Ron Tusler's Freudian Slip

 On Monday, as the nation was still reeling from the execution-style murder of Alex Pretti, Wisconsin State Rep. Ron Tusler took time to praise Trump's handling of immigration on Facebook. However, Tusler's choice of words left a lot to be desired - starting with human decency:

His choice of the word "execute" was thoughtless at best.  

After I confronted Tusler on his word choice, he edited his post to change execute to conduct. But the post in its entirety shows that Tusler has his nose so far up Trump's butt that he can't see what's going on in the country and the world:

He wants Congress to change the law to allow the ICEtapo to execute American citizens for defending the Constitution and human decency?  He wants Congress to allow ICEtapo goons to go door to door, looking for "undesirable" people his kind don't think belong here, all without a warrant?  He wants Congress to change the law so that the only way an immigrant can come to the United States is to pay a bribe to Trump?

Tusler is the kind of guy who would have told the Nazis where Anne Frank was hiding. He's not the kind of guy we need in any elected office.

Stolen From Social Media: So It Might Not Be True, But It Feels Like It Could Be:

“If it wasn’t for America, you’d be speaking German right now.”~ Donald Trump to Guy Parmelin, the president of Switzerland.

Think about that for a moment and I hope you remember your high school history and geography,

Want to do something about ICE right now without leaving home?

The bill funding ICE is set to be voted upon in the Senate later this month. Contact your Senators by phone, email, on their websites, RIGHT NOW. And then tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, rinse and repeat.

Kristi Noem! Give Us The Finger!

 YKIYK...

no, not that one.
 

Note To Denmark II: OR just give Greenland to Canada.

Makes more sense in the long run since they are closer neighbors and will totally totally piss Trump off, bigly. 

Note to Denmark: Just Issue A Worthless Deed For Greenland To Trump:

 Heavy paper stock, lots of gilding, fancy hand lettering, gibberish in Danish of course. And then? Start sending him a bill each month of $1 Billion for his Home Owner's Association Fees! 

Never Fear! Milwaukee County Is Protecting Your 1st Amendment Right To Freedom Of Speech.

 Just rollin' out the red carpet for all of you!

I wonder where number 1 and number 2 is located? Somewhere else in the airport? Or??

Tiffany Uses Right Wing Operative As 'Average Taxpayer' In Ad

Tom Tiffany is running this ad with "average taxpayers" complaining about their property taxes being too high:

Now, I could go into how the steep hike in taxes is because the Republicans chose not to properly fund the schools, forcing the school districts to hike their share, but that's for another post.

However, the point I want to make is that the people in the ad are as fake as trying to put the blame solely on Gov.Tony Evers.  The first person in the Tiffany ad, Amber from Lake Geneva, is Amber Infusio.

Infusio is one of the Moms for Fascism that like to cite quotes from Hitler and host underage drinking parties because parents know best. Maybe Infusio's appearance in Tiffany's ad is quid pro quo for Tiffany signing a pledge card for her at last year's State Fair:

If Tiffany is running fake ads this early in the race, how can anyone trust him on anything he says for the rest of the year?

Here's a hint: You can't!

H/T John Norcross

Wisconsin Blind Eye

 

In 2007, state leaders inexplicably thought it was a good idea to privatize public transparency and thus created WisconsinEye.

In December, WisconsinEye announced that it was ending live coverage and closing its archive of previous sessions of the state legislature because it was a victim of Trumpnomics:

“Due to extreme competition and a complete collapse in private funding — marked by donor fatigue, competing nonprofit campaigns, record-breaking political fundraising and economic uncertainty — WisconsinEye’s website is unavailable,” a message on the WisEye website states. “Without consistent annual funding…. citizens, legislators, legislative staff, the governor’s administration, agency leadership and staff, trade associations, attorneys and the courts, local government officials, journalists and all print, cable, television and radio news outlets, businesses, nonprofit organizations — all lose the only reliable and proven source of unfiltered State Capitol news and state government proceedings.”

Now, WisconsinEye has resorted to using GoFundMe to raise $250,000 in order to secure state funding to resume providing services.  As of the time of this writing, they were just under $6,000.  

While WisconsinEye is trying to get back above water financially, the Republicans in the state legislature are busy trying to take advantage of the situation by ramming through malevolent bills while no one is watching.

And to make sure no one is watching, the Republicans have "rediscovered" that their rules don't allow citizens or even fellow legislators to record their misdeeds.

What needs to be done is that the state needs to bring this service back in-house. The City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, and many other local governments provide this service for their constituents, and there's no reason for the state not to do so.  It would bring them into compliance with transparency rules and also maintain a public record.

But the Republicans don't want that because transparency leads to accountability, and accountability leads to them winning fewer elections.

Wisconsin GOP Plays The Racist Card Early

 WISGOP launched an attack on Democratic gubernatorial candidates Mandela Barnes and Francesca Hong on social media yesterday.  The only problem was that it wasn't Barnes:

Hey, what do you expect?  Republicans think that all Black people look alike.

It shouldn't be surprising, however. They have a long history of racism and being wrong about almost everything.

ADDENDUM: It should be noted that the image the Republicans used was Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who is also running for governor.  However, Crowley is more closely aligned with the Republicans than his own chosen party.

How Does Wisconsin Investigate An Officer Involved Shooting?

In the wake of the murder of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, after initially welcoming the help of local law enforcement (probably the local feds idea), it is now being reported that state and local officials are blocked from the investigation and are being refused access to evidence (probably from the national hench people).

So essentially the perpetrator's bosses are investing their own...not likely to be very accurate or transparent given the preliminary before the facts pronouncements coming out of Washington.

But let's keep in mind how officer involved shootings are investigated in Wisconsin. First the officer is taken off the street and given an administrative job until the investigation is completed. And if the officer is from the Milwaukee Police Dept for instance, MPD doesn't handle the investigation. A neighboring law enforcement agency takes over...maybe the Waukesha County Sheriff's Dept or Racine Police Dept? And if something happens in another city or county, MPD may handle the case.   

But never never ever does a police department investigate their own officer when they are involved with a shooting. So why are the Feds locking out the locals in Minnesota? Well, we wouldn't want them to get any whitewash splashed on them now, would we? And given the clear and flagrant ignoring of the facts including the videos we have all seen, sadly, we know where this is going to go. 

Trump: My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me...

This doesn't trouble a single Republican in the House or the Senate? 

"President Donald Trump reportedly told The New York Times that his "own morality" serves as the thing that could potentially limit his global powers -- adding that he doesn't "need international law."

As part of a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times published Thursday, Trump was asked Wednesday whether there were any limits to his global powers.

"Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump reportedly said to The New York Times."

Trump has already proven that he thinks nothing can stop him in the United States...and now Venezuela. And nobody from his party sees any red flags here? He could simply lead us into a world conflagration and that's just fine because it met the incredibly low bar of Trump morality? Really?

I had a small hope the Marco Rubio might be something of a tempering presence in the West Wing...but he's turned out to be the biggest enabler there. wtf?

So taking this president's lead (remember when using 'this president' was a slur?), if my morality is loosey goosey, there are no crimes to commit? Because only MY mind can stop me!

Just Think, after a few years on the RFK JR diet plan and

you could look just like this:

and you might have to give up your singing career...

Trump Vows To Protect Peaceful Protesters in Iran, But When His Thugs Kill Americans in Minneapolis?

 Just a few days ago as protests about the economy heated up in Iran, Donald Trump vowed to come to the aid of peaceful Iranian protesters.

But today one of his ICE henchmen murdered an American citizen in Minneapolis, who was apparently in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Trump is silent and his administration LIES through their teeth.

The entire chain of command needs to be held responsible and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

There ain't no Rule of Law in the US. 

And apparently he missed the point that Iranians are protesting over AFFORDABILITY 

January 6th, 2021: NEVER FORGET!

In the aftermath of an attack on our nation and it's governing institutions by those who live here...the restoration of the chief instigator to the White House by this same miscreant class...the vindication of those rioters through pardons by a sitting president...intractable division...the United States of America has suffered much in the past five years.

Here is documentation of what happened then and how it happened and who is clearly responsible.

A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021, through the lenses of those who were there.