Breaking News Events

[clementinefemme]

Originally Posted by homoe

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump made his demands for the planned Republican National Convention in Charlotte quite clear to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who had balked at agreeing to a mass gathering of tens of thousands of delegates, allies and media.

In a phone call, Trump told the Democratic governor he would accept his party's nomination in an arena filled with cheering supporters, coronavirus pandemic or not. "Since the day I came down the escalator, I've never had an empty seat and I find the biggest stadiums," he told Cooper on Friday, according to two people familiar with the call who requested anonymity to share its contents. "I don't want to be sitting in a place that's 50 percent empty," Trump said.

Trump's obsession with crowd size and the spectacle he insisted should greet his renomination came on a day during which extraordinary pressure was building on other fronts, as protesters against police violence began to mass near the White House and in cities and towns across America. Trump, in the roughly 15-minute conversation, casually dismissed any health concerns that might arise from squeezing thousands of supporters - wearing masks only if they choose to - inside an arena to hear his acceptance speech. The full details of the call have not previously been reported. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The president's call to Cooper - who unsuccessfully pleaded, by praising Trump, that the president abide by restrictions set by health officials - came on the same day Trump called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, to see whether he might host the convention on Trump's terms. Cooper has insisted that it is too early to determine what will be safe for the convention, scheduled to be held Aug. 24-27. Trump had a blunt response to Cooper's reminders about the potential cost of crowding so many people into a closed arena.

"We can't do social distancing," the president said, according to the two people familiar with the call.

The Friday conversation was the second time that week that Trump inserted himself into the middle of a two-year planning process for his party's convention and derailed ongoing talks about how to safely hold a mass gathering in the midst of a pandemic. He began the week with a Memorial Day broadside against Cooper in which he mocked the governor as still being "in shutdown mood."

The fallout has sent RNC officials shuttling around the country to consider other options. Possible replacements include Jacksonville and Orlando in Florida, Nashville, New Orleans and even Las Vegas, the only other city that submitted a formal bid to host the convention back in 2018. Also in play are Phoenix, the site of a major anti-Trump rally in 2017, and Dallas, according to a Republican operative.

A Republican familiar with the talks said RNC officials are asking those cities to approve the convention on Trump's terms: without social distancing or required masks. As those talks proceed, the convention host committee pushed Thursday for a meeting in Charlotte to "resolve open questions as expeditiously as possible," according to a copy of the invitation.

Those familiar with the call who recounted it for The Post described it as cordial, even as Trump pushed the Democratic governor to overrule public health concerns and accelerate reopening.

"We're in a different situation now," Cooper said at one point. He asked Trump to allow the RNC to negotiate a scaled down event.Trump replied: "We can't do scaled down." At one point during the call, Cooper pushed back, according to the two people familiar with the conversation. He asked Trump whether he was worried about his supporters, and the possibility that they would become sick.

"No, I'm not because we've learned a lot about it," Trump said, referring to the coronavirus.

Sounds like he's compensating for *something*...

[homoe]

Originally Posted by clementinefemme

Sounds like he's compensating for *something*...

......

[homoe]

ALBANY, N.Y. – An entire unit of the Buffalo Police Department resigned from their assignments Friday after two officers were suspended amid outcry over video showing officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, according to the Buffalo News and other media outlets. All 57 of the members of the department's Emergency Response Team resigned from the unit, which responds to riots and other crowd control situations, according to the outlets. The Emergency Response Team members have not quit the police department, but have stepped down from the tactical unit, the Buffalo News reported.

Graphic video from WBFO shows the two officers pushing the man down as he approached them in a public square around an 8 p.m. curfew Thursday. The man stumbles back and falls, and the video shows him motionless and bleeding from his head. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz tweeted Friday morning that a hospital official said the man was "alert and oriented."
Asked about the resigning officers at a press conference, Poloncarz said he would be "disappointed" if they had in fact resigned. "If they resigned, I'm exceptionally disappointed by it because it indicates to me that they did not see anything wrong with the actions last night," Poloncarz said.

The Erie County District Attorney's Office tweeted Friday that it was continuing its investigation of the incident and that the man was unable to provide a statement to investigators Thursday night.

The officer's actions quickly drew condemnation from around the state, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo who said the "incident is wholly unjustified and utterly disgraceful."During a press briefing Friday, Cuomo played video of the incident, watching it wide-eyed before questioning the officers’ actions. "You see that video and it disturbs your basic sense of decency and humanity," Cuomo said. "Why? Why? Why was that necessary? Where was the threat? It was an older gentleman. Where was the threat? And then you just walk by the person when you see blood coming from his head," he said, describing the scene.

Cuomo also urged the mayor and district attorney in Buffalo to investigate the incident and move expeditiously towards potentially bringing criminal charges against and firing the officers involved.

[homoe]

ARE you freaking kidding!

You stay almost completely silent on this poor man's brutal murder/death and this is what you chose to say!?

UNREAL!!! Just when I think this SOB can't sink any lower he does!

[homoe]

San Francisco (AFP) - Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Friday promised to review the social network's policies that led to its decision to not moderate controversial messages posted by US President Donald Trump.

The announcement, which came in the form of a letter to employees, appeared aimed at quelling anger inside the company that was so severe it prompted some to quit.

The outrage was sparked when Zuckerberg said Facebook would not remove or flag Trump's recent posts that appeared to encourage violence against those protesting police racism.

On MAKING promises this guy is great, follow thru not so much IMHO!

In fact I'd love to know how many congress members he ever got back to when they grilled him up on the Hill! When he couldn't give an answer he'd often respond by saying "I'll get back to you"!

[C0LLETTE]

[B]Great Breaking Moments 1974 Contributing to Breaking News Events.

Inspired by early line and character editors that broke a move or copy operation into two steps—between which the user could invoke a preparatory action such as navigation—Lawrence G. "Larry" Tesler proposed the names "cut" and "copy" for the first step and "paste" for the second step. Beginning in 1974, he and colleagues at Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) implemented several text editors that used cut/copy-and-paste commands to move/copy text.[4]

Apple Computer widely popularized the computer-based cut/copy-and-paste paradigm through the Lisa (1983) and Macintosh (1984) operating systems and applications. Apple mapped the functionalities to key combinations consisting of the Command key (a special modifier key) held down while typing the letters X (for cut), C (for copy), and V (for paste), choosing a handful of keyboard shortcuts to control basic editing operations. The keys involved all cluster together at the left end of the bottom row of the standard QWERTY keyboard, and each key is combined with a special modifier key to perform the desired operation:

Z to undo
X to cut
C to copy
V to paste

[homoe]

Trump shushed Yamiche Alcindor of PBS, then angrily told her: “You are something.”

President Donald Trump attempted to silence then angrily demeaned Yamiche Alcindor, a Black female reporter, on Friday when she pressed him on rising unemployment figures for Black and Asian workers. The put-down occurred after Trump crowed in a Rose Garden statement about a better-than-expected 13.3% unemployment figure for the nation in May. The president shockingly claimed that it was a “great day” for George Floyd — the Black man a white police officer killed last month in Minneapolis — because he would be pleased “looking down” at the jobs stats.

Though white unemployment fell from 14.2% to 12.4% in May, the jobless rate for Black and Asian workers increased slightly. Black unemployment rose from 16.7% to 16.8%. When Alcindor, who works for PBS, asked the president to explain how he plans to address systemic racism in the country, he held a finger to his lips, then seconds later said: “A strong economy.”

When she asked how worsening jobless figures for Asians and Blacks were “a victory,” as Trump had claimed, he shook his head angrily and told her: “You are something else.”

It's obvious that this jerk has "issues" with strong, well spoken, intelligent women who won't deference to him!

[C0LLETTE]

Wow, that's terrible.

[homoe]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

[homoe]

~~~
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
by John Bolton release's date has once again been changed to Jun 23, 2020!

[C0LLETTE]

I'll look for it.

[C0LLETTE]

How fucking stupid, naive can far left Democrats be??? I have no doubt that the moment Trump saw "Defund the Police" his dick got so hard he could hardly move. There it is boys: we're going to scare the shit out of Middle America.

Was there really no other way to headline changes to police reform? Nothing else that could have gotten middle America on board with change?

Did they really not realise that most people, even the most liberal, don't read below the headline, below the thick text of policy explanation? "Blah blah blah...defund the police. How many voters you think read that shit. All they know is that you want to leave them at the mercy of no one.

If you can't explain it succinctly , clearly, and in a way that most citizens would want to live with...SHUT THE FUCK UP...you are reelecting Trump.

It's like the far left sits around in a little jack-off daisy chain applauding eachother with no sense of how to move anyone without giving the far right a huge gift.

How fucking stupid are they?

[~ocean]

trump wants to put martial law in effect. WE ARE DOOMED . reform the police across the board .

[C0LLETTE]

I give up.

A thoughtful post that took time to compose gets dumped out by blah blah , never to be seen again...what''s the point?

[tantalizingfemme]

This woman is absolutely amazing and her Monopoly metaphor is genius. She is a genius. And the information, priceless. And heartbreaking. And deplorable.

JONES: As far as I'm concerned, they could burn this bitch to the ground. And they are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

[C0LLETTE]

OMG THAT WAS THE MOST AMAZING MESSAGE EVER . IF THAT GOES NO WHERE THEN NOTHING GOES ANY WHERE???

WHY CAN"T CNN ( and those other lefty falsies ) THAT CLAIM THE LEFT JUST BROADCAST THAT OVER AND OVER AND SHUT THOSE DUMB TALKING POLITICAL HEADS UP THAT NO ONE EVER HEARD OF.

WHY CAN"T THEY JUST GO TO THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY AND SAY IT WITH ENERGY AND TRUTH.

GUILLOTINE THOSE ASSHOLE PROFITEERING TALKING HEADS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

[FireSignFemme]

Originally Posted by C0LLETTE

OMG THAT WAS THE MOST AMAZING MESSAGE EVER . IF THAT GOES NO WHERE THEN NOTHING GOES ANY WHERE???

WHY CAN"T CNN ( and those other lefty falsies ) THAT CLAIM THE LEFT JUST BROADCAST THAT OVER AND OVER AND SHUT THOSE DUMB TALKING POLITICAL HEADS UP THAT NO ONE EVER HEARD OF.

WHY CAN"T THEY JUST GO TO THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY AND SAY IT WITH ENERGY AND TRUTH.

GUILLOTINE THOSE ASSHOLE PROFITEERING TALKING HEADS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

I don't know what was said and I don't want to know because if I know and it reeks of injustice I'll be forced to take action rather than just react and I'm feeling really, really lazy right now, but whatever it was "GUILLOTINE THOSE ASSHOLE PROFITEERING TALKING HEADS" damn that was choice.

[homoe]

The US’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci warned on Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic was far from over, calling Covid-19 his “worst nightmare”.

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says "we can’t shut down the economy again"

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC that shutting down the economy for a second time to slow Covid-19 isn’t a viable option.
The Treasury secretary’s comments came as Wall Street grew more concerned about a second wave of coronavirus cases in the U.S.

R E A L L Y? Not a 'viable option', are you friggin kidding me!

[Stone-Butch]

Not really news but facts. More and more places are opening, ignoring the viral warnings that it can escalate. Reasons are a few but two obvious are: to keep people from rioting from boredom and to sate their id.
To put businesses back on track so that taxes can start coming in instead of being paid out to those without income support.

I think it is the same all over North America and I am sure all over the world but I am not as much up on the news from outside North America.

The gov.s need to fill their coffers at anyones' expense and the need to satisfy the multitude to be in the voters good graces. (The only opinions I am entitled to, my own)

[C0LLETTE]

Good to know. Thanks for the info.