We kind of figured the city's blended learning approach would be easily mocked. It doesn't please the crowd that says the COVID-19 pandemic is mostly behind us in NY so they want kids back in school buildings. Nor does it satisfy the people who think we all should basically stay home until there is a vaccine or remedy. Nobody likes the deBlasio half-baked approach.
Reopening school buildings is not comparable in NYC to Europe, Asia or anywhere really as our COVID-19 outbreak was worse here than most places in the world and our country's situation is still declining. Has any school system had the deaths of its workers like NYC had in March and April? Many Covid-19 fatalities of school personnel were most likely caused in part by school buildings staying open in NYC too long.
We are rightfully a bit apprehensive about returning to school buildings and sending our kids back. I don't know of too many who trust the Mayor, Chancellor to do this right or for the UFT to hold them accountable and ensure the safety of members and students.
I kind of think some of this Onion story on Dallas could still apply to NY. It positively applies to President Donald Trump who says to just open schools, pandemic or not.
DALLAS—Saying the city remained on track for progressing into the final stage, Mayor Eric Johnson told Dallas residents Friday that they would soon officially be entering Phase 4 of pretending the coronavirus was over. “Thanks to the efforts of municipal employees, I’m happy to say we’ve reached the final phases of completely deluding ourselves into thinking that this pandemic has somehow stopped spreading and that we’re safe,” said Johnson in a press conference, in which he applauded the city for bringing them to this stage by successfully disregarding the virus in previous phases.
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WaPo
Trump sidelines health advisers in growing rift over coronavirus response
President Trump’s tweet slamming advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on reopening schools is his latest clash with top health officials, who face intense pressure from an administration trying to play down coronavirus dangers in a bid to revive the economy. In a White House guided by the president’s instincts, rather than evidence-based policy, the CDC finds itself often forced to backtrack on pivotal decisions.
Trump has done a bad job for the last 6 months. I still can't vote for any democrat based on what they stand for.
What's a ouple of hundred thousand more dead people mean? Let's keep America great.
Supporting criminals and lowlife trash?
I agree with Joe. Those of us who reject the cancel culture/suppression of speech supported by the Democratic Party will never vote for a democrat no matter what Trump does or doesn't do. Those who disagree can stamp your feet and name call and say and do whatever you want. You will not change our minds. Looting, attacks on cops, setting fires, AOC calling for a boycott of Goya because company guy accepted an invitation to the White House even though the same guy accepted an invitation from Obama as well is just the latest example of the crazy left wanting complete control over what Americans can say and do. No f'n way I or anyone in my social circle will vote for democrats come November. Get your house cleaned, Democrats if you want us to come to your party.
Joe Biden is not the far left.
How many more have to die before the Maga's here wake up?
But Joe Biden panders to the far left. As do all democrats. As to how many people have to die? I can ask the same. How many kids have to be shot in cities controlled by the left before you wake up?
Biden does not even favor defunding the police. He wrote the crime bill. Look at what his task forces just wrote, there is no pandering to far left. Turn off Fox News and think for yourself.
Biden is a centrist. His whole life has been as a moderate.He said nothing would fundamentally change if he was president. Relax my Republican friend. It will be alright.
Biden has changed since 1994. He is now leaning way left. I specifically wrote that trump has done a bad job the last 6 months. They endorse lockdown, except for anti cop protests. They endorse letting all criminals get out of jail immediately with no bail. I have not heard 1 word about black on black crime, shootings, death. I have not heard 1 word about single parent households. They want no guns, unless it is in the hands of a criminal, in which case we need crime reform.
15,498 murders in US this year.That is from FBI. 135,000 Coronavirus deaths. I am no math expert but you are 9 times more likely to be killed by COVID-19 than murdered in the USA.
Covid is bad, no question. 3rd time, i said trump did a bad job. Black lives are being ended daily by shootings all over the country, and it isn't by cops. This has been going on forever.
Fox News talking points are bullshit. Read what the Biden Bernie unity task forces just came up with. It is nothing far or even left.Improve Obamacare, climate change goals by 2050. No medicare for all, no Green New Deal, etc. Biden is no lefty. Make a coherent argument please. I don't see where he is attacking the 2and Amendment except to have an assault weapons ban and to close loopholes to get universal background checks. I think about 90% of Americans support these positions.
You are seeing dem leadership everyday. Mayor lightfoot was on with chris cuomo a few days ago, he brought up the "uptick" of shootings in chicago. Her answer? Segregation and racism.
HUH? Have they seriously condemned looting, rioting, destruction, threats, etc?
Biden wants more funding for the police by the way.
Where is the Jewish lives matter mural? White lives matter? Blue lives matter?
How come the increase in crime comes from one part of society, havent we all been locked down?
Trying more to divide us. Biden is at least trying to unite the country.
By allowing criminals to run wild?
Trump is trying to kill us by saying don't wear masks and holding MAGA rallies and speeches where people do not social distance.
Painting Biden as a far left puppet won't work. Try the corruption angle. MSM will suppress it but that is your best hope. Biden is a swamp creature. The racial thing is a dead end too. Trump has the angry white vote already but he is losing the elderly there too because seniors don't want to die from COVID-19. They see the complete stupidity of opening up states too soon. You can't even blame blue state governors for Florida, Texas and Arizona spikes in COVID-19 cases and now deaths too.
We agree, trump has made bad choices. I still cant endorse letting criminals freely run the streets. I also cant handle the anti white and anti cop garbage. Al sharpton had no trouble painting with de blasio yesterday but hasnt said a word about the black man shot to death while walking with his 6 year old daughter a few miles away. Too many double standards.
Go to a meeting to apologize for your whiteness?
The death rate from covid death rate is still 15 times as high in ny vs florida.
So Cuomo and de Blasio fucked this up too. We agree. Now try bringing in a fact or two on Biden. He is not for defunding the police. He is a centrist through and through. He will have to fight the left in his party if elected.
Why hasn't he denounced anything?
Nothing wrong with being white. It is a complete accident of birth. I agree with you on black on black crime. There is silence when it occurs because it does not fit a political agenda.
Let's see Biden has about 90% of the Black vote by sitting in his basement. When your opponent is destroying himself every time he opens his mouth or tweets more bullshit, the smart thing to do at that point is to keep your mouth shut and let Trump keep fucking up.
Every dem gets 90% plus black vote.
From Politico:
Support for President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has hit an all-time low, according to a new survey, with a similarly substantial majority of Americans also disapproving of his response to widespread racial unrest.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday reports that a record 67 percent of respondents now disapprove of “the way Donald Trump is handling the response to the coronavirus,” while only 33 percent approve — the widest gulf in public sentiment since ABC News and Ipsos began surveying on the pandemic in March.
Joe and anonymous who have been arging: Please come out of the bunker. It will be okay when Biden is elected.
I know Joe you said three times that Trump hasn't been doing too well handling this the last six months. I am explaining why Biden just needs to keep his mouth shut to win.
Not defending trump. Just anti dem platform and belief system.
I question the intelligence of the black vote when they keep electing de blasio, Durkin, lightfoot...
I thought police aren't needed. "Now starting tonight, you’re going to see a combination of things happening … increased NYPD presence at hotspots at key locations more patrol officers on foot in vehicles, but also more community presence because that is the key to this community leaders committee organizations walking with police officers showing common cause,” the mayor added.
This blog has never said to defund the police. I have mentioned numerous times how my brother is a retired NYPD captain and now a professor at Molloy College. I respect his views on policing. They should not be defunded nor should school safety be sent back to DOE.
The dems have said it, repeatedly.
That's why there is an election. Vote your beliefs or for whomever you believe will do the least amount of harm or whatever. That's how I vote. Doesn't matter whether they are dem or rep. However Donny is playing president. He doesn't have a plan for Covid because like fairy dust it'll just disappear. He is on the Republican ticket but he's a new kind of Republican. Anyway he is demanding that you go back into the cesspool in September so that his pockets can stay fat. He said it at the beginning of his presidential run: "i can stand on 5th ave and shoot somebody and my people will still vote for me". He knows his market. Maybe dems have a significant amount of the black vote. It's no different from the Republicans having a significant number of white voters. IMO Black whites whatever both parties use the working class. They pit us against each other using race. Vote for who you like. It's the American way.
@NYCMayor
@BilldeBlasio
Is a racist, anti-Semitic Marxist who should have been removed from office by
@NYGovCuomo
for incompetence, malfeasance, and inciting violence.
NYC’s de Blasio Bans Large Events – but Exempts Black Lives Matter Protests
http://ow.ly/QtDE50Av15Q
For example...
Radical left now targeting a CEO for daring to say something nice about
@realDonaldTrump
Pathetic
This is the company the left wing mob now wants to cancel: “Goya recently donated thousands of pounds of food to families in the Bronx and Harlem who have been affected by COVID-19. The company also made a big donation to a public school in Queens.”
@Joe seems informed. Can you share any insight about Intraracial crime? Where specifically did you read that all criminals get out of jail immediately with no bail?
Who are the "they" who want criminals to have guns? Finally, some cops are criminals too. Those are the cops who give ALL good cops a bad name. The bad cops are worse than criminals. Why? The criminal is doing what a criminal does..breaks the law. Let's not pretend that your so-called "they" are the boogie man or woman. Hate and evil is all over the place but so is love and kindness. Hopefully the latter wins whether dem or rep. USA. USA. I want the USA to be its strongest and best. It will NEVER EVER get there divided or by trying to keep the status quo. That hasn't worked so time for something new.
Murder, burglary and grand larceny auto crimes have spiked in New York City this past month compared to the same period last year, while rape, robbery and grand larceny crimes have declined, according to New York Police Department statistics.
There have been 38 murders over the last 28 days, twice as much as the same period last year, according to NYPD stats as of up to June 14. So far this year, there have been 159 murders, which is 25% higher than last year, the stats show.
This year's murder count is on par with New York's murder total five years ago and is well below the elevated murder totals of the decades before that, NYPD data shows.
Shooting incidents in 2020 are also up, with 394 happening to date, a 24% increase from the 317 shooting incidents at this point last year.
There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means
There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means
"The uptick in violence, I haven't seen anything this bad in a long time," said a law enforcement official. "This is the worst I've seen it in six or seven years."
The uptick in murders is tied to gang and drug activity, with drug dealers fighting over territory, another law enforcement official said.
This week's crime stats were released as New York's criminal justice system adjusts to three seismic changes: the coronavirus pandemic, the effects of the state's bail reform law, and the mass protests opposed to police brutality and racism against black people spurred by the killing of George Floyd.
In addition, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced a "seismic shift" in its culture Monday by disbanding its plainclothes anti-crime team and reassigning those 600 officers to other roles.
"What we always struggle with, I believe, as police executives, is not keeping crime down. It's keeping crime down and keeping the community with us, and I think those two things, at times, have been at odds," Shea said.
The coronavirus pandemic and its mass unemployment has hammered state and local tax revenue and is likely to lead to layoffs and spending cuts to New York City's budget. Combined with protesters' calls to "defund the police," the NYPD could see significant decreases in its budget in the coming year.
Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he plans to move some funding from the NYPD to youth and social services.
A group of city council members has proposed to cut $1 billion from the NYPD's nearly $6 billion budget. The mayor's press secretary says de Blasio "does not believe a $1 billion cut is the way to maintain safety."
And on Tuesday, de Blasio announced a new policy requiring all body camera footage of incidents to be released in 30 days if a police firearm is discharged or if an officer's Taser or use of force causes death or great bodily harm.
For example...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A recidivist offender who was arrested three times in less than two weeks, for allegedly stealing a credit card he used for a shopping spree, evading police during a high-speed chase and smashing an MTA bus window, was released without bail on two of the three occasions after criminal justice reforms went into effect on Jan. 1.
25-year-old Emeka Aduba’s streak of arrests began after he allegedly stole a credit card on Nov. 27 from the center console of a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee in Mariners Harbor before going on a shopping excursion at Jimmy Jazz inside of the Staten Island Mall, according to a criminal complaint.
“I went to a car,'' Aduba allegedly told police after he was arrested on Dec. 28. "I needed money and I saw credit cards and weed and so I took the stuff and shopped at Jimmy Jazz.”
He was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and two counts of petit larceny and fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property.
A District Attorney spokesman said bail would have been requested if the new bail reform laws did not go into effect at the start of the new year.
Just over a week later, authorities allege that Aduba swiped a white BMW 650i, which he used to recklessly speed down a one-way residential street in Grymes Hill on Jan. 7.
Police allegedly clocked Aduba driving 90 mph in a 25-mph-zone before running a red light at the corner of Van Duzer Street and Hillside Avenue.
When officers turned on their sirens in an effort to stop Aduba, he fled down Van Duzer Street and ran another red light as he passed Vanderbilt Avenue, the criminal complaint alleges.
Authorities say that Aduba then continued fleeing officers by jumping onto the Staten Island Expressway and weaving in-and-out of other cars while traveling approximately 90 mph before he lost control of the stolen BMW and slammed into the guardrail of the Expressway.
@10:40 am: It's America. Wjy aren't Jewish. Whites. Blue. Out there raising their voices? What makes you so angry about blacks speaking up about injustice? Would you prefer to keep the status quo? Do you want blacks to just %itch and moan amongst ourselves and hope something changes? Trust me when I say just as the Civil Rights act benefited all people, so will this. Speak up if you are tired of being treated as if you don't matter. In March both your employer and union allowed you to walk into danger. I continuously read about your anger and rage (rightfully so). Why aren't you out there protesting for your rights? Teachers lives matter. I haven't seen any marchers or even newspaper articles or anything. Nope. You're angry that black folks are taking action because we are treated differently. I've experienced it. It's not fake or political. What's the problem? It's America. Jewish. White. Blue. Asian. Hispanic. Biracial. Gay. Straight. Other. Doesn't matter. There's enough room for you to join a protest. Look at the rainbow of protesters. Not all protesters are doing the right thing but isn't that in every organization? Some folks just don't do the right thing but you shouldn't blame All. That's what I heard. Anywho November will be here soon enough. Either Donny or Joe will be elected.
2016 FBI...
2870 blacks killed by homicide
2570 black offender
@11:09 am: Maybe he is waiting for Dunce I mean Donny to denounce QAnon. Or Breitbart or Bannon. Has he done so. I'm waiting for him to do so and maybe I will vote for him.
Trump is beyond ignorant. He reminds me of Archie Bunker. His own niece. Former staffers. Hey he can't keep staff. However he does know his market: The Fearful. He strokes it. As we get closer to election he will trot out: they want to rape our women. They want to kill your children. They want to take your jobs. Hey just google 1950s and 1960s southern politician speeches. You will find his play book. The big bad black man is coming to get you but elect me I will protect you from my fortress. However, You can't come into my fortress. You are too poor and not like me and my kind. You are the working class.
Oh look, AOC asking people to boycott Goya and eliminating over 4000 Hispanics jobs
@11:26am: do you also question the white vote?
We are not the radical left. You are arguing with a strawman.
@ James: I agree. I have too many friends and family who are NYPD. Defunding is ridiculous. Removing school safety to DOE is a joke.
It looks like some minds are not open or willing to come to the table and hash out a better Everything so that we all can live together.
We're regular teachers looking to protect our rights. AOC on goya, not a big concern. AOC on public schools, I will listen closely.
I take the last comment back. Maybe we should boycott Goya
The CEO of GOYA Foods, Robert Unanue, paid a visit to the White House and lavishly praised Donald Trump on Thursday. His support for a president who puts kids in cages, dismissed and paper toweled Puerto Rico, and who describes Latinos as thugs and rapists has sparked a social media backlash with trending hashtags of #BoycottGoya, and #Goyaway.
The Unanue family, one of America’s richest, are billionaires; perfect buddies for The Donald. Let’s see how they react to people deciding not to add a pinch of GOYA Adobo to their meals.
Plenty of whites vote dem. Almost 0% blacks vote gop. Easily researched.
I must say the 1% are good at creating and maintaining divisiveness: by race. They will fight over the crumbs based on race. We can keep our money. The working class will continue to be working class for generations just as long as they think one group is better than the other group. We are arguing for ground beef and they have Kobe steak. Amazing.
Now that you have the huge mural, how we gonna get the crime rate down, the single parent household rate down...And the grad rate up?
You bozos apparently didn't read what the article was about. I think the president's name was mentioned once or twice. The vast majority of comments here are off topic.
I take full responsibility Nerd. I opened the door by putting Trump's school opening statement in the posting.
Waiting for Support, You are 100% right. I think one or two of the Trump supporters here try to inflame things every chance that they get. It is classic divide and conquer. One I am not even sure is a teacher.
Can we try to focus on what we are united on as working teachers rather than what divides us please?
Anyone want to opine on reopening school buildings, our focus most of July?
The uft sucks. Are we united?
The Washington Post
The Post Most
(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting himself
In lengthy monologues, Trump portrays a deadly pandemic, stalled economy and deep-seated racial unrest as happening to him rather than the country.
Sorry he just sucks too much to ignore.
4:07, I guess being angry at the people who run the UFT is what unites the readers here left, center, right and apolitical.
But 99%+ keep paying dues? Why is that?
I think the commenters said it is more anti dem than pro trump.
We have been over this a million times. Being in a union is better than not having one. Opt out time is over for this year. Please don't push it now to disenfranchise people in next spring's chapter elections.
Is this not denial? CNN’s chris Cuomo Finally Admits Homicides Are Rising, Blames it On States Reopening.
We don't just vote as teachers. At least I don't. I cannot support democrats who side with BLM and are anti cop, anti free speech. I think for myself. But it's easier to dismiss people like me by just claiming I'm Fox News brainwashed. Calling Trump Donny won't cancel my vote just like my calling Biden Sleepy, creepy I-ask-kids-permission-to-touch-them, corrupt, senile Joey will not cancel yours. Both sides have heals dug in. In November we find out exactly how many people are on each side.
It is amazing media can have 93% negative coverage and people will believe it. I shame any of my jewish friends who vote democratic. Best dems can do is Biden 40 years if being on wrong side of everything!! If XInn and msdnc were fair and balanced perception of Trump would not be like this.
If a dem president was in office during this pandemic no chance it goes off rails like this. Cancel culture, no tolerance unless have same ideas, schools and colleges liberal all going to shit. So tired of this, liberal media been wrong on nearly everything and we are supposed to trust your political opinion lol Trump far from perfect but at his worst would be Joe Bidens Best.
Trump makes it easy to criticize him with his stupid tweets and outrageous statements. Most politicians are a bit narcissistic but Trump takes it to a new level.
Now he is using opening school buildings as a cynical way to boost his poll numbers. This is sick. You want to be guinea pigs in September so his poll numbers can rise.
What has he done for you besides stoking racial divisions? That seems to be all you care about. Trump's tax cut didn't help us because of the elimination of the SALT deduction. You cannot say he has handled coronavirus very well. The US numbers are the worst in the world. Just the results please. Federal government is supreme over the states. Trump gets more blame than governors. Telling states to reopen too soon is fueling COVID-19 now.
MSNBC is neoLiberal. Do you even know what that means?
Trump will lose NY by about 30 points. You aren't convincing too many people. Your roll I guess is to be an annoyance here.
What are you talking about? Trump is doing the people's business. Look at this.
Trump commutes sentence of confidant Roger Stone
Stone was set to go to prison July 14 for lying to Congress and witness tampering. President Trump has labeled the prosecution a “Witch Hunt” on Twitter and has amplified Stone’s claims of juror bias during his federal trial last year.
Why worry about a pandemic? Gotta get cronies out of jail.
Trump is the best. Look at this one:
After months of decline, U.S. coronavirus death rate begins to rise
A dramatic surge in confirmed infections across the South and West inundated hospitals with ill patients.
Huff Post.Leadership by wishful thinking. I think this is the Onion that was in original posting.
In another unfounded bout of wishful thinking about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump said Friday that areas where coronavirus cases have surged are “going to be fine.”
In an interview with Noticias Telemundo, reporter José DÃaz-Balart noted the recent increases in COVID-19 infections in the U.S. and asked Trump if the country was “losing the war” against the virus.
“We are winning the war. We have areas that flamed up and they’re going to be fine over a period of time,” the president responded, according to a transcript from Telemundo.
“It flared up in areas where they thought it was ending, and that would be Florida, Texas, a couple of other places,” Trump later added of the virus. “They’re going to have it under control very quickly.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to lead the world in coronavirus cases and deaths, with more than 3.1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 133,000 dead from the virus in the country so far. Recently, the U.S. has repeatedly set new global records for the highest number of reported coronavirus cases per day, hitting over 59,800 daily cases on Thursday.
@10:47 Obama pardoned over 200 people Trump pardoned 20. I don't mind having disagreements when media has attacked since before day 1.Bullshit impeachments were set up its hard to take anyones point against trump seriously. Dems so quick to lash out yet, california, minnesota, chicago, new york all disasters and run by dems.
These teens and young adults using tik toc a chinese app from a communist regime who is taking information and doing inhumane things to hong kong and putting muslims in concentration camps, guys are so woke!
Pelosi and AOC are going to be the puppet presidents if Biden wins. There goes America.
3 million cases of Covid 19 and 133,000 dead people and the best t you can do is say Obama pardoned more. You are in the bunker with Trump. I don't know how to reprogram you. I do feel bad for you.
CNN
German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to take a shot at President Donald Trump in a speech to the European Parliament. "As we are experiencing firsthand, you cannot fight the pandemic with lies and disinformation any more than you can fight it with hate or incitement to hatred," she said.
67% of Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of coronavirus and race relations. Even some Republicans have had it. C'mon commenters. You can do it too.
@Anon2323: So Trump is the best Republican to be president or just the incumbent who you think tells the kind of truth that you can tolerate? Is he really the best the Republicans have to offer? I listen to both liberal and conservative news. Trump is a liar. Crook. Bully. Delusional. Ignorant. Incompetent. Child like. Unstable. I can go on and on but if you believe he is the best you got then he's the best you got. November is election day. If he's reelected so be it. The people have spoken.
@10:38 am: Trump is doing his best. Lol. This is his bestest. He's a real man because he doesn't wear a mask. Just you wait and see...this panoramic or Panasonic or Pretoria will soon just disappear. It's not even real. Hey how do we even know if people are really dying? It's a liberal hoax because they won't play along with me...i mean they hate me...i mean hey where's my big mac? The Petunia is a hoax so vote for me. I don't have a platform but my followers know that I am going to drain the swing i mean the swamp. Hey where's my ketchup? Obama took my ketchup. Everyone knows it. Even my friend Russian friend Pulling likes me best. Im be Best. Hey did you add cheese to my biggie mac? Too bad they shot him and toopacks. Those black wrappers loved me almost as much as Kandie West. Okay i go sleep sleep now.
@Anon: Trump is a liar a bad one at it. Did Obama pardon his cronies? Why isn't Trump leading the country? Does he know that's his job. Now he wants to be re-elected? He's chasing Obama but he can't catch him because A$$ doesn't meet Class. It won't happen. Vote for him. However he is of poor character. Why the hell would his own flesh and blood expose him? Why can't he keep a cabinet? Come on now. Come onnnn. This man goes through staff like water through a faucet. Somebody take the briefcase and codes from Donny. You seem to really be down for him. He's the best person for the job. He meets your standards so vote for him. He has made America the laughing stock. China. Russia. Korea. Canada. Europe. They laugh at him. It's embarrassing.
Watch what happens in November. Folks will come out of their bunkers and voila: Another 4 years of Crazy Town. Don't sleep on these Trumpeters and Trumpets. They love his koolaid.
ohhh waiting Obama was terrible especially second term, his town of chicago a disaster still is, country divided, gives 150 billion to iran Obama told russia got caught on camera saying he will be more flexible he coudlnt even make juneteenth a national holiday etc etc. Biden is horrible 40 years of mistakes while his son makes million with china!
In 3 years trump has best stock market, lowest unemployment, no wars, jobs back in USA, way better usmca deal, more law and order unlike most dem mayors who suck .If 93% talk about you is negative my mindset would be fixed. I never say trump is perfect, between annoying tweets, devos, SALT tax I have issues.
Maybe Trump can commute or pardon all the ATR’s—because they too did nothing wrong and are being treated unfairly.
Don't care what Trump says, does because the democrats support an anti white, anti free speech cancel culture agenda. Even Libs are abandoning ship. Everyone's a liberal until the looting and vandalism hit their neighborhood. But keep up the name calling, I'm sure that will convince Trump voters to change course.
Shit jobs, unions weakened, we're still in f'ing Afghanistan, endless wars, allies laughing at us, inequality worse than ever, money to private and charter schools, judges who almost never support workers over corporations or government, the swamp worse than ever,oh and did I mention coronavirus out of control? Over 130,000 dead. Please compare us to other countries on this. Let us not forget the divisive racial rhetoric.
Open your eyes. We can't take four more years of this crap.I am voting for the senile guy.
I forgot North Korea more nuclear than ever. We get screwed in negotiations and that deal with Mexico and Canada is an environmental problem. I will concede that Trump did not escalate conflict with Iran. Best move of his four years to defy neocons.
WaPo
Once-mocked ‘Never Trump’ movement emerges as a campaign force
The “Never Trump” rebellion that began four years ago as a largely ineffective cadre of appalled Republicans has transformed into a potentially disruptive entity in this year’s presidential race.
The movement seeks to build a national political operation to oust both the president and his supporters in Congress, with a particular emphasis on persuading white suburban voters who consider themselves true Republicans to break from the president.
Why is the USA so behind in winning the Covid battle? Whyyyyyy??
You sound like every other person who "don't care" blah blah. You have a vote in November and so do I.
Anon: so as long as the economy is doing "well" to hell with the social climate of the country? What do you mean he's done more "law and order"? Sorry, DoNobyl has made the USA the laughing stock of the world. Why can't he get ahold of Covid and turn it around like he's done the economy? He's the be best so he should be able to turn it around and make it disappear. He's done nothing to help our climate. Economics and not people. The people will have their say in November. It's another 4 years of him or Biden. If you are still teaching, you will be back to work either way.
Anyone who relies on any POTUS for health or medical directives should consider taking more responsibility for his or her own life. Anyone who thinks we would be better off now, regarding CoVid, under Obama or Hillary Clinton is misguided. Obama and Hillary Clinton admittedly had little regard for human life, as their support of abortion clearly indicates.
As a teacher, I really don't care what Trump says about the public schools. I think he knows public schools in the US are corrupt, money pits pushing a liberal agenda that all tax payers must support. I do care about what Cuomo and DeBlasio say about the schools. They are our local leaders who have the authority over our schools.
I would like to read less about Trump and more about our local politicians and what they are doing or not doing.
We are the laughingstock of the world and some of these ridiculous comments make this the laughingstock of the teacher union blog boards. I see how MAGAs operate. Just ignore reality and create an alternate world in which COVID-19 doesn't really mean much.
I think Obama or Clinton would have handled this better.
Soon after McConnell made his playbook comment, Ronald Klain, the White House Ebola response coordinator from October 2014 to February 2015, tweeted out a link to a document titled “Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.”
SOURCES:
Brookings, “How Instability and High Turnover on the Trump Staff Hindered the Response to COVID-19,” May 7, 2020
CNN, “Fact-Check: McConnell Claims Obama Didn’t Leave Trump a Pandemic ‘Game Plan.’ Obama Left a 69-Page Playbook,” May 12, 2020
CNN, “Ex-Homeland Security Adviser: Our Playbook Was ‘Ignored,’” May 12, 2020
CNN, “Ex-Obama Official: We Left Trump Detailed Pandemic Playbook,” May 12, 2020
Congressional Research Service, “Presidential Transition Act: Provisions and Funding,” Oct. 5, 2016
C-SPAN, “President Trump White House Departure,” May 14, 2020
Document Cloud, “Pandemic Playbook,” March 2020
Email exchange with Eric Schultz, senior adviser to Barack Obama, May 12, 2020
Email exchange with Lawrence Gostin, professor at Georgetown University Law
The document, originally unearthed in March by Politico, is a 69-page National Security Council guidebook developed in 2016 with the goal of assisting leaders “in coordinating a complex U.S. Government response to a high-consequence emerging disease threat anywhere in the world.” It outlined questions to ask, who should be asked to get the answers and what key decisions should be made.
Nicole Lurie, another Obama administration official, confirmed to us the existence of the NSC pandemic playbook and also said similar documents were created for the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and
Lurie said there were tabletop exercises, which included planning for a pandemic-like situation, during the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations. (The Trump administration also conducted an exercise — known as “Crimson Contagion” — in 2019.)
“They were extensively briefed, to the extent that they paid attention to these things during the transition,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, who directed USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.
“We absolutely did leave a plan. It was called a playbook,” said Lisa Monaco, former homeland security adviser to President Obama. The goal, she said, was to share the lessons learned during the Ebola and Zika outbreaks.
Meanwhile, Peter Loge, who served as a senior adviser within Obama’s Food and Drug Administration, told KHN he remembered a very clear message from the HHS secretary regarding the presidential transition.
“Our job was to set up the Trump political staff for success, and we took that mandate very seriously,” said Loge. He and his colleagues wrote memos to inform the Trump staff about priority issues. “But nobody called me and asked what I was doing in my job,” said Loge.
Obama's people were ignored by Trump. Facts don't matter to MAGAS. They would rather another four years of this shit show.
President Hillary Clinton announces that every case of COVID-19 has now been traced to its source
Jul 08, 2020 5:14pm Eastern Daylight Time by Mark Sumner, Daily Kos Staff
This is, sadly enough, not a news story. Instead, it’s a tale of speculative fiction. However, it’s not “high fantasy.” There are no elves or dragons to be found, and the setting isn’t in some mythical land. Neither is it science fiction, because it doesn’t call for any technology or discovery not all in evidence. It’s more a story out of alternative history—alternative present, really—with a focus on what could have been.
This is a grand “what if” of a United States that isn’t trailing the globe in its response to the COVID-19 crisis. A United States that hasn’t racked up a disproportionate, and still growing, portion of the world’s deaths. A United States that hasn’t treated a pandemic as an “opportunity” to punish states that elected Democratic governors, and Black communities, and immigrants. A United States that hasn’t come to live with scorn for science, medicine, expertise of all types, and plain old common sense. It’s an image of what could have been. With images.
Back in mid-May, The New York Times looked at the success of women leaders in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Whether it was Angela Merkel in Germany running up a far lower death rate than neighbors in France or Italy; 34-year-old Prime Minster Sanna Marin in Finland whose all-women-led coalition came up with a plan leading to just 6% of the deaths in Sweden; President Tsai Ing-wen leading Taiwan through a plan so successful that the total number of deaths for the whole event to date is 7; or all-star Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, who was proclaimed the most effective leader on Earth in uniting her country to completely eradicate the disease there. Women: They got the job done.
As of Monday, New Zealand had 23 cases of COVID-19, all of them being carefully monitored in isolation. The United States had 1,620,520, and states were waving the white flag on even attempting to conduct contact tracing or case management. While these women-led nations show the world that dedicated leadership on testing, contact tracing, case management, social distancing, and protective measures can successfully reduce the death rate and contain the disease, the United States has become the poster child for how to do every possible thing absolutely wrong.
Jim Jones had the same kind of hold on his believers? Constituents? People? I don't want to disrespect those who believe in him. I just wish he had a better hold on how to be an authentic leader for everyone. First do no harm while a medical oath it is applicable for the office of the president. This is what we call a ---t show. Oh dios mio.
Sarah Cooper should be Biden's veep.
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