Thursday, February 2, 2023

Children on Front Line as DeSantis uses them for Nationwide Culture War on Education!

The last few days were exhausting perusing Twitter. Was it possible our world was devolving into...Bizarro World, or perhaps...


Bizarro MAGA Social Engineering: The frightening thing? MAGAs culture war has infect everything. If Wisconsin didn't have a Democratic governor, Vos Republicans would be doing the same scary nonsense. What started as a don't say gay law has expanded to mean everything and anything: 
 

Of course, MAGAs insist in tweets that this is a liberal lie...


...really?
Even worse...


Parents Bill of Rights? Sounds great huh? My own interaction with my son's teachers provided a shocking revelation; the teachers were smarter than me and creative, and my guys were learning important things that I was completely unaware of. So how do parents know what's best, especially when they going by their own very dated experience in school? To this day, my kids are still a wealth of information.

The bottom line is this; MAGAs have very low expectations of their own kid's mental awareness and development, undermining what they're capable of doing. 


Ridiculous "Students aren't Ready Yet:" From the Bulwark, Margaret McMullan destroyed the idea that students aren't ready for those frightening "woke" knowledgeable ideas:
I wish the book banners and the anti-CRT folk could read these student essays and see for themselves how young people process, understand, and, often, overcome life’s traumas and injustices.

Here were younger students (7th-12th grade) wrestling with major depression. They were frustrated with the mindlessness of virtual learning. Many had no one to talk to. They wrote about domestic abuse, reconsidering one’s gender, dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, figuring out reasons to live, being deported as a new immigrant, racism, and coming out to their parents. They also wrote about getting COVID and surviving a shooting. These students were grappling with life’s biggest challenges, often involving life or death.

A volunteer mother told me she lived through a historical moment and regretted her actions. That regret changed her, and she volunteered to host me and other authors to visit schools to teach students about civil rights. This woman’s shame and regret is exactly what Republicans want to avoid in classrooms across the nation.

And to the owners of private school and MAGA Republican supporters sending taxpayer dollars to support choice schools, well, heed these words by DeSantis about future STATE control over education if they don't like what you're teaching...:

"If it was a private school, making those choices, that’s fine, I mean, what are you going to do,” DeSantis' said. “But this is paid for by your tax dollars.”

What is CRT now? Does it teach children white skin is not equal to black skin and other things? 

DeSantis trashes Academic Freedom: 


...and how about this direct threat to the press...

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Republicans blocked Democratic agenda for 12 years in Wisconsin, so who will they blame?

There are consequences to one party rule, especially by what are now MAGA Republicans, and we're about to feel it for what could be a generation.  Despite 12 years where they had control, isn't it odd to hear Vos Republicans blame Gov. Evers for pushing his "woke" agenda, as if that's what's holding Wisconsin back.   

Surrounded by Democratically run Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan: Wisconsin will have a difficult time growing its economy and still attract young demanding job seekers. This is an urgent problem; out migration is growing, young people are leaving, Wisconsin is graying, seniors are retiring, and the slow rollout of broadband depleted rural communities and businesses.

Recently, Democratic strategist Joe Zepecki laid out the obvious end result on UpNorthNews Radio with Pat Kreitlow.

This is only a partial list. 

1. Wisconsin is one of 11 states that didn't expand Medicaid, a health care safety net for family that fall on hard times.

2. No paid sick leave, banned by gerrymandered Republicans statewide.

3. Perpetually underfunded schools and universities.

3. A 1849 ban on abortion, dramatically affecting all reproductive rights for women. 

4. No medicinal or safe government controlled recreational marijuana.

Heck, Evers finally got to fixd our crumbling roads and bridges after 8 years of Scott Walker. And now, after waiting another 4 years, Vos Republicans are now thinking cancer causing PFAS in our water, any amount, could be bad for attracting people to the state. 

Is it any wonder voters reelected Gov. Evers to screen out statewide vouchers, anti-LGBTQ policies in schools and "woke" black history courses, probably a flat tax that really benefits the wealthiest freeloaders, voter suppression efforts...etc. 

Here's audio of Joe Zepecki's warning of what MAGA Legislators will do to the economy now and for future generations if they get away with it...


And if other state f**k up, well....

Yahoo News: Youngkin comment in his annual state address on January 11. “I’ve said before that I want ‘Made in America’ to mean ‘Made in Virginia.’ But let me be clear, ‘Made in Virginia’ cannot be a front for the Chinese Communist Party,” Youngkin said during the address. Later, Youngkin told reporters that the Biden administration has a “maniacal focus on getting rid of all fossil fuel generation, replacing it with solar, wind, or replacing every car immediately with batteries” when “the reality is that the technology that in fact drives all that is owned and dominated by the Chinese.”

Youngkin elaborated on his comments in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday, when he referred to the Ford-CATL partnership as “a Trojan-horse relationship.”

“This is not a zero-sum game and I would have loved to have Ford come to Virginia and build a battery plant, if they were not using it as a front for a company that’s controlled by the Chinese Communist Party,” he said.

Youngkin’s actions don’t come in a vacuum; in fact, they may signal a coming wave of similar Republican attitude. As Axios reporter Jael Holzman outlined on Twitter last week, Republicans have begun raising concerns about Chinese control as a way to stymie or stall green energy developments. Politicians, including Sen. Marco Rubio and Tennessee Rep. Mark Green, have recently expressed concerns about a Texas-based battery company with some Chinese operations that got a Department of Energy grant, while the GOP is reportedly looking into other clean energy firms for Chinese connections, according to Holzman.

Monday, January 2, 2023

Vos Republicans take credit for COVID created massive state Surplus.

Despite collecting huge revenues from the state's largest city, Milwaukee, WI MAGA Republicans continue their 11-year effort to starve that Democratic city. 

Milwaukee area officials have long argued that, as the state's largest economic engine, it sends more revenue to the state than it receives back.

But 11-years wasn't penalty enough, apparently. 


Oh, and Rep. Robin Vos made it so any changes would be "politically unpopular" decisions, which can only strengthen the Republican narrative:
"Show me some examples where you are willing to do things that are politically unpopular because they're the right answer," Vos said.

Scott Walker pushed this same plan as Milwaukee County Executive, before he became governor, bringing the county to the edge of bankruptcy. The Greater Milwaukee Committee report putting Walker's bad management front and center was withheld so, get this, it wouldn't influence Walker's run for governor? True:

jsonline-Daniel Bice: Milwaukee County government is in such dire financial shape that state lawmakers should push through legislation that would allow it and other local governments to file for bankruptcy … 

"We don't want this to become some sort of political football during the fall election campaigns." Mayor Barrett called on the committee to release the full report before the election, saying it could give a glimpse of what awaits the state if Walker becomes governor.

And nothing has changed in the last 11 years. 

Republicans take credit for Democratic COVID Funding they Opposed, now Brag about Surpluses:  Like the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) money that bailed out the Republican's free market debacle, the Great Recession, Vos Republicans are geared up to use one-time COVID funding to their benefit. Amazingly, Republicans took 10 months off and never dealt with the raging pandemic like any responsible government would have:

A Wisconsin Policy Forum report estimated state and local governments collected at least $19.9 billion in pandemic-related funds.
That helped in a big way...
"The federal government took on unemployment costs, insurance spending, that otherwise the state might have felt the need to help out with," Stein said. "The federal government helped, to an unbelievable degree, on both the revenue side in terms of stimulating the economy and on the cost side with lowering existing costs and keeping the state from having to spend money."

 Like ARRA, when One Time COVID Relief Funding runs out, what could happen?

Jason Stein, research director at the Wisconsin Policy Forum, noted that without the federal covid funds, the state could have been facing the same fiscal cliff it was during the 2008-09 biennial budget process, when then-Gov. Jim Doyle had an estimated budget gap of $5.4 billion.

"During the height of the Great Recession from 2009 through 2011, Wisconsin made heavy use of federal ARRA funds, particularly for K-12 school aid and Medicaid," Stein said in a policy forum paper. "When those funds ran out, the state faced a difficult 2011-13 budget and ultimately cut state aid to schools and local governments substantially."
Here we go again? There will be a possible surplus...about $2 billion. 
Besides the federal stimulus money, Wisconsin is projecting state tax revenue increases in fiscal 2022-23 based on current state and federal tax laws: $744.2 million in state tax revenue increases in fiscal year 2022-23. That's a 3.6% increase over the previous fiscal year, for a total revenue estimate of $21.293 billion.

$323.9 million in state tax revenue increase in fiscal year 2023-24; a 1.5% increase for a total revenue estimate of $21.617 billion.

$855.1 million in state tax revenue increase in fiscal year 2024-25; a 4% increase for a total revenue estimate of $22.472 billion.

Monday, October 31, 2022

MAGA Weekly: Bible trashes Liberals! What's next for MAGAs, ordering hits? Blood Drinking Left.

Van Orden says it's a Bible principle, Leftists hate this Country: Tavern touring Derrick Van Orden is out there talking to the people and farmers but doesn't seem to be aware of their biggest concerns. Any solutions? Odd huh?

The Bible tells us so...MAGA not a Religious Cult? Trump is our divine intervention... 

MAGA Death Squads Quietly being Recruited: What do Guns have to do with Firing Pelosi? It's not that Rep. Ween is definitely suggesting shooting a member of Congress, but he says he can do that because a lone gunman attacked Rep. Steve Scalise. 

MAGAs pushing Punishment of Death: Imagine this message a year from now? Nancy Pelosi committed treason for holding office for so long? Don't tell Chuck Grassley:

Liberal Elites Drink Childrens Blood: Watching the amazing mental decline of conspiracy nut Lara Logan has been almost surreal. But with messaging like this, added to MAGA gun election ads suggesting there are other ways to "win" an election, can't wait the dystopian 2024 dueling challenges:

Political Leaders deciding Women's health: Dr. Oz made it very clear women's issues, including health, are sadly up to men now: 

Michael Flynn never would have allowed that COVID nonsense: I've said over and over, for MAGAs, COVID wasn't real or a reason for inflation. It was a liberal global plot:

Under MAGAs, Uncle Sam relegated to cheap side-show Trump entertainment: How far he has fallen...

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

MAGA Weekly: Lazy Covid Checks, Trump Capitol Riot, FBI Setup, Climate denial, Crime and Violence in Red States, etc.

1. Michels: "COVID checks...that's how they got Lazy!" Like getting economic help during a pandemic was the worst we can do. MAGAs won't spend money on us, it's wrong?

2. Michels: "I haven't seen any evidence, Donald Trump said "Go to the Capitol now and storm it..." Okay, maybe not those exact words but...Michels: "making Donald Trump look bad with all these hearings..." is pretty ridiculous. 

3. Ron Johnson set up by FBI (don't laugh, he means it): The crowd at the debate should have been the MAGA reaction, but wasn't:

4. "Why has he turned against America" nothing like hating America now and promising to Make America Great Again? 

5. Michels: "A lot of discussion about that..." The West is drying up, Hurricanes wiping out sections of states, yup, no problem. 

6. MAGA somehow rationalizes voting for "shitty candidates." Wow, smart argument:

7. Crime and Violence NOT Dems, but MAGA Republicans after all: We've seen the charts...Now you can hear the data...

8. Fighting MAGA War on Women's Rights Fading? They think so, but it's only getting worse... 

...so then this happens...body shaming: 


9. MAGA Groomers ya think? Let's call it what it is, projection:


Thursday, October 13, 2022

DeSantis photo ops collide...election tyranny defying election law?

 


DeSantis Tyrannical Election Violations? 



Trump victim again...

 


Tuesday, October 11, 2022

MAGA Weekly: Christian Nation-Replacement Theory-Trump aids Putin War-Good-bye Social Security for real-Saudi Oil Price Hike Oct Surprise!

 What does it really mean to be a "Christian nation?" It allows MAGA Republicans to argue the "government" is getting between you and God. 

"Replacing You" at Work? It's surreal how MAGAs completely miss how ridiculous that sounds. Immigrant's may be working side-by-side with everyone else, but how will they find a way to "replace" you? As a friend recently put it, "It can't get more Nazi than this."

Trump + MAGAs hands Putin's Russia Media Talking points: Aiding the enemy? Sure. Video of Trump's comment is the first response after this tweet, check it out: 

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No, really, Social Security and Medicare about to END: What's most amazing about these threats, is that they're bold enough to do this just before a midterm election: 

Biden ad makes this point:

Here's the plan:
Gradually raise the Medicare age of eligibility to 67 and the Social Security eligibility to 70 before indexing both to life expectancy. It backed withholding payments to those who retired early and had earnings over a certain limit. And it endorsed the consideration of options to reduce payroll taxes that fund Social Security and redirect them to private alternatives. It also urged lawmakers to “phase-in an increase in means testing” for Medicare.

Hollywood's Communist Bent? China owns 'em: A Gay Superman has been canceled? I did not know that. Christians now want to reclaim Hollywood for their messages:

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Sunday, October 9, 2022

The MAGA week...and they want to be in charge?

There are so many stories, and so many important points to make, yet nothing I can say says it better than those who blindly open their traps...

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From "Rigged" elections to an equivalent "Fixed" elections? Again, they're telling us in no uncertain terms what will happen. In other words, the fix is in:

When Justice Thomas targeted Gay Marriage, MAGAs went further: Conservative media is already making this argument, amazingly:

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MAGA Racism behind "All lives Matter:" Post racial? To MAGAs, this is what makes America Great:

Ron Johnson's Social Security is "CANDY" statement: What the media won't report is how just one or two words, even a sentence, will be used to reject renewing Social Security, not just MAGA poison pill amendments. Again, SS is a pay-as-you-go program that doesn't use tax dollars. Could anything be more clearly stated by Johnson? 

Socialist Hating MAGA Republicans Beg for Socialist Job Creating Money: See, it's this easy...:

Proud Supporters of Trump...going down with that ship: The video tells the story...

Authoritarianism: MAGAs don't have to Anwer Questions: Sen. Cruz' reaction doesn't make MAGA Republicans rethink their vote, because it can only get worse:


The Problem with Jon Stewart...: I wish the media could get as close this line of questioning as possible. 

Liberals Directed Hurricane Ian to Hurt Gov. DeSantis: You can't make this stuff up...yet someone did: 

The DeSantis Photo OP Halts Ian Relief Help: Yup!
Illegals handing out Halloween Fentanyl Candy?
Say it ain't so.  The interviewer handles it perfectly:

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Michels ushers in the End of Education as we know it.

The shockingly clueless nature of Tim Michels may just be what MAGA Republicans want, an incompetent beginner. Exhibit A: 
"The tired, old Evers approach has not worked. He's spent his career in education and our schools keep getting worse, especially (Milwaukee). I will get Wisconsin headed in the right direction. I will empower parents with greater access to information and more options for their kids." 

Parents are already "empowered," that's if they choose to be involved, and as for "more options," yea, more of...that? 

Uh, "Especially Milwaukee," birthplace of the Parental Choice Program, where it's Failing? I'll bet Michels is unaware of Milwaukee's "choice" history, which isn't a great starting point for him. Vouchers were designed by Republicans to kill public schools, leaving it devoid of good government planning (on purpose). That's basically what charter backer the Fordham Institute reported:
In 1991, Milwaukee began a bold experiment in market-based education reform. Twenty-seven years later, those reforms are something less than dramatic. The original voucher coalition was a clumsy alliance of free-market reformers, social justice warriors, urban Democrats, and suburban and rural Republicans. 

A program design encouraging the creation of new schools simultaneously led to frequent school failures that hurt the program’s reputation. Between 1991 and 2015, 102 participating schools shut their doors. For many years, opening a voucher school was as simple as filing a one-page form with the state, finding a building, and convincing parents to enroll their children. Some of these schools were of shockingly low quality, creating a public narrative that millions of dollars were being sent to storefront scam-artists running schools in name only. 

At one point in the early 2000s, voucher supporters’ longstanding resistance to standardized testing of MPCP pupils. To put it mildly, student performance was not driving legislative decision-making during this period. The result was a clumsy regulatory structure that changed frequently, failed to adequately target problem schools, and was divorced from the goal of improving academic achievement.

The fragmented structure ensures that positive reform in any one of the city’s three sectors will fail to improve the lot of a sizable slice of Milwaukee’s K–12 population.

None of these successes mask the MPCP’s failure to deliver substantive academic gains for K–12 pupils in Milwaukee.


But until a mechanism exists for creating funding and regulatory equity, outcomes-oriented accountability across sectors, and an arena to resolve issues impacting students across Milwaukee’s diverse school spectrum, we should expect to see more of the same. For now, Milwaukee’s voucher experience stands as a cautionary tale on the consequences of governance fragmentation.
Republicans at the Heart of School Problems: Remember in 2008, The Great Recession, a free-market failure Republicans oddly missed. Scott Walker constantly points to that time of high unemployment and deficits as Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle fault. 
A September 2013 item from PolitiFact Wisconsin, we rated Mostly False a Walker claim that Doyle’s policies cost the state 133,000 jobs. Walker, we noted, got the number right. But experts said the national economic crash (Great Recession) had far more to do with Wisconsin’s job losses during that period than any state policies. 
Again, this was a major Republican failure that would reverberate for decades, especially in education. For fun, here's Alan Greenspan admitting point blank the free market failure.
The Republicans Great Recession: Throughout recent history, major events took its toll on education. Most damning was this from The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a major charter school backer: 
I’ve argued before that the Great Recession had a negative impact on the achievement of our poor and working-class students. That impact came directly in the form of the difficult years for families when these students were infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Income plummeted. Poverty rates rose. Food insecurity grew. All of this would make a difference with these tykes’ later achievement. Consider, for example, findings from NWEA that showed declining test scores at kindergarten entry in the early 2010s. I suspect this also explains why so many of our social indicators were heading in the wrong direction even before the pandemic—such as the murder rate, auto accidents, and more. The downstream effects of early-childhood hardship can take years or even decades to become clear.

The impact of the Great Recession also happened indirectly, in the form of the dramatic K–12 spending cuts that happened from 2011 to 2014. Kirabo Jackson showed convincingly that these cuts had a negative impact on achievement.

They could have been talking about Scott Walker:

Walker’s first five years, schools received a total of $1.17 billion less in state aid than if the funding had remained at the base level.
The Pandemic: Thanks to Trump's bumbling chaotic mishandling of the pandemic, and Republican claims that it was never a problem, The Fordham Institute reported this unsettling reality:
In Washington, D.C., one figure stands out: 9 percent. That’s how many Black boys met expectations in math on the recently released 2022 student achievement results in the city’s district schools. On the eve of the pandemic in 2019, 17 percent of Black boys in district schools met those same expectations. The word “disaster” is used a lot lately, but it is absolutely the right fit here.

But what about the other half of D.C.’s schools, the charter sector? Sadly, 9 percent is also the percentage of Black boys in D.C. charter schools who met math expectations in 2022. That’s down from 22 percent in 2019, an even sharper decline than in Washington’s district-operated schools ... some of D.C.’s most prominent charter schools dropped by previously unimaginable amounts.

The charter school sector in D.C., seems to have had a particularly difficult transition to an all-virtual environment. This shouldn’t be a total surprise, considering that virtual charter schools across the country have displayed weak results over the years.

WI Maga Republicans picked this time to NOT fund Education, when Students need to catch-up most:  Here's what they did instead:

Students, elected officials, education, community and business leaders from around south-central Wisconsin held a press conference on the steps of the State Capitol to kick off a statewide “Day of Action” protesting the Legislature’s proposed K-12 funding.
 
"A $0 per student increase on K-12 funding for the 2021-2023 Biennium State Budget, as was recently passed by the Joint Finance Committee, is not sufficient to support pre-K-12 education.” 

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Can Democrats govern or is everything they do a "Political Stunt," like Vos Republicans claim?

 Ah, Democratic political stunts never get old. 

Referendum on Abortion, take it slow says Johnson: Again, I have a complaint about media reporters, who are more than willing to accept "desperate political stunt" and "election year gimmick" as an answer to questions about why they oppose to anything Gov. Evers does. The answer should be, "No, really, what's your objection?" 

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is calling lawmakers into session to take up a constitutional amendment allowing statewide referendums, citing support from Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for a public vote on the issue of abortion. Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, the legislative leaders called the proposal a "desperate political stunt"
Vos and LeMahieu did not claim Ron Johnson's call for a referendum a "desperate political stunt" did they? 

Realizing he wants the same thing as a Democrat, Johnson's horrified response came instantly:


GOP Grip on Power vs State Referendums, and Dems Govern through Political Stunts?: WI MAGA Republicans, all of them, have use "political stunt" stupidity before, and it worked, no one asked them for their real opposition to Evers ideas:
Empower Wisconsin June 24, 2022: Republicans made quick work of ending Gov. Tony Evers’ “special session” on Wisconsin’s abortion law, calling it what it was: a political stunt. Republican leadership gaveled in and gaveled out, consigning another of Evers’ political charades to the circular file.

...or...

While Republicans' rewritten budget boosted state funding for schools, schools did not actually see more money as a result. Evers blasted the Republican-controlled Legislature for stripping out much of the education funding he proposed in his 2019-20 and 2021-22 budgets. Rep. Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam) dismissed Tuesday's announcement as a political stunt.

...or...
Gov. Tony Evers announced he was directing the state’s Departments of Justice and Administration to pursue taxpayer-funded lawsuits against employers who process PFAS – in their production.

“Today’s announcement is an unfortunate political stunt,” said WMC President & CEO Kurt Bauer.

...or...

Evers' plan calls for a $150 refund to every Wisconsin taxpayer, along with tax breaks for child care and family caregiving … Republicans have called the plan an election-year gimmick.
Of course, our WI MAGA Republicans would never think of a political stunt...oh wait, there was the Gableman "investigation" that jazzed up MAGA voters. Hmm, I was forced to help pay for that fiasco, but MAGA's think it's unfair to be forced to pay for college loan forgiveness.   

Monday, September 19, 2022

Public Schools, Real and Imagined!

This is so good and covers so much ground that I just had to pass this along.

Cody, the host, as usual does an amazing analysis that should be watch in its entirety, even if it takes a few days. It is, after all, 2 hours long. For me, I had to pause it a number of times to absorb and allow myself to cool down.

The MAGA attack on education has nothing to do with what is taught in schools. Remember, MAGA parents were only mad that their kids were home, not in public daycare facilities we call schools. And when they found out their kids were actually learning something, after checking out their online subject matter, they went crazy. Imagine education getting better and covering broader topic many parents were never exposed to. Outrageous.



Thursday, September 15, 2022

Johnson says Liberals "infiltrated" everything, and should be pushed out of Universities, Law, Religion...

Well, this was a big miss by media reporters. Is there just too much trash talk coming from Dumb Ron Johnson that reporters can't keep up?

A Great Liberal Purge makes Ron Johnson's To-do List: I guess you could say he's not everyone's Senator at this point. Johnson's comments should take your breath away. But radio host Mark Levin, who's anything but critical thinker, wasn't disagreeing. Johnson: "We've got to push them (liberals) out of these institutions and return some normalcy."
This priceless Sept. 11th gift to Mandela Barnes has not been mentioned yet. Short of genocide, what's Johnson's plan, or was this just another act of incitement to commit violence and more mass shootings? Both? 

Force Them to Be Like Us! Johnson is not alone either, there are others fantasizing similar scenarios, like the one shown below from Kurt Schlichter. Once "ideas" like this make the MAGA arounds, they're adopt quickly. This list is just an extension of Ron Johnson's rant: 


Johnson Denial over Mass Pandemic Deaths a Problem? It should be. Should Barnes tear this grotesque twisted opinion apart? Is he?


Barnes should condense the list below into one sentence:


Again, just for review, here's what conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote, and that Barnes should be repeating. 
Democrats could not ask for a “better” opponent than the MAGA conspiratorialist and forced-birth zealot whose economic views sound like a parody of Republicans’ plutocratic outlook. These positions project a distinctly anti-populist, anti-worker message.
1. In February, he declared that Wisconsin had enough jobs and therefore shouldn’t make a pitch to manufacture new postal vehicles, which would create 1,000 jobs.

2. He has declared repeatedly his intent to shift Social Security from an entitlement to a discretionary program, putting at risk the benefits of more than 5.8 million Wisconsinites, including more than 1 million seniors. The report quotes Johnson saying Social Security “was set up improperly” and should have been invested in the stock market. 

3. He also opposed extending Affordable Care Act subsidies that save more than 200,000 Wisconsinites roughly $800 per month.

4. Johnson has made a series of dismissive, insulting statements in favor of forced birth, suggesting women can just move from Wisconsin if they don’t like the state’s 19th century ban (1849).

5. Johnson voted against a $35 cap on insulin.

6. Against granting the Department of Health and Human Services the power to negotiate with drug companies.

7. And against a $2,000 limit for seniors’ out of pocket drug costs. 

8. He reversed his stance on the gay marriage bill.

9. He has also encouraged seniors to return to the workplace.

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Barnes' soft criticism of Johnson's incredibly careless record!

Mandela Barnes isn't injecting any urgency into his simple message, Ron Johnson is lying about him. Hey, that casual look of a regular guy is not impressing anyone. Barnes just lost seven percentage points, HUGE...

WPR: Of likely voters, 49 percent said they will support Johnson and 48 percent said they'd support Barnes. That's a shift from Marquette's Aug. 17 poll, which showed Barnes ahead by seven percentage points among voters likely or certain to vote in November.

It's hard to imagine anyone not being able to capitalize on Johnson endlessly brutal policy suggestions.  Johnson spews panic and confusion in every breath, while Barnes just smiles, oozing positivity. Who's consulting this campaign? Just type Ron Johnson's name into the upper left corner search bar of this blog if you want to have your research laid out in front of your very eyes. It's a miracle. "Wacky stuff" just doesn't cut it... 

More:Mandela Barnes proclaims Ron Johnson says 'wacky stuff' while the U.S. senator accuses his challenger of having a short résumé

Not mentioned ever...

Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, self-funded safety net program. It has nothing to do with discretionary spending. Johnson's real intention could be to invest SS in Wall Street, raise age limits, etc...and send it to the Senate, what Mitch McConnell calls the "place where bills go to die." Let that sink in. 
AARP: The facts: The two trust funds that pay out Social Security benefits — one for retirees and their survivors, the other for people with disabilities — have never been part of the federal government's general fund. Social Security is a separate, self-funded program. The federal government does, however, borrow from Social Security.

Johnson is constantly handing him campaign gold everyday:

Heck, Barnes even has Biden directly referring to Johnson's not so innocent plans to save SS:

Is Barnes Waiting for something? Just today, the headline supposes Johnson does "not" have a position on a federal abortion ban...


...yet in the same article we're shown how Johnson is NOT unclear. The media again muddies what is a clear history of Johnson's support of a national ban. Hell, he's co-sponsored bills for god's sake:
Johnson has supported national abortion bans before, co-sponsoring six, 20 week abortion bans between 2013 and 2021. In late August, Johnson said states should decide the issue but added that Congress could eventually set the limit, according to the Washington County Daily News.

The measures Johnson supported all preceded the U.S. Supreme Court decision that “returned the issue to the states,” Henning said.

Sunday, September 4, 2022

Michels will win fight against CRT, that's not in our schools, and believes universal school choice will solve Milwaukee's gun violence... eventually?

MAGA Republicans bought into the CRT myth. It's a done deal. 

Imagine the victory lap Republican candidates like Tim Michels will make for killing CRT that's not in our schools. That was easy. Promise kept. 

MAGA's Shift failed lazy Parenting to Schools and Teachers: They want a limited vision of the world taught to their children, a vision free from ideas and subjects they would rather not have to debate at home. 

Seriously, what parent wouldn't be bursting with pride listening to their kid discuss a controversial topic they learned in the classroom, asking us what we thought?

Republican Rep. Joel Kitchens agrees with me, pretty much discrediting the nonsensical "parents bill of rights":

My youngest son is just 2 years out of high school, my oldest is 4 years out. I'm very familiar with today's teachers and administrators. I don't recognize the issues angry MAGA parents are complaining about. Have they never contacted the teacher. Hate to say it again, but it might be that these are bad parents guided by their delusional MAGA mentality. 

MAGA Michels, Bullsh*t Artist (really, he is): The look on Tim Michels reminds me of a playground bully who's surprised anyone is taking him seriously. He's now just tying divisive talking points together, like the mind-numbing idea of universal school choice, packaged here as, wait for it.... a solution to gun violence in Milwaukee? I wish I was kidding:


Michels is clueless on universal school choice. Rep. Kitchens could have told him Republicans didn't know it would be $500 million cost to taxpayers, and were glad Gov. Evers vetoed the idea:

Michels claims Evers (who was the former Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction) doesn't support teachers??? Oh god he's an idiot. I seriously think Michels didn't know. Michels certainly didn't know how Scott Walker's Act 10 vilified teachers for the next 10 years, creating teacher burnout and the shortage we have today. Heck, he was in another state. And that was followed up by MAGA's calling teachers "groomers" pushing CRT and gay sex. Pretending MAGA's aren't threatening teachers out of the classroom, and then blaming the former Democratic State Superintendent of schools, is breathtaking:

MAGA Republican say Transforming the nation is bad, while Michels and Ron Johnson say they want to "Transform" the nation and Wisconsin for generations to come, which is good?

Remember, Michels never heard of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) either, no matter how he might deny it. 

Here's the Here and Now full story: