ewagner
ewagner's JournalWow! The Guardian isn't pulling their punches
I think they're more upset about the election results than we are.
As to the descent into leftwing in-fighting, so distracting from the task of trenchantly opposing a fascist, it has the same driver: if you are fighting to reach a consensus, however bitterly, you can only do so with people who will move. You cannot discuss climate change with a person who thinks all scientists are crooked; you cannot discuss abortion with people who conceive women as chattel to begin with; it’s meritless. And yet to fight with one another is not neutral, it does more than just pass the time. It creates false equivalence or, worse, a hierarchy that has its arse on backwards. If you are talking about Hillary Clinton’s corporate cosiness and not Trump’s endorsement by the KKK, you are unavoidably putting one above the other.
edited to provide link:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/15/dangerous-fantasy-donald-trump-normalisation-us-president-elect-barbarism?CMP=fb_gu
Fraternal Order of Police
I ALWAYS make an annual donation to the Fraternal Order of Police. Haven't failed in years...
So when I got the telemarketing solicitation, I cut him off from his spiel about what FOP does and told him just to renew my pledge, same as every other year. Told them to send the package in the mail and I would send check by return mail.
Then......
I find out that the National FOP ENDORSED TRUMP!
Instead of sending back a check, they got all their materials back and I included this:
Gentlemen:
I was solicited for a pledge to your organization via telephone on or about September 19 of this year. Having been a supporter of our local Police Department for years, I agreed to a $25 pledge as I have done in many years past. However, in the intervening time I was informed that the National Organization of the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Donald Trump for President on September 16, 2016.
I consider it inappropriate for a benevolent association to make any political endorsement and I am particularly offended over this endorsement.
For that reason I am rescinding my pledge to your organization. Please remove my name from your list of future solicitations.
Sincerely,
Historic times in more ways than one...
True. Electing Hillary will be a historic moment for our country...but there is another, perhaps more subtle piece of history that can be written.
Bluntly, we have an opportunity that has eluded us for over 30 years. Since Ronald Reagan and the neocons took control of the Republican Party, our country has been plagued (yes, I deliberately used that word) by conservative policies that have slowly but surely destroyed the middle class, devastated our industries and ruined our health. For the first time in 30 years we have a chance to take not only the Presidency, but also majority control of the U. S. Senate and to put a serious dent in the Republican strangle-hold in the House of Representatives.
We have Donald Trump to thank for this opportunity.
The stench of the Trump campaign may in fact be enough for us to overcome the horrible consequences of 31 (I think that's right) Republican Governors gerrymandering state to make house districts safe for Republicans and to assure what Karl Rove called "a permanent Republican Majority".
But we need to be smart and work hard to make that happen. Even in the most terribly gerrymandered House districts we need to make sure there is opposition to the Republican incumbent (e.g. don't "write off" any district) and then tie Trump around the incumbent's neck like an albatross and make them wear it right up through election day.
If we can turn around the 30 years of Republican majorities, we can put America back on the right track...and that will be as historic for us as the "Reagan Revolution" was to the Republicans.
Court House to White House
that's an old meme....but extremely useful...
If our current State Party Leadership won't subscribe to it, it's time we took matters into our own hands and started running good, solid Dems for every Repub seat in the state...and if we can't back it up with money we'll have to back it up with man/woman power..
The entire Congress is up for re-election and about 1/3 of the senate.
The entire State Assembly is up for re-election and so is about 1/3 of the State Senate.
In the local races...only 1 out of 19 seats on the Wood County Board is Contested..
....only one out of 5 City Council seats is contested.
We've got to do better and if our so-called leadership in Madison won't step up then we have to
Bradly's extramarital affair
Unbelievable.....
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/bradley-extra-marital-affair-role-in-child-placement-surface-b99684605z1-371700831.html
So...Wisconsin...the dynamic has changed?
The John Doe case is headed for the Supreme Court no matter how many obstacles the Wisconsin Supreme Court throw in its path....
The 5-4 dynamic of SCOTUS did not bode well for the chances of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin being overturned.
but then....
Justice Scalia dies...
It's 4-4 and that means deadlock until and unless a new justice is confirmed...will the case be put on hold in SCOTUS? or will it die? What the new dynamic?
