US Politics September 2023 - education-getting, income-having, Bible-readin church-goin MOTHERF*****

I keep thinking Gettr is Grindr

Is Wisconsin still something of a GOP lab state for seeing just how fast and how far they can radicalize a swing state?

The evidence speaks for itself, and it will have to

xpost From my vantage WI seems to be maybe tilting back to blue, or at least more purple, a proper swing state, with the radical GOP factions doing their best to stop it from going the way of Michigan or Minnesota. I mean, they have a Dem governor, one Dem senator, the supreme court just went blue with overwhelming support, etc. This all seems like the state GOP doing all it can to try and fuck things up, short of actually winning.

I want to put a bet on the first act of violence to take place on the capitol floor in 170 years is not lauren bobert shooting her own foot off but Fetterman dropping the people's elbow on gaetz

one can hope

prefer the former tbh

Too bad Hunter is Joe’sson. He’d make a perfect GOP Congressman.

Is Wisconsin still something of a GOP lab state for seeing just how fast and how far they can radicalize a swing state?

― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Thursday, September 14, 2023 4:05 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

As a relatively recent transplant to the Badger state, there is a definite feeling the end of R dominance is possible and perhaps approaching. Josh mentioned the statewide offices the Ds hold and the Supreme Court victory. I would also say the grassroots of left/liberal ppl have slowly built back since the losses of the early Walker era. His failures (Foxconn chief among them) provided the spark.

Also the Rs are acting like cornered animals right now and there's no guarantee they won't survive by destroying even more.

Manitowoc, which I used to live in, was definitely fairly conservative (though we've always had Dem mayors), but I'm now in a place about 20 miles south and it's way different. especially downtown which is like its own little Madison

Kenosha has a slowly reviving downtown too. D mayors, local reps etc but the broader county is much more red.

Is Wisconsin still something of a GOP lab state for seeing just how fast and how far they can radicalize a swing state?

― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Thursday, September 14, 2023 4:05 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Depends what you mean. If "radicalize a swing state" means "make it a state that votes fairly strongly Republican at the state level" like Florida or Texas, then no, that hasn't happened. If "radicalize a swing state" means "make it a state administered by right-wing principles in the service of right-wing goals DESPITE the votes of the people who live there," then, yeah, they're true innovators (though as we're seeing right now this process is in no way waterproof.) Not just this nonsense now but e.g. the practice of various agency board members appointed by Republicans simply refusing to vacate their seats at the end of their terms, and the GOP-run Supreme Court declaring they have the legal authority to vote on policy because the GOP-run state senate refuses to confirm their appointed successor.

otm

may have mentioned this in another thread, but my uncle is one of those asshole WI GOP legislators working on this.

xpost From my vantage WI seems to be maybe tilting back to blue, or at least more purple, a proper swing state,

The idea that Wisconsin, a state whose Democratic governor is enjoying his second term, where the GOP has won one presidential race in decades and that by a tiny margin, and where there's only been one Republican senator in the last 30 years (and that guy just managed to almost lose as an incumbent to a 32-year-old black progressive) was ever RED is just not it. It is and HAS BEEN a purple state, which people outside think is red because a ridiculous gerrymander has created a legislature that can act as it pleases without fear of political consequences from the majority of Wisconsinites.

Sorry if I sound mad about this or something.

100% correct and I can't think of any Wisconsin R who's particularly liked here. everyone pretty much knows what they're up to.

If "radicalize a swing state" means "make it a state administered by right-wing principles in the service of right-wing goals DESPITE the votes of the people who live there," then, yeah, they're true innovators (though as we're seeing right now this process is in no way waterproof.) Not just this nonsense now but e.g. the practice of various agency board members appointed by Republicans simply refusing to vacate their seats at the end of their terms, and the GOP-run Supreme Court declaring they have the legal authority to vote on policy because the GOP-run state senate refuses to confirm their appointed successor.

And I apologize if any Minnesota smug crept in there; I am reasonably certain DFL is going to pay a price for their last term here

NEW: GOP Rep Lauren Boebert denied vaping during a Denver Center for the Performing Arts musical before being kicked out Sunday. @Marshall9News got the video. Take a look. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/VtT67Vn4L9

— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) September 15, 2023

This is like some kind of hat trick of trashiness

Isn't Wisconsin where the state legislature is trying to impeach the new Supreme Court justice before she decides a single case or does, well, anything?

yeah but she looks shifty

Boebert video reminds me of the time I politely asked a couple next to me at a movie if they could be a little quieter. They were completely wasted. The guy was like "oh, sorry" and his girlfriend was shoving him and telling him to fight me. This was a theater where you could get food/drinks delivered to your seats, and the poor wait staff had to nearly shake them to wake them up to pay the bill after the movie ended because they were passed the hell out

Was this couple also Boebert and her dude?

Yeah, I've also sat next to the Pelosis at the movies.

Were they drunk too?

btw the kicker is that this was on valentines day and the movie was Deadpool

"oh, I can go to the movies alone tonight and I'm sure this one won't be busy because it's not really a couples movie"

ten minutes later:
"I have made a critical mistake"

😖

Isn't Wisconsin where the state legislature is trying to impeach the new Supreme Court justice before she decides a single case or does, well, anything?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, September 15, 2023 2:57 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

There is a lot of talk, but so far no action, about this. At least one R Assembly member has come out against it. The real devious fuckery is they want to impeach but not try her, so her seat will not be able to be filled by appointment by the governor, who is a D.

Texas AG and genuine criminal Ken Paxton acquitted on all charges in his impeachment trial.

I just saw that. Cleared by the state Senate. I am shocked, shocked.

I believe the criminal indictments are still pending.

I have been told many times that Texas has laws, but I remain unconvinced.

They do have one, the law of the boot on the neck.

I'm weirdly surprised by this even though I shouldn't be. What a bunch of bullshit.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1703403198067732940?s=46&t=z1egexpHAtHcPPxgbp4Hrw

"I have been told many times that Texas has laws, but I remain unconvinced.'

This story seems like something out of a Billy Jack movie.

https://www.insider.com/coffee-city-texas-speed-trap-shuts-down-entire-police-force-2023-9

if you want to see some truly nutty townlines, google maps Coffee City

There is a region of wackadoodle fly-by-night municipalities in St. Louis County (Mo.) near the airport.

Places where, like, the mayor is also the chief of police, and happens to also own a strip club, and the city council is made up of his two brothers and a dog.

Anyway my ex-brother-in-law got into serious legal trouble in one of these places - drunk driving, totaled car.

But by the time he was supposed to show up to court the town's government had dissolved in acrimony, the two people who ran the town weren't on speaking terms, and all record of the case had somehow vanished.

Will Hunter go to prison ?https://t.co/NszkOpKUQV

— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) September 18, 2023

who's Will Hunter

Matt Damon?

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1703767304813641728/AVGFz7V-?format=jpg&name=large

He looks like a South Park or Rick and Morty character or something like that. California Raisin?

Anyway, this story was really well written, I thought, and heartbreaking. Should be a gift link:

https://wapo.st/45SQq7V

Her students reported her for a lesson on race. Can she trust them again?

Mary Wood’s school reprimanded her for teaching a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now she hopes her bond with students can survive South Carolina’s politics.

"Class, some of your had a problem with our last book. I hope you like our new text better."

https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2312507.jpg?auto=webp&v=1644904725

Dershowitz' mouth indistinguishable from an asshole

https://static1.colliderimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/pan-s-labyrinth-guillermo-del-toro.jpg?q=50&fit=contain&w=480&h=&dpr=1.5

Dershowitz' mouth indistinguishable from an asshole

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm

hey now I've fucked plenty of puckier mouths