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ICYMI, from last November...
Analysis | Trump’s most insulting — and violent — language is often reserved for immigrants

If I'm a member of a minority, there is no way in hell I'm voting for donald tRump!!

He hates us and would rather see us all die of covid-19 than become citizens!!!

Analysis | Trump’s most insulting — and violent — language is often reserved for immigrants
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President Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, N.M. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Since launching his presidential campaign in 2015, Donald Trump’s words have raised eyebrows for their characterizations of those he views negatively. The objects of his verbal attacks range from the media, to liberals and even to conservatives who have not embraced his political ideology rooted in hard-line stances on immigration and nationalism. But no group has been the subject of his ire as have immigrants, especially those who have entered the country illegally.

And despite the old and mostly now dispatched with suggestion that his words should often be taken seriously and not literally, President Trump’s comments both publicly and behind the scenes about illegal immigrants make one thing clear: They have no place in the president’s ideas of a “great” America.

In an excerpt for a forthcoming book, two New York Times reporters detail that in a March meeting with his political aides, Trump’s frustration about illegal immigration led him to suggest violent solutions to the problem. They reported:

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Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate. He wanted the wall electrified, with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. After publicly suggesting that soldiers shoot migrants if they threw rocks, the president backed off when his staff told him that was illegal. But later in a meeting, aides recalled, he suggested that they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. That’s not allowed either, they told him.
Trump tweeted Wednesday denying that he called for a reptile-filled moat: “I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough. The press has gone Crazy. Fake News!!" The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey, however, confirmed that Trump wanted migrants attempting to illegally cross the border shot.

And that he wanted migrants to be targeted is not as much of a stretch as defenders of Trump might argue given his track record of supporting violent actions toward those who dare challenge his plan to make American “great” in the eyes of his supporters. This could be, in part, why some of his supporters have taken his words about undocumented immigrants literally and acted violently.

But this is not the first time Trump’s words toward immigrants have been dehumanizing. Looking back to the earliest days of his campaign, Trump has reserved some of his most violent and dehumanizing language toward immigrants. In his campaign announcement, Trump accused immigrants from Mexico of being criminals.

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“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said. “They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

And in July 2017, during a speech largely focused on MS-13, a violent gang started in the United States that recruits and preys upon immigrants, Trump encouraged police to be more violent in their handling of those suspected of crime.

“When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’” he said.

“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head],” Trump added mimicking a cop arresting a suspect. “Like, ‘Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.’ I said, ‘You can take the hand away, okay?’

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And in January 2018, Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers who came to the Oval Office to finds a way to protect immigrants from developing nations with large black populations.

“Why are we having all these people from sh****le countries come here?” the president asked, according to those in the meeting.

“Why do we need more Haitians?” Trump added. “Take them out.”

And days before the 2018 midterm election, the president characterized individuals crossing the border and seeking asylum as violent criminals terrorizing law enforcement and others on their way to wreak havoc in the United States.

“Some people call it an ‘invasion,’” he said. “It’s like an invasion. They have violently overrun the Mexican border.”

“They’ve overrun the Mexican police, and they’ve overrun and hurt badly Mexican soldiers,” Trump added. “So this isn’t an innocent group of people. It’s a large number of people that are tough. They’ve injured, they’ve attacked, and the Mexican police and military has actually suffered.”

Joe Biden telling it like it is!!

Joe left out driving into peaceful protests in your 4x4 pickups shooting paintballs and jumping into the peaceful protests fully armed with intent only to incite violence.

Enough!!!

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Baltimore Ravens Make Statement, Demands for Social Justice
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With yet another example of racial discrimination with the shooting of Jacob Blake, and the unlawful abuse of peaceful protesters, we MUST unify as a society. It is imperative that all people – regardless of race, religion, creed or belief – come together to say, 'Enough is enough!'

This is bigger than sports. Racism is embedded in the fabric of our nation's foundation and is a blemish on our country's history. If we are to change course and make our world a better place, we must face this problem head-on and act now to enact positive change.

It is time to accept accountability and acknowledge the ramifications of slavery and racial injustice.

Though we cannot right all the wrongs of our country's history, we can:

Arrest and charge the police officers responsible for Breonna Taylor's killing and the shooting of Jacob Blake.
Demand that Senator Mitch McConnell bring the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020 to the Senate floor for vote.
End qualified immunity; require body cameras; ban chokeholds and no-knock warrants; hold police accountable in court; establish a framework to prohibit racial profiling at federal, state, and local levels
Support state- and federally-mandated CALEA Accreditation and national standards of care in policing.
Encourage everyone to engage in the political process by registering to vote on both the local and national level. (www.risetovote.turbovote.org.)
Demand prison sentencing reform that is fair and equitable.
Encourage every citizen to act with respect and compliance when engaging with the police. If you feel there has been an abuse of power, we encourage you to contact your police department's internal affairs unit. (For Baltimore City, dial 410-396-2300.)
We will use our platform to drive change now – not just for our generation, but for the generations that follow, for our sons and daughters and for their children.

Ravens Make Statement, Demands for Social Justice The Ravens had a team meeting Thursday and have a list of demands calling for social justice.

Hey Ho tRump Must Go!!!
181,000 dead, 50 million out of work, no stimulus, spreading hatred and fear, proving he doesn't care about Americans!

Senator Harris comments on Wisconsin, Hurricane Laura, Wildfires, Coronavirus, and American Principles.

Senator Kamala Harris Comments on Wisconsin Protests and Violence Vice Presidential Candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) delivered remarks in Washington, DC on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the U.S. economy. She addressed the police involved shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She also spoke about President Trump's failure to l...

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As Stanford Cuts Teams, Olympic Hopefuls All Over the U.S. Feel a Chill If Stanford, which has deep resources and a reputation as a factory for Olympians, can’t maintain its sports programs amid the pandemic, athletes fear that no one can.

Chris Paul, President of NBA Players Association speaks about systemic racism and Jacob Blake's attempted murder by Kenosha police. He is alive but is now paralyzed!!

His crime was breaking up a domestic dispute between two others.

Black Lives Matter!!!

We still need to bring to justice the killers of Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice, Rayshard Brooks, and many others~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxcNbbyg0ZI

Change must come soon!!

Please register and vote these hateful evil people out of office at every level, local, state, and federal!!

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Our children must not have to live in fear!

All children must live in joy!!!

How many more must die and suffer before permanent change is made? How many!!!

Here's an audio interview from NPR in Wisconsin

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/24/905350249/outrage-grows-after-shooting-of-a-black-man-in-wisconsin-by-police

Outrage Grows After Shooting Of A Black Man In Wisconsin By Police
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Audio: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/905350249

A black man is walking away, trying to get into an SUV. His back is turned to police officers. An officer grabs onto the man's shirt, and then multiple shots ring out. The man, identified as Jacob Blake, is hospitalized. Video of this police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., yesterday has gone viral. Crowds took to the streets to protest.

(SOUNDBITE OF PROTEST)

UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER: (Inaudible).

(COUGHING)

GREENE: That's the sound there of protesters running from police and coughing after officers fire tear gas. Kenosha County is now under a state-of-emergency curfew. And let's get the latest now from Kim Shine. She's a reporter with CBS affiliate WDJT in Milwaukee. She was at the scene covering this. Kim, thanks for being here.

KIM SHINE: Thank you so much for having me this morning.

GREENE: Can you take us through what happened as we know it at this point?

SHINE: Well, from that video, a lot of people - dozens of community members, protesters - they went to the actual scene of that shooting and had a confrontation with police there. And then that moved to the police station and where the courthouse was, where you heard the sound of people coughing. I talked to co-workers who are still on scene, and they say that it's pretty much cleared out now. And as far as we know about Jacob, his cousin tweeted that he is out of surgery and in ICU.

GREENE: OK. So he's hospitalized, in the ICU at this point. Can you take us through? I mean, there's video of what happened in this shooting. And, you know, I guess you can never tell from some videos exactly what happened. Some are much more clear what happened. I mean, what do you see in this video?

SHINE: In the video here - and it's circulating all around social media - but in the video, you pretty much see that the man identified as Jacob walking away from officers. And then one eventually - as Jacob is trying to get into his SUV, one of the officers seems to be pulling on his shirt. And then you hear seven gunshots. And why that actually happened we still don't know. Police haven't said why this happened or what led up to this incident. People on scene - they had told me that it may have been that Jacob was trying to break up a fight between some people. And then I don't know what happened next. And that's what we're still waiting on from officers. I mean, there's thoughts that his children were in the car, too. And so a lot of things, a lot of pieces to this that we definitely have to get from authorities and the Wisconsin DOJ, who is now taking over this case.

GREENE: But this video has been enough to anger a lot of people. And you've spoken to some of the people who were on the streets?

SHINE: Yeah. A lot of people were angry. And that's why some of the fires were set outside the courthouse and the police station. We talked to some protesters. One - his name is Jay (ph), actually. And he doesn't live in the area, but he lives nearby and says that he's just really, really angry. And I'd like for you guys to hear some of that sound.

JAY: I just feel angry and kind of hurt, you know, 'cause if you watched the video, it's just downright devilish, you know, what he did. So the energy out here is just anger. You know, we hurt. You know, we tired of going through this. It's about, you know, countless times now.

SHINE: What's unfortunate about this is that people are really internalizing this not just here but all over the country, maybe even parts of the world. They're internalizing this hate. And hopefully, things do change 'cause that's what people in these communities say that they want.

GREENE: That is CBS affiliate WDJT's Kim Shine for us this morning. Thanks so much, Kim.

SHINE: Thank you.

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Joe Biden accepts Democratic presidential nomination, with a call for optimism at a time of fear

August 21, 2020 at 12:20 a.m. EDT
WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with a call to optimism at a time of national fear, concluding an unusual four days of virtual pageantry in which Democrats portrayed their struggle against President Trump as a battle against a dark force with American democracy hanging in the balance.

In a 25-minute speech, the former vice president channeled concern over multiple, simultaneous crises facing the country while urging the American people to choose what he called “a path of hope and light.”

“The current president has cloaked America in darkness for much too long. Too much anger, too much fear, too much division,” Biden said. “Here and now, I give you my word: If you entrust me with the presidency, I will draw on the best of us, not the worst. I’ll be an ally of the light, not the darkness.”

He gave the remarks from an austere ballroom set with American flags but absent a crowd, due to health concerns driven by the coronavirus pandemic. The only accompaniment came from cars gathered outside, drive-in style, honking in lieu of applauding.

In the silence, he outlined his solutions to the pain of those struggling without a job or fearful of losing one. Looking at the camera and offering an attempt at solace, he directly addressed those left behind by the deaths of more than 170,000 Americans from covid-19. His voice rose while speaking about Trump and the response to the global pandemic.

“He keeps waiting for a miracle,” Biden said, never uttering Trump’s name. “Well, I have news for him: No miracle is coming.”

Biden also spoke directly to young people, who have been slow to warm to his candidacy. He noted their protests for racial justice and civil rights, their advocacy of gun control and their desire to see the nation deal with the crisis of climate change.

“I hear their voices and if you listen, you can hear them, too,” Biden said.

Biden showed a flash of anger when he turned to foreign policy and recent reports that Russia had placed bounties on American troops in Afghanistan, saying that in his presidency, “America will not turn a blind eye to Russian bounties on American soldiers.”

After emerging atop the most crowded presidential primary in recent history, the former two-term vice president and six-term U.S. senator from Delaware claimed the nomination on his third try, accepting it 12,126 days after he launched his first presidential campaign, in 1987.

Over five decades, Biden has traveled to almost every Democratic convention, often speaking but never as the headliner on the final night. This time, with the convention rendered virtual by the pandemic, he spoke from his hometown, inside a nearly empty ballroom just five miles from his house.

“In this dark moment, I believe we're poised to make great progress again,” Biden said.

“Are you ready? I believe we are,” Biden said as he closed his speech by quoting a favorite Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. “This is our moment to ‘make hope and history rhyme.’”

Joe Biden accepts Democratic presidential nomination, with a call for optimism at a time of fear Joe Biden directly criticized President Trump, arguing he divided the nation and bungled the coronavirus response, calling for Americans to come together.

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NCAA's Mark Emmert: 'We cannot, at this point, have fall NCAA championships'
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NCAA President Mark Emmert said on Thursday that the NCAA will not hold DI fall championships this year. The announcement affects men's and women's cross country, field hockey, FCS, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball and men's water polo. Division II and Division III had previously canceled their fall championships. Emmert also said the NCAA is looking into holding fall sports championships in the winter or spring.

"We cannot now, at this point, have fall NCAA championships, because there’s not enough school participating," Emmert said. "The Board of Governors also said, 'Look, if you don’t have half of the schools playing a sport, you can’t have a legitimate championship.' So we can’t in any Division I NCAA championship sport, which is everything other than FBS football, that goes on in the fall. Sadly, tragically, that’s going to be the case this fall, full-stop.

"But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t and can’t turn toward winter and spring and, create a legitimate championship for all those students."

Emmert said he's confident this can be figured out, but that the highest priority is to the winter and spring sports because they lost their championships earlier this year. He also said fall will be used to keep kids healthy, engaged with coaches and focused on academics.

Emmert said they're looking into shrinking bracket sizes, keying in on pre-determined sites and bubble models for sports.

"Is it doable? Yeah," Emmert said. "We want to make it work for the students."

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We are officially endorsing the Biden/Harris team to take back our country in straight sets\\oo//

The Big 10 will not play football this year! Official announcement coming tomorrow. Basketball's March Madness, the NCAA's other cash cow was cancelled earlier this year, will it be back for 2021?

Though it is unsaid in this article, where does the money for volleyball and beach volleyball scholarships come from now, and into the future? How will volleyball scholarships be effected? etc...?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/08/07/college-sports-embraced-reckless-greed-with-coronavirus-crisis-bill-has-come-due/

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College sports embraced reckless greed. With the coronavirus crisis, the bill has come due.
The NCAA and college sports are drowning in excess. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
The NCAA and college sports are drowning in excess. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)

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August 7, 2020 at 9:01 a.m. EDT

The pandemic has subjected the NCAA to radiographical exposure. Every crooked vertebra of the system is on glowing fluorescent display. It’s similar to the sensation when you view an X-ray that shows your cat swallowed your favorite fountain pen. You can see all the things that don’t belong in the guts of a university.

The novel coronavirus crisis is an incredible diagnostic tool. The excesses have never been so sharply delineated: The $50 million stadium upgrades, the indoor waterfalls, the ballooning salaries, the locker rooms designed like first-class luxury airliner cabins now look like protruding, tumorous distortions, worthy of recoil and disgust. Institutions have laid themselves bare, with their desperate insistence on trying to make unpaid kids play football in a viral outbreak simply to meet their overextended bills.

“Schools have spent money recklessly for years,” says attorney Tim Nevius, a former NCAA investigator who is now an advocate for athletes. “Now they’re in a position where if the season doesn’t go forward, they’re on the hook for millions. … There has just been an extraordinary amount of spending on things that have very little resemblance to a university’s mission to educate and develop people.”

Understand this: These schools don’t have a money problem. They have a shopping addiction. From 2004 to 2018, NCAA revenue exploded from $3 billion to $14 billion thanks largely to media rights, licensing and sponsorship deals. Yet some schools are so financially distressed that a single canceled football season could be catastrophic. Stanford cut 11 sports, and Wisconsin informed donors that it could face a $100 million shortfall. Where did the money go? The answer is, to compulsive spending and gross misallocation. Hundreds of millions disappeared into the pockets of deputy assistant associate athletic directors for administration, conference commissioners for the commission of commissions and Nick Saban’s corporate-welfare army of “football analysts.”

College football players fear stigma of sitting out could outlast pandemic

The rest went into buildings that look like a Kardashian’s closet. Clemson’s arcade of a football complex includes miniature golf, bowling, laser tag and a movie theater.

“This is a multibillion-dollar sports entertainment industry embedded in our higher education system,” Nevius says.

You can see what the priorities are. Book learning and bookkeeping aren’t among them.

The party is over, obviously. A perfect storm has overtaken an NCAA structure that was rickety to begin with and is knocking it down, exposing all the rotten innards. “This is a crazy system we’ve had, that never really worked economically for schools, that got more and more commercialized over time, and it’s ripe for change,” economist Andrew Zimbalist says. “You have all these commercial enterprises called athletic departments that did not face normal marketplace discipline, because there is nobody, not you or I, who owns stock in the Notre Dame or Michigan football team.”

The accounting is finally here. The pandemic and its accompanying contraction are a painful and uncertain experience all across the country. But one good thing has come of it: It has tilted some leverage to athletes, on whom so many overpaid livings depend. Now they are asking: Why should we play for free and put our health at risk just so a bunch of paper pushers can walk off with more millions?

An extraordinary shift is coming, like it or not. No one yet knows what the college landscape will look like post-pandemic. But it’s time to recognize the stark reality that there is a major labor industry improperly buried in the stomachs of universities. It has to be either removed or better absorbed.

If athletic departments are going to remain and survive on campuses, the NCAA must become a more organic system that equitably recompenses athletes for their risk and prioritizes the well-being of the people who are doing the sweating over that of those in suits. Pac-12 players are threatening to sit out if they don’t receive a 50 percent revenue split and health benefits. It’s a good road map.

Does that come with consequences? Of course — starting with tax consequences. There would be redistribution and reallocation implications, hard ones, for everybody. But those are coming, like it or not, in one form or another. The idea that smaller sports have to be killed wholesale is nonsense. Before athletic directors make that determination, how about they start by paring away all of the stupendous waste and bureaucratic welfare and see what’s left?

What does this mean? It means restoring a pay-as-you-go ethic instead of waiting for the big bowl game check to erase the red ink. It means clawing back the salaries of grossly overpaid failed-upward administrators, such as Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott’s $5 million a year compensation for pure incompetence, and redeploying money to sports under threat. It means Alabama carrying just one “football analyst” instead of 13. It means cutting Dabo Swinney’s $9 million salary to $2 million and doing the same to all the other coaches in the Power Five conferences, whose collective pay amounts to a staggering $1.2 billion.

It means cutting ludicrous travel expenses and no more putting players in hotels before home games. It means reducing the number of football scholarships from a needlessly large 85 to a more reasonable 70. It means not every Division I men’s basketball player gets to spend Thanksgiving in a Caribbean resort.

It means hiring college administrators who won’t honcho around but who will do their actual assigned job, which is to run educational nonprofits with low overhead that spread merit-based scholarships to as many deserving kids as possible, in as many sports as possible. It means finding administrators who will concede that multisport departments can be run on a mere $50 million instead of $150 million.

Before anything else, NCAA schools have to get their spending and their addiction to debt under control. No large measures, whether cutting sports or sharing revenue with athletes, can be even discussed until excess is curbed and reason restored. Not until then can anyone begin to see a fairer future for college sports. The alternative is unsustainable and will lead to total collapse.

Perspective | College sports embraced reckless greed. With the coronavirus crisis, the bill has come due. Educational institutions have laid themselves bare, with their desperate insistence on trying to make unpaid kids play football in a viral outbreak simply to meet their overextended bills.