A Key State Trump Needs To Win Is Battling A Massive COVID Outbreak | Talking Points Memo

To Trump’s 2016 Wisconsin voters, “As you sow, so shall you reap.”

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A rule of thumb is that if the problem is so obvious it reaches the Daily Mail in England, you have really screwed up. This is what the Maskless One has wrought.

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He’s working to establish a new Pox Americana.

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The WH is calling this new reporting about another trumPP scam “another politically motivated hit piece inaccurately smearing a standard business deal.” What it really is is investigative reporting of the highest order telling us once again he got rich doing nothing except shaking hands with the right people.

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Shawano county

Childhood memories. My maternal grandparents lived on Shawano Lake and I would spend most of my summer vacation up there. I wasn’t exactly tuned in to local politics at the time.

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I grew up in Wisconsin. Back in the day, democratic U.S. senator William Proxmire could win reelection on a campaign budget of $1. Some rural areas still had Norwegian communist farmers working the soil. Shame what’s happened since then.

But don’t forget that trump won the state in 2016 by only about a fifth of the estimated 100,000 votes that republicans were able to suppress.

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One fair in particular, held in Shawano county just to the north of Green Bay, preceded a situation at the local hospital in the county that, Casey said, is now 85 percent full of COVID-19 patients.

Guess they shouldn’t have had that greased corona virus catching contest.

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who would have thought,
no one saw it coming,

Add more of the insane lies people tell themselves…

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these measures violate our constitutional rights

These are doubtless the same people who said the same thing about seat belts and helmets for bikers. People should be able to decide for themselves whether they need to wear a seat belt or a helmet. People should also be able to decide for themselves how fast they want to drive and consider speed limit signs merely suggestions.

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And if people’s stupidity imposed no costs on others, perhaps on could agree. But it always does.

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windfall

Such a nice, neat term to use for bribes.

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When ever I reminded my Dad that the speed limit was 45 and he was driving too slow he’d retort " It’s a suggested speed limit!"

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“” Here I come to spoil your day…
That means that Captain Unmerica is on his way…""

Sorry, Prime members, for borrowing your photo.

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Oh, and just for the record, Shawano is pronounced Shahnoh, with a very wide ‘a’ in the first syllable, and the final ‘o’ very rounded like the ‘o’ in hoser, as in “take off hoser”.

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I don’t know why anyone bothers to report Survey Monkey polls, they are complete rubbish. Nate gives them a D- but still includes them for some obscure reason.

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Or as a acquaintance then says “but Hunter Biden!”

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WISCONSIN should be absolutely FURIOUS with Trump and his abuse of their state and jepordizing of their entire population for his own purposes.

Certainly hope that they turn out an overwhelming vote - with a monstrous BLUE TIDAL WAVE !

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Because of the weekly slow down in reporting when smaller hospitals don’t have staff available on weekends, etc., daily totals have less meaning. Weekly averages are the way to go, and of course those are up also to around 45,000.

I think the rest of the world might be starting to think we are just too dumb to get out of our own way. I wouldn’t want to be on the other side of that debate question.

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I think of him as the Koch brother.

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absolutely. pulling out various bottles as we speak…too bad i don’t have enough of them…