". . . he has turned the Republican National Convention into a fantasyland version of his presidency. In this carefully curated world, staged by federal officials in Washington and Jerusalem, Trump has defeated the coronavirus, saved the economy, built a border wall, established peace in the Middle East, recalled U.S. forces from theaters of war, and even become a champion of immigrants at a time when he is sharply curtailing their access. . . The distance between reality and Trump's presentation is both a glaring weakness for the president and a gap. . ."
". . . Trump Jr. said Monday night that as the coronavirus "began to spread, the president acted quickly and ensured ventilators got to hospitals that needed them most." He claimed that his father "delivered PP and E to our brave front-line workers" and that "he rallied the mighty American private sector to tackle this new challenge."
Doctors, public health experts and a prominent Republican governor on the front lines of the pandemic have sharply criticized how the Trump White House lagged in responding to the coronavirus, including delays in the distribution of ventilators and personal protective equipment, and public opinion surveys don't support a rosy assessment of Trump's leadership during this period. . . In April, most Americans agreed that Trump was too slow in his initial response to the threat, according to the Pew Research Center.
. . . "The president quickly took action and shut down travel from China. Joe Biden and his Democrat allies called my father a racist and xenophobe for doing it," Trump Jr. claimed.
Biden hasn't directly called the president's travel restriction — which shut down some travel into the U.S. from China in earlier days of the pandemic — xenophobic and racist, but he did denounce Trump's coronavirus response as "xenophobic". . . "The way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they're from, is absolutely sickening," Biden said in July when asked about the president's repeated use of the racist term for the virus. "We've had racists, and they've existed. They've tried to get elected president. He's the first one that has."
. . . Republicans repeatedly criticized Democrats for including a tax break that would affect high-earning taxpayers in states like California and New York in COVID-19 relief bills Monday night.
. . . the SALT cap repeal isn't taking money from the poor and giving it to the wealthy. It's lowering how much blue state taxpayers pay on their own incomes. . . It's a decidedly partisan issue: The people hit by the SALT tax cap are typically from blue states like New York and California, both of which pay far more money into U.S. tax coffers than they receive in federal funding, making up for other states that get more federal funding than their taxpayers put in. And the cap was written into Trump's tax overhaul to help pay for other tax cuts that benefited wealthy people and corporations.
. . . Scott said Monday night that in 1994, when he was a senator from Delaware, "Biden led the charge on a crime bill that put millions of Black Americans behind bars.". . .
The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, or the 1994 crime bill, as it became known, earmarked billions of dollars in funding for states to build prisons and to train and hire additional police, expanded the federal death penalty and instituted a federal "three-strikes" life sentence mandate. . . a 2019 report titled "Racial Disparity in U.S. Imprisonment Across States and Over Time," published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, found that while the law increased overall mass incarceration, a in imprisonment rates between Black people and white people.
Patty McCloskey, who along with her husband was caught on video brandishing firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters outside their St. Louis home in June, accused Biden and "radical" Democrats of wanting "to abolish the suburbs altogether by ending single-family home zoning."
"This forced rezoning would bring crime, lawlessness and low-quality apartments into now-thriving suburban neighborhoods," said McCloskey, who, with her husband, Mark, was charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon in the incident. . . Those claims are all false. . . Her statement echoes a key campaign claim by Trump, who has pointed to Biden's support for an Obama-era rule to combat racial discrimination in housing as the basis of the allegation.
. . . Trump suggests Democrats want to get rid of the Postal Service. (That's false.)
During a conversation with front-line workers that was played during the convention, the president falsely suggested that Democrats are the party of "getting rid of our postal workers.". . . Democrats have spent months pushing for more funding for the U.S. Postal Service. Over the weekend, the Democratic-controlled House advanced a bipartisan bill that would put $25 billion in emergency funding toward the struggling Postal Service. Trump has opposed such funding, in part because, he has said, he doesn't want more voting by mail, but he has said he's open to a compromise.
(from https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2020/08/17/trumps-eulogy-for-brother-to-contain-as-few-biden-china-the-radical-left-harris-usps-obama-clinton-swipes-as-possible/)". . . the White House writing team, where they made valiant attempts to steer its narrative towards the deceased, excising passages such as:
– A lengthy section about how Robert’s passing was ‘almost as unfair as the Fake News media’ when it comes to its impact on the President.
– An apology to anyone who didn’t get an invite to the funeral, followed by heaping blame on the US Postal Service, something the President went on to state he was in the process of making ‘much better’ by systematically shutting down.
– “Bob always hated Obama, that was a thing we really bonded on” was allowed remain in the eulogy, but Trump was advised that he only needed to say this once, and not 19 times as originally written.
– “My dear brother was of course born in America, unlike that Kamala Harris am I right?” was also cut as was all mentions of someone called ‘Hugh Lowgee’.
– Although not much is known about the life of Robert Trump, speechwriters are certain that he didn’t think that China were ‘about to pay big’ for a litany of perceived slights and offences against the US, and as such this passage was taken out.
The funeral of Robert Trump is expected to take place later this week, pending his brother’s schedule. . .". . .
". . . Rubin, previously an outspoken conservative critic of Obama, repeatedly praised his speech on Wednesday night, tweeting "Obama's mere presence reminded us of what a dignified, responsible president sounds like." In 2012, Rubin claimed the 44th president was "killing the Democratic Party.". . . "
We two together? Where are we heading, Into space unknown?
This group dynamic here Is getting old this year. Let in some brand-new air And the get the dust out of there. We’ve been together now So long I don’t know how It’s time to make a change. It’s overdue.
How did we come to reach this state? It once was better. When will we be strong enough To let it go?
We tried to make it last awhile. At time we even though awhile forever. But soon it didn’t fit our style And it may never.
Now it seems like a hundred years. Never thought I’d make it. Still, I search but may Already have what I deserve.
