…I encourage you to take a look at the sobering article in the LAT today that talks about how ocean front property in Manhattan Beach was stolen from a Black family in 1924. It illustrates how governmental action has prevented the families of formerly enslaved people from acquiring wealth, making it clear that reparations are in order. I hope you’ll start considering how you can share your wealth….
…CW seems like a good guy. He’s an exercise fanatic & talks like a New Yorker. Does everyone in FL do that? He’s proud of the fact that he was an early adopter of body cams. All of his officers wear them, all of the time. I think it’s great that he wants to be as transparent as possible. …I hope you will call him, so he can tell you more about that.
It’s too bad that you had to cut your trip to FL short & will have to skip your visit to Doral. I hope Storm Isaias doesn’t get any more intense. It’s 80 mph winds make it a Cat 1 storm. Perhaps it will stay out at sea & we won’t have to worry about sheltering people in this moment of CV….
…I was sorry to hear that your advocate, Bill Montgomery of Turning Point, died of CV. When you give your condolences to his young protégé, Charlie Kirk, please inform him that wearing a mask does not make you “infect yourself.” He’s a bit confused about the science. You know how that is….
It was kind of you to greet Terry Sharpe at the WH yesterday. How was he holding up? Walking 300 miles at age 69 is quite an accomplishment! I hope his efforts to raise awareness of veteran’s suicides are successful. I was disappointed that you weren’t wearing your mask when you met with his entourage. Perhaps you forgot to put it on…
I’m sure you’ve heard that another group has emerged to stand between the protestors and the marshals. They call themselves, the “Wall of Vets,” and were inspired by Naval Academy Grads, Duston Obermeyer (DO) & Chris David (CJD), who went to the protests to ask the marshals if they knew that “assaulting an unarmed protester who is exercising their first amendment rights is illegal, that’s an illegal order.”
It’s wonderful that you are honoring Jim Ryun (JRR) with a Presidential Medal of Freedom this morning! … According to Vanity Fair, he brought that sense of humility to his 11 years in Congress as he endeavored to be “a servant leader representing my constituents with integrity.” I think we all have something to learn from JRR.
I understand that you are worried about the gun violence in places like Kansas City, Chicago & Albuquerque, but rather than send in the marshals to take over the city, why not expand AmeriCorps and send folks out of the city? Take armies of urban youth to the backcountry to clean up the woods, plant trees & build trails. … I encourage you to use Goodman Park as the venue of your announcement should you decide to pursue this idea.
… It’s wonderful to see you sharing graphs at your press conferences! I can understand your enthusiasm for the one that shows the US has a low case fatality rate (CFR). While I appreciate your instinct to look for silver linings, that low case fatality rate isn’t very encouraging when so many people are catching CV. …
…Are you sure that the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) folks and the US Marshals will know what to do when they are faced with a Walls of Moms in Libby Schaaf & Lori Lightfoot’s cities? I encourage you to consult with the elected officials in Oakland & Chicago so you can invest our tax payer $$ wisely in federal efforts to ameliorate the problems in those metropolises….
How sensitive are you to disgust? ….I ask about “disgust sensitivity” because according to Vanderbilt prof, Cindy Kam, it predicts how voters respond to Covid-19 policies. The prof has done a complicated study to show that “disgust sensitivity” could explain your recent troubles with GOP women voters….
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As I am sure you are aware, yesterday’s NYT featured a comprehensive article about WH conversations in mid-April …. I’m afraid Dr. Birx (DLB) doesn’t look too good in this accounting. They called her the “the chief evangelist for the idea that the threat from the virus was fading” & say she was “a constant source of upbeat news” …As we both know, things have not turned out as well as DLB hoped.
