GET ME REWRITE: Former Trump punchline exploring further opportunities for political humiliation

 

Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/19/2021

Final?  Not yet, apparently.  The guy's a masochist.

The Atlantic, 2/20/2017

Wisconsin Covid cases mapped, listed and graphed (2/20/2021)

New York Times

Saturday, February 20.   Total tests (positive and negative):  3,147,673.  One-day increase of 4,802 (676 positive; 14%)

Total positive Covid 19 cases:  559,172

Counties with largest numerical gains = 34 of 72

• 3 with 50 or more new cases
• 3 with 20 to 49
• 13 with 10 to 19
• 15 with 5 to 9

The 34

• Dane (117)
• Milwaukee (86)
• Waukesha (57)

• Green (24)
• Racine (23)
• Polk (20)

• Outagamie (19)
• Washington (18)
• Eau Claire, Marathon (17 each)
• Waupaca (16)
• Fon du Lac (15)
• Kenosha, Rock (14 each)
• Barron, Winnebago (13 each)
• Jefferson (11)
• Dodge, Ozaukee (10 each)

• La Crosse, Monroe (9 each)
• Columbia, Manitowoc, Portage, Sawyer, Sheboygan (8 each)
• Chippewa, Richland (7 each)
• Lafayette, Oneida, St. Croix (6 each) 
• Adams, Calumet, Wood (5 each)

WI Department of Health Services

Link to other WI COVID posts:

Related posts:

Alabama.  (2/15/2021)

Arizona.  (2/15/2021)

Arkansas.  (2/4/2021)

California.  (2/7/2021)

Connecticut.  (8/21/2020)

Florida.  (2/15/2021)

Georgia.  (2/15/2021)

Idaho.  (2/7/2021)

Illinois.  (2/2/2021)

Indiana.  (2/6/2021)

Iowa.  (2/6/2021)

Kansas.  (2/4/2021)

Kentucky.  (2/4/2021)

Louisiana.  (2/6/2021)

Maryland.  (1/27/2021)

Massachusetts.  (2/16/2021)

Michigan.  (2/16/2021)

Minnesota.  (2/4/2021)

Mississippi.  (2/15/2021)

Montana. (2/5/2021)

Nebraska.  (2/4/2021)

Nevada.  (2/17/2021)

New Jersey,  (2/16/2021)

New York.  (2/16/2021)

North Carolina.  (2/7/2021)

North Dakota.  (2/7/2021)

Ohio.  (2/6/2021)

Pennsylvania.  (2/16/2021)

South Carolina.  (2/5/2021)

South Dakota.  (2/18/2021)

Tennessee.  (2/5/2021)

Texas   (2/6/2021)

Utah.  (2/17/2021)

Virginia.  (1/22/2021)

Washington State.  (6/12/2020)

West Virginia.  (2/3/2021)

Trick photography giveaway: Piano keyboard longer than your reach

 

Living room shot of charming 1897 Victorian on Chandler Street in Madison WI

Original 2/18/2021 post, "Using every trick in the book to make this interior space look bigger", starts here.

Two views of the house in question, located in The Meadows neighborhood of Middleton at South Gateway and Elmoowd Avenue.

Photos by Retiring Guy

Here's an interior view of what started out as a typical 1950s/1960s ranch.

Retiring Guy has walked past this house numerous times at night, lights ablaze inside.  What you see here is totally deceiving.

Find out how you can implement your own plan of deception!

 Nate Photographic, 1/13/2016

Yeah, I know Matt Gaetz is easy to dislike, but his congressional district is among the least gerrymandered in Florida

 

Ballotpedia

NRDC

The full look (arrow added)

Take a closer look at the 2nd and 5th districts.  represented by no-names Neal Dunn and Al Lawson, respecitvely.   Both in ofdfice since January 2017.

This is gerrymandering.

Something to share with your climate skeptic friends and family

 

Straits Times, 1/31/2019

Florida State University News, 2/19/2021

Reading George Washington's farewell address, a United States Senate tradition since 1896

The same year the United States Supreme Court issued its Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, which upheld the legal doctrine of separate but equal.

AAREG

Rob Portman, not reckoning with whiteness.

Twitter

Mother Nature messes with Texas

Slaps the Lone Star State up and down and all around.  A thorough humiliation.

Thunder, lightning, stampeding animals.  Fuggedaboutit.

How about no power, no heat, no water, long lines at grocery stores, Worst Governor in America Greg Abbott starring in an amateur production of "The Emperor's New Clothes"?

On Fox News!!

Apparently, Trump Cult members celebrated Valentine's Day with a massive exchange of these mugs, filled with drool

 

Indianapolis Star, 2/18/2021

By the looks of his Valentine's Day card, a picture of former President Donald Trump with the word "You stole my heart like a 2020 election," Attorney General Todd Rokita appears to think Trump is still president.  

How are we, as residents of this state, expected to have confidence in our attorney general when he still believes conspiracy theories and promotes those theories?

Meet Todd 

Wisconsin Covid cases mapped, listed and graphed (2/19/2021)

 New York Times

Friday, February 19.   Total tests (positive and negative):  3,142,871.  One-day increase of 5,309 (774 positive; 15%)

Total positive Covid 19 cases:  558,496

Counties with largest numerical gains = 37 of 72

• 2 with 50 or more new cases
• 8 with 20 to 49
• 14 with 10 to 19
• 13 with 5 to 9

The 37

• Dane (160)
• Milwaukee (101)

• Waukesha (30)
• Outagamie (25)
• Kenosha, Winnebago (24 each)
• Brown, La Crosse, Rock (22 each)
• Polk (20)

• Fond du Lac, Green (19 each)
• Jefferson, Portage (16 each)
• Marathon, Washington (15 each)
• Racine (13)
• Barron, Walworth (12 each)
• Eau Claire, Dodge (11 each)
• Calumet, Ozaukee, Sheboygan (10 each)

• Columbia, Lincoln, Wood (9 each)
• Dunn, Monroe (8 each)
• Burnett, Pierce (7 each)
• Grant, Sawyer, Trempealeau, Waupaca (6 each) 
• Vilas, Washburn (5 each)

WI Department of Health Services

Link to other WI COVID posts:

Related posts:

Alabama.  (2/15/2021)

Arizona.  (2/15/2021)

Arkansas.  (2/4/2021)

California.  (2/7/2021)

Connecticut.  (8/21/2020)

Florida.  (2/15/2021)

Georgia.  (2/15/2021)

Idaho.  (2/7/2021)

Illinois.  (2/2/2021)

Indiana.  (2/6/2021)

Iowa.  (2/6/2021)

Kansas.  (2/4/2021)

Kentucky.  (2/4/2021)

Louisiana.  (2/6/2021)

Maryland.  (1/27/2021)

Massachusetts.  (2/16/2021)

Michigan.  (2/16/2021)

Minnesota.  (2/4/2021)

Mississippi.  (2/15/2021)

Montana. (2/5/2021)

Nebraska.  (2/4/2021)

Nevada.  (2/17/2021)

New Jersey,  (2/16/2021)

New York.  (2/16/2021)

North Carolina.  (2/7/2021)

North Dakota.  (2/7/2021)

Ohio.  (2/6/2021)

Pennsylvania.  (2/16/2021)

South Carolina.  (2/5/2021)

South Dakota.  (2/18/2021)

Tennessee.  (2/5/2021)

Texas   (2/6/2021)

Utah.  (2/17/2021)

Virginia.  (1/22/2021)

Washington State.  (6/12/2020)

West Virginia.  (2/3/2021)

Greetings from Trump's America: Grundy County, Tennessee, 96% white, Trumpier than it was in 2016, and sicker with the virus after Election Day

 

Apparently, a Black man running for president was enough to send a significant number of Democrats into the arms of the GOP, never to look back.  Then again, segregationist George Wallace received a plurality of the vote here in 1968.  In other words, you don't have to scratch far below the surface.

Source:  Wikipedia

3rd-party candidates received 10.6% of vote in 1992, 8.6% of vote in 1996, 2.0% in 2016;

Segregationist George Wallace received a 17.8% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 1,366 more votes than he did in 2016, a 38% increase in a county where the population has been stagnant since 1980.  Biden received 11 fewer votes than Clinton did in 2016, an decrease of 1%.

Trump's share of the vote increased by 3.5 percentage points.  Biden decreased Clinton's share of the vote by 2.2 percentage points.

Currently 95.8% white (compared to 73.5% statewide), Grundy County's population has been in the 13,300-14,400 since 1980, and is down 1,000 from its 2000 peak.

U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:

• 13.2% - Grundy County
• 27.3% - Tennessee
• 32.1% - U.S.

% of population 65 and older:

• 21.0% - Grundy County
• 16.7% - Tennessee
• 16.5% - U.S.

% of population living in poverty:

• 21.4% - Grundy County
• 13.9% - Tennessee
• 10.5% - U.S. (they're joking, of course)

Trump's America: White, rural, stagnant population, education levels well below average, widespread poverty, older, gullible.

Which brings us to the pandemic.

3 peaks since Election Day.  What a public health disaster!

New York Times

 

Other Trump's America posts:

Alabama
Autauga County.  (6/29/2017)
Bibb County.  (11/10/2017)
Covington County. (11/11/2017)
Dale County.  (12/12/2017)
Geneva County.  (11/11/2017)
Marion County.  (11/11/2017)

Arizona
8th congressional district.  (4/25/2018)

Arkansas
Faulkner County.  (3/20/2018)
Mississippi County.  (3/19/2018)
Woodruff County.  (3/26/2018)

California
Mesa County.  (7/20/2017)
Shasta County.  (7/4/2017

Colorado
Morgan County.  (4/25/2017)

Florida
Citrus County.  (3/5/2017)
DeSoto County,.  (9/9/2017)

Georgia
Hall County.  (1/31)

Idaho
Benewah County.  (12/24/2020)

Kootenai County.  (9/25/2017)

Illinois
Effingham County.  (2/15/2018)
Franklin County.  (2/27/2017)
Jo Daviess County.  (5/13/2018)
Knox County.  (5/13/2018)
McHenry County.  (2/5/2017)
Perry County.  (5/8/2017)
Stephenson County.  (5/13/2018)
Whiteside County.  (5/13/2018)
16th Congressional District.  (3/26/2017)

Indiana
Granger.  (3/26/2017)
Hendricks County.  (10/1/2017)
Huntington County.  (4/27/2017)
Jefferson County.  (3/10/2018)

Jennings County.  (12/26/2020)
Posey County.  (10/21/2017)
Scott County,.  (12/26/2020 update)

Iowa
Adair County.  (9/16/2018)
Adams County.  (9/16/2018)
Allamakee County.  (7/31/2018)
Appanoose County.  (8/4/2018)
Benton County.  (8/2/2018)
Boone County.  (1/15/2017)
Bremer County.  (8/2/2018)
Buchanan County.  (8/2/2018)
Butler County. (8/6/2018)
Calhoun County.  (9/6/2018)
Cass County.  (4/3/2018)
Cedar County.  (7/31/2018)
Cerro Gordo County.  (8/6/2018)
Chickasaw County.  (8/2/2018)
Clarke County.  (8/8/2018)
Clayton County.  (7/31/2018)
Clinton County.   (10/15/2017)
Davis County.  (8/3/2018)
Decatur County.  ( 7/5/2018)
Delaware County.  (7/31/2018)
Des Moines County.  (8/1/2018)
Emmet County.  (8/19/2018)
Fayette County.  (8/2/2018)
Floyd County.  (9/25/2018 update)
Franklin County, (8/14/2017)
Greene County.  (9/6/2018)
Guthrie County.  (9/16/2018)
Hamilton County.  (4/2/2018)
Hancock County. (8/7/2018)
Hardin County.  (4/2/2018)
Henry County.  (7/9/2018)
Howard County.  (8/2/2018)
Iowa County.  (8/2/2018)
Jasper County.  (8/5/2018)
Jefferson County.  (8/1/2018)
Keokuk County.  (8/2/2018)
Kossuth County.  (8/18/2018)
Lee County.  (8/1/2018)
Louisa County.  (8/1/2018)
Lucas County.  (8/5/2018)
Lyon County.  (12/3/2020 update)
Madison County.  (8/8/2018)
Marion County.  (5/23/2017)
Mitchell County.  (8/7/2018)
Monticello County.  (1/13/2017)
Muscatine County.  (8/1/2018)
Palo Alto County.  (9/6/2018)
Pocahontas County.  (9/6/2018)
Poweshiek and Webster counties.  (2/7/2017)
Ringgold County.  (8/8/2018)
Sioux County.  (8/26/2018 update)
Tama County.  (7/6/2018)
Taylor County.  (9/16/2018)
Union County.  (9/10/2017)
Wapello County.  (8/3/2018)
Washington County.  (4/2/2018)
Wayne County.  (8/5/2018)
Webster County.  (8/9/2018)
Winnebago County. (12/17/2017)
Winneshiek County.  (8/2/2018)
Worth County. (8/7/2018)
Wright County.  (8/8/2017)

Kansas
Clark County.  (3/21/2017)
Comanche County. (1/28/2021 update)
Mitchell County.  (1/29/2017)

Rice County.  (12/29/2020)
Sumner County.  (10/1/2017)

Kentucky
Bell County.  (12/29/2020 update)
Hancock County,.  (1/4/2021 update)
Jackson County.  (12/9/2017)
Knox and Whitley counties.  (2/17/2017)
Lee County.  (12/9/2017)
Letcher County.  (6/29/2017)
Martin County.  (3/22/2018)
Perry County.  (12/29/2020 update)
Rowan County.  (6/4/2018)

Louisiana
Calcasieu Parish,.  (5/22/2017)
St. Martin Parish.  (4/26/2017)

Maine
Piscataquis County.  (7/3/2017)

Michigan
Lake County.  (9/16/2018)
Macomb County.  (11/29/2017)
St. Joseph County.  (6/5/2017)

Minnesota
Chisago County.  (6/20/2018)
Itasca County.  (5/12/2018)
Lac qui Parle County.  (7/2/2017)
Mower County.  (5/12/2018)
Nobles County.  (1/26/2018)

Mississippi
Pontotoc County.  (7/19/2017)

Missouri
Butler County.  (7/22/2018)

Nebraska
Merrick County.  (2/9/2021)

Sioux County.  (12/22/2018)

New Jersey
7th Congressional District.  (4/14/2017)

New York
Broome County.  (2/14/2019)
Cayuga County.  (2/13/2019)
Cortland County.  (2/14/2019)
Essex County.  (11/29/2017 update)
Franklin County. (2/9/2019)
Fulton County.  (2/10/2019)
Herkimer County.  (2/10/2019)
Orange County.  (2/15/2019)
Oswego County.  (2/11/2019)
Otsego County.  (2/12/2019)
Putnam County.  (2/27/2018)
Renssalaer County.  (2/13/2019)
St. Lawrrence County.  (2/8/2019)
Seneca County.  (2/14/2019)
Sullivan County.  (2/15/2019)
Warren County.  (2/11/2019)
Washington County.  (2/11/2019)
19th Congressional District.  (3/26/2017)

North Carolina
Robeson County.  (12/1/2017)
Union County.  (3/9/2017)

North Dakota
Sargent County.  (10/22/2017)

Ohio
Adams County.  (12/9/2020 update)
Ashtabula County.  (2/18/2019)
Belmont County.  (12/9/2020 update)
Columbiana County,  (12/9/2020 update)
Defiance County.  (3/21/2017)
Gallia County.  (12/6/2020 update)
Guernsey County.  (12/8/2020 update)
Highland County.   (12/9/2020 update)
Huron County.  12/10/2020 update)
Jackson County.  (12/6/2020 update)
Jefferson County.  (2/20/2019)
Lawrence County.  (2/25/2018)
Marion County.  (12/12/2020 update)
Meigs County.  (12/13/2020 update)
Morgan County.  (12/8/2020 update)
Muskingum County.  (12/8/2020 update)
Shelby County.  (12/12/2020 update)
Trumbull County.  (4/3/2017)
Van Wert County.  (12/12/2020 update)

Vinton County.  (12/6/2020)
Wayne County.  (12/12/2020 update)

Williams County.  (12/10/2020 update)
Wyandot County.  (12/8/2020 update)

Oklahoma

Bryan County.  (5/5/2017)
Nowata County.  (5/5/2018)

Oregon

Douglas County.  (5/17/2017)

Pennsylvania

Beaver County.  (2/8/2019)
Cambria County (Johnstown).  (12/28/2020 update)

Dauphin County. (4/22/2017)

Erie County.  (10/11/2018 update)
Fayette County.  (7/25/2018)

Greene County.  (12/28/2020 update)

Indiana County.  (12/28/2020)
Lawrence County.  (2/5/2019)

UPDATE. Luzerne County.  (1/14/2017)
Mercer County.  (2/9/2019)

Northampton County.  (7/20/2017)
Wayne County.  (3/1/2018)

Williamsport.  (1/24/2017)

8th Congressional District.  (4/18/2017)

South Carolina

Spartanburg County.  (6/5/2017)

South Dakota

Lawrence County,.  (4/27/2017)

Tennessee
Campbell County.  (12/10/2017)
Lake County.  (12/22/2018)
Marion County.  (4/1/2017)
Maury County.  (10/31/2017)
Roane County.  (5/1/2018)

Scott County.  (2/19/2021)
Union County.  (5/30/2017)

Texas
Gaines County.  (4/26/2017)
Shackelford County.  (2/26/2018)

Virginia
Alleghany County.  (3/4/2020)
Bath County.  (3/6/2020)
Bland County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Buchanan County.  (12/13/2019)
Carroll County.  (2/28/2020)
Craig County.  (3/3/2020)
Dickenson County.  (2/15/2020)
Floyd County.  (8/14/2020 update)
Franklin County.  (3/2/2020)
Frederick County.  (2/15/2020)
Giles County.  (2/26/2020)
Grayson County.  (2/27/2020)
Henry County.  (3/12/2020)
Highland County.  (3/10/2020)
Lee County.  (2/15/2020)
Patrick County.  (2/29/2020)
Pulaski County.  (2/26/2020)
Russell County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Scott County.  (2/16/2020)
Smyth County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Tazewell County.  (12/20/2020 update)
Washington County.  (2/16/2020)
Wise County.  (11/9/2019)

Washington
Grays Harbor County.  (8/20/2017)

West Virginia
Berkeley County.  (3/25/2018)
Boone County.  (3/23/2018)
Cabell County.  (8/4/2017)
Fayette County.  (1/24/2017)
Greenbrief County.  (12/14/2018)
Jackson County.  (6/18/2017)
Marshall County.  (2/7/2018)
Mason County.  (12/16/2017)
McDowell County.  (7/10/2017)
Mingo County.  (3/25/2018)
Summers County.  (3/25/2018)
Wayne County.  (3/24/2018)
Wood County.  (1/15/2019)

Wisconsin
6th congressional district.  (1/27/2018)
Adams County.  (2/6/2017)
Buffalo County.  (3/19/2017)
Burnett County.  (2/24/2018)
Clark County,.  (8/13/2018)
Crawford County.  (5/14/2018)
Fond du Lac County.  (3/7/2018)
Grant County.  (5/16/2018)
Green Lake County.  (1/26/2018)
Jackson County.  (1/6/2021)
Johnson Creek.  (1/21/2017)
Juneau County.  (2/23/2017)

Kewaunee County.  (1/4/2021)
Lafayette County.  (5/16/2018)
Manitowoc County.  (8/10/2017)

Marinette County.  (1/6/2021)
Monroe County.  (1/9/2021 update)
Oconto County.  (1/4/2021 update)
Oneida County.  (4/24/2017)
Pepin County.  (12/21/2017)
Price County.  (12/23/2018 update)
Richland County.  (11/10/2017)
Sauk County.  (5/14/2018)
Sawyer County.  (3/20/2017)
Taylor County.  (12/23/2018 update)
Vernon County.  (5/14/2018)
Waushara County.  (2/6/2017)
Winnebago County.  (11/27/2017)
Wood County.  (3/8/2018)