Super-Spreader-Event

 

Let's face it.  ANY time you're around Trump, it's a Super Spreader Event since he doesn't know how or when to shut up and sucks all of the oxygen out of the air.

 

More Bad News, Folks

It's not enough that small businesses, among them restaurants, and thousands of one- or two-person operations are closing at an alarming rate with NO relief in sight from the Senate, now the largest theatre chain in the U.S., Regal Cinemas has shuttered its doors closed as well.

This is from their online blog:

Regal Posted on Oct 8, 2020 9:20:29 AM

We can confirm that all Regal theatres across the US will be temporarily closed from Friday (October 9) until further notice.

This is not a decision we made lightly. We did everything in our power to support safe and sustainable re-openings of our theatres and we are so very grateful for our employees who implemented the new protocols, which resulted in lots of positive feedback from customers who visited our theatres and felt safe. We were very proud of the fact that theatres were open for 2 months and there was not one COVID case resulting from visiting the theatre. We cannot underscore enough how difficult this decision was.

As we have done to date, we will do everything we can to save livelihoods and the company – this is an extremely delicate and tricky balance. We continue to work with the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), to ensure we are lobbying state and local governments to support our employees and the industry which has so much cultural significance.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and will communicate our future plans to resume operations once film studios are able to bring their pipeline of major movie releases back to the big screen. We can assure you that once a line-up of movie releases is confirmed, we will be ready to re-open our theatres, as we did in August, with the same safety levels you have already seen while at the same time keeping the great experience that you are used to getting from us.

A big thank you goes to you, our movie-loving customers; your health and wellbeing has always been our priority during this difficult time and we look forward to welcoming you back as soon as possible to enjoy a full slate of films.

If you have any questions, please take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions below.

If you are a Regal Crown Club member or Regal Unlimited subscriber, visit the Regal mobile app and online at regmovies.com. If you do not already have a Regal Crown Club account and would like to receive email updates, you are able to create a free account in one step here.

We sincerely wish good health for you and your families during these uncertain times. 

-The Regal Team

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It's pretty astonishing that the Trump Administration and the Senate are pushing through an ultra conservation, religious zealot, Amy Coney Barrett in order to do two things:

1)  Repeal/dismantle the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), and 

2) Repeal Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights decision.

 That's it.  She's stated in articles and op-eds that those two pieces of legislation are unconstitutional and therefore, must go.

Oh, and potentially, 

3) Decide the outcome of a "rigged election" once Trump loses in just a few short weeks, because, you know, you just can't trust all of those fake ballots.   

(TO BE CLEAR, THAT LAST PART ABOUT 'RIGGED' AND 'FAKE BALLOTS', IS SARCASM.)

Yes, vote as if your life depended on it, because if 2 or all 3 of those things happen, the United States is in deep, deep sh*t.  We cannot handle another second of this Republican President or Senate.  (And by "we", I mean the entire planet.)

The Art Of The No-Deal

Donald Trump came to the White House promising that he would make deals the likes of which the country and the world never seen.

He nears the end of his first term in Washington on Wednesday by abruptly ending the possibility of a deal to provide more money into the economy as it seeks to dig out from a massive hole created by the coronavirus pandemic.

"I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when, immediately after I win, we will pass a major Stimulus Bill that focuses on hardworking Americans and Small Business," Trump tweeted Tuesday afternoon. It was a massive shock -- coming less than 24 hours after Trump had been released from Walter Reed medical center after being hospitalized with coronavirus -- and immediately sent the stock market tumbling.

Official Washington was stunned by the news, with Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had been engaged in ongoing stimulus negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, speculating that Trump's move might have something to do with the medicine he had been receiving to treat Covid-19.

"Believe me, there are people who think that steroids have an impact on thinking," Pelosi told House Democrats on a call organized after Trump's announcement, according to CNN's Phil Mattingly. "So I just don't know."

Regardless of the reasons behind Trump's sudden decision to call off the talks, the practical effect will be to ensure there is no further stimulus money allocated by Congress before the end of its current term. And for Trump personally, the lack of a deal represents a remarkable failing of one of the central promises of his presidency: That he could make deals that other longtime Washington politicians could only dream about.

The seminal text of Trumpism -- to the extent a cohesive worldview exists -- is the billionaire businessman's "Art of the Deal." In the introduction to that book, he writes:

"Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully or write poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks."

In announcing his presidential campaign in the summer of 2015, Trump put his deal-making prowess center stage. "Now, our country needs -- our country needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now," he said. "We need a leader that wrote 'The Art of the Deal.'"

Throughout the 2016 campaign, he leaned on the idea that the only solution to a broken Washington was an out-of-the-box business leader who understood the leverage needed to make deals.

In the White House, that rhetoric continued.

"With deals -- that's what I do, is deals," Trump said in May 2018 in regards a China trade deal. He added around that same time: "I've made a lot of deals. I know deals, I think, better than anybody knows deals. You never really know."

But viewed broadly, Trump's first term has been defined by the deals he didn't do. Trump promised to force Mexico to pay for the construction of the southern border wall. He said he would renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal. That he would make a peace deal between Israel and Palestine. That he would pass a new health care bill. That he would pass a new gun control measure.

And Trump has also pulled America out of a number of international coalitions -- including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Climate Accords. He's also cut American funding for the World Health Organization and the United Nations.

Trump has, as he did on Tuesday, blamed these deal failures on bad actors -- domestically and internationally -- who actively undermine compromise. "Nancy Pelosi is asking for $2.4 Trillion Dollars to bailout poorly run, high crime, Democrat States, money that is in no way related to COVID-19," Trump tweeted. "We made a very generous offer of $1.6 Trillion Dollars and, as usual, she is not negotiating in good faith."

Which, well, OK. But remember: Deals were very hard to come by prior to Trump's arrival in Washington. Partisans with very different priorities as to what Congress should do -- and how they should do it -- are nothing new. And Trump cast himself as the one person with the resume, experience and skill set to break these logjams.

By any -- and every -- measure, Trump has failed to make good on that promise. His shutdown of stimulus negotiations on Tuesday are simply an exclamation point on that failure.

From CNN.com

 

Trump Moved To Walter Reed Medical Center

 5:43 PM EST, Friday, October 2, 2020

The White House, Washington D.C.

President Donald Trump is transferred from the White House residence to the Walter Reed Medical Center out of an abundance of caution for his worsening condition.

Obviously, no one wants the President dead, virus or otherwise, but as he did ignore numerous medical professionals and experts over the past several months, it suggests that Trump is getting what he asked for -- the virus that he said he repeatedly downplayed.

We wish him a speedy recovery.

Official White House Portrait:  President Donald J. Trump

"Fake Pandemic"

The 2020 Presidential Campaign is in its final few weeks, with mail-in and absentee ballots being cast in record numbers, hundreds of millions potentially.  
The US Postal Service being undermined and minimized by the current Post Master General and Trump-flunkie-donor Louis DeJoy.
Donnie Drumpf continues to hold campaign rallies, yes, even in the midst of a global pandemic, the Covid-19, coronavirus.
Face masks and social distancing are key factors that public health professionals continue to push as deaths are reaching toward 200,000 in the U.S.
And then there are scenes like this, from Trump's supporters:

"It's a fake pandemic."

 It is also notable that there are NO Blacks, Asians, Hispanics/Latinx or Indigenous people among his supporters.

What does that say about Trump or his supporters?  

Think about that and the nation in which we now live.

Make America Great Again.... Again

 

So, when exactly was America "great" for Black people?  Let's take a tiny little look back:

1619 -- the first Africans are brought to America, in slave ships, from the African continent.

Enslaved, indentured servants, property, until 1865.

1865 -- The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. The necessary number of states ratified it by December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." 

But were Black Americans really free?

Monuments to the Civil War sprung up, far and wide. And widespread denial of everything from voting rights, to housing, to where Blacks could live within cities... and on and on.

1964 -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
Initially, powers given to enforce the act were weak, but these were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment, and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. 
2020 -- Black Lives Matter protests and its movement, continued murders of Black people, mostly Black men, at the hands of primarily White police officers.

So, again, for the past 400 years,  

when exactly was America great for Black people?