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RNC 2020: The Republican Party now the Party of Trump
About the Right - or at least the R party - being accidentally right.
One of the traditional duties of the delegates to the quadrennial national party conventions, both Democratic and Republican, is to adopt a platform stating their policy preferences and principles.
These documents - akin to British party manifestos - are typically the subject of intense haggling and debate among the delegates, but are largely ignored by the candidates themselves, unless opponents decide to highlight a portion they think general-election voters will find extreme or unpopular.
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Instead, the delegates gathering for the limited in-person convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, passed a one-page resolution stating that they weren't going to have a new platform, but instead the party "has and will continue to enthusiastically support the president's America-first agenda".
The delegates said they made this decision because they did not want their reduced number in Charlotte making policy decisions for the entire party.
And so, the logic goes: "If there are not enough of us to take a decision for the entire party, then surely a single idiot will be better than us, so we'll support him enthusiastically".
A sincere admission of incapability.
It continues:
a June decision by the party's executive committee to adopt the 2016 platform as-is in 2020.
While that might seem a reasonable decision given the circumstances, doing so without any changes meant the document included shots meant for the then in-power Democrats, like "all international executive agreements and political arrangements entered into by the current Administration must be deemed null and void as mere expressions of the current president's preferences".
They got it right in form at least. It still means "we are supporting Trump, in spite of policies being just a matter of current president's preferences"
Thug Uses Media to Lay Out BLM Demands
A 6 foot tall, 240 lb monster thug from a gang-riddled ghetto of Los Angeles hijacked the media last night, just minutes after being seen for the previous few hours brandishing a club.
This young tough expressed the nefarious goals and emotions of the Black Lives Matter movement with clarity and emotion.
Before his inflammatory remarks to the press, he took advantage of the tense situation to make sure his intentions were not misunderstood, then repeatedly brandished a club for several hours.
What's more, this ghetto rat was intimately involved in preventing others from doing their jobs today, in solidarity with others trying to take advantage of the media storm around the shooting of Jacob Blake.
What is this world coming to?
"Shoot me, nigga!!"
Trump "inaccuracies" about COVID-19
I started a collection back on 3/23 of this year. I am only posting/pestering this now because an AC asked me "what could Trump have done and when?".
"For educational purposes, what about a running thread with daily updates of Trump's ongoing and continuing dangerous lies that are going to cost lives?"
Will some people ever be persuaded by the torrential flood of lies and disinformation directly from the horse's jackass's mouth?
The best ones, I think, that show the change over time, and that what Trump was doing was not working are:
This is perhaps the very best link of the bunch:
From ‘It’s going to disappear’ to ‘WE WILL WIN THIS WAR’
An ad so good, Trump is trying to get it taken down:
Exponential Threat
Exponential Threat
In May I stopped collecting these because the torrential flood of lies was just too great. I surrender!
Edit: below are in reverse chronological order (newest to oldest).
‘This will kill you’: Fox’s Neil Cavuto at center of Trump’s hydroxychloroquine madness
Sorry, Mr. President, America’s testing capacity isn’t “unrivaled”
Scientists’ world of truth and knowledge couldn’t be further from Trump’s
'Delusional,' 'absolutely false': Governors cry foul on Trump testing claims
The 52 most off-the-wall lines from Donald Trump's Sunday night coronavirus briefing
Trump's self-interest is at odds with safe coronavirus policy
The Article:
Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming
The Video:
Trump OUTED By Leaked 2017 Pandemic Documents
No proof drug touted by Trump is effective against coronavirus: EU
Over 120,000 Sign Petition Calling for End to Live Coverage of Trump's Coronavirus Briefings
'That's just not true.' GOP Gov. Hogan contradicts Trump claim that testing problems are fixed
Trump Suggests Lack of Testing Is No Longer a Problem. Governors Disagree.
The 37 most mind-boggling lines from Donald Trump's Sunday coronavirus briefing
Trump itching to scale back social distancing after 15 day-period, aides say
Trump Says Coronavirus Cure Cannot ‘Be Worse Than the Problem Itself’
Trump signals change in coronavirus strategy that could clash with health experts
Trump, in his own words, from his own lips, on camera, in front of the country and the world
Physician on Trump's request: It's really impossible
Please chime in to explain how this is all fake news. And how I'm a horrible disloyal person for posting something that could embarrass the president (if that is even possible).
Antifa Is Mostly Made Up Of Privileged White Dudes
https://spectator.us/antifa-white-privilege-race-minneapolis/
Antifa’s white privilege
Even in a riot, the races aren’t equalThere is no right to burn down your neighborhood, but it’s always an option. Freedom means choice, and real freedom must include the choice of self-destruction — but not destroying someone else’s neighborhood. Especially not when the neighborhood is mostly black and poor. That is what the privileged whites of antifa are doing by instigating disorder and destruction in Minneapolis’s 3rd precinct and elsewhere. Cost-free kicks at black people’s expense: the height of white privilege.
Race is the American sickness, and though everyone is sick of it, no one has the cure. The murder of George Floyd and the fact that it took riots before his killer was charged, confirms, should anyone still need confirmation, that Americans are still not equal before the law. Don military fatigues and storm the Michigan statehouse, and the police will recognize you as a fellow patriot. Pass a counterfeit bill while black, however, and no law can protect you from the law.
The laws that antifa learn to despise in their four-year colleges guarantee their racial privilege. If you’re black and angry enough to burn down banks and stores in your black neighborhood, tomorrow you’ll have to live in the ruins. If you’re white and you burn down banks and stores in someone else’s neighborhood, tomorrow you’ll be back in white world: fixing bikes or brewing espresso, waiting for The Man to cancel your student loans, living in a historic urban neighborhood whose historic black population you and your white friends have gentrified out of sight.
This isn’t the first time masked gangs of property-holding whites have stormed into black neighborhoods and smashed the place up to show they are above the law. They used to do it to preserve their racial privilege, to exclude blacks from exercising their rights of participation. Now they do it in the name of the racially underprivileged. Either way, they never asked for an invitation. They don’t have to, do they? They’re white and they know their rights.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/01/antifa-is-mostly-privileged-white-dudes/
Antifa Is Mostly Made Up Of Privileged White Dudes
Many in the media treat Antifa as a diverse group of warriors against fascism and racism. This is an absolute fabrication.
JULY 1, 2019 By David Marcus
At Occupy Wall Street, there were two very distinct groups. On one side of the park were the peaceful intellectuals. They ran the library and the general assembly, and organized services in the park. On the other side was the black bloc, a collection of black-clad punks, often with bandanas ready to serve as masks, who mostly engaged in drug use and drum circles. The latter group is directly related to the movement we now know as Antifa.One thing that both of these groups had—and continue to have—in common is that they are mostly young white people. This is not surprising; poll after poll shows us that the vast majority of far-left progressives are white. The intellectuals at Occupy understood and tried to address this, giving special treatment to the speech and ideas of their small cadre of non-white participants. The Black Bloc and Antifa take a different approach; they just cover their faces.
But when members of Antifa are arrested, the masks come off. And, as recent mugshots of Portland Antifa members show, these people are about as diverse as the Washington Generals.
At a time when many on the left are rightfully concerned about far-right white violence, why do so many seemed so nonplussed by far-left white violence, in most cases even refusing to acknowledge that that’s exactly what Antifa is?
One sociologist writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz attempts to prove fanciful claims that Antifa is a rainbow coalition of the oppressed desperately fighting in their own immediate self defense. Stanislav Vustotsky writes:
“Many militant anti-fascists become involved in this form of activism because aspects of their identity are directly targeted by fascist violence; they are queer, transgender, gender non-conforming, people of color, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, and certainly identified in ways that intersected across these categories.
For them, anti-fascism was a means of ensuring their safety from a movement that threatens their very existence and venerates violence as the highest form of action. Even the Antifa activists who identify as cis heterosexual white males are the targets of fascist violence as ‘race’ and ‘gender’ traitors.”
Vusotsky claims to have formally studied Antifa—interviewing them, attending meetings, and “engaging in the culture of anti fascism.” Needless to say he doesn’t exactly come off as a neutral party to all this. But what is stunning is what is not in his piece. He claims to have conducted “ethnographic research,” on the group. If so, where are the numbers that back up his assertion that Antifa is wildly diverse?
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of Antifa has seen videos of their violent antics and can see for himself or herself that almost all of them are white dudes. Anyone who has ever been in their presence knows this too. I would be very interested to see this ethnographic research, and I am curious if Haaretz looked at it before publishing the author’s bizarre claim. It strains credulity to believe that if Vusotsky had hard numbers to back up his assertion he would have simply left them out of his article.
The reason this point is so important is that it betrays a double standard that many in our media use regarding violent white activists. On the right, their whiteness is front and center; part of the toxic brew that stews their hate. But this is equally true of Antifa, which has its roots in the far left of the English punk scene in the 1980s.
Antifa’s goals are not those of most non-white Americans. Most non-white Americans don’t want to destroy the systems of government, abolish the police, end capitalism, or cripple corporations. The group is absolutely trying to impose a style of anarchy that is steeped in (and almost unique to) whiteness.
When cowards wear masks to engage in violence, we must remove the masks to see who we are actually dealing with—not the fairy tale of diversity version. When Andy Ngo, a minority gay man, is mercilessly beaten up by white activists, the fact that the activists are white is a big part of the story in today’s landscape. Don’t believe the progressive narrative: Antifa is mostly a bunch of privileged white dudes.
XuanTie 910 / Alibaba XT910 RISC-V Core
More Details about Alibaba XT910 64-bit RISC-V Core
No GPU! "Legal challenges for a high-performance core"!
Previously: Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU
Alibaba Claims its RISC-V Core is Faster than ARM Cortex-A73
What will Trump do in 2nd term?
I've been wondering. What will Trump do in his 2nd term?
Ideas? Please share.
Ordinarily presidents have a plan for WHY they should be re-elected. And I mean something more than "we've done a tremendous job. Just tremendous!". But Trump is anything but ordinary. How about an agenda for his second term? What does he plan to accomplish?
* protect us from Hillary!
* protect us from Biden.
* protect us from Pence.
* Trump will tweet his plans for his 2nd term as soon as he receives them from Vladimir.
As the wall begins to deteriorate and fail due to faulty construction from poorly chosen contractors; donate the wall to Canada. Shipping charges due upon delivery. The US can't be alone in needing to protect its southern border from criminals and rapists.
Reform the voting system. Make it simple. You simply vote whether you are Loyal or Disloyal. To prevent disagreements in places of voting, the Loyal and Disloyal will vote on different days.
There must be many other important things that must be addressed during Trump's 2nd term. What are they?
AMD 2021-2022 Roadmap: Zen 3 Refresh on AM5?
AMD Ryzen 2021-2022 roadmap partially leaks
The big takeaways seem to be:
Warhol: A 2021 Zen 3 refresh desktop CPU (after this year's Zen 3 Vermeer), except that it may be on the new AM5 socket with DDR5 memory, so it would break compatibility with current motherboards. It could have some "Zen 3+" IPC enhancements, reminiscent of the slight gains of "Zen+". Still uses PCIe 4.0.
Raphael: 2022 Zen 4 desktop CPU. It could have an entry-level amount of integrated graphics on a chiplet. Most of Intel's desktop CPUs have integrated graphics, while AMD has forgone it. But there is probably plenty of room for the I/O die, 2-3x 8-core CPU chiplets, and a tiny GPU chiplet, especially given that it will be on TSMC's dense "5nm" node. This is the one I'm hoping will have gigabytes of L4 cache stacked on the I/O die.
Dragon Crest: Early 2022 successor to the low power Van Gogh APU, featuring Zen 3 cores and enhanced RDNA2. If the target is really early 2022, then AMD is being very aggressive about introducing new products at a fast pace.
A tribute to first responders
Detroit Firefighter Dies Trying to Save Girls From Drowning
Sgt. Sivad Johnson, 49, a 26-year veteran of the Detroit Fire Department, dived in to rescue the girls, who were later safely brought ashore.The body of a Detroit firefighter was recovered from the Detroit River on Saturday, a day after he dived into the water to save three young girls from drowning, the authorities said.
Sgt. Sivad Johnson, 49, a 26-year veteran of the Detroit Fire Department, was visiting Belle Isle, a 982-acre island park in the Detroit River, with his 10-year-old daughter, Hayden, on Friday evening when he heard witnesses say three young girls were drowning, said Eric Jones, the Detroit fire commissioner.
Sergeant Johnson gave his phone and keys to his daughter, and he and a civilian dived into the river to save the girls, Commissioner Jones said. After the girls were safely brought to shore, Sergeant Johnson’s daughter realized she could not find her father and called 911 around 9 p.m., according to the Michigan State Police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/us/sivad-johnson-detroit-firefighter-dead.html
Sgt. Johnson epitomizes emergency personnel everywhere. People who care about other people, and will jump in where others fear to go. But, it's good to remember that Sgt. Johnson isn't alone. Firefighters, EMTs, police, and medical personnel, all around the world rush in when there is an emergency - often at the risk of their own lives.
Give this man a moment of silence, if you will. And, the next time you have reason to speak to a first responder, you might take time out for another moment of silence. Most first responders never have to sacrifice much more than a little blood, sweat and tears throughout their careers, but, they are there, ready to do whatever is required.
