The Trump Death Cult is real, and all they needed to stir resentment was the tweet "Liberate..."

Let me start with the bottom line I've been ranting about for years: Republicans don't solve problems. Period.

After Scott Walker the iron fisted control of our gerrymandered GOP majority, all we have left is a conservative wish list devoid of Wisconsin problem solving. Here's my partial list...:

Never Problem Solving finally getting Noticed: Prof. Heather Cox Richards recently Facebooked this:

The coronavirus pandemic requires us to unite for our own safety, but members of the Republican Party can only see the world in partisan terms. Boston College political scientist David Hopkins notes that “The contemporary Republican Party has been built to wage ideological and partisan conflict more than to manage the government or solve specific social problems.” 

The Solution: Mass testing! But that takes work and planning, so Trump-inspired Republicans picked a specific date and targeted Democratic governors for protests to energize the voting base. Isn't that much easier? 

The New Tea Pandemic Party Emerges: The Trump cult voters are ironically wallowing in big government edicts spewed by Trump, like the pandemic bailout checks of $1200 I'm sure they're all sending back. Yet as crazy as it sounds now, they opposed Obama's stimulus coming out of the Great Recession and later raged against giving more Americans health care through the Affordable Care Act.

Trump called on his death cult to liberate Democratic states: Note: Virginia put in place "firearm restrictions … increase background checks, limit handgun purchases, and establish a 'red flag' procedure." Pretty crazy stuff huh?

Here's King Trump's explanation of Virginia's "horrible thing" attacking the Second Amendment:



Revealed! Pro-life image NO More, as Ghouls Gather to Kill acceptable percent of Americans:

Marathon County resident Larry Pabst said Evers’ order is an example of government “stepping in where it doesn’t belong.  State residents, and not government officials, should decide whether they can go to work or attend gatherings. I don’t think anyone should be able to tell me where I can and can’t go,” he said.

“We’re angry. We are frustrated and we are trying to push back in every way we can,” Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester said Friday during an interview with WISN-AM (1130). Vos said he does not believe the governor has the ability to shut down the economy, adding the differences between essential and non-essential businesses appear arbitrary. He said a legal plan would be ready next week.

A married couple from New Berlin …“It is happening – COVID-19 is out there ... I think it’s just a decision people should be able to make on their own. And if you come down with it and you die, well then that’s on you. It’s a decision that you have to make. If I die because I came here today, well, I guess...” She shrugged.

Killing kids...Dr. Oz clearly laid out an "appetizing opportunity" for school age children to be sacrificed:



The Death Panel is now Real:

More to come...but keep this in mind....

Gov. Tony Evers...COVID-19 Tyrant!!!

According to our angry tyrant, Trump, the presidents power over governors is TOTAL:



Even a Conservative group's Ad disagrees with Trump:



The New Authoritarian Tea Party Stupor: While Trump says he'll adjourn the congress...

…and overrule governors stay-at-home "tyrannical" restrictions, use FEMA to confiscate all PPE's and ventilators, and withhold pandemic help to Democratic governors states, disconnected Republicans in Wisconsin are outraged over Dem Gov. Tony Ever's attempts to stop a spreading killer virus. It's an emergency power he has...for now. They're calling him a...tyrant?

Wisconsin Republicans reacted with anger to Evers' extension, threatening lawsuits, the firing of his health secretary and other curbs on his power. More than 1,400 people said on Facebook that they planned to attend a rally at the state Capitol on April 24, the day the original order was to end, demanding that Evers reopen the state. Rep. Barb Dittrich, of Oconomowoc, called Evers a “tyrant.”

The lower conservative life form wants to reopen the state with no plan, no mass testing, no contact tracing, no anything! 

Like I said, let every reckless freedom and liberty fighting heavy breathing Trump cultist go back to work for us, and we'll see how that works first.

81 percent of Americans in a recent poll agree with continued social distancing, and only 10 percent want to irresponsibly go back to work.

Keep in mind, our overlord Republican majority who took most of the Governor's and the AG's power away before they took office, have not approved many of Gov. Evers appointments in an attempt to silence their possible criticism of the GOP legislature. And guess what, Republicans aren't shy about using that authority to remove those who disagree and don't follow in lockstep:

The state Senate which has yet to confirm Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm and could vote to fire her. The Senate has already fired Evers' agriculture secretary.

“She must not be allowed to continually trample on the constitution or the state’s economy,” Republican Sen. David Craig said of Palm. “Enough is enough!”

In Car Protest...and the not so Brave Conservative Cowards: Since Wisconsin conservative crackpots never had an original thought of their own, they copy cat others. If the economy has to open up without any real "freedom and liberty" pandemic restrictions, well, get the hell out of your cars.

The planned rally next week at the Capitol comes after similar events in Oklahoma and Michigan attracted thousands. Evers said he respected the protesters' free-speech rights, but he hopes they remain 6-feet apart from one another so they stay healthy.

Who paid for this stunt?

The Bullwork put it this way, from the Washington Post:

And so on the umpteetnth day of the Great Lockdown, the masses finally rose up. Or something.

For miles, thousands of drivers clogged the streets demanding Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) ease restrictions and allow them back to work. They drowned downtown Lansing, Mich., in an cacophony of honking. They blared patriotic songs from car radios, waving all sorts of flags from the windows — President Trump flags, American flags and the occasional Confederate flag.

But in the massive protest Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home executive order — which they have argued is excessive and beyond Whitmer’s authority — the pleas from organizers that protesters to stay in their vehicles went unheeded. Many got out of their cars and crashed the front lawn of the capitol building, with some chanting, “Lock her up!” and “We will not comply!”

It’s easy to dunk on this sort of thing as yet another vector of wingnuttery, especially because it is potentially dangerous to public health. But, it's also worth recognizing that populist libertarianism is a thing and completely compatible with Trump's proto-authoritarianism.

Conservative voters, any chance you might want to stop these losers in November.

Trump takes on Nasty Questions...

COVID-Conservative, in-person Wisconsin Election, explained.

Chris Hayes takes a look back at COVID-19 GOP in-person election, with Ben Wikler, Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin:

Florida's political corruption under Gov. DeSantis right out into the open

Florida and pro wrestling...what else to you have to say...

"Qualifications" to beat Trump.

The Threat of Paper Ballot Voting

The Corona-conservative Wisconsin Election during a Pandemic no one will forgive or forget!!!

After seeing a tweet suggesting a possible Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald Corona-Conservative primary election t-shirt, I thought...what the heck, ya.

Vos/Fitzgerald phony outrage, may need safe space after Gov. Evers "criticism?"

Pretty soon, we won't even need a governor! True.

Here's the Vos/Fitzgerald bottom line, again, you can't make this kind of arrogance up: 

JSOnline: The GOP plan comes less than two years after Republicans passed lame-duck laws that trimmed Evers’ authority even before he took office. Seeking to further curb Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ power, Republican lawmakers are proposing to give a handful of lawmakers the ability to cut school aid and slash state spending if a deficit materializes.

Oh, they want all the power, and go after all those coronavirus afraid freeloaders...

The power they are seeking is vast. It would allow them to reduce aid to schools, local governments and University of Wisconsin campuses. They could also scale back programs aimed at helping the poor and those who have trouble getting health-care coverage.

"It sounds like they're making Finance a mini-legislature," Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach of West Point said by text message.

Will Somebody Fire these Whiners? If that weren't bad enough, with little to no major gaffs to criticize, again Republicans simply have to try and make things up. Remember Obama's "terrorist" fist jab, tan colored suit, or professorial delivery of policy ideas? Yup, compared that to Trump's sh** show...seriously? 

Can't Criticize Republicans Anymore Pt. 1: 

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said, "Millions of relief dollars are at stake for Wisconsin. Suggesting he’ll veto the full bill publicly, while privately we’re still negotiating, is irresponsible.

Boohoo, whine, bad governor they say! Let me get this right; governors have never threatened vetoes if certain items are included or not included in legislation? Didn't think so.

Here's another obvious lie and deception making it seem like they're "working with" Democrats: 

Republicans did not collaborate with Senate Democrats on the proposals (BUT) "We’ll keep working with the minority party to put together a bill...,” Fitzgerald said.

Can't Criticize Republicans Anymore Pt. 2: While Gov. Evers said he would likely veto a bill leaving him out of spending cut decisions, that simple critical observation was..."damaging the effort" to provide relief for the state:

Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke, R-Kaukauna, said by releasing and criticizing a portion of the package, Evers was damaging the effort on behalf of GOP and Democratic legislative leaders to reach a bipartisan package to provide relief for the state. 

And during the spread the COVID-19 pandemic, killing Wisconsinites, is it too much to give the DHS spending power? 

Leaders said Evers' proposal was a nonstarter in large part because of a provision would provide the state Department of Health Services unlimited spending authority during the public health emergency.

What Gov. Evers has simply asked for and is now being exploited by Vos/Fitzgerald?

The legislation would suspend a one-week waiting period to receive unemployment benefits, and allow the state to claim an extra $150 million every three months in federal aid for the state’s Medicaid programs such as BadgerCare Plus.

Oh no, Evers has probably outraged corona-conservatives again:

The governor said Wednesday if lawmakers don't take action within two weeks they would be telling residents that state officials don't know how to respond to the pandemic.

"The message sent to the people of Wisconsin is that this isn't a big deal and the fact that we have people suffering financially, physically, health-wise and otherwise isn't a big deal and I know none of the Republicans actually feel that way. The people of Wisconsin would, I think, be flabbergasted if we just do nothing."

Another really bad Republican idea during a pandemic: 

This week Rep. John Nygren, a Republican from Marinette who is co-chairman of the finance committee, said the state may need to freeze spending after July 1. Congress has allocated about $2 billion to Wisconsin to help fight coronavirus. Evers — not lawmakers — has control of how to spend that money.

It does not include many of the major proposals in Evers' first proposal, including $10 million to hire 64 new staff at the Department of Health Services and an unlimited spending authority for the agency during the outbreak.

Track Wisconsin's 2020 Census Response Rate.

Keep up-to-date on how Wisconsin is responding to and completing the 2020 Census.

You'll notice that when you drill down to those completing the Census online, the upper half of the state still suffering poor internet service has had a horrible return rate. Unlike rural electrification, a hugely successful government program, Republicans want the free market to provide high-speed rural broadband, which has been holding back job and business creation for 20 years.

Hit the "Home" icon to center map, and use the slider at the bottom to access ways to change parameters like county and congressional districts. The map updates daily at 3 pm.

Pandemic Suppression voting nightmare...not low enough yet?

Wisconsin Primary Voters Receive ‘I Voted’ Gravestones https://t.co/9oy10KTQo1 pic.twitter.com/Ke76tDjlXo

— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 7, 2020

 
Vote! At the Risk of your Life: It's no surprise that the Wisconsin primary election shocked the nation. Seriously, who would force an in-person election during a "stay-at-home" battle against the Covid-19 pandemic? Republicans of course, since it meant stacking the State Supreme Court with another activist Justice.

If Justice Kelly wins, it would cement the conservative majority’s ability to block any future Democratic efforts to change voting laws and litigate an expected stalemate over congressional and state legislative boundaries during redistricting that will follow the 2020 census.

It was chaotic, irresponsible, ghoulish, and an election day nightmare. Bonus, using a pandemic to suppress voter turnout. My Trump cultist friend in Milwaukee didn't even bring up the virus at all when he bragged about winning two Supreme Court decisions:

Republican Rep. Robin Vos and Senator Scott Fitzgerald were convinced the whole coronavirus "pandemic" was overblown:

Walking the walk, Vos had no problem proving just how safe it was to go out and vote...

Vos' message was strikingly disconnected from his PPE-heavy outfit, in which the speaker looked more like a surgeon than one of the state's most powerful politicians.

Everyone's horrified and angry but the true tragedy, according to the state's Republican Assembly speaker, Robin Vos, is that people are blaming him and other Republicans for the lethal shitshow and not Gov. Tony Evers, who's a Democrat and everything. Well, Einstein, this isn't the governor's fault because he asked the Republican-controlled legislature to postpone the primary. 

And no matter how gerrymandered Wisconsin is, we'd say every Republican Assembly member who's up for reelection in November, which is all of them, ought to start hitting up their lobbyist friends for new jobs. "Let them die" is just a terrible slogan.

The reaction was swift on twitter...

Normal looking election to you?

COVID-19 not as important as last day of Hanukkah. Wonkette gets points for remembering:

Way back in September of 2019, Vos asked Evers to postpone a special election because the timing would place the primary on December 30, the last day of Hanukkah, and the second to last day before Hell Year, 2020.

"It is unnecessary to require Wisconsinites to exercise their civic duty to vote on a day they have set aside for a religious purpose," Vos said in the statement. "I respectfully demand that you find a new date for the upcoming special election."

It's also unnecessary to require that Wisconsinites choose whether to literally “vote or die." 

Unsettling Shocker; Coronavirus possibly "dormant" in those who have recovered, could reactivate soon after.

While Wisconsin Republican deniers like Rep. Robin Vos and Sen. Scott Fitzgerald forced their constituents to expose themselves to COVID-19 infection to gain an extra conservative seat on the State Supreme Court, a very ugly turn of events is rolling out in S. Korea.

Like the second half of a horror movie where you think you killed the monster, where surprise, you find out the monster is still alive...inside your body!

Bottom line; for those who had the infection and then appeared healthy again, thought to be cured, are testing positive again. The virus may have gone dormant. There is one posibility the testing may be flawed:

Paul Hunter, an infectious diseases professor at the University of East Anglia, told MailOnline that the cases were far more likely to be “reactivations” — or even just a sign of current testing being flawed. “Personally, I think the most likely explanation is that the clearance samples were false negative,” Hunter told the site.

At least 51 patients diagnosed as having fully recovered from the coronavirus in South Korea have tested positive a second time after leaving quarantine, according to officials.

For now, the KCDC’s director-general, Jeong Eun-kyeong, believes it is likely the infection was re-activated after remaining dormant in the patients, as opposed to them being reinfected, the report said.

Either way, it strengthens fears that the contagion remains a hidden danger even after it appears to have gone — with whistleblowing Chinese doctors previously warning it is even deadlier the second time.

Doctors on the front lines in Wuhan — where the virus first originated — previously said as many as 10% of those assumed to have recovered had tested positive again.

Trump is the deathblow, creating an Illusion of government, filled with criminals to Dismantle and Accelerate profit and Consolidate Power

Here's my list of Wisconsin problems Scott Walker and his gerrymandered band of plundering Republican pirates never intended to fix.  They wanted to put in place a purely theoretical political agenda of fantastical laws that are now failing, now exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Republicans don't problem solve or fix societal problems, and never have:

Finally, others have noticed, like Jared Yates Sexton, the author of American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People and currently serves as an associate professor of writing at Georgia Southern University. Here's a link to his tweets:

For the Republican Party, a terminally ill political that functions as a death cult and clearinghouse for the destruction of our democratic institutions, it is exactly what they need: the illusion of solving a problem while refusing to address the problem at all.

Reagan began a forty year span of political ruin and created a fabricated reality … He served as the smiling face of trickle-down economics, a murderous perversion of our economy that doomed generations of Americans to stagnant wages, economic fear, and a litany of other horrors that would decrease their lifespans and keep them from achieving the mythical American Dream.

Hypercaptialism allowed corporations to grow into their own nation-states wholly independent from and removed from duty toward the United States of America. They are nationless and their abdication of taxes and loyalty has left America wanting for infrastructure, education, and, perhaps most tragically, healthcare.

"Trump is the Deathblow. He's not there to solve problems or save lives":

A pandemic like the coronavirus only makes this abundantly and agonizingly clear. There is no government response because there is no government. There is only a pseudo-Trump Administration that was never intended to govern or fix problems. Donald Trump was elected to be the death blow to American governance. 

Even as the tragedy grows by the hour, the Republican Party remains incapable and unconcerned with actually doing anything in this reality.

Confederate Heritage Month's Religious Right's Embrace:  If you haven't watched Netflix's "The Family," you should. It explains a lot about how right-wing Christianity run deep, explains Scott Walker's bible quotes, and makes the following Jared Yates Sexton string of tweets more relevant. This is real:

Seriously. Read this. A Confederate Heritage Month during a generational pandemic. If you don’t see this as trying to appease a racist god I don’t even know what to say anymore. https://t.co/TJdsLRXz3w

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) April 6, 2020

 

"Dictator" Evers delays Election Day to June 9th, Vos/Fitzgerald cry like babies to the State Supreme Court...and get their way!!!

UPDATE: VOX

Wisconsin’s plan to hold an election in the middle of a pandemic is back on! On a party-line vote, however, the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court struck down Evers’s order, meaning that the state is now on track to hold its election as originally scheduled ... the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a second blow to the Democratic governor by tightening limits on which absentee ballots can be counted. Under that 5-4 order, voters will have to mail back their absentee ballots by Tuesday, go to the polls that day or give up their opportunity to vote.

Writing for the court's liberals in dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg concluded thousands would be "left quite literally without a vote" because their absentee ballots wouldn't arrive at their homes until after election day — too late to cast them. "If a voter already in line by the poll’s closing time can still vote, why should Wisconsin’s absentee voters, already in line to receive ballots, be denied the franchise?" she wrote.

WOW, this is a big problem...guess the US Supreme Court didn't do their homework. Will Vos/Fitzgerald throw a hissy fit over this? Yea, right:

Voter Suppression by Coronavirus Pandemic, exploiting tragedy?: Activist Court legislating from the bench? Sure. This was always a sure thing. Anything to suppress votes to maintain Scott Walker's appointed Justice:

As law professor and election law expert Rick Hasen recently noted, “only 38% of voters who had requested an absentee ballot in heavily Democratic Milwaukee County had returned one, compared with over 56% of absentee voters in nearby Republican-leaning Waukesha County.”

The Democratic reaction? Shoot me now..."disappointed?"

And the Vos/Fitzgerald response, hey, they wanted you to vote absentee but thems-the-brakes:

Fitzgerald and Vos said after the court's ruling, “The safety and health of our citizens have always been our highest concern; that’s why we advocated for everyone to vote absentee."

Will those who voted in person and a week later found positive with the COVID-19 virus blame Republicans, and will that be provable  in a lawsuit? Also, will Republican voters think this was okay? I know, that's expecting. Pandemic's, public beheadings...who knows.

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Our better angels won this one...

Perhaps Evers had one other choice...:

But just a few days ago, Republican leaders Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald said voting during a pandemic, and risking your health, was no different than ordering takeout:

Today Vos/Fitzgerald will utilize their conservative activist State Supreme Court to force people into large gatherings at the now dramatically reduced number of polling places. What could go wrong:

At the same time, Trump cultists are taking a break from bowing to their Orange God to attack Gov. Evers for his election day delay, during a pandemic that's killing people, calling him a dictator. This is the best most ridiculous comment:

This morning, NPR told the rest of the nation just how brutal Republican are here, in incredible detail by WPR reporter Laurel White:



I just had to throw this in. Republicans have an odd sense of humor...?:

When it comes to golf courses, the lawmakers asked that Evers allow them to reopen if they follow certain guidelines, including:

• Clubhouses and dining remain closed. 
• Only four golfers per hole.
• Only one golfer per golf cart.
• Standard social distancing is practiced.

The lawmakers also developed additional guidelines that could be considered. Those include:

• Pro shops remain closed.
• Payments are made online or over the phone.
• Practice facilities remain closed.
• Flagsticks removed or touchless accommodation made.
• Objects on course that could be touched (ball washers, rakes, water coolers, benches, etc.) removed
• Tee times no less than 12 minutes apart.
• The placement of signs outside the pro shop and clubhouse outlining the social distancing guidelines under the stay-at-home order.

The daily COVID-19 reality show press conference...

Nygren turns Evers "Sledgehammer" attacking COVID-19, into a "Scalpel" of Excuses to do Nothing!

According to Rep. John Nygren, now is not the time to focus on 10 years of bad Republican tax cut policy, and all their failures, exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Like we wouldn't have noticed? 

In this opinion piece...

…Nygren plays down the COVID-19 epidemic sweeping the state by claiming only a little thing like a scalpel is needed to see us through this health and economic collapse. Why? Power baby. 

1. Democrats Use Coronavirus to Spend Money?: Never once focusing on the sick and dying, Nygren has the balls to start his piece by going after state workers still out there risking their lives to help guide us through this health crisis and primary election. Using the politics of resentment...: 

Gov. Tony Evers recently requested more than $1 billion, a blank check for the state Department of Health Services, and virtually limitless taxpayer-funded employees in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. NYGREN DEFENDS THE PROBLEMS REPUBLICANS CREATED: Nygren makes it clear, Republicans are never going to give Gov. Evers even temporary power to nimbly deal with COVID-19, powers they grabbed in the lame duck session. 

It’s not only unlimited spending that Gov. Evers has asked for. He has also proposed  taking away legislative oversight of appropriations and position authorization.

Using the Jedi mind trick, Nygren repeats, "these are not the GOP created problems you are looking at...:

I know we all want to help our friends and neighbors during this crisis...

Sure, but...

I wanted to make sure you understand the fiscal state of Wisconsin...

Yea, what about that? Now that we're in the midst of a pandemic, how is that "fiscal state" after so many tax cuts irresponsibly ratcheted down our ability to respond. Better idea, lets go back to "the people who know best how to spend their money," and see if each one of them will know best how to fix this:

We know your money is best left with you, not bureaucrats in Madison.

3. CANNOT SPEND MORE: Let's start with the almost biblical big lie, that even a pandemic can't tear down. Now more than ever you can see how dumb this was:

We cannot, and should not, spend more than we take in.

Here's my favorite line downplaying tax cuts, which I did not make up, misquote or pull it out of context. Remember, Gov. Evers had to veto 2 attempts to pass major tax cuts that would have left the state dangerously unprepared:

Making matters more difficult, state revenue collections will undoubtedly be lower than we previously thought due to the COVID-19 health emergency.

Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, this was a problem. People weren't over taxed, but they were told there is a free lunch, so here's your tax cut. Vote for us. Goodbye dynamic 21st century economy.

Can anyone tell me what the hell ties these 3 ideas together? My god focus:

As nurses and doctors around the state perform lifesaving duties, possibly without proper personal protection equipment, now is not the time to strip our state’s voter ID law right before an election or replace the Legislature with unelected bureaucrats, such as Gov. Evers is thinking about.

What about preparedness, which Nygren is oddly arguing against, and tight family budgets even after tax cuts? Again, didn't Nygren try to pass two major tax cuts that would have definitely left us dangerously unprepared?

Over the last few budgets, we have prepared for this moment by investing heavily in our state’s rainy-day fund … As families across the state tighten up their budgets, they can do so with a little more money in their pockets.

Gee thanks?

Nygren wrapped up by pleasantly sounding like he didn't just say everything listed above. Magic:

We need to take care of those who are hurting, support those who are on the front lines, and assure sufficient testing and care is being delivered to our most vulnerable. Together we can and will get through this.

But we cannot, and should not, spend more than we take in. Where did he learn such wizardry?

Walker's Legacy: His destructive politicization of the State Supreme Court may live on with Kelly.

Scott Walker wrote a guest editorial defending his partisan pick on the State Supreme Court with this mind-numbing brilliance:

"Justice Dan Kelly believes in the rule of law."

An amazing statement coming from an elite member of the Trump cult, where the "rule of law" has turned into a "ruling lawless" President. 

  

Walker is a constitutional originalist, meaning whatever changes came later were just an interpretation of "the Constitution with 'today in mind.'" 

"Dane County Judge Jill Karofsky ... is open about her progressive politics...she would interpret the Constitution with “today in mind,” instead of upholding what it actually says.

Second Amendment Fantasy: Walker's world imagines law in ways Republicans think they should be, shaping policy around utter fantasy, like the Second Amendment:

Karofsky called for gun control measures and said the Constitution allows limiting the possession of firearms.

Walker is wrong of course, purposely, because iconic conservative idol Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote exactly the opposite in District of Columbia v. Heller, something Walker has conveniently imagined away or never cared to read: 

In Justice Scalia’s words, it is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

[l]ike most rights, … is not unlimited. Although we do not undertake an exhaustive historical analysis today of the full scope of the Second Amendment, nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms."

Justice Dan Kelly is NOT open about his conservative politics? Walker brands Judge Jill Karofsky as "open about her progressive politics," which must mean Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly is not. Wow, that's not true either:

1. Justice Kelly, who calls himself a judicial conservative.

2. Appointed to the high court in 2016 by former Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

3. Kelly helped "the GOP advance partisan gerrymandered voting districts. 

4. Kelly wrote a conservative blog praising Walker’s union restrictions and criticizing the “socialism/same-sex marriage/recreational marijuana/tax increase crowd.” 

5. "Kelly held a fundraiser at a firing range the day after a mass shooting at a Milwaukee brewery. His campaign had posted a picture of him on social media holding a semiautomatic weapon to appeal to gun groups."

6. "Active in the Milwaukee chapter of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal organization."

7. "He also briefly advised the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, the conservative law firm and think tank that frequently appears before the Supreme Court."

8. He's a wacky dominionist (seek to institute a nation governed by Christians). "Kelly graduated from Regent University, which was originally called Christian Broadcasting Network University when it was founded by televangelist Pat Robertson. Kelly said his own Christian faith is part of what drew him to the school."

9. He headquartered his campaign at the office of Wisconsin Republican Party, paying the party roughly $65,000 this year to cover rent, mailings and staff wages.

10. He authored a blog post where he criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that legalized gay marriage as judicial overreach.

Note: Republicans are about to use COVID-19's poll location closings in Milwaukee and Madison as a convenient tool to suppress votes for the Supreme Court race. With logic like this...

And the "corrupted by money" majority of conservative activist Justices sure don't seem nonpartisan to me...this is considered normal in Wisconsin now.

Vos/Fitzgerald say risk worth voting in person during COVID-19 crisis because it's "as important as getting take-out food."

Well, this took long enough:

Gov. Tony Evers called on lawmakers Friday to delay Tuesday's election, a call that was dismissed just hours later by GOP leaders.

It's hard to imagine a more surreal scheme where Republicans have to exploit COVID-19 deniers. They're actually encourage their constituents to gather at the polls, risking infection, to elect an activist dominionistic Justice and pass Marsy's Law, a poorly written invitation that gives corporations victims rights. It'll cost taxpayers money and give state government even more power.

Vos and Fitzgerald want to take advantage of a whole bunch of Trump cult voters seeking to own the libs and ignore the overblown COVID-19 pandemic. Plus, Democratic voting Milwaukee is going from typically 180 polling locations to just 5. Seriously?

Below, WPR's Shawn Johnson sadly cleaned up the Vos/Fitzgerald reaction, leaving out the utterly brutal words that characterize these two sociopathic pirates. The quote is now burned in my brain:

Presenting Vos/Fitzgerald's condescending reckless 'statement:

Making sure nothing goes wrong securing the win for conservative Supreme Court Justice Kelly...

The Eternal Fountain of Mistruths.

Capitalist Trump allows bidding war, ventilator profits over saving lives! And Trump could but won't stop it.

It would be comforting to know that the US might be experiencing "late stage capitalism," a promising signal of better times to come. But for now, we can only watch it decay: 

Late stage capitalism is a popular phrase that targets the inequities of modern-day capitalism. It describes the hypocrisy and absurdities of capitalism as it digs its own grave. Social media website Reddit describes it as "the horrible things capitalism forces people to do to survive." It spotlights the immorality of corporations using social issues to advance their brand.

Trump lets Capitalism Profit from COVID-19 pandemic with Ventilator Bidding War: Trump doesn't have to let this happen, probably knows its happening, but won't stop the ghoulish profit taking anyway. Don't be surprised if we see more of this with the rise of super unaffordable coronavirus vaccines. NPR's Marketplace:

As the number of COVID-19 cases rises, states are bracing for overwhelmed hospitals where there isn’t a ventilator for everyone who needs one. That’s what’s behind this bidding war, which is driving ventilator prices sky high. In an emergency situation, things are different. 

We’re not talking about corporate tax incentives. These are ventilators that states and hospitals desperately need. It’s life and death. And there’s no choice — each state has to keep paying whatever it takes. They’re on their own.

This is one of those war-like situations where you wouldn’t want to have 50 states bidding for defense supplies, said Bill Glasgall, head of state and local initiatives at the Volcker Alliance. “It would just make no sense when it’s a national problem.”

The Trump administration could centralize things and put a stop to the bidding war, Brunjes suggested. “The federal government could easily step in and and say,: ‘Governors, stop bidding. We’re going to buy these things and give them to you,'” he said.

For now, states have mostly had to fend for themselves. FEMA recently got involved, but it’s essentially just joined the bidding war for ventilators — in some cases, bidding against states like New York and Massachusetts and winning.