Jesse Dollemore discusses the explosive story from Vice which reports a “STAGGERING NUMBER OF HYSTERECTOMIES” taking place at a single ICE detention facility AGAINST THE WILL OF THE WOMEN!!!
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Texas need not treat all voters the same when deciding whether to allow mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
The
court refused to block a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
5th Circuit, which had ruled that all voters do not have to be allowed
to vote by mail. Texas gives that option only to voters age 65 and
older.
The state's Democratic Party challenged
that policy, warning that younger voters would "be forced to either risk
contracting COVID-19 during in-person voting or relinquish their right
to vote at all."
Donald Trump is trying to deny the very reality all around him at the moment because that reality isn't very good for his poll numbers. And if things get worse (and they will) those poll numbers are going to tank even further.
New numbers are showing that the 2nd wave of the Coronavirus is currently upon us, and the resident is acting like this isn't even happening. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
As it usually is in these situations, it was the simplest of questions, a
potential slamdunk for an ordinary politician, hell, for an ordinary
human being. But we are talking about resident Donald Trump, who is a
hollowed-out pumpkin filled with a slurry of toxic waste, so the most
ludicrous softball questions become moments of torment and confusion
because he just doesn't get how being a person works.
On Tuesday, at an event where he brayed about the small business loan
program that's become a money trough for corporate pigs to feed at,
Trump got a question from a reporter. "You’ve spoken about your friend
who passed away," the intrepid journalist asked, tossing a soft,
underhand pitch. "I was wondering if you have spoken to the families of
anyone else who has lost a loved one to COVID-19. If there’s any
particular stories that have affected you."
Right now, you, sitting there as a semi-normal human being, you could
toss out a couple of examples about stories that affected you. Maybe you
could talk about Sklyar Herbert, the 5 year old girl in Detroit, who passed
away a week before. Maybe you could mention one of the doctors or other
first responders who have been taken out by the disease they were
fighting. Maybe you could talk about someone else you know, like the
elderly retired professor I knew who I just found out died of
coronavirus. It might be emotional. But you could do it, though.
But Trump couldn't. He answered,
"Well, I have — I have many people. I know many stories. I’ve spoken
to three, maybe, I guess, four families unrelated to me. I did — I lost
a very good friend. I also lost three other friends — two of whom I
didn’t know as well, but they were friends and people I did business
with, and probably almost everybody in the room did. And it’s a — it’s a
bad death. It’s not a — it’s — it’s a bad thing. It grips onto some
people. Now, we found out that young people do extraordinarily well."
And then that was it. The brain worms then made him pivot to schools
that are opening up which led him to criticize distance learning because
of course he did.
We know that whenever Trump is called upon to offer some kind of
sympathy for the dead and sick, he either quickly reads a rote script or
he changes the subject, often to how "horrendous" or "brilliant"
COVID-19 is, as if it has to be the worst illness in the history of the
world because that's the only virus that can be an opponent worthy of
Donald Trump.
Trump has made a big show about how he refuses
to wear a mask because he's been tested and doesn't have coronavirus.
At the event Tuesday, in Oval Office gatherings, neither Trump nor the
people there, including Drs. Birx and Fauci, wear masks. You know that
he sees wearing a mask as a sign of weakness. You know that he's
demanded that no one be allowed to wear masks. No one is gonna make him
look like a disease-fearing pussy. He is the uber-mensch. All others
cower beneath his exceedingly healthy orange glow.
Essentially, that's his attitude towards the dead. If you get sick, you
are weak and you are preventing the economy from "roaring back," so
he'll order you back to work or have governors force you back so you
lose your unemployment benefits. If you die, you're a loser because it
makes him look bad. Here's what he managed to say yesterday: "We mourn —
and I have to say this so strongly — we mourn every life tragically
lost to the invisible enemy, and we’re heartened that the worst of the
pain and suffering is going to be behind us." The worst is not "behind
us." We're in the worst right now, with cases rising in some states,
falling in others, and staying steady in the others.
The sick and the dead are inconvenient because they prevent him from
gallivanting around the country and prancing like a coked-out baboon in
front of his adoring, cretinous crowds. He talked about how tragic it
would be to have social distancing at his rallies of the damned: "I
can’t imagine a rally where you have every fourth seat full. Every —
every six seats are empty for every one that you have full. That
wouldn’t look too good." Your fever and cough are keeping the resident
from having good-looking campaign events, you selfish fucks.
Note: Of course, as long
as it's the poors, immigrants, prisoners, and the weak old people (not
strong like his wheezing ass) that die, well, that's just thinning the
herd until we get to immunity or something.
But I keep coming back to that fuckin' question. Trump admitted that he
has not reached out to a single family of someone who died. He didn't
take any time to ring up some widow in Alabama or Texas or Kansas, the
states that he won. That's just fucked up. He can't because to do so
would be to concede that the deaths mean something beyond lower approval
ratings. He can't because he's incapable
of exuding the kind of empathy that's necessary to come across as
anything other than the popularity-driven, praise-thirsty, narcissistic
monster that he is.
Instead, he pretends that 60,000 deaths are bad, but, hey, a million
deaths is worse and China must be lying; he's petulantly defensive,
pissed off that all these weak losers are dying and that he's supposed
to pretend to care. Fuck that. Not when it's more fun to shitpost about
Brian Williams or CNN.
He says the disease is going to disappear "like a miracle," except it's
not. It's going to slowly peter out, the bodies stacking up, becoming to
him like a wall preventing his reelection. Your death means nothing
more and nothing less.
The resident suggested the possibility of an 'injection' of disinfectant into a person infected with the coronavirus as a deterrent to the virus during his daily briefing Thursday. The Morning Blow panel discusses Trump's remarks. Aired on 04/24/2020.
Trump, YOU & Bill Gates can go 1st. 💅Don't worry, we'll WAIT.💁
Donald Trump's daily coronavirus press briefings have been getting stranger by the day, but Thursday's absolutely broke the crazy meter.
Trump told people that the virus might be able to be defeated by heating the body to absurd temperatures, or by putting light inside the body, or, and more dangerously, by injecting disinfectants into a person.
None of these are actual treatments, and some of them are a near guarantee of death, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
The Young Turks’ Emma Vigeland (https://Twitter.com/EmmaVigeland) breaks down Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments about Joe Biden in an interview with The New York Times.
Donald Trump is facing renewed calls to resign from office after a video appears to show the resident dozing off during a meeting about the Coronavirus.
Trump, who loves to call Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe", couldn't keep his eyes open long enough to focus on what was being said, even as the entire country panics over the virus spreading across our nation.
Jesse Dollemore addresses several issues, including Donald Trump's possible benefit from the same stimulus package that he administers, voicing appreciation for those in service industries who are working in the midst of our current emergency, and answers questions about possible 3rd party organization.
Thousands of people in Florida are seemingly ignoring social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak. Despite warnings from public health experts, photos and videos show beaches across the state packed with spring breakers.
On Monday, resident Trump announced new national recommendations for Americans to help prevent the continued spread of COVID-19, which has killed at least 93 people in the U.S. to date.
The recommendations include avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people and not eating at restaurants and bars.
Status Coup's Jordan Chariton reports on Joe Biden's campaign putting out health disinformation regarding Corona Virus and voting in Arizona, Ohio, Illinois, and Florida.
Jesse Dollemore discusses the very real threat posed by the Coronavirus. Experts are comparing it to the "Spanish Flu" of 1918.
Donald Trump is trying to be Conspiracist-in-Chief and Commander-in-Chief while simultaneously passing the buck to science denier nutter butter Mike Pence to lead the U.S. government response to the pandemic.
Not only did these employees not know they were supposed to wear gear,
but they went back into the community immediately after being exposed to
the dangerous virus.
A group of several hundred psychiatrists and mental health professionals
have sent a letter to Congress urging them take Donald Trump’s
declining mental state seriously, and also warning of the consequences
of his cognitive decline.
The resident is completely detached from
reality, the professionals warn, and if we don’t do something about this
matter now it could cost all of us in the long run.
'This administration is now deporting kids with cancer," said Rep. Ed
Markey, D-Mass., calling it "a new low, even for Donald Trump."
Mariela
Sanchez, of Honduras, comforts her son, Jonathan, 16, during a news
conference on Aug. 26, 2019, in Boston. The Sanchez family came to the
United States seeking treatment for Jonathan's cystic fibrosis. Elise Amendola/AP
Each
year, the U.S. gets about 1,000 applications from immigrant families in
the U.S. seeking permission to stay in the country and not face
deportation so family members can continue lifesaving medical care that
is not available in their home countries.
But
the Trump administration recently told families who were granted
permission to stay for medical care that their permission to stay has
been rescinded and they have 33 days to leave the country. The policy,
which was not publicly announced, is being applied retroactively to any
requests filed on or before Aug. 7.
In a conference call Thursday with reporters, advocates and Democrats expressed outrage over the rule.
“This is a new low even for Donald Trump,” Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said in a conference call with reporters Thursday.
Among those facing deportation is Jonathan Sanchez, 16, who has cystic fibrosis.
His
mother, Mariela Sanchez, told NBC 10 in Boston that her family arrived
in the United States in 2016 and she had recently applied for the
medical exemption. After losing a daughter to the hereditary and
incurable disease because doctors in Honduras did not diagnose it, she
knows what would have happened to her son if he was not getting the care
in the U.S.
“He would be dead,” she told the station.
The
Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a
request for comment from NBC News. In a previous statement, United
States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has said that it was
no longer considering nonmilitary requests for deferred action "to
focus agency resources on faithfully administering our nation’s lawful
immigration system."
“This administration is now deporting kids
with cancer. Perhaps that is why it was too ashamed to announce this
policy change publicly," said Markey, who has been trying to draw
national attention to the issue since it was first reported in Boston by WBUR-FM, a public radio station.
The
Trump administration is no longer considering medical deferred action
requests for immigrants. This could be a de facto death sentence for
patients. We all need to stand together against the deportation of sick,
vulnerable children.https://t.co/aWBnZk4v7U
The
change was not made public and members of the public were not given a
chance to provide comment before it went into effect. Families simply
received letters telling them they had 33 days to leave.
“They
are telling these people they need to leave on their own,” Anthony
Marino, director of immigration legal services,said on MSNBC’s “The
Rachel Maddow Show” about the families with seriously ill relatives now
facing deportation.
“I don’t know how they
expect parents to pull their children from hospital beds, disconnect
them from lifesaving treatments and go some place where they are know
they are going to die," said Marino. "But that is what they are telling
them to do.”
In Miami, attorney Milena Portillo told The Miami Herald
that families who have applied for the medical deferments include a
girl with an eye malignancy, a girl with cerebral palsy and the father
of three children — who are American citizens — who has a terminal liver
illness.
“We as a country, we are losing
our humanitarian side,” Portillo told the Herald. “We’re not reviewing
case by case, but we’re just giving a blanket ‘no’ to everyone.”
Rep.
Ayana Pressley, D-Mass., cited in the Thursday call the case of Samuel,
a five year old boy from Brazil. She said he is unable to eat solid
food and without care at Boston Children’s Hospital will not be able to
receive the nutrients he needs to live.
Sirlen
Costa, of Brazil, holds her son Samuel, 5, as her niece Danyelle Sales,
right, looks on during a news conference on Aug. 26, 2019, in Boston.
Costa brought her son to the United States seeking treatment for his
short bowel syndrome. Elise Amendola/AP
"With
this decision, again this administration has hit a new low," Pressley
said. "To be fighting for your life, imagine on top of that facing
deportation."
The American Immigration Lawyers Association
called on the USCIS to reverse the policy change. It has asked people to
contact elected leaders to change it.
A
backlash over the changes has led to confusion over which Department of
Homeland Security agency, the USCIS or Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, must enforce the new policy, as the agencies have pointed
to each other as having jurisdiction.
Medical deferrals are not the only denials imposed by the administration. USCIS told NBC News
that it applies to all other deferred action requests outside of the
military and immigrants enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrival program or DACA.
The policy change
is another in a series of actions the administration has taken that have
had direct impact on children, both who are immigrants and those who
are U.S. citizens.
The administration has taken numerous children from their parents at the border and some have yet to be reunited.
The administration changed the so-called public charge rule so that immigrants wanting a green card or asking to move to the U.S. must prove they are unlikely to ever need public assistance, such as access to health care.
“There
can be no other explanation for why you would target such a small and
vulnerable community other than if your goal was to spread fear and
hardship,” Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said.
“This
is all in character for an administration that is separating families
and abusing children in prison camps at the border," Chu added.
Chu
has filed a bill to defund the public charge rule but said “it’s clear
that this administration will not stop looking for any opportunity to
wage war on immigrants.”
