Wednesday, October 7, 2020

@21:00, , 10/5/20

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Biden Presses His Case to Florida Voters and Renews Criticism of Trump
Katie Glueck, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 25 minutes ago
Speaking in Miami to Haitian-Americans, Cuban-Americans and others from immigrant backgrounds, Joe Biden wished the president well but urged him to listen to experts on the pandemic.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/06/us/trump-covid-live-updates
 
Trump remains a zealot.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zealot#English
 
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Barr Plans to Return to Justice Dept. After Negative Coronavirus Test Results
Katie Benner, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 47 minutes ago
A spokeswoman said the attorney general was considered an essential worker exempt from guidelines on quarantining after potential exposure.
 
The price he will pay is steep.
 
I expect Trump to fall.
 
3
When the Patient Is Your Commander in Chief, the Answer Is Usually ‘Yes, Sir’
Jennifer Steinhauer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 52 minutes ago
The system of military doctors has so hampered the public’s right to know that a commission should be established to re-evaluate the practice, critics say.
 
"Against medical advice" works every time.  Trump is depending on faith.
So am I.

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‘Don’t Be Afraid of Covid,’ Trump Says, Undermining Public Health Messages
Gina Kolata and Roni Caryn Rabin, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 53 minutes ago
Experts were outraged by the president’s comments about a disease that has killed nearly 210,000 people in the United States.
 
Terminal pnumonia will dominate a life.
Wear a mask.
 
5
White House Blocks New Coronavirus Vaccine Guidelines
Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The F.D.A. proposed stricter guidelines for emergency approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but the White House chief of staff objected to provisions that would push approval past Election Day.
 
The Republicans will call it bad luck.
Luck is neither good or bad.  Prepare. 

6
For the Secret Service, a New Question: Who Will Protect Them From Trump?
Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Michael S. Schmidt, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
Central to the job is a willingness to say yes to the president no matter what he asks. Now, that means subjecting an agent’s health to the whims of a contagious president.
 
We can ask.
They cannot.
 
7
PAC Led by Postal Official Pours $20 Million Into Rescuing Tillis
Catie Edmondson and Luke Broadwater, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
American Crossroads is wading deeper into Republicans’ fight to keep the Senate with North Carolina ads, renewing partisanship questions at the Postal Service, where a PAC leader has a powerful post.
 
The spoils system is not gone.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
 
8
Trump’s Campaign Saw an Opportunity. He Undermined It.
Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 hour ago
The health crisis was a chance for a political reset, some advisers believed, to show a new, more empathetic stance toward the coronavirus. But the candidate did not stick to the narrative.
 
There is no narative with Trump.
 
9
CDC: Coronavirus May Be Adrift in Indoor Air
Apoorva Mandavilli, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
After removing guidance from its website acknowledging “airborne” transmission, the agency cited evidence that indoor air can carry virus-laden particles.
 
Viruses are very small. Ultraviolet is less present indors than it was.
 
10
Trump Isn’t ‘Out of the Woods,’ but We’re in the Dark
Lisa Lerer, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
Few things are more important than the president’s health — and the mixed messaging about his condition is putting the United States at risk.
 
Trump thinks he is lucky.
 
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White House Is Not Contact Tracing ‘Super-Spreader’ Trump Rose Garden Event
Apoorva Mandavilli and Tracey Tully, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
Since President Trump’s Covid diagnosis, numerous associates have tested positive, but the White House has not aggressively investigated the outbreak.
 
Trump is not volunteering for blame.
 
12
Justices Thomas and Alito Question Same-Sex Marriage Precedent
Adam Liptak, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago
The justices, who dissented from the 2015 decision establishing a right to same-sex marriage, said it had cast “people of good will as bigots.”
 
Bigotry is where it is found.
 
13
Judges Tell Trump His Officials Are Serving Illegally. He Does Nothing.
Lisa Friedman, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago
Three high-ranking administration officials have been found by courts to be working in violation of a 1998 law that governs how a president can appoint temporary officials.
 
Trump hears only what he wants to hear.
 
14
As Coronavirus Invades West Wing, White House Reporters Face Heightened Risks
Michael M. Grynbaum, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago
At least three correspondents have tested positive for the coronavirus, along with the press secretary and two of her deputies.
 
Intelligence agents  do not sleep well.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qZ5jE_yMw&t=2696s

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White House Press Faces Risks as Coronavirus Invades West Wing
Michael M. Grynbaum, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago
At least three correspondents have tested positive for the coronavirus, along with the press secretary and two of her deputies.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9qZ5jE_yMw&t=2696s
 
16
Supreme Court Starts Term With Case on the Politics of Judging
Adam Liptak, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago
The justices considered two provisions of Delaware’s Constitution aimed at ensuring partisan balance on the state’s courts.
 
The court should fail to reach a decision. 
 
17
China Ramps Up a War of Words, Warning the U.S. of Its Red Lines
Steven Lee Myers, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago
As the United States and Taiwan draw closer, state propaganda is sending the message that China will go to war if necessary.
 
China is a threatened sovereign state.
 
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Behind the Coal Industry’s Trump-Era Lobbying War
Eric Lipton, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 9 hours ago
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xcerpts from a collection of documents that detail the failed effort by the Trump administration to save the largest coal-burning power plant in the West.
 
 Coal should not be a legal fuel.

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How Kelly Loeffler Went From Atlanta Elite to Trump Loyalist
Richard Fausset, NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago
Senator Loeffler, one of the richest people in Congress, has transformed herself from political moderate to “more conservative than Attila the Hun.”
 

Senator Loeffler feared for her fortune.

She believed the threat is Marxist Leninism.

The  threat is Bismarkian  socialism.

 

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