COVID-Civil War

Opening upIllinois' entire northern border-- 6 counties-- is right up against Wisconsin, whose own governor, Tony Evers, described it as the "wild west" and chaotic in regard to confronting the pandemic.

Remember the Suffolk County protestors we looked at on Saturday? These idiots aren't finished making news...

Ann Retzlaff and one of her customers, white nationalist Scott Edges of Green Bay, who came for a party Ann Retzlaff isn't a big Republican donor. The only federal campaign contribution I could find was a modest $250 check she wrote on March 31 of this year to GOP Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA).

Bullseye by Nancy OhanianIt seems to be a new tenet of the Republican Party-- Trump's Republican Party-- that the pandemic isn't serious, or even a hoax, and that there's no need to take extreme precautions. These people are out of their minds and a danger to the rest of us.

This-- above-- was an anti-lockdown protest by right-wing haters/idiots in Suffolk County a few days ago, where there have been 42,050 confirmed cases (4th worst county in New York State) and 1,709 deaths. I know these people. I grew up among them. Believe me, there are no Einsteins in this crowd. In 2016, New York went for Hillary 58.8% to 37.5%. Suffolk County was a very different story. Trump won 328,403 (52.5%) to 276,953 (44.3%).

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I was making fun of the professional prognosticators for rating Montana's Senate race a "lean Republican?" I predicted they would all be backing away from that foolishness by summer.

Rasmussen never comes off as a legitimate polling firm and is often considered an arm of the Republican Party committees. Not this week, though. They reported that 23% of Republicans wish the GOP had another nominee instead of Trump.

On Wednesday, Wisconsin reported 291 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing state state's total to 10,902-- and 3 new deaths, boringly that total to 421. Is that a lot, a little? Well, there are 1,872 cases per million, which isn't good-- and that's been increasing.

L.A. County announced that stay at home orders would remain in place 'til at least August 1. I don't see much enforcement in L.A. and everything I read indicates that outside the Bay Area there's no real enforcement anywhere. For example, Elon Musk, the selfish white South African billionaire-- and asshole-- still hasn't been arrested for reopening his factory. And California wonders why the numbers just keep climbing and climbing. A few weeks ago, California only had 880 or so cases per million. Those days are gone.

Late yesterday, NBC News broke an interesting story. The White House has been hiding a secret report showing coronavirus cases spiking in Trump country.