DL Open Thread: Monday, June 22, 2020

NASCAR Can’t Escape Its Racist Fans.  Noose found in garage of NASCAR’s only black driver.  This organization celebrated the Confederacy…until last week.  Its remaining fans aren’t taking kindly to this culture shock.  A sport that deserves to die. 

What Happened To The MAGAts? Yeah yeah, I know, we need to remain diligent, but I hereby grant you permission to bask in the glow of Trump’s Tulsa Travesty.  Who will face the axe?

Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House after returning from the Tulsa rally. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP

Trump Claims His Niece Is ‘Not Allowed’ To Publish Book:

The book’s page on Amazon promises to detail “the dark history” of the Trump family “in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.”

Does anyone seriously think that the dirty details won’t leak?  All Trump has done is to hype up interest.

US COVID Cases Up 20% In Last Two Weeks.  Whoa.  Things are getting demonstrably worse.  Take Duval County, FL. Please. You know, where the President plans to deliver his big acceptance speech.  In the past two weeks, the 7-day average of new cases has gone from 21.7 per day to 130.3 cases per day.  Must be all those migrant workers enjoying their beach time.  Two counties in Florida’s NW panhandle are now hot spots: Escambia County and Santa Rosa County. Yep, Trump Country. Also, Indian River County on the east coast of Florida. The premature reopening of Florida is now a demonstrated public health disaster.  Check out the exploding red in both Oklahoma and Texas.  I also see some new outbreaks in rural counties in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Voter Suppression Alive And Well In Kentucky:

All in all, according to the Washington Post, Kentucky officials have reduced the number of polling places in the state from 3,700 in a typical election year to fewer than 200 this month. Meanwhile, though thousands of voters have requested mail-in ballots in an attempt to avoid in-person voting, some have yet to receive them just days before the election date of June 23, when they must be postmarked.

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