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Elections matter, folks…

Well…I still seeing the bullshit all over the internet on the sites that I visit that “both parties are the same”, or “my vote doesn’t matter”….and I wonder if people haven’t looked at the miracle of Michigan where voters put in place the non-partisan election district committee who drew much fairer districts here…and those districts gave the dems total control of the Michigan government for the first time since the 1980′s…and you know what they didn’t do with that control? Tax cuts for the rich and corporations…how about two meals a day for every schoolchild? How about the passing of the initiative that enshrined women’s rights in the state constitution…and protections for the LGBTQ community? That wouldn’t have happened without the dems dragging their butts out  off the comfy couch or filling in their ballots and mailing them in….both now protected because we dems turned out and voted to make it easier to participate in our government while every red state voted to make it hard for minorities and college students to vote….so don’t give that crap…voters turning out gave control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to the liberals in the state where it will now serve as a check on the repub controlled legislature…so don’t make excuses…vote!

I guess now white punks can murder people and get away with it..

Well…as the days go on, I am beginning to hate the right wingers and what they are doing to this country…the latest is that little punk asshole in Wisconsin, who I won’t mention his name, shot three people, killing two of them and the all white jury let him off because of a repub law there that broadened the self defense statutes to basically let anyone off who just says “self defense” after he kills someone….my question is how the hell can you be scared for your life when you’re standing there with an AR-15 and are confronting unarmed people? But that didn’t matter to the judge there who constantly put his thumb on the scale for that little prick or to the jury who basically was on the defense team…now, I wonder what the verdict would have been if this would have been a black 17 year old killing two people? Yeah, there wouldn’t have been a trial at all…he never would have made it out of the area….the cops sure wouldn’t have given him water and asked if he was okay like they did with that little white prick….they didn’t even arrest him until months later….it’s time for the second amendment to go…no more guns for anyone…I’ve had enough…geez…

So sorry repubs, it didn’t work…

Well….if you looked at the news over the past week or so, you saw the mighty voter suppression efforts by Wisconsin repubs to try to save a supreme court seat that even involved the US supreme court who dutifully weighed in and handed the repubs the tools they needed to try to steal the seat….and this included making sure that most polling places were closed in dem areas and forcing in person voting instead of the safer vote by mail that the dem governor was championing. But, a funny thing happened….dem voters braved the coronavirus and hours long lines to do their duty and thwarted the bad faith efforts of the repubs to rig the election….and three of Scott Walker’s hand picked judges went down to defeat…most importantly, a true progressive won the 10 year seat on the supreme court, whittling away at the repub majority who have done their best to support making it harder and harder for everyone but repubs to vote. The vote wasn’t even close and pundits are chalking that up to the dem voters being pissed and really, really motivated to make every damn one of the repbus to go away….and this time, even some of the repub base was snared in the voter suppression net and had to endure the long lines just like we always do….maybe it will open their eyes to the fact that their “leaders” are only out for themselves and to retain their power…they don’t give a damn about their voters…these results leave me with a glimmer of hope that there is a landslide coming this fall….maybe we can even take back the government here in Michigan…that would be cool….

Murder and a supreme court seat…

Well….repubs across this country continue to show that they will stop at nothing to steal supreme court seats even if it results in the murder of their people. There is an election today in Wisconsin that the repubs there have been doing everything they can to make sure that the people of Milwaukee (who are predominately African American) don’t get to vote for a dem SC justice candidate since she will win if they can….there are normally 155 polling places in Milwaukee and the repubs in control of the state congress have cut that down to only 5…making up every damn excuse in the book to disenfranchise the people who they know won’t vote for them…and when the dem governor tried to get them to agree to expanded vote by mail for everyone during the pandemic, the repubs said no and took it all the way to the SC where Kavanaugh and Gorsuch delivered what they were installed for…to make sure that the repubs can continue to steal elections. But, during this pandemic, it is even worse because the repubs in Wisconsin are essentially sentencing voters there to choose between voting and death…and the repubs will be responsible for murdering hundreds of their people…but, this doesn’t matter to them at all…the corrupt repub party doesn’t give a damn about anyone but themselves…and they are going to get away with it….

Where are the jobs now?

Well…if you’ve read the news out of Wisconsin over the past year, you would have seen the idiot walker and the double idiot trump wielding their golden shovels at a groundbreaking for a manufacturing plant for Foxconn, a Chinese company whose previous claim to fame is that they make most of Apple’s I-phones and the working conditions at it’s plants are so terrible that they had to put up anti-suicide nets to keep their workers from throwing themselves off the roof. trump has been touting the plant as evidence of his dealmaking prowess and this has been joined by the repubs in Wisconsin who gave Foxconn over 3 billion dollars to buy their plant for them but guess what? As of yesterday, Foxconn has said nevermind…they are not going to build a plant or hire the 15,000 people they promised….it was all just a scam and one that Foxconn has pulled in multiple locations across the world and in the US. I wonder how the idiot trump is going to spin this one? The people of Wisconsin are already on the hook for site improvements like roads, sewers, and electricity to the site and there are hundreds of families who had their property seized for this debacle who can’t go back to the nice little small town that is no longer there….and the repubs still don’t give a damn…they specifically set the whole deal up with walker and his cronies so there would be no consequences to Foxconn or anyone else involved in the “project” if it failed…they won’t fund the schools there since they claim poverty but they have hundreds of millions to invest in this scam…this is normal repub bullshit folks and they all need to go…impeach…

Why not just give people the money?

Well…you’ve heard me talk about the stupidity of states bidding for manufacturing plants with tax breaks that cost more than the state will ever get back…now there is another one that was just announced…that Foxconn, the Chinese electronics manufacturer has just announced they are going to build a plant in Wisconsin and trump and walker are crowing that it is repub policies that got the plant to locate in Wisconsin. Yeah…I’d like to differ with that…Wisconsin is on the hook for over a billion dollars to bribe Foxconn to locate there…and as I’ve said many times before, why not just give people the money? With that tax break, each job is going to cost Wisconsin taxpayers from a half to a million dollars each…yep, you heard it right…walker and his cronies just paid Foxconn almost a million dollars each for each job…I wonder how many small businesses that are owned by Americans could have been helped by that billion dollars? You also have to look at Foxconn as a company…they are widely reviled as the worst company in China and even have anti-suicide clauses in the contracts of their executives…yep, you heard that right…the conditions at Foxconn’s Chinese factories are so bad that they have to give bonuses to keep people from killing themselves and have installed suicide nets at their factories to catch the workers that jump off the roof trying to kill themselves to escape the horrendous conditions there. Okay, now I get why the repubs just love Foxconn…they hate workers just as much as the Chinese do and find them to be disposable….can the repubs get any worse?  Impeach….

Are you surprised?

Well…with all of the evidence that the repubs economic plans of tax cuts for business and the rich do not work to create economic growth, are you surprised that another state has weighed in and it is not pretty…for workers, that is…for the rich it’s great. The latest analysis centers on Wisconsin and the tax cuts that the idiot Walker said would magically create jobs even though they have never worked anywhere else. But, that’s not the worst part of the whole scheme….these idiots missed the projections on what the tax cuts were going to cost the state and now they are more than doubled to almost 300 million dollars a year….and these cuts were a direct transfer to the rich with people with incomes of over a million dollars a year getting almost 80% of the cuts…a direct lie from ole Scotty who said the “middle class” would benefit. Where did the money for these cuts come from….hmmm…it seems like it just matches the amount of money they cut out of the University of Wisconsin system…after all, there are no repubs who want educated people…it makes them much harder to lie to. After the wreckage of Kansas and now the unfolding one in Wisconsin…and in every other state run by repubs that are in dire fiscal states, shouldn’t we be able to bury this tax cut nonsense once and for all? Probably not…since there are so many people driven by hate in this country….and they are all on the repubs side…geez…

Still no politics…

Well….I have been thinking and thinking about a political one to do with absolutely no luck…how can you maintain outrage when everything that the right does is outrageous? There was on thing from Wisconsin where a federal court stuck down the “admitting privileges” crap law that did nothing for the safety of women…just another attempt to limit their healthcare choices…I wonder when women are going to get tired of a bunch of guys telling them what they can and can’t do with their own bodies?  What else?  Let me go look at a few news websites to see if there is anything going on….oh, more from Wisconsin…the repubs in charge there want to repeal a law that says the employers have to give workers a day off every week…the law was in response to employers forcing their workers to work months at a time without a day off for rest…but the repubs, who hate everyone who is not an owner…just don’t give a damm…they won’t ever be in those conditions again so they think everyone else that is just not important…and their big donors have been pushing for more ways to abuse their workers for a long time now….is there any question why I just hate the repubs?  geez….

A few things…

Well…there have been a few things happen over the past couple of days that I thought deserved comment so here we go…first, a federal court has stricken the new, repub sponsored voter id law for doing exactly what the repubs wanted it to do…disenfranchise the poor and minorities and I hope that this is the start of the end of the false “voter fraud” crap the the repubs have been pushing for decades now even though none has ever been found…there was another good decision by the supreme court yesterday that says that the EPA really does have the power to regulate greenhouse gasses under the clean air act…this is another one of those repub sponsored attacks on the EPA since they truly believe that their bosses should be allowed to pollute as much as they want while pushing the costs of that pollution on the American people; not the polluters who are actually doing it…so, this should put the rest to these types of suits especially since this was a 6-2 decision with no wavering by the majority…so sorry polluters…geez…

Bye, bye Scotty…

Well…i will admit I’m a little gleeful with the document dump that came out of Wisconsin over the past couple of days that shows that ole Scott Walker knew that his public employees who worked for the county where he was executive were illegally using county time and resources to support his campaign for governor….something he has said over and over that he knew nothing about. How’s that lying working out for you, Scotty? Not to mention this is public corruption that is a high misdemeanor and the same thing that at least one of those aides has gone to jail for. So, I call on the prosecutor there to take this new evidence and charge the idiot…I am heartened that there are still investigations going on in this matter and that is what should come out of it…let’s keep counting…third repub governor this year to be shown to be the criminal thugs that we on the left know they are…and again, just shows how the repubs don’t think the laws apply to them…only to the little guys like you and me…geez…