Politics-What's on your mind?

[tantalizingfemme]

I am very frustrated with all of the infighting within the Democratic party in my state. The reactions that people are having to the protests have really been enlightening and disgusting at the same time. In one breath they laud the protests and yet in the next they condemn it, especially if the protest creates any perceived inconvenience, such as traffic needing to be rerouted. And let's not even bring up any looting because as with those who denounce the protests, this becomes the focal point and what the protest is about becomes lost. The hypocrisy is monumental. Many within these splinter groups are all about Biden as our savior. Ugh. Are we in the phase it will get worse before it gets better?

[homoe]

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Saturday she would work to overturn Trump Administration's new rule rolling back LGBT patients' protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

"The Trump Administration's decision to eliminate protections for transgender patients is simply wrong. I'll work to overturn this discriminatory policy," Collins tweeted.

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[C0LLETTE]

" Britain’s economy is in free fall, and the government is struggling to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson isn’t giving an inch on Brexit."

Globe and Mail

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The Trump campaign said Tuesday it would stick with its plan for a giant indoor rally in Tulsa — on the same day the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that Oklahoma showed a 7.7 percent increase in COVID-19 cases, the highest in the country.

State and local officials in Oklahoma have expressed concerns over the Trump campaign’s plan to hold a rally inside a packed arena as Tulsa contends with a COVID-19 outbreak. “I’m concerned about our ability to protect anyone who attends a large, indoor event,” Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Bruce Dart said over the weekend.

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“NeverTrump” Republicans, including former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci, have formed another Super PAC to boost former vice president Joe Biden in an effort to defeat Trump in November.

The “Right Side PAC,” founded by former Ohio GOP chairman Matt Borges — who clashed repeatedly with Trump in 2016 and was later voted out after Trump pressured Ohio Republicans to remove him — aims to complement the Lincoln Project, another anti-Trump PAC led by George Conway, husband of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, and other prominent GOP operatives.

Borges told Axios that the focus is on taking advantage of “an opportunity to kind of reset things.” He added that the project “would never” have happened if Senators Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) or Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) were the Democratic nominee. Warren is reportedly on the shortlist to be Biden’s running-mate.

“We’re not trying to become Democrats,” Borges explained. “I intend to vote for every other Republican on the ballot. And I expect that there are others like me who aren’t looking to leave the party.”

Scaramucci stated that Trump’s defeat “will be a very necessary part of the reorganization and the regrowth of the Republican Party,” and that he is “very confident” in shifting support to Biden.

“We can convince a large group of Republican voters that Biden is the right person to vote for if they want to stay true to their principles and to the legacy of the Republican Party,” he said, warning that Trump’s reelection “may set the Republican Party up to be a minority party for a generation.”

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(CNN)On Tuesday, the Justice Department sued former national security adviser John Bolton in an attempt to prevent him from publishing a memoir about his time Donald Trump's White House. Trump told reporters that Bolton would face "criminal problems" if he went forward with the book.

That same day, The Daily Beast reported that Trump is weighing his legal options to stop his niece, Mary Trump, from publishing her own book -- "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" -- that paints the President in an unfavorable light.

Last week, the Trump campaign sent a cease and desist letter to CNN -- asking for a national poll that showed Trump trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by 14 points be retracted. (He hasn't actually sued CNN over the poll.)

Notice a pattern? Faced with declining political fortunes and with former advisers -- and even family -- turning against him, Trump lashes out legally. What will come of these various threats? If past is prologue, not much. Because this oh-yeah-well-I'll-sue-you! strategy isn't just a pattern of late. It's basically how Trump has dealt with annoying or troubling facts his entire life.