington DC, the sources say.

“The widespread Covid layoffs and furloughs have further harmed both the NRA’s legal capacity and political influence beyond what was already a troubling deterioration,” said one NRA official who requested anonymity to discuss internal matters. The official added the outlook this year for NRA political spending was “deeply concerning.”

NRA staff learned about the furloughs, plus 20% staff pay cuts, four-day work weeks and other belt tightening, in an April email from Wayne LaPierre, the longtime top executive of the NRA, which claims it has 5 million members.

Shorter Guardian: Organisation laundering Russian mob money through political campaigns runs into financial trouble.

 

[SoldierMan]

lumeer, Jared's just started this thread... looks like it's not done yet... but read it when you get a moment.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1277609370017239041

You do realise that people have been killed, like that man who was defending a store, and many buildings have been BURNED DOWN by these protesters.....

But you keep on the with bullcrap narrative that the BLM protesters are a peaceful bunch. If my house had the chance of being burned down I would defend it too.

 

[lumeer]

So, I write "a group of BLM folk peacefully walking by their house" and you read "racist"?

Jared's thread is done now. 32/32. Read the damn thread.

I was not referring to you with my comment, but to Jared Sexton, who called the couple racist. BLM is not exactly peaceful either, else how do you explain all the vandalism, arson and looting from the past weeks?