Three really good things happened today:

[Amaryllis]

1. Wisconsin
2 Bernie endorsed Joe
3. East Coast governors and West Coast governors forming coalitions, making a powerful statement that "We are all in this together."

Edited to add: Joe and Bernie's joint presentation (is that what we call it? It's not a presser because no press!) also was very much a statement of "We're all in this together."

This: "COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness. The West Coast will flip the script."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213281851
"COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness. In the coming weeks, the West Coast will flip the script on COVID-19 – with our states acting in close coordination and collaboration to ensure the virus can never spread wildly in our communities."

A common theme is emerging!

[cilla4progress]

1. Nice summation!

[Stuart G]

2. The governors standing together is a powerful statement against Trump's, "Authority is total"

[2naSalit]

3. I suspect his meltdown originated with his

having heard that. He responds to the most recent thing that triggered.

[Talitha]

5. Wait till he sees the chyrons CNN put under his ugly mug today.

He'll go full Chernobyl.

[2naSalit]

14. Oh yeah!

Someone kindly posted them for those not watching. Boy are these strange days.

[MustLoveBeagles]

21. Strange days indeed

I wish John Lennon were still with us and not the insane jackass.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

39. Wow! I can't stop smiling. Thanks for posting this :)

[MustLoveBeagles]

46. You're welcome

And welcome to DU

[Dem2theMax]

19. I was hoping somebody would mention that.

That is definitely number 4 on the list for good things that happened today. The chyron person at CNN is our hero!

[2naSalit]

25. It is too!

[MustLoveBeagles]

24. It's only thing that got me through the presser

[matt819]

6. Agreed

Now they need to hold daily or every other day, back to back press conferences to update on what their coalitions are doing and how things are going. Maybe not at the same time as the buffoons propaganda fest but immediately after.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. Question

What %age of the U.S. population are represented by those states vs the entire U.S. population?

[WA-03 Democrat]

37. 1/3 of the total US population

[DENVERPOPS]

40. Thx....... n/c

[brewens]

4. Boy, it'd be a shame if some red states had to come hat in hand to the blue state coalitions

for help.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

7. The northeast govs and west coast govs should engage in trade relations

With one another. Transport through Canada. Fuck Trump red states.

[Amaryllis]

9. Did you know that all three Western states sent ventilators to NY?

[SiliconValley_Dem]

17. I knew California and Oregon has. Missed the news about WA

Great teamwork!

[Midnight Writer]

26. That's the thing. There should be Feds tracking the need for ventilators, and a rapid response unit

to immediately move them from areas they are not needed to areas of need, and back again.

Let the ventilators follow the patients, and meanwhile treat procuring new equipment like a defense emergency.

[Amaryllis]

29. That's the way it SHOULD be, and i heard one of the govs say that, can't remember which one,

"That's the way it should be, but it isn't, so we work with what we have."

[KPN]

13. Good idea. To think it could conceivably come to that.

[proud patriot]

8. It's good to keep focus

Thank you !

[Duppers]

10. Plus the press grilling tRump.

That was a thing of beauty.

[DENVERPOPS]

41. Trump and Republicons

are attempting to re-write their history concerning their disastrous response, starting with today's quasi press conference.......

Please all Media, don't let them get away with it........

[KPN]

11. And that's today's top headline: "Three Really Good Things Happened Today "

[Amaryllis]

12. Lovely to post something good!

[calimary]

32. Nice, for a change!

[spanone]

15. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R⭐️⭐️⭐️

[MyOwnPeace]

16. Consider it a morale builder..........

and a warning shot across the bow!

I'm especially thrilled with the Wisconsin victory for the court. As badly as the RepubliCons tried to RatFck the election - those brave patriots in Wisconsin SENT A POWERFUL MESSAGE!

The BLUE WAVE is coming - no, make that a BLUE TSUNAMI!!!!!!

[Amaryllis]

20. That made me, and I'm sure a lot of us, feel much more hopeful about the upcoming election.

[MyOwnPeace]

23. ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!

You have to wonder WHEN WILL Americans WAKE UP?

Well, Wisconsin did - and delivered a VERY POWERFUL MESSAGE!!!!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

22. Way to go Wisconsin

[oasis]

27. Trifecta!

[TheReckoning]

28. How about #4?

THANK YOU for summarizing the really, really good stuff that happened today.

While I'm excited about #2, I think #1 and #3 are reason to celebrate because:
-- The Wisconsin victory sticks it to the Republicans
-- The governors' coalition serves notice on Trump that competent people are ignoring him.

Which leads me to suggest we need a #4 item of good news for today: Today marked the beginning of the end of our national nightmare. Yes, Trump has a pile of money and an effective campaign organization. But, today, we saw people power at work. Today, we saw a national recognition that electing a clown as president was not a good idea and we need to dump him as soon as we can.

[calimary]

34. Welcome to DU, TheReckoning!

Your Item-Number-Four is enough to give anybody hope. Those stalwart never-say-die Wisconsin voters showed us all what really counts. Getting our butts to the poll and VOTING, if we don't have widespread vote-by-mail by November. There are more of us than there are of the GOP. All we have to do - ALL we have to do - is just get out and vote. Make our greater numbers do the talking!

[JoeOtterbein]

30. K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt

[ancianita]

31. Thank you, I needed that. As I now can see it through your eyes,

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the common theme is Democratic Unity Power.

[Amaryllis]

33. You got it! I actually didn't see it till after I wrote the post, and then went back and edited

to add the second part once I started to see OMG, it's all about we're all in this together. The West Coast gov statement is powerful: "COVID-19 has preyed upon our interconnectedness. In the coming weeks, the West Coast will flip the script on COVID-19 – with our states acting in close coordination and collaboration to ensure the virus can never spread wildly in our communities."

It's about a lot more than just the virus. In a way, the virus is just a metaphor for the extreme divisiveness in the country. How brilliant is that statement "preyed upon our interconnectedness." Whoever came up with that is a master at framing.

[ancianita]

42. And you're helping it all along! Democratic Unity Power !

I love how you appreciate the applying the metaphor of sickness with cv and Trump, and wellness with science and us.

As an old teacher of writing, I can see how you use writing to help you realize what you think. Sometimes we don't know what we think 'til we write it down, and then it just shshehehehehewwwwwwwwww! flies back to us.
"Oh yeah! That's it! That's what I think!"

Sometimes when I get the spirit of what people write around here, I think I'm so lucky to be among some great thinkers.

We don't use it to divide and dominate. We use it to unite, alleviate, equalize and elevate!

Now I won't go to bed so down about the world tonight.

[Amaryllis]

45. I also was a teacher of writing for many years, and I still work with people on writing projects on

Google docs. Also keep a journal. And you're absolutely right - i use writing to clarify and gain awareness. When I started this OP, i just knew I was feeling really hopeful because of all that happened to day, and gradually realized the virus was actually a metaphor for divisiveness, and that there were actually some very positive things coming out of it.

[progressoid]

35. "We are all in this together." Nope, we're not.

Unless by "all" they're referring to just their states.

[Amaryllis]

36. WHen Kate Brown sent ventilators to NY, she said we are all in this together and we

have to work together and help each other. It's the opposite of what we get from the federal govmt.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

38. Yes! Three really good things happened. We needed this.

[Crunchy Frog]

43. I wouldn't mind seeing this country break apart into a number of smaller republics.

Different regions of the country have so little in common with each other, and the advanced and democratic regions are currently forced to live under the domination of backwards, rural, minority population regions.

Due to demographic changes, our politics is becoming less and less representative all the time.

I honestly hope that this might be the beginning of that process.

[Marrah_Goodman]

44. I agree with you and have thought this for decades n/t

[47of74]

48. I think the states should look at their relationships with the Federal government

Private entities have severed relations for a lot less than what the fuck face administration has done. If I was business owner and a company I worked with acted as 1/10 as bad as fuckhead has been I'd sever the relationship tomorrow.

It's not as easy in the case of states and the Federal government, but I think it's time for the states to tell the Federal government that our system of government is not a suicide pact and if the Federal government can't do the job of keeping the people of this here country safe and alive then it's time for them to consider the alternatives. The red states can hate on the blue states all they want but maybe having even a substantial majority of the blue states suddenly wanting to pull out they might come to Jesus. Who knows though. They might be stupid enough to let the states go and get fucked over when the tax revenue disappears.

[NBachers]

47. Yes! I've long advocated formation of an Allied States Trading Alliance, anchored by Washington,

Oregon, and California. States with similar political, economic, and social principles are welcome to join this alliance for mutual strength, support, leverage, and benefit.

We'd be the lighter-than-airship that can lift our nation up out of the muck and mire of republicanism.