All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Top White House Officials Buried CDC Report On Reopening Country

Emails reviewed by the Associated Press show CDC Director Robert Redfield approved the report, only to have it squashed by top White House officials.

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Trump Said He Could Kill Someone On 5th Ave. But How About 50,000 Across America?

Trump’s failure to take early aggressive action, experts believe, has already caused tens of thousands of Americans to die from the coronavirus.

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Trump Met With GOP Lawmakers For An Hour. Nobody Wore A Mask Or Stayed Apart.

Are these guys begging to get the coronavirus? Short answer----YES!

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Governors Cut Off New Unemployment Benefits Before Some People Even Got Checks

There’s a plague outside, but some states think it’s urgently necessary for people to go to work. Yeah, RED states.

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Trump Declares COVID-19 Will Vanish ‘Without A Vaccine,’ Contradicting Experts

The president claims that’s what doctors say. They don’t.

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Nebraska Governor Defends Decision To Hide COVID-19 Stats At Specific Meatpacking Plants

Rachel Maddow slammed Gov. Pete Ricketts for failing to reveal what’s going on at plants where COVID-19 cases are exploding. By the by, he's a Republican. Big surprise, right?

[Tami]

I'm saying it again. As far as I am concerned, this whole Tara Reade story is nonsense. The only way I might take it seriously is if she testifies, under oath, in front of Congress like Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill did.

[PaulBullion]

I'm saying it again. As far as I am concerned, this whole Tara Reade story is nonsense. The only way I might take it seriously is if she testifies, under oath, in front of Congress like Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill did.

It would fall apart so quickly.
Apparently, she said she was fired in April after she complained about the supposed assault. Which places the assault in March or April.
She also said at some points she had not been wearing nylons because it was a very hot day.

There were still heavy snowstorms in DC in March that year.

[Mecegirl]

I'm saying it again. As far as I am concerned, this whole Tara Reade story is nonsense. The only way I might take it seriously is if she testifies, under oath, in front of Congress like Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill did.

Even with that. At this point people's opinions of her are baked in. She is either lying about what happend to her, or stupid. She keeps adding or changing details. It would be one thing if it had happend once in a "I was too scared to come out with the whole truth" way. But it keeps happening. And it also happend with some of her earlier corroborators.

Honestly if, for instance, she didn't tell her brother the whole story. And so her brother's earlier recollection of what she told him doesn't match her full story. Fine. It is depressingly normal for victims to not open up fully to friends and familly. But to have him amend his statement after the fact just makes him look coached.

Her weird back in forth with the New York times and Vox. Like girl...you had these fairly credible sources take your story and present it to the world. And then those journos had to call you back to ask why your changed? Are you really gonna get into it with the AP just because you changed your story about if you filed a complaint or not? Maybe keep track of the stories you tell before just changing things?

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I'm saying it again. As far as I am concerned, this whole Tara Reade story is nonsense. The only way I might take it seriously is if she testifies, under oath, in front of Congress like Christine Blasey Ford and Anita Hill did.

I suspect her lawyers won’t let her do that because they know her story would be ripped to shreds, what’s more, I’m sure SHE knows that too. If Reade were smart, she’d retract her accusation against Biden and simply go away.

[jetengine]

I said it from the start. It was all bollocks.

Shes one of three things.

1. A Republican plant.
2. A Russian plant
3. An idiot who thinks this will get Bernie elected....somehow

[GindyPosts]

I said it from the start. It was all bollocks.

Shes one of three things.

1. A Republican plant.
2. A Russian plant
3. An idiot who thinks this will get Bernie elected....somehow

Remember, Republicans managed to get a lot of **** stalled due to an incident where four Americans were killed despite their own gross incompetence (particularly right now), so do not discount their ability to take advantage of a scenario to try and get Biden impeached for any reason whatsoever if he gets elected. I'm saying that we should likely have to remember this story in case Biden becomes our next president as they will use this nonsense as their next stall tactic to make sure nothing ever gets done.

And, that's the thing; there's a lot Biden has done in his political career to dissect and complain about, from working with the racist Southern Democrats to his opposition for Medicaid for All. But if those aren't the things Republicans won't go after, it illustrates the level of character assassination they choose to aim for.

[Tami]

Armed North Carolina 'Vigilante Group' Including Police Deputy Threaten Black High School Senior in Case of Mistaken Identity

Cop Fired, Charged in 'Lynch Mob' Incident After White Neighbors Rally to Protect Black North Carolina Family

Attorney for the family Jim Lea III told Newsweek in a Friday interview that the situation was the "quintessential Southern story" and that the group that attempted to gain entrance into the Shephard home was a "lynch mob, literally."

"They might as well have shown up with a noose in a tree," Lea said.

[Tuck]

And Ball has her own history of sex scandals to consider.

Ball is a hardcore Bernie supporter, and I do take any opinions she has with a grain of salt . . .

But

Considering this any kind of moral failing (ie calling it a scandal) is straight up sexist. And the fact that other people on this board who have come in in this sub-thread have only had it in mind to push back against the Bernie supporters instead of recognizing the rank sexist hypocrisy of this is kind of gross.

[InformationGeek]

Ball is a hardcore Bernie supporter, and I do take any opinions she has with a grain of salt . . .

But

Considering this any kind of moral failing (ie calling it a scandal) is straight up sexist. And the fact that other people on this board who have come in in this sub-thread have only had it in mind to push back against the Bernie supporters instead of recognizing the rank sexist hypocrisy of this is kind of gross.

Yeah, I agree. This is not something to lash out at her for. It's an awkward photo in hindsight, but it isn't an issue.

[Jack Dracula]

So, in response to two Trump supporters lynching a black jogger and the authorities covering it up until video was leaked, MAGA twitter is finally spending some time on introspection and just how much they have been yelling fire in a crowded theater.

I kid.

They're making racist tweets where the word "jogger" replaces the N-Word.

https://twitter.com/jogger1350/statu...543801351?s=20

https://twitter.com/MAGALovebug/stat...568014336?s=20

https://twitter.com/AwakendSaxon/sta...763307008?s=20

https://twitter.com/KangSlade/status...382948352?s=20

https://twitter.com/GXS3781/status/1...396068864?s=20

Heh. Man, you had me there for a second.
Silly me. I should know better by now.

[Tami]

Death Cult in Action

South Dakota governor tells Sioux tribes they have 48 hours to remove Covid-19 checkpoints

CNN)The governor of South Dakota has given an ultimatum to two Sioux tribes: Remove checkpoints on state and US highways within 48 hours or risk legal action.

Gov. Kristi Noem sent letters Friday to the leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe demanding that checkpoints designed to prevent the spread of coronavirus on tribal land be removed, the governor's office said in a statement.

"We are strongest when we work together; this includes our battle against Covid-19," Noem said. "I request that the tribes immediately cease interfering with or regulating traffic on US and State Highways and remove all travel checkpoints."

CNN has reached out to both tribes for comment.

According to Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe checkpoint policies posted on its social media, its reservation residents may travel within South Dakota to areas the state has not deemed a Covid-19 "hotspot" if it's for an essential activity such as medical appointments or to get supplies unavailable on the reservation. But they must complete a health questionnaire when they leave and when they return every time they go through a checkpoint.

South Dakota residents who don't live on the reservation are only allowed there if they're not coming from a hotspot and it is for an essential activity. But they must also complete a health questionnaire.

Both tribes have also issued strict stay-at-home orders and curfews for their communities. Noem has not issued stay-at-home orders for the state.

[Jack Dracula]

Death Cult in Action

South Dakota governor tells Sioux tribes they have 48 hours to remove Covid-19 checkpoints

Because if there is one thing Native Americans know it's that, when it comes to disease outbreaks, the government always has their best interests at heart.

[jetengine]

Can we just kickstart "Buy an Island Nation for Native Americans" because fucking hell they've got nothing left in the USA

[Kirby101]

Can we just kickstart "Buy an Island Nation for Native Americans" because fucking hell they've got nothing left in the USA

Casinos, lot's of casinos.