It is not a good idea to anger the people assigned to protect you.
Courtesy of Mediaite:
After months of taking their cues from a president and White House that openly flouted CDC guidelines about Covid-19 — and implicitly demanded Trump’s personal protection detail do the same — outraged Secret Service agents are now bitterly complaining about the public heath risks they’re facing.
According to the Washington Post, increasing numbers of the White House Secret Service detail, as well as those in the field assigned to work Trump’s mostly maskless, non-socially distanced campaign rallies, are taking to private message boards and discussion groups to vent their anger after a coronavirus outbreak has hit Trump’s inner circle.
Secret Service agents expressed their anger and frustration to colleagues and friends Friday, saying that the president’s actions have repeatedly put them at risk. “He’s never cared about us,” one agent told a confidant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal reaction…
Agents who work in field offices around the country complained that since late August, they are no longer being tested when they return home from working at a rally for the president.
“This administration doesn’t care about the Secret Service,” one current agent relayed in an internal discussion group. “It’s so obvious.”
Protection details assigned to First Daughter Ivanka Trump and fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner were also compelled to accompany her family outside of Washington, D.C. during the height of the shelter-in-place rules in the spring. Their frequent destination, Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J. was under a state lockdown order at the time. Despite the risky travel, agents told the Post that they were rarely tested for the coronavirus and often short on N95 protective masks. And some agents, feeling pressured to blend in with their detailees, began foregoing masks altogether.
The Secret Service will not release the number of agents who have been infected to the press, however, from past reporting we know that dozens have been forced to quarantine themselves due to exposure.
I have to admit that I do not have a great deal of sympathy for the folks who voluntarily attended some of these events and then got infected due to their own carelessness, however, these agents are forced to attend events and then exposed due to the ignorance on the part of those they are protecting.
That would piss me off as well.
And let’s face it, Trump was probably never in danger from a violent attack since it seems all of the violent people love him.
No, he was always in danger due to his own stupidity, and clearly, he put a number of other innocent people in danger as well.
It is time for former California Attorney General Kamala Harris to dig in her stilettoes at the Wednesday debate. She will use words not found in the bible, words more powerful than guns and bombs, to absolutely eviscerate pence and this administration. No one will even remember who pence is, or was, after Wednesday. She must refrain from any restraint, in such a way that the gop base doesn’t even know the name Jesus, and the violent ingnorant entitled religion called Christianity ceases to be of any consideration.
An overdue awakening.
She doesn’t even have to bring up religion.
Hey, Pence, she’s no “Karen,” and I’m awaiting you to cancel.
Not because you need to, this national catastrophe, but because you’re going to have your @ss handed to you and YOU KNOW IT.
Can they not just all go on strike?
Remember when they allowed that guy to enter the WH and wander around when Obama was there? Still baffling. Kinda like when JFK “was shot”.
They probably should get their union to stand up for them. Oh, wait….
If the Secret Service is now asking for sympathy, I will send them a boxful of dictionaries as well.
They’re just trying to do their jobs, which require taking a bullet for their protectees if need be. They deserve respect, no matter who they are protecting.
People take a lot of abuse from the Trump family crime machine.
They don’t want to sue them. I get it they have so many lawyers and abuse their privilege.
This phase of infected Republicans and others will take the abuse. Rich Republicans have good medical care. It is others who will catch the spread who may not have the best medical care.
We only see a tiny tip of a monstrous iceberg. What about when they discover they are infecting, damaging and killing off their friends and family?
Remember most spreaders are asymptomatic. They may have no clue they are spreading to their loved ones and anyone they are in contact with. Even if a few asymptomatic spreaders will now begin a 14 day quarantine, think of all the spreading they can’t undo. They can cover up, so I doubt we will know the full impact from super-spreaders like the Trump family.
Super-liars, too, who can ever trust any of them again?
Sad about the secret Service being so hapless, unable to stand up for themselves, their friends and family against an old con. Pathetic.
Trump’s businesses have charged the Secret Service more than $1.1 million, including for rooms in a club shuttered for the pandemic
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/trump-properties-secret-service-charges-bedminster-nj-club-20200917.html
Since the Secret Service is sorta the military and likely has vets serving, and their job is to take a bullet for the president, I’m sure Trump considers them suckers and losers too.
And what’s with the ties and lapel pins? They have no dress code beyond a black suit and white tie?
Standard attire for SS.
And don’t forget the super cool spy issue shades because I’m sure the sun was shining day and night.
Don’t they look SO cool. I went to HS with one. He could not wait to get the hell out.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/qanon-resolution-passes-17-republicans-vote-no_n_5f778d3cc5b64b480aada92f
“The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday condemning the far-right conspiracy movement QAnon, yet 17 white Republican men and one independent voted no on the measure, demonstrating the sway of the movement — which the FBI considers a potential domestic terrorism threat — over a significant portion of the GOP.
The resolution, which passed by a vote of 371-18, was introduced in August by Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.) and Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) in response to an alarming rise in QAnon’s popularity.
It “condemns QAnon and rejects the conspiracy theories it promotes,” encourages federal law enforcement agencies to focus on the movement and calls on intelligence agencies to investigate “any foreign support, assistance or online amplification QAnon receives.”
The text of the resolution amounts to a withering takedown of the QAnon phenomenon, which is an ever-evolving collection of pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories based on cryptic clues posted to message boards by an anonymous poster known as “Q” who claims to be a senior government official with inside knowledge of a globalist cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles waging war against the president. ”
Despite the obvious danger the QAnon movement poses, 17 Republicans still decided to vote no on the resolution, which simply asserts the opinion of the House and does not have the effect of law. Here are their names:
Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas)
Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas)
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah)
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.)
Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas)
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.)
Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio)
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.)
Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.)
Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas)
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.)
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)
Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.)
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.)
Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.)
Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.)
Rep. Justin Amash, a Michigan independent who left the Republican Party in July 2019, also voted against the resolution. He defended his vote in a tweet, stating that the “resolution threatens protected speech (absurd as that speech may be).”
QAnon is a deeply anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, and Jewish groups on Friday expressed anger over the Republican congressmen’s no votes.”
And yet 17 could not bring themselves to condemn QAnon in a resolution that basically has no teeth. Why? Could it be because there are several REPUBLICAN candidates running for the Senate who are either members or sympathizers?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-qanon-candidates_n_5f62974ac5b6c6317cff477c
“Lauren Witzke is a onetime believer in QAnon whose political beliefs have been forged in the virulent online world of white nationalists. On Tuesday, she earned another moniker: Republican candidate for Senate.”
“Like the other adherent, Jo Rae Perkins of Oregon, who won a three-way Republican primary to challenge Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Witzke is not expected to win in a deep-blue state.
Still, her capture of the nomination — by more than 13 percentage points over an opponent the GOP endorsed — underscores that Republican voters are comfortable elevating believers in a hateful conspiracy theory to higher office.
Increasingly, so is the party.
At least 24 candidates for Congress who support the QAnon conspiracy theory will appear on the general election ballot in November; 22 of them are Republicans. Few are poised to win. But they nevertheless have support, or are encountering no resistance, from a growing roster of powerful people within the Republican Party.
QAnon believer Marjorie Taylor Greene is all but certain to win a seat in Congress, having handily won a Republican primary in deep-red northwest Georgia in August. (She may also run unopposed; her Democratic opponent dropped out of the race last week). In a 2017 video, Greene embraced the conspiracy theory that the unknown Q is poised to take out a “global cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles” and that Trump is “the president to do it.” ”
“Perkins, the Republican candidate for Senate in Oregon, has not lost the support of the county Republicans and statehouse Republicans who have endorsed her, despite her outright embrace of the Q conspiracy. (Having taken down a Q-supporting video, she later backtracked and told Oregon Public Broadcasting, “I stand with Q and the team.”) Her campaign claims the Oregon Republican Party is “on board,” which the state party has not disputed.
And after Lauren Boebert, who has said of QAnon, “I hope that this is real,” beat a five-term Republican congressman in his primary, the National Republican Congressional Committee refused to disavow her candidacy. ”
So the Republicans are going to have a QAnon nutjob representing them. At least the Tea-baggers weren’t domestic terrorists.
At least the Tea-baggers weren’t domestic terrorists.BORN December 9, 1958
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/10/04/opinion-trump-barr-devos-triumvirate-see-privatization-as-backdoor-route-to-destroying-civil-rights.html
“Private worlds, particularly those which claim a religious affiliation, function effectively as civil rights-free zones, where the laws of the land regarding discrimination and equal protection simply, in many regards, do not apply.”
Nice Stevie Wonder impression, white front man.
What would he do to them if they wore masks? He sure is a scary dude if he does this to SS.
Trump remains at Walter Reed hospital, at least he’s locked up.
NO HE’S NOT LOCKED UP! HE’S RIDING IN THE BACKSEAT OF SUV GOING UP AND DOWN THE FRONT OF WALTER REED!!
WHAT AN IGNORANT SOB. HE DESERVES TO DIE!!!