Election still up in the fetid air this late Wednesday afternoon here in California’s Central Valley — at this particular point Joe Biden has 264 electoral votes after Michigan and Wisconsin dropped on his side, while the sour-faced, tantrum-pitching T-Rump has 214 and hanging.
Joe needs one more to take-back the Oval Office.
Meanwhile, off the back-burner and in a horrible, related profile:
Dude, I can’t… pic.twitter.com/RXYmTDIBDq
— Jiayang Fan (@JiayangFan) November 5, 2020
Red states are blind-red for more than one reason — coupled with this from just a few minutes ago:
As the nation awaits election results, more than 100,000 have tested positive for Covid-19, per the COVID Tracking Project.
Cases are surging in nearly every state, with major cities including Omaha, Nebraska pausing elective surgeries to free up staff and resources to treat coronavirus patients.
Hospitals in Arkansas are facing shortages of healthcare workers and midwestern states including Minnesota and Indiana have set single-day records for new infections.
South Dakota — where officials have not enacted a mask mandate — is seeing some fastest growth in the country for new cases, recording nearly 1000 new cases per day.
The coronavirus has been off most of the front pages/breaking stories the last few days, but the anguish continues obviously unabated and free. Well beyond politics, the T-Rump’s actual presence is noted in death. Even as his rallies became ‘superspreader’ events and killed people (even if you didn’t attend), as noted in the above chart nearly 80-percent of those T-Rumpian goof-balls think the handling of the pandemic is going well.
As I posted this morning, that big chunk of Americans parking in the red zone have some way-serious mental issues.
In the last few weeks I’ve been binge-watching “The West Wing,” maybe for the millionth time. The show is somehow reassuring from Before Time when shit wasn’t quite this awful and heinous. The Josiah Bartlet adminstration plays now as fairy tale:
Another night watch…
(Illustration by illustrator and portrait painter, Tim O’Brien, and can be found here).