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You think they give a damn? So long as their nests are feathered, they will be content to let Trump destroy the nationand/or impose fascist rule. The Repubilcan party has devolved into pure self-interest with zero regard for the rule of law or the benefit of its citizens and a mob ready to use violence is enabling them.

Just as Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Poland etc should have been more understanding about the misunderstood Hitler. What is happening in the US is unconscionable to anyone who claims to have a conscience. There is a hair's difference between many Republicans and Democrats and polls show that some 38 million Americans are willing to take up arms to defend Trump and his actions no matter what, and if that is not insanity, I do not know what is.

This is damning to Trump and his administration. He was advised that the Russians were not only sanctioning the killing of coalition/US troops but actually paying a bounty for each kill and yet he did nothing. The lack of any defensive response from the US to counter this is an absolute description of treason. Trump ought to be charged with treason and I hope that the US armed forces will see that he is casually willing to allow the killing of US troops rather than stand up for them. It is even more damning that retired US generals and even Flynn have said nothing. It sends a message that these troops are disposable if it strokes the ego of Trump.

Trump Ramps Up Misuse Of The Military For Political Gain "The idea of fighting American citizens on American soil is not what the military does and not what the American people expect the military to do," one critic said. . Starting with the chaotic assault on White House protesters, President Donald Trump and his military deputies have spent the past several weeks threatening an outsized military response against anti-fascists, protesters and other groups he perceives as his enemies. And on Thursday, the administration turned those military efforts back to a favorite bogeyman: undocumented immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Pentagon announced it would re-up its military presence by deploying 4,000 troops to the border, mostly drawn from the National Guard, in October. Unauthorized immigration is down substantially this year. But there is an election coming. “It’s misusing the military and doing so for political reasons,” said David Lapan, Trump’s former Department of Homeland Security press secretary and a former Defense Department official. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/trump-military-political-gain_n_5ef67201c5b612083c4d91c0?ri18n=true

‘Owned by Putin’: Trump accused of ‘literal treason’ after bombshell NYT report on Russian assassination unit President Donald Trump was harshly criticized on Friday after a bombshell New York Times report on Russia offering bounties for the killing of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there,” the newspaper reported,” the newspaper reported. “The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said,” the newspaper explained. “Any involvement with the Taliban that resulted in the deaths of American troops would also be a huge escalation of Russia’s so-called hybrid war against the United States, a strategy of destabilizing adversaries through a combination of such tactics as cyberattacks, the spread of fake news and covert and deniable military operations.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/owned-by-putin-trump-accused-of-literal-treason-after-bombshell-nyt-report-on-russian-assassination-unit/

There has to be a spot reserved for Pence in the ninth circle of Hell along with all others who betray their faith and duty to their fellows for personal gain. He is a prime example of hypocrisy.

Everything costs something, and the American, British and Swedish examples show clearly that it is sort of a "pay me now or pay me a lot later" scenario. We have had to scrap our travel plans for this summer and fall- probably winter, too, but it is a sacrifice we have chosen to make.

It isn't. Wherever people are living in close proximity with little access to soap and water, frequent transmission vectors and poor health care, it will happen. We are seeing explosions of cases in India, central America and the prison population in the US. The harsh measures taken by China and Viet Nam have prevented the rapid transmission into southeat Asia, but that seems alsmost inevitable.

McKay doesn't have much credibility left although he will likely win the leadership. He was elected leader of the Conservatives on the promise that he would not join with the Reform party, and as soon as he could, he did exactly that. Conservatives appear to have short and convenient memories.

And caromed the ball right into his nethers.

Fired Miami Cop Charged After Video Shows Him Kneeling on Black Woman’s Neck Reuters / Leah Millis A former Miami police officer has been charged with battery and misconduct after a viral video showed him pressing his knee on a Black woman’s neck as she screamed. The Miami Herald reports that a video shot by a bystander shows the officer—named as Jordy Yanes Martel—reach into the Black woman’s SUV, drag her out, press his knee onto her neck, and tase her stomach. The woman has been identified as 33-year-old Safiya Satchell. She was arrested on charges of battery on a cop and resisting with violence—but those charges have since been dismissed. Martel and another officer, Jaiver Castano, were fired last week, although Miami Gardens Police Department hasn’t confirmed why they were let go. Martel has now been charged with battery, and was also charged with official misconduct for filing two reports containing false details about the January incident.

Trump Moves to Kill Obamacare on Same Day U.S. Hits New COVID-19 Infection Record Reuters / Carlos Barria The United States suffered a daily record for new coronavirus cases Thursday, with 40,401 positive tests confirmed, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. On the same day, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act, which hundreds of thousands of Americans have turned to for health-care coverage and protection for pre-existing conditions during the pandemic. In a late-night filing, government lawyers argued that “the entire ACA must fall” because one of its core provisions, the individual mandate, is unconstitutional, which they say makes the rest of the law invalid. Democrats reacted angrily to the move, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying: “President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty.” Oral arguments are scheduled for next term, but it’s not clear if that’ll happen before the election. A decision in the case might not come until 2021.

Trump has made mistakes?!?!?!? Shocking!

Although the consumers of such have not......

Trump loses it after learning NYC will paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ outside Trump Tower President Donald Trump was informed Thursday that New York City will also paint a Black Lives Matter mural similar to what Washington, D.C. did. In Washington, Mayor Muriel Bowser responded to Trump’s opposition to BLM by having DC Transit paint the words down 16th Street leading to the White House. Mayor Bill de Blasio will order a similar mural, but outside of Trump Tower. “Told that @NYCMayor Bill de Blasio wants to paint the fabled & beautiful Fifth Avenue, right in front of Trump Tower/Tiffany, with a big yellow Black Lives Matter sign,” Trump tweeted, forgetting that it’s called Tiffany’s. Trump then went off on a rant comparing the phrase “Black Lives Matter” to attacks on police officers. “‘Pigs in a Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon’, referring to killing Police, is their chant. NYC Police are furious!” tweeted Trump. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/trump-loses-it-after-learning-nyc-will-paint-black-lives-matter-outside-trump-tower/ (Trump is close to a psychotic break)

Bill Barr tried to undermine the Stormy Daniels case that brought down Michael Cohen in SDNY: report Attorney General Bill Barr directed Justice Department officials to draft legal memos undermining the campaign finance hush money case that brought down Michael Cohen and implicated President Donald Trump, according to a report Thursday in the New York Times. That effort failed, the report said, because prosecutors resisted. And since the case was finished — and Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 — there wasn’t a whole lot Barr could do to affect the case. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/bill-barr-tried-to-undermine-the-stormy-daniels-case-that-brought-down-michael-cohen-in-sdny-report/

A definitive statement on the NASCAR incident: NASCAR Releases Photo of Bubba Wallace Garage Pull, Defends ‘Hate Crime’ Accusation via NASCAR NASCAR released an image of the garage pull found in African-American driver Bubba Wallace’s Talladega garage after investigators determined that there was no hate crime involved. The rope, which was tied as a noose, had been there since at least October 2019, before Wallace took the garage, the FBI concluded. Wallace, appearing on CNN Tuesday evening, said he had never seen a garage pull tied in that manner. Several people on social media have accused Wallace of faking the incident but Wallace said he did not see the noose or file the report.

Its good that someone fears illiteracy.

Trump puts more distance between himself and reality.

And the Trump admisitration has started to halt funding for Covid testing. Nothing short of insane and sociopathic.

Three North Carolina Cops Fired After Being Caught on Tape Talking About ‘Slaughtering’ Black People Reuters / Carl Recine Three police officers from Wilmington, North Carolina, have been fired after they were caught on tape using racist slurs and discussing plans to “slaughter” Black people in another civil war. The Washington Post reports that the cops—Officer Michael Piner, Cpl. Jesse Moore, and Officer James Gilmore—were accidentally recorded talking in their patrol cars, with audio revealing Piner predicting that Black Lives Matter protests would lead to civil war. “I’m ready,” Piner said, adding that he’d buy an assault rifle. “We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them ******* [n-----s,]” he said. For his part, Moore can be heard describing a local Black female court official as a “******* N*gro magistrate” along with a gay slur. When confronted with the recording, Moore and Gilmore somehow insisted they were “not racist,” with Moore saying he was just “feeding off Officer Piner.” Announcing the firing of the officers, Wilmington Police Chief Donny Williams, who is Black, called the recordings “brutally offensive.”

The inmates are truly running the asylum.

There were Jews in Hitler's Germany that sided with him, French who worked with the SS in France and British (mostly the nobility) who welcomed any German invasion. There will always be those who seek to profit from selling out their kind.

Lindsey Graham breaks with Trump over Obama attack: "I don’t know what he’s talking about" Graham rejects Trump’s claim Obama is guilty of treason. In a recent interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network, President Donald Trump was asked specifically what crime President Barack Obama committed as part of the vague conspiracy narrative the president calls "Obamagate." Trump responded, "treason." But on Tuesday, Politico reported that the president's staunchest Republican allies in the Senate aren't willing to back him up on this — including Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC). "I don't know what he's talking about," said Graham. "I don't have any evidence to believe he committed treason." https://www.salon.com/2020/06/24/lyndsey-graham-breaks-with-trump-over-obama-attack-i-dont-know-what-hes-talking-about_partner/