Biden's speech today about the state of the nation is absolutely spot on.

So presidential.

Trump losing military support in election: poll

AFP
MANDEL NGAN ,AFP•August 31, 2020

Just 37.4 percent of active personnel in the US military support President Donald Trump's re-election, while 43.1 percent back his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, according to a new poll Monday.

The poll by the Military Times and the Syracuse University Institute for Veterans and Military Families found that half of servicemen and women have an unfavorable view of Trump, and 42 percent strongly disapprove of him, compared to 38 percent with a favorable view of the Republican leader.

Support for Trump fell from the previous poll in December 2019, when he had a 42 percent favorable rating.

The poll of 1,018 people was taken before the recent Democratic and Republican party national conventions, in which the parties laid out the cases for supporting their candidate.


The poll was weighted more to career members of the military rather than younger, junior enlisted personnel, the Military Times noted, so is not a complete snapshot of what the entire US military thinks.

Trump has boasted of strong support among the military and has touted his increase in funding for the Pentagon's budget.

But that record is clouded by frequent disputes with the Pentagon's leadership, including popular defense secretary Jim Mattis, who resigned in December 2018, and policy conflicts with the current secretary, Mark Esper, and Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley.


Discord between US President Donald Trump (L) and Defense Secretary Mark Esper may contribute to his relatively low level of electoral support in a new poll of the US military

Good news.

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stanech:



so so true. Trump is winning this election. Even bigger than the last one.....

https://twitter.com/i/status/1299310843969114113

Everybody knows the truth

Zendi
Pryme

Chachess6:


https://twitter.com/i/status/1299310843969114113

Everybody knows the truth

Zendi
Pryme

The leftist liberal lunatics reminds me of how ostrich behave, they think putting their head in their lies will make Trump go away.

If you ask them to give you a specific example what makes Trump a racist, watch them run from pillar to post.

pryme:


The leftist liberal lunatics reminds me of how ostrich behave, they think putting their head in their lies will make Trump go away.

If you ask them to give you a specific example what makes Trump a racist, watch them run from pillar to post.

Even Joe biden confirmed it

https://twitter.com/i/status/1300495064838397952

From his briefing

https://twitter.com/i/status/1300497708248190977

Joe Biden is now a pizza delivery guy

Listen to the guy yelling at him


https://twitter.com/i/status/1300533968404611077

salford1:
Another book scheduled to be released in Sept.
I disagree with the title though. It should be The Useless Idiot

Chisos this name strong ooo
"Useful idiot"

Joe Biden speech at Pittsburgh



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU4weRWnaAE

salford1:

Good news.

The court document about Michael Flynn case.

The court found that Flynn hasn't met the legal requirements for them to order Judge Emmet Sullivan to not hold a hearing on the request to dismiss the case. The court also won't reassign the case to a different judge.

AmazonTopaz:

Chisos this name strong ooo
"Useful idiot"

Useful to Putin

feedthenation:


The court document about Michael Flynn case

Nice.
Filling the swamp

salford1:

Nice.
Filling the swamp

Donald Trump is the swamp

feedthenation:


Donald Trump is the swamp

Oh Lawd

An article written in 2003 about fascism.
Someone that other world leaders make mockery of perfectly fits the definition of a fascist. The person in question also once retweeted a quote by Mussolini.

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page 20). Studying the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile), Dr. Britt found they all had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism. The excerpt is in accordance with the magazine's policy.

The 14 characteristics are:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military
Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy.

6. Controlled Mass Media
Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security
Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected
The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed .

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.


Copyright © 2003 Free Inquiry magazine
Reprinted for Fair Use Only.

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

We are evangelical Christians not voting for Donald Trump this time

BY RYAN HURLBURT AND KATHARINE HURLBURT, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 08/31/20 12:00 PM EDT

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL

It is no secret that most white evangelical Christians in the country voted for Donald Trump in 2016. But one recent survey finds that, if the election were tomorrow, his margin of victory with white evangelical voters would be just 38 points, dramatically down from his advantage of 61 points over Hillary Clinton. Evangelical voters are having second thoughts.

We are a white evangelical married couple living in Georgia. We have both worked on evangelical missions across various cultural contexts, and are absolutely committed to upholding the dignity and value of all human life, including those who are not yet born. But having witnessed the negative effects that the administration has had on vulnerable people, particularly refugees and other immigrants, we are among the significant number of evangelical Christians who will not vote for the president again.

Our critical values have not changed since 2016. We were uncomfortable back then with the credible reports of his marital infidelities, his bullying tone, and disparaging comments on immigrants. But we also were, and certainly still are, deeply committed to protecting the lives of children in the womb and the freedom to practice our faith without interference. We felt that we had chosen the lesser of two evils when we voted.

While the president has delivered on some issues of concern to us, such as economic reforms and trade deals, his immigration policies are cruel, undermining his pledges to life and religious freedom. For instance, while we cherish unborn lives, we also value the lives of thousands of children who were separated from their mothers or fathers by the “zero tolerance” policies of the administration at the Mexican border in 2018.

Our commitment to life also compels us to do everything that we can to end human trafficking. The administration has decided to suspend the life saving elements of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, the passage of which evangelical Christians proudly championed under George Bush and the flouting of which evangelical ministries like World Vision and International Justice Mission have decried.

Our convictions on life also are why we strongly believe the United States should continue to be, in the famous words of George Washington, “a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” Rather than continue the life saving tradition of asylum and resettlement of refugees, the administration has shut out persecuted refugees with its immigration policies.

Denying asylum to those fleeing persecution is not a commitment to life. Since many are fleeing persecution on account of their faith, it undercuts the pledge of the president on religious freedom. As the alarming findings from evangelical ministries Open Doors and World Relief note, the number of refugees from countries where Christians face the most persecution is on track for a decline of 90 percent this year versus 2016.

This is not what the president promised to evangelical voters. During his first week in office, he criticized the previous administration for admitting too few Syrian refugees and promised to assist them. But then, just hours after he made that pledge, he signed an executive order that dramatically restricted the number of refugees to enter the United States, including an indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees. Indeed, fewer Syrian Christians have been resettled in the almost four years of the current administration than in the last year that Barack Obama was in office alone.

With these harsh policies, the president has lost our votes. That does not necessarily mean we will vote for Joe Biden, but our consciences will not allow us to vote for Trump again. We believe he could change his mind. He could set the refugee ceiling at the historical normal of 95,000. He could restore the asylum program. He could also work with Congress to pass the immigration reforms based on restitution, advocated by a broad range of evangelical Christians, that would create a new legal pathway to eventual citizenship, which Bush and Obama tried but failed to do.

We know it might take a miracle for the president to reverse course on his immigration policies at this point. But unless he does so, he will forfeit our votes and, as the polls suggest, many others as well.

Ryan Hurlburt and Katharine Hurlburt are voters who are based in Georgia.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/514407-we-are-evangelical-christians-not-voting-for-donald-trump-this-time

facts about COVID-19 this is from CDC website and during the time period 2/1/2020 through 8/22/2020:
Total deaths for US population involving COVID-19: 164,280 out of 327,167,434 total population
Of the 164,280, 36,078 occurred in a nursing home/ltc facility (~ 22%)
Of the 164,280, 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned (or 9,856).

Facts checkers.

At at mid July.

Hmm...CDC data lagging behind John Hopkins by circa 20k too.

feedthenation:


And people will say Trump ia not racist, wishing a violent white MAGA with criminal record RIP, yet finds it hard to do comment on the death of another known black felon George Lloyd.

salford1:

I laugh when the some say he is not racist.

He is still fanning the embers of racism, hatred, division, revenge and violence. Today, he retweeted a video of a black guy pushing a girl to a stopped subway train after an alteration with the girl's friends. The video has a BLM/Antifa tag to it. It's a dog whistle.

Sadly, the video has nothing to do with either of the protesters. The guy in question was just a douchebag that commited the crime late last year.

People need to keep fact checking his lies every minute.

See screenshot below:

Washington (CNN)
President Donald Trump retweeted on Sunday a tweet that falsely blamed "Black Lives Matter/Antifa" for a random 2019 crime in which a Black man shoved a White woman into a New York City subway train.

The assault, captured in a video embedded in the tweet, had nothing to do with either the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice or with Antifa, a loose collection of anti-fascist activists. The man shown in the video has a long history of offenses on New York City's transit system; he was arrested again last year over this incident.

The tweet Trump retweeted was from a Spanish-language pro-Trump account. The actual video used in the tweet, though, had been posted by a White nationalist user who goes by the handle "I'm With Groyper"; "groyper" is an identifier often used by the racist "alt-right" and others on the far right.

The user posted the subway video as part of a thread of dozens of videos depicting Black people assaulting White people. Contacted by CNN, the user identified himself as an advocate of White people creating their own "nations" for supposed "protection" from racial minorities.

The user noted that he did not himself "say the attack had anything to do with BLM and Antifa, like the post the president retweeted suggested."
Trump has a history of using Twitter to post false claims, misleadingly labeled videos, and racially inflammatory content.

Sunday was not the first time he has amplified videos of a Black person committing a crime against a White person -- nor even the first time he has shared this particular subway assault video.

In June, he retweeted a user's tweet that asked "where are the protests for this?" above the same video. Trump himself added, "So terrible!"

Trump's Sunday retweet came days after a Republican National Convention in which numerous speakers forcefully argued that he is not a racist.

In addition to being a racist, he loves dictators too as seen in the just released ad below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ4KTGPqWaM

pryme:


The leftist liberal lunatics reminds me of how ostrich behave, they think putting their head in their lies will make Trump go away.

If you ask them to give you a specific example what makes Trump a racist, watch them run from pillar to post.

No one reasonable will really waste their time to give you specific examples of racism by Trump. If after more than three years of naked bigotry by him, almost on daily basis, you want someone to give you examples? It's either you have learning disability or you are too naive to comprehend issues.

Is trump actually telling lies?


https://twitter.com/i/status/1300605291092901889

pryme:


The leftist liberal lunatics reminds me of how ostrich behave, they think putting their head in their lies will make Trump go away.

If you ask them to give you a specific example what makes Trump a racist, watch them run from pillar to post.

jokes apart, it's only the mentally deranged that would be oblivious of the fact that Donald Trump is a racist.

DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A RACIST. HE IS JUST CRAZY.

Trump will work with a black person if it helps him make money or win elections.

Trump will do anything to win. He is not a racist but he does not mind using racism to win.

AbdulSleeky:
DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A RACIST. HE IS JUST CRAZY.

Trump will work with a black person if it helps him make money or win elections.

Trump will do anything to win. He is not a racist but he does not mind using racism to win.

lol bros. that's definition of racism now

It's like saying I'm not a criminal but I wouldn't mind doing crime or do criminal things to make money or win.

Buhari will work with Igbo/southerners or Christian's if it guarantees him also rock. But we all know the man is pro north Fulani herdsmen to the core.

ribbit:
lol bros. that's definition of racism now

It's like saying I'm not a criminal but I wouldn't mind doing crime or do criminal things to make money or win.

Buhari will work with Igbo/southerners or Christian's if it guarantees him also rock. But we all know the man is pro north Fulani herdsmen to the core.

I didnt know how to express it well.

He is not the typical ignorant racist that thinks that black people are thuggish apes. His own racism is that he doesnt care about black people unless they make money for him.

ribbit:
lol bros. that's definition of racism now

It's like saying I'm not a criminal but I wouldn't mind doing crime or do criminal things to make money or win.

Buhari will work with Igbo/southerners or Christian's if it guarantees him also rock. But we all know the man is pro north Fulani herdsmen to the core.

Absolutely. We have seen Buhari filling his cabinets with mostly northerners. He would support Miyetti Allah any time of the day.
So, we can say Buhari is a tribalist just as Trump is a racist.

AbdulSleeky:
DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A RACIST. HE IS JUST CRAZY.

Trump will work with a black person if it helps him make money or win elections.

Trump will do anything to win. He is not a racist but he does not mind using racism to win.

If you use racism for any reason, then that makes you a racist.