12 hours ago, juppiter said:

 

What is a "token"?

 

In this case, minorities who are used by Republicans as distractions and weapons. Trump himself said it best in 2016  - "look at my African-American over there."

 

(that man has since left the party)

Edited July 27, 20205 yr by DRW50

3 hours ago, DRW50 said:

 

In this case, minorities who are used by Republicans as distractions and weapons. Trump himself said it best in 2016  - "look at my African-American over there."

 

(that man has since left the party)

 

In other words, a means to an end.

The press is more likely to spend the day telling you about godawful Chris Dodd running his mouth about his dislike of Kamala Harris and bringing negative attention to Biden's campaign, but if you are not interested in a repeat of the Hillary campaign type of melodrama and backbiting, here is a real scandal - media darling Tom Cotton, perpetually hyped as a 2024 sure thing, endorsing slavery.

 

 

Wow. Good to know former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is not a COMPLETE flake:

 

 

@Wendy Good for her (not being sarcastic). I guess those grifters like Dave Rubin (she roasted him on his show but that never stops him) will finally give up the ghost. 

So Drumpf wants to include in the stimulus package $1.75 billion for construction of a new F.B.I. headquarters to be located directly across from his luxury hotel in Washington D.C.??! 

That no-good grifting jackass.

Of course, this past weekend he was hitting the links with Brett Favre at his luxury golf club in NJ. Meanwhile, Melania announced her plan to give the Rose Garden a makeover.

1 hour ago, amybrickwallace said:

Of course, this past weekend he was hitting the links with Brett Favre at his luxury golf club in NJ. Meanwhile, Melania announced her plan to give the Rose Garden a makeover.

Hehe. He best be careful. He might lose his head.

 

 

  

Just like anything done by this wretched W.H. administration, the disbursement of the stimulus funds is and continues to be, an unmitigated disaster.

 

The IRS says nearly $1.4 billion in stimulus payments went to people who are dead, and the IRS is now asking for those payments to be returned.

As @annawerner reports, some people cannot get the money they are actually entitled to. pic.twitter.com/IlPi6GJ9wA

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) July 29, 2020

Well, I'm already paranoid about my mail delivery so I the turnaround time on my responses tend to be asap, i.e. the day after I receive something, it usually goes back in the mail with a reply the next morning. Two days later, if it requires more time to fill out.

 

 

🛑IMPORTANT WARNING:🛑

My mailman just confirmed they have all officially been told to "SLOW THE MAIL DOWN," per trump's Postmaster General.

So, for mail-in ballots:
SEND THEM 21 DAYS EARLY.
Mail on Oct. 13th.
Do not wait.

RETWEET TO SPREAD THIS FAR & WIDE.

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 29, 2020

Cross-posted:

 

 

Cain went maskless at Trump's last public rally, and had claimed COVID-19 was a hoax. Nonetheless, I always enjoyed his outsized character back in the halcyon days of 2012. RIP.

Condolences to his loved ones. Otherwise, no comment.🤐

 

While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society. Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.

 

That is why I had to visit Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, though I was admitted to the hospital the following day. I just had to see and feel it for myself that, after many years of silent witness, the truth is still marching on.

 

Emmett Till was my George Floyd. He was my Rayshard Brooks, Sandra Bland and Breonna Taylor. He was 14 when he was killed, and I was only 15 years old at the time. I will never ever forget the moment when it became so clear that he could easily have been me. In those days, fear constrained us like an imaginary prison, and troubling thoughts of potential brutality committed for no understandable reason were the bars.

 

Though I was surrounded by two loving parents, plenty of brothers, sisters and cousins, their love could not protect me from the unholy oppression waiting just outside that family circle. Unchecked, unrestrained violence and government-sanctioned terror had the power to turn a simple stroll to the store for some Skittles or an innocent morning jog down a lonesome country road into a nightmare. If we are to survive as one unified nation, we must discover what so readily takes root in our hearts that could rob Mother Emanuel Church in South Carolina of her brightest and best, shoot unwitting concertgoers in Las Vegas and choke to death the hopes and dreams of a gifted violinist like Elijah McClain.

 

Like so many young people today, I was searching for a way out, or some might say a way in, and then I heard the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on an old radio. He was talking about the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence. He said we are all complicit when we tolerate injustice. He said it is not enough to say it will get better by and by. He said each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out. When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.

 

Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.

 

You must also study and learn the lessons of history because humanity has been involved in this soul-wrenching, existential struggle for a very long time. People on every continent have stood in your shoes, through decades and centuries before you. The truth does not change, and that is why the answers worked out long ago can help you find solutions to the challenges of our time. Continue to build union between movements stretching across the globe because we must put away our willingness to profit from the exploitation of others.

 

Though I may not be here with you, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe. In my life I have done all I can to demonstrate that the way of peace, the way of love and nonviolence is the more excellent way. Now it is your turn to let freedom ring.

When historians pick up their pens to write the story of the 21st century, let them say that it was your generation who laid down the heavy burdens of hate at last and that peace finally triumphed over violence, aggression and war. So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide.

Edited July 30, 20205 yr by Vee

Now he (Trump) wants to postpone the election..... 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53597975