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Cartoon: Nancy Pelosi Comforts Donald Trump

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Lest We Forget: The Federal Court In NY's Southern District Has Already Found Trump Guilty

Roger Stone: Members Of Trump's Inner Circle Are Unusually Likely To Be Convicted Felons

Illegal Immigrants Commit Crime At A Considerably Lower Rate Than Trump's Inner Sanctum

Trump Ordered By Judge To Pay $2 Million To Eight Charities For Illegal Use Of Foundation

A Heated Discussion Provoked By The Proposition That Trump's "Best People" Are More Likely To Be Felons Than Illegal Immigrants

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Journalist David Cay Johnston Calls Trump "One Of The Most Successful Criminals In America"And "The Greatest Con Artist In The History Of The World"

David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... There Is A Traitor In The White House"
Trump's Alleged Mob Ties

"You've Been Trumped" (made in 2011, 4 years before Trump's presidential campaign) is the most revealing Trump documentary.
It was produced, directed, filmed and financed in Scotland where Malignant Messiah presumed he could push around an entire native community whose ancestors lived in that place for hundreds if not thousands of years.
This film reveals "The Asshole" at his most loathesome.

"Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Country"


"Locked Up" - Why Is America So Mean?

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Tom Magnuson: Some thoughts on our most garish exceptionalism, our exceptional violence:
Locked Up | John F. Pfaff

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Locked Up | John F. Pfaff

The desire to punish is more deeply ingrained than we would like to think, and it applies to violent and nonviolent crimes alike.

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  • The author, intent on protecting Corrections Officer unions, focused on how vengeful we Americans are; very stimulating reading.

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  • The author marvels at violence in America and the violence of the electorate. When we see injustice in the application of justice we tend to want the lesser punishment dispensed to the well connected be increased to the greater punishment applied to th… 
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  • The author overlooks entirely the baleful impact of private sector prisons which he avers constitute just 8% of budgeted monies for prisons. He overlooks the fact that these share-holder driven corporations can afford to spend a great deal in increment… 
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  • So, maybe we should consider if we are a mean and violent people, why are a mean and violent people? The reason being, mean and violent seems to be much, much more expensive than peaceful and compassionate. So I beg you to consider the issue if for no … 
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    • I consider myself a Christian. But I am also convinced that we remake ourselves in the image of our gods and that for at least 150,000,000 Americans, God is not only vengeful and punitive but has designed the Universe so that eternal, inescapable torment is the divinely-ordained destiny of most humans.
      If one reads the Book of Revelation literally (as many do) there will only be 144,000 “saved” souls.
      The rest will roast in a Lake of Unquenchable Fire whose purpose is not even reformative but sheerly torturous.
      This vision of divinity not only makes room for cruelty and meanness, it obliges cruelty and meanness.
      The faithful (and I must be clear that I am referring to faithful “conservative” “Christians” are — not only understandably, but necessarily — made in the image of their God.
      Then there is the militant self-righteousness of subscribing to the one true Faith, an arrogant belief system that has devolved into Manifest Destiny and “the white man’s burden.”
      If conservative Christianity’s visión of Armageddon comes to pass, It will not be a divinely-ordained event, but rather a self-fulfilling prophecy wrought by flabbergastingly small-minded people
      Jesuit friend Tom Weston observed that ‘you can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do.’

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    •  this reminds me of a friend's observation--how the Spanish at the time of colonization were steeped in religious imagery of gruesome suffering and blood, her theory was that this habituated them on some level to killing. But in general I don't accept critiques of Fundamentalist ideas as solid critiques of the entire scope of Christianity. It seems to me that Fundamentalist movements in any faith are toxic, defensive, vengeful and bullying and leave behind sensible ideas like kindness, spiritual modesty (the possibility that we cannot fully know divine will) and the universal obligation to love.

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    •  Thanks for your comment. I agree that throwing out the baby with the bathwater is a terrible idea. To prevent this detrimental conclusion I began with a statement of my Christianity, followed by clarification that "I am referring to faithful 'conservative''Christians' are — not only understandably, but necessarily — made in the image of their God."

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  • We are a mean and violent people because we have a mean and violent history which we chose to aggrandize. We seldom mention alternatives that actually worked. For instance, American history with North America's Native Peoples, generally focuses on sla… 
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    •  ...I've often said that a relationship that begins in a bar, ends in a bar. I think the same is true for countries. Those that begin with deceit and violence will end in deceit and violence.

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    •  I hope you are wrong. I want to think that we can overcome our prejudices. Can you offer an example of a country that began without deceit and violence?

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  • Our meanness and violence are most obvious in our policing in which wholesale violence is condoned by all but the violated. The basic values of meanness and violence are at the core of the militarized police. We have been actively waging war almost co… 
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  • I'd make that 1950 on the constant war front, Tom. But that is just part of our heritage. We have only had 17 years of peace in our history.

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  • I consider the Vietnam war, Iraq invasion, torture and the Afghan wars to be examples of violence and meanness, too easily justified.

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"El Niño En La Tumba," Hans Christian Andersen

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"El Niño En La Tumba"

Hans Christian Andersen


Había luto en la casa, y luto en los corazones: el hijo menor, un niño de 4 años, el único varón, alegría y esperanza de sus padres, había muerto. Cierto que aún quedaban dos hijas; precisamente aquel mismo año la mayor iba a ser confirmada. Las dos eran buenas y dulces, pero el hijo que se va es siempre el más querido; y ahora, sobre ser el único varón, era el benjamín. ¡Dura prueba para la familia! Las hermanas sufrían como sufren por lo general los corazones jóvenes, impresionadas sobre todo por el dolor de los padres; el padre estaba anonadado, pero la más desconsolada era la madre. Día y noche había permanecido de pie, a la cabecera del enfermo, cuidándolo, atendiéndolo, mimándolo. Más que nunca sentía que aquel niño era parte de sí misma. No le cabía en la mente la idea de que estaba muerto, de que lo encerrarían en un ataúd y lo depositarían en una tumba. Dios no podía quitarle a su hijo, pensaba; y cuando ya hubo ocurrido la desgracia, cuando no cabía incertidumbre, exclamó la mujer en la desesperación de su dolor:
-¡Es imposible que Dios se haya enterado! ¡En la Tierra tiene servidores sin corazón, que obran a su capricho, sin atender a las oraciones de una madre!
Así perdió su confianza en Dios; en su mente se filtraron pensamientos tenebrosos, pensamientos de muerte, miedo a la muerte eterna, temor de que el hombre fuese sólo polvo y de que en polvo terminase todo. Con estas ideas no tenía nada a que asirse, y así iba hundiéndose en la nada sin fondo de la desesperación.
En la hora más difícil no podía ya llorar, ni pensaba en las dos hijas que le quedaban; las lágrimas de su esposo le caían sobre la frente, pero no levantaba los ojos a él. Sus pensamientos giraban constantemente en torno al hijo muerto; su vida ya no parecía tener más objeto que evocar las gracias de su pequeño, recordar sus inocentes palabras infantiles.
Llegó el momento del entierro. Ella llevaba varias noches sin dormir, y por la madrugada la venció el cansancio y quedó sumida en breve letargo. Entretanto llevaron el féretro a una habitación apartada, para que no oyera los martillazos.
Al despertarse quiso ver a su hijito, pero su marido le dijo llorando:
-Hemos cerrado el ataúd. ¡Había que hacerlo!
-Si Dios se muestra tan duro conmigo -exclamó ella amargamente-, ¿por qué han de ser más piadosos los hombres? –
Y prorrumpió en un llanto desesperado.
Llevaron el féretro a la sepultura, mientras la desconsolada madre permanecía junto a sus hijas, mirándolas sin verlas, siempre con el pensamiento lejos del hogar. Se abandonaba a su dolor, y éste la sacudía como el mar sacude la embarcación cuando ha perdido la vela y los remos. Así pasó el día del entierro, y siguieron otros, igualmente tristes y sombríos. Las niñas y el padre la miraban con ojos húmedos y expresión desolada, pero ella no oía sus palabras de consuelo. Por otra parte, ¿qué podían decirle cuando a todos les alcanzaba la misma desgracia?
Sólo el sueño hubiera podido consolarla, mitigar en algo su pena, restituir las fuerzas a su cuerpo y la paz a su alma. Pero se diría que ya no lo conocía; a lo sumo, consentía en echarse en la cama, donde quedaba inmóvil como si durmiese. Una noche, su esposo, escuchando su respiración, creyó que por fin había encontrado alivio y reposo, por lo que, juntando las manos, rezó una oración y se quedó profundamente dormido. Por eso no se dio cuenta de que ella se levantaba y, después de vestirse, salía sigilosamente de la casa para dirigirse al lugar donde de día y de noche tenía fijo el pensamiento: junto a la tumba de su hijo. Atravesó el jardín que rodeaba la casa, salió al campo y tomó un sendero que, dejando a un lado la ciudad, conducía al cementerio. Nadie la vio, ni ella vio a nadie.
Era una bella noche estrellada, con el aire aún cálido y suave, pues corría el mes de septiembre. La mujer entró en el cementerio y se encaminó hacia la pequeña sepultura, que parecía un enorme y fragante ramo de flores. Se sentó e inclinó la cabeza sobre la losa, como si a través de aquella delgada capa de tierra le fuese dado ver a su hijito, cuya cariñosa sonrisa guardaba grabada en la mente. No se le había borrado tampoco la hermosa expresión de sus ojos, incluso cuando el niño yacía en su lecho de muerte. ¡Qué expresiva había sido su mirada, cuando ella se agachaba sobre el pequeño y le cogía la manita, aquella manita que él no podía ya levantar! Como había permanecido sentada a la cabecera del lecho, así velaba ahora junto a su tumba; pero aquí las lágrimas fluían copiosas, cayendo sobre la sepultura.
-¡Quisieras ir con tu hijo! -dijo de pronto una voz a su lado, una voz que sonó clara y grave y le penetró en el corazón. La mujer alzó la mirada y vio junto a ella a un hombre envuelto en un amplio manto funerario, con la capucha bajada sobre la cara. Pero ella le vio el rostro por debajo; era severo, y, sin embargo, inspiraba confianza; los ojos brillaban como si su dueño estuviese aún en los años de juventud.
-¡Ir con mi hijo! -repitió ella, con acento de súplica desesperada.
-¿Te atreverías a seguirme? -preguntó la figura-. ¡Soy la Muerte!
La mujer inclinó la cabeza en señal de asentimiento, y de repente le pareció que todas las estrellas brillaban sobre su cabeza con el resplandor de la luna llena; vio la magnificencia de colores de las flores depositadas en la tumba, la tierra se abrió lenta y suavemente cual un lienzo flotante y la madre se hundió, mientras la figura extendía a su alrededor el negro manto. Se hizo la noche, la noche de la muerte; ella se hundió a mayor profundidad de la que alcanza la pala; el cementerio quedaba allí arriba, como un tejado sobre su cabeza.
Se corrió de un lado la punta del manto, y la madre se encontró en una inmensa sala, enorme y acogedora. Aunque reinaba la penumbra, vio ante ella a su hijo, que en el mismo momento se arrojó a sus brazos. Le sonreía, irradiando una belleza superior aún a la que tenía en vida. Ella lanzó un grito que no pudo oírse, pues muy cerca de ella sonaba una música deliciosa, primero muy cerca, más lejana después, y que volvió a aproximarse. Nunca habían herido sus oídos sones tan celestiales; le llegaban del otro lado de la espesa cortina negra que separaba la sala del inmenso ámbito de la eternidad.
-¡Mi dulce, mi querida madre! -oyó que exclamaba el niño. Era su voz, tan conocida; y ella lo devoraba a besos, presa de una dicha infinita. El niño señaló la oscura cortina.
-¡No es tan bonito allá en la Tierra! ¿Ves, madre, ves a todos estos? ¡Mira qué felices somos!
Pero la madre nada veía, ni allá donde le indicaba su hijo; nada sino la negra noche. Veía con sus ojos terrenales, pero no como veía el niño a quien Dios había llamado a sí. Oía los sones, la música, mas no la palabra en la que hubiera podido creer.
-¡Ahora puedo volar, madre! -dijo el pequeño-, volar con todos los demás niños felices, directamente hacia Dios Nuestro Señor. ¡Me gustaría tanto hacerlo! Pero cuando tú lloras como lo haces en este momento, no puedo separarme de ti. ¡Y me gustaría tanto! ¿No me dejas? Pronto vendrás a reunirte conmigo, madre mía.
-¡Oh, quédate, quédate aún un instante, sólo un instante! -le rogó ella-. ¡Deja que te mire aún otra vez, que te bese y te tenga en mis brazos!
Y lo besó y estrechó contra su corazón. Desde lo alto, alguien pronunció su nombre, y los sones llegaban impregnados de una tristeza infinita. ¿Qué era?
-¿Oyes? -dijo el niño-. ¡Es el padre, que te llama!
Y un momento después se escucharon profundos sollozos, como de niños que lloraban.
-¡Son mis hermanas! -dijo el niño-. ¡Madre, no las habrás olvidado! Entonces ella se acordó de los que quedaban; la sobrecogió una angustia indecible. Miró ante sí y vio unas figuras flotantes, algunas de las cuales creyó reconocer. Avanzaban en el aire por la sala de la Muerte hacia la oscura cortina y desaparecían detrás de ella. ¿No se le aparecerían su marido, sus hijas? No, su llamada, sus suspiros, seguían llegando de lo alto. Había faltado poco para que se olvidase de ellos, absorbida en el recuerdo del muerto.
-¡Madre, ahora suenan las campanas del cielo! -dijo el niño- Madre, ahora sale el sol.
Y sobre ella cayó un torrente de cegadora luz; el niño se había ido, y ella sintió que la subían hacia las alturas. Hacía frío a su alrededor, y al levantar la cabeza se dio cuenta de que estaba en el cementerio, tendida sobre la tumba de su hijo. Pero Dios, en su sueño, había sido un apoyo para su cuerpo y una luz para su entendimiento. Doblando la rodilla, dijo:
-¡Perdóname, Señor, Dios mío, por haber querido detener el vuelo de un alma eterna, y por haber olvidado mis deberes con los vivos, que confiaste a mi cuidado!
Y al pronunciar estas palabras, un gran alivio se infundió en su corazón. Salió el sol, un avecilla rompió a cantar encima de su cabeza, y las campanas de la iglesia llamaron a maitines. Un santo silencio se esparció en derredor, santo como el que reinaba ya en su corazón. Reconoció nuevamente a su Dios, reconoció sus deberes y volvió presurosa a su casa. Se inclinó sobre su marido, lo despertó con sus besos y le dijo palabras que le salían del alma. Volvía a ser fuerte y dulce como puede serlo la esposa, y de sus labios brotó una rica fuente de consuelo.
-¡Bien hecho está lo que hace Dios!
Le preguntó el marido:
-¿De dónde has sacado de repente esta virtud de consolar a los demás?
Ella lo abrazó y besó a sus hijas.
-¡La recibí de Dios, por mediación de mi hijo muerto!

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Hans Christian Andersen
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Jon Stewart Says The Police Patrol The Segregateds Border Between "Two Americas"

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Alan: The article below is rich with Jon Stewart's keen insight.
In essence...
Emancipation freed the slaves.
But in the wake of de jure emancipation, American police have ensured that black people "know their place" - a place of subjection, containment and "random" extrajudicial killings when black people get "uppity."
Police patrol the border between black and white society, but do so at the behest of the American people, not because the police are infiltrated by a few "bad apples."
It is possible that white America has forgotten (or denies) its foundational role in this "All-American segregation."But make no mistake.
White America is The Disease.
Bad cops are the symptoms.



Pulling Back The Curtain On Psycho-Spiritual Ruses Used By The Right To Deny Factual Truth

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"Confirmation Bias And The Power Of Disconfirming Evidence"  
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/05/confirmation-bias-and-power-of.html

"How Truth Is Determined In Rural America"
An Epistomology That Insures Wrongness And

Alan: If you've never read any metalevel analysis concerning "confirmation bias" and the fundamental emotional/existential pre-determination of what information is "acceptable" and what information MUST be denied, the article below is a good primer.

How A Cognitive Failing Explains Why So Many People Reject The Facts About The Pandemic

Excerpts: In theory, resolving factual disputes should be relatively easy: Just present strong evidence, or evidence of a strong expert consensus. This approach succeeds most of the time, when the issue is, say, the atomic weight of hydrogen. But things don’t work that way when scientific advice presents a picture that threatens someone’s perceived interests or ideological worldview.

In practice, it turns out that one’s political, religious or ethnic identity quite effectively predicts one’s willingness to accept expertise on any given politicized issue...

The human talent for rationalization is a product of many hundreds of thousands of years of adaptation. Our ancestors evolved in small groups, where cooperation and persuasion had at least as much to do with reproductive success as holding accurate factual beliefs about the world. Assimilation into one’s tribe required assimilation into the group’s ideological belief system – regardless of whether it was grounded in science or superstition. An instinctive bias in favor of one’s “in-group” and its worldview is deeply ingrained in human psychology...

A human being’s very sense of self is intimately tied up with his or her identity group’s status and beliefs. Unsurprisingly, then, people respond automatically and defensively to information that threatens the worldview of groups with which they identify. We respond with rationalization and selective assessment of evidence – that is, we engage in “confirmation bias,” giving credit to expert testimony we like while finding reasons to reject the rest...

Unwelcome information can also threaten in other ways. “System justification” theorists like psychologist John Jost have shown how situations that represent a perceived threat to established systems trigger inflexible thinking...

This kind of affect-laden, motivated thinking (i.e., the process of deciding what evidence to accept based on the conclusion one prefers) explains a wide range of examples of an extreme, evidence-resistant rejection of historical fact and scientific consensus. Have tax cuts been shown to pay for themselves in terms of economic growth? Do communities with high numbers of immigrants have higher rates of violent crime? Did Russia interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
Predictably, expert opinion regarding such matters is treated by partisan media as though evidence is itself inherently partisan.

Denialist phenomena are many and varied, but the story behind them is, ultimately, quite simple. Human cognition is inseparable from the unconscious emotional responses that go with it.

Under the right conditions, universal human traits like in-group favoritism, existential anxiety and a desire for stability and control combine into a toxic, system-justifying identity politics.

Trump Promotes His "Healthcare Deprivation Act"

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Trump’s legal argument for throwing out all of the ACA is a nightmare for Senate Republicans

President Trump insists on the campaign trail that he wants to protect insurance coverage for people with preexisting conditions. His legal team just told the Supreme Court otherwise.
The 82-page brief submitted late Thursday night by Trump’s representatives states crisply that the president wants to get rid of every provision of the Affordable Care Act.
President Trump celebrates the passage of the tax bill with congressional Republicans in December 2017. His lawyers now say everyone who voted for this bill did so intending to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
President Trump celebrates the passage of the tax bill with congressional Republicans in December 2017. His lawyers now say everyone who voted for this bill did so intending to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
Solicitor General Noel Francisco packs in a string of rhetorical flourishes that may draw cheers at a Federalist Society legal conference but will inevitably appear as factual citations to back up attack ads that Democrats plan to run this fall against vulnerable Senate Republicans, in a redux of the messaging that proved so potent in the 2018 midterms.
The Trump team’s core argument is that every Republican who voted for the tax cuts three years ago knowingly voted to destroy the 2010 law in its entirely, not just to get rid of the mandate that individuals buy health insurance. And, because the Supreme Court previously upheld the constitutionality of the law on the grounds that the individual mandate is a tax, Trump’s lawyers say that the whole system became invalid once Congress got rid of the penalty for not carrying health insurance. 
“Nothing the 2017 Congress did demonstrates it would have intended the rest of the ACA to continue to operate in the absence of these ... integral provisions,” Francisco writes in his brief, which is co-signed by four other Trump appointees at the Justice Department. “The entire ACA thus must fall with the individual mandate.”
The brief is full of little gifts like this to Joe Biden and Democrats who hope to ride his coattails down the ballot. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted against repealing Obamacare in 2017, which she touts as evidence of her independence, but then she voted for the tax legislation. This brief can also be used as a cudgel to attack GOP Sens. Thom Tillis (N.C.), Joni Ernst (Iowa) and David Perdue (Ga.), who separately each voted to repeal the underlying law. Recent polls show those three senators are locked in tight races as they seek second terms. Appointed Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), who trails Democratic challenger Mark Kelly in multiple polls, also voted for the tax bill as a member of the House.
From a political perspective, the timing of the Trump administration’s maneuver to get rid of the law, root and branch, is suboptimal for GOP candidates on the ballot this year. The justices are unlikely to make a final decision until after the November election on the legal challenge by Republican state attorneys general, ensuring that this looms as an issue in the fall campaign.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed earlier Thursday that 487,000 people signed up for health-care plans during the special enrollment period on Healthcare.gov after losing their employer-covered plans, probably as a result of the economic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus.
Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee who was vice president when the law was enacted, began a concerted effort during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon to link Trump’s response to the coronavirus with his bid to uproot the ACA. He argued that having survived covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, could be considered a preexisting condition and said this could be used to deny coverage.
“Those survivors, having struggled and won the fight of their lives, would have their peace of mind stolen away at the moment they need it most,” Biden said. “They would live their lives caught in a vise between Donald Trump’s twin legacies: his failure to protect the American people from the coronavirus, and his heartless crusade to take health-care protections away from American families."
 
The House joined the opposition to the lawsuit when Democrats took control of the chamber last year. “Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement responding to the new brief. “If President Trump gets his way, 130 million Americans with pre-existing conditions will lose the ACA’s lifesaving protections and 23 million Americans will lose their health coverage entirely.” (The 23 million figure comes from a recent analysis by the liberal Center for American Progress think tank.)
 
To be sure, Trump’s team maintains that the president still wants to protect people with preexisting conditions but with a new law that replaces the ACA. But he has never presented a plan for how to do so.
White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement that “Obamacare has been an unlawful failure” and “the American people deserve for Congress to work on a bipartisan basis with the President to provide quality, affordable care.”
Perhaps the American people do deserve that, but there is no indication it would actually happen if the law got struck down. 
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd in police custody, for example, it has become increasingly clear that no meaningful federal legislation will be enacted on police reform before the election. Last night, the House advanced a bill drafted by Democrats that would limit qualified immunity for police officers and ban chokeholds, but Trump has threatened to veto it. And a competing proposal in the Senate was filibustered earlier this week after Republicans in that chamber declined to try to negotiate a compromise with Democrats. Similarly, despite the numerous mass shootings of recent years, the Senate has failed to pass any gun control measures.
Privately, some in the Trump administration have urged the president to argue for preserving some parts of the law to avoid political fallout for Republicans in November, especially amid the pandemic. Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly made that case during a private meeting at the White House last month. But he was overruled. 
“If Donald Trump refuses to end his senseless crusade against health coverage,” Biden said Thursday in Lancaster, Pa., “I look forward to ending it for him.”
Pax on both houses: Obamacare Far From Dead Despite Sustained ...

Counterproductive Pro-Trump Cultists In Their Earlier Incarnation

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Abu Graib Torture And Prisoner Abuse
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Best Pax Posts On Punishment And Torture As "Necessary" Methods For Righting Wrongs


"Good Romans" Considered Jesus' Torture Necessary For Imperial Safety

Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others

America's Passion For Punishment And Torture
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/americas-passion-for-punishment-torture.html




Cartoon: "Never Interrupt Your Enemy While He's Making A Mistake," Napoleon


Cartoon: America Re-Opens... And Science Wins

Cartoon: Trump Addresses The Issue Of Confederate Monuments

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Cartoon: 2020 Popular Vote Map

Cartoon: AG Barr Revealed

Cartoon: Patriotism... The Real Deal

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Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of Voter Fraud And Voter Suppression Posts

Trump, Democracy, Mail-In Voting, And Election Fraud

Cartoon: Republicans Can't Win The Oval Office Without Cheating

The Daily Show Interviews Republican Official Who Spills Beans On Deliberate Voter Suppression 
Masquerading As Prevention Of Voter Fraud
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/jon-stewart-asif-mandvi-investigates.html

Republican Party Is "Full Of Racists," Colin Powell's Chief Of Staff
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/10/republican-party-is-full-of-racists.html

"Dog Whistle Politics": Coded Language And The Rise Of Racially Scornful Political Rhetoric

Dirty Trickster Lee Atwater: The GOP SOB At The Heart Of Republican Barbarism (Hidden Mic)


Cartoon: Trump's Tulsa Rally

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Mary Trump once stood up to her uncle Donald. 

Now her book describes a ‘nightmare’ of family 

dysfunction.

"Her book about her uncle — Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created 
the World’s  Most Dangerous Man — is slated to be published next month. "

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President-elect Donald Trump hugs his brother Robert Trump in the crowd after speaking during an election rally in Midtown Manhattan on Nov. 9, 2016. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
 
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Mary L. Trump was embroiled in a feud over her inheritance two decades ago when her uncle Donald Trump and his siblings punched back in classic style. In an obscure court filing, they belittled her, alleging she “lives primarily off the Trump income” and is “not gainfully employed.”
Actually, Mary Trump had embarked on a new career. She studied patients with schizophrenia at Hillsdale Hospital on Long Island for at least six months during this period, meeting with an array of people who were delusional, hallucinatory and suicidal.
Over time, she deepened her studies of the disorder, contributed to a book on treating schizophrenia, wrote a dissertation on stalkers, and became a clinical psychologist. But not since she became part of the lawsuit in 2000 against her uncle has she spoken in detail about what she sees as the disorders of Donald Trump. 
Now her silence could be coming to an end. Her book about her uncle — “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” — is slated to be published next month. The book is so potentially explosive that the Trump family is seeking to block publication, citing a confidentiality agreement that Mary Trump signed as part of a settlement about her inheritance. Mary Trump’s lawyer, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said the president is trying to “suppress a book that will discuss matters of utmost public importance.”
The publisher has not revealed specifics, and Mary Trump, 55, declined an interview request. But clues to her dark view of her uncle can be seen in lawsuits, and interviews with former colleagues and teachers, academic papers and a series of now-deleted tweets, including one that said her uncle’s election was the “worst night of my life.”
A description of the book from publisher Simon & Schuster suggests it will draw heavily on her studies of family dysfunction, with Mary using her clinical background to dissect “a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse,” including “the strange and harmful relationship between” her late father and Donald Trump. 
The tragedy to which the book description alludes probably is informed by an event that infused both her life and that of her uncle: the death of her father — President Trump’s older brother Fred Jr. — of alcoholism when she was 16 years old.
Friends of her father’s told The Washington Post last year that they blame his death in part on the way he was treated by Donald Trump, and the president said in an interview last year with The Post that he regrets how he dealt with his brother.
President Trump told Axios that he didn’t think his niece was allowed to write the book because she signed the confidentiality agreement. The White House declined further comment.
Donald Trump’s brother Robert, who filed the petition to stop the book, said in the filing that Mary had agreed after accepting an unspecified financial settlement from the inheritance fight that she “would not publish any account” of her relationship with Donald Trump or his siblings. In a statement, Robert Trump said Mary’s decision to “mischaracterize our family relationship after all these years for her own financial gain is a travesty and injustice” to her late father, Fred Jr., and grandfather, Fred Sr., saying the family feels that “Mary’s actions are truly a disgrace.” 
 A Queens County Surrogate’s Court on Thursday denied the petition on grounds of lack of jurisdiction, but Robert Trump’s attorney said it would be refiled with the New York State Supreme Court.

Gilded life

From birth, Mary Trump was supposed to be set for a gilded life, a grandchild of Fred Sr. and Mary. Her father, Fred Jr., was the eldest of Fred Trump Sr.’s children, and he was expected to follow his father as the leader of the family business.
Mary was featured in society columns as a fashionably dressed young girl, and she spent time at her grandparents’ palatial home in Queens, watching her father feud with Donald and Fred Sr., who ran a New York City real estate company.
Much to the family’s consternation, Fred Jr. was interested in becoming a pilot for TWA, not in renting New York City apartments. After graduating from Lehigh University in 1960, he married a flight attendant named Linda Lee Clapp in 1962. He went to flight school and the couple had two children, including Mary, who was born in 1965.
Fred Jr. was already drinking heavily by the time Mary was born, and his troubles with alcohol may have caused him to give up his dream of becoming a commercial airline pilot, according to three former TWA employees who trained with him. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Fred Sr. continued to pressure him to join the family business.

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Fred Trump Jr., left, signs a contract with Murray Zaret, the producer of the Pet Festival and Animal Husbandry Exposition, in 1966. (Louis Liotta/New York Post/Getty Images)
By the time Mary was 6 years old, her mother divorced Fred Jr. A family friend, David Miller, said in an interview that while Fred Jr.’s drinking played a role in the divorce, there was also a lot of pressure from Fred Sr., who Miller said disliked Linda. “She wasn’t welcomed into the family,” Miller said of Linda. Linda could not be reached for comment. 
Fred Trump Sr. agreed at the time of the divorce to support Linda and his grandchildren, providing rent and $100 per week for expenses, plus $25 per week for Mary and Fred III, according to court records. Fred Sr. agreed to pay for Mary to attend a private school during her early years as well as her college and medical expenses.
On Sept. 26, 1981, Fred Trump Jr. died at 42 years old of a heart attack, which the family has said stemmed from alcoholism. Mary was 16 years old.

Carried a burden

Mary eventually attended Tufts University, where she studied the Southern novelist William Faulkner. In a seminar with English professor Alan Lebowitz, Mary and her 15 or so fellow students analyzed the Compson family portrayed in novels such as “The Sound and the Fury.”
The Compsons bore some similarities to her own family: Like the Trumps, the Compsons migrated to the United States from Scotland, and the family was riven by dysfunction. At the time, Donald Trump was running his Atlantic City casinos, which went into bankruptcy, and preparing to divorce his first wife, Ivana, and marry Marla Maples. 
Lebowitz said in a telephone interview that he has rarely had a student as exceptional as Mary Trump, who was featured in the Tufts commencement program as having won the award for top English student.
“She was just as smart and accomplished as any I’ve taught in 40 years,” Lebowitz said. “She took a seminar on William Faulkner with me and she wrote two absolutely stunning papers, long, deep and elegant. We studied an enormously complex, interesting writer and she got deeply into it because she is a deep thinker.”
Lebowitz, who is retired, recalled that when she entered his classroom more than 30 years ago, he learned of the weight she carried.
“I knew that her father had been a very sad story and that she was carrying the burden of that story,” he said.
Mary and her brother Fred III had received some financial support over the years from the Trump family, and they expected to receive a significant inheritance from their grandfather, Fred Sr., who died in 1999. Mary and her brother had hoped they would get an amount close to what would have gone to their father, if he had lived, but they learned they were due to receive a lesser amount, and a probate fight ensued, court records show. 
Mary and Fred III alleged that an unnamed person associated with the Trump family improperly engineered a change in the will of their grandfather, who had Alzheimer’s disease during his last years. Mary and her brother said the changes in the will were “procured by fraud and undue influence.”
Donald said at the time that he supported a cutoff of medical coverage that had been provided by a family company for Fred III’s son, William, who had cerebral palsy. Donald Trump told the New York Daily News that when he and his siblings were sued by Fred III and Mary, he felt, “Why should we give [William] medical coverage?”
Donald’s brother Robert said in a deposition that the family had given Mary annual gifts of $20,000, in addition to income from family ventures, estimating that Mary and Fred III annually received “close to $200,000 without either one lifting a finger at any time.” 
Mary was livid about the family’s decision to cut off medical coverage for her nephew William. She told the Daily News at the time, “Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money. But for both me and my brother, it has much more to do with that our father be recognized. He existed, he lived, he was their oldest son. And William is my father’s grandson. He is as much a part of that family as anybody else. He desperately needs extra care.”
In the 2000 lawsuit, Mary did not directly address her uncle Robert’s assertion that she was “not gainfully employed.” But it was around this time, after working on a master’s degree in English at Columbia University, that she served in a voluntary role in the study of schizophrenia patients led by social worker Rachel Miller at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y.
Miller said Mary Trump showed an intense interest in understanding what drove people into psychological dysfunction. “She went into a situation that is hard to see. Many doctors and social workers couldn’t go there, it was so frightening to see somebody losing their mind,” Miller said.Mary Trump accompanied her in visits with patients who were typically 16 to 25 years old and experiencing their first episodes of schizophrenia. “She had her life set on doing what she wanted to do, which was to be a psychologist,” Miller said.
Later, when Miller needed help on a book she co-wrote, “Diagnosis: Schizophrenia,” about the study, she said Mary worked long hours to help her research and write the manual, which became popular in the field and with families of people with the disease.

'Worst night of my life'

Mary Trump continued her studies at Adelphi University, where she earned a master’s degree in psychology in 2001, a master’s in clinical psychology in 2003, and a doctoral degree in clinical psychology in 2010, a school official said.
In her 205-page dissertation, “A Characterological Evaluation of the Victims of Stalking,” she examined whether there were certain personality characteristics that made some people “more vulnerable to being victims of stalking by an intimate partner.”
A few years later, Mary founded a company called Trump Coaching Group, which provided wellness and fitness services on Long Island.
An archived version of the now-deleted company website said the company focused on nurturing relationships. It said Mary’s interest stemmed “from her own struggles as an athlete with asthma which have given her a true appreciation for the extent to which physical well-being is vital to psychological and emotional well-being.”
One of the coaches listed as a team member said the company didn’t develop much beyond the creation of the website. Paige Crosby, who said she participated in a year-long training program with Mary Trump to become a life coach, recalled her talking about her “hurt feelings” from her “sour relationship” with Donald.
As Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, Mary Trump does not appear to have said anything publicly about him.
But when it became clear that her uncle had won the presidency, she took to Twitter. “Worst night of my life,” she wrote at least 12 times in tweets that have been deleted recently. She wrote that “We should be judged harshly. . . . I grieve for our country.”
Mary Trump’s publicist, asked to verify that Mary wrote the tweets, declined to comment.
Last year, according to corporate filings, Mary created a company that echoed the name of the tragic family in Faulkner’s novels: Compson Enterprises. In an initial listing for her book, designed to keep the project a secret, her name was given as Mary Compson.
Now Mary Trump appears to hope that, with an assist from the publication of her book, the next presidential election will turn out differently from the last. She foreshadowed it at 4:07 a.m. on Nov. 9, 2016, shortly after her uncle was declared the president-elect, when she tweeted simply: “2020.”
Alice Crites contributed to this report.

Umair On Coronavirus: America Is A "Failed State, A Nation Plummeting Into The Abyss"

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America Is In Freefall

Excerpts: What the rest of the world understood that America didn’t is that . If you have a , then the , too...
The worse the pandemic gets, the worse the economy gets. The worse the economy gets, the less people have to pay . Functioning social systems —  — are how to survive a pandemic, and so the fewer there are…the worse the pandemic gets.
This is — if you zoom out for a moment — the death spiral of ancient Rome, really — people grew indifferent, never invested enough together, only funding ever-growing military misadventures, while hoping for new thrilling games at the Coliseum, all the while becoming indifferent to mass death, senselessness, inequality, and poverty — so Rome simply fell apart.
Bang! That death spiral is what America’s now entered. But it’s just the first one. Here’s another.
The worse the pandemic gets, the most people stay home, lose confidence in the economy, and spend less. The less people spend, the more businesses — most of whom already exist on the edge — go bankrupt. The more businesses go bankrupt — since there’s no real support from the government — the more unemployment stays north of a million people filing every week. That’s .
Where does that end? In another death spiral.
The more people fall into poverty, the more fear, despair, and hopelessness grow. The more  — and so the less  become possible. The weaker collective actions grows, the stronger  get. The more authoritarianism and fascism get, the poorer and even more impotent people get. This is the Soviet death spiral. 


Alan: All this may seem impossible because major changes (like those proposed by Umair) never take place so quickly.

Now recall the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union.


It took place virtually "overnight."

***
Here’s today’s — just today’s — news. 

Coronavirus has hit  in America. Meanwhile, . And the death toll in America? .
What do those three grim, horrific facts tell you? Here’s what they tell an economist like me.
It is a nation that stepped off the edge of an abyss, and is now tumbling down into it. Only there seems to be no bottom. That’s because…there isn’t. What America has entered now is . It feels like there’s no bottom because these are self-reinforcing loops, .
Yes, really.
Let me first describe how bad the situation really is, and then I’ll explain. You know that Coronavirus in America is bad, but ? In Pakistan, there were . Pakistan has a population of 212 million people. Texas has one of 29 million people. On a per capita basis, Texas alone has seven times the new Coronavirus cases of Pakistan. Per day. Texas alone.
Even if you doubt Pakistan’s numbers, consider that we’re only counting one state. Just one! If we add Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma — all the Red States — and compare that, the results are staggering.  has 5,500 new cases. , 2,000. , 1,200. That’s about 15,000 — and I’ve barely begun adding it all up. If I finished that calculation, America would have something like five times the new Corona cases of Pakistan, per capita.
What the? Pakistan is one of the world’s poorest, most devastated countries. It was founded in 1947, and has spent much of its history as a military dictatorship.
How can America have worse Coronavirus outcomes than Pakistan?
But I could have done the same calculations for almost any poor country in the world — India, Bangladesh, and so on.
Do Americans really understand that they have That it is now ? It doesn’t seem that way to me. But Americans should begin to understand that. That is what it means : you die, .
Let’s talk about the next aspect of all that for a second. The needlessness. , how many Americans would have died?  for global best practices — locking down early, society cooperating as a “team” — — testing, tracing, and so forth.  died in New Zealand. Adjust per capita, that would have meant that 
(Yes, really. Go ahead and do the math yourself. New Zealand’s population is 5 million. America’s is 330 million. New Zealand’s mortality rate was .00044%. 330 million times .00044% is…1452.)
Just fifteen hundred people should have died in America. 120,000 have. More than all America’s modern wars combined. A rate of 20,000 per month now, which is the same scale of death World War II incurred. But this is different: 120,000 people didn’t need to die.
America has a death rate one hundred times what it should be. Again, there seems to be no real general understanding of this nightmarish point: how bad  is globally — and 

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How did all this come to pass?
When Coronavirus ignited, America was one of three nations in the rich world — almost in the whole world — whose leaders seemed to mostly ignore it. As the now-infamous story goes, first Trump denied it, then he minimized it, then he told people to drink bleach, then he , and now, as cases spike to all-time highs, . What on earth?
This  left the nation adrift. Even poor countries like Vietnam, and tiny ones like New Zealand took swift, decisive action. America? Along with Britain and Sweden, it mostly did nothing. The virus…went viral. Finally, too late, America went into lockdown — one which barely met global standards, but I digress.
At that point, people like me, economists and epidemiologists both, cautioned that  would cause Now it has. Only the first one never really flattened properly all the way, towards zero. It only plateaued. 
The American government’s plan to contain Coronavirus was just as inadequate as People were offered the equivalent of just one week’s worth of income, and so were businesses.
The result was predictably going to be a  — because , America had no real functioning furlough scheme. In France, the government will pay 75% of your income up to something like 6K Euros per month. In Italy, mortgages and debts were frozen, and people received income guarantees. America’s government alone  to help people through the worst catastrophe in modern history. The result?
This is now the 14th week that more than a million people have filed for unemployment. The fourteenth week. Close to 50 million people are unemployed. That means, in plainer English, that something like just half of Americans are now employed.
But the pandemic is reigniting all over again — and that means .
What the rest of the world understood that America didn’t is that If you have a , then the , too. America’s staggeringly foolish leaders mostly thought the opposite was true: you had to  for “the economy.” But the point of economy is your life.
What does the future hold now? If you understand the above, then you also grasp that  — and that’s why it feels like there’s no bottom to this collapse.
The worse the pandemic gets, the worse the economy gets. The worse the economy gets, the less people have to pay . Functioning social systems —  — are how to survive a pandemic, and so the fewer there are…the worse the pandemic gets. This is — if you zoom out for a moment — the death spiral of ancient Rome, really — people grew indifferent, never invested enough together, only funding ever-growing military misadventures, while hoping for new thrilling games at the Coliseum, all the while becoming indifferent to mass death, senselessness, inequality, and poverty — so Rome simply fell apart.
Bang! That death spiral is what America’s now entered. But it’s just the first one. Here’s another.
The worse the pandemic gets, the most people stay home, lose confidence in the economy, and spend less. The less people spend, the more businesses — most of whom already exist on the edge — go bankrupt. The more businesses go bankrupt — since there’s no real support from the government — the more unemployment stays north of a million people filing every week. That’s .
Where does that end? In another death spiral.
The more people fall into poverty, the more fear, despair, and hopelessness grow. The more  — and so the less  become possible. The weaker collective actions grows, the stronger  get. The more authoritarianism and fascism get, the poorer and even more impotent people get. This is the Soviet death spiral.
(Let me translate that one: . The Supreme Court decides it in his favour, and the Senate does, too, after plenty of . But because people are already anxious, weary, desperate, and poor, not to get sick, just to put bread on the table, just trying to subsist — they can’t take much of a stand against it.  — over in the blink of an eye.)
Bang!
Three death spirals. The first one is a vicious cycle of collapsing public health and fiscal ruin — . The second is a vicious cycle of public health and an economy falling into depression — . And the last is the classic one, the biggie: a vicious cycle of depression and authoritarianism, , like a shadow meeting the night. This is Weimar Germany’s death spiral.
Let me say it as plainly as I can.
Even societies like Pakistan and Vietnam are outdoing America now, on basic dimensions of prosperity, like public health.
America, meanwhile, is in free fall. There is no — no — plan, agenda, vision, to contain any of the multiple, interlinked crises America now finds itself faced with. And that means they will just roll on, spiraling into the kind of devastation we don’t even see in poor countries.
I want to warn you in the strongest possible terms that I can, so let me say it again. America is in freefall. When societies enter death spirals like this, 
It feels like free fall because it isIt feels like there’s no bottom because there isn’t one. When vicious cycles this powerful, this destructive, this enormous — often, they simply just leave it a smoking wreck. America is now a society which has the death spirals of the Soviet Union, Weimar Germany, ancient Rome — all operating simultaneously. Even the wheels of America’s own Great Depression are beginning to turn.
 is what it means to be a failed state. This is what it means to be negligent and irresponsible towards your society for decades. This is what it is to let  still command the minds of today.
America’s in free fall.
Don’t ask me if there’s any way out. First, take a moment.  And then let’s talk about what to do about it. Build a net? Grow wings? Clamber onto the sides?
You see, right about now, the one thing I don’t think Americans really have is a grasp of the severity problem itself: 
Umair
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