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More confirmation that President T’s nickname is no longer what used to be
Political chaos worsens after Lebanon explosion
The Lebanese government resigned Monday night, less than a week after a major explosion in Beirut that killed more than 160 people and sparked days of violent protests. Prime Minister Hassan Diab addressed the nation, pronouncing his resignation and that of his government. Three cabinet ministers had already resigned, as well as seven deputies.
Violent protests erupted outside the prime minister’s workplace on the eve of Monday night’s speech. Dozens of protesters threw stones, fireworks and Molotov cocktails at security forces, who responded with various tear gas. Some protesters tried to scale the anti-explosion walls outside Parliament Square.
The weekend’s protests were among the biggest and most violent the city has noticed in nearly a year. The city trembled with anger as protesters occupied several ministries and threw stones and glass shards at security forces. Police fired lots of rounds of tear fuel, rubber bullets and, in some cases, actual fire.
And “winter is coming”
[T] n some positions, others throw Covid’s warnings into the wind, ignoring public orders for physical fitness. Kristen Ehresmann, Director of Epidemiology, Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases at the Minnesota Department of Health, participates in a three-day rodeo that recently took a position in her state. The organizers knew they intended to restrict the number of participants to 250, but they refused; thousands attended. In Sturgis, South Dakota, about a quarter of a million motorcyclists are expected to descend into the city last weekend for a 10-day annual meeting.
Ehresmann and other actors of public fitness are baffled by the phenomenon of others who refuse to recognize the threat posed by the virus. “Just this concept of, ” I just don’t need it, so it’s not going to be true.” honestly, I haven’t dealt with that before with regard to the disease,” he said.
[Caroline Buckee, Associate Director, Center for Transmicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health,] wonders whether the magical thought that turned out to have swollen parts of the country is due to the fact that many of those who died were elderly. For many Americans, he said, the disease has not yet affected their lives, but movement restrictions and other reaction measures have.
“I think if the young people died, it would be … another situation, honestly,” he says.
Trump’s crusade bets that the electorate will be influenced by someone who arrives at his door a pandemic
President Trump’s crusade and the Republican National Committee (RNC) are embarking on a competitive strategy on the floor by sending masks to the gates to counter the avalanche of Live-rated ads from Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump’s crusade has invested his money in cash and intensified face-to-face contact with voters. Despite the pandemic, last week Box hit 1 million doors in 23 states.
The Biden team and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) take a radically different approach.
Biden, who will settle for his Delaware party nomination and not Milwaukee for the nominating convention, has made prudent control of coronavirus the centerpiece of his campaign.
Biden’s crusade recently announced the largest advertising reserve in history, a $280 million virtual and television investment that nearly doubles the existing reserves of Trump’s crusade.
Biden staff members are not knocking on doors, saying it is unsafe and that it is a loss for the pandemic electorate. Instead, the crusade aims to make sure Democrats vote by mail through a fast-growing virtual and phone outreach program that they say reached more than 3.5 million people last week.
Hundreds of Puerto Ricans who showed up to vote despite the pandemic were rejected because no ballots were available.
On Sunday, Puerto Rico was forced to partially suspend the vote for the primaries due to a lack of votes when officials asked the chairman of the U.S. territory’s electoral commission to resign.
Primary schools that did not get votes in the early afternoon will be postponed, while voting will continue elsewhere, the committee said.
“I’ve never noticed anything like what just happened here in Puerto Rico on American soil. It is a disgrace to our government and our people,” said Pedro Pierluisi, who is running in opposition to governess Wanda Vázquez for the candidate of the new progressive pro-state party.
… Their party’s chairman, Thomas Rivera Schatz, as well as the chairman of the main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, held a joint press convention and said they had agreed that the remaining primaries would take place on August 16, a resolution Vzquez said he supported. Both parties hold their number one election with the winning candidates among the six gubernatorial candidates in the November general election.
This review will certainly arise in the debate on the reopening of schools.
As schools face the enormous challenge of reopening as coronavirus continues to spread, at least 97,000 young people in the United States tested positive in the last two weeks of July, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. He says at least 338,000 young people tested positive until July 30, more than a quarter of them tested positive in just two weeks.
… The southern and western states accounted for more than seven out of 10 infections in the new report, which was based on the knowledge of 49 states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and Guam. The number may simply be higher because the report didn’t come with all the knowledge of Texas and parts of New York State outside the gates of New York.
Missouri, Oklahoma, Alaska, Nevada, Idaho, and Montana are among the states with the highest percentage of infections accumulated in years of formation in this period, according to the report.
Botanical toxins through the pillow type will save us
Trump sought the virus recommendation from a set of voices, anyone with access to it who can hear the remedies imaginable. The chorus includes Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham, who regularly visited the Oval Office to talk about hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug touted as a cure for coronavirus even though clinical studies seem to indicate that the drug, if used as a remedy, can have fatal effects. .
The president recently welcomed Andrew Whitney, a biopharmaceutical executive to the board of a company called Phoenix, which met in the Oval Office with Trump. Whitney, who has limited fitness experience, introduced Trump to a botanical extract called oleandrin as a remedy for coronavirus, according to two senior management officials familiar with the discussion.
One official said Mike Lindell, a retirement from Trump and the ceo of MyPillow, who plays the role of promoter of his product in advertising on some of the Fox News screens of Trump’s programs, helped organize the meeting. Since then, Whitney has made proposals personally to senior Food and Drug Administration officials, adding his commissioner, Stephen Hahn, to approve oleandrin as a remedy for coronavirus.
“Either Tim Kaine and I had a very brilliant joint hallucination four years ago, or Maureen had too much brownie on the boat before writing her column again,” Hillary Clinton tweeted in response.
Separated through a zipper
The director of the conservative Evangelical Freedom University was forced to take an “indefinite license” after sharing a photo of him with his unbuttoned trousers to reveal his underwear.
Jerry Falwell Jr., a prominent supporter of Donald Trump and one of America’s toughest evangelical leaders, accused of hypocrisy after posting the photo on Instagram this week.
The resolution represents a normal drop for Falwell, who has been president of the ultraconservative university since 2007. Liberty University was founded by Falwell’s father, and the young Falwell has become a leader after his death.
A face-to-face encounter