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]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157549 Kick Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:29:28 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157549 MtnCaddy 31 <i>Let's try this bleeping link thingy again: "See this Atlantic article.</i> I'm reading the Politico article. Which Atlantic article? Be glad to read it if you post the title; I'll find it... if you even read this post, of course. MtnCaddy
31

Let's try this bleeping link thingy again:

"See this Atlantic article.

I'm reading the Politico article. Which Atlantic article? Be glad to read it if you post the title; I'll find it... if you even read this post, of course.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157548 Kick Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:23:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157548 TS | Russ | MyVoice | MtnCaddy TS: <i>Sorry to hear about your uncle. If you can't socially isolate in Arkansas where in the Hell CAN you still socially isolate in the USA? Mine shafts maybe? </i> Exactly! It is infuriating that people are being misled. I'm going through the 5 stages of grief quickly and in the wrong order. You know: (1) Denial, (2) Anger, (3) Bargaining, (4) Depression, and (5) Acceptance. I was almost expecting something like this to happen so immediately accepted it, nothing whatsoever to deny or bargain, depression gets me nowhere, so I'm ending the process on angry plus sad. Russ: <i>I fear my father and other relatives — especially those living in LA (Lower Alabama) — may listen to FoxNews more than they will admit. I’d love for them to realize that I was serious when I warned them that the GOP didn’t give a crap about them, but hope that realization doesn’t come when they are on their deathbeds.</i> Exactly this! In February I called the relatives that I knew needed the warning and was informed I wasn't the first relative to call (certainly glad to hear that) and was ridiculed followed by laughter. I am sad to report they aren't laughing any longer. Russ, if you warned them; that's all you can do. It's frustrating; I know you know. I hope my otherwise awesome uncle is at peace and thanks for condolences and truly wish the best for you and yours as well. And I would not be me if I did not close in saying: Y'all do take care; this f*****g sucks, and it's just getting started. TS | Russ | MyVoice | MtnCaddy

TS: Sorry to hear about your uncle. If you can't socially isolate in Arkansas where in the Hell CAN you still socially isolate in the USA? Mine shafts maybe?

Exactly! It is infuriating that people are being misled. I'm going through the 5 stages of grief quickly and in the wrong order. You know: (1) Denial, (2) Anger, (3) Bargaining, (4) Depression, and (5) Acceptance. I was almost expecting something like this to happen so immediately accepted it, nothing whatsoever to deny or bargain, depression gets me nowhere, so I'm ending the process on angry plus sad.

Russ: I fear my father and other relatives — especially those living in LA (Lower Alabama) — may listen to FoxNews more than they will admit. I’d love for them to realize that I was serious when I warned them that the GOP didn’t give a crap about them, but hope that realization doesn’t come when they are on their deathbeds.

Exactly this! In February I called the relatives that I knew needed the warning and was informed I wasn't the first relative to call (certainly glad to hear that) and was ridiculed followed by laughter. I am sad to report they aren't laughing any longer. Russ, if you warned them; that's all you can do. It's frustrating; I know you know.

I hope my otherwise awesome uncle is at peace and thanks for condolences and truly wish the best for you and yours as well.

And I would not be me if I did not close in saying: Y'all do take care; this f*****g sucks, and it's just getting started.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157487 Elizabeth Miller Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:06:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157487 So, did you see the WHO briefing - Dr. Ryan had a very good answer to the Trump attacks. So, did you see the WHO briefing - Dr. Ryan had a very good answer to the Trump attacks.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157486 Elizabeth Miller Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:03:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157486 Oh, I see. :( Oh, I see. :(

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157485 Elizabeth Miller Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:02:59 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157485 'the heck did'ya mean, then … "or someone else down the road"? 'the heck did'ya mean, then … "or someone else down the road"?

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157484 nypoet22 Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:01:37 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157484 by "down the road" i'm just allowing for the sad possibility that donald may STILL be re-elected. by "down the road" i'm just allowing for the sad possibility that donald may STILL be re-elected.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157483 nypoet22 Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:59:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157483 i'm no fan of my governor. i'm no fan of my governor.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157482 Elizabeth Miller Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:55:51 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157482 <I>... be it biden in 2021 or somebody else down the road.</I> Okay, Joshua, despite that fact that Chris Cuomo is just itching for his big brother to be the next president, the Governor will not be the Democratic nominee. Period. ... be it biden in 2021 or somebody else down the road.

Okay, Joshua, despite that fact that Chris Cuomo is just itching for his big brother to be the next president, the Governor will not be the Democratic nominee. Period.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157478 nypoet22 Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:32:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157478 @caddy, the bush-obama transition was small potatoes compared to the existential crisis and tidal wave of challenges that will greet the next president to take office, be it biden in 2021 or somebody else down the road. however, i believe biden would be equal to the task on day 1, and that's why i've supported him since he declared. nevermind the partisan rancor of the recent past; in my estimation it's been over 30 years since we had a president who entered office for the first time fully competent to do the job. this country deserves to finally have a president who will. JL @caddy,

the bush-obama transition was small potatoes compared to the existential crisis and tidal wave of challenges that will greet the next president to take office, be it biden in 2021 or somebody else down the road.

however, i believe biden would be equal to the task on day 1, and that's why i've supported him since he declared. nevermind the partisan rancor of the recent past; in my estimation it's been over 30 years since we had a president who entered office for the first time fully competent to do the job. this country deserves to finally have a president who will.

JL

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157476 Elizabeth Miller Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:19:41 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157476 Reading through that screed made me cry because finally, FINALLY people are starting to see who Joe Biden really is. Reading through that screed made me cry because finally, FINALLY people are starting to see who Joe Biden really is.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157470 MtnCaddy Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:51:46 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157470 [40] [41] Well, <b>Elizabeth,</b> this screed from the Lincoln Project sure makes me appreciate Joe Biden more than before. And with my ascendant Progressive Wing (aka "The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party") watching over him come January 2021, I can be <i>more hopeful that Joe won't sell America out to Big Money,</i> as did Bill Clinton and to a degree Obama did. I am sooo looking forward to Trump leaving office in January. I betcha our country will be just as eager for an incoming Democratic President after Trump as we were for Obama after loser George W. Bush, the last awful Repug President foisted upon us by the Electoral College. [40] [41]

Well, Elizabeth, this screed from the Lincoln Project sure makes me appreciate Joe Biden more than before. And with my ascendant Progressive Wing (aka "The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party") watching over him come January 2021, I can be more hopeful that Joe won't sell America out to Big Money, as did Bill Clinton and to a degree Obama did.

I am sooo looking forward to Trump leaving office in January. I betcha our country will be just as eager for an incoming Democratic President after Trump as we were for Obama after loser George W. Bush, the last awful Repug President foisted upon us by the Electoral College.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157461 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:57:32 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157461 Very nice. Very nice.

]]> By: ListenWhenYouHear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157460 ListenWhenYouHear Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:36:06 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157460 Here’s an endorsement from some true conservatives: <b>By George T. Conway III, Reed Galen, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson  April 15, 2020 at 11:35 a.m. PDT The authors are on the advisory board of the Lincoln Project. This November, Americans will cast their most consequential votes since Abraham Lincoln’s reelection in 1864. We confront a constellation of crises: a public health emergency not seen in a century, an economic collapse set to rival the Great Depression, and a world where American leadership is absent and dangers rise in the vacuum. Today, the United States is beset with a president who was unprepared for the burden of the presidency and who has made plain his deficits in leadership, management, intelligence and morality. When we founded the Lincoln Project, we did so with a clear mission: to defeat President Trump in November. Publicly supporting a Democratic nominee for president is a first for all of us. We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same. Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee and he has our support. Biden has the experience, the attributes and the character to defeat Trump this fall. Unlike Trump, for whom the presidency is just one more opportunity to perfect his narcissism and self-aggrandizement, Biden sees public service as an opportunity to do right by the American people and a privilege to do so. Biden is a reflection of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in coal-country Pennsylvania, he has known the hardship and heartbreak that so many Americans themselves know and that millions more are about to experience. Biden’s personal tragedies and losses tested his strength, his faith and his determination. They were enough to crush most people’s spirit, but Biden emerged more compassionate toward the suffering of others and the burdens that life imposes on his fellow Americans. Biden did what Americans have always done: picked himself up, dusted himself off and made the best of a bad situation. In the years since he first entered office, Biden has consistently demonstrated decency, empathy and humanity. Biden’s life has been marked by triumphs that didn’t change the goodness in him, and he is a man for whom public service never went to his head. His long record of bipartisan friendship and cross-partisan legislative efforts commends him to this moment. He is an imperfect man, but a man who loves his country and its people with a broad smile and an open heart. In this way, Trump is a photonegative of Joe Biden. While Trump has innumerable flaws and a lifetime of blaming others for them, Biden has long admitted his imperfections and in doing so has further illustrated his inherent goodness and his willingness to do the work necessary to help put the United States back on a path of health and prosperity. Unlike Trump, Biden is not an international embarrassment, nor does he demonstrate malignant narcissism. A President Biden will steady the ship of state and begin binding up the wounds of a fractured country. We have faith that Biden will surround himself by advisers of competence, expertise and wisdom, not an endless parade of disposable lackeys. For Trump, the presidency has been the biggest stage, under the hottest klieg lights in a reality show of his making. Every episode leaves the audience more shocked and divided. Trump’s only barometer is his own ego. The country, our values and its people do not factor into Trump’s equation. Biden understands a tenet of leadership that far too few leaders today grasp: The presidency is a life-and-death business, that the consequences of elections have real-world effects on individual Americans, and that all of this — all of the struggle, toil and work — is not a zero-sum game. The coronavirus crisis is a terrifying example of why real leadership looks outward. This crisis, the deaths and economic destruction are immeasurably worse because Trump and his administration were unwilling to do what was necessary to mitigate its worst effects and bring the country back as quickly as possible. We asked ourselves: How would a Biden presidency handle this crisis? Would he spend weeks lying about the risk? Would he look to cable news, the stock market and his ratings before taking the steps to make us safer? The answer is obvious: Biden will be the superior leader during the crisis of our generation. We’ve seen the damage three years of corruption and cultish amateurism can do. This country cannot afford to be torn apart for sport and profit for another term, as Trump will surely do. If Biden takes office next January, he won’t need on-the-job training. We are in a transcendent and transformative period of American history. The nation cannot afford another four years of chaos, duplicity and Trump’s reality distortion. This country is crying out for a president with a spine stiffened by tragedy, a worldview shaped by experience and a heart whose compass points to decency. It is our hope that when the next president takes the oath of office in January, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will be the president for a truly united America. The stakes are too high to do anything less.</b> Here’s an endorsement from some true conservatives:

By George T. Conway III, Reed Galen, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson 

April 15, 2020 at 11:35 a.m. PDT

The authors are on the advisory board of the Lincoln Project.

This November, Americans will cast their most consequential votes since Abraham Lincoln’s reelection in 1864. We confront a constellation of crises: a public health emergency not seen in a century, an economic collapse set to rival the Great Depression, and a world where American leadership is absent and dangers rise in the vacuum.

Today, the United States is beset with a president who was unprepared for the burden of the presidency and who has made plain his deficits in leadership, management, intelligence and morality.

When we founded the Lincoln Project, we did so with a clear mission: to defeat President Trump in November. Publicly supporting a Democratic nominee for president is a first for all of us. We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same.

Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee and he has our support. Biden has the experience, the attributes and the character to defeat Trump this fall. Unlike Trump, for whom the presidency is just one more opportunity to perfect his narcissism and self-aggrandizement, Biden sees public service as an opportunity to do right by the American people and a privilege to do so.

Biden is a reflection of the United States. Born into a middle-class family in coal-country Pennsylvania, he has known the hardship and heartbreak that so many Americans themselves know and that millions more are about to experience.

Biden’s personal tragedies and losses tested his strength, his faith and his determination. They were enough to crush most people’s spirit, but Biden emerged more compassionate toward the suffering of others and the burdens that life imposes on his fellow Americans.

Biden did what Americans have always done: picked himself up, dusted himself off and made the best of a bad situation. In the years since he first entered office, Biden has consistently demonstrated decency, empathy and humanity.

Biden’s life has been marked by triumphs that didn’t change the goodness in him, and he is a man for whom public service never went to his head. His long record of bipartisan friendship and cross-partisan legislative efforts commends him to this moment. He is an imperfect man, but a man who loves his country and its people with a broad smile and an open heart.

In this way, Trump is a photonegative of Joe Biden. While Trump has innumerable flaws and a lifetime of blaming others for them, Biden has long admitted his imperfections and in doing so has further illustrated his inherent goodness and his willingness to do the work necessary to help put the United States back on a path of health and prosperity.

Unlike Trump, Biden is not an international embarrassment, nor does he demonstrate malignant narcissism. A President Biden will steady the ship of state and begin binding up the wounds of a fractured country. We have faith that Biden will surround himself by advisers of competence, expertise and wisdom, not an endless parade of disposable lackeys.

For Trump, the presidency has been the biggest stage, under the hottest klieg lights in a reality show of his making. Every episode leaves the audience more shocked and divided. Trump’s only barometer is his own ego. The country, our values and its people do not factor into Trump’s equation.

Biden understands a tenet of leadership that far too few leaders today grasp: The presidency is a life-and-death business, that the consequences of elections have real-world effects on individual Americans, and that all of this — all of the struggle, toil and work — is not a zero-sum game.

The coronavirus crisis is a terrifying example of why real leadership looks outward. This crisis, the deaths and economic destruction are immeasurably worse because Trump and his administration were unwilling to do what was necessary to mitigate its worst effects and bring the country back as quickly as possible.

We asked ourselves: How would a Biden presidency handle this crisis? Would he spend weeks lying about the risk? Would he look to cable news, the stock market and his ratings before taking the steps to make us safer? The answer is obvious: Biden will be the superior leader during the crisis of our generation.

We’ve seen the damage three years of corruption and cultish amateurism can do. This country cannot afford to be torn apart for sport and profit for another term, as Trump will surely do. If Biden takes office next January, he won’t need on-the-job training.

We are in a transcendent and transformative period of American history. The nation cannot afford another four years of chaos, duplicity and Trump’s reality distortion. This country is crying out for a president with a spine stiffened by tragedy, a worldview shaped by experience and a heart whose compass points to decency.

It is our hope that when the next president takes the oath of office in January, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. will be the president for a truly united America. The stakes are too high to do anything less.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157459 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:33:15 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157459 i haven't heard of cole's notes, but i get the gist. i have of course heard of cole's law. i haven't heard of cole's notes, but i get the gist. i have of course heard of cole's law.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157458 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:32:31 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157458 sure, sounds good sure, sounds good

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157457 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:23:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157457 Joshua, do you want me to give you the coles notes on the presser today, extended version? Joshua, do you want me to give you the coles notes on the presser today, extended version?

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157456 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:21:33 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157456 In case, Chris was listening, you know. :) In case, Chris was listening, you know. :)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157455 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:20:57 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157455 Well, I thought that but didn't want to say it out loud, so to speak. Well, I thought that but didn't want to say it out loud, so to speak.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157454 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 21:46:30 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157454 that couldn't be so hard either. edit scripts already exist, like in google classroom. that couldn't be so hard either. edit scripts already exist, like in google classroom.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157453 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 21:38:33 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157453 That might be easier than creating a time-sensitive edit function. :) That might be easier than creating a time-sensitive edit function. :)

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157452 MtnCaddy Wed, 15 Apr 2020 21:11:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157452 CW- Could you make the number (in the upper left hand corner of each comment) LARGER for poor bastards like me who are participating in this Comments section on a (cracked) smartphone? CW-

Could you make the number (in the upper left hand corner of each comment) LARGER for poor bastards like me who are participating in this Comments section on a (cracked) smartphone?

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157451 MtnCaddy Wed, 15 Apr 2020 21:08:31 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157451 [29] Let's try this bleeping link thingy again: "See this <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/15/coronavirus-rural-america-covid-19-186031" rel="nofollow">Atlantic article</a>. [29]

Let's try this bleeping link thingy again:

"See this Atlantic article.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157450 MtnCaddy Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:57:09 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157450 [5] Oh, and my condolences on the loss of your awesome Arkansas Uncle. [5]

Oh, and my condolences on the loss of your awesome Arkansas Uncle.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157449 MtnCaddy Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:54:16 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157449 [5] Spot on, <b>Kick!</b> I alluded to this "Natural Selection" scenario a couple of columns back. I'd say it's more of a "Natural SELF Selection" process in that the folks who believed Cheetogod may now pay for their gullibility with their very lives. See this <a>Atlantic article. [5]

Spot on, Kick!

I alluded to this "Natural Selection" scenario a couple of columns back. I'd say it's more of a "Natural SELF Selection" process in that the folks who believed Cheetogod may now pay for their gullibility with their very lives. See this Atlantic article.

]]> By: MyVoice http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157448 MyVoice Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:52:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157448 Kick, My condolences on the loss of your otherwise awesome uncle. Kick,

My condolences on the loss of your otherwise awesome uncle.

]]> By: ListenWhenYouHear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157447 ListenWhenYouHear Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:31:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157447 Kick [5] GREAT RANT! This has been driving me crazy — people think that this pandemic is slowing down in this country! It is just starting to really show the extent it has already made its way into rural America, and it is gonna hit the FoxNews communities the hardest! Until we have nation-wide testing, we aren’t going to know when this is truly starting to slow down... and people must be willing to wait to avoid an even worse outbreak. So sorry to hear about your uncle! I fear my father and other relatives — especially those living in LA (Lower Alabama) — may listen to FoxNews more than they will admit. I’d love for them to realize that I was serious when I warned them that the GOP didn’t give a crap about them, but hope that realization doesn’t come when they are on their deathbeds. One side effect from the stay-at-home orders has been air pollution from vehicles and large factories have not been dumping tons of CO2 into the air and some heavily populated big cities are seeing truly blue skies for the first time in years. I wonder how much — if any — this will help slow down the effects of climate change. If nothing else, seeing just how big a difference getting gas guzzlers off the roads has made to air quality has made me want an electric car more than ever. Big hugs to ya! R Kick [5]

GREAT RANT! This has been driving me crazy — people think that this pandemic is slowing down in this country! It is just starting to really show the extent it has already made its way into rural America, and it is gonna hit the FoxNews communities the hardest! Until we have nation-wide testing, we aren’t going to know when this is truly starting to slow down... and people must be willing to wait to avoid an even worse outbreak.

So sorry to hear about your uncle! I fear my father and other relatives — especially those living in LA (Lower Alabama) — may listen to FoxNews more than they will admit. I’d love for them to realize that I was serious when I warned them that the GOP didn’t give a crap about them, but hope that realization doesn’t come when they are on their deathbeds.

One side effect from the stay-at-home orders has been air pollution from vehicles and large factories have not been dumping tons of CO2 into the air and some heavily populated big cities are seeing truly blue skies for the first time in years. I wonder how much — if any — this will help slow down the effects of climate change. If nothing else, seeing just how big a difference getting gas guzzlers off the roads has made to air quality has made me want an electric car more than ever.

Big hugs to ya!

R

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157446 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:40:54 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157446 Well, take a look when you can and we'll discuss. Well, take a look when you can and we'll discuss.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157445 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:39:15 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157445 can't, still teaching remotely can't, still teaching remotely

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157444 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:18:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157444 Did you watch the presser? Did you watch the presser?

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157443 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:15:50 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157443 @liz, i can't take credit for it, just read it in an article from the atlantic. @liz,
i can't take credit for it, just read it in an article from the atlantic.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157442 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 15:15:31 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157442 @liz, i can't take credit for it, just read it in an article from the atlantic. https://outline.com/FWenV5 @liz,
i can't take credit for it, just read it in an article from the atlantic.

https://outline.com/FWenV5

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157441 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:46:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157441 Definitely, a word worth remembering, Joshua. I just shared that with my other favourite blog, a place I know you would love. Definitely, a word worth remembering, Joshua.

I just shared that with my other favourite blog, a place I know you would love.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157440 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:33:24 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157440 Kakistocracy, indeed. Thanks for that word, Joshua! Kakistocracy, indeed. Thanks for that word, Joshua!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157439 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:32:00 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157439 No, wait! Isn't Geneva one hour ahead of London? So, that would make it on at 11am our time?? No, wait! Isn't Geneva one hour ahead of London? So, that would make it on at 11am our time??

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157438 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:27:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157438 vocabulary word for the day: kakistocracy vocabulary word for the day: kakistocracy

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157437 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:23:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157437 um, didn't i just say that? um, didn't i just say that?

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157436 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:21:17 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157436 It is on now! It is on now!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157435 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:18:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157435 When you go to who.int, click on more info in the red box and scroll down a bit to find the press conference; you can watch the one from Monday right now. When you go to who.int, click on more info in the red box and scroll down a bit to find the press conference; you can watch the one from Monday right now.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157434 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:14:33 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157434 I don't think so. :) I don't think so. :)

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157433 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:11:16 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157433 isn't that like, right now? isn't that like, right now?

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157432 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:00:07 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157432 The WHO just released their most critical guidance yesterday to help countries safely unlock their shutdowns. The press briefing today should be quite informative. It is set for 5pm, Geneva time. The WHO just released their most critical guidance yesterday to help countries safely unlock their shutdowns. The press briefing today should be quite informative. It is set for 5pm, Geneva time.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157431 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:43:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157431 I keep waiting for them to draw the line. This would be a good time for it. Because, as problems go, I think we got one here. I keep waiting for them to draw the line. This would be a good time for it. Because, as problems go, I think we got one here.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157430 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:39:01 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157430 of course they COULD, if they had the courage of their convictions. but as CW rightly points out, they generally have quite the opposite. of course they COULD, if they had the courage of their convictions. but as CW rightly points out, they generally have quite the opposite.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157429 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:36:11 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157429 Will Americans stand up to president Trump and ensure that he does not pull funding from the WHO, a truly indispensable organization, especially in the middle of a pandemic!? Trump is the example of the most dangerous kind of abject ignorance. Can Congress stop this particular insanity, if they so chose? Will Americans stand up to president Trump and ensure that he does not pull funding from the WHO, a truly indispensable organization, especially in the middle of a pandemic!?

Trump is the example of the most dangerous kind of abject ignorance.

Can Congress stop this particular insanity, if they so chose?

]]> By: TheStig http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157428 TheStig Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:44:04 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157428 Kick-5 Now that's what I call an awesome rant! Sorry to hear about your uncle. If you can't socially isolate in Arkansas where in the Hell CAN you still socially isolate in the USA? Mine shafts maybe? $1200 showed up in my checking account yesterday! There are not a whole lot of places I can spend it...but it's a nice gesture. Kick-5

Now that's what I call an awesome rant!

Sorry to hear about your uncle. If you can't socially isolate in Arkansas where in the Hell CAN you still socially isolate in the USA? Mine shafts maybe?

$1200 showed up in my checking account yesterday! There are not a whole lot of places I can spend it...but it's a nice gesture.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157427 Kick Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:31:24 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157427 JL 3 <i>if all the states have vote by mail, they could also get pie by mail. the possibilities are endless! </i> Make mine ALL blueberry with no nuts... my ballot and my pie. JL
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if all the states have vote by mail, they could also get pie by mail. the possibilities are endless!

Make mine ALL blueberry with no nuts... my ballot and my pie.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157426 Kick Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:19:43 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157426 CW: <i>And, of course, some states (like Wisconsin) will fight it tooth and nail. </i> Of course... you know it. Texas doesn't generally want voters either -- perish the thought -- so it'll be interesting to see which way they go on this, for sure. <i>Although now that the Wisconsin results are in, Republicans elsewhere might just think twice about forcing people to vote in person.</i> You think so? I do hope so; it would be so great getting to vote without having to wrap myself in Saran and standing in a line 2 miles long... winding down the Interstate into the next county. So I guess we better keep our eyes on Wisconsin for the WI-7 congressional district special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Representative Sean "I want my MTV" Duffy that -- as of now -- is still set to be held on May 12, 2020, where this whole scenario will either play out again or the Wisconsin GOP will come to its senses. WI-7 is a Republican district that before Duffy(R) was represented by Obey(D) for 40+ years... so it'd be a shame if it flipped back to blue, now wouldn't it? It's just that the trend where suburban voters who don't like Donald Trump and shitty government are voting out GOP candidates from coast to coast and border to border continues unabated since 2018 and shows no signs of stopping. CW: And, of course, some states (like Wisconsin) will fight it tooth and nail.

Of course... you know it. Texas doesn't generally want voters either -- perish the thought -- so it'll be interesting to see which way they go on this, for sure.

Although now that the Wisconsin results are in, Republicans elsewhere might just think twice about forcing people to vote in person.

You think so? I do hope so; it would be so great getting to vote without having to wrap myself in Saran and standing in a line 2 miles long... winding down the Interstate into the next county.

So I guess we better keep our eyes on Wisconsin for the WI-7 congressional district special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Representative Sean "I want my MTV" Duffy that -- as of now -- is still set to be held on May 12, 2020, where this whole scenario will either play out again or the Wisconsin GOP will come to its senses.

WI-7 is a Republican district that before Duffy(R) was represented by Obey(D) for 40+ years... so it'd be a shame if it flipped back to blue, now wouldn't it? It's just that the trend where suburban voters who don't like Donald Trump and shitty government are voting out GOP candidates from coast to coast and border to border continues unabated since 2018 and shows no signs of stopping.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157424 Kick Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:50:16 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157424 CW: <i>If the coronavirus does return in the fall, how is each state going to cope with the election? </i> Somebody help me understand why everybody keeps saying: * if it returns * when it returns * similar phrases. The virus has to "leave" before it can "return," and it's just getting started/ramping up in rural areas of America where the population is generally older and more vulnerable with the added misfortune of believing the Trump BS and -- worse than that -- limited access to full-service hospitals without relocating themselves dozens of miles to larger cities and/or urban areas and expecting to be healed by the "dark arts" that normal people refer to as "science." When it finally begins to "off ramp" in the urban areas -- say around mid/end of May depending on locale -- it'll just be getting started/ramping up in "flyover country" where a whole lot of them are Trump cultists who still don't believe there's a problem because Donald Trump and the useful idiots played down the severity of the disease while fiddling, dithering, playing golf, and holding rallies screaming into a microphone that "it's a hoax"... backed up by the talking heads on their television sets tuned to Fox News BS repeating the same utter asinine bullshit 24/7. Nothing like choking repeatedly to get a good breath of air to "clue you in" that Your Orange Worship is a conniving POS... and you were the hayseed gullible enough to believe a pathological lying con artist. Apologies... my otherwise awesome uncle in Podunk, Arkansas, died today because he was fool enough to buy into the "hoax" rhetoric of Donald Trump. He honestly believed the virus was a hoax because hayseeds don't really do "nuance." I found this out because my aunt called me at 3:00 o'clock in the morning upset and -- I kid you not -- needing help to file (meaning pay) her taxes that are "due today." Death and taxes. <blockquote>... those tasked with protecting us by being truthful and transparent failed to do so. It would have been so easy to be truthful. And so much death has been caused by their mistakes. ~ Donald Trump in full-blown projection mode, April 14, 2020 </blockquote> People out there, please take the necessary steps to take care of yourselves. This ain't no fire drill, and it's likely coming to a town near you or you're going to town near it. Rant over. CW: If the coronavirus does return in the fall, how is each state going to cope with the election?

Somebody help me understand why everybody keeps saying:
* if it returns
* when it returns
* similar phrases.

The virus has to "leave" before it can "return," and it's just getting started/ramping up in rural areas of America where the population is generally older and more vulnerable with the added misfortune of believing the Trump BS and -- worse than that -- limited access to full-service hospitals without relocating themselves dozens of miles to larger cities and/or urban areas and expecting to be healed by the "dark arts" that normal people refer to as "science."

When it finally begins to "off ramp" in the urban areas -- say around mid/end of May depending on locale -- it'll just be getting started/ramping up in "flyover country" where a whole lot of them are Trump cultists who still don't believe there's a problem because Donald Trump and the useful idiots played down the severity of the disease while fiddling, dithering, playing golf, and holding rallies screaming into a microphone that "it's a hoax"... backed up by the talking heads on their television sets tuned to Fox News BS repeating the same utter asinine bullshit 24/7.

Nothing like choking repeatedly to get a good breath of air to "clue you in" that Your Orange Worship is a conniving POS... and you were the hayseed gullible enough to believe a pathological lying con artist.

Apologies... my otherwise awesome uncle in Podunk, Arkansas, died today because he was fool enough to buy into the "hoax" rhetoric of Donald Trump. He honestly believed the virus was a hoax because hayseeds don't really do "nuance." I found this out because my aunt called me at 3:00 o'clock in the morning upset and -- I kid you not -- needing help to file (meaning pay) her taxes that are "due today." Death and taxes.

... those tasked with protecting us by being truthful and transparent failed to do so. It would have been so easy to be truthful. And so much death has been caused by their mistakes.
~ Donald Trump in full-blown projection mode, April 14, 2020

People out there, please take the necessary steps to take care of yourselves. This ain't no fire drill, and it's likely coming to a town near you or you're going to town near it.

Rant over.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157423 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:15:15 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157423 The possibilities are endless, indeed. The possibilities are endless, indeed.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157422 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 03:57:14 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157422 if all the states have vote by mail, they could also get pie by mail. the possibilities are endless! if all the states have vote by mail, they could also get pie by mail. the possibilities are endless!

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157420 nypoet22 Wed, 15 Apr 2020 03:52:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157420 outstanding analysis CW, but as usual you've completely ignored the opportunity this win presents to explore other ideas that benefit people's overall health, such as voting based on pie. shame on you for once again failing to see the idea's full potential. outstanding analysis CW, but as usual you've completely ignored the opportunity this win presents to explore other ideas that benefit people's overall health, such as voting based on pie. shame on you for once again failing to see the idea's full potential.

]]> By: MtnCaddy http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/14/the-wisconsin-backlash/#comment-157395 MtnCaddy Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:40:12 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=18397#comment-157395 What a happy surprise, Wisconsin! It's too bad that we'll never know how much of the upset was due to backlash, but nevertheless I can smell a lot of Democratic campaign ads in there. How Repugs react to this will be interesting to see. What a happy surprise, Wisconsin! It's too bad that we'll never know how much of the upset was due to backlash, but nevertheless I can smell a lot of Democratic campaign ads in there.

How Repugs react to this will be interesting to see.

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