At long last election day is here. Black people, who the racist demagogueTrump has villified throughout his entire shameful life, are ready to evict this awful man from the White House.

Pay Back is sweet.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 11.2.2020

Robert Patterson, professor for African American Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  predicts that the election will come down to voter turnout, and he sees the Black Lives Matter movement as a major contributor to the mobilization of African American voters.

Vote Donald Trump out. The demonstrators on Louisville’s streets all agree that the president is a blatant racist who has praised the armed white supremacist militias who often show up to confront protests against police violence, but refused to condemn police violence against Black people.

“Black people will support Biden,” Professor Patterson said. “They will get their friends, cousins, and will turn out. They will definitely turn out in numbers grander than 2016, because they understand what’s at stake. People that have taken a chance on Trump will not this time around.”

According to a New York Times nationwide poll of likely voters, Biden had 90% support within the Black electorate overall, and Trump had just 4%.

A movement against police violence could help motivate more Black people to go to the polls. That would not likely be to Donald Trump’s benefit.

It is a cold and windy Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky. A few hundred demonstrators have turned out to take part in a memorial march for Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black medical worker who was killed in her home by police during a botched raid in March. “Say her name,” they call out, “Breonna Taylor!” It is one of the chants for justice employed by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Keturah Herron, a juvenile justice policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties Union in Kentucky, walks down the street, her fist in the air and a hoodie pulled up over her head. On her black mask are the words “Justice for Breonna Taylor.”

After months of nationwide protests, and ahead of the US presidential election on November 3, the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Louisville also have a political message — one shared by many other activists across the country:

After an officer paralyzed an unarmed Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August, a 17-year-old Trump supporter shot three demonstrators protesting police brutality, killing two. Though a video of the violence was already circulating, Trump jumped to the teen’s defense, alleging that the shooter had been fighting off attackers.

Many young Black Americans are also critical of Trump’s Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden. A survey published in September found that Biden had the support of fewer than 70% of Black voters aged 18 to 29, and though fewer than 10% supported Trump, a surprisingly large number remained undecided.

https://www.dw.com/en/black-lives-matter-movement-could-boost-the-anti-trump-vote/a-55412690

Unlike its American counterparts, the German government under Angela Merkel has taken the Pandemic seriously from Day One earlier in the year.

Now that the Covid-19 virus has resurfaced in large numbers Chancellor Merkel has put Germany in partial lockdown mode.

The same cannot be said for the moronic Trump who from Day One has attempted to debunk the entire Pandemic.  Why?  It hurts him politically.  Rather than pour American resources into fighting the Covid-19 this Fool has called it Fake News and ridiculed the scientific community which has been correct in its professional analysis of the crisis.

It’s only two days until Trump will be sent packing.  A new Administration will bring some much needed clear headedness and sanity into the fight against the Pandemic.  Naturally brainless Trump has criticized the Germans for instituting a partial lockdown.

Deutsche Welle 11.2.2020

Germany began a monthlong partial lockdown on Monday as part of efforts to curb the momentum of the coronavirus that has infected half a million people across the country.

As the new lockdown came into force, the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases announced a drop in cases, with just over 12,000 new infections, though the figure is often lower on the first day of the week as not all health authorities report on the weekend.

Infections of COVID-19 have been increasing sharply in recent weeks, with record caseloads becoming the norm, and Chancellor Angela Merkel has introduced stringent measures on public life as a result.

Some have described the lockdown as a lighter version of the one seen in the spring, as schools and shops will remain open, churches will be allowed to hold services and protests will not be banned. Nevertheless, all restaurants and bars will be closed, meetings in public will be restricted to just two households and all recreational centers, such as pools and gyms, will be shut.

State and federal leaders will meet again in 10 days to assess if the new measures need to be tightened further still or whether they may be eased in December, depending on the rate of infections.

Read more: Coronavirus: Merkel promises to shore up German economy

German Health Minister Jens Spahn urged citizens to significantly reduce their contacts in order to deal appropriately with the “situation of the century” and that a “national effort in November” is required, he told public broadcaster ZDF.

Meanwhile, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is going into isolation for at least a few days after he revealed he had been in close proximity of someone who has since tested positive.

“I have been identified as a contact of someone who has tested positive for #COVID19. I am well and without symptoms but will self-quarantine over the coming days, in line with WHO protocols, and work from home,” Tedros said in a tweet.

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-germany-enters-lockdown-who-chief-in-quarantine/a-55468913