An awful morning

David Corn
May 29, 2020

An awful morning. The country is in a bad and dangerous place. And the president is committed to exacerbating conflict and fueling division, for, as a broken human being, that is how he believes he can achieve the only thing he cares about: reelection.

He is not the core problem. What most threatens the country is that tens of millions of people, an entire political party, and a whole media infrastructure continue to accept, embrace, and protect him and his pathologies.

Malcolm X got it right: "That's not a chip on my shoulder; that's your foot on my neck."

Mayor Frey: "What we've seen over last 2 days...is result of not just 5 minutes but 400 yrs"

Trump threatening the lives of Americans in order to suppress the vote.

Sen Tim Kaine and his wife have tested positive for antibodies to coronavirus.

Bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Panel Votes To Send Mail-In Ballot Applications To All Voters

The panel, which consists of three Democrats and three Republicans, voted to send applications to all of Wisconsin’s approximately 2.7 million registered voters to receive mail-in ballots.

“People like easy ways to do things,” Democratic Commissioner Mark Thomsen said, according to WPR. “And voting without waiting in line has become, in many ways, the norm.”

The measure would help lower the risk of Wisconsin voters becoming infected with COVID-19 on Election Day and avoid the dangerous situation of the state’s previous Election Day on April 7, which saw astonishingly long lines formed at the crowded polling sites.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/bipartisan-wisconsin-elections-panel-votes-to-send-mail-in-ballot-applications-to-all-voters
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1266021409861431297?s=20

This is an excellent fact check!

Trump and McEnany said Trump had to vote by mail because he couldn't be in Florida to do it in person.

Wrong. He was there for 2 full early voting days. A voting site was *across the street from his golf club.* He drove past it 6 times.

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1265810106396151808?s=20

a toon for the day

BIDEN re George Floyd: "This was not an isolated incident, but part of an ingrained systemic cycle."

Biden on George Floyd: "Watching his life be taken in the same manner, echoing nearly the same words as Eric Garner more than 5 years ago —'I can't breathe'— is a tragic reminder this was not an isolated incident, but part of an ingrained systemic cycle."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1265719426713714688?s=20

All in 90 days.

On the day that the United States reached the 100,000 death toll by @JHUSystems:
All in < 90 days. (February 28th was the 1st)
The country stands alone in the world —not just on this graph of loss of American lives—but also as the only country with no plan.


https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1265779870170136576?s=20