I believe Mary overlooked including this little tidbit in her book...................................
This comment defines Daffy Don:
Liz Plank
@feministabulous
The best way to know what an insecure man really thinks about himself is to pay attention to what he says about powerful women.
Daffy Don is so STUPID, how can anyone support this level of IGNORANCE?
Since her upset victory in the 2018 Democratic primary for New York's 14th District, progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, colloquially known as "AOC," has been a favorite target of the right, with many Republicans chastising her for what they say is a lack of intelligence.
In reality, Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University with degrees in economics and international relations. This was after winning a prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in high school, as well as other educational achievements.
She's demonstrated this grasp of science on Twitter before.
But that didn't seem to matter to President Donald Trump, who took aim at Ocasio-Cortez during a speech in Old Forge, Pennsylvania on Thursday.
Watch below.
Trump took aim at AOC's signature legislation—the Green New Deal—a set of policies which would overhaul current U.S. climate policy to stop the advancement of the climate crisis.
Trump said:
"AOC, that's another beauty. She's the designer of the Green New Deal. She knows nothing about the environment. She probably never studied. If I asked her, how many hours have you taken on the environment?"
It should be noted that not only has Trump never released his educational transcripts, but he's actively blocked his alma maters from releasing them. According to a tell-all memoir from his niece, Mary Trump, the President paid someone to take his SATs for him.
Famous for her Twitter clapbacks, AOC didn't hesitate to respond.
Ocasio-Cortez referenced a bizarre argument Trump made last year, in which he claimed that the sound from environmentally friendly wind turbines—which he calls "windmills"—caused cancer.
Trump said:
"If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations your house just went down 75 percent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer. you tell me that one, okay? [imitates wind turbine sounds]"
People commended AOC's response.
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently said: "If you are in denial about climate change, come to California." No kidding. The state is ablaze big time and calling for help from other countries as the Guardian reports. (No help from Donald Trump, of course... too many Democrats in California and we all know that climate change isn't real anyway.) Tom
"California has requested help from Australia and Canada to help tackle huge wildfires the state is struggling to contain. Governor Gavin Newsom said the fires, which have consumed an area equivalent in size to Rhode Island, “are stretching our resources, our personnel”, requiring help from other states and countries.
“We simply haven’t seen anything like this in many, many years,” said Newsom, who has requested assistance from what he called “the world’s best wildfire-fighters” in Australia, a country that itself experienced enormous wildfires earlier this year.
Help from Canada and 10 other US states is also heading to California. Extra firefighters and aircraft began arriving on Friday, to help weary crews battling some of the largest blazes in state history and as weekend weather threatened to renew the advance of flames that have killed six and incinerated hundreds of homes.
Some 560 wildfires were burning throughout the state. Many were small and remote but the bulk of damage was from three clusters of blazes ravaging forest and rural areas in the wine country and San Francisco Bay Area. Those complexes, consisting of dozens of fires, exploded in size on Friday. Together, they had scorched 991 square miles and destroyed more than 500 homes and other buildings, fire officials said. At least 100,000 people were under evacuation orders.
Two Bay Area clusters, the LNU Lightning Complex and the SCU Lightning Complex, became the second- and third-largest wildfires in recent state history by size, according to Cal Fire records. The third blaze, the CZU Lightning Complex, is in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties.
The fires were sparked by lightning. Cooler, more humid weather overnight helped firefighters make ground against the fires but the National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch from Sunday morning into Tuesday for the entire Bay Area and central coast. Forecasters said there was a chance of thunderstorms bringing more lightning and erratic gusts.
More than 12,000 personnel were fighting fires around the state, aided by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. By Friday, the state’s fire agency, Cal Fire, had called out 96% of available fire engines. ut as reinforcements arrived the number of personnel assigned to the LNU complex, in the heart of wine country north of San Francisco, more than doubled from 580 to more than 1,400 and nearly 200 fire engines were on the scene, fire officials said.
“I’m happy to see the jumps that we’ve had today,” said Sean Kavanaugh, Cal Fire incident commander.
That could help crews make further progress against the fire, which was just 15% contained. Most evacuations for the town of Vacaville were lifted. The fire threat there was reduced after reaching the edges of town.
“I feel like we’re up on our feet, standing straight and actually moving a little bit forward,” Kavanaugh said.
However, the number of large fires was “staggering” and had put “tremendous strain” on resources throughout western states, he said. Nevada and Arizona, for example, battled sizable blazes this week as a heat wave swept the west. In the Santa Cruz mountains south of San Francisco, about 1,000 firefighters were battling a fire 10 times the size they typically would cover, said Dan Olsen, a Cal Fire spokesman.
With resources tight, homes in remote places burned unattended. Cal Fire chief Mark Brunton pleaded with residents to quit battling fires on their own, saying that just causes more problems for the professionals. “We had last night three separate rescues that pulled our vital, very few resources away,” he said.
But Peter Koleckai credits a neighbor, not firefighters, with saving his home in a rural area where dozens of homes were reduced to smoldering ruins.
An aircraft drops fire retardant on a ridge during the LNU Lightning Complex fire in Healdsburg, California.
“We were here at about three o’clock in the morning and the fire department just left. They just left,” he said, adding that he ran to a firefighter and told him a brush fire was erupting next to a house.
“They never went up there and it engulfed the whole house, took the house out,” he said.
A neighbor with a high pressure hose, firefighting equipment and a generator saved his home, Koleckai said.
Cal Fire battalion chief Mike Smith said typically a wildfire of the size burning through the region would have 10 or even 20 times as many firefighters.
“We are doing absolutely everything we can,” he said.
The death toll has reached at least six. Three bodies were found on Thursday in a burned home in Napa county, said Henry Wofford, a sheriff’s spokesman.
A man died in neighboring Solano county, and a Pacific Gas & Electric utility worker was found dead in a vehicle in the Vacaville area. Also on Wednesday, a helicopter pilot died in a crash while dropping water on a blaze in Fresno county.
Smoke and ash billowing from the fires has fouled the air throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and along California’s scenic central coast."
At my advanced age, sometimes I just can't believe the world I find myself living in as in this summary of the QAnon "movement" from Matthew Rosenberg and Maggie Haberman of the New York Times. I suppose in a way it might be considered the new, mad version (or do I mean MAD, as in the once-upon-a-time magazine?) of the McCarthyism of my childhood era. Anyway, here's the first half of their piece on our bizarre all-American moment. Tom
"Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode, it unveiled a new slogan, lifting a rallying cry straight from a once-unthinkable source: the internet-driven conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
"The new catchphrase, “We Are the Storm,” is an unsubtle cue to a group that the F.B.I. has labeled a potential domestic terrorist threat. It is instantly recognizable among QAnon adherents, signaling what they claim is a coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world.
"The slogan can be found all over social media posts by QAnon followers, and now, too, in emails from the Texas Republican Party and on the T-shirts, hats and sweatshirts that it sells. It has even worked its way into the party’s text message system — a recent email from the party urged readers to “Text STORM2020” for updates.
"The Texas Republicans are an unusually visible example of the Republican Party’s dalliance with QAnon, but they are hardly unique. A small but growing number of Republicans — including a heavily favored Republican congressional candidate in Georgia — are donning the QAnon mantle, ushering its adherents in from the troll-infested fringes of the internet and potentially transforming the wild conspiracy theory into an offline political movement, with supporters running for Congress and flexing their political muscle at the state and local levels.
"Chief among the party’s QAnon promoters is Mr. Trump himself. Since the theory first emerged three years ago, he has employed a wink-and-nod approach to the conspiracy theory, retweeting its followers but conspicuously ignoring questions about it. Yet with the election drawing ever closer and Mr. Trump’s failure to manage the Covid-19 pandemic harming his re-election prospects, the White House and some Trump allies appear to have taken to openly courting believers.
"The president, during a White House news conference on Wednesday, described QAnon followers — some of whom have been charged with murder, domestic terrorism and planned kidnapping — as “people that love our country.”
"The president has retweeted QAnon followers at least 201 times, according to an analysis by Media Matters. Some of his children have posted social media messages related to the conspiracy theory. A deputy White House chief of staff, Dan Scavino, who has for years combed corners of the internet for memes that the president could promote, has three times in the past year — in November 2019, May and June — posted ticking-clock memes that are used by QAnon believers to signify the coming showdown between the president and his purported enemies.
“We once had Republican leaders that would work to keep extremists from the levers of power. Now they embrace them and their crazy and dangerous ideas,” said Rudy Oeftering, a Texas Republican who formerly chaired the Texas Association of Business and remains one of the state party’s precinct captains.
“The lunatics,” he added, “are truly running the asylum.”
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During a White House news conference on Wednesday, President Trump described QAnon followers as “people that love our country.”
During a White House news conference on Wednesday, President Trump described QAnon followers as “people that love our country.”Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
"There is hardly universal support inside the party for QAnon. Many of its leaders in Congress and powerful donors are privately horrified at the spread of the movement’s themes. And while some Republican voters are well-versed in QAnon, a majority of them are unfamiliar with the particulars of the movement.
“QAnon is nuts — and real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories,” said Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, after the president appeared to endorse QAnon this week.
“If Democrats take the Senate,” he added, “This will be a big part of why they won.”
"Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the No. 3 House Republican, joined the fray on Thursday, calling QAnon “dangerous lunacy that should have no place in American politics.”
"Other Republican elected officials who have tried to push back publicly against QAnon’s spread have found themselves under attack. This month, when Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, posted a tweet that called QAnon a fabrication that has “no place in Congress,” a senior Trump campaign staff member immediately fired back at him, saying he should be focused on “conspiracy theories pushed by Democrats.”
"Fearful of inviting similar blowback, few other elected Republicans have been willing to speak out publicly. Mostly, they avoid questions about it, demonstrating the thin line some officials are trying to walk between extreme elements among their base who adore Mr. Trump and the moderate voters they need to win over.
"QAnon followers are increasingly taking on the trappings of a discrete political movement, though one with beliefs untethered from reality. There are more than a dozen Republicans running for Congress who have signaled varying degrees of interest in the movement. One candidate has attracted a campaign contribution from the Republican National Committee, and another has raised thousands of dollars from established conservative groups like the House Freedom Fund.
"And now they are getting explicit support from the president. Asked during his Wednesday news conference about the QAnon belief that he is saving the world from a cult of pedophiles, Mr. Trump said he did not know much about the movement, before all but endorsing it: “Is that supposed to be a bad thing or good thing?” he said. “If I can help save the world from problems, I am willing to do it. I’m willing to put myself out there. And we are actually.”
"The reaction among QAnon followers was swift and predictable — they were elated, and the president’s comments became instant grist of the QAnon meme-making mill...."
DELUSIONAL CLOWN!
IDIOT SOWING FEAR without substantiation.
So here goes:
From the beginning, WE have SEQUESTERED our MAIL, just in case.
From what scientific information is available, COVID-19 survives on paper surfaces for how long? It seems 24 hours, but this area has been subjected to HEAT WAVES and who knows what that does to kill those little virus squirmies in a HOT MAIL BOX.
It would seem likely that those employees who retrieve PAPER BALLOTS can wear gloves and they should wear FACE MASKS all of the time at work anyway.
WE wear gloves and carry ALCOHOL WIPES [not hand sanitizer], wipe every surface touched - shopping carts, door handles, dirty money, steering wheel, all surfaces inside the car and periodically surfaces inside the house - just in case.
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