Introducing the next President and VP of the United States of America!
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Hold First Joint 2020 Campaign Event
Magnificent! Isn’t time we had an Administration instead of a Reich?
Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he has selected Kamala Harris to be his running mate against Resident Donald Trump, criminal Fuhrer of the Nazi Republican Fifth Reich, and Vice-Resident Mike Pence, homophobic, misogynous, pseudo-Christian Hate Monger. I’m sure we’ll have much more about her as time passes.
Who is Kamala Harris?
55 years old
Born in Oakland, Calif.; lives in San Francisco and Washington
Elected to the Senate in 2016
Former attorney general of California; former San Francisco district attorney
Harris’s signature issues
In her presidential campaign last year, Kamala Harris pitched herself as a history-making candidate who could appeal to both progressives and moderates. Rather than trying to upend the economy, her policies sought incremental, targeted results, particularly focusing on historically marginalized groups like women, people of color and low-income Americans. Her sharp debate skills and affable personality made her a top-tier contender in the early stages of the primary race. But her oscillations between policy positions resulted in damaging news cycles, and she dropped out of the race as her campaign ran out of money. In naming Ms. Harris as his running mate, Joseph R. Biden Jr. made a groundbreaking decision, picking a woman of color to be vice president. But he was also elevating a senator who shares his center-left politics at a time of progressive change in the party…
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Click through for more information and links that provide more detailed analysis. Personally, I think that she is flexible enough to accommodate progressives on most issues, and her retail campaigning skills are fantastic.
Trump Now Headed For 2020 Loss With Kamala Harris On Ticket, Dems Say
Wow! I almost feel sorry for that hateful pseudo-Christian hypocrite, Pence. At the VP debate Kamala is going to beat him up, take his lunch money, chew him up, spit him out, and make him cry for his mama!
Congrats and Kudos to Kamala!
It’s a routine day here in the CatBox. The rest of the week will be busier. Friday is a WWWendy day and a Hospital Oncology team day. Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread. Wednesday my palliative care nurse is coming. Oh God, it’s Monday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:24 (average 7:34). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 4,815,776
US Deaths: 158,376
Short Takes:
From NPR: It’s hard to believe that the hole President Trump dug for himself could get deeper, but it has.
A record and widening majority of Americans disapprove of the job he’s doing when it comes to handling the coronavirus pandemic; he gets poor scores on race relations; he’s seen a suburban erosion despite efforts to win over suburban voters with fear; and all that has led to a worsened outlook for Trump against Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election.
As a result, in the past month and a half, the latest NPR analysis of the Electoral College has several states shifting in Biden’s favor, and he now has a 297-170 advantage over Trump with exactly three months to go until Election Day.
As long as we don’t get complacent or think we can afford to “vote our conscience”, the only way criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich can stay in power is through a Nazi coup. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Bernie Sanders: ‘The Next Three Months Are The Most Important In Modern U.S. History’
For months, all we heard from the Republican Reich was “Bernie is a socialist”. I’d rather have a socialist (social democrat) in any political office than a Republican Fascist. Kudos to Bernie for the degree to which he supports Joe Biden. Progressives, please do what Bernie says! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth 1967
The Republican Reich Nazi Gestapo are even more likely to kill us now than they were then. Kudos to left-wing protestors! RESIST!!
As of today, there are 99 days left until election day, and hopefully, not much longer before the US has a President for the first time since Obama left office. It would be hard for things to look much better for Joe Biden.
The polls say things are looking very good for former Vice President Joe Biden. Polling averages show the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee ahead in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona. And some eye-popping surveys even have him leading President Donald Trump in Texas, which hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1976. But is it all too good to be true? Many Democrats certainly seem to think so.
“I don’t trust polling,” Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell recently told the Atlantic. “I don’t believe that Biden is 16 points up in Michigan; that’s a bullshit poll, and it’s the same people who said Hillary [Clinton] had it in the bag.”
Dingell is among the Democrats traumatized by polling missteps last cycle, which led surveys to overlook the strength of Trump’s support in key battleground states including Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — three states Clinton was counting on to win the election. In a late-October survey of Wisconsin, for example, the Marquette Law School poll had Clinton up by 6 percentage points, while Trump ultimately won the state by 0.7 points.
After the election, pollsters conducted an autopsy of why there was such a disconnect between state polls and the final electoral outcomes (though perhaps less so than some Democrats believe).
The review, led by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), identified multiple factors: For one, some pollsters failed to weight for education — so more educated individuals who favored Hillary Clinton were overrepresented in samples and skewing the results. For another, many surveys missed the wave of undecided voters who may have broken for Trump at the last minute.
Importantly, as many pollsters frequently emphasize, the way polls are interpreted also matters: These surveys, after all, are intended to be a “snapshot” in time, and not necessarily predictive of the election’s final result. It’s worth noting, too, that there are variables that make every cycle different: According to a mid-July New York Times analysis, because of the polling lead he currently has, Biden would still win key battleground states if the polls had errors comparable to the ones they saw in 2016… [emphasis added]
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Map credit: medium.com
Trump won these key states in 2016. Now, he’s losing them
Of course, the worst thing we can do is to become complacent and overconfident. That could give Trump* at least four more years man maybe make him permanent Fuhrer of the Republican Fifth Reich. Nevertheless, day after day of ever increasing horrors can tire us to the point of PTSD. Therefore, it’s important that we recognize the light at the end of the tunnel to give us hope. Go, Joe! Go!
Yesterday criminal Fuhrer Trump* must have felt anxious over watching his chances to steal the 2020 election slip through the fingers on his tiny hands. In an attempt to circumvent that probability, he dusted off his PhD in Bullshitology. True to form, he piled it higher and deeper.
President Trump acknowledged on Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic was growing more severe in the United States and endorsed mask wearing in a shift after weeks of playing down the seriousness of the crisis that has killed more than 140,000 Americans.
Rather than just “embers” of the virus, as he has repeatedly characterized recent outbreaks afflicting much of the country, Mr. Trump conceded that there were now “big fires,” particularly in Florida and elsewhere across the South and West. He vowed to press a “relentless” campaign to curb the spread without offering any new specific plans for how to do so.
“It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better,” Mr. Trump told reporters as he resumed the televised coronavirus briefings that he had called off in late April. “Something I don’t like saying about things, but that’s the way it is. It’s what we have.”
The president’s shift had its limits, however, as he again congratulated himself on his handling of the pandemic, admitted no missteps and made a number of specious claims. He included none of his public health experts in the briefing and falsely asserted that he had never resisted wearing a mask. And he contradicted his own press secretary, who had told reporters just hours earlier that the president was sometimes tested for the virus multiple times a day; in fact, he said, he has never been tested more than once in a single day… [emphasis added]
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Photo credit: Mother Jones
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, he did not attend Trump’s* plague show, because he wasn’t invited.
President Trump Gave His First COVID-19 Briefing In Months. Here’s How It Went
Barf Bag Alert!!
The only way to make Trump’s* plague disappear is to make Trump* disappear.
Although Joe discussed more than just Trump* virus, he covered it far better than Trump* did.
Biden Delivers Remarks On 2020 Economic Plan
Now, wouldn’t you rather have a real President than a Fuhrer?
It’s another hectic day here in the CatBox. I’m having a telephone visit with my nutritionist this morning, so that will kill my morning nap, and exacerbate my back pain. I guess they’re going to increase my Oxycodone instead of my Fentanyl patch strength. I disagree and will argue it at my next appointment. A patch gives constant pain relief, so increasing the strength lowers my overall pain level. Oxycodone gives yo-yo pain relief, as it is taken only when the pain level has risen, so I suffer needless pain. Please check your outhouse for Republicans. If one is hiding down there, go.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:34 (average 5:18). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Clinton had Lewinski. Putin [R-RU] had Trump*.
Trump* Virus Update:
Click through for interactive map.
US Cases: 3,963,376
US Deaths: 143,889
Short Takes:
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Veteran discusses getting hit by unmarked police in Portland
Our veterans deserve honor, praise, and gratitude from our people and government, but from the Republican Reich and their Nazi Gestapo, our veterans get hate, neglect and violence! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): GOP Tested As Democrats Call Out Foreign Interference In Election
This is what a President sounds like and acts like. May God grant that we have a President in January, instead of the criminal Fuhrer we have now. May God also grant that the Republican Reich go the way of the Whig Party. But God can’t do it alone. She needs help from YOU! RESIST!!
From YouTube ( a blast from the past and labor): Arlo Guthrie/Alice’s Restaurant
Ah… the memories! Except for unmuzzled Republican Nazi Police Unions, support Labor! RESIST!!
It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. WWWendy is coming this morning, and we have lots to do. Have a great weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:26). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Barf Bag Alert!!
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 3,293,532
US Deaths: 136,720
Short Takes:
From CNN: The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.
Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, “Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?” Neff wrote, “I wouldn’t get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no.” (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, “Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down.” On June 24, Neff commented, “Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep.” On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL’s Washington Redskins are “white libs and their university-‘educated’ pets.”
And over the course of five years, Neff has maintained a lengthy thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy. There has at times also been overlap between some material he posted or saw on the forum and Carlson’s show.
The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda , Faux Noise, is so rabid that I’m surprised that Fucker Carlson didn’t use more of his Nazi Republican writer’s screeds on the air. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Trae Crowder and Mark Agee discuss whether Joe Biden is too boring to win
Amen Trae! I’ll readily admit that criminal Fuhrer Trump* is more “exciting” that Joe Biden. However, given the heinous behavior of Trump* and the Republican Reich, haven’t we had enough of this so-called excitement for one lifetime? RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Goldman On Roger Stone: Trump Basically Commuted A Co-Conspirator
Stone to Trump*: “If I go to prison, so will you.” That’s the bottom line. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast played at Woodstock): the Who Woodstock (Director’s Cut)
Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
We already know the economic plan offered by criminal Fuhrer Trump and the Republican Reich. First provide massive welfare payments to the 0.1% and corporate criminals by fleecing everyone else. Second, destroy the economy by causing a plague of Trump* virus. On a brighter note, Joe Biden also has an economic plan called Build Back Better.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, laid out a key plank of his economic agenda for the country — dubbed “Build Back Better” — in a half-hour speech Thursday, offering a competing vision of economic nationalism that President Trump has trumpeted in recent years.
“The truth is throughout this [coronavirus] crisis, Donald Trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market — the Dow and Nasdaq — not you, not your families,” Biden said during his remarks Thursday afternoon in Dunmore, Pa., near his hometown of Scranton. “If I’m fortunate enough to be elected president, I’ll be laser-focused on working families, the middle-class families that I came from.”
Biden’s economic plans to date have focused on immediate relief for families, small businesses and communities struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the proposal he detailed Thursday centered around manufacturing and innovation.
He outlined an agenda to “Buy American,” which includes a $700 billion investment in procurement and research and development for new technologies such as biotech, clean energy and artificial intelligence.
“This will be a mobilization of R&D and procurement investments in ways not seen since World War II,” Biden said.
His campaign posits the new plan will help create 5 million new jobs… [emphasis added]
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Graphic credit: Newsbreak
For more detail, go to Joe Biden’s website.
Here is the complete half hour speech.
Biden unveils economic plan to spur American manufacturing
Although Biden couches his plan in progressive terms, it’s actually more center-left. Nevertheless, compared to the rabid, reactionary, racist Republican policies, including massive transfer of our wealth to billionaires, foisted on America by criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich, Biden’s plan is a welcome breath of fresh air!
