But he and the Republicans care so much about the veterans, don't you know? Just ask them, and they will tell you about it. Just don't expect them to actually show it.
And don't ask Drunken Van Orden. He's suspiciously quiet about the whole thing.
The propagandist hacks at Wisconsin White Right Now went on Xitter and posted a picture of Rep Drunken Van Orden speaking to Youth for Hitler Young Republicans in Oconomowoc.
They quote the lush as saying "I'd take a punch in the face for you. I will fight tirelessly for your freedoms."
Ironically, DVO has also blocked countless people on Xitter because they hurt his fee fees by speaking truth to power. Some hero.
Because Tom Tiffany is already tanking against Democratic frontrunner Mandela Barnes, he went to get some free airtime from squawk radio host Dan O'Donnell.
Heartland Signal caught the interaction between the two, and it was not a meeting of the minds by any stretch of the imagination.
Yes, Dan, isn't it amazing that Mandela Barnes should sound like himself? And they actually pay him for this? But then Tiffany took the cake by whiteslpaining slavery to Barnes, who is Black:On conservative radio, Wisconsin GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany insists a African-American Democratic opponent represents “the party of slavery." pic.twitter.com/MmBFd1V6hj
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) December 4, 2025
TIFFANY: But I would remind Mr. Barnes, he belongs to the party that was the party of slavery. I happen to belong to the party, the Republican party, that was started in 1854 right here in Wisconsin that ended slavery. And we were the ones that said all men should be created equal. Why he belongs to the Democrat Party if he believes those things that he was just saying, I don't understand it for the life of me.
That Tiffany would say something that boneheaded isn't surprising. Judging by his social media posts, Tiffany's sole plank in his platform is a racist dog whistle.
When asked for a comment, Barnes referred to a post he put on Xitter to the Heartland Signal post. Barnes' comment was that he "did not expect to have slavery tiffany-splained to me."
Four months and six candidates after Governor Tony Evers announced that he would not run for reelection, former Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes entered the race to be Wisconsin's next governor and became the instant frontrunner. He kicked off his campaign with this introductory video:
Barnes is charismatic, is a good friend of Labor, and has decent name recognition, which is probably the reason for his frontrunner status. But that is not to say he is going to have clear sailing to the governor's mansion.
His entrance into the race has set the Republicans into a foaming-at-the-mouth panic. Tom Tiffany, who is the frontrunner for the Republican Party, has been blowing his racist dog whistle until he's blue in the face. But then again, that seems to be Tiffany's only plank in his campaign.
But Republican opposition is to be expected.
What is really disappointing and disconcerting is the whisper campaign among Democrats that started long before Barnes even announced. They cite Barnes' loss to Ron Johnson in 2022. They acknowledge that Barnes came within one percentage point, about 26,000 votes.
But what they don't dare mention is that while RoJo had billionaires like Diane Hendricks and Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein. What they also don't mention is that neither the DNC nor the DPW came through for Barnes.
Given that information, it's obvious that Barnes did pretty damn good to get as close as he did with no help and against nearly insurmountable odds.
The fact that someone would start this kind of crap only tells me that they don't have a lot of faith in their candidate. And if they don't have faith in their candidate to win in the primary, odds are he wouldn't do well in the general election either.
J.Divan Vance said that no one likes turkey. But considering the fact that he thinks roadkill possum is a delicacy, his opinion on this matter, as in many things, is completely irrelevant.
Perhaps he should try this recipe next time. It's guaranteed to blow the doors off the place.
Here is a Thanksgiving Turkey recipe that also includes the use of popcorn as a stuffing - imagine that.
When I found this recipe, I thought it was perfect for people like me, who just are not sure how to tell when poultry is thoroughly cooked, but not dried out. Give this a try.
BAKED STUFFED TURKEY
10-12 lb. Turkey
1 cup melted butter
1 cup stuffing (Pepperidge Farm is good.)
5 cups uncooked popcorn (ORVILLE REDENBACHER 'S LOW FAT)
Salt/pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush Turkey well with melted butter, salt, and pepper. Fill cavity with stuffing and popcorn. Place in baking pan with the neck end toward the back of the oven.Listen for the popping sounds. When the turkey's ass blows the oven door open and flies across the room, it's done.
Imagine the look on your loved ones' faces as you show off your culinary skills.
And J Divan, if you decide to try this recipe, make sure you keep your face real close to the oven door, so you can see the magic happen.
Twice this week I have gotten solicitations in the mail from local banks promising lower interest rates if I apply for a new credit card at their bank. Well of course that is pretty common practice except:
I already have credit cards with each of these banks. So why don't you just lower the damn interest rates on my current accounts and be done with it? I certainly don't need another credit card.
The rules around banking and credit cards have just gotten too wild west for anyone's good. And for that matter it's time to put reasonable caps on credit card interest fees.
Unless you are a MAGA moron, you've heard about the Republicans' scheme to give some of themselves a $500,000 reward because they had been investigated for breaking the law. Who says that crime doesn't pay?
Amazingly, most people, and definitely no one in the mainstream media, are willing to call it out as the corruption it is. But a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison is not afraid to say it out loud:
Ken Mayer, a professor of American politics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email to WPR that the provision would probably lead to the federal government settling and paying Johnson and the other senators.
"It’s banana republic crony capitalist bulls—,” Mayer said.
“It ought to be a career-ending scandal for everyone involved,” Mayer continued. “But it won’t because too many have become numbed to flagrant and obvious corruption and self-dealing that is occurring on a daily basis.”
He's absolutely correct. If we had a government that wasn't so damn dysfunctional, a lot of the things that are happening wouldn't be happening. To make matters even worse, we can't even count on half of the Democrats to do the right thing, either.
But too late on the screw worms...they have already been introduced to the Oval Office via RFK Jrs. brain.
This
article is behind a fire wall at JSOnline. I have an issue with that
but that may be my next post. But here it is if you subscribe:
Governor candidates Tom Tiffany, Josh Schoemann call for changes to UW, including tuition freeze
This is follow up on my post about the GOP candidates for governor wanting to eliminate tenure in the UW system.
Another point of contention of course, and I am sure this is bipartisan, is that tuition in the UW system is too high. Granted, it is insane. But our GOP candidates want to revert to a Walker era solution: freeze tuition. ?? Just like daily expenses for you and me, the basic costs of providing a college education continue to grow. So freezing tuition is just starving the system and not providing a real solution. And of course as revenues decline, the university has to take shortcuts to hold down costs. But what does that do to the quality of education provided.
Want to hold down tuition gentlemen? Have the State of Wisconsin fund the UW system in the 21st Century at the same levels (% wise) as they did in the post World War II era. It has gotten to the point that state support has dwindled to a minority source of revenues. At this point does the state even have the right for 'naming rights'?
This article is behind a fire wall at JSOnline. I have an issue with that but that may be my next post. But here it is if you subscribe:
Governor candidates Tom Tiffany, Josh Schoemann call for changes to UW, including tuition freeze
One of their positions is to remove professorial tenure from the University of Wisconsin system. Tenure was originally designed to encourage talented professors to stay at the school offering them tenure and to protect them from political blow back and protect their rights to free speech and independent research. So of course GOP pols want to eliminate that so that they can continue their messing with UW and to implement Trump's intrusions into academia.
BUT, Josh Schoemann and Tom Tiffany. Let's take the lead here and before you start dictating to the university, lets set term limits on elected officials. You know, like Wisconsin Assembly members and State Senators, and Governor. Put your money where your mouth is and lead by example.
BTW: there are fewer and fewer tenured professors in the UW system. Not because the university doesn't like the idea anymore, but because guys like Tiffany have slashed the UW budgets so badly over the years, the UW prefers to use part time adjuncts to save money. And if I remember, back in the day, their were complaints about paying all that tuition money only to be taught by TAs and adjuncts. What happened to that line of thinking.
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Coulthard has struck me as a bit of a disappointment. While he touts being pro-labor, it appears that is solely because he was on the Labor Caucus of the Democratic Party. In other words, he is a politician but not union, per se. He has also been misleading by showing a picture of him standing with CWA members, giving the impression that he was endorsed by them, which he admitted was not the case.
plain as day and photographed by several news agencies. The Secret Service is being tight lipped about the reason but says the motorcade was not impacted by the fact. One media outlet reported this quote : "The president's protectors excused the mistake as no harm, no foul."
Well I am not seeing it that way. It would have to be wholly intentional in order to have occurred. So there is a reason and someone is hiding the reason and that's not a good look for POTUS.
Now if it wasn't intentional, then we have a whole other problem of the Secret Service ignoring an issue with the president's limo. And that too is problematic. Everything around the movement of the president is carefully orchestrated and controlled...so if there is something amiss...why isn't it being attended to immediately? ?? and why the hush hush? Just admit the Trump wheel chair won't fit in the trunk?
Late Sunday night the White House pardoned a number of prominent Wisconsin Republicans who were involved with the attempts to overturn the 2020 Presidential election.
"Trump pardoned most of the Republicans who signed paperwork falsely claiming to be electors for Trump when former President Joe Biden, a Democrat, was elected in Wisconsin instead.
The list posted by Trump's pardon attorney late Sunday night, includes: Carol Brunner, Mary Buestrin, Darryl Carlson, Andrew Hitt, Kelly Ruh, Bob Spindell and Pam Travis.
Also pardoned were attorneys Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis...
Four more Republicans who signed the false paperwork are not on the list but the proclamation notes the list is not comprehensive of those who were pardoned."
Well, boot licker and bag man, Sen. Ron Johnson (R - WI) was not on the list. But never fear, he apparently is still hoping for one:
"U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who was involved in the effort to get the slate of Wisconsin Trump electors to Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, praised the pardons."
the FAA grounded all private aircraft plus Air Force 1 and Air Force 2?
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