As always, please go to the links for the full articles/ op eds.
Protests near the White House last night drove a certain rat underground:
As anti-racist protests continued for a fourth night in Washington, D.C., the Secret Service rushed President Donald Trump to an underground bunker, according to a number of media reports.
Trump and his family were never in any real danger on Friday when they were relocated but the incident rattled them, sources told The New York Times, which was the first news outlet to report the extraordinary safety measure.
Trump spent about an hour in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, as the bunker is known, The Associated Press reported. The facility was established to protect presidents during emergencies such as terrorist attacks. First lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, accompanied the president to the bunker, per CNN. (our emphasis)
Joe Biden models what a decent President would be doing. He needs to get out more (and
it looks like that's the plan -- just do it safely):
President Donald
Trump spent much of Sunday using Twitter as a bullhorn to urge “law and
order” and tougher action by police against protesters around the
country. Joe Biden quietly visited the site of protests in his hometown
of Wilmington, Delaware, and talked to some of the demonstrators.
Earlier, he wrote a post on Medium expressing empathy for those
despairing about the killing of George Floyd.
That
low-key, high-touch approach may be a sign of how the presumptive
Democratic nominee presents himself in the five months before the
presidential election, emphasizing calm and competence as a contrast to a
mercurial president.
Here's a short vid of him having pics taken while visiting the site of protests in Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday:
From Biden's Instagram account:
If you missed his statement about the events of the last week,
check it out.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but:
... Trump and
some of his advisers calculated that he should not speak to the nation
because he had nothing new to say and had no tangible policy or action
to announce yet, according to a senior administration official.
Evidently not feeling an urgent motivation Sunday to try to bring people
together, he stayed silent.
Trump
let his tweets speak for themselves. One attacked the Democratic mayor
of Minneapolis; another announced that his administration would
designate the antifa movement a terrorist organization; a third accused
the media of fomenting hatred and anarchy; and in yet another, he
praised himself for the deployment of the National Guard and denigrated
former vice president Joe Biden. (our emphasis)
Go back to your bunker and stay there, rat.
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, a smart move
taking the prosecution of killer cop Derek Chauvin out of the hands of the county attorney, who dragged his feet in bringing charges and still hasn't charged the three accessory cops:
In
an unusual legal maneuver, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
will take the lead in the prosecution of the fired Minneapolis police
officer charged with killing George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died
last week in police custody.
Gov.
Tim Walz said Sunday that he concluded Ellison needed to take over the
case from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office at the urging of Floyd’s
family, community activists, and some members of the Minneapolis City
Council seeking a vigorous prosecution of the officer, 44-year-old Derek
Chauvin.
They apparently smelled another rat in county attorney Mike Freeman.
In Brazil, you have the Trump of the Southern Hemisphere, autocrat president
Jair Bolsonaro, modeling Trumpian malicious ignorance and sociopathy in dealing with his country's rising death toll from coronavirus:
On May 9, Brazil’s death toll from the coronavirus topped 10,000.
Instead of marking the grim milestone with an address or a sign of
respect for the victims, President Jair Bolsonaro took a spin on a jet ski. Video footage widely circulated on social media shows Brazil’s far-right leader
grinning as he pulls up to a boat on Brasília’s Paranoá Lake where
supporters are having a cookout. As he grips onto their boat, Bolsonaro
jokes about the “neurosis” of Brazilians worried about the virus.
“There’s nothing to be done [about it],” he shrugs. “It’s madness.”
Even by the standards of other right-wing populists who have sought to downplay the COVID-19 pandemic,
Bolsonaro’s defiance of reality was shocking. From the favelas of
densely packed cities like Rio de Janeiro to the remote indigenous
communities of the Amazon rain forest,
Brazil has emerged as the new global epicenter of the pandemic, with
the world’s highest rate of transmission and a health system now
teetering on the brink of collapse.
Never fear, though, Brazil!
The Trump regime is here to solve all your problems:
The United States has supplied Brazil with 2 million doses of
hydroxychloroquine for use against the coronavirus, the two governments
said on Sunday, despite medical warnings about risks associated with the
anti-malaria drug.
Spreading illness and death is what Trump and his rotted out accomplices do, part infinity.
Once again, please do yourself a favor by checking out
Infidel 753's link round-up to a wide range of posts with something of interest for pretty much everyone. (We found that Time article on Bolsonaro there.)
