Amerika du hast es besser

[Peiresc]

'We Need to Take Away Children,' No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said

Top department officials were "a driving force" behind President Trump's child separation policy, a draft investigation report said.

"We need to take away children," Mr. Sessions told the prosecutors, according to participants' notes. One added in shorthand: "If care about kids, don't bring them in. Won't give amnesty to people with kids."

Rod J. Rosenstein, then the deputy attorney general, went even further in a second call about a week later, telling the five prosecutors that it did not matter how young the children were. He said that government lawyers should not have refused to prosecute two cases simply because the children were barely more than infants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/politics/family-separation-border-immigration-jeff-sessions-rod-rosenstein.html

Kein Wunder, dass sie gegen jede UN-Gerichtsbarkeit sind. Interessant auch die Stellungnahmen der Genannten. Rosenstein:

"If any United States attorney ever charged a defendant they did not personally believe warranted prosecution, they violated their oath of office," Mr. Rosenstein said in a statement. "I never ordered anyone to prosecute a case."

Er hat natürlich überhaupt nichts angeordnet, nein.

Oder auch Gene Hamilton:

Gene Hamilton, a top lawyer and ally of Stephen Miller, the architect of the president's assault on immigration, argued in a 32-page response that Justice Department officials merely took direction from the president.

Er hat ja nur Befehle befolgt. Schwierig, das nicht Faschismus zu nennen.

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The only bright spot in Trump's Soviet-style COVID-19 strategy is that it's not working
https://usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/07/trump-covid-19-soviet-style-disinformation-health-risks-column/5896600002/

[Peiresc]

Auch gelassene Beobachter meinen aktuell, dass Trump verlieren wird (natürlich, mit aller gebotenen Vorsicht usw.). Hier ein Beispiel aus Arizona. McSally war bisher eine der trumpansischsten der Trumpisten. Heute:

When pressed over and over again, Republican Sen. Martha McSally of Arizona would not say on Tuesday whether she was proud of her support of President Donald Trump in her debate against Democratic opponent Mark Kelly.

"I'm proud that I'm fighting for Arizonans on things like cutting your taxes," McSally said. "I'm proud to be fighting for Arizona every single day," she later added.

Richtig schade, dass das wohl unter dem Radar des Großen Vorsitzenden bleiben wird. Ich nehme nicht an, dass Fox News davon berichten wird.

[Peiresc]

Trump selber ist dieweil im Panikmodus:

Donald J. Trump
I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!

Brad Heath:
The president has previously said he had ordered that some of these documents be declassified and his Justice Department persuaded a federal court that he had no idea what he was talking about.

Es sieht momentan nicht danach aus, als dass er sich nochmal fängt. Zu spät.

[Peiresc]

Dennoch: die Republikaner, z B in Texas, haben sich noch nicht aufgegeben:

We're seeing some wraparound action, but overall the line to drop of absentee ballots in Harris County is moving quickly. Thanks to Gov. Abbott's proclamation this is now the only drop-off site in the county of more than 4.7 million. I'm live on @MSNBC w/ the latest all day.
https://twitter.com/PriscillaWT/status/1313516228611313664

[Peiresc]

Ein paar aktuelle Schlagzeilen (Politico):

Polls: Biden leads Nevada, tied with Trump in Ohio
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Poll: Biden leads Trump by 5 points in Wisconsin
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Biden leads Trump by 5 points in Iowa poll
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A bullish Biden campaign invades Trump territory

Was ist zu tun? Obama, Clinton, Biden verhaften, alle verhaften!

Donald Trump mounted an overnight Twitter blitz demanding to jail his political enemies and call out allies he says are failing to arrest his rivals swiftly enough.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/trump-demands-barr-arrest-foes-427389

[Peiresc]

Seit 42 Stunden ist Trump nicht mehr in der Öffentlichkeit gesehen worden (aber wenigstens die Tweets werden schon echt sein, denke ich). Dabei wäre das doch so nötig:

the normally Trump-friendly pollster [Rassmussen] has Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leading him by a robust margin of 12 percentage points (52 to 40 percent).

[Peiresc]

New England Journal of Medicine, das Flaggschiff der Medizin:

The Editors: Dying in a Leadership Vacuum

The death rate in this country is more than double that of Canada, exceeds that of Japan, a country with a vulnerable and elderly population, by a factor of almost 50, and even dwarfs the rates in lower-middle-income countries, such as Vietnam, by a factor of almost 2000.
[...]
While the absolute numbers of tests have increased substantially, the more useful metric is the number of tests performed per infected person, a rate that puts us far down the international list, below such places as Kazakhstan, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia
[...]
The response of our nation's leaders has been consistently inadequate. The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states. Governors have varied in their responses, not so much by party as by competence. But whatever their competence, governors do not have the tools that Washington controls. Instead of using those tools, the federal government has undermined them. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was the world's leading disease response organization, has been eviscerated and has suffered dramatic testing and policy failures. The National Institutes of Health have played a key role in vaccine development but have been excluded from much crucial government decision making. And the Food and Drug Administration has been shamefully politicized,3 appearing to respond to pressure from the administration rather than scientific evidence. Our current leaders have undercut trust in science and in government,4 causing damage that will certainly outlast them. Instead of relying on expertise, the administration has turned to uninformed "opinion leaders" and charlatans who obscure the truth and facilitate the promulgation of outright lies.
[...]
But truth is neither liberal nor conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812

[Peiresc]

Ergebnis der Debatte zwischen den Kanditaten für den Vizepräsidenten.

2016 VP debate winner (CNN poll):
Pence 48%
Kaine 42%

2020 VP debate winner (CNN poll):
Harris 59%
Pence 38%

Echo4India:

Hello GOP senators. Look at these results.

Handwriting. Wall. Massive. Titanic. Wave.

Pence war nicht derart unhöflich wie sein Herr und Meister, aber er hat die Holzkiste nicht gelötet, scheint mir. Immerhin hat er Harris die Chance gegeben, ihn zurechtzuweisen.

Und er hatte auch noch Pech. Die Nation hat fasziniert auf die Fliege gestarrt, die auf seinem Kopf gelandet war, sozusagen der Loriot-Sketch ("Nein, sagen Sie jetzt nichts, Hildegard") mitten im RL.

Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-XNwAro-sM
und Kopie:
https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/1314045611725914114

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New York Times zum NEJM-Editorial (#6081):

Throughout its 208-year history, The New England Journal of Medicine, the world's most prestigious medical journal, has never supported or condemned a political candidate. Until now.

[Peiresc]

This is like The Death of Stalin.

Bill Barr is Beria

Hegel bemerkte irgendwo, daß alle großen weltgeschichtlichen Tatsachen und Personen sich sozusagen zweimal ereignen. Er hat vergessen, hinzuzufügen: das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce.

-   Karl Marx.

Die Lehre von Marx ist allmächtig, weil sie wahr ist.

-   Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin

[Cornus]

Die Nation hat fasziniert auf die Fliege gestarrt, die auf seinem Kopf gelandet war,

Nicht ohne Grund.
Zoom in:


https://twitter.com/pencefly/status/1314055873061220354

[Cornus]

Der Ordnung halber hier der Link zum Rechteinhaber der Zeichnung: https://twitter.com/monkeyes/status/1314033534722424833 

[Peiresc]

[editiert]

Damit auch der letzte begreift, was auf dem Spiel steht, hier der republikanische Senator Mike Lee:

Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Democracy isn't the objective; liberty, peace, and prospefity [sic] are.  We want the human condition to flourish.  Rank democracy can thwart that.

Demokratie ist das Verderben der Menschheit. Das Recht abzustimmen ist verwirkt, wenn man dem Präsidenten nicht zujubelt:

Jack Kimble
@RepJackKimble:
Democrats have done nothing but bad mouth the President for four years and now they wonder why we won't let them vote

Jack Kimble, Congressman from CA's 54th District.

[celsus]

Jack Kimble, Congressman from CA's 54th District.

*hüstel*

Kimble is not a member of Congress; he just plays one on a blog, YouTube and on a Twitter account from which this particular tweet originated.

The fictional Kimble claims to be from California's 54th district -- California only has 53 districts

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/09/who-is-rep-jack-kimble.html

[Peiresc]

*hüstel*

Danke.

Nicht nur was glücklich macht, ist eine Erfahrung.

- Liv Ullman

Das ist jetzt das 3. oder 4. Mal, dass ich mit so was auf die Nase gefallen bin. 

Dafür jetzt wieder was Echtes:

The FBI says it thwarted what it described as a plot to violently overthrow the government and kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and federal prosecutors are expected to discuss the alleged conspiracy later Thursday.

The alleged plot involved reaching out to members of a Michigan militia, according to a federal affidavit filed Thursday.

"Several members talked about murdering 'tyrants' or 'taking' a sitting governor," an FBI agent wrote in the affidavit. "The group decided they needed to increase their numbers and encouraged each other to talk to their neighbors and spread their message."
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/08/feds-thwart-militia-plot-kidnap-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer/5922301002/

Das ist die "Militia", von der Justizminister Barr nichts gehört hatte (#5880).

[Peiresc]