Caught on the dual horns of COVID and the White House plague, Congress (especially the Senate, which in certain respects corresponds to the UK House of Lords) still balks at digging out the country’s citizens (the ones who do the work and pay rent and taxes). Many—at least 28 million—are without income, are about to loose their unemployment benefits, unable to pay their rent, unable to buy food, and within days will be dispossessed by the landlord class. They face dispossession from their homes and hunger. New York City alone will dispossess ½ of its 8.3 million population. Of these, 3 million are said to be immigrants. We know that the renting class tends to vote Democratic, and Mr. Trump knows that, too. Meantime the Senate handed out extra billions to the Pentagon to immiserate even more poor people, mostly people of color, outside continental U.S. before leaving for the long weekend.
Deliberate Default
Until now, this administration’s dereliction has seemed beyond incomprehensible to this writer. Obviously I must not have been thinking with the same sewer-pipe mind as this president and his minions, the faction which wants to stay in office regardless of the human or economic cost. Why hadn’t my own mind been sufficiently contaminated to realize that if all these tax paying working class folk are dispossessed now, in October they will no longer be able receive their ballots by mail because their addresses will have been wiped out, automatically cancelling their vote? And by default, they will have become disenfranchised! No need even to strike their names from the rolls. Greedy landlords will see to that.
Likewise, by doing nothing effective to manage this pandemic, (and on 8/6 the government blocked the UN Security Council from taking action regarding the pandemic) this administration guarantees the demise of disproportionally black, disproportionally brown and disproportionally elderly and disabled people in our prisons, jails, detention centers, and nursing homes. A Win-Win Death situation, the best part of which is the government can’t be accused of doing something because it doesn’t have to do anything. On no books is incompetence a crime. The elderly and disabled will fall off the social security and disability rolls, and the elites will exert their genocidal impulses in the noble tradition of the original Do-Nothing Party. Best of all, although his tweets still can, his golfing can’t lie, but regardless, Fearless Leader will tweet and golf to his tin heart’s content because he rests assured the vote is already in the hole. He knows he mustn’t lift a finger. Now it’s up to a Do-Noting Congress to take a giant step. Will it fill the vacuum?
ACTION FOR THIS WEEK
Phone. Call your congress persons daily to urge action posing #45 strategies to suppress the vote. Local numbers in California:
Senator Feinstein 415 393-0707
“ Harris 415 981-9369
Representative Barbara Lee 510 763-0370
Representative Nancy Pelosi 415 556-4862
Phone your Senators now at (202) 224-3121 tell them to oppose #45 executive order defunding Social Security.
Sign. Oppose #45 attack on Vote-By-Mail.
Attack. Write Post Cards to send to reluctant or intimidated voters.
Phone. Call reluctant voters needing a nudge.
Donate. Chip in $5 to support Daily Kos get out the vote campaign.
Donate. Organizations in five crucial swing states need your support. Here’s the link:
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ROSES AMIDST THIS WEEK'S THORNS
Amazon Frontlines announces lawsuit by indigenous groups defending Amazon territory of Ecuador against oil exploitation has been reinstated.
Starting in Brussels, European communities community land trusts build social housing.
New report accuses #45 of ‘intentional disregard’ and attack on Democracy throughout failed COVID response.
Social media sites pull #45’s posts for violating COVID misinformation rules.
At last, Deutsche Bank turns over #45’s finances in response to NY district attorney subpoena.
House Dems call postmaster general to testify as Trump continues attacks on mail voting.
New York AG Letitia James files lawsuit dissolving NRA for diverting charitable funds.
No Ban Act passes after years of delay.
More than 700 medical and scientific professionals sign letter call FCC out for failure to acknowledge harms from 5 G ultra-high wireless radiation frequencies.
Court of Appeal upholds decision to prohibit offshore aquaculture in Gulf of Mexico.
Nevada passes Vote-by-Mail.
Open the Government announces progress demanding COVID data be appropriately collected and distributed.
House progressives pass D.C. statehood bill although Senate Repugnicans stall.
More than two dozen Senate Democrats urge inclusion of undocumented workers in pandemic relief.
Prohibited from holding police officer to account, federal judge calls on Supreme Court to overturn qualified immunity which gets killer cops off every time.
Polish parliament votes for LGBT rights.
Federal judge Chhabria is currently reviewing cases of all persons detained at Yuba County Jail and Mesa Verde Detention following the class action Zepeda Rivas v. Jennings filed by a legal organizations coalition.
CoreCivic private prison corporation agrees to pay $3.7 million for recording private detainee-lawyer exchanges.
Alleging ICE has ‘lost right to be trusted’ federal judge orders mandatory testing at detention center hit by COVID.
Black Lives Matter protest leader, 44 year old nurse, Cori Bush defeats veteran MI congressman in huge upset.
MI voters overcome Repugnican efforts to block Medicaid expansion.
People for the American Way congratulates Rashida Tlaib on primary win.
Outraised 250-1, Progressive Marquita Bradshaw upsets establishment opponent.
‘Don’t let anyone fool you,’ says Sanders. Primary wins show progressives ‘transforming American politics.’
Iowa governor ends voting ban for people with felony convictions.
Teachers and students in more than 35 cities mobilize to demand safe schools.
Across the country, thousands of teachers go into street Monday to oppose the unsafe opening of schools which ahs potential to infect millions of children and their families with COVID.
Pennsylvania immigrants win right to complete citizenship process blocked by pandemic.
LA announces it will shut off power at homes throwing ‘COVID parties.’
San Francisco’s Community Choice Aggregation rejects PG&E’s offer of up to 350,000 megawatt hours/year of free nuclear power generated by Diablo Canyon.
Striking Amazon workers block delivery trucks for hours.
SUNDAY FUNNIES
Headline: Corporate Lobbyists Vote to Keep Corporate Lobbyists in the DNC.
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